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By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-09-30

Route to the future: upgrading the /route route

Today we're announcing a major upgrade to the /route route in ESI. We've completely rewritten it from Python to Go, changed it from GET to POST, and significantly improved its performance and reliability.

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-09-22

Reworking the SDE: a fresh start for static data

Today we're announcing a complete rework of how we build and distribute the Static Data Export (SDE).

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-08-07

Early access: Corporation Projects

Today we're announcing an early access period for new Corporation Projects routes in ESI. This early access will run for two weeks and be limited to developers in the EVE Partner Program. Feedback from this group will help us validate the design and make adjustments before going public.

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-07-25

Changing pagination: turning a new page

Today we're announcing changes to how ESI deals with pagination. This new system will be used for the first time with the introduction of Corporation Projects later this summer. We'll also be opening a discussion thread on Discord for Q&A and feedback from third-party developers.

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-07-22

Changing specs: from Swagger to OpenAPI

Today we're announcing changes to how we serve our API specifications. We'll also be opening a discussion thread on Discord for Q&A and feedback from third-party developers. Moving forward, we will be publishing our specs as OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1, and no longer as Swagger 2.0. New updates will be made in the OpenAPI specs only, while we keep Swagger specs in a read-only mode around for a while. We are also introducing a new UI to view the specs.

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-07-10

Changing versions: /v42/ was getting out of hand

Today we're announcing changes to the ESI endpoint versioning strategy. Moving forward, new routes will no longer rely on versions embedded in their URL paths. Instead, we are introducing an X-Compatibility-Date header that works for the entirety of the API. Existing routes also adopt this new behavior, but we will continue supporting the versioned URLs for the foreseeable future.

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2025-07-04

Global PLEX Market and SDE Update: 07-07-25

SDE update and Global PLEX market information!

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-06-02

Upcoming ESI Maintenance: 2025-06-03

Tomorrow (2025-06-03) during downtime (11:00 UTC) we will push some changes to ESI which will cause a short moment of interruption for several endpoints.

By: CCP Zelus

Published: 2025-05-27

New SDE Deployment 2025 May 27 (Legion Expansion)

A new SDE has been deployed for the EVE Online: Legion expansion!

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-05-22

Deprecation and removal of unused scope - 2025-06-11

We will be removing the esi-characterstats.read.v1 scope on June 11th, 2025.

By: The ESI Development Team

Published: 2025-04-11

Removal of v1 authentication tokens

The removal of this v1 authentication flow is scheduled for the 13th of May, 2025. Read here why.

By: CCP Pinky

Published: 2025-04-08

NotificationID is reaching int32 limits

Tomorrow or so we will reach the first NotificationID that doesn’t fit in an int32.