Fix Forward
Verb · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
To respond to a production problem by shipping another fix on top of the bad release instead of rolling back. Teams use it when rollback is harder, riskier, or too disruptive.
In plain English: Solving a bad release by deploying another corrective change instead of undoing it.
Example: "Rollback would lose customer data, so we have to fix forward."