Today we've made a change to our v1 API (which we sunset and have not supported since March 2020) that essentially replaces it with a translator for our current v2 API. This means for the users who are still making requests to our v1 API you will now actually be making requests to our v2 API and having the result altered to use our v1 format.

This does have a performance penalty of a few milliseconds which is why we've waited to do this now when 99.9% of all our API requests are already made natively to our v2 API. Until now we've maintained the v1 API in a minimal fashion, it was functional but lacked many of our new features and even some of our newer data wasn't available.

With this change the handful of paid customers and a few hundred free customers who have been using the v1 API for years can still do so and it reduces our technical debt in that we no longer need to update the v1 API if we make database scheme changes for instance.

If you're still using the v1 API we would highly recommend you update your implementation to target our v2 API as not only will it be slightly faster in answering your queries but you gain access to a lot more data and features such as safe connection types, Custom Rules and our CORS feature.

Thanks for reading and have a great week!