Website Change/Clearing Cookies

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So at work, our programmers have made updates to our website and now everyone who uses it has to clear the cookies and cache. Is clearing cache an absolute necessity when webpages are updated? Or are the programmers writing bad code somewhere? I don't remember having to clear my cookies to use login info even for this site or others like Netflix, or my banks website when they made a huge over hall.

Try just refreshing the web page before wiping out history, cache, and cookies.

I have my cookie file write protected.

The browser itself can save cookies in memory, but whenever I restart it, the only cookies are those in the write protected file. The only cookies I have in the write protected file are for authentication on selected sites so that I don't have to enter the passwords whenever I visit them after starting the browser.

It is possible to change the cookie name/salt thus negating the need. However they probably don't want to do that to often for transient cookies.

They can also expire cookies, but this happens after a request.

They probably don't wan to mess with the architecture. If the cookie name/salt is settable. They can do that.