Changelog

Changelog for Open States GraphQL API:

v2.6 (March 2021)

• added preliminary support for federal jurisdiction
• added Jurisdiction.classification node
• Jurisdictions are now filterable by classification (municipal, state, country)

v2.5 (July 2020)

• added Jurisdiction.lastScrapedAt, openstates/issues#32

v2.4 (April 2020)

• removed unused fields from graph (organization.links, organization.other_names)

v2.3 (August 2019)

• add experimental full text search via searchQuery parameter to bills node

v2.2 (June 2019)

• add openstatesUrl to bills query
• speed improvments

v2.1 (Feb 2019)

• fix lat-lon behavior to limit to active memberships
• improve handling of retired legislators
• fix type of maximum_memberships
• bill version ordering is now consistent

v2.0 (January 2019)

• bugfix for maximum_memberships type
• bugfix for versions field
• improve tests

Beta Release (November 2018)

• API Keys are now required
• consider classification when using current_memberships
• fix geo filtering
• add openstatesUrl to Bill node for ease of linkage to OpenStates.org
• add Person.oldMemberships as analog to currentMemberships
• add actionSince filter to bills node
• fix 500 errors/optimization when using GraphQL fragments
• addition of basic protection for excessive queries
• add totalCount to assist in pagination
• add Organization.currentMemberships

Preview Release 1 (May 2018)

• fix for people pagination
• add updatedSince for people
• add sponsor argument for bills node
• allow votes to take pagination parameters
• allow traversing to votes from person

Preview Release 0 (Dec 2017)

Initial draft release of the API, no backwards-compatibility guarantee made.