2025 Q1 Newsletter

This newsletter will cover details regarding the annual Beta data refresh and the final release of the Person UPDATE.

Annual Beta Data Refresh

As mentioned in the 2024 - Q4 newsletter, the annual Beta environment data refresh was rescheduled to occur after RootsTech. It is now scheduled to begin April 7, 2025 and is anticipated to last up to one week. This data refresh will be based on a backup snapshot taken from the Production environment. If you have important test data in the Beta environment, you should make a copy and restore it after the refresh is complete.

Person UPDATE Enhancement

As mentioned in the 2024 - Q4 newsletter, an enhancement to the Person UPDATE has been released to Production. However, this deployment was only made effective as an experiment. The final release to implement this change for all updates was delayed in order to accommodate some applications that could not publish an update. You may confirm that your application is working as expected in the Beta environment or by setting the experiment in Production. The final release to make all Person updates to use this enhancement will be effective April 29, 2025.

To activate the experiment for the Person UPDATE, use the X-FS-Feature-Tag header with a value of return.conclusion.ids.

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