Platform Updates: Operation Developer Love

Since last Wednesday's update, we announced Facebook Home, launched new APIs for Comment Replies, and launched new Open Graph tools.

REST API no longer available for new apps

Over a year ago, we announced we were deprecating the legacy REST API to focus our efforts on the Graph API. Moving forward, any newly created apps will not be able to use the REST API. This means that calls to the REST endpoints from apps that have a created date later than April 10, 2013 will receive error code 3, unknown method.

This change does not break existing apps with dependencies on the REST API. Any apps that were created before today will continue to work with the REST API, but we highly encourage all developers to migrate to the Graph API as soon as possible.

Weekly stats

The following stats are for activity between 04/03/2013-04/10/2013:

Bugs activity

• 245 bugs were created
• 72 bugs were assigned
• 231 bugs were resolved
• 70 bugs were fixed
• 161 bug were were duplicate, invalid, or by design

Bugs fixed

• Uploading and tagging photos has been disabled in my app
• App Center page is live will appear in search, listing status unlisted
• Posting to facebook with link paramter is not working on first try
• Graph api ignoring locale on search
• is_minor is listed as a field, bug indicates its no longer available
• Publishing posts and photos failing with "Bad arg: shard empty"
• Need to update friend.picture to friend.picture.data.url
• Documentation for Open Graph: Adding Photos to Stories is wrong
• what does tesAPI() mean?
• Sending FB requests is failing for some users
• OAuth doesn't fire cancel callback in overlay mode. Only from popup. JS SDK
• No data returned by FQL query
• /me?fields=email returns number instead of email
• Use SSL (https) when passing an access_token
• Absolute is spelled wrong twice
• typing error
• Ad preview fails with "The given service could not be accessed."
• Fatal crash in Android SDK when WiFi disabled after calling Settings.publishInstallAndWait()
• TYPO: "absoute" URL
• Deep linking URL my app receives is incorrect, uses URL query not fragment
• Can't add IP ranges to Server IP Whitelist field
• Developer registration mobile code too long for entry field
• I cannot edit my app
• Can't use "edit app" from Facebook developers
• Can't access to anything in Apps page and missing buttons in bugs page
• Open Graph Dashboard links to edit existing actions and objects fail with Error 500 Internal Server Error
• submission error - Missing Image: Featurned Mobile Banner
• Error: Create a New Facebook Page button not working from within Edit App Details
• Unable to add group to developer roles
• Getting error validating access token in php sdk for fb app for some users
• fbDidExtendAccessToken:expiresAt: not returning 60-day token
• Login / Logout not working properly using PHP SDK
• After passing through PHP login flow getUser() return 0 on first page load
• When i share any image from my website to facebook it ask for captcha and when enter captcha facebook window close but post not share to wall
• Multiple parameters in redirect_uri prevent from fetching the access_token
• like button on mobile site redirects to PC login page when a user is not logged in
• Old users get short-lived token, need to reauth daily
• Long lived access-tokens got with IOS SDK are replaced to short-lived onces that expire after 2 hours
• Push notifications for comments not arriving on mobile devices
• display="touch" will stop working on July 5 for any Windows Phone apps leaving us without reasonable solution for WP7 facebook integration (wild guess: ~90% of FB WP7 apps use this method)
• Wordpress Facebook Plugin: Failed posting to Timeline because the access token expired. OAuthException
• Requests only work from the start page,
• I removed the fan page to create a new one from the app page, but it still saying that the name is in use.
• External Page Migration option unavailable for app
• App Center - Web Preview doesn't reflect changes
• User Decay triangle heat map data missing
• Apps goes missing in Re-opened profiles
• Cannot edit company information and email is populating into phone/fax areas
• Can't send or ask for gifts
• Facebook Debugger Redirect Loop
• Facebook Support Button 500 Error when logged in as a page
• Developer alerts about Feb breaking changes after enabling changes
• Not able to edit App Details
• Open Graph Debugger tool not work - error 310 - too many redirects
• App Center Search Bar
• auth_type=reauthenticate is broken when we use it with auth_nonce
• Sandbox mode doesn't prevent Canvas App from showing up in Search or showing to all users who visit URL
• screenshots outdated
• Valid privacy url
• Can't access my app, blank page.
• App Center submition Review status not available - redirects to summary
• Does not incorporate information from bug 465760136778889
• Like box only appears in Mozilla Firefox
• Intermittent "An unknown error has occurred" errors when creating wall posts with certain link attachments
• missing screen shots
• Settings page fails with 500 for a guest
• Image guidelines
• This page does not specify which fields are optional and which are required
• Bugs Page - Click "Show All" for tags
• Events with Cover Image return no picture

Activity on facebook.stackoverflow.com

• 352 questions asked
• 68 questions with a score of 1 or greater
• 15 answered, 22% answered rate
• 48 replied, 71% reply rate