generated: '2026-09-07'
method: searched
source: https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/origin/release-notes
provider: Fabric Origin
providerId: fabric-origin
name: Origin Nexus release notes
url: https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/origin/release-notes
markdown: https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/origin/release-notes.md
description: >-
  Fabric maintains a dated release-notes page for Origin Nexus reaching back to September 2024, with
  breaking changes explicitly labelled and given effective dates. Origin Studio keeps a separate,
  monthly-titled set of release-notes pages in its own knowledge base. This artifact captures the
  recent window of the Origin Nexus log.
scheme:
  versioning: date-based release notes; no semantic version on the Origin Nexus API itself
  cadence: irregular — roughly monthly, clustering around data and provider updates
  breaking_change_labeling: true
  effective_dates: true
  machine_readable: false
  feed: none — no RSS/Atom or JSON changelog is published for the release notes
current_version: '2026-09-02 (most recent dated entry)'
entries:
- date: '2026-09-02'
  breaking: false
  type: feature
  api: Video API
  highlights:
  - Added a boolean HlsNoAudioOnly parameter to GetVideo, excluding the audio-only fallback track so
    the lowest available bitrate always carries video.
- date: '2026-09-01'
  breaking: false
  type: feature
  api: Entertainment API / Common Metadata API
  highlights:
  - Six new Characteristic fields exposed as queryable fields on a single Search endpoint — Mood/Tone,
    Setting/Context, Subjects and Tropes, Based On, Narrative Location, Filming Location.
  - Six new taxonomy endpoints under /Common/Characteristics/ return the value lists.
- date: '2026-05-20'
  breaking: false
  type: improvement
  api: all
  highlights:
  - format=html now renders both a structured JSON block and a table view.
- date: '2026-04-15'
  breaking: false
  type: feature+fix
  api: Entertainment API
  highlights:
  - Added StartDateStart and StartDateEnd to SearchEntertainment for availability start-date ranges.
  - Fixed program totals not matching the Total property in the SearchEntertainment response.
- date: '2026-03-17'
  breaking: false
  type: data
  highlights:
  - 98,643 new Show descriptions and 46,018 new Movie descriptions in Short/Medium/Long lengths.
- date: '2026-02-09'
  effective: '2026-02-10'
  breaking: true
  type: breaking-change
  api: Entertainment API, Celebrity API
  highlights:
  - 'BREAKING — Take parameter maximum reduced from 50 to 10 on /Entertainment/Search and /Celebrity/Search.'
  - Requests with Take > 10 return 400 Bad Request from 2026-02-10.
  - Rationale published — responses exceeding the API Gateway's 10MB hard limit trigger a gateway-level
    500 after a successful server response, which is not detectable via standard monitoring.
- date: '2026-02-04'
  breaking: false
  type: improvement+data
  highlights:
  - 'Gzip compression enabled; request with Accept-Encoding: gzip for roughly 70% smaller payloads.'
  - 87,699 new awards added across 162 award types globally.
  - 'Provider change: iTunes migrated to Apple TV.'
  - 'Provider change: HBO and Max availability migrated to HBOMax; legacy providers removed (8,644 titles).'
  - 'Provider removal: imdbTv removed from 79 shows — service discontinued.'
- date: '2026-01-05'
  breaking: true
  type: breaking-change
  title: AWS migration
  highlights:
  - 17 Fandango and Common endpoint paths renamed in place; the release notes publish an
    old-path -> new-path table with example URLs and endpoint names.
  - 'Deprecated: Charts API (replaced by Trending).'
  - 'Deprecated: YouTube trending chart (use trending in Search).'
  - 'Deprecated: /Entertainment/FindProgramByImage.'
- date: '2025-12-23'
  breaking: false
  type: data
  highlights:
  - Hundreds of additional worldwide availability providers integrated.
- date: '2025-04-09'
  breaking: false
  type: improvement
  highlights:
  - Autocomplete API adjusted for better title matching.
- date: '2025-03-05'
  breaking: false
  type: data
  highlights:
  - 'Availabilities: Vudu (deprecated) renamed to FandangoAtHome.'
- date: '2025-02-05'
  breaking: false
  type: improvement
  highlights:
  - Autocomplete API refreshes the title list hourly with faster response times.
  - Celebrity Ranked API updated hourly with faster response times.
related:
  origin_studio_release_notes:
    index: https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/studio/llms.txt
    examples:
    - https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/studio/origin-studio-release-notes-july-2026
    - https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/studio/origin-studio-release-notes-june-2026
    - https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/studio/origin-studio-release-notes-may-2026
    - https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/studio/origin-studio-release-notes-april-2026
    note: Origin Studio publishes monthly release-notes pages under its own knowledge-base section.
  mcp_releases:
    note: 'Provider states "MCP releases are now centralized in Project docs -> Releases — MCP".'
    source: https://knowledgebase.fabricdata.com/insights/origin-insights-mcp/getting-started
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com