generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/changelog and
  https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/admin/v1/changelog
  (both fetched 2026-08-13, HTTP 200)
provider: Google Analytics
providerId: google-analytics
scheme: >-
  Dated prose changelogs, one per API, published on the developer site. Entries are
  headed by an ISO date and a change title. There is no version number attached to an
  entry — the version is the API channel (v1beta / v1alpha) named inside it.
machine_readable: false
notification_channel: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/google-analytics-api-notify
changelogs:
  - api: Google Analytics Data API (GA4)
    url: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/reporting/data/v1/changelog
    current_version: v1beta
  - api: Google Analytics Admin API
    url: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/config/admin/v1/changelog
    current_version: v1beta
  - api: Measurement Protocol (GA4)
    url: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/ga4/changelog
    current_version: unversioned
entries:
  - date: '2026-06-18'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added UpdateReportingIdentitySettings method
    highlights:
      - Lets you update the ReportingIdentitySettings for a property.
  - date: '2026-06-18'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha + v1beta
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added can_edit field to PropertySummary
    highlights:
      - >-
        Indicates whether the user holds a Google Analytics role permitting settings
        changes on the property.
  - date: '2026-04-23'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added support for conversion reporting
    highlights:
      - >-
        runReport can now return Advertising > Conversion performance data via a new
        ConversionSpec field on RunReportRequest (conversionActions +
        AttributionModel DATA_DRIVEN or LAST_CLICK).
      - Added Section to ResponseMetaData (SECTION_REPORT vs SECTION_ADVERTISING).
      - >-
        getMetadata gained conversions[] (ConversionMetadata) and per-field sections
        on DimensionMetadata/MetricMetadata.
      - Not yet available on every property.
  - date: '2026-04-14'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added GetUserProvidedDataSettings method
    highlights:
      - >-
        New UserProvidedDataSettings resource with
        userProvidedDataCollectionEnabled and
        automaticallyDetectedDataCollectionEnabled.
  - date: '2025-08-20'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added GetReportingIdentitySettings method
  - date: '2025-08-20'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: removal
    breaking: true
    title: Removed legacy Universal Analytics methods
    highlights:
      - >-
        Removed SetAutomatedGa4ConfigurationOptOut,
        FetchAutomatedGa4ConfigurationOptOut, CreateConnectedSiteTag,
        DeleteConnectedSiteTag, ListConnectedSiteTags and FetchConnectedGa4Property.
  - date: '2025-06-12'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added subproperty sync configuration management methods
    highlights:
      - GetSubpropertySyncConfig, ListSubpropertySyncConfig, UpdateSubpropertySyncConfig.
  - date: '2025-04-16'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added Reporting Data Annotation management methods
    highlights:
      - >-
        Create/Get/List/Update/DeleteReportingDataAnnotation for the
        ReportingDataAnnotation resource.
  - date: '2025-03-07'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1beta
    type: deprecation
    breaking: true
    title: Deprecating the sharingWithGoogleAnySalesEnabled parameter
    highlights:
      - >-
        The getDataSharingSettings field now always returns false and was removed
        from v1beta in June 2025.
  - date: '2025-01-20'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha + v1beta
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added user data retention to DataRetentionSettings
  - date: '2024-10-20'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1beta
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added the EmptyFilter dimension filter type
  - date: '2024-10-15'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added sampling level to the reportTasks method
    highlights:
      - >-
        samplingLevel on properties.runReportTask; Analytics 360 properties get
        1-billion-event sampling limits and an UNSAMPLED setting.
  - date: '2024-09-18'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1beta
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added Property Quotas Snapshot feature
    highlights:
      - >-
        properties.getPropertyQuotasSnapshot returns all property quotas grouped by
        quota category.
  - date: '2024-06-28'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1beta
    type: quota
    breaking: true
    title: Added "client errors per project per property" quota
    highlights:
      - >-
        10,000 non-200/non-500 responses per project per property per 15-minute
        window; exceeding it temporarily blocks the project from the property.
  - date: '2024-05-14'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1beta
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added Comparisons feature
    highlights:
      - >-
        comparisons field on core reporting methods; getMetadata lists saved
        comparisons. Saved comparisons can only be created in the Google Analytics UI.
  - date: '2024-05-08'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added report tasks (asynchronous reporting)
    highlights:
      - properties.reportTasks create / get / list / query.
  - date: '2024-05-06'
    api: Google Analytics Data API
    channel: v1beta
    type: deprecation
    breaking: true
    title: New dimensions for key events
    highlights:
      - Replace the isConversionEvent dimension with isKeyEvent.
      - Conversion metrics deprecated in favour of Key Event metrics.
  - date: '2024-08-01'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: rename
    breaking: true
    title: Breaking change to the createSubproperty method
    highlights:
      - >-
        Renamed createSubproperty to provisionSubproperty to align with custom method
        guidelines. No alias period was announced.
  - date: '2024-08-01'
    api: Google Analytics Admin API
    channel: v1alpha
    type: addition
    breaking: false
    title: Added BigQuery link management and event edit rules
    highlights:
      - Create/Update/DeleteBigQueryLink plus a dataset_location field.
      - >-
        Get/Create/Delete/List/Update/ReorderEventEditRule for the EventEditRule
        resource.
observations:
  - >-
    The Admin API v1alpha channel is where nearly all new capability lands; v1beta
    receives a trickle. Six of the last ten Admin API entries are v1alpha-only.
  - >-
    Breaking changes are announced in the same undifferentiated dated list as
    additions. There is no severity tag, no machine-readable feed, and no Sunset
    header at runtime.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com