Changelog

About

Below is a log of changes to the Persona API. Updates that affect only products or features in beta or limited release may not be reflected.

Each change can be described as either a breaking change or an ongoing change.

  • Breaking changes = new API version: When we make any backwards-incompatible changes, we release a new version of the API. In addition to being assigned a new API version, these changes are marked in the changelog with the 💥 symbol. You’re in charge of when you get breaking changes—you get them when you upgrade your API version. Learn how to try out and upgrade to newer API versions.
  • Ongoing changes: Ongoing changes are backwards-compatible, and are added on an ongoing basis. You don’t need to update your API version to get these updates.

Key

🌱 New feature

🍃 Improvement

🔧 Fix

💥 Breaking change

🔒 Security-related

April 10, 2023

Inquiries

  • 🍃 Resumed Inquiry persists locale from previous session: A resumed Inquiry now loads with the same locale as the previous session (if set). Previously, a resumed Inquiry would load with the locale of the current device.
  • 🍃 One-time links generated only when needed: The Generate a one-time link API now returns a previously-created but unused, unexpired link if one exists. This change prevents you from creating too many links if you accidentally call this endpoint many times.

Verifications

  • 🌱 More metadata for Government ID Verification’s Allowed ID check: The Allowed ID verification check (id-disallowed-type-detection) now returns additional metadata fields when the check passes or fails: country-code, detected-id-designations, disallowed-id-designations.

  • 🍃 New defaults for Selfie Verification: Going forward, when you create a Selfie Verification, two new defaults are set. These defaults reflect what we find works best for most customers, and these settings remain configurable. The new defaults are:

    1. The Selfie Liveness verification check (selfie-liveness-detection) is enabled.
    2. The Verification requires what we call “strict selfie capture”—a set of standards that mean the selfie must be higher resolution, and the face more centered.

  • 🔧 Enable Verification types in Sandbox: The following Verification types can now be created in the Sandbox environment:

    • AAMVA
    • eCBSV Database
    • Serpro Database
    • TIN Database
    • Selfie

Transactions

  • 🌱 Update Transaction status via API: You can update the status of a Transaction by setting the new status attribute in the /update endpoint.