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This What's New is associated with the 2007-12-18 release of Amazon Mechanical Turk. This guide was last updated on 7 February 2008.
The following table describes the important changes since the last major release of this developer guide.
| Change | Description | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| New Section | We have added documentation for the Command Line Tools that describes the commands and the files you use. For more information, see the Command Line Tools Reference. | 7 February 2008 |
| New Feature | We have added a new example for the price format to the
FreeTextAnswer element of the QuestionForm data structure.
For more information, see the
QuestionForm
data structure.
| 7 February 2008 |
| Error Correction | We have corrected the Notification data structure to show that the parameter
EventType is optional. For
more information, see the
Notification data structure.
| 7 February 2008 |
| New Feature | We have added a new feature that allows you to prepay for HITs using banking information, credit card or debit card information, or an Amazon Payments account. For more information, see the Requester web site and the GetAccountBalance operation. | 18 December 2007 |
| New Feature | We have added a new feature that prevents requesters from entering unrenderable ISO control characters. We also purge unrederable ISO control characters from Worker's answers. For more information, see the CreateHIT, GrantBonus, ApproveAssignment, and RejectAssignment operations and the QuestionFormAnswers data structure. | 18 December 2007 |
| New Feature | We have added a new element, iframe, to the supported
XHTML tags for formatted content. For more information, see
Formatted Content: XHTML.
| 18 December 2007 |
| New Feature | We have added a new element, EmbeddedBinary, to the
QuestionContent element of the
QuestionForm data format. This element allows you to specify
an embedded binary object. For more information, see
QuestionForm.
| 4 September 2007 |
| New Feature | We have added a new element, FormattedContent, to the
Selection element of the
QuestionForm data format. This element allows you to specify
formatted data in your question format. For more information, see
QuestionForm.
| 4 September 2007 |
| Error Correction | The example code for multiple response groups has been corrected. For more information, see Making REST Requests, and Making SOAP Requests. | 4 September 2007 |
| Error Correction | The sample request for the Help operation has been corrected to include a signature and timestamp. For more information, see the Help operation. | 4 September 2007 |
| Error Correction | The SearchQualificationTypes operation has been corrected to include
parameter MustBeOwnedByCaller. For
more information, see
SearchQualificationTypes.
| 4 September 2007 |
| Content Reorganized | The content of the QuestionForm section has been reorganized to provide more information about required elements. For more information, see QuestionForm. | 4 September 2007 |
| New Feature | We have added a new element, AnswerFormatRegex, to the
Constraints element of the QuestionForm
data format. This element allows you to specify regular expressions that you can use to validate an
answer string. For more information, see
QuestionForm.
| 4 September 2007 |
| New Feature | We have enhanced the QuestionForm data format to
include multiple occurrences of the Overview element.
For more information, see
QuestionForm.
| 4 September 2007 |
| Error Correction | The version of the notifications receptor API has been corrected to 2006-05-05. See Notification, SendTestEventNotification, and SetHITTypeNotification. | 31 July 2007 |
| New Section | The Document Conventions section establishes common typographical and symbol use conventions for AWS technical publications. | 31 July 2007 |
| New Feature | You can now block and unblock a Worker from doing work on your HITs. For more information see BlockWorker and UnblockWorker. | 21 June 2007 |
| New Feature | You can now change the type of your HITs using the ChangeHITTypeOfHIT operation. | 21 June 2007 |
| New Feature | A new sort property Enumeration returns HITs reliably and without duplicates.
For more information see SearchHITs and
GetReviewableHITs.
| 21 June 2007 |
