January 30, 2018

Marketing API, Product Catalog Permissions

The release of Facebook Graph API, v2.12 is scheduled for January 30, 2018 and does not contain any versioned breaking changes for Facebook Marketing APIs, except for the following scenario:

If you're using Product Catalog as part of your application, you may be affected by a couple of security-related breaking changes. Technically, these are not Marketing API endpoints. However, these are used by some marketing applications, and hence can be considered breaking changes for such applications. Read further below for details.

• Marketing API, v2.11 will continue to be the latest version and it will not enter deprecation mode on January 30, 2018.
• Marketing API, v2.10 will continue to be in deprecated state, as it is currently, and will end of life on May 8, 2018.
• After Graph API v2.12 is released, any calls made to Marketing APIs with the version set as 2.12, will be treated as v2.11 calls.
• Marketing API, v2.11 and v2.12 will be deprecated and end of life at the same time, at a later date.

As of May 8, 2018, we'll limit permissions to catalogs managed under the same Business Manager account to only users who have explicitly been assigned the ADMIN or ADVERTISER role on that catalog owned by a business, as follows:

• Only users with the catalog ADMIN role can create and edit the catalog. Business Admins only have read access. This change applies to calling POST {product-catalog-id}.
• Only users with the catalog ADVERTISER role can't edit the catalog, but have read and write access to catalogs managed under the same Business Manager account.
• Only users with catalog ADMIN or ADVERTISER role can read the catalog.

For more details, see Implications of Graph API 2.12 Release and Facebook Graph API, v2.12.