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HERE Batch API v7 (Archived)

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Archived changelog. These changes were released before 2025-10-09. For newer changes see the current changelog.

Version
Change
Description
7.30.0
FIXED
Documentation had section about default values as query parameter.
The described behavior was never implemented. See Input Data - Default values about how this can be done.
The erroneous sections are kept for reference at Default values as query parameter
7.30.0
DOCUMENTATION
IMPORTANT! Note update of deprecation notice about Alternative property values.
The list of properties got split into two stages. Stage 1 will be removed from January 2026 on. Stage 2 is not defined yet.
7.30.0
DOCUMENTATION
The documentation went through a full review. A lot has been added or moved around.
Overall the quality of the user guide improved.
7.30.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations.
7.30.0
CHANGED
As announced
the job lifecycle has been changed with regards to stopping a job. See Job lifecycle for details.
7.30.0
OTHER
The Notification feature moved from ALAPH to BETA level.
7.30.0
SECURITY
Update of libraries due to security vulnerability.
7.30.0
OTHER
The major software version moved to 7 (from 1) to match the product verions.
There are no breaking changes all major versions 2-6 don't exist.
1.27.0
FIXED
Fix rare occurrence of invalid job records being counted wrong during job processing.
1.27.0
FIXED
Properly handle 403 responses from GS7 to prevent jobs from cycling.
1.26.0
FIXED
Fix for the on-premise hosted version.
1.25.0
PERFORMANCE
Further throughput improvement by utilizing GS7 regional endpoints.
1.24.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations around monitoring, exception handling and clean up.
1.23.1
FIXED
Fixed an error that occurs if a line has not all columns, and the index of recId column is larger than the number of columns in that line.
1.23.0
PERFORMANCE
Utilize more regions Geocoding & Search is deployed in.
This should further increase throughput and reduce job duration.
1.22.0
PERFORMANCE
Internal re-architecture of job processing. This will increase over all throughput and speed up job
processing. Especially small jobs have a higher chance of being processed faster.
1.18.3
FIXED
An issue has been fixed with at parameter for Reverse Geocoder jobs. The coordinates have not been processed right.
1.18.0
DOCUMENTATION
IMPORTANT! Note deprecation notice about Alternative property values.
1.18.0
PERFORMANCE
Handling of failing jobs improved.
1.17.0
DOCUMENTATION
Update links to new documentation pages at https://here.com/docs
1.17.0
OTHER
Improve internal cleanup.
1.17.0
FIXED
Fixed update of some counters during processing.
1.16.0
ADDED
Add support for addressNamesMode parameter for geocode service.
1.16.0
FIXED
Fixed resources consumption in case of premature close of a connection by client.
1.16.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations.
1.16.0
CHANGED
Trim input fields before usage
1.15.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations.
1.14.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations.
1.13.0
CHANGED
Delete of jobs (DELETE /batch/jobs) requires parameter status now.

status=any has the same behavior as without status property before - delete all jobs.
This should help avoid deleting all jobs accidentally, e.g. due to a typ.
1.12.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations.
1.11.0
ADDED
Added support for postalCodeMode parameter in Forward Geocoder
1.10.0
ADDED
Added support for CmId and Side in MapReference Links
1.9.0
OTHER
Internal improvements and optimizations.
1.8.0
FIXED
If a Content-Encoding header was set, which did not match the actual content, the service returned a 500 error.
This has changed and a correct 400 with related message is returned.
1.8.0
PERFORMANCE
Depending on overall utilization of OLS Batch service instances we dynamically allow more than two active jobs per user.
The user just submits their jobs as usual, the backend will decide if more than two can be executed in parallel.
1.5.0
ADDED
(ALPHA) Users can request partial results when selecting jsonl as outputType.
Leave outputFormat empty to receive full GS7 responses.
1.4.0
FIXED
Delete endpoint for multiple jobs now works as expected even for a very large number of jobs.
1.3.0
FIXED
Account for changes in GS7 API responses to fix showMapReferences=links.
1.3.0
ADDED
Support additional values in mapReferences section of GS7 responses: adminIds, cmVersion
1.3.0
ADDED
Support new parameter "showNavAttributes" with values "functionalClass" and "access".
Support additional values in navAttributes section of GS7 responses: functionalClass and access.
1.2.0
PERFORMANCE
Execution of records within a job is dynamic now. This should increase the throughput in most cases and reduce the
overall duration.
1.1.0
ADDED
Supports new estimatedPointAddress flag for point addresses in GS7 response. See API reference for details.
1.1.0
OTHER
Now status of service is available on the Platform Status Page
1.0.94
FIXED
  • fix a bug with circle parameter. If invalid values where passed, the job crashed. This has been fixed.

A related error message is written to error file and the job continues.

1.0.94
ADDED
1.0.93
CHANGED
  • allowed characters for the field recId are a-zA-Z0-9.,_-
  • the field recId is limited to 512 characters