2021/09/16 - kafkaconnect - 11 new api methods
Changes This is the initial SDK release for Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka Connect (MSK Connect).
2021/09/16 - macie2 - 1 new 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for specifying which managed data identifiers are used by a classification job, and retrieving a list of managed data identifiers that are available.
2021/09/16 - pinpoint - 5 new 28 updated api methods
Changes This SDK release adds a new feature for Pinpoint campaigns, in-app messaging.
2021/09/16 - robomaker - 8 updated api methods
Changes Adding support to create container based Robot and Simulation applications by introducing an environment field
2021/09/16 - s3 - 3 updated api methods
Changes Add support for access point arn filtering in S3 CW Request Metrics
2021/09/16 - api.sagemaker - 1 new api methods
Changes Add API for users to retry a failed pipeline execution or resume a stopped one.
2021/09/16 - transcribe - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for subtitling with Amazon Transcribe batch jobs.
2021/09/14 - chime - 1 updated api methods
Changes Adds support for SipHeaders parameter for CreateSipMediaApplicationCall.
2021/09/14 - comprehend - 30 updated api methods
Changes Amazon Comprehend now allows you to train and run PDF and Word documents for custom entity recognition. With PDF and Word formats, you can extract information from documents containing headers, lists and tables.
2021/09/14 - ec2 - 22 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for vt1 3xlarge, 6xlarge and 24xlarge instances powered by Xilinx Alveo U30 Media Accelerators for video transcoding workloads
2021/09/14 - api.sagemaker - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for "Project Search"
2021/09/14 - wafv2 - 1 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for including rate based rules in a rule group.
2021/09/13 - iot - 3 updated api methods
Changes AWS IoT Rules Engine adds OpenSearch action. The OpenSearch rule action lets you stream data from IoT sensors and applications to Amazon OpenSearch Service which is a successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service.
2021/09/10 - quicksight - 4 updated api methods
Changes Add new data source type for Amazon OpenSearch (successor to Amazon ElasticSearch).
2021/09/10 - rds - 11 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for providing a custom timeout value for finding a scaling point during autoscaling in Aurora Serverless v1.
2021/09/10 - api.sagemaker - 4 new 11 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for "Lifecycle Configurations" to SageMaker Studio
2021/09/10 - transcribe - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds an API option for startTranscriptionJob and startMedicalTranscriptionJob that allows the user to specify encryption context key value pairs for batch jobs.
2021/09/09 - codeguru-reviewer - 1 updated api methods
Changes The Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer API now includes the RuleMetadata data object and a Severity attribute on a RecommendationSummary object. A RuleMetadata object contains information about a rule that generates a recommendation. Severity indicates how severe the issue associated with a recommendation is.
2021/09/09 - elasticmapreduce - 3 updated api methods
Changes This release enables customers to login to EMR Studio using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) identities or identities in their Identity Provider (IdP) via IAM.
2021/09/09 - lookoutequipment - 2 updated api methods
Changes Added OffCondition parameter to CreateModel API
2021/09/08 - kafka - 1 new 5 updated api methods
Changes Amazon MSK has added a new API that allows you to update the encrypting and authentication settings for an existing cluster.
2021/09/08 - es - 39 new api methods
Changes Updated Configuration APIs for Amazon OpenSearch Service (successor to Amazon Elasticsearch Service)
2021/09/07 - aps - 3 new 3 updated api methods
Changes This release adds tagging support for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace.
2021/09/07 - eks - 2 new 4 updated api methods
Changes Adding RegisterCluster and DeregisterCluster operations, to support connecting external clusters to EKS.
2021/09/07 - forecast - 3 updated api methods
Changes Predictor creation now supports selecting an accuracy metric to optimize in AutoML and hyperparameter optimization. This release adds additional accuracy metrics for predictors - AverageWeightedQuantileLoss, MAPE and MASE.
2021/09/03 - codeguru-reviewer - 1 updated api methods
Changes Added support for CodeInconsistencies detectors
2021/09/03 - frauddetector - 1 updated api methods
Changes Enhanced GetEventPrediction API response to include risk scores from imported SageMaker models
2021/09/03 - outposts - 1 new api methods
Changes This release adds a new API CreateOrder.
2021/09/02 - acm-pca - 4 updated api methods
Changes Private Certificate Authority Service now allows customers to enable an online certificate status protocol (OCSP) responder service on their private certificate authorities. Customers can also optionally configure a custom CNAME for their OCSP responder.
2021/09/02 - elasticfilesystem - 2 updated api methods
Changes Adds support for EFS Intelligent-Tiering, which uses EFS Lifecycle Management to monitor file access patterns and is designed to automatically transition files to and from your corresponding Infrequent Access (IA) storage classes.
2021/09/02 - fsx - 9 new 7 updated api methods
Changes Announcing Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a new service that provides fully managed shared storage in the AWS Cloud with the data access and management capabilities of ONTAP.
2021/09/02 - models.lex - 9 updated api methods
Changes Lex now supports Korean (ko-KR) locale.
2021/09/02 - quicksight - 3 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for referencing parent datasets as sources in a child dataset.
2021/09/02 - s3-control - 8 new api methods
Changes S3 Multi-Region Access Points provide a single global endpoint to access a data set that spans multiple S3 buckets in different AWS Regions.
2021/09/02 - schemas - 4 updated api methods
Changes This update include the support for Schema Discoverer to discover the events sent to the bus from another account. The feature will be enabled by default when discoverer is created or updated but can also be opt-in or opt-out by specifying the value for crossAccount.
2021/09/02 - securityhub - 2 updated api methods
Changes New ASFF Resources: AwsAutoScalingLaunchConfiguration, AwsEc2VpnConnection, AwsEcrContainerImage. Added KeyRotationStatus to AwsKmsKey. Added AccessControlList, BucketLoggingConfiguration,BucketNotificationConfiguration and BucketNotificationConfiguration to AwsS3Bucket.
2021/09/02 - transfer - 7 new 3 updated api methods
Changes AWS Transfer Family introduces Managed Workflows for creating, executing, monitoring, and standardizing post file transfer processing
2021/09/01 - ec2 - 4 updated api methods
Changes Added LaunchTemplate support for the IMDS IPv6 endpoint
2021/09/01 - api.mediatailor - 7 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for wall clock programs in LINEAR channels.
2021/09/01 - servicecatalog-appregistry - 1 new 1 updated api methods
Changes Introduction of GetAssociatedResource API and GetApplication response extension for Resource Groups support.
2021/08/31 - iot - 6 new 1 updated api methods
Changes Added Create/Update/Delete/Describe/List APIs for a new IoT resource named FleetMetric. Added a new Fleet Indexing query API named GetBucketsAggregation. Added a new field named DisconnectedReason in Fleet Indexing query response. Updated their related documentations.
2021/08/31 - polly - 7 updated api methods
Changes Amazon Polly adds new South African English voice - Ayanda. Ayanda is available as Neural voice only.
2021/08/31 - sqs - 2 updated api methods
Changes Amazon SQS adds a new queue attribute, RedriveAllowPolicy, which includes the dead-letter queue redrive permission parameters. It defines which source queues can specify dead-letter queues as a JSON object.
2021/08/30 - cloudformation - 1 new 8 updated api methods
Changes AWS CloudFormation allows you to iteratively develop your applications when failures are encountered without rolling back successfully provisioned resources. By specifying stack failure options, you can troubleshoot resources in a CREATE_FAILED or UPDATE_FAILED status.
2021/08/30 - firehose - 3 updated api methods
Changes This release adds the Dynamic Partitioning feature to Kinesis Data Firehose service for S3 destinations.
2021/08/30 - kms - 4 updated api methods
Changes This release has changes to KMS nomenclature to remove the word master from both the "Customer master key" and "CMK" abbreviation and replace those naming conventions with "KMS key".
2021/08/27 - ec2 - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds the BootMode flag to the ImportImage API and showing the detected BootMode of an ImportImage task.
2021/08/27 - elasticmapreduce - 3 new 1 updated api methods
Changes Amazon EMR now supports auto-terminating idle EMR clusters. You can specify the idle timeout value when enabling auto-termination for both running and new clusters and Amazon EMR automatically terminates the cluster when idle timeout kicks in.
2021/08/26 - compute-optimizer - 1 new 6 updated api methods
Changes Adds support for 1) the AWS Graviton (AWS_ARM64) recommendation preference for Amazon EC2 instance and Auto Scaling group recommendations, and 2) the ability to get the enrollment statuses for all member accounts of an organization.
2021/08/26 - ec2 - 1 updated api methods
Changes Support added for resizing VPC prefix lists
2021/08/26 - rekognition - 3 updated api methods
Changes This release added new attributes to Rekognition RecognizeCelebities and GetCelebrityInfo API operations.
2021/08/26 - transcribe - 21 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for batch transcription in six new languages - Afrikaans, Danish, Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), New Zealand English, South African English, and Thai.
2021/08/25 - datasync - 4 updated api methods
Changes Added include filters to CreateTask and UpdateTask, and added exclude filters to StartTaskExecution, giving customers more granular control over how DataSync transfers files, folders, and objects.
2021/08/25 - ec2 - 3 updated api methods
Changes Support added for IMDS IPv6 endpoint
2021/08/25 - events - 2 updated api methods
Changes AWS EventBridge adds an enum of EXTERNAL for EcsParameters LaunchType for PutTargets API
2021/08/25 - events - 2 updated api methods
Changes AWS CWEvents adds an enum of EXTERNAL for EcsParameters LaunchType for PutTargets API
2021/08/25 - fms - 3 updated api methods
Changes AWS Firewall Manager now supports triggering resource cleanup workflow when account or resource goes out of policy scope for AWS WAF, Security group, AWS Network Firewall, and Amazon Route 53 Resolver DNS Firewall policies.
2021/08/24 - data.iot - 2 new 1 updated api methods
Changes Updated Publish with support for new Retain flag and added two new API operations: GetRetainedMessage, ListRetainedMessages.
2021/08/24 - mediaconvert - 11 updated api methods
Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added MBAFF encoding support for AVC video and the ability to pass encryption context from the job settings to S3.
2021/08/24 - polly - 7 updated api methods
Changes Amazon Polly adds new New Zealand English voice - Aria. Aria is available as Neural voice only.
2021/08/24 - transcribe - 3 new 8 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for feature tagging with Amazon Transcribe batch jobs.
2021/08/23 - apigateway - 5 updated api methods
Changes Adding some of the pending releases (1) Adding WAF Filter to GatewayResponseType enum (2) Ensuring consistent error model for all operations (3) Add missing BRE to GetVpcLink operation
2021/08/23 - backup - 13 new 3 updated api methods
Changes AWS Backup - Features: Evaluate your backup activity and generate audit reports.
2021/08/23 - dlm - 3 updated api methods
Changes Added AMI deprecation support for Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager EBS-backed AMI policies.
2021/08/23 - dms - 11 updated api methods
Changes Amazon AWS DMS service now support Redis target endpoint migration. Now S3 endpoint setting is capable to setup features which are used to be configurable only in extract connection attributes.
2021/08/23 - frauddetector - 1 updated api methods
Changes Updated an element of the DescribeModelVersion API response (LogitMetrics -> logOddsMetrics) for clarity. Added new exceptions to several APIs to protect against unlikely scenarios.
2021/08/23 - glue - 9 new 2 updated api methods
Changes Add support for Custom Blueprints
2021/08/20 - comprehend - 24 updated api methods
Changes Add tagging support for Comprehend async inference job.
2021/08/20 - ec2 - 22 updated api methods
Changes encryptionInTransitSupported added to DescribeInstanceTypes API
2021/08/20 - eks - 12 updated api methods
Changes Adds support for EKS add-ons "preserve" flag, which allows customers to maintain software on their EKS clusters after removing it from EKS add-ons management.
2021/08/19 - appflow - 10 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for SAPOData connector and extends Veeva connector for document extraction.
2021/08/19 - application-autoscaling - 10 updated api methods
Changes This release extends Application Auto Scaling support for replication group of Amazon ElastiCache Redis clusters. Auto Scaling monitors and automatically expands node group count and number of replicas per node group when a critical usage threshold is met or according to customer-defined schedule.
2021/08/19 - ec2 - 2 updated api methods
Changes The ImportImage API now supports the ability to create AMIs with AWS-managed licenses for Microsoft SQL Server for both Windows and Linux.
2021/08/19 - memory-db - 35 new api methods
Changes AWS MemoryDB SDK now supports all APIs for newly launched MemoryDB service.
2021/08/18 - runtime.sagemaker - 1 new api methods
Changes Amazon SageMaker now supports Asynchronous Inference endpoints. Adds PlatformIdentifier field that allows Notebook Instance creation with different platform selections. Increases the maximum number of containers in multi-container endpoints to 15. Adds more instance types to InstanceType field.
2021/08/18 - api.sagemaker - 7 updated api methods
Changes Amazon SageMaker now supports Asynchronous Inference endpoints. Adds PlatformIdentifier field that allows Notebook Instance creation with different platform selections. Increases the maximum number of containers in multi-container endpoints to 15. Adds more instance types to InstanceType field.
2021/08/17 - ce - 3 updated api methods
Changes This release is a new feature for Cost Categories: Split charge rules. Split charge rules enable you to allocate shared costs between your cost category values.
2021/08/17 - cloud9 - 2 updated api methods
Changes Added DryRun parameter to CreateEnvironmentEC2 API. Added ManagedCredentialsActions parameter to UpdateEnvironment API
2021/08/17 - ec2 - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for EC2 ED25519 key pairs for authentication
2021/08/16 - codebuild - 7 updated api methods
Changes CodeBuild now allows you to select how batch build statuses are sent to the source provider for a project.
2021/08/16 - config - 12 updated api methods
Changes Update ResourceType enum with values for Backup Plan, Selection, Vault, RecoveryPoint; ECS Cluster, Service, TaskDefinition; EFS AccessPoint, FileSystem; EKS Cluster; ECR Repository resources
2021/08/16 - ds - 1 new api methods
Changes This release adds support for describing client authentication settings.
2021/08/16 - iotsitewise - 1 updated api methods
Changes AWS IoT SiteWise added query window for the interpolation interval. AWS IoT SiteWise computes each interpolated value by using data points from the timestamp of each interval minus the window to the timestamp of each interval plus the window.
2021/08/16 - license-manager - 1 updated api methods
Changes AWS License Manager now allows end users to call CheckoutLicense API using new CheckoutType PERPETUAL. Perpetual checkouts allow sellers to check out a quantity of entitlements to be drawn down for consumption.
2021/08/13 - profile - 4 updated api methods
Changes This release introduces Standard Profile Objects, namely Asset and Case which contain values populated by data from third party systems and belong to a specific profile. This release adds an optional parameter, ObjectFilter to the ListProfileObjects API in order to search for these Standard Objects.
2021/08/13 - elasticache - 10 updated api methods
Changes This release adds ReplicationGroupCreateTime field to ReplicationGroup which indicates the UTC time when ElastiCache ReplicationGroup is created
2021/08/13 - elasticmapreduce - 6 updated api methods
Changes Amazon EMR customers can now specify custom AMIs at the instance level in their clusters. This allows using custom AMIs in clusters that have instances with different instruction set architectures, e.g. m5.xlarge (x86) and m6g.xlarge (ARM).
2021/08/12 - apigateway - 4 updated api methods
Changes Adding support for ACM imported or private CA certificates for mTLS enabled domain names
2021/08/12 - apigateway - 4 updated api methods
Changes Adding support for ACM imported or private CA certificates for mTLS enabled domain names
2021/08/12 - databrew - 6 updated api methods
Changes This SDK release adds support for the output of a recipe job results to Tableau Hyper format.
2021/08/12 - lambda - 13 updated api methods
Changes Lambda Python 3.9 runtime launch
2021/08/12 - api.sagemaker - 2 updated api methods
Changes Amazon SageMaker Autopilot adds new metrics for all candidate models generated by Autopilot experiments.
2021/08/11 - codebuild - 1 new 3 updated api methods
Changes CodeBuild now allows you to make the build results for your build projects available to the public without requiring access to an AWS account.
2021/08/11 - nimble - 6 updated api methods
Changes Add new attribute 'ownedBy' in Streaming Session APIs. 'ownedBy' represents the AWS SSO Identity Store User ID of the owner of the Streaming Session resource.
2021/08/11 - snow-device-management - 13 new api methods
Changes AWS Snow Family customers can remotely monitor and operate their connected AWS Snowcone devices.
2021/08/10 - chime - 1 updated api methods
Changes Add support for "auto" in Region field of StartMeetingTranscription API request.
2021/08/09 - rekognition - 9 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for four new types of segments (opening credits, content segments, slates, and studio logos), improved accuracy for credits and shot detection and new filters to control black frame detection.
2021/08/09 - wafv2 - 5 new 9 updated api methods
Changes This release adds APIs to support versioning feature of AWS WAF Managed rule groups
2021/08/06 - identity-chime - 16 new api methods
Changes The Amazon Chime SDK Identity APIs allow software developers to create and manage unique instances of their messaging applications.
2021/08/06 - messaging-chime - 30 new api methods
Changes The Amazon Chime SDK Messaging APIs allow software developers to send and receive messages in custom messaging applications.
2021/08/06 - connect - 7 new api methods
Changes This release adds support for agent status and hours of operation. For details, see the Release Notes in the Amazon Connect Administrator Guide.
2021/08/06 - lightsail - 2 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support to track when a bucket access key was last used.
2021/08/05 - autoscaling - 2 updated api methods
Changes EC2 Auto Scaling adds configuration checks and Launch Template validation to Instance Refresh.
2021/08/05 - models-v2-lex - 6 updated api methods
Changes Customers can now toggle the active field on prompts and responses.
2021/08/04 - rds - 23 updated api methods
Changes This release adds AutomaticRestartTime to the DescribeDBInstances and DescribeDBClusters operations. AutomaticRestartTime indicates the time when a stopped DB instance or DB cluster is restarted automatically.
2021/08/04 - ssm-incidents - 1 updated api methods
Changes Documentation updates for Incident Manager.
2021/08/04 - transcribe - 9 new 4 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for call analytics (batch) within Amazon Transcribe.
2021/08/03 - iotsitewise - 4 updated api methods
Changes My AWS Service (placeholder) - This release introduces custom Intervals and offset for tumbling window in metric for AWS IoT SiteWise.
2021/08/03 - mediaconvert - 7 updated api methods
Changes AWS Elemental MediaConvert SDK has added control over the passthrough of XDS captions metadata to outputs.
2021/08/03 - redshift - 8 new api methods
Changes API support for Redshift Data Sharing feature.
2021/08/02 - greengrass - 3 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for component system resource limits and idempotent Create operations. You can now specify the maximum amount of CPU and memory resources that each component can use.
2021/08/02 - ssm-contacts - 1 updated api methods
Changes Added new attribute in AcceptCode API. AcceptCodeValidation takes in two values - ENFORCE, IGNORE. ENFORCE forces validation of accept code and IGNORE ignores it which is also the default behavior; Corrected TagKeyList length from 200 to 50
2021/07/30 - appsync - 4 updated api methods
Changes AWS AppSync now supports a new authorization mode allowing you to define your own authorization logic using an AWS Lambda function.
2021/07/30 - api.sagemaker - 9 updated api methods
Changes API changes with respect to Lambda steps in model building pipelines. Adds several waiters to async Sagemaker Image APIs. Add more instance types to AppInstanceType field
2021/07/30 - secretsmanager - 1 updated api methods
Changes Add support for KmsKeyIds in the ListSecretVersionIds API response
2021/07/29 - chime - 2 new api methods
Changes Adds support for live transcription of meetings with Amazon Transcribe and Amazon Transcribe Medical. The new APIs, StartMeetingTranscription and StopMeetingTranscription, control the generation of user-attributed transcriptions sent to meeting clients via Amazon Chime SDK data messages.
2021/07/29 - ec2 - 22 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for G4ad xlarge and 2xlarge instances powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs and AMD 2nd Generation EPYC processors
2021/07/29 - iotsitewise - 17 updated api methods
Changes Added support for AWS IoT SiteWise Edge. You can now create an AWS IoT SiteWise gateway that runs on AWS IoT Greengrass V2. With the gateway, you can collect local server and equipment data, process the data, and export the selected data from the edge to the AWS Cloud.
2021/07/28 - cloudformation - 1 new 1 updated api methods
Changes SDK update to support Importing existing Stacks to new/existing Self Managed StackSet - Stack Import feature.
2021/07/27 - batch - 1 updated api methods
Changes Add support for ListJob filters
2021/07/27 - iotanalytics - 4 updated api methods
Changes IoT Analytics now supports creating a dataset resource with IoT SiteWise MultiLayerStorage data stores, enabling customers to query industrial data within the service. This release includes adding JOIN functionality for customers to query multiple data sources in a dataset.
2021/07/27 - api.iotwireless - 1 updated api methods
Changes Add SidewalkManufacturingSn as an identifier to allow Customer to query WirelessDevice, in the response, AmazonId is added in the case that Sidewalk device is return.
2021/07/27 - quicksight - 2 new 4 updated api methods
Changes Add support to use row-level security with tags when embedding dashboards for users not provisioned in QuickSight
2021/07/27 - redshift-data - 1 new 2 updated api methods
Changes Added structures to support new Data API operation BatchExecuteStatement, used to execute multiple SQL statements within a single transaction.
2021/07/27 - route53 - 4 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for the RECOVERY_CONTROL health check type to be used in conjunction with Route53 Application Recovery Controller.
2021/07/27 - route53-recovery-cluster - 3 new api methods
Changes Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller's routing control - Routing Control Data Plane APIs help you update the state (On/Off) of the routing controls to reroute traffic across application replicas in a 100% available manner.
2021/07/27 - route53-recovery-control-config - 20 new api methods
Changes Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller's routing control - Routing Control Configuration APIs help you create and delete clusters, control panels, routing controls and safety rules. State changes (On/Off) of routing controls are not part of configuration APIs.
2021/07/27 - route53-recovery-readiness - 32 new api methods
Changes Amazon Route 53 Application Recovery Controller's readiness check capability continually monitors resource quotas, capacity, and network routing policies to ensure that the recovery environment is scaled and configured to take over when needed.
2021/07/26 - monitoring - 4 updated api methods
Changes SDK update to support creation of Cross-Account Metric Alarms and update API documentation.
2021/07/26 - s3-control - 3 updated api methods
Changes S3 Access Point aliases can be used anywhere you use S3 bucket names to access data in S3
2021/07/26 - synthetics - 4 updated api methods
Changes CloudWatch Synthetics now supports visual testing in its canaries.
2021/07/26 - textract - 1 new api methods
Changes Adds support for AnalyzeExpense, a new API to extract relevant data such as contact information, items purchased, and vendor name, from almost any invoice or receipt without the need for any templates or configuration.
2021/07/23 - s3-outposts - 2 updated api methods
Changes Add on-premise access type support for endpoints
2021/07/23 - securityhub - 6 updated api methods
Changes Added product name, company name, and Region fields for security findings. Added details objects for RDS event subscriptions and AWS ECS services. Added fields to the details for AWS Elasticsearch domains.
2021/07/22 - databrew - 8 updated api methods
Changes This SDK release adds two new features: 1) Output to Native JDBC destinations and 2) Adding configurations to profile jobs
2021/07/22 - ec2 - 3 new 16 updated api methods
Changes This release allows customers to assign prefixes to their elastic network interface and to reserve IP blocks in their subnet CIDRs. These reserved blocks can be used to assign prefixes to elastic network interfaces or be excluded from auto-assignment.
2021/07/22 - medialive - 8 updated api methods
Changes MediaLive now supports passing through style data on WebVTT caption outputs.
2021/07/22 - qldb - 3 updated api methods
Changes Amazon QLDB now supports ledgers encrypted with customer managed KMS keys. Changes in CreateLedger, UpdateLedger and DescribeLedger APIs to support the changes.