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Removal of deprecated versions of several routes
We will be removing some deprecated versions of several routes on March 25.
New SDE Deployed 2025 March 03
Greetings Developers! Over the past few weeks, several refinements to materials in blueprints have been made, as well as new items added to the universe! As such, the SDE was running a little behind, so I thought it was time to get a new SDE assembled and published. That is now published and available over at...
ESI Incident Report - 26 Feb 2025
Yesterday just after downtime about 50% of the ESI endpoints did not return to their normal state. This incident was caused by a misconfiguration in the RabbitMQ broker that sits between ESI and the Monolith, and prevented the Monolith from receiving (and responding to) requests from ESI. This caused ESI requests to stall and error out after their configured timeout of 10 seconds. ESI requests that were routed through Quasar were not affected by this issue.
Upcoming ESI Maintenance: 2025-02-17 11:00 UTC
Monday the 17th of February at 11:00 UTC we will be doing maintenance on the infrastructure of ESI.
Deprecation and impending removal of esi-opportunities and esi-bookmarks
Hi all, We will be deprecating and scheduling the removal of the esi-opportunities endpoints. The following endpoints are affected: /characters/{character_id}/opportunities/ /opportunities/groups/ /opportunities/groups/{group_id}/ /opportunities/tasks/ /opportunities/tasks/{task_id}/ These endpoints interfaced with the old Opportunities system...
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.
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...
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
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
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...
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
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...