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By: CCP Stroopwafel

Published: 2025-01-09

And once again, welcome to developers.eveonline.com

Engineering Capsuleers. A little over 10 years ago we introduced the first iteration of the developer portal. This enabled the creation of third party applications through the EVE SSO, giving developers access to characters' data through CREST and the XML API, and later, ESI. As part of this year's plan to strengthen ESI and its infrastructure, we've set out to create a new and improved developer portal, and today, I would like to introduce you to it.

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-12-18

New SDE Deployed 2024 December 18

Greetings Developers! The Winter Nexus release had a few new items and adjustments to a few attributes/values on a few ships, and a few third-party devs have contacted me to request a new SDE. I agree, and as such, a new SDE has been run and can be found over at https://developers.eveonline.com/resource This will likely be the last post of 2024, so...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-11-12

New SDE Deployed 2024 November 12

Greetings Developers! The EVE: Revenant Expansion is here! As todays update brings a slew of new items and changes a new SDE seemed appropriate - As such, a new SDE has been run and can be found over at https://developers.eveonline.com/resource Thank you for your continued efforts! o7

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-10-30

New SDE Deployed 2024 October 30

Greetings Developers! Today's patch introduced the new Alliance Tournament XX ships (and several other associated commodities). Its also been a little under a month since the last SDE - As such, a new SDE has been run and can be found over at https://developers.eveonline.com/resource Thank you for your continued support! o7

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-09-19

New SDE Deployed 2024 September 19 & ESI Status

Greetings Developers! Yesterday's patch saw a plethora of updated elements on which the SDE contains information. As such, a new SDE has now been run and can be found over at https://developers.eveonline.com/resource Since the start of the week, a few of you have noticed intermittent issues with multiple ESI endpoints, which are giving occasional...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-09-09

New SDE Deployed 2024 September 09

Greetings developers, Todays patch saw several updates to components that would be included in the SDE, so a new update has just been pushed out to accommodate it! It should now be available over at: https://developers.eveonline.com/resource Thank you for your continued efforts! o7

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-07-30

New SDE Deployed 2024 July 30

Greetings developers! A small SDE update: A new skill book was added to New Eden last week while I was out of the office. I've just deployed a new SDE for this addition to be included. It should now be available over at: https://developers.eveonline.com/resource A small ESI update: CCP Stroopwafel did a minor update as well on 16 July to add new...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-07-11

ESI and SDE updates 11-July-2024

Exceptional third-party developers! A couple of quick updates on the ESI and the SDE: ESI: On 11 July 2024, a few enhancements were made to a selection of existing ESI endpoints to restore them back to full functionality. You can find the complete list of updates here: https://github.com/esi/esi-issues/blob/master/changelog.md#2024-07-11. Please...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-06-27

New SDE Deployed 2024-June-28

Hello, my wonderful 3rd party developer community! A quick update from me - CCP Stroopwafel just blasted out a new SDE for everyone a short while ago and is availble over on the resources page. During yesterday's update, new values were assigned to planets/stars in terms of output in addition to Sov upgrade costs; these updated values are now...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-06-18

Equinox - Day 9 SDE & Minor ESI Outage Planned

Hey everyone! Quick update - a small patch is scheduled for tomorrow (20 June 2024). Consequently, we'll follow up with a new SDE deployment, which should be completed around 1500 UTC and available on https://developers.eveonline.com/resource shortly after. There will also be a minor outage on ESI - it will be disabled prior to downtime at about...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-06-11

New SDE Published - Equinox D1 - V22.01

Hey folks! Quick update - today's patch saw a bundle of updates to static data, so we saw fit to rerun another SDE ahead of next week's initially planned deployment. We'll still deploy one around Tuesday/Thursday next week, but we just wanted to run a new one to encompass today's changes. It is available over on...

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2024-06-10

Updates for Equinox – Developers Edition

Our wonderful developer community, EVE Onlines' next expansion, Equinox, is here! Let's dive straight into it. SDE Update: We mentioned in the last update that we planned on making a few changes to the SDE; the first iteration of that arrives with this expansion: All yaml files now stick to a firm 2-space indent. [The inconsistency between 2 and 4...