Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

This week we completed our rollout of Developer Alerts to developers worldwide. Developer Alerts makes it easier for developers to receive critical information about their apps via email and notifications on Facebook.com.

Upcoming breaking changes

As announced in September, the following breaking changes will go into effect on December 5, 2012:

• Removing the Static FBML Page tab app
• New policies for desktop web games off of Facebook.com
• offline_access permission removal
• New security restrictions for OAuth authorization codes
• Graph API will return full Custom Open Graph objects
• Stripping HTML from Page description field

Check out the Developer Roadmap for more info.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between Wednesday, November 21 and Wednesday, November 28:

Bugs activity

• 172 bugs were reported
• 20 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
• 12 bugs were by design
• 27 bugs were fixed
• 28 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information

Bugs fixed

• Statuses posted via Graph API don't appear on user's own newsfeed
• Multiple Like buttons on the same page referring to same URL do not stay in sync
• If click the Cancel button on the authentication of Facebook App, "state" parameter is not returned.
• Likebox iframe on ssl pages gives mixed content security warnings in IE8.
• facebook API gives inconsistent friends count for same user when ueries multiple times
• After hiding and then unhiding a post from Facebook, it disappears from the /feed of the page
• Album multiquery misbehaving
• Create Facebook Session Object using stored access token on Android
• onActivityResult() throws NPE due to session being null
• test bug with new attachments
• Creating adgroup - WRONG response - missing adgroup_id in hash key
• Custom audience : documentation not up to date
• Receiving TTransportException on search calls
• Can not update the minute of end date after campaign creation
• Auth Dialog with Internet Explorer not working
• Autoresize (autogrow) not working
• adgroup Creation Error - "Invalid Permissions"
• FB.login Popup Returns 500 Error
• Cannot sign in using iOS 6 with test user account
• Facebook app crashes handling intent with images and videos
• Facebook php sdk curl throws SSL certificate error
• crowling share window
• Fb.login blank screen on mobile
• Custom Privacy box is cut off at the bottom
• Clicking to view/edit Watch action returns a FB server error

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 330 questions asked
• 95 questions with a score of 0 or greater
• 23 answered, 24% answered rate
• 62 replied, 65% reply rate