Changelog

API Foundry initial Lab launch

• Launched one authenticated API gateway with 35 source-backed APIs, standardized responses and errors, search, filtering, field projection, pagination, caching, request IDs, rate limits, hard credit quotas, usage metering, and abuse controls.
• Released every active API contract at version 1.0.0 while preserving independent dataset versions and refresh timestamps.
• Published complete developer documentation, OpenAPI, an interactive authenticated playground, public operational and source-health status, legal policies, and this launch history.
• Established immutable raw snapshots, source provenance, licensing metadata, normalized production releases, validation gates, full-text search, change feeds, bulk-export manifests, webhooks, atomic promotion, rollback history, and soft source state.
• Installed serialized automatic reconciliation for five-minute, four-hour, daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly refresh classes through the stable Lab runtime.
• Released Units & Measurements; Occupations & Careers; Countries & Geography; Languages; Currency Knowledge; Holidays & Observances; Chemical Elements; Historical Events; Historical People; Public-Domain Works; Species & Taxonomy; Astronomy; Mythology; Food Ingredient Knowledge; U.S. Government Agencies; Unified Recalls; Building Permits; Government Procurement Awards; Classification Crosswalks; Government Grants; Education; Business & Organization Knowledge; Food & Nutrition; Environment & Hazards; Laws & Regulations; Global Aviation Facilities; Economic Indicators; Weather Alerts; Earthquakes; Clinical Trials; Public Companies & SEC Filings; Nonprofits & Tax-Exempt Organizations; U.S. Population & Demographics; U.S. Energy Data; and Vehicles & VIN Reference.
• Added public registration, secure login sessions, hashed passwords, one-time-display hashed API keys, key naming, revocation, rotation, monthly usage summaries, and a developer dashboard.
• Completed Stripe Checkout, Billing Portal, signed idempotent webhook, subscription-entitlement, and one-time credit-pack plumbing. Charging remains gated until the launch price catalog is approved and dedicated live Stripe identifiers are installed.
• Kept automatic overage billing disabled. Accounts receive hard quotas rather than surprise charges.
• Documented coverage limits wherever an API is source-bounded, including U.S.-bounded species profiles, metadata-only public-domain works, award-focused procurement, and source-qualified historical and cultural records.