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May 15 - Production release 0.5.3

  • End Points, Geocode, Geopulse, World Geographies released
  • Multi-query support officially released
  • Logged in users no longer are required to periodically submit CAPTCHAs to access endpoints
  • A number of reliability updates
Known issues:
  • Variants field in World Geographies is a JSON array rather than fully formed JSON
  • Geocode is limited outside of the US (and non-functional outside of supported countries)

May 9 - Production release 0.5.2

  • End Points beta
  • Location beta
  • Pulse beta
  • Update to q parameter to properly handle mixed spaces and commas ("foo,phi fum,rum" will properly search for "foo" or "phi fum" or "rum").

May 2 - Production release 0.5.1

  • Properly catching and returning error messages on a number of invalid parameter conditions
  • Pass-through all error messages for multi calls
  • in restaurants-us, 24_7 is being updated to open_24hrs due to a conflict with Solr.
  • Many stability and debugging additions to the backend

Apr 24 - Production release 0.4.4

  • Consumer Packaged Goods database released

Apr 17 - Production release 0.4.3

  • GetSatisfaction has replaced Google Groups for support
  • A number of updates to the Data Preview tool including:
    • Ability to undo filtering on facets
    • Total row count is displayed
    • Descriptions for all tables added
  • Facets API is now live

Apr 5, 2012 - Production release 0.4.1

  • V3 is now live!
  • Completely new website accompanies the site going live, with self-serve key generation

Mar 26, 2012 - BETA release 0.4.0

  • A lot of under-the-hood changes
  • Resolved an error with $blank filter behavior
  • Resolved an issue with searches on locality failing
  • Resolved an issue with $in failing with arrays

Feb 14, 2012 - BETA release 0.3.10

Updates

  • KEY param is no longer required
  • Cleaner 401 error messaging
  • Resolved a number of RPD and offset limit check problems
  • Do not return row count of 0 when include_row is not specified

Feb 7, 2012 - BETA release 0.3.9

Updates 

  • Support for Multi-requests added
  • alpha release of Node.js API implementation

Jan 19, 2012 - BETA release 0.3.8

Updates

  • All internal updates

Jan 11, 2012 - BETA release 0.3.7

Updates

  • Large batch of performance improvements release. 
  • Resolve speed is improved by 100%
  • Search is improved by 50%

Dec 28, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.6

Updates

  • more performance improvements

Dec 20, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.5

Updates

  • performance updates

Dec 13, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.4

Updates:

  • Global dataset added to V3
  • US Restaurants added to V3

Dec 6, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.3

Updates:

  • alpha support for facetting
  • Data Preview tool released (http://demos.factual.com/data_preview)

Nov 29, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.2

Updates: 

  • More stability improvements

Nov 23, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.1

Updates:

  • Stability improvements
  • Shortened view IDs

Nov 15, 2011 - BETA release 0.3.0

Updates:

  • This is a big release, thus the jump to 0.3.0
  • The permissions system was very nearly rewritten.  Performance should be a LOT faster.
  • A couple hot-fixes so far:
    • OAuth signing properly accepts optional parameters oauth_version, oauth_token and oauth_body_hash
    • We got a little overly agressive scrubbing response headers.  Headers now include some basics that some systems depend on (accept-encoding, content-type, etc.)

Nov 1, 2011 - BETA release 0.2.1

Updates:

  • All backend issues
  • Added documentation for API limits
  • Updated root page of documentation (this one!) to try to orient developers more quickly (feedback desired!)
  • Input and Flag API calls in alpha.

New known issues

  • A number of users are reporting receiving 403 errors prematurely. This includes users receiving throttle errors on their very first request.

Oct 27, 2011 - BETA release 0.2.0

Updates:

  • Fixed an index issue whereby stemming was occurring at the wrong point. ApplePan could find "Appl" but not "Apple".

Oct 19, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.9

Updates:

  • Fixed known issue whereby ALL errors were returning as 500
  • Various updates to Resolve

Oct 10, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.8

Updates:

  • First release of Resolve API
  • Fixed problem where offset wasn't working for Crosswalk

Sep 28, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.7

Updates:

  • Removed the canonical name for each field from the list of aliases to each field (since they were redundant).
  • Fixed problem whereby OAuth signed requests were always being denied under certain configurations.
  • Fixed schema call not responding (configuration mistake)
  • Added schema_last_updated to schema
  • Added various health checks to back end

Sep 21, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.6

Updates:

  • Clearer error messages for 401 errors
  • Each field in a table now supports an english-readable description of what the field contains (visible in the schema call).

Sep 13, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.5

Updates:

  • Schema now includes geo_enabled
  • Numerous back-end fixes for logging/reporting/administration

Sep 8, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.4

Updates:

  • AND and OR are properly supported in the "q" parameter for /read
  • Schema now includes fulltext_searchable
  • response.view.fields is now an array of hashes instead of an array of arrays
  • Exceptional limits for OAuth signed calls were throwing 403 errors instead of being respected. This is fixed.

New known issues:

  • Schema is still missing schema_last_updated and geo_enabled

Aug 31, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.3

Updates:

  • OAuth errors that can be fixed with proper credentials return HTTP 401 status rather than 403, as per the HTTP Specification.
  • Updated an error whereby error messages from previous requests were being cached and messaged to subsequent requests

Aug 23, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.2

Updates:

  • Fixed a problem where OAuth requests containing single quotes (URL encoded or not) would always fail.
  • Fixed a problem where custom limits were being ignored for signed OAuth requests.
  • OAuth error messages updated to match documentation
  • Unrecognized parameter message updated to match documentation
  • $distance and $relevance can now be specified in the sort parameter for reads.
  • Schema method is now implemented
  • Full-text search tweaked to provide more weight towards names. (Searching for "Starbucks" would previously show things in "Starbuck City" before it showed the well known coffee shop before).
  • Aaron's Clojure SDK for the Factual API
  • Added a quick tutorial on using Apigee due to common head-scratching
  • Default sort for Crosswalk calls is now namespace
  • Documentation updated to list which namespaces include namespace_id data

New known issues:

  • Schema call is missing an array of the field IDs present
  • Schema call is missing search_enabled and geo_enabled
  • Schema call is missing schema_version

Aug 8, 2011 - BETA release 0.1.1

For this first release:

  • Only U.S. Places is supported
  • GET is the only supported API call (for filtered reads from place data)
  • Support for Crosswalk and Crossref are built
  • seed namespaces supported are here

Known issues:

  • Currently limit and offset overrides for OAuthenticated users are not being respected (results in a 403)
  • $distance and $relevance are not present as originally defined in the documentation
  • Current Crossref contains is_canonical, which will be deprecated in the next release
  • Some Foursquare data in Crosswalk appear to have the venue ID listed in the Foursquare url, but not broken out in the namespace_id field.
  • Foursquare venue IDs are using the older sequential IDs, not their new UUID style IDs.
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