generated: '2026-08-13'
method: searched
source: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog
checked: '2026-08-13'
scheme: semver-ish
current_version: 1.10.0
dates_published: false
dates_note: >-
  Entries are ordered newest-first on the developer hub but carry no machine-readable
  publication date in the served markdown, so no `date` is recorded per entry rather than
  one being inferred from position.
entries:
- title: 'Removal Notice: /trendingEntities and /igPosts'
  type: removed
  breaking: true
  summary: >-
    Both endpoints retired to streamline the API and improve performance; historical data
    retrieval now starts from 2018 onward.
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/removal-notice
- title: 'Deprecation Notice: /trendingEntities'
  type: deprecated
  breaking: false
  effective: '2024-01-31'
  summary: >-
    Deprecation period announced for /trendingEntities on both the Quick Start and
    Historical APIs.
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/deprecation-notice-trendingentities
- title: New 'Fake News' Category
  type: added
  breaking: false
  summary: >-
    New Fake News category (ID 868) available in API responses and as a `categories`
    filter value, sourced from PolitiFact's list of fake-news sources.
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/new-fake-news-category
- title: 'Deprecation notice: ''mayhem'' category'
  type: deprecated
  breaking: false
  summary: >-
    The mayhem category (ID 22) is no longer accepted in the `filter` section of any
    query. Queries using it do not fail but return no results. Affects /region, /articles,
    /stats, /trendingEntities, /twitterInfluencers, /fbInfluencers and /syndicatedArticles.
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/deprecation-notice-mayhem-category
- title: How we use the API to put together monthly publisher rankings
  type: note
  breaking: false
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/how-we-use-the-api-to-put-together-monthly-publisher-rankings
- title: Version 1.10.0
  type: released
  breaking: true
  summary: >-
    Removed Syndication features from v1/articles as previously advised — `matched_rate`
    and `matched_sourceId` no longer appear in the response. [W-930]
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/version-1100
- title: Version 1.9.0
  type: released
  breaking: false
  summary: >-
    Facebook data enriched across all endpoints returning fb data — `likes`, `comments`
    and `shares` added to `fb_data`. Fixed low result counts on v1/articles full-text
    search.
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/version-190
- title: 'Deprecation notice: NewsWhip Syndication features in the v1/articles API'
  type: deprecated
  breaking: false
  summary: >-
    Announced removal of `matched_rate` and `matched_sourceId` from the v1/articles
    response; Syndication customers directed to /syndicatedArticles.
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/deprecation-notice-newswhip-syndication-features-in-the-v1articles-api
- title: Version 1.8.4
  type: released
  breaking: false
  summary: >-
    Fixed Syndication API filtering by `_type` and `_value` in
    `syndication_query.topics_filter`, which previously returned no results. [W-826]
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/version-184
- title: Version 1.8.3
  type: released
  breaking: false
  summary: >-
    Fixed a 400 bad-query error when filtering for more than one URL in the `filters`
    parameter of v1/articles. [W-831]
  url: https://developer.newswhip.com/changelog/version-183