Release Notes
November 2021
APIs
- Transaction Risk API v2.1 has 6 additional signals that will provide additional predictive value to all customers, but especially PSPs/in low fill rate environments, and regions outside of North America.
October 2021
Identity Engine
- Data version 43 release: Expanded coverage with new email data additions in Brazil and Australia. Also expanded US business data coverage with new data source addition. Performed data refreshes across all regions.
- Holiday readiness: To prevent performance issues around holidays load testing is to be conducted beforehand to be able to prepare our environment for volume increases.
September 2021
Identity Engine
- Data version 42 release: This includes newly added Italy residential data (phone, email and address) and also refreshes (consumer + business) across NAM and EMEA.
- Network Risk Panel 4.0 and Network Score v3, Ekata Identity Risk Score v9 – Customers can now see insights about the name associated with the transaction and benefit from improvements to Ekata’s network score.
- Additional improvements to international phone data coverage.
APIs
- Account Opening API now has additional signals that provide additional predictive value to Financial Services customers.
Pro Insight
- Pro Insight Identity Review now has a learning mode available to customers. This is a guided tour of Pro Insight geared towards helping new users quickly learn about the Pro Insight interface and how it surfaces risk signals to make faster decisions on a global scale.
August 2021
Identity Engine
- Identity Risk Score released with performance and distribution improvements for NA, EMEA, and APAC customers.
Pro Insight
- Ekata Pro Insight – Shopify integration. Learn more.
July 2021
APIs
- Launched Phone Intelligence 4.0 – added network features to our Phone Intelligence API (first seen days, last seen days, phone popularity, velocity and volatility).
June 2021
Identity Engine
- Released DV41: this update to our underlying data engine includes: regular data refreshes (consumer and business) across all regions – APAC, EMEA, NAM and LATAM.
APIs
- Phone line validation improvements: we improved line type and carrier qualifications and coverage.
Pro Insight
- Released Deep Link Builder Code Refresh & Merchant Review Support: the newest version of the Deep Link Builder comes with an enhanced design, SSO login support (in addition to username/password option) and support for Microsoft Edge users (in addition to Chrome).
May 2021
Identity Engine
- Released DV40.
APIs
- Released Address validation improvements, focused on countries in APAC.
Updated API documentation for Address Risk API v4.1.
April 2021
Identity Engine
- Released phone validation improvements for UK phone numbers.
APIs
- Released Ekata’s new Merchant Onboarding API.
Released Address Risk API 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 Account Opening API.
- Deployed Phone Intelligence API to our Singapore 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 Account Opening API to our Singapore and Frankfurt data centers.
Pro Insight
- Released V2 of Network Score
- Released V3 of the Network Risk 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 Account Opening API
- Improved name matching algorithms for APAC names
Pro Insight
- Completed development work on Groups feature
OCTOBER 2020
Data Center
- Released new data center in Singapore 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 Address Risk API (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 Network Risk 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 Network Risk
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 Transaction Risk API 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 Network Risk 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 Network Risk panel based on customer feedback
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with email domain validation in Identity Check API, Transaction Risk API, 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, Transaction Risk API, and Pro Insight.
- Released global email-to-name coverage improvements across all products.
Pro Insight
- Released a beta version of the new Network Risk 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 Transaction Risk API
- 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.devel, 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