generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: https://docs.dimensions.ai/dsl/releasenotes.html
provider: Dimensions
providerId: dimensions
url: https://docs.dimensions.ai/dsl/releasenotes.html
description: >-
  Dated release notes for the Dimensions Analytics API (DSL v2), published on the
  provider's documentation site as "Release Notes and Deprecations". Entries are
  dated by month and week rather than by day. Recent window only.
scheme: semver-ish (major.minor[.patch]) dated by month/week
current_version: '2.15'
cadence: roughly every two weeks for minor releases
entries:
- version: MCP 1.x
  date: '2026-08'
  date_label: 2026, August, Week of 10th
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New MCP server "Dimensions Analytics MCP" released.
  highlights: >-
    First MCP server release, announced the same week as the Dimensions Semantic
    Search MCP.
- version: '2.15'
  date: '2026-05'
  date_label: 2026, May, Week of 4th
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New optional `limit` argument for similar_documents (default 250 concepts, max 2000).
  - New field concepts_relevant in Publications (ML-derived, relevance >= 0.6).
  deprecations:
  - research_org_country_names -> research_org_countries (Publications)
  - research_org_state_names -> research_org_states (Publications)
  - title_language, language_desc -> language_detected (Datasets)
  - acronym -> acronyms (Organizations)
  - funder_org_acronym -> funders (Grants)
- version: '2.14'
  date: '2026-02'
  date_label: 2026, February, Week of 2nd
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New fields ultimate_parent_id and hierarchy_details in Organizations.
- version: '2.13'
  date: '2025-11'
  date_label: 2025, November, Week of 10th
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New fields overall_status and resulting_publications in Clinical Trials.
  deprecations:
  - last_year and total_publications in Source Titles (data not available)
- version: '2.12'
  date: '2025-07'
  date_label: 2025, July, Week of 28th
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New search field `funding` in Publications.
  - New search field title_abstract_claims in Patents.
  - New fields last_year and total_publications in Source Titles.
  - active_status in Grants now retrievable and usable with empty/not empty filters.
  changes:
  - Source Titles sorted by score by default.
  - current_organization_id in publication authors is no longer deprecated.
- version: 2.10.1
  date: '2024-08'
  date_label: 2024, August, Week of 28th
  breaking: false
  fixes:
  - Reports field orange_book bug.
  - Incorrect return value for the classify function.
- version: 2.10.0
  date: '2024-04'
  date_label: 2024, April, Week of 29th
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New operator — Lucene field searches with @.
  - New field research_org_types in Publications and Grants.
  changes:
  - Updated SDG classification system in classify().
- version: 2.9.1
  date: '2024-02'
  date_label: 2024, February, Week of 12th
  breaking: false
  changes:
  - Publications now sorted by relevance by default instead of date.
  - Researchers filtered for obsolete researchers by default.
  - Updated versions of concepts, RCDC and UoA fields.
  fixes:
  - 408 returned after a short period of time.
- version: 2.9.0
  date: '2024-01'
  date_label: 2024, January, Week of 29th
  breaking: false
  additions:
  - New field document_type in Publications.
  - New return function prettify.
  - New field active_status in Grants.
entries_note: >-
  Older entries (2.8.0 back to 2.0.0, October 2021) remain on the same page;
  release notes predating v2 are on the legacy API Version 1 documentation.