Release Notes
May 2021
Identity Engine
- Released DV40.
APIs
- Released Address validation improvements, focused on countries in APAC.
Updated API documentation for API Address Risk v4.1.
April 2021
Identity Engine
- Released phone validation improvements for UK phone numbers.
APIs
- Released Ekata’s new API Merchant Onboarding.
Released API Address Risk v4.1 with new Address Risk Score.
Pro Insight
- Released the new ‘Merchant Review’ experience in Pro Insight.
March 2021
Identity Engine
- Released DV39
- Improved our internal name matching logic, to increase match rates on certain attributes
APIs
- Released phone-to-name match improvements for API Account Opening.
- Deployed API Phone Intelligence to our Singapour and Frankfurt data centers.
February 2021
Identity Engine
- Released DV38
- Improved our internal name matching logic, to increase match rates on certain attributes
APIs
- Released V2 of Network Score
- Deployed API Account Opening to our Singapour and Frankfurt data centers.
Pro Insight
- Released V2 of Network Score
- Released V3 of the Risque du réseau Panel
- Released minor improvements to Groups feature
January 2021
Identity Engine
- Completed migration to the new model for all customers
- Completed testing of the new network score v2 infrastructure in preparation of Network Score v2 release in Q1, 2021
APIs
- Released Point in time testing support for Network score V2 and IDC
Pro Insight
- Released Groups feature for all the customers
- Completed internal management features
December 2020
Identity Engine
- Started to test the new Network Score V2 infrastructure
- Reduced latencies for Network Score calculations
APIs
- Improved name matching algorithms for APAC names
Pro Insight
- Released Beta version of Groups feature
- Fixed bugs with Groups feature
NOVEMBER 2020
Identity Engine
- Completed initial infrastructure for Network Score v2
- Released DV37
APIs
- Minor enhancements to API Account Opening
- Improved name matching algorithms for APAC names
Pro Insight
- Completed development work on Groups feature
OCTOBER 2020
Data Center
- Released new data center in Singapour with Transaction Risk and Address Risk products
Identity Engine
- Renamed confidence score to identity score across products
- Updated address validation for US/CA
- Initial infrastructure for network score v2
APIs
- Bug fixes to Address Risk and Transaction Risk 2.0
- Documentation updates
Pro Insight
- Enabled international click throughs on Address Search pages
- Initial infrastructure for groups feature
SEPTEMBER 2020
Identity Engine
- Released Data Version 36 – the latest installment of updated links between names and identity elements
- Made various platform improvements to machine learning processes
APIs
- Launched version 4 of API Address Risk (previously known as Address Validation API)
Pro Insight
- Released an update to ReCAPTCHA logic to improve login security
- Updated our sign-up form to simplify self-service trials
AUGUST 2020
Identity Engine
- Released Confidence Score v7 and side-by-side model release capabilities
- Released Data Version 35 – the latest installment of updated links between names and identity elements
APIs
- Stabilized Transaction Risk latencies in our European deployment
- Improved logic for address validity in multiple geographies
- Make API documentation more responsive for different browser windows
Pro Insight
- Released Model Management, a module for administrative users to toggle model versions and view score distributions
- Released updates to the Risque du réseau panel to include element highlighting and attribute type information, per customer feedback
- Enabled unit-of-measure (miles-kilometers) toggling in the map panel
- Enabled the passing of secondary phone inputs from URL to Confidence Score and Risque du réseau
JULY 2020
Identity Engine
- Refreshed United States, France, and UK entities and linkages
- Updated our address validation library for increased accuracy in historical and current global addresses validation
- Refreshed our Freight Forwarder address list
APIs
- Improved German & Dutch name matching capabilities
Pro Insight
- Added API Transaction Risk to query usage reports
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue with duplicate zip+4 codes in Pro Insight
- Modified explainer text for same-day email first seen measurements
JUNE 2020
Identity Engine
- Various platform improvements to our machine learning processes
APIs
- Updated our global phone validation libraries
- Updated API developer documentation
- Retired TLS 1.1 and associated ciphers
Pro Insight
- Launched the new Risque du réseau panel to all customers
- Refactored Identity Review and search pages to React.js
- Removed legacy API products from the API trial dashboard
MAY 2020
Identity Engine
- Automated some internal processes to improve our ingestion pipeline
- Ran some data science experiments to investigate enhancements to scores
Pro Insight
- Iterated on the beta Risque du réseau panel based on customer feedback
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with email domain validation in Identity Check API, API Transaction Risk, and Pro Insight
APRIL 2020
Identity Engine
- Released a new IP Risk model to improve the predictive power of your IP Risk flag by 39% while reducing the false positive rate by 29%. The result of this updated model is available in Identity Check API, API Transaction Risk, and Pro Insight.
- Released global email-to-name coverage improvements across all products.
Pro Insight
- Released a beta version of the new Risque du réseau Panel to provide an overall risk indicator, more predictive strength signals, and a better user experience.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with ambiguous US city names and state codes.
MARCH 2020
Other
- Bug fixes
- Data updates
FEBRUARY 2020
Other
- Various bug fixes
JANUARY 2020
Other
- Various bug fixes
- Documentation updates
DECEMBER 2019
Pro Insight
- Added Deep Link builder with support for transaction id
Other
- Released Network score infrastructure updates for January release in API Transaction Risk
- Updated API documentation
NOVEMBER 2019
Security
- Various security updates
Network
- Enabled the ability to add network score to Transaction Risk
- Ignore incomplete address when calculating network score
- Enhanced engineering alerting for network
Pro Insight
- Removed old branding from inconspicuous pages and changed generated reports names to Ekata
Availability
- Scaled up and tested services for the high load during the holidays
Usage Reports
- Added date selector calendar in place of month and year dropdown for usage reports. Usage can be generated up to 31 days at a time from the past 90 days
DV31 Release
- Enhanced and added more residential and business data in the Americas and EMEA
OCTOBER 2019
DV 30 Release
- Enhanced and added more residential and business data in the Americas and EMEA.
Pro Insight
- Changed the displayed text for IP Proxy Risk to IP Risk
Bug Fixes
- Various bug fixes
Address
- Updated address validation library
SEPTEMBER 2019
Authentication
- Cross domain sharing so that customer can access the Whitepages Pro site and new Ekata site
SSO
- Added support for Ekata
Pro Insight Rebrand
- Rebranded emails, introduced new Ekata site, app.ekata.com, deep link builder
EU Data Center
- Service improvements
- Reduced response time for EU datacenter requests
Infrastructure
- Increased API rate limit options
Network
- Enhancements to networks signals
Documentation
- Updated API URLs used in samples and rebranded logo
Bug Fixes
- Various Bug Fixes