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At Facebook, we generally "push" new code to the production site every Tuesday night. We make this codebase available to developers on Sunday night at beta.facebook.com so they can test their applications prior to the push on Tuesday. You can access Graph API methods at graph.beta.facebook.com, and the REST API methods at api.beta.facebook.com.
We make sure to inform Facebook Platform developers about any notable changes through our developer blog, but we know that even minor changes can sometimes impact developers, so we provide a change log for a given week below.
Fixed a bug that was causing the custom action to display a relative date e.g. 'about a week left' instead of absolute date. (rE525595)
Fixed a bug where like button wasn't publishing to liker's wall. (rE530630)
Fixed a bug that was causing the custom Tab-Image to not show the uploaded image. (rE530750)
Fixed a bug that was causing links.preview to not work for some links. (rE530677)
Fixed a bug that was causing like button page tab refresh to not post app_data. (rE527286)
Fixed a bug with URLs linked to from Timelines. (rE511010)
Fixed a bug that was causing app tabs to display out of place. (rE511563)
Fixed a bug keeping Unix times from being properly returned for events via the Graph API. (rE510329)
Fixed a bug causing problems using FB.ui in iframes on Page Tabs. (rE509863)
Fixed a bug that was pushing the buttons on the Send button dialog out of the frame when entering long text in the message field. (rE510739)
Fixed a bug causing the built-in "profile" object to be called a "musician" in Open Graph stories. (rE510222)
Fixed a bug that was causing a vertical scrollbar to show on canvas when an app's height setting was set to "Fluid". (rE510035)
Fixed a bug where some Open Graph units were not being translated. (rE507536)
Fixed a bug where use_online_presence always return 'offline' status even when user is online on Chat. (rE507628)
Fixed a bug where Open Graph linter falsely warn about missing og:locale when it is already present. (rE508726)
Fixed a bug where verified user could not be added to App Roles due to 'not a verified user' error. (rE508167)
Fixed a bug where deleting a status update the app posted via Graph API return 'invalid parameter'. (rE508454)
Fixed a bug where accessing the Insights table via the Graph API end_time_date function returns no data. (rE507478)
Fixed a bug where, in IE7, the "Forgot Password" link was barely visible after a failed login attempt. (rE503463)
Fixed a bug with the Facepile Plugin where the size parameter wasn't working. (rE503455)
Completed a feature request which added targeting albums (Photos) in the Graph API. (rE504881)
Fixed a bug in the Graph API where some of the Posts in an Event contained created_time and updated_time in the future. (rE502239)
Fixed bug with FQL where the link_stat table was returning 0 for the click_count field. (rE504974)
Fixed a bug in the JS SDK where the hideFlashCallback param in FB.init was never called again after giving focus to a flash game. (rE503018)
The PHP SDK now supports the graph-video.facebook.com endpoint. Previously, the Facebook->api() method couldn't be used to upload a video, because videos are uploaded to graph-video.facebook.com and not graph.facebook.com.(rE498635)
Fixed a bug where the “Paypal Order by Facebook” screen is unlocalized for Japanese. (rE499012)
Fixed a bug where there was an invalid request error thrown when opening timeline posts uploaded with the Graph API that featured SWF objects. (rE500126)
Fixed a bug with the Graph API where changing application namespace with the canvas_name param was returning true but not actually changing the namespace. (rE500126)
Fixed a bug in the PHP SDK, where calling FB.logout still returned an active session even after calling destroySession(). (rE499622)
Fixed a bug in the Comments Plugin where signing in with Yahoo to comment wasn't working. (rE500917)
Fixed a bug in the Like Button when oauth support was enabled, the iframe for the comment drop-down was empty. (rE500572)
Fixed a bug with the Bug Tool where users were unable to create a bugs in IE 8 without first failing validation. (rE499641)
Fixed a bug with the Activity Feed Plugin where the filter parameter wasn't working. (rE501990)
Fixed a bug where the Add Page Tab Dialog truncated the list of pages if the user had at least five pages. (rE501685)
Added the backdated_time_granularity parameter to the Photos Object in the Graph API. backdated_time_granularity is an optional parameter that accepts as input a value that represents the time granularity and defaults to the timestamp. (rE497676)
Fixed a bug where the after calling destroySession() in the PHP SDK, a subsequent call to getUser() it wouldn't repopulate the $user from the signed request data. (rE496051)
Fixed a bug<a/> where the, in the Developer App, the 'Post-Authorize URL' wasn't editable. (rE496525)
Fixed a bug in the Graph APIwhere having a callback parameter in the graph url caused the picture value to be an object instead of a string. (rE498316)
Fixed a bug where actions posted with an end_date in the future were using the past instead of present tense. (rE496101)
Fixed a bug where the Comments Plugin when trying to moderate nested comments the moderate drop-down is hidden by the comment below it. (rE498264)
Fixed a bug where the Facepile Plugin failed to render for Open Graph entities the user already likes. (rE498449)
Fixed a bug where integer data for page insights via the Graph API was inconsistently being returned as string data. (rE492186)
Fixed a bug where canceling during the login process could invalidate the existing OAuth token for failing to auth a new permission. (rE492314)
Fixed a bug where the Graph API had no way to retrieve message attachments from threads. (rE492553)
Fixed a bug where App Insights data transformation pipeline was losing publish category information. (rE492220)
Fixed a bug where for Connect apps with no Canvas presence, after migrating from an App Profile page to a new page, the "Go To App" button would no longer direct the browser to the external Connect website. (rE492792)
Fixed a bug where the text: "publish on wall" in the Lithuanian language was splited into two lines. (rE492407)
Fixed a bug where the Linter was disallowing pages with og:type product because of the following error: 'the specified fb:app_id is not the owner of specified og:type'. (rE492781)
Fixed a bug where on IE7, the Games ticker, app notification would drop down behind the ticker. (rE491803)
Fixed a bug where the "Create Facebook Page" in the Advanced App Settings was returning the following error: "Page Association Failed. We were unable to update the association between your Facebook Page and your app. Try again later." (rE492519)
Fixed a bug where after creating an App Facebook Page, the option to migrate to the page wasn't available. (rE492689)
In the PHP SDK the method Facebook::useFileUploadSupport was renamed to Facebook::getFileUploadSupport, Facebook::useFileUploadSupport is now deprecated but still available. View the Github Commit. (rE490745)
There is now an Insights link for Like buttons that reference web pages that users admin. (rE491434)
Fixed a privacy bug where access to me/adaccounts in Ads API only required basic permissions. Now the ads_management permission is required. (rE490841)
It is now possible to query roles for any app via FQL, using a user access token for an app, and run a query like: select application_id,developer_id,role from developer where application_id = <app_id>. (rE487237)
With the user_checkins or friends_checkins permissions you can now access /feed and /posts using with=location. (rE485822)
stream.publish stories, created with apps, now show up on timeline inside of app tabs. (rE486616)
Fixed a bug with video.watches where the expires_in value if not set on a video.watches post was being set to 0 instead of the duration of the video. (rE484809)
Website insights now unpacks links created with url shorteners to account for all domain site traffic. (rE487280)
Fixed a bug where leaderboard landing modules were having rendering issues. (rE485446)
Fixed a bug where the JS SDK was throwing a "Permission Denied" error in IE9. (rE486431)
Fixed a bug where Requests 2.0 was losing the data parameter on mobile browsers. (rE485511)
Fixed a bug where there was a number of calls to getByClass() when initializing the JS SDK. These calls were quite expensive in browsers that did not support getElementsByClassName natively. (rE487556)
Fixed a bug where the date_format param was not always applied to story properties. (rE486324)
Fixed a bug where adding the migrated="1" param to the Comments Plugin and then trying to view a migrated comment, was throwing an error. (rE486552)
Per the Deprecations Roadmap we have now deprecated the Dashboard API.
Fixed a bug where the Facebook JS SDK was overriding the Javascript hasOwnProperty method. (rE484202)
Fixed a bug where the Live Stream Plugin wasn't displaying posts. (rE483439)
Fixed a bug where iPhone and iPad apps would their lose URL context on redirect for canvas apps, e.g. redirected to https://www.example.com/?id=123 instead of https://www.example.com/app/poll/vote?id=123. (rE479886)
Fixed a bug where the Like Button failed when targeting Facebook Pages with geographic restrictions. (rE480523)
Fixed a bug where it was not possible to use IPv6 addresses in the server whitelist field in the advanced app settings. (rE477724)
Fixed a bug where there was a semicolon in name field of posts to Facebook, when displayed on the iOS Facebook app. (rE477442)
Fixed a bug where the Object Debugger gave the warning "Objects of this type do not allow properties named fb:page_id" when the element property attribute, fb:page_id, was present. (rE478498)
Fixed a bug where setting custom stream privacy from the FB.ui Feed Dialog was not working. (rE478440)
Fixed a bug where the Like Button was not triggering the edge.create event. (rE477942)
Fixed a bug where accessing /me/checkins/ would result in a OAuthException. (rE475227)
Fixed a bug when an item had a price of 1000 credits, the item information in the payment dialog popup showed a price of "1,000 Credits" but when the language Dutch (Nederlands) was selected, the user was prompted incorrectly with "1 tegoedpunt". (rE474560)
Fixed a bug where api_status could not be curled without using fake headers. (rE472817)
Fixed a bug where when the Like Button had FacePile enabled, the Faces were cut off when the Send Button was also shown. (rE475156)
Fixed a bug where Photo comments pagination in the Graph API was inconsistent. (rE472297)
Fixed a bug where API Request time in App Insights was being shown as the aggregate average time instead of the average time. (rE474641)
Fixed a bug where in the href field in the FQL notification table, the actual site's domain was being replaced with facebook.com. (rE471893)
Fixed a bug where App Profile were pages not surfaced as valid pages for adding add an application tab. (rE474956)
Fixed a bug when posting to a /feed/ endpoint, passing an empty picture parameter still resulted in a picture being used in the entry. (rE469879)
Fixed a bug where for large categories of URLs, the Facebook bot would get stuck with a 'circular redirect path' error, when a page contained an og:url tag that was not the same as the page's url. (rE469879)
Fixed a bug with the Report Dialog where the the report and cancel buttons weren't working. (rE468832)
Fixed a bug where sometimes, the "Insights for your Website" page was showing a ? entry with a bunch of random data in it. (rE471298)
Fixed a bug where the enhanced auth dialog didn't show the extended permissions dialog after the primary permissions dialog was displayed when requesting user_actions:
Fixed a bug when creating a Heroku app, the 'Website URL' field was filled in, but the 'App Domain' was not. (rE464573)
Fixed a bug where users who liked a Facebook page were able to block administrators and then the featured administrators were then unable to view content shared. (rE464492)
Fixed a bug where the "Likes" value was empty when querying the graph with a page when the GET var fields was used. (rE462347)
Fixed a bug where the comments box delete popup had a fixed width of 467px. (rE465735)
Fixed a bug where in the Auth Dialog settings in the dev app tool, the Preview Dialog button was not working if Enhanced Auth Dialog was not enabled in Advanced Settings. (rE463635)
Fixed a bug where posting a feed story with an empty post param for picture would fail. (rE463138)
Fixed a bug where the Comment Plugin - "Post to facebook" checkbox css was too narrow for nordic languages. (rE464932)
Fixed a bug where the News Feed insights weren't loading.
Fixed a bug where /me/likes for a page was always returning an empty array.
Fixed a bug when hideFlashCallback was declared in FB.init, it didn't override the default behavior.
Fixed a bug where some applications were being shown with their old title.
Fixed a bug where the Live Stream Plugin wasn't showing any recent posts.
Fixed a bug where using chat while playing a game would cause the app to go blank.
Fixed a bug where the Graph API would return false for users without a profile.
Fixed a bug where the REST API links.preview was not returning the correct video_src(s).
Fixed a bug where the comment data for a post wasn't paging correctly. (rE457614)
Added a Graph API equivalent for pages.isAppAdded at /{page-id}/tabs/app_{app_id}. (rE455921)
Added no_header query param for batch Graph API that omits the "headers" field from each item in the batch response, so the client can save bandwidth if it doesn't require those headers. (rE457169)
Graph API Explorer app list now show apps the user has any developer connection with. (rE450182)
Fixed bug where playing songs from the Music Dashboard wasn't working correctly. (rE450659)
An Open Graph story is created when a new all-time high score is achieved. (rE450293)
publish_action permissions will not be granted if there are no timeline units to be rendered. (rE451346)
Fixed a bug where removing a keyhash from the mobile section in the dev app didn't visually remove it. (rE451899)
Fixed a bug where the profile pic for a test user could not be attained via the Graph API. (rE451168)
Fixed a bug where notifications.getList was returning null "href" fields. (rE451420)
Fixed a bug with the Requests Dialog where the sender was being listed as recipient. (rE451608)
Fixed a bug in "Add to Timeline" prompt where clicking "Custom" in the privacy dropdown would lose the original dialog. (rE451176)
Fixed a bug in the Graph API where me/events would return null. (rE450295)
Fixed a bug in the Graph API where photo/tags was returning an additional tag with group name on a photo posted in a secret group. (rE449459)
FB.Canvas.getPageInfo now returns integers (as documented). It was previously returning strings. (rE437320)
FQL connection table now requires read_stream permission. (rE435878)
Fixed bug where FB Connect JS Flash-based requests weren't working. (rE437379)
Added ability to invite users to events with the Graph API. (rE437165)
Fixed bug where limit and offset on Graph API explorer didn't work. (rE436133)
Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to accept Developer requests from some apps. (rE435024)
Fixed a bug where it wasn't possible to edit basic app info such as description, company info and developers. (rE435027)
Fixed a bug where the iOS typeahead wasn't working. (rE436308)
Added can_invite_friend field to the table which adds a way to determine if guests can invite friends to the event. (rE434811)
Fixed a bug where the selected number of friends always shows 0 in requests dialog. (rE432416)
Fixed the bug preventing a developer from updating the app description on the app profile page. (r435027)
Fix a bug where the parser would miss some Open Graph tags if an unsupported tag was found within
. (r435691)Coerce return values from getPageInfo to numbers from strings. (r437320)
Fixed the bug where like links notifications are not redirected to the comments box. (r437818)
Fixed the return value for reach estimates for an adgroup so that resultType is no longer included. (r426164)
The fields topline_id and inflation will no longer be returned on the adcampaign object on the Graph API for non managed accounts (accounts without an Account Manager) as these are not applicable for those accounts.
Fixed a bug with saving the app category in the Developer app. (r425566)
Fixed a bug preventing groups in the tester role from viewing sandboxed apps. (r426030)
Fixed the count when reading ad campaigns in the Graph API. (r423318)
Include keyword topics with the ads.GetKeywordAutoComplete and ads.GetValidKeyword calls even if advanced=false. (r426349)
The 'daily_imps' field of the ad campaigns object will always be returned as an integer value in the Graph API.
Added app attribution text (e.g. "via My Great App") to feed stories where an app was used to tag a photo or post a link. (rE426555, rE425985)
Fixed a bug where fetching ad campaigns via the Graph API did not respect the paging parameters limit and offset. (r421981)
Fixed a bug preventing the claiming of Comments Boxes. (r420320)
POST params are now included in the construction of the "paging" URL in the Graph API. (r421333)
Fixed a bug where Comment Box stories didn't properly render mentions. (r422138)
Fixed bug where FB:Comments in FBML pages return an Error pop-up "Bad Parameter - There was an error understanding the request" (r415120)
Fix a bug that limited canvas name to 18 characters in the dev app
Fixed an issue where like box stream photos opened in theater, rather than open in a new window
Fixed bug in the Javascript SDK where the page's access_token that is passed in as a parameter is being overwritten with the user's access_token.(r417295)
Fixed a bug where requesting the URL of a group returned a relative path rather than an absolute one. (r410490)
Fixed a bug where including multiple IDs in the IDs parameter in the Graph API didn't work. (r411018)
Fixed a bug where offset and limit were not working as expected. (r413322)
Fixed a bug with notifications from the Comments Box showing facebook.com as the domain rather than the domain the Comments Box was on. (r406973)
Fixed a bug that was preventing Open Graph pages from being unliked when using the "remove and unlike" action on a Feed story. (r409150)
Due to URL length restrictions, reduced maximum number of recipients to 25 when using the Requests dialog in IE7 or in IE8+ when using a non-iframe dialog. (r408775)
Fixed a bug that was causing a login window to appear when you hovered over profile pics in the Like Box. (r404404)
Fixed a bug that was causing some of the "Get Code" buttons on the social plugin pages on the Dev Site from working. (r406496)
Fixed a bug that was causing permissions errors (200 error code) for Requests 2.0. (r400862)
Fixed a bug that kept the "filter" parameter from working properly in the Requests 2.0 dialog. (r401228)
Fixed a bug that caused the Like Box with the "dark" theme and "stream" turned on to use the wrong font color. (r401316)
Fixed a bug that was causing a "Temporarily Unavailable" error to show on the Credits tab of the Developer App. (r402922)
Added code to prompt users to switch to HTTPS if they access an app that has only a Secure Canvas URL or Secure Tab URL (and not an HTTP one). If the user is a developer of the app, they will be prompted to add both types. (r403083)
Fixed a bug so tagged items in posts shown in the Like Box don't open within the iframe. (r397852)
Fixed a bug which kept your own messages from showing in the Live Stream plugin. (r398779)
Fixed a bug that was breaking Like Boxes when they were passed an HTTP URL to an app or a game. (r398921)
Fixed a bug that was preventing the Android Key Hash from rendering in the Developer App. (r399994)
Fixed a problem where videos posted to Page walls wouldn't be returned via the API. (r395638)
Fixed a small bug with the condensed multi-friend selector. (r395730)
Removed "bookmark" section under "Users" tab in app insights since this data is no longer relevant as users have not been able to add bookmarks for a long time now (bookmarks are shown based on usage). (r396285)
Fixed a bug with the Comments Box moderation tool. (r389002)
Added inline documentation for moderation mode and blacklist behavior of the Comments Box. (r390312)
Fixed a bug that was keeping comments posted to your wall from the Comments Box from showing up in the News Feed. (r391311)
Fixed a bug with stories published by the Comments Box. (r386108)
The URL Linter will now show server error codes when it cannot get data from the server. (r387380)
Fixed a bug with like/comment/share support for Apple MobileMe-hosted websites and other web servers which don't support the range header. (r387389)
Fixed a bug which prevented moderators from viewing the Comments Box in dark mode. (r378783)
Made it possible to get individual comments via the Graph API on photo album creation stories. (r381196)
When a user uninstalls an app, all of the requests they have received from that app are now deleted. (r376300)
Duplicate comments from the same user are now handled better in the Comments Box. (r376358)
Fixed bug that was causing problems when loading profile pics in Flash apps. (r364666)
Fixed bug that was causing the "switch to HTTP" button on canvas pages viewed over HTTPS to not work. (r364949)
Fixed bug that was preventing Page admins from deleting comments made while using Facebook logged in as their Page. (r365877)
Fixed bug which was preventing comments from the old version of the Comments plugin from migrating to the new version. (r361684)
Fixed bug which was causing scrollbars to show up on some dialogs. (r361729)
Made it possible to access information about an app request using the access token of the user who sent it. Previously it was only accessible using the receiving user's or the app's access tokens. (r362750)
Added the auth.prompt event to the Javascript SDK (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/javascript/). (r363285)
Third party users with bad cookies are now handled better by the Comments plugin. (r364079)
Fixed bug which was causing certain canvas pages using fb:iframe to open in a new window. (r358769)
Users can now login to the Comments plugin using their Hotmail account. (r358865)
As mentioned in last Friday's blog post, the events connection and event_member FQL table will now return only events from the past two weeks by default. (r358809)
Fixed a few issues with notifications generated by Comments plugin activity. (r364456)
Fixed bug which was preventing users who logged in to the Comments plugin using a third-party login from deleting their comments. (r357358)
Fixed bug which was preventing Deauthorize Callback URLs from being hit. (r358379)
Fixed bug with the Real-time Updates which was preventing some profile pic change notifications from being sent. (r353044)
Updated our share scraper code to be case-insensitive for redirects per this bug report. (r353973)
Fixed bug which was causing some users to see a "Database Down" error on the Comments plugin. (r354468)
Added "username" property to the User object in the Graph API. (r354696)
Fixed bug to cause "edge.create" and "edge.remove" to only fire on server response, rather than predictively. (r355439)
Fixed bug to allow Feed Dialog to load in FBML apps even when the URL params are longer than allowed (>2083 bytes) by IE. (r355449)
Firefox users with JSONView installed and the 'Include "application/json" in the HTTP Accept header for requests' option set will now see nicely formatted JSON when making Graph API requests. (r356074)
Made app uninstall, block, and revoked publishing rights metrics more accurate. (r356395)
Fixed bug with the Comments plugin that was causing comment replies to show up in two places. (r351030)
Fixed bug with the Comments plugin that kept it from including a link back to the page it's on when used in an iFrame tab. (r351042)
Old-style app requests (1.0) can only be sent from a user to one of the user's friends or a user who has authorized the app. (r351311)
Added support for smaller widths (down to 350px) to the Comments plugin. (r351463)
ads.GetAccounts will return new field <timezone_name/> of type xsd:string. (r351711)
When publishing a link to a feed, if the linked page contains video data and the domain has been whitelisted, a video embed will be included in the feed story. (r351868)
OpenID logins using facebook.com/openid/receiver.php as a return endpoint should now have a pointer to the correct XRDS file. (r352603)
Fixed bug with Real-time Updates that was causing some picture change events to not be sent. (r353044)
Comments Box now requires
<div id="fb-root"></div>Fixed bug that was causing Like Box feeds to display incorrectly in certain scenarios. (r348122)
Fixed bug that was causing comments plugins with url-based XIDs to not migrate properly when migrated=1 was added. (r348832)
Fixed a bug in the comment moderation view of the comments plugin where scrollbars were disabled. (r348989)
Updated registration plugin to show loading indicator longer when redirecting in some cases. (r349207)
Fixed bug so that the touch mobile login dialog/page (both in SDKs and mobile browsers) will now use the email-specific keyboard layout for the email input. (r349634)
Apps that are migrated to the 'apprequest_counts' (Upgrade to Requests 2.0) migration will now have notifications for app requests send the user to that app's canvas page instead of the games or apps dashboards when the request sent is a request 2.0. (r349960)
Fixed bug with FB.Canvas.setSize(), still tracking related issue in bug 15214. (r343247)
REST API JSON responses now return high-bit and some punctuation characters (such as @) as Unicode-encoded values. (r344509)
Fixed bug that kept test users from showing up in the Requests dialog. (r341058)
Fixed bug that caused admin.setRestrictionInfo to always return false. (r341397)
Fixed bug that ignored the "publish_feed" attribute of the Comments plugin. (r342658)
Fixed bug that was miscounting the "Daily Content Shared" and "Feedback per Share" metrics displayed on the Insights front page (http://www.facebook.com/insights). They are now calculated correctly and match the values that are and were always returned in an individual app's App Overview/Sharing pages (http://www.facebook.com/insights/?sk=aa_YOURAPPID).
Fixed bug that caused fbAsyncInit() to be called more than once when the JS SDK is included more than once on the same page. (r336408)
User gender is now always visible via Platform. (rE335545)
Fixed FBJS bug that may impact canvas apps. (rE328521)
The 'report/contact app' link on canvas apps now sends the user to a full-page dialog instead of opening a dialog in the same page. (rE328758)
App requests are now aggregated per app and not by request type (rE326860)
Fixed bug in <fb:iframe/> that could impact developers that are using <fb:iframe/> incorrectly. <fb:iframe/> will only work with URLs within the application's domain or sub-domain. (rE326549)
Added a new 'installed' property to the user object in Graph API (rE324221)
The managed_pages permission is now required to remove posts from the page; fixes a bug where this would work with only publish_stream (rE324221)
<fb:like-box/> change to make show_faces = true the default. (rE325190)
Makes third_party_id as a queryable field in the user FQL table to reverse your own app_id generated third party ids. (rE325268)
GET [page-id]/members/[user-id] will return the individual user if he or she is a fan of the page (Graph API equivalent of pages.isFan) (rE322057)
Fql.multiquery responses now have XML serialization that matches the format of fql.query responses (rE322220)
Added error messaging if 'message' or 'data' fields of an app request are greater than 255 bytes in length (rE323158)
Fixed a rare bug where improperly specified api_keys result in the user appearing to be logged out in social plugins (rE323537)