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In this release, we have added support for multiple currencies; our API no longer assumes you are a resident of the UK. We are starting with GBP, USD and EUR; we will add support for other currencies as necessary. Added We have updated the API to support multiple currencies, we are starting with GBP, USD…

For this release, we fix a couple of nasty bugs which are causing our cache invalidation to fail. Changed We have changed the cache which gets cleared when we create or delete a resource. We have added a delay for the job which clears the cache on creation or deletion of a resource type and…

In this release, we move cache invalidation requests to a separate process. We have decided to utilise Laravel queues, so far, the API is more performant, and the minor delay in clearing cache is not causing any issues. Added We have added support for queues; we clear all cache via queues. Changed We have updated…

In this release we fix a few small bugs and make another tiny change to out cache management system. For the next release we are going to move all cache clear requests to queues. Added We have added additional tests to our POSTMAN test collection to ensure allowed values exist where expected. We have updated…

In this release, we have reworked the majority of the code responsible for handling the different item type. As we added additional item types, it became clear we had a problem. We have reworked the system to be more configuration driven ready for version 3 of the API. Added We have reworked our item configuration;…

For this release, we are continuing to pick up all the small issues from the backlog. The next couple of releases are going to add some pretty significant features, so we are continuing to ensure our API is stable. Added We have added the ability to exclude public resource types; to exclude public resource types…

In this release, we add the views that exist on the website but not the app, category and annual views. We also fixed a couple of nasty bugs. Added We have added a category and subcategory summary at the resource type and resource level if the item type supports assigning categories. We have added an…

In this release, we add a header to allow local caching to be ignored and we continue refactoring and fixing. Added We have added support for an `X-Skip-Cache` request header; If you include the header with your request we will skip response caching and fetch live values, please use this with care. Changed We have…

In this release, we add a documentation and examples page and start refactoring. Added We have added a documentation page; the documentation page links to the API documentation and includes a couple of examples. Changed We have updated the example ENV file. We have renamed a couple of our helper conversion/validation classes and moved them…

In this release, we switch our caching provider to Redis.