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Changelog

Welcome to the changelog! This page highlights all the updates made to our product.

December 08, 2025​

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What's New​

  • ⛏️ Extractive Activity Rules in Protected Area Checks:
    Protected area results now specify whether extractive activity is prohibited, limited, permitted, or unknown for each overlapping area. When activity is limited, the response surfaces extractive_activity_conditions, regulation_names, and regulation_urls so compliance teams can review the source text.
    Value: Makes it effortless to understand which protected areas block or restrict extraction before scheduling operations or approving suppliers.
  • 📊 Most Restrictive Summary Flag:
    protected_area_overlap_summary now includes most_restrictive_extractive_activity_legality, instantly highlighting the strictest rule among all overlapping protected areas for a geometry or plot.
    Value: Enables quick go/no-go decisions without scanning every area detail.
  • 🗂️ Richer Protected Area Metadata:
    Every intersecting area now returns area_name, local_name, type, and source_name, and response-level sources include data_version for traceability.
    Value: Provides clarity when multiple local labels exist and makes it easier to cite the dataset powering the assessment.
  • ✅ Validated Regulatory Metadata:
    All new extractive-activity attributes are validated against authoritative regulation entries before being returned by either the standalone protected area check or the EUDR workflow.
    Value: Gives legal and sustainability teams confidence that the surfaced restrictions match the cited regulation.

API Versioning​

  • 📣 API v2 Sunset Warning Headers:
    Requests made with X-API-Version: 2 now receive standard HTTP deprecation headers signalling that version 2 will retire on January 31, 2026 and pointing to version 3 as the successor.
API v2 retirement

X-API-Version: 2 will be decommissioned on January 31, 2026. Every response already carries HTTP deprecation headers so you can identify lingering requests. Please migrate to version 3 as soon as possible to avoid service interruptions.

October 20, 2025​

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This release introduces flexible configuration for job creation and a new way to audit repeated analyses.

What's New​

  • 🔁 Analysis Runs for Repeated Assessments:
    Jobs now generate analysis_run records per plot, enabling teams to re-run the same plot with different harvest dates or commodities and inspect previous results.
    Endpoints: GET /analysis-runs?plot_id={{plot_id}}, GET /analysis-runs/{{analysis_run_id}}
    Value: Simplifies audit trails and experimentation without duplicating plots.
  • 🧩 Job Payload Enhancements:
    The job creation schema accepts optional config and per_plot objects so shared or plot-specific harvest_date and commodity values can be provided at job time. Plot registration no longer requires these attributes.
    Endpoint: POST /jobs/make_job
    Value: Streamlines plot onboarding and keeps analysis inputs closer to the run context.
  • 🌱 Optional Commodity and Harvest Date on Plot Registration:
    POST /plots/make_plot can now register a plot without commodity or harvest date. Existing payloads remain valid, and values can be supplied later via jobs.
    Value: Speeds up data ingestion while maintaining the previous UX for clients that still send commodity data.

September 30, 2025​

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What's New​

  • 📈 Protected Areas - New Countries Added:
    Expanded coverage with 45 additional countries, now included in the documentation tables.

  • 🌍 Coverage Documentation Overhaul:
    Country coverage lists have been replaced with structured tables grouped by UN regions (Africa, Americas, Asia, Europe, Oceania). Each table now includes ISO3 codes and a Data Quality flag.

    Value: Provides clearer visibility into supported regions and the quality of available data, supporting compliance, due diligence, and integration planning.

ℹ️ We are constantly improving coverage by adding more countries and updating data quality assessments.

September 12, 2025​

Added

What's New​

  • 📖 EUDR GeoJSON Requirements Documentation:
    Added a dedicated page explaining the latest official EUDR Information System GeoJSON requirements.
    The page covers supported geometry types and provides a detailed table of common GeoJSON file errors.
    Value: Helps users prepare compliant submissions by understanding both EUDR rules and how OpenAtlas handles geometry validation.

September 04, 2025​

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This update introduces Vantage Protected-Areas as a standalone product, designed to power lightweight spatial checks independently of the full EUDR workflow provided by Vantage-X.

What's New​

  • 🛡 Vantage Protected-Areas (Standalone Product)
    You can now validate plots or raw geometries against protected area boundaries using a dedicated API, separate from Vantage-X.
    Endpoints:

    • POST /protected-areas/checks
    • GET /protected-areas/areas/{area_id}

    Value:

    • Enables modular integration of protected area checks without running full EUDR risk assessments
    • Supports batch processing
    • Returns a GeoJSON FeatureCollection including overlap metrics, intersecting area metadata, and source provenance

    📖 Explore the Protected Areas product

  • 🧪 Protected-Areas Tutorial Published
    Step-by-step guide now available:

    • How to authenticate
    • How to validate plots or geometries
    • How to interpret results and retrieve metadata

This release sets the foundation for modular compliance checks, allowing users to start small and expand as needed.

April 28, 2025​

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This update introduces API version 3, significantly enhancing the visualisation and spatial analysis capabilities for EUDR risk assessment.

What's New​

  • 🖼 Updated Risk Assessment Visualisation:
    Overhauled the visual output generated via job_visualization_url, now structured into dedicated visual blocks covering risk summary, temporal analysis, regional context, protected areas, and indigenous land intersections.
    Endpoint: GET /jobs/job/{job_id}
    Value: Offers a clearer, more intuitive breakdown of risk factors by isolating each component visually. This supports due diligence reviews, facilitates internal reporting, and enhances traceability workflows across supplier ecosystems.

    📖 Learn more in the updated documentation

  • 🛡️ Upgraded Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples Intersection Checks:
    Significantly expanded and improved the capability to assess plot intersections with protected areas and Indigenous Peoples’ lands.
    Endpoint: POST /jobs/make_job
    Value:

    • Previously limited to a basic protected area flag, the system now delivers high-resolution, attribute-rich intersection analysis for both protected and Indigenous lands.
    • Detailed metadata, overlap metrics, and source provenance are provided, supporting EUDR Articles 10(c), (d), and (e).

    Protected Area Assessment:

    • Returns detailed information per intersecting area:
      • name and iucn_category
      • overlap_area_ha and plot overlap percentage
      • Source metadata (producer, creation date)

    Indigenous Peoples Assessment:

    • Provides structured attributes for intersecting territories:
      • name, government_acknowledged, land_status, overlap_area_ha, and plot overlap percentage
      • Full source metadata for transparency

    These improvements strengthen users' ability to meet EUDR due diligence requirements regarding land rights and conservation obligations. For more details, see the updated documentation.

API Versioning​

  • 🚀 API Version 3 Released:
    This update marks the release of X-API-Version: 3.
    • Visualisation format updated.
    • Advanced Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas checks added.
Upgrade to API version 3

Version 2 remains available for legacy integrations, but it will be removed on January 31, 2026. Begin sending X-API-Version: 3 to stay on the supported release and avoid the deprecation cutoff.

Note

The previous version of the risk assessment visualisation remains available when using API version 2.

March 6, 2025​

Added

What's New​

  • 🚀 Job Status: done-with-errors
    Added a new status indicating a job completed, but some plots were not processed.
    Endpoint: GET /jobs/job/{job_id}

For more details, see the updated documentation.

February 19, 2025​

Updated

This update improves API clarity by introducing explicit versioning details, enhancing token balance accessibility, and documenting the mock service for seamless integration testing.

Improvements​

  • 🔍 Token Balance Information
    Clarified how users can check available, used and reserved tokens.

  • 🛠 API Versioning & Mock Service
    Added details about header-based API versioning and the free-to-use mock service for integration testing.

For more details, see the updated documentation.

January 30, 2025​

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This release introduces enhanced support for smaller farms and improves geometry validation mechanisms, ensuring a more flexible and accurate risk assessment process.

What's New​

  • 📏 Dynamic Circle Size for Point-Based Plots:
    Users can now specify the area of circular plots when registering a point geometry using the point_ha parameter. Previously, all points were converted into circles of approximately 4 hectares. With this update, users can define smaller areas, enabling risk assessments for small-scale farms.
    Endpoint: POST /plots/make_plot
    Value: Provides better support for smaller farms, ensuring more precise geospatial analysis and risk assessments tailored to actual land sizes.
    Documentation: The Plot of Land - Small Plots Registration guide has been updated to reflect this new functionality.

Improvements​

  • 📐 Enhanced Geometry Validation:
    The geometry validation logic has been refined to better handle edge cases, ensuring higher accuracy and improved feedback when registering plots.
    Endpoint: POST /plots/make_plot
    Value: Reduces errors during data submission, making the plot registration process smoother and more intuitive.
    Documentation: The updated Plot of Land - Geometry Validity guide now includes details on validation rules and supported geometries.

January 12, 2025​

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This release introduces new documentation to provide practical, real-world examples for users conducting risk assessments using the API.

What's New​

  • 🌟 Risk Assessment Examples:
    A new documentation page showcasing practical examples of plots analyzed using the API. This page demonstrates high, medium, and low-risk plots with detailed visualizations, explanations, and data.
    Value: Helps users understand how to interpret risk assessment results, including key factors influencing risk levels and how to use plot data effectively in workflows.

Explore the New Page: Risk Assessment Examples

December 4, 2024​

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This release introduces new functionality to strengthen compliance with regulatory standards and enhance geospatial data validation.

What's New​

  • 🌍 Indigenous People Check:
    Added functionality to assess the impact of registered plots on indigenous communities, ensuring compliance with the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR).
    Endpoint: POST /jobs/make_job
    Value: This feature streamlines compliance processes by automatically flagging plots intersecting with indigenous land areas, reducing manual oversight and increasing accuracy in risk assessment.

Improvements​

  • 📐 Geometry Validation for Plot Registration:
    Implemented geometry validation to ensure that all submitted GeoJSON data adheres to required standards (e.g., valid polygons). Precise error messages are returned for invalid submissions, helping users quickly address data issues.
    Endpoint: POST /plots/make_plot
    Value: Enhances data integrity and compatibility with geospatial analytics systems, ensuring smooth downstream processes and reducing time spent on troubleshooting.

November 28, 2024​

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This release introduces enhanced support for GeoJSON geometries, addressing user feedback and improving the reliability of job creation workflows.

What's New​

  • 📏 Third Dimension Support for Plot Registration:
    The plot registration endpoint now supports GeoJSON geometries with a third dimension (z-coordinate). This update accommodates user-submitted geometries containing elevation or other z-axis data, which previously caused job failures.
    Endpoint: POST /plots/make_plot
    Value: Ensures compatibility with 3D geospatial data, preventing errors and enabling smoother workflows for users submitting detailed GeoJSON geometries.

November 14, 2024​

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This release focuses on enhancing the user experience with comprehensive documentation updates, making it easier to understand and utilize the API's features.

What's New​

  • 📖 Guides and API Documentation Update:
    Released upgraded documentation with the following enhancements:
    • New Guides: Detailed explanation pages for working with plots, running analyses, and navigating the API, including an introductory overview and a step-by-step guide.
    • API Documentation: Comprehensive updates to the API documentation, ensuring clarity and alignment with the latest features.
      Value: These updates empower users to fully leverage the API's capabilities by providing clearer guidance and improved accessibility to technical resources.

Explore the Updated Documentation: Open Atlas Documentation