What's new

Every shipped feature, fix, and coverage bump.

A running log of what changed across the gateway API, video pipeline, MCP server, and web surfaces. Every entry is credited to the team that shipped it.

September 2026

3 releases
  1. WebFeature

    Verify a citation from the browser

    Every AfricaDB citation now links to /verify/{run_id}, a public page that shows the immutable run envelope (source, connector version, transform hash, fetched-at, indicator + country counts), the full normalized row table (paginated + searchable), and a single-observation verifier form that returns a green tick when your cited value matches. Backend endpoint /api/v1/verify/{run_id} unchanged; the UI is new.

    Shipped by Platform team

    /api/v1/verify/{run_id}/api/v1/verify/{run_id}/observation
  2. Gateway APIFeature

    KAMIS: daily Kenyan commodity prices, per commodity

    New indicator family KE.KAMIS.{COMMODITY}.WHOLESALE_MEDIAN and .RETAIL_MEDIAN, in KES per kilogram, aggregated to a national daily median from every Kenyan market on kamis.kilimo.go.ke. Sub-national detail is preserved server-side for a future surface.

    Shipped by Data team

    /api/v1/indicators/api/v1/observations
  3. Gateway APIFeature

    FAOSTAT: agriculture, land, and food security across 54 African countries

    AfricaDB now carries FAOSTAT country files for every African country: Crops and Livestock Production, Land Use and Inputs, Food Prices, and Food Security Indicators. Query by indicator id family FAO.QCL.*, FAO.RL.*, FAO.PP.*, FAO.FS.* on the standard indicator and observation endpoints. Refreshes monthly.

    Shipped by Data team

    /api/v1/indicators/api/v1/observations

August 2026

5 releases
  1. Video PipelineFeature

    Video pipeline: pose smoothing + monocular depth

    Two new stages: pose_smoothing (One-Euro filter + median bone-length + heel foot-lock, default-on) and depth (Depth Anything V2 with GPU auto-detect, default-off). The depth stage picks base on CUDA/MPS and small on CPU automatically.

    Shipped by Video team

    /videos/{video_id}/stages
  2. WebFix

    Per-key API call counter on the dashboard

    Every API key now shows its own live "calls today" figure on your dashboard. Previously the count stayed at zero regardless of usage; now it updates on the first request and rolls over daily.

    Shipped by Web team

  3. Gateway APIFix

    Password reset works for mixed-case emails

    A user who signed up as Alice@example.com and requested a reset as alice@example.com used to be told the link was invalid. Now the flow is fully case-insensitive end to end. Also: the Open Africa catalog search returns a clean empty page instead of erroring out when the upstream is rate-limited.

    Shipped by Platform team

    /api/v1/auth/reset-password/api/v1/auth/forgot-password/api/v1/catalog/datasets
  4. Video PipelineSecurity

    Enterprise-gated video compute

    Video pipeline endpoints now require an enterprise-tier JWT. Frontend surfaces the /video-pipeline page only for eligible accounts.

    Shipped by Platform team

  5. Video PipelineFeature

    Face-redacted MP4 output

    The redaction stage now composites a browser-playable MP4 with face bboxes blurred and serves it at /videos/{id}/redacted.mp4. Downstream consumers can decide their own redaction policy from the same face parquet.

    Shipped by Video team

    /videos/{video_id}/redacted.mp4

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