generated: '2026-08-11'
method: searched
source: https://github.com/Thordata/thordata-python-sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
api_changelog: null
note: >-
  Thordata publishes no API changelog. There is no release-notes page, no dated "what's new"
  section in the docs and no entry for one in either llms.txt. The only dated record of change on
  the whole platform is the SDK changelogs, and they mix client-library refactors with real
  API-surface additions - so an integrator has to read a Python library's changelog to learn that
  the SERP API gained nine engine variants. The entries below are the API-affecting ones extracted
  from the Python SDK changelog; SDK-internal changes are excluded.
scheme: semver (per SDK, not per API)
current_version:
  api: v1 (unversioned in the URL; v1 refers to the SDK specification)
  python_sdk: 1.8.5
  published: '2026-02-27'
sources:
  - {name: Python SDK, url: 'https://github.com/Thordata/thordata-python-sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md'}
  - {name: JavaScript SDK, url: 'https://github.com/Thordata/thordata-js-sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md'}
  - {name: Go SDK, url: 'https://github.com/Thordata/thordata-go-sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md'}
  - {name: Java SDK, url: 'https://github.com/Thordata/thordata-java-sdk/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md'}
  - {name: Canonical spec, url: 'https://github.com/Thordata/thordata-sdk-spec'}
entries:
  - version: 1.8.4
    date: '2026-02'
    breaking: false
    api_surface_change: false
    highlights:
      - Namespace-based client API (client.universal, client.scraper, client.account, client.proxy)
      - Unified APIResponse wrapper and centralized constants for endpoints and error codes
      - Error messages now carry URL, method, status code and request id
      - Connection pooling, DNS caching and batch utilities; stated 30-40 percent gain under high concurrency
    note: Explicitly backward compatible; the older flat methods still work.
  - version: 1.8.2
    date: '2026-02-06'
    breaking: false
    api_surface_change: false
    highlights:
      - Code-quality cleanup for browser examples and environment helpers
  - version: 1.8.1
    date: '2026-02'
    breaking: false
    api_surface_change: false
    highlights:
      - Browser module made import-safe when Playwright is not installed
  - version: 1.8.0
    date: '2026-02'
    breaking: false
    api_surface_change: true
    additions:
      - 'SERP API: ai_overview parameter, Google engine only, default False'
      - >-
        SERP API: nine additional Google engine variants - google_ai_mode, google_play_product,
        google_play_games, google_play_movies, google_play_books, google_scholar_cite,
        google_scholar_author, google_finance_markets, google_patents_details
      - >-
        Browser automation module built on Playwright - BrowserSession with navigate, snapshot,
        click_ref, type_ref, screenshot_page, get_html, scroll and go_back
    deprecations:
      - >-
        SERP API output format "both" (json=2) deprecated because the dashboard does not support
        it; the SDK now emits a deprecation warning
    note: >-
      The clearest example of the problem. Two genuine API changes - a new parameter and nine new
      engines - plus a deprecation, announced only inside a Python package changelog. A Go, Java or
      raw-HTTP consumer has no channel that would tell them.
gaps:
  - No API changelog, release-notes page or dated "what's new" anywhere on thordata.com or doc.thordata.com.
  - API-surface additions and deprecations are announced inside client-library changelogs.
  - No RSS/Atom feed, mailing list or subscribable channel for API change.
  - >-
    Changelogs use non-dates ("2026-02-XX") for several releases, so even the substitute record is
    not reliably dated.