What's New

This What's New is associated with the 2007-09-04 release of Amazon Mechanical Turk. This guide was last updated on 24 September 2007.

The following table describes the important changes since the last major release of this developer guide.

ChangeDescriptionRelease Date
New FeatureWe 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 FeatureWe 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 CorrectionThe example code for multiple response groups has been corrected. For more information, see Making REST Requests, and Making SOAP Requests. 4 September 2007
Error CorrectionThe 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 CorrectionThe SearchQualificationTypes operation has been corrected to include parameter MustBeOwnedByCaller. For more information, see SearchQualificationTypes. 4 September 2007
Content ReorganizedThe content of the QuestionForm section has been reorganized to provide more information about required elements. For more information, see QuestionForm. 4 September 2007
New FeatureWe 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 FeatureWe have enhanced the QuestionForm data format to include multiple occurrences of the Overview element. For more information, see QuestionForm. 4 September 2007
Error CorrectionThe version of the notifications receptor API has been corrected to 2006-05-05. See Notification, SendTestEventNotification, and SetHITTypeNotification. 31 July 2007
New SectionThe Document Conventions section establishes common typographical and symbol use conventions for AWS technical publications. 31 July 2007
New FeatureYou can now block and unblock a Worker from doing work on your HITs. For more information see BlockWorker and UnblockWorker. 21 June 2007
New FeatureYou can now change the type of your HITs using the ChangeHITTypeOfHIT operation. 21 June 2007
New FeatureA new sort property Enumeration returns HITs reliably and without duplicates. For more information see SearchHITs and GetReviewableHITs. 21 June 2007