
This past week, we provided an update on our Facebook Platform SDKs, a retrospective of Platform changes in 2011 and launched the following changes:
Stories In Timeline App Tab
Stories published from an app using Feed dialog or Graph API will now show in the app's tab on the user's timeline. This is consistent with Open Graph actions published from an app showing in the app's tab.
Improved Insights for Web Sites
We made two improvements to tracking and reporting Insights for Web sites.
When a user clicks on a shortened URL e.g. a bit.ly URL, we now record and report the underlying URL. As a result, you will now get accurate referral reporting when you use shortened URLs in Facebook posts.
We now also track and report URLs shared and clicked in comments within Insights.
Breaking Changes effective this week
Requests 2.0 Efficient: The Request 2.0 Efficient migration will be enabled for all apps over the next few days. Please make sure to update your apps now to respect the updated request ID format to avoid any disruption of service. On January 15th this setting will be set to enabled for all apps. For more information please see the
Requests docs.
FB.Canvas.getPageInfo: The getPageInfo method now requires a callback function and no longer returns a value synchronously. For more information on this change please see this
blog post.
Upcoming Breaking Changes on February 1, 2012
Removing canvas_name field from application object:
We will be deprecating the canvas_name field in favor of namespace field on the
application object. See this
blog post for more information.
Removing App Profile Pages:
We will be deleting all App Profile Pages and redirecting all traffic directly to the App. See this
blog post for more information.
Bug activity from 12/27 to 1/3
131 bugs were reported
28 bugs were reproducible and accepted (after duplicates removed)
19 bugs were by design
12 bugs were fixed
56 bugs were duplicate, invalid, or need more information
Reported bugs fixed between 12/27 and 1/3
133 questions asked
47 answered, 35% answered rate
74 replied, 56% reply rate