specification: API Commons ChangeLog
specificationVersion: '0.1'
provider: OnlineNIC
providerId: onlinenic
generated: '2026-09-17'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://www.onlinenic.com/cp_english/template_api/download/Onlinenic_API_v4.0.9.2_Reseller_Guide.pdf#6.7 ;
  https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/index.html
description: >-
  OnlineNIC keeps two dated surfaces that together act as an API changelog: a "Change Log" addendum
  inside the API Reseller Guide PDF, which lists what each 4.0x build added, and the News Center, which
  announces product and API changes to partners with a date on each item. Neither is a feed — there is
  no RSS, no Atom and no JSON — and both stop in 2020.
scheme:
  style: build-number
  pattern: 4.0x
  current_version: 4.0.9.2
  current_version_source: >-
    Title page of the current guide ("Build 4.0.9"); the file is published as
    Onlinenic_API_v4.0.9.2_Reseller_Guide.pdf.
  machine_readable: false
  feed: null
surfaces:
  - kind: release-notes
    name: API Guide Change Log (Addendum 6.7)
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/cp_english/template_api/download/Onlinenic_API_v4.0.9.2_Reseller_Guide.pdf
    format: pdf-section
    status: 200
  - kind: announcements
    name: News Center
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/index.html
    format: html
    status: 200
    dated: true
entries:
  - version: '4.09'
    date: null
    date_note: >-
      Undated in the change log; the provider's API page gives the 4.09 release date as 2020-03-17, and
      the matching News Center announcement is dated March 17 2020.
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Change Domain Validation Method (changeDCVmethod)
    highlights: New feature — change the DCV method of an SSL order after submission.
  - version: '4.08'
    date: '2020-02-06'
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - 'getSSLOrderList response gains page (page number) and pagesum (total pages)'
      - 'getSSLOrderInfo response gains completedate'
    changes:
      - Removed the "Note, File, DNS are available only with domain-validated products" restriction from Order SSL and Renewal.
      - Order SSL accepts multiple emails for Sectigo SANs.
      - SANs must not include the subject domain carried in the CSR.
      - 'Placing/renewing a Sectigo SSL with DNS or File DCV now returns md5, sha256 and uniquevalue.'
    highlights: Pagination arrives on the order list; Sectigo DCV validation values are returned.
  - version: '4.07'
    date: null
    breaking: false
    changes:
      - 'CheckWhois improved — now returns send_date and the email address.'
  - version: '4.06'
    date: null
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - Domain Whois Verification (checkWhoisVF)
      - Resend Whois Verification mail (resendWhoisVF)
    changes:
      - ID Shield interface update
  - version: '4.05'
    date: null
    breaking: false
    additions:
      - File-based and DNS-based SSL validation methods on the ordering request
announcements:
  - date: '2020-08-04'
    title: TLS/SSL certificate validity period shifts to one-year maximum
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/newsinfo/2741.html
  - date: '2020-03-17'
    title: 'OnlineNIC: Share important API Update with you'
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/newsinfo/2740.html
    note: Announces changeDCVmethod and checkDomainDcv on the SSL API call surface.
  - date: '2020-03-17'
    title: SSL update on products, pricing and API
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/newsinfo/2739.html
  - date: '2020-01-21'
    title: SSL New Price
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/newsinfo/2738.html
  - date: '2020-01-08'
    title: What's an SSL Site Seal and how to get it
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/newsinfo/2737.html
  - date: '2019-12-18'
    title: Move your cPanel site to OnlineNIC Cloud
    url: https://www.onlinenic.com/en/News/newsinfo/2736.html
x-finding:
  latest_documented_change: '2020-08-04'
  note: >-
    Both dated surfaces stop in 2020. The API itself is live and answering today — probed 2026-09-17 —
    but nothing OnlineNIC publishes records a change to it in more than six years. For an integrator
    that is the material fact: there is no way to learn from the vendor whether the contract has moved.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com