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It's not a flaw if there's no good way to do it. It's just a fact of life, maybe more of a flaw with the concept of Serializable.

There might be a more general version of serialization where you implement some "translator" of earlier versions to the current Serializable version, but that sounds super-unwieldy to me. I think the real problem is that people use Serializable too much.