Release Notes

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

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

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