generated: '2026-08-12'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes +
  https://elementalmachines.freshdesk.com/support/solutions +
  https://api.elementalmachines.io/docs/api/release_notes.json
summary: >-
  Elemental Machines maintains THREE separate release-note surfaces and none of them is a
  developer-facing API changelog. The marketing changelog at info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes
  is public and dated but has not been updated since November 2022. The current release notes live in
  the Freshdesk knowledge base, which is JS-rendered and reachable only through search. The most
  structured feed of all — GET /api/release_notes.json, with software, from_date, to_date, page and
  per_page filters — is inside the API itself and requires an access_token. No entry on any surface
  describes a change to the API contract; every one describes Dashboard, Calendar, Usage or Mobile
  app changes. There is no API changelog.
scheme: product-release-notes
versioning_observed: >-
  Per-app semantic-ish versions appear in the entries (Dashboard Release 3.79.0, 3.96.0;
  Calendar/Usage Release 1.10.0). These version the applications, NOT the REST API, which declares
  apiVersion 1.0 with no version segment in any URL.
current_api_version: '1.0'
surfaces:
- name: Public marketing changelog
  url: https://info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes
  http_status: 200
  public: true
  dated: true
  machine_readable: false
  entry_count_listed: 6
  newest_entry: '2022-11-21'
  stale: true
  note: >-
    Six entries total, newest dated November 21, 2022 (describing software released November 18,
    2022). Nearly four years without an update while the product demonstrably kept shipping — see
    the Freshdesk surface below.
- name: Freshdesk knowledge base — Releases
  url: https://elementalmachines.freshdesk.com/support/solutions
  http_status: 200
  public: true
  dated: true
  machine_readable: false
  note: >-
    This is where current release notes actually live, organized into monthly "Releases" folders
    (e.g. "August 2024 - Releases" at
    /support/solutions/articles/19000160661-dashboard-release-3-96-0-august-6-2024, plus 2025
    monthly folders). The portal renders client-side and exposes no folder index to an
    unauthenticated crawler, so individual articles are reachable only by search-engine hit, not by
    walking the site.
- name: Release notes API
  url: https://api.elementalmachines.io/api/release_notes.json
  operationId: releaseNotesIndex
  public: false
  auth_required: true
  machine_readable: true
  filters: [software, from_date, to_date, page, per_page]
  note: >-
    The most useful of the three — filterable, paginated, JSON — and the only one an integrator
    could poll. It is gated behind an OAuth access_token, so its contents cannot be recorded here.
entries:
- date: '2022-11-21'
  title: Heatmaps, inline editing, mobile improvements & more!
  url: https://info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes/heatmaps-inline-editing-mobile-improvements-more
  released: '2022-11-18'
  scope: [dashboard, mobile]
  breaking: false
  highlights:
  - Usage heatmap feature released
  - Machine management and pause-notes improvements
  - Mobile improvements
- date: '2022-09-01'
  title: Release Notes - Calendar/Usage
  url: https://info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes/release-notes_aug-2nd-0-0
  scope: [calendar, usage, dashboard]
  breaking: false
  versions:
    calendar_usage: 1.10.0
    dashboard: 3.79.0
  highlights:
  - Display of partner logos
  - Upload of small and large partner logos in Dashboard
- date: '2022-07-13'
  title: 'Release Notes: Dashboard Improvements'
  url: https://info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes/release-notes-dashboard-improvements
  scope: [dashboard]
  breaking: false
  highlights:
  - Extra-large Data Logbook exports
- date: '2022-07-07'
  title: 'Release Notes: Usage Solution App'
  url: https://info.elementalmachines.com/release-notes/release-notes-usage-solution
  scope: [usage]
  breaking: false
  highlights:
  - Global launch of the Usage Solution app for real-time and historic equipment utilization
entries_note: >-
  Only entries with a date verified on the page itself are listed. Two further listed entries
  ("Release Notes - Single Login", "Release Notes - Utilization View") were not opened and are
  therefore not dated here. Freshdesk-era entries from 2024-2025 are known to exist (e.g. Dashboard
  Release 3.96.0, August 6, 2024) but the portal does not serve a crawlable index, so they are not
  transcribed.
api_changes_documented: false
breaking_change_policy: none published
cross_links:
  lifecycle: lifecycle/elemental-machines-lifecycle.yml