Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Since last Wednesday's update, we launched the Shared Activity plugin, added settings for Real-time Updates to the App Dashboard, and released the Facebook SDK 3.1 for iOS that adds support for the Facebook integration in iOS 6.

Offers API updates

Now when creating an Offer, you can specify a QR code or barcode that will show up in the email the user shows you to redeem their Offer. Also, publishing an Offer now is done by creating a corresponding ad and taking it live. As such, the former scheduled_publish_time and published parameters will now be silently ignored. For more information check out the Graph API Page object documentation or some basic info on how Offers work.

Upcoming breaking changes

As announced in July, the following breaking changes will go into effect next week on October 3, 2012:

• Built-in like/follow action required
• Removing Bookmark URL
• offline_access permission removal
• Removing Live Stream plugin
• Summary field being replaced by description field
• Removing position field for photos
• /picture connection will return a dictionary when callback is specified

Check out the Developer Roadmap for more info.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between noon Wednesday, September 12 and noon Wednesday, September 19:

Bugs activity

• 210 bugs were reported
• 33 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
• 7 bugs were by design
• 24 bugs were fixed
• 49 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information

Bugs fixed

• unexpected error javascript errors on IE9 for FB.ui method: 'apprequests',
• Facebook Like Button moves on click
• Recommendations Bar: The property 'article' requires an object of og:type 'article'.
• HTML5 version of facepile with href does not show likes
• 'Like Button' accidentally 'unlikes' under certain circumstances (user is not logged in and already likes a site)
• Facebook Livestream Plugin offline
• Login stays on facebook instead of returning to my app
• Title of app wrong for "got a new high score" and other stories
• setting likes / posting comments via API on page posts
• Error thrown at line 123 in http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js
• Error thrown at line 43, column 232 in i(p, q) in http://connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js
• Feed dialog URL is not updating the share count
• Yahoo! user comment actions result in login box that goes nowhere
• Test User Login from Android always says Down for required maintenance
• Insights Not Updating beyond 9/14
• Empty Responses from Post API - Photo Posts
• The realtime documentation links to subscriptions for "errors"
• Like button doesn't work
• Native iOS settings not allowing me to enter my iTunes App ID
• Linter returns empty data when format=json
• Cannot retrieve the rate card
• Setting an event's picture using the /EVENT ID/picture endpoint does not work as expected
• Posting link on user's timeline via API does not trigger notifications
• Posting link on user's timeline via API does not trigger notifications

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 455 questions asked
• 337 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 92 answered, 27% answered rate
• 170 replied, 50% reply rate