Overview
In the spirit of openness and transparency, we publish this roadmap to help developers plan for changes that may require code modifications. Like all roadmaps, it may shift slightly, but we will share insight into what is happening as details become available.
We encourage developers to subscribe to our blog, where we announce rollout plans and timing. If you have questions about these changes, please share them in the Developer Forum.
Canvas and Page Tabs
| Item |
Timing |
Description |
| Support for iframes in Page tabs |
Live |
New method for using iframes in Page tabs |
| No new FBML apps |
March 11, 2011 |
We will stop allowing new FBML apps, but will continue to support existing FBML tabs and apps. Instead, we recommend using iframes. |
| All iframes using POST |
March 12, 2011 |
Apps can test now by enabling in the Developer App, under Advanced settings > POST for Canvas. FBML apps using preload FQL will continue to work. |
Deprecations
| Item |
Timing |
Description |
| Old REST API methods |
Removed |
Some methods are no longer available. See full list |
| Data storage API |
Removed |
This is no longer available. |
| <fb:editor> |
Removed |
This is no longer available. |
| <fb:wall> |
Removed |
This is no longer available. |
| <fb:feed> |
Removed |
This is no longer available. |
| Old Insights for Pages |
Removed |
Now that historical data and date selectors are now available in the new Insights dashboard, the old Insights dashboard has been removed. |
| Old Test Users |
February 2011 |
With the new test user functionality, we will be retiring the old test user accounts. |
| <fb:board> |
Q1 2011 |
This will be no longer supported and will not be available to new apps. |
| Auth.promotesession |
Q1 2011 |
This method is deprecated and will be removed once an alternative is available via OAuth for apps that use Facebook Chat. |
Migrations
| Item |
Timing |
Description |
| November 2010 Rollup |
This migration will become default for all new apps on 2010/12/10 and will be automatically enabled for all apps on 2011/02/10. You can test this migration by enabling it on the Advanced tab in the Developer Application. |
- Graph API: The fan_count attribute on the Page object will be renamed to likes.
- Graph API: The likes connection on the Post object will include both the count and the users that have liked the object.
- Graph API: All id fields returned by POST calls will be typed as strings.
- FQL: The networks field in privacy table will be 'ALL_NETWORKS' instead of '1' if an object is shared for all of user's networks.
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