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Published releases, the commits behind them, and the live status of every feed we poll.

Releases

v1.87.0

Live incidents in the dashboard

  • The dashboard Map tab is now Live incidents: a feed of every live record (incidents, road closures and disruptions, incident areas and warning areas, in every status the agency lists) and the map, with a Feed / Map switch. The feed is the default, and each browser remembers the last view chosen.
  • The feed lists jobs, not rows: an SA CFS or MFS pager page joins its official record by dispatch number, and one ambulance job paged to several crews within 15 minutes at one place is one entry. Every page of a job is in its timeline, and each entry opens to the full record.
  • Feed filters: state, kind, status, category, type, warning, severity, source and a text search across titles, places and every pager message. The filters stay in the address bar; the search text never does.
  • Near a place narrows the feed to a distance from an address, suburb or postcode, for one API call, as a Lookup does. Changing the distance afterwards costs nothing.
  • SA Police releases appear in the feed, suburb-level ones included, marked as releases at their publication time and credited to SA Police. A free account with no release in its 7 days is told the window, every release date shows its year, and police pins are purple.
  • Times in the feed are the times the source stated; a record with none says "time not stated". Warnings and severity come from official feeds only.
  • The map shows every status the agency lists, not only active: a controlled fire stays on the map until its agency stops listing it.
  • Lookup: a repeated dispatch is folded into one event only for pager pages within 1 km of each other. Official records with the same title, such as WA DFES burn-offs up to 400 km apart, were shown as one event.
  • Lookup: the nearest incident of each kind is listed first, every event within the radius is listed behind "Show all", and every entry opens to its pages with a link to it on the map.
  • The public /incidents page shows live counts, as /map does, with the full feed in the free dashboard. The 8 state pages /incidents/{state} redirect (308) to it, and /dashboard/map redirects to the Live incidents map view.
v1.86.0

SA Police releases in the dashboard

  • Lookup: SA Police media releases near the place, the 5 most recent within the radius or in the suburb, postcode or council looked up, each with its time, place, summary and a link to the release, and pinned on the Lookup map. Free accounts see the last 7 days, paid plans every release we hold
  • Map tab: a Police releases layer, off by default, with the releases of the last 7 days that are placed on a street
  • LGA sitrep: an "SA Police release" lane on the timeline, at the time SA Police published the release
  • Publications: a release that names an intersection is placed where its two streets meet, inside the suburb it names; extract.attributes.intersection names the two streets
  • Lookup and the LGA sitrep say when declared-area data has not refreshed within 48 hours, as the Declarations tab does
  • A CFS map-book square now reads as the centre of its map grid square, not "the suburb only", and the API reference says a street-directory grid-cell centre is published as exact
v1.84.0

Lookup by suburb, postcode or council, and Settings in sections

  • Lookup tab: type a postcode or "Suburb STATE 1234", or choose a suburb or council from the list. The answer is measured from the place's centre point with the same radius, and says so. A suburb or postcode names the council at its centre and hands declared status to the Declarations tab, because either can span more than one council
  • Settings: one section at a time (General, Security, Notifications, Plan, Billing, Wallet), opened from the account menu instead of the sidebar
  • Choosing from a list now only fills the box on every dashboard tab. Nothing runs, and nothing is charged, until you press Look up or Check (Lookup, Declarations, LGA sitrep)
  • Home: the wallet balance, with a Top up link
  • Contact address is now jack@dataquoll.io across the site, the Terms, the Privacy policy, the SLA and security.txt
v1.83.0

Pay for declarations lookups: a wallet or the A$50 add-on

  • Declarations tab: A$1 a lookup from a prepaid wallet, or A$50 a month for 100 lookups. A lookup is charged when it returns a status for the place, including that no declaration covers it; one that cannot find the address or place it in a council area costs nothing. The declarations API stays with the Organisation licence
  • Settings, Wallet: top up A$5, A$10, A$20 or any amount up to A$500 by card. Credit never expires (Terms section 17)
  • The declarations add-on also shows declared status in the Lookup tab and the LGA sitrep
  • Lookup tab: nearby incidents read as events, one line per job with the place in words, the distance, the time and a timeline of its records
  • Privacy policy (17 October 2026): dashboard usage counts, Vercel Web Analytics on the dashboard and the wallet records are disclosed
v1.82.0

The DataQuoll dashboard, address lookup and declarations by address

  • New dashboard at dashboard.dataquoll.io: Home, Lookup, Declarations, Map, LGA sitrep and Settings, behind sign-in
  • New POST /address: one Australian address in (exact G-NAF match: units, levels, lots, ranges), with the council area, declared-area status (declarations scope), incidents nearby, the nearest river gauge, facilities and mobile sites in the same answer. Every plan
  • Lookup tab: the /address answer for one address, with a G-NAF typeahead. Suggestions are free; each lookup is one API call
  • Declarations tab: declared-area status for an address (at its exact point) or a postcode, with the council area on a map and the distance to the nearest other council. Included in the Organisation licence
  • Map tab: every live incident, grouped into count bubbles, official warnings on top and never grouped, road closures as lines, and a panel with the full record. Only official agency feeds carry warning levels; SA pager records show their alarm level
  • /map now shows live counts by state and type; the live map is the dashboard Map tab. /declarations explains the lookup, which is in the dashboard
  • POST /hazard-history/point: the declared lane needs declarations access (the Organisation licence). Without it, declared is { included: false, reason } and the observed lane is unchanged
  • New /mobile-sites: Telstra, Optus and TPG mobile site records from the ACCC (yearly snapshot as at 31 January), by radius, state, LGA or operator, with technologies, generations and co-funding program. Paged with limit and offset. Every plan
  • /incidents/snapshot (archive, ACT): calls the ESA closed in dispatch more than 30 days after the call no longer count as active until that closing date. The closing date stays in details.end_as_published, and /incidents/history's event_end_date is null for them
  • Connecting Claude (MCP) offers only the API keys that can reach the MCP server
v1.79.0

New plan limits and free-tier terms

  • Free tier: 2,000 requests a month on general endpoints, and up to 5,000 in total when the rest are /api/v1/incidents/nearby, the endpoint the Home Assistant integration polls. Free use is for evaluation, or personal and non-commercial use (Terms section 8)
  • Monthly limits: Starter 25,000, Developer 80,000, Business 200,000, Pro 400,000. Organisation stays at 2,000,000. Prices are unchanged
  • Limits are tested against requests served: refused requests no longer count toward a limit, so an upgrade takes effect on the next call
  • RateLimit-Limit and RateLimit-Remaining describe the allowance that applies to the call made. A 429 from the free general allowance says /incidents/nearby still works
  • /dashboard shows free accounts a second bar for general requests; /docs/rate-limits explains both allowances
v1.78.0

Places matched to G-NAF, and more accurate incident times

  • South Australia Police releases on /publications carry extract.place: the suburb and, when the text names one, the street, matched to G-NAF (Geocoded National Address File). New precision value street. A release that does not place its event in one suburb has extract null. Guide: /guides/g-naf
  • A report or update time more than 10 minutes in the future is no longer published: a future report time is left empty and a future update time falls back to the report time
  • SA CFS records from 17 April to 14 September 2026 are marked date-only (time_stated / timeStated: false); SA MFS (14 to 20 April) and WA DFES (20 April) archive times are corrected by the offset they were stored with
  • Hazard history names the nearest river gauge; near some Brisbane sites it could name a rainfall station
  • Declarations: a record held against a whole catch-all area carries publishedFor, the source's own name for it, and the part-not-stated wording says we cannot place that name in a part we hold boundaries for
  • /dashboard groups feed status by state, each feed under its own name; /dashboard/area shows the declaration card's reason again, worded for the area or the part
  • /flood and the area page no longer say the Bureau's flood-warning gauges are not carried: they have been polled since July
v1.74.0

Area dashboard: declared history, catch-all parts, and incidents placed in time

  • A new panel on /dashboard/area lists every disaster declaration and funding activation linked to the area, with its dates and the records we hold there in those dates, counted by type, location precision and date precision. A declaration or activation with no published end date counts its first 30 days, and says so. Counts come with every account; record lists with any paid plan.
  • The named parts of the NSW and VIC catch-all areas (Far West, Lord Howe Island, Sydney Harbour, Falls Creek, Lake Mountain and the rest of unincorporated Victoria) are areas of their own on /dashboard/area, each with the declarations linked to it or to its catch-all as a whole, its own river gauges and its own flood catchments.
  • The last known event in an area now includes incidents a feed has since dropped, which is how most incidents end. It had read months out of date.
  • An incident whose source gave no report time is placed at the time DataQuoll first saw it, and labelled that way, on the area timeline and in its active list, where it used to drop off or read "never".
  • 613,935 archive records no longer carry 1 January 2000 as their report time, a placeholder from their import: CFA incident responses and IBTrACS and BoM cyclone track points. /incidents/history no longer lists them on that day and a snapshot of 1 January 2000 no longer counts them; they carry no date until their stated times are carried over. CFA Emergency Response Times (3,977 rows) is removed: its rows were the cells of a spreadsheet, not incidents, and it is no longer attributed.
v1.73.0

Archive dates as their sources state them, archive duplicates removed, and corrected incident types and times

  • Archive records whose source dated them only to a period say so. A record dated to a burn or fire season, a financial year, a calendar year, a month, or a span such as SA DEW's "previous 5 to 10 years" carries date_precision and date_period_end on /incidents/history, archive.datePrecision and archive.datePeriodEnd on /incidents/snapshot, and datePrecision and datePeriodEnd in hazard history, whose earliest and latest say the same through earliestDatePrecision and latestDatePrecision. 1,071,497 records carry it. Their event_start_date and reported_at are the period's first day, where a placeholder day used to be published as if the source had stated it. details.date_as_published keeps a source value we replaced. datePrecision gains season, financial_year and period: a strictly generated client must regenerate.
  • VIC fire history publishes only the end dates DEECA states (its under-control or safe date): 699,107 were record edit stamps or copies of the start. The 2019-20 bushfire boundaries (634,746 records) are dated to the 2019-20 financial year: their 1 July 2019 start, which no source stated as a day, now reads as the year's first day, and an invented 15 March 2020 end is gone. In a deep-archive snapshot a period-dated record counts as active from its period's first day until the end its source states, or, without one, until the period's last day, flagged; a record with a stated day and no stated end counts on that day only.
  • The historical archive drops duplicates and non-events: 345,545 repeat copies of Geoscience Australia's National Bushfire Extents 2025, 1,783 ACT boundaries its earlier V3 edition repeats exactly, 10,457 SA DEW fire records imported from both of DEW's map datums, and 5,847 WA DWER floodplain-mapping extents, which are modelled flood-study extents, not floods (and are no longer attributed). SA DEW "Last Bushfire" records no longer show an area: the figure was square degrees labelled hectares.
  • AIDR's Disaster Events (Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience): 140 records stored 1 January 1900 as their start and report time, and all but one as their end, while their own descriptions date them between 1826 and 1899. They are now undated and leave /incidents/history, which lists only records with a report time; the stored values stay in details.date_as_published and details.end_as_published.
  • 39 NT fire boundaries that ended in May 2525 (Geoscience Australia, 2025 starts) carry no end, the published value kept in details.end_as_published: the 2525 end kept them out of every snapshot.
  • SA Road Crash Data: its 87,044 crash locations carry no date of their own and no longer carry our import date as their report time, so they leave /incidents/history, which lists only records with a report time, instead of appearing as reported on 29 April 2026.
  • Archive fire boundaries that state no area no longer carry a unit: 1,852 ACT records published a magnitude scale of hectares beside a null magnitude, and a scale is now stored only with its value.
  • Month-dated flood extents no longer publish an end or update day no source stated: 808 QLD FloodLines extents (January 2011) and 776 Brisbane City Council extents (February 2022) carried the month's last day as event_end_date and updated_at. The month's end is in date_period_end.
  • The VIC October 2022 flood extents are repaired: titles from their flood class, the publisher's own dates, Emergency Management Victoria as the publisher, each repeated shape merged into one record carrying its latest date and the "not for use" shapes removed (1,826 to 1,764), and every shape valid and 53% smaller. The SA River Murray 2022 extents are published in degrees; they were in metres.
  • The historical archive gains Queensland's observed flood extents: 1,048 FloodLines extents (Brisbane and Bremer 1974, Bundaberg 2010 and 2013, January and April 2011, south-west Queensland 2012, Fitzroy and Logan-Albert 2017, western Queensland 2019) and Brisbane City Council's 776 February 2022 river and creek extents. Records dated only to a month say so in hazard history (datePrecision: 'month').
  • QFD's 2024 incidents (84,482) join the archive, placed and typed like every other QFD year.
  • The Queensland fire service archive (946,358 QFD incidents, 2011-2023) carries real incident types from QFD's own codes (vehicle_accident, alarm, bushfire, structure_fire and the rest; every row read other), correct times (they were 10 hours late) and correct dates (130,484 had day and month swapped), with titles in QFD's own wording.
  • ACT ESA archive incidents (285,931, 2004-2016) carry correct times: they were stored 10 hours late (11 in daylight saving) because Canberra local time was read as UTC.
  • Archive event types for ACT ESA, SA CFS and SA MFS follow each source's own category: alarm calls are alarm (not structure_fire), house and car fires are structure_fire and vehicle_fire (not bushfire), and road_accident (not a schema type) is vehicle_accident; no archive row carries a type outside /schema.
  • The NSW RFS incident archive since April 2026 is repaired: NSW RFS CAP history carries real types and one id per incident (nsw-rfs-cap-<RFS incident number>), and old per-update ids (nsw-rfs-cap-<time>:<n>) no longer exist; ten RFS types are corrected on both RFS feeds' history.
  • /api/v1/attribution lists every source of the historical archive with its publisher, licence and attribution statement, and /compliance lists each of those datasets with its publisher and licence. The archive served by /incidents/history, /incidents/snapshot and hazard history was not attributed before.
  • Archive records whose source never stated how a record was located publish location.precision: 'unstated' (a new value), as hazard history already labelled them. Archive fire and flood areas no longer read state. /incidents/history now states precision on every located record.
  • Records with no location no longer match a search at 0,0, and a point whose coordinates are not numbers is published as no geometry (it read latitude 0, longitude 0).
  • Hazard history (/hazard-history/point, MCP hazard_history_by_point) lists live-era incidents (2026-04-08 onward) in observed.byType, records (each with lane: archive | live), earliest and latest; before, they were only counted in liveTotal.
  • Hazard history again includes the mapped fire and burn-off extents (GA, DELWP, NPWS, DEW) that a 2026-09-27 change had left out; Mundaring WA reads 599 archive records (2026-10-08), not 198.
  • Hazard history answers wide lookups in dense places faster: a first 5 km lookup at Adelaide CBD, which timed out with a 500, now answers. One that still runs out of time, as a first 5 km lookup over central Canberra can, returns a 400 asking you to try again or use a smaller radiusKm, and is not counted against the month's lookups.
  • /hazard-history/point counts each NSW RFS incident once: nsw-rfs-cap, which republishes nsw-rfs, is left out of the observed lane.
  • Hazard history leaves out roadworks and traffic feeds (Live Traffic NSW, VIC road disruptions, WA road closures): a closed road is not a hazard record. Official warnings stay in.
  • Hazard history leaves out alarm calls, as it leaves out medical calls: an alarm is not a recorded hazard (QFD and SA coded no fire; live and ACT alarm calls carry no outcome). At New Farm QLD on 2026-10-03 that took the count from 4,484 records to 2,273.
  • QLD and TAS fire extents: two new feeds, qld-nrt-fire-extents and tas-nrt-fire-extents, publish Geoscience Australia's near-real-time burnt-area extents (Digital Atlas, CC BY 4.0) as featureType: incident_area. A TAS fire (tas-tfs) carries its extent as its boundary. Extents carry urgency and severity Unknown: GA states neither.
  • NSW RFS CAP (nsw-rfs-cap) incidents carry their real event_type again (bushfire, grass_fire, structure_fire, burn_off and the rest). From 2026-05-20 every one read other.
  • NSW RFS CAP incidents keep one id across RFS updates: nsw-rfs-cap-<RFS incident number>, the number nsw-rfs uses. Each update used to arrive as a new incident.
  • NSW RFS motor vehicle accidents (MVA/Transport) are typed vehicle_accident on both nsw-rfs and nsw-rfs-cap; they read other.
  • NSW RFS: ten more RFS incident types map to real types on both feeds (Truck Fire and Vehicle/Equipment Fire are vehicle_fire, Search/Rescue and Rescue Flood/Other are rescue, Flood/Storm/Tree Down is storm, Haystack fire and Fire Had Occurred are other_fire).
  • CAP-AU source text is decoded: titles no longer show &amp;, NSW RFS CAP details.description is plain text, one field per line, with no <br /> tags, and TAS TasALERT descriptions no longer show &nbsp;.
  • QLD storm warnings (qld-emq-warnings) are ingested again: their sent and expires times carry two UTC offsets, which failed the feed. details.expires is ISO 8601, and reported_at is the issue time read from the warning headline, because the publisher's sent is its document build time. The same applies to its flood and cyclone warnings.
  • VIC SES (vic-emsina-ses) incidents report their real start time (Melbourne time; it read as the last update), and NSW RFS (nsw-rfs) report times no longer move forward with each RFS update. Archived values that were update times now carry no reported_at. Archived NSW SES HazardWatch floods from before 2026-05-19 are typed flood, not other.
  • TAS Fire Service (tas-tfs) incidents are typed from the Type TFS states (structure_fire, vehicle_fire, burn_off, other for a false callout, and the rest). Every one read bushfire.
  • ACT incident times follow daylight saving: act-allincidents published every time an hour late from 2026-10-04 (a fixed +10:00), and act-currentincidents reported the feed's build time, not the incident's, since April. Both now read the incident's own Canberra times.
  • ACT items with no time of call (advice items) publish no reported_at instead of the poll time or the feed build time, and ESA's "TEST ONLY - NO ACTION REQUIRED" feed tests are no longer published as incidents through either ACT feed.
  • SA fire and SES pager incidents placed from a CFS map-book reference (regional SA) now sit in the right 1 km square. They were placed up to a page width out (about 25 km; the South East median was 21 km), because the reference's digits were read as a fraction of the page rather than as grid lines. They are published at locality precision.
  • SA Ambulance pager incidents carry the suburb from their own address, not the responding ambulance's station. The unit is in details.paged_unit.
  • details.dispatch_number joins an SA CFS/MFS incident to the SA fire pager page for the same dispatch (e.g. F2609220055).
  • VicEmergency burn areas and EMSINA fire areas are featureType: incident_area (a fire's footprint), not separate active bushfires. A VicEmergency fire carries its EMSINA perimeter as boundary, with every part merged.
  • Gauges: Gyranda Weir and Stonelands flood classes verified against BoM. Central Mill and Bedford Weir report level only until their datum can be verified.
  • /incidents/history pages stop at about 4 MB: archive polygons are returned whole, and one page of 500 mapped flood extents was 46 MB. meta.size_limited says when the cap ended a page; keep following the cursor.
  • /incidents/snapshot ends at about 4 MB, as /incidents/history pages do: meta.size_limited and meta.truncated say so. A larger body failed outright.
  • /incidents/snapshot sets meta.truncated whenever more incidents were active than came back, cut at limit or at the size cap. An archive snapshot (before 2026-04-08) reported only the size cap, so an answer cut at limit read as complete, and a recent one could too when copies of one incident filled the limit.
  • /incidents/snapshot for a recent datetime lists each incident once and leaves out one its source had withdrawn by then: an incident withdrawn up to a day earlier still showed as active, and a NSW RFS incident could appear once per update. Each carries the latest state we recorded for it, and timestamps.updated says when.
  • /incidents/snapshot answers a limit that is not an integer from 1 to 500 with a 400 naming it. It was clamped or ignored, and a negative limit failed with an error that did not name it (a 500 on archive snapshots).
  • The OpenAPI spec documents snapshot meta (truncated, snapshot_datetime, source, generated_at) and marks a field that can be null the OpenAPI 3.1 way, type [..., 'null']: 64 fields carried nullable: true, which 3.1 tools ignore, so a strictly generated client read them as never null and must regenerate.
  • Archive records publish an update time only where their source stated one: QFD's control or stop time, ACT ESA's call closing time and DEECA's under-control or record edit date, on timestamps.updated (/incidents/snapshot) and updated_at (/incidents/history). Every other archive record publishes null: its value was our import time or a copy of the start.
  • /incidents/snapshot answers carry a stable ETag, so If-None-Match returns 304 when nothing changed.
  • Areas (geometry and boundary) are returned at 6 decimal places, not 4, on /incidents, /incidents/{id} and /incidents/snapshot: rounding to four decimals collapsed small polygons (580 of the 1,826 VIC 2022 flood extents). Points stay at 4. A GeoJSON crs member is no longer passed through.
  • Monthly reports (/reports/2026-09 and earlier) count every incident. Each one stopped at 1,000 rows and said "1,000 incidents"; a month runs to tens of thousands. Areas, road disruptions and satellite hotspots are not counted, as on /incidents.
  • The site's /incidents pages list incidents only, as the API does by default.
  • Council area dashboards load for councils whose recent history is sparse: some (Adelaide, West Arnhem) timed out before.
  • MCP: a subscriptions/listen stream (2026-07-28 clients) now closes with the spec's complete result inside the server's time limit, so the client re-listens cleanly instead of being cut off every minute.
v1.69.1

Declarations place unincorporated areas correctly, and Tasmanian and NT water data is confirmed open

  • Declarations and hazard history: a location inside an ABS catch-all area (Unincorporated NSW, Vic, SA or NT) no longer picks up disasters recorded for unrelated places under the same code. A point on Lord Howe Island no longer lists Far West storms, and postcode 2041 no longer lists Far West or Lord Howe events through its Sydney Harbour sliver.
  • Where sources name the part (NSW: Far West, Lord Howe Island, Sydney Harbour; Vic: Falls Creek, Lake Mountain, other), the matched LGA carries area and records placed in another part are left out. lgaCode stays the ABS code.
  • A record published for a whole catch-all without naming a part carries scope: part_not_stated. An activation published that way stays activation_only with its own matchStatusReason; a declaration published that way reads uncertain, never declared.
  • NSW declarations for the Far West and Lord Howe Island now read declared where NSW declared them, for example Lord Howe Island for Tropical Cyclone Alfred (AGRN 1198). They were unmatched, and the answer said no state declaration was found.
  • /declarations/agrn/{agrn} reports a named part as its ABS lgaCode plus area. /hazard-history/point adds location.area and counts declared.distinctCount, earliest and latest from the records it lists.
  • /compliance lists Tasmanian and Northern Territory river-gauge data as open licence (CC BY 4.0), no longer pending.
  • MCP server 1.7.0: the declarations tool descriptions cover area and scope. Reconnect DataQuoll in your client to refresh them.
v1.68.0

Roads, facilities, publications and calendars: four new datasets, and honest fire types

  • New /publications, /publications/{id} and /publishers: official documents from a registry of publishers, versioned and kept after the publisher deletes them. South Australia Police media releases first. Filter by state, publisher type, publisher, section and date; free keys see the last 7 days. Also three MCP tools.
  • New /facilities: 8,888 police, ambulance, fire and SES facility locations nationally, from Geoscience Australia under CC BY 4.0. Search by radius or filter by state and class. Every plan.
  • Road disruptions from Main Roads Western Australia, Transport for NSW Live Traffic and the Victorian Department of Transport and Planning. They use featureType=road_disruption and are opt-in, so they never appear in default /incidents results. Road segments carry LineString geometry. Each NSW category is its own feed; VIC records carry the local government area and SES region.
  • Industry calendars: discrepancies now lists 4 records (SA 2, WA 2), down from 13, after a hand check of every poster. Victoria 2026-12-23 is annual_leave, following ETU Victoria's updated calendar. .ics feeds are named "<STATE> RDO calendar (DataQuoll)" with the branch credited in the description, and escape semicolons as RFC 5545 requires.
  • New event type other_fire (category fire, CAP-AU otherFire): a fire that is not a bushfire, grass, structure or vehicle fire, or whose kind the source does not state. A bare "Fire" was reported as bushfire, and rubbish and marine fires as other. Victorian fires now carry the kind VicEmergency states. Earlier records keep their old type; for every kind of fire use category=fire.
  • location.precision is no longer always exact: it adds locality (a suburb or town centre) and state (no place given). Radius, bounding-box and hazard-history lookups, council area pictures and event clustering leave state records out, and the public map no longer draws them. About 1,400 South Australian pager incidents that sat on one Adelaide point are now placed at their own town.
  • New official filter on /incidents, /incidents/nearby and /incidents/history. official=true excludes sources marked unofficial (today the South Australian community-decoded pager feeds); official=false returns only those. Also an MCP tool argument.
  • South Australian pager incidents report the correct warning level (a 2-alarm dispatch is Watch and Act, a 3-alarm is Emergency Warning; both previously reported none), carry location.suburb, and are classified correctly with a P1 or P2 suffix. SA SES incidents are typed from the incident label instead of other. Training and test pages carry no public warning level and are marked details.operational.
  • Events report the correct worst severity and warning level. Both were aggregated alphabetically, so Unknown outranked Extreme. Events no longer group satellite fire detections, operational pager traffic, or mix incident points with warning polygons.
  • Flood classifications on /gauges account for the age of the reading. A gauge that has stopped reporting returns floodClass "unclassified" with readingStatus saying whether the reading is current, and ?floodClass= no longer matches it.
  • Western Australian Total Fire Ban areas are collected year round; the feed was polled only between October and April. Available via featureType=fire_ban_area.
  • NSW natural disaster declarations are read from NSW's official Data.NSW source again; the previous layer has required a token since July. The register refreshes to its 22 June 2026 edition and adds AGRN 1289. /api/v1/attribution links the Data.NSW dataset page.
  • /status reports every feed separately and carries a feedId. Two NSW RFS feeds and two Tasmanian TasALERT feeds previously shared an entry, so one going down could hide behind its healthy sibling.
  • Several feeds return detail fields that were listed but dropped: satellite hotspots carry confidence, power, temperature, satellite and sensor; NSW RFS CAP warnings carry the instruction text, fuel type and fire danger class; Tasmanian warnings carry their agency and source URL.
  • /mcp explains that clients keep the tool list from when they connected, so a newly added tool appears after reconnecting.
v1.62.0

Incident links that work, and paging that reaches the whole archive

  • Incident permalinks work for every incident. Any id containing a colon answered 404 while the API returned the same incident happily, which covered roughly 86,000 links: every NSW RFS warning and every VIC OSOM incident. Shared links, social cards and the Related pages for those incidents all resolve again.
  • /incidents/history pages with a cursor. Pass meta.next_cursor as cursor, or follow links.next. before and after still bound the window; the cursor moves through it. Advancing before could never page a block of records sharing one reported_at, and 2,671 such blocks hold two thirds of the dated archive, the largest holding 634,813 records.
  • /incidents paging no longer breaks on ids containing a comma or a space. Thirty-six live incidents carry one, and a cursor ending on any of them was rejected by the next request.
  • Your dashboard separates requests we served from requests we refused. Retries against a monthly limit were counted as usage, so an account that had hit its cap saw a number far past it with no way to tell how much of it was the API saying no.
  • A new tutorial for sending incidents to Slack, and one for mapping them with Mapbox GL JS including the boundary polygons agencies publish.
v1.61.0

Correct incident times, the full archive, and feeds that say when they stop

  • Incident timestamps were wrong on four feeds and are now right. NSW RFS reported and updated times were 10 hours early, read as Sydney time when the feed publishes UTC. SA SES times were 9.5 hours early, 10.5 during daylight saving, for the mirror-image reason. South Australian CFS incidents carried midnight rather than the call time, because the mapping read the date and ignored the time field beside it. Geoscience Australia earthquakes carried no reported time at all since 17 April; 183 of the 186 affected records have been repaired from the source.
  • South Australian fire incidents are fixed end to end. MFS incidents are flowing again after reading an ArcGIS layer that had been returning nothing. CFS and MFS incidents are no longer published twice. Suburbs are suburbs rather than region numbers. SA pager incidents no longer overwrite each other, because the ids now include the feed and the dispatch date.
  • South Australian CFS and MFS moved to their new source. SAFECOM retired the CRIIMSON files on 14 September and the old URLs now serve a placeholder page under a 200 status, so nothing that fetched without parsing could tell. Both feeds now read the replacement document.
  • /incidents/history answers for every date we hold. It read only the imported archive, which ends 1 May 2026, so anything more recent came back empty. It now reads the live history as well, merges both, and names the sources in meta.sources.
  • /incidents/snapshot answers for any moment since 8 April 2026. Reconstructing a moment more than a few weeks back used to time out.
  • Incidents keep the area the agency published. properties.boundary carries a Polygon or MultiPolygon on /incidents/{id}, and on /incidents, /incidents/nearby and /incidents/snapshot with include_boundary=true. CAP incidents with several warning areas were previously stored as one self-intersecting shape; each area is now its own part.
  • VIC SES incidents carry a suburb and a street address, and VIC OSOM warnings carry their warning level rather than defaulting to none.
  • Hazard history is on every plan: 100 lookups a month on every account including free, with blocks of 1,000 at A$99 a month, self-serve at checkout and adjustable by quantity. A lookup is any successful response; refused or invalid calls never use one.
  • Every industry calendar is a phone subscription with no account. /calendars/{jurisdiction}.ics carries RDOs, shutdowns, leave blocks and industry days, and the -all variant adds public, restricted and school holidays.
  • A feed that answers but returns nothing is now reported as degraded on /api/v1/status rather than healthy, with a per-feed window derived from that feed's own history. A mapped field that stops resolving is reported the same way. Both were silent before.
  • If your key stops working because you have reached your monthly limit, we email you once that month with the count, the limit and the reset date. You can turn that off, along with our other non-essential emails, under Notifications in Settings.
  • Revoked API keys no longer count toward the 10-key limit; the cap is 10 active keys.
  • Incident permalinks and share links are no longer offered for the community-decoded SA pager feeds; those ids answer 404.
v1.53.0

Sign in from claude.ai, Claude Desktop and Claude mobile

  • The MCP server now supports OAuth 2.1. In claude.ai, Claude Desktop or Claude mobile, add https://dataquoll.io/api/mcp as a custom connector with Requires sign-in on and both client fields blank; Claude registers itself, you approve on a consent page and choose which of your API keys the connection may use. That key's monthly quota applies, and revoking it from the dashboard cuts the connection off.
  • Header clients (Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Windsurf, Zed, and Claude Desktop through mcp-remote) are unchanged.
  • An MCP request with no credential, an expired token or a token for another server now gets a 401 with a WWW-Authenticate challenge (RFC 9728) instead of an empty success, which is how OAuth clients find the sign-in flow. Discovery documents at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource and /.well-known/oauth-authorization-server.
  • Login accepts a next parameter for exactly one destination, the consent page.
v1.52.0

Industry calendars, the MCP Registry, and a limiter that cannot fail silently

  • New dataset: industry calendars for NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT and NT for 2026. RDOs, public holidays, school holidays, industry shutdowns and union days, read from each branch calendar and verified against the Fair Work Ombudsman list and the education department term dates. Every place a poster disagrees with the official list is recorded, with the official value kept.
  • GET /api/v1/calendars/{jurisdiction}/{date} answers whether a date is a working day for the contracting industry and why not: public_holiday, weekend, industry_shutdown, rdo, part_day_public_holiday, annual_leave, industry_event or working. Restricted holidays (a show day for one region, a public-service-only day) are returned separately and never decide the verdict.
  • GET /api/v1/calendars/{jurisdiction} returns the day rows for a date range as JSON or CSV, with the editions in range and the recorded source discrepancies; GET /api/v1/calendars lists every edition. Available on every plan, including free.
  • The /calendars page shows the eight editions; /docs/calendars documents the endpoints; the MCP server gains three calendar tools (server 1.2.0).
  • MCP server listed in the MCP Registry as io.dataquoll/data-api, and a /mcp page with copy-paste config for Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Windsurf, Zed and Claude Desktop. Every MCP tool is annotated read-only.
  • Rate limiter: the second, unlogged fail-open path is closed and every fail-open now logs a reason; a daily heartbeat check emails on any request the meter missed.
v1.50.0

Hazard history for a location, and a clearer account of what we are

  • New: POST /api/v1/hazard-history/point returns what official sources recorded near a location together with every disaster declaration that covered its local government area, counted once per AGRN rather than once per source. Precision and dating are stated per record, so a postcode-centroid match is visible as one. Enterprise entitlement; coordinates are never logged, stored or echoed. Worked examples for five real locations at /hazard-history.
  • Fixed: /api/v1/incidents/nearby dropped results that fell inside the requested radius to the east or west of the point. The radius prefilter assumed a degree of longitude is as long as a degree of latitude, which costs roughly 18% of the east-west band at southern latitudes. A 3 km search at Glenelg East returned 46 incidents and should have returned 48.
  • New /datasets catalogue: one page per dataset stating what it is, its coverage, freshness, provenance, access and endpoints.
  • DataQuoll now describes itself as what it is: a data platform that aggregates fragmented Australian data, normalises and cleans it, and serves it machine-readable through one API. Emergency incidents, disaster declarations and river gauges are the first datasets, not the definition.
  • The four Victorian feeds (VicEmergency OSOM and the three EMSINA layers) now publish their licence on /api/v1/attribution: CC BY 3.0 AU, with the attribution text and notice link Emergency Management Victoria requires.
v1.47.2

Founders rate, flood classification hardening and wider coverage

  • Founders rate: 50% off any plan for as long as you keep it, for the first 200 subscribers. Applied automatically at checkout and shown on each pricing card while spots remain.
  • Fixed: /api/v1/gauges/{id} and /readings rejected bom-flood-warning gauge ids (123 gauges, including Windsor, Lismore and Taree) that the list endpoint returned.
  • The NSW, SA and WA flood classification sources resume weekly updates after a silent five-week freeze caused by a content-hash bug. The skip check now hashes the parsed threshold rows rather than transport bytes.
  • Corrected thresholds for Bilanoo Pool (WA): the source document prints one bureau number on two gauges, and the matcher previously assigned the wrong row. Conflicting station ids now require name evidence before any threshold is applied.
  • Tasmania: 13 gauges now carry official flood classes (previously 1), each verified against BoM per-gauge pages for level, reading and datum agreement before activation. Tasmanian thresholds now come from the Service Level Specification document.
  • Queensland: 44 additional gauges carry flood classes after a station-id padding fix recovered matches the sources had been printing as zero-padded numbers.
  • South Australia: 4 additional gauges classified (Stockport, Saddleworth, Taylors Vineyard, Wakefield River upstream Balaklava).
  • Two NSW gauges (Terara on the Shoalhaven, Barneys Point on the Tweed) now report river levels via the BoM flood warning network.
  • Signup gains a Home Assistant use-case option.
v1.45.0

EmergencyAPI is now DataQuoll

  • New home: dataquoll.io, with docs at docs.dataquoll.io and the dashboard at dashboard.dataquoll.io. Same product, same team, same data.
  • Nothing you hold breaks. API endpoints and unsubscribe links on emergencyapi.com keep serving identical responses until a sunset is announced well in advance. Site pages on the old domain redirect to the new one.
  • New response header X-DataQuoll-Plan is emitted alongside X-EmergencyAPI-Plan. Both carry the same value; the old header stays until the announced sunset.
  • The OpenAPI spec lists dataquoll.io/api/v1 as the primary server, with emergencyapi.com/api/v1 documented as the legacy host.
  • Disaster declarations now have a homepage section with a rendered demo of the postcode lookup, showing the real response fields and the product boundary: declared-area status, never eligibility.
  • Signing up with an address that already has an account returns the intended "check your inbox" message instead of an error (fixed in v1.42.1).
  • The privacy policy records that per-endpoint usage is now measured (which endpoint and response format each key calls, retained 400 days), and section 3 was amended to permit occasional plan and offer emails, each with a permanent unsubscribe link.
v1.42.0

Account enforcement, plan alignment, and a corrected privacy policy

  • CSV, CAP Atom and CAP-AU export and the /events clustering endpoint now require the Developer plan, matching what the pricing page has always listed. GeoJSON and JSON are unchanged on every plan including free. If you were calling one of those on a free or Starter key, you will now get a 403 naming the plan.
  • Accounts flagged as in breach of the terms have their API keys refused with a 403 that names the reason, and see a notice in the dashboard explaining it. Nothing is deleted and no key is revoked: access returns the moment the flag is cleared.
  • A subscription that lapses no longer regains its paid tier when a new API key is created. Keys are issued at the tier the account is actually entitled to.
  • An API key whose account record cannot be read is now refused rather than served. Previously a missing account record skipped both the approval check and the terms-violation check.
  • The privacy policy now lists every processor that receives your data, including Stripe for payments and Google for email delivery and site analytics, and states which of them operate outside Australia. It previously said data was shared with nobody. It also now describes the analytics cookies the public pages set, and no analytics of any kind run on the dashboard, settings or account pages.
v1.40.0

Dedicated docs and dashboard subdomains, the new design across every page, and account rules

  • The API documentation now lives at docs.emergencyapi.com and the dashboard at dashboard.emergencyapi.com. Old /docs, /dashboard and /settings URLs redirect, so existing links and bookmarks keep working. Existing dashboard sessions need one fresh sign-in.
  • Confirming your email now signs you straight in instead of dropping you back at the login page.
  • The dashboard, settings and My Area screens have been rebuilt on the new design. My Area is readable again: part of it was rendering dark text on a dark background. The area picker is searchable rather than a list of 547 entries to scroll.
  • Every guide is now on the new design. Links inside body text are underlined rather than only coloured, because the link colour and the body text colour were too close for that difference alone to be visible.
  • Corrected the size of the historical archive on two guides. They claimed 3.9M and 3.98M records "dating back to 1903", disagreeing with each other. The archive holds 4,809,680 records and the earliest is dated 1840, with continuous coverage from the 1930s.
  • Fixed missing spaces that ran words together on several pages, including /terms and /sla, and darkened the status colours that were too light to read against their backgrounds.
  • The terms of service now set out account rules explicitly: register with your real name and an email address you actually use, one account per person, and no creating extra accounts to collect more than one free allowance. Accounts registered with false details may be suspended or removed. The free tier is 5,000 requests a month and stays that generous only while it is used honestly.
v1.39.0

New site design, restructured API docs, and a pagination fix

  • Every incident now has a shareable link at emergencyapi.com/i/{id}: one durable page per incident, built to be dropped into a news article or a social post, with a preview card carrying the warning level and whether it is still active. A link keeps working after the incident ends, and says so rather than presenting stale data as current. Ambulance dispatches are not given public links.
  • Paging /incidents past the first page failed for any record whose id contains a colon, which includes NSW RFS CAP incidents. The API issued a next_cursor, and a links.next URL, that it then rejected with 400 "Invalid cursor value". States whose ids have no colon paged normally, so the fault looked intermittent. Fixed.
  • /incidents now accepts ?cursor, the parameter name the OpenAPI spec has always documented. Only ?after was read before, and ?cursor was ignored rather than rejected, so a client written from the spec re-requested the first page indefinitely with no error. Both names work; ?after is unchanged.
  • The API reference at /docs is now a navigable set of pages instead of one page listing every endpoint: authentication, rate limits, pagination, errors and response formats, plus one reference page per resource. The endpoint reference is still generated from the OpenAPI spec.
  • The website has been rebuilt on a new design system. The homepage, pricing, the eight state feed guides and the all-states pillar guide are the first pages on it.
  • Feed counts on the state guides were understated: NSW listed 3 of 4 feeds, QLD 2 of 3, TAS 3 of 4, WA 2 of 5 and ACT 2 of 3. All corrected against the feed registry, along with WA incident polling interval. The all-states comparison table is now generated from the registry rather than hand-maintained, and the four SA pager feeds and three WA polygon layers are labelled for what they are.
v1.38.6

Stay logged in across sessions; clearer location search

  • Fixed a bug that could log you out on your next request after an idle period. Session endpoints now persist the refreshed authentication token instead of dropping it, so a session that expires and refreshes stays valid.
  • Location search on the incidents pages now tells you when a place has no match, when the search is temporarily unavailable, or when you have searched too many times in a row, instead of silently doing nothing.
v1.38.4

Clearer auth and rate-limit errors

  • Password reset now reports what actually failed: a password matching your current one, a breached password, an expired link, or a connection problem. It previously reported every failure as an expired link, which sent people back to re-click a single-use link they did not need. A rejected password can be corrected on the same form.
  • Email verification failures report the specific cause instead of one generic message.
  • Anti-abuse rate limits are now per endpoint. Signing up no longer consumes your password-reset allowance, and the public declarations demo no longer shares a per-IP budget with the dashboard area lookup.
  • Throttled requests return a Retry-After header and a message describing the actual limit, instead of a monthly-quota message suggesting an upgrade that would not lift it.
  • RateLimit-Limit and RateLimit-Remaining are always integers, including on unmetered plans. The Python quickstart previously documented X-RateLimit-Remaining, which this API has never sent; the correct name is RateLimit-Remaining.
v1.38.1

Australian hosting

  • All infrastructure is now hosted in Australia: the database moved to AWS Sydney on 19 July 2026, joining API compute which already runs in Sydney. No action needed and API keys are unchanged.
  • AusAlert national test guide: added coverage of feature phones (which receive Emergency Alert SMS, not AusAlert).
v1.38.0

Observed rainfall as a second gauge variable

  • Gauges now carry a variable. GET /gauges and /gauges/summary default to water_level and are unchanged for existing consumers; pass ?variable=rainfall to list rain gauges instead. Every gauge in a response states its variable.
  • First rainfall source: 52 Brisbane City Council rain gauges, published under CC BY 4.0. Values are incremental millimetres for each reporting interval, so a total is the sum over a window. GET /gauges/{id} reports the trailing six-hour total in mm.
  • Rainfall gauges never carry a flood classification, thresholds, or a datum. A flood class is a water-level concept, and millimetres of rain are not a flood level. The /flood page and the live map stay water-level only.
v1.37.0

Situational awareness dashboard, honest gauge coverage, and Brisbane

  • New /dashboard/area: situational awareness for one local government area. Live incidents, river gauges against their published Bureau of Meteorology flood classifications, disaster-declaration status, and a 7-day timeline, on one screen for any logged-in account. Gauges within 5 km of the area are included and labelled with their distance, because flood risk does not follow council boundaries: the river that floods an area is often gauged in the next one.
  • Brisbane City Council gauges: 46 council-operated stream-height sensors, including the Brisbane River Port Office gauge. 31 carry published Bureau of Meteorology flood classifications. Published by the council under CC BY 4.0. A flood class is only derived where the gauge datum has been verified against the Bureau's own published datum for that site; where it has not, the level is published with no flood class.
  • The unit field on gauge thresholds now states the datum the readings are actually in (for example "m (AHD)" for gauges reporting in Australian Height Datum) rather than always claiming local gauge datum. Gauges whose datum is not established still read "m (local gauge datum)".
  • Gauge coverage is now stated honestly. /flood leads with the number of gauges actually reporting, not the number tracked, and names a known coverage gap: gauges that carry a published flood classification but return no readings to us, because they sit on the Bureau's flood-warning network rather than the state water portals. Those gauges show "no reading" and are never shown as being below a flood level.
v1.34.0

River gauges and live flood status

  • New gauges API: live water levels from about 900 river gauges across all states, polled from each state's own telemetry (WaterNSW, Victorian WMIS, Queensland water monitoring, Water Data SA) plus the Bureau's Water Data Online for WA.
  • Each gauge carries the Bureau of Meteorology flood classification levels for that site, with a derived floodClass (below_minor, minor, moderate, major) computed from the latest reading. GET /gauges lists stations with filters for state, LGA, bounding box, and floodClass at-or-above.
  • GET /gauges/summary answers "which gauges are at or above a flood level right now", grouped by state or local government area. Stale readings are counted separately and never enter the current flood counts.
  • GET /gauges/{id} returns one station with its trailing six hours of readings on every plan. GET /gauges/{id}/readings is the paid history surface: raw for 30 days, hourly rollups for 90 days, daily forever, with full-resolution readings inside flood events kept permanently. interval=auto picks the finest available granularity; above=minor|moderate|major filters to threshold exceedances.
  • The live map has a River gauges layer: stations coloured by flood class with latest level and thresholds in the popup.
  • New /flood page with the live national picture, plus guides on the gauges API and understanding flood classifications.
  • New feed: Queensland EMQ storm, flood, and cyclone warnings (CAP-AU).
  • CAP warning feeds now derive a warning level from CAP severity when the source omits an explicit alert level, and carry the warning expiry in details.expires. Victorian warning features now report their real warning level (previously showed none).
v1.33.0

Suburb narrowing and exact point lookup for declarations

  • The declarations postcode lookup accepts an optional suburb parameter (ABS SAL geography) that narrows the result to the local government areas the suburb falls in. An unmatched suburb never fails the lookup: the full postcode result is returned with the postcode's known suburbs.
  • New POST /declarations/point resolves an exact lat/lng against full-resolution ABS LGA 2022 boundary polygons and returns the declaration status of the containing local government area. Coordinates are never logged, stored, or echoed back, and responses are not cached.
  • The /declarations lookup page accepts an optional suburb to narrow split-postcode results.
  • Rate-limited (429) responses now correctly say monthly limit.
v1.32.0

Business and Pro plans

  • Two new self-serve plans: Business at A$99/month (750,000 requests/month) and Pro at A$299/month (2,000,000 requests/month, full historical archive with unlimited lookback). Annual billing at 25% off for both.
  • Existing plans and the free tier are unchanged. Upgrade from the pricing page or the billing portal.
v1.31.0

WA boundary polygons and a featureType filter

  • WA DFES incident areas and warning areas are now available as boundary polygons on the map and API, with total fire ban zones appearing during the WA fire season.
  • New featureType parameter on /incidents. The default response stays point incidents only, so boundary polygons never inflate your results or counts; request them with ?featureType=warning_area (or incident_area, fire_ban_area).
  • New fire_ban event type for total fire ban zones, distinct from bushfire.
v1.30.0

Wider SA and WA incident coverage

  • SA aerial firefighting and water-bomber dispatches now surface as incidents on the map and API (agency BOMBER-PAGER), during fire season.
  • WA DFES incidents now come from the DFES SLIP feed with real point geometry, replacing an approximate fallback location for incidents that were missing coordinates.
v1.29.0

Security and reliability hardening

  • API keys can now be restricted to specific website origins from your dashboard. A restricted key used from another site in a browser is rejected with 403; server-side requests, which send no Origin, are never blocked. Keys are unrestricted by default.
  • Account pages (dashboard, login, settings) now serve a nonce-based Content-Security-Policy with strict-dynamic and no inline-script allowance, tightening the pages where your session and API keys live. Public pages are unchanged.
  • SA pager feeds now fail loud and alert on an upstream format change, instead of silently publishing incidents pinned to the state centroid.
v1.28.2

Ingestion reliability hardening

  • Fixed scheduler races where a hot config reload could resurrect a removed feed or keep polling a stale config until restart.
  • Container health checks on the ingestion services are now heartbeat based: a wedged poller is detected within minutes and restarted automatically, instead of reporting healthy while stuck.
  • Each ingestion service now authenticates with its own dedicated, individually revocable database key.
  • Expanded behavioural test coverage over the poller scheduling core; a CI test gate now runs the full suite on every change.
v1.28.1

Map layers and rate limit headers

  • The /map page has a layer toggle panel: show or hide incident markers, warning areas, and a new opt-in satellite hotspot overlay (DEA hotspots, off by default).
  • Rate-limited (429) responses now include RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining, RateLimit-Reset and Retry-After headers on every data endpoint, so clients know exactly when to retry.
v1.27.0

Map locates you

  • The /map page auto-centers on your location on load (with a locate button and live tracking), so you land on the incidents near you. Falls back to the Australia overview if location is unavailable or denied.
v1.26.0

Live map rebuilt on MapLibre GL

  • The /map page is rebuilt on MapLibre GL with a premium dark vector basemap (self-hosted Protomaps). Smooth GPU rendering with the same incident markers, warning-area polygons, category/type/state filters, and 30-second live refresh, on a layered architecture ready for future overlays.
v1.25.1

Consistent category filtering

  • /incidents/history now filters the category parameter against the stored event_category column, matching /incidents and /incidents/nearby. category=fire returns only fire types and excludes planned burns; filter category=planned for burn_off.
v1.25.0

Per-endpoint request and response examples

  • The /docs reference and /docs.md now show a ready-to-run example request (curl) for every endpoint, plus an example response where the spec defines one. Same content in the HTML reference and the markdown companion.
v1.24.0

Server-rendered docs + machine-readable companions

  • The /docs API reference is now server-rendered HTML (every endpoint, parameter, and response field, including the per-incident details object), so search crawlers and AI agents can read it, not just the browser. The interactive Scalar playground is still one click away.
  • New machine-readable companions for agents and crawlers: /docs.md (markdown reference), a .md version of every guide, /llms.txt (the curated index per the llmstxt.org standard), and /llms-full.txt (the reference and guides in one file).
v1.23.0

Per-feed incident details documented

  • New guide at /guides/incident-details-fields documents the agency-specific details object for every feed: the extra fields (responding resources, decoded units, alarm and priority labels, official source links, dispatch IDs, fire size, and more), their types and meanings. The OpenAPI details schema now links to it.
v1.22.0

Per-account monthly limit overrides

  • Accounts can carry a custom monthly request limit that takes precedence over the tier and grandfather limits, used for special and founding customers. The dashboard shows the effective limit and a founding-customer badge where set.
v1.21.0

Annual billing for Starter and Developer

  • Annual plans for Starter and Developer at 25% off: A$81/year and A$261/year. Monthly request limits are unchanged.
  • The pricing page now has a monthly/yearly toggle; checkout accepts a billing interval.
v1.20.0

API usage limits are now monthly, not daily

  • Usage limits changed from daily caps to monthly quotas. Free is now 5,000 requests/month, Starter 50,000/month, Developer 150,000/month, Enterprise custom. The quota resets on the 1st of each month (UTC).
  • Accounts created before this release are grandfathered as founding members and keep their prior allowance (15,000 requests/month) indefinitely. Sponsored accounts are unchanged.
  • The RateLimit-* response headers and the dashboard now report the monthly limit and the month-to-date total.
v1.19.2

Declaration source links now resolve to the disaster page

  • The official source link on each declaration record now resolves to the DisasterAssist page for that disaster, matched by AGRN. Previously NSW records linked to a raw data endpoint that returned JSON, and NEMA records all shared one generic dataset page. Applies to the /declarations lookup and the postcode, list, and AGRN API endpoints.
v1.19.1

Dashboard Quick Test accepts your API key

  • The dashboard Quick Test now has an API key field, so testing data endpoints works for returning users, not only right after creating a key. It is pre-filled when you create a key and paste-able otherwise. Data endpoints require a key; /v1/status does not.
v1.19.0

Disaster declarations on the website: a public status lookup, use-case page, and guide

  • New /declarations page: a free, server-rendered lookup that returns the disaster-declaration STATUS for an Australian postcode, with per-LGA detail and official source links. It is rate-limited, and reports declared-area status only, never eligibility.
  • New /use-cases/disaster-declarations and /guides/australian-disaster-declarations explain the capability and how Australian declarations work (state declaration vs Commonwealth DRFA funding activation).
  • The declarations API itself is unchanged and remains an enterprise capability gated by an account entitlement. The public lookup is a rate-limited demo, not a public JSON endpoint.
v1.18.0

Decisive declaration status (activation_only) + enterprise access control

  • The /api/v1/declarations/postcode/{postcode} response gains a new matchStatus value, activation_only: an Australian Government disaster funding activation (DRFA) is in force for the area but no qualifying state declaration was found. Cases that previously returned uncertain because funding was the only signal now return this clearer status. NSW declared/not_declared answers are unchanged.
  • Each declaration record now carries a currencyConfidence band (strong, moderate, or weak) and a plain-English basis describing how its status was derived.
  • The declarations endpoints now require a declarations entitlement on the account in addition to a valid API key. Keys without it receive 403. The underlying declarations data is restricted to the service layer.
v1.17.1

Declaration responses now self-date (asAt)

  • The /api/v1/declarations/postcode/{postcode} response now returns asAt as the effective date the status was evaluated against (the requested as_at, or today in AEST when omitted), instead of null when as_at was not supplied. A retained response is now self-dating, which matters when a practitioner documents a disaster-telehealth exemption at the time of service (MBS Note AN.1.1).
v1.17.0

Disaster declaration status by postcode

  • New /api/v1/declarations/postcode/{postcode} returns the disaster-declaration STATUS for a postcode (declared, partial, not_declared, uncertain, or unknown_postcode), with per-LGA detail and official source links. Reports declared-area status only; the billing decision rests with the practitioner.
  • New /api/v1/declarations lists and filters declaration records (jurisdiction, status, instrument_type, disaster_type, active_on) with keyset pagination.
  • New /api/v1/declarations/agrn/{agrn} returns one disaster event by Australian Government Reference Number, merged across sources with the full affected-LGA list.
  • Sourced from DisasterAssist, NEMA DRFA activation history, NSW Spatial Services declarations, and the ABS postcode-to-LGA correspondence (ASGS LGA 2022).
v1.16.0

Standards-validated CAP-AU output

  • New ?format=cap-atom on /api/v1/incidents returns a standards-valid CAP Atom feed. Each entry inlines a full CAP-AU alert; incidents retracted in the last 7 days appear as Cancel messages with references back to the original alert. Validated against the OASIS CAP 1.2 schema and the CAP-AU Profile v3.0.
  • New /api/v1/incidents/[id]?format=cap-au returns a single incident as a standalone CAP-AU alert document (application/cap+xml).
  • The older ?format=cap-au list output, a non-standard alerts wrapper that did not validate as CAP, is now deprecated. It is unchanged for backward compatibility and returns a Deprecation header pointing at cap-atom.
v1.15.1

Password reset reliability fix

  • Fixed password reset: a valid reset link could fail as 'expired or invalid' because a stale refresh token cleared the recovery session a moment after it was verified. The reset page now uses an isolated session for the recovery flow, and tolerates a one-time token that was already consumed by an email link-scanner.
v1.15.0

Coordinate precision flag and historical QLD geo-backfill

  • location.precision now reports how a coordinate was derived: 'exact' (authoritative point from the source feed), or 'postcode' / 'lga' (approximate centroid for backfilled historical rows). Absent when no coordinates are available.
  • Backfilled approximate postcode-centroid coordinates for 938,588 historical Queensland Fire archive incidents that previously logged no location. They were served as null geometry before and now return an approximate point flagged precision=postcode.
  • Null-island coordinates ([0,0], a "location not logged" placeholder in some historical imports) now return geometry: null on read instead of a fake point in the ocean off Africa. Consumers should expect geometry to be null on some historical incidents.
  • Signup now returns a clear message when a password is too weak or appears in a known data breach, instead of a generic failure, and the form shows the password requirements up front.
v1.14.2

Security and contact hardening

  • Hardened the Content-Security-Policy: added object-src 'none', base-uri 'self', form-action 'self', and upgrade-insecure-requests to both response-header blocks.
  • Consolidated all site contact addresses to jack@seysolutions.com.au.
v1.14.1

Reliability and security pages

  • New /sla page: reliability targets, self-healing infrastructure, support response by tier.
  • Rewrote /security as a self-assessment. Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B+.
  • Added an hourly feed-health snapshot for measured uptime reporting.
v1.14.0

Historical snapshots

  • /incidents/snapshot reconstructs point-in-time state from the historical archive for dates before 2026-04-08. Paid tiers, lookback gated by tier, state filter required.
  • Archive snapshots expose EM-DAT fields (event dates, magnitude, impact) under properties.archive, plus meta.source (live or archive).
  • Dense-period archive queries that exceed the timeout now return a 400 with guidance instead of a 500.
v1.13.4

Quoll Brand Identity and Snapshot Fix

  • New quoll brand mark across the site, including the header logo and a redesigned favicon. The old favicon was too small to appear in Google search results, which showed a generic globe instead. The new icon is built at the correct sizes so it shows up properly.
  • Linked the web app manifest and moved to the standard Next.js icon layout, so browsers and search engines can discover the full icon set.
  • Restored the apple touch icon at its default path so iOS stops falling back to an old cached icon when saving the site to the home screen.
  • Fixed the snapshot endpoint ignoring the state filter when it was uppercase. A call with state=NSW now matches the same as state=nsw.
v1.13.3

Nearby Endpoint Retraction Consistency

  • The nearby endpoint now hides retracted incidents by default, matching the main incidents endpoint. Previously it returned retracted incidents that the rest of the API hides, so the two endpoints could disagree for the same area. Pass include_retracted=true to include them.
  • Documented the status and include_retracted filters on the nearby endpoint, which were supported but missing from the API reference.
v1.13.2

Homepage Counter and ACT Data Quality

  • Homepage now reflects the full historical archive of 5.5 million plus incidents, combining live and archived records. Previously it showed only the recent slice.
  • ACT incidents no longer carry a fabricated Minor severity. They now report Unknown when the source feed provides none, with urgency inferred from incident status.
v1.13.1

Performance Overhaul, Security Hardening, Audit Fixes

  • Bounding box filter now uses PostGIS spatial index instead of in-memory filtering. Previously fetched 1,000 rows and passed all polygons through regardless of location.
  • Nearby endpoint uses PostGIS ST_DWithin with GiST index. Previously loaded all incidents into memory for Haversine calculation (3.4s down to 1.8s).
  • Historical data endpoint no longer times out on broad queries. Composite indexes on archive_records reduced query time from 5.9 seconds to 3 milliseconds.
  • ETag conditional requests now work correctly. Repeated requests for unchanged data return 304 Not Modified, saving bandwidth.
  • Events endpoints now return rate limit headers, ETag, and plan tier (previously plain JSON with no standard headers).
  • Supabase admin client now fails fast on missing service key instead of silently degrading to anon permissions.
  • WA DFES parser correctly reports centroid confidence when using Perth fallback coordinates.
  • Snapshot endpoint returns proper 500 for internal errors instead of masking as 400.
  • Sensitive credentials removed from committed agent files.
v1.13.0

Tree Down Event Type and Hazard Category

  • New tree_down event type for fallen tree incidents. Previously classified as storm or other regardless of cause.
  • New hazard category groups physical hazard incidents that are not weather-dependent. Filter with ?category=hazard.
  • Improved event type matching catches SA SES-PAGER variants where address text was causing misclassification.
  • ACT "Storm or Tree Damage" incidents now correctly classified as tree_down instead of other.
  • Backfilled 81,000+ historical records across incidents, incidents_history, and archive_records tables.
v1.12.3

Schema Discovery, OpenAPI Completeness, Filter Fixes

  • New /api/v1/schema endpoint returns all valid enum values (event types, categories, states, warning levels, etc.) with category-to-type mapping. No auth required.
  • OpenAPI spec now documents all filter parameters: category, urgency, certainty were previously undocumented
  • Added burn_off and alarm to the eventType enum (were supported but not documented)
  • Added eventCategory enum to the response schema with full category list
  • Fixed category filter on /incidents/nearby (was silently ignored)
  • Added category, severity, urgency, certainty, warningLevel, status, and agency filters to /incidents/history
v1.12.2

Historical Data Endpoint, Source Identifiers, Tier Improvements

  • New /v1/incidents/history endpoint: access 4.8M+ historical incident records spanning 1840 to 2026 across all Australian states and territories
  • Historical data is tier-gated: Starter gets 1 year lookback, Developer gets 5 years, Enterprise gets the full archive
  • WA DFES incidents now include CAD dispatch ID, upstream record ID, and deep link URL to Emergency WA website in the details object
  • Source ID mapper infrastructure added so future feeds can expose agency identifiers via YAML config
  • New API keys now inherit the tier from the user profile instead of defaulting to free
  • New /about page with business details, Supply Nation registration, and contact information
v1.12.0

Event Categories, Severity Inference, Lifecycle Model, SAAS Notes

  • Event category filter on /incidents and /map pages with cascade logic (selecting Fire narrows Type dropdown to bushfire, structure fire, etc.)
  • Map legend grouped by category with live counts
  • Shared categories module centralises event colours, labels, and formatting across all pages
  • Severity/urgency inference chain resolves Unknown values using warning level, resource count, and incident status (severity Unknown reduced from 8.2% to 4.5%)
  • Inference applied to both standard and custom-parsed feeds (7 feeds previously bypassed the logic)
  • Event category API filter (?category=fire) and event_category column on incidents table (migration 027)
  • SAAS operational notes decoder extracts safety flags, police co-response markers, time constraints, and priority overrides from raw pager addresses
  • Incident lifecycle model captures state transitions (status, warning level, severity, urgency, resource count) before each poll cycle overwrites the active row
  • is_latest flag on incidents_history enables clean single-row-per-incident queries across the 728K+ row archive
v1.11.1

SA Geocoding Overhaul, Event Type Fixes, New Guides

  • SA geocoding: 196,566 centroid incidents resolved to street or grid-cell level (98% resolved). UBD bounding boxes recalibrated from 30 physical map pages using Redfearn's formulae
  • SA Atlas town maps: 11 regional town maps calibrated (Mount Gambier, Whyalla, Angaston, Ardrossan, Balaklava) with 250m grid-cell accuracy for 233 incidents
  • SA pager parser fixes: grid refs were being silently discarded for 3-digit page numbers, extractGridRef now searches anywhere in the address string, grid ref takes priority over suburb-level Nominatim
  • Regional town fallback: 55 SA town codes resolve to town centroid when no grid-cell data is available
  • New alarm event type for fire alarm activations (previously classified as other)
  • Domestic gas incidents now correctly classified as hazmat
  • SAAS ambulance priority no longer triggers emergency warning level (P1 ambulance is urgent, not a disaster warning)
  • New guides: bushfire season 2026-27 preparation, emergency management landscape, EM-DAT schema mapping
  • ACT ESA suburb extraction fix (was NULL for all 201 records)
  • T340 historical archive: 832K additional rows imported (Phase 3b)
v1.11.0

6 New Feeds, Location Search, Historical Data Archive

  • 6 new feeds: WA SLIP incident/warning/TFB polygon boundaries, ACT allincidents.json (120 incidents vs 32), TAS theList warning polygons, NSW RFS CAP enrichment with fire perimeters
  • Feed count: 27 to 33 across all 8 states plus national sources
  • Incidents page: location search with geocoding (search by suburb, filter by radius), severity/warning/agency filter dropdowns
  • Incidents page: expanded detail panel now shows first reported time, urgency, certainty, and agency details (fire size, resources, aircraft)
  • T340 historical archive: 3.98M rows normalised into archive_records table with EM-DAT international standard fields
  • Home Assistant integration built (JackDempsey9/homeassistant-emergencyapi) with geo_location map pins, binary_sensor alert trigger, and incident count sensors
  • Fixed event_id schema mismatch on incidents_history (migration 021)
  • Geocode proxy at /api/geocode for Nominatim location search
v1.10.0

Event Intelligence (D3)

  • PostGIS native geometry column with GiST spatial index on incidents table
  • Spatial clustering groups related incidents into events using ST_ClusterDBSCAN
  • New /v1/events endpoint returns clustered events as GeoJSON with boundary polygons
  • New /v1/events/:id endpoint with ?include_incidents=true for drill-down to individual incidents
  • Auto-generated event titles (e.g. "Cherry Gardens bushfire") and structured summaries
  • Estimated hectares calculated from event boundary polygon area
  • Events table with lifecycle tracking and archival to events_history
  • Poller integration with 5-minute clustering timer and dirty flag optimisation
v1.9.0

Retraction Support, SA Pager Decoder

  • Incident retraction system: when upstream feeds stop publishing an incident, it is now marked as retracted instead of silently removed
  • Retracted incidents stay visible for 24 hours as tombstones so polling consumers see the retraction signal
  • New query parameter ?include_retracted=true to retrieve retracted incidents
  • CAP Cancel detection: upstream cancellation signals are detected and surfaced
  • CAP-AU output now emits Cancel message type for retracted incidents
  • SA pager messages now decode MFS unit call signs (station name + appliance type)
  • SA pager messages now decode SAAS priority codes (life-threatening, urgent, routine, etc.)
  • SA pager alarm levels decoded to human-readable descriptions (Advice, Watch and Act, Emergency Warning)
  • AIDR Warnings Republisher compliance: 11 of 12 obligations now satisfied
v1.8.1

Durable Rate Limiting, Security Hardening

  • IP rate limiting now survives Vercel cold starts (dual-layer: in-memory + Supabase)
  • Domain approval system for new signups (auto-approve major providers, manual review for custom domains)
  • Auth route security hardening (redirect validation, RLS tightening, webhook idempotency)
  • CAP-AU validator compliance fixes (profile code, timestamp format, language, eventCode, expires)
  • Monthly emergency incidents report at /reports with auto-generated breakdowns
  • Google Analytics 4 tracking integrated
  • Font self-hosted (ChiCZago.woff2), loading skeletons for ISR routes, WebAPI JSON-LD schema
v1.8.0

Interactive Map, Stripe Payments, Audit Trail

  • Interactive /map page with Leaflet and OpenStreetMap, colour-coded by event type, filterable by state and category
  • Emergency warning visual hierarchy with banner, larger markers, and white borders
  • Polygon area rendering for fire boundaries and flood zones
  • Stripe payment integration with 4 paid tiers (Developer, Team, Professional, Enterprise)
  • Pricing page with Mac System 7 styled tier cards and Stripe Checkout
  • Subscription management via Stripe billing portal from the dashboard
  • /api/v1/incidents/snapshot endpoint for audit trail queries at any point in time
  • Latitude and longitude now included in all incident API responses
  • Incidents page redesigned as single rolling table with click-to-expand detail panels
  • Improved severity and urgency inference from resource counts and incident status
  • Burn-off event types corrected (permitted burns, fuel reduction burns, cultural burns now classified as burn_off)
  • SA pager geocoding now validates coordinates land within SA state bounds
  • 32x32 PNG favicon for Google search results
  • CSP updated to allow OpenStreetMap tile servers
v1.7.0

SEO Overhaul, Live Incidents Page, Use-Case Pages

  • Live /incidents page showing active emergencies across all states, server-rendered with 30s ISR
  • 8 per-state incident pages (/incidents/nsw through /incidents/nt) for state-specific SEO
  • 4 use-case landing pages: developers, insurance, media, utilities
  • Use-cases hub page with cross-linking between all use-case pages
  • Dynamic OG image (1200x630) matching the retro Mac design
  • Canonical URLs, per-page OpenGraph metadata, and Twitter card upgrade on all pages
  • Custom 404 and error pages with navigation back to key sections
  • robots.ts, font preconnect, docs iframe accessibility fix
  • Switched homepage and quickstart to Next.js Link components for client-side navigation
  • Homepage use-case cards now link to dedicated pages
  • Satellite hotspot feed excluded from showcase page (still available via API)
  • Header, footer, and homepage CTA now link to /incidents
  • Sitemap expanded from 8 to 22 pages with real last-modified dates
  • SEO score improved from 68/100 to 83/100
v1.6.1

Timestamp Fix, WA SLIP Migration, Auth Repair

  • Fixed timezone bug where SA and WA ArcGIS feeds returned local-time epochs treated as UTC (106 future-dated incidents resolved)
  • New timezone-aware transforms: epochToISOPerth (AWST, UTC+8) and epochToISOAdelaide (ACST/ACDT, DST-aware)
  • WA DFES incidents migrated from legacy API to SLIP FeatureServer with Esri token auth
  • Signup email verification fixed. Client-side callback page replaces broken server-side route handler
  • ACT ESA CAP feed disabled due to 79% event-type misclassification and duplication with primary ACT feed
  • Per-feed Uptime Kuma monitors deployed (27 keyword monitors, 120s interval, Gmail alerts)
  • PostGIS and pgvector extensions enabled on prod Supabase
  • Feed count corrected to 27 active feeds
v1.6.0

Adaptive ETL Engine, Production Cutover

  • Legacy hand-coded poller retired; the Adaptive ETL Engine is now the sole prod writer
  • Feed count expanded from 12 to 27 live feeds across all 8 states and territories
  • New national coverage: Digital Earth Australia (GA-HOTSPOTS) satellite hotspots, 36,000+ incidents ingested
  • SA now runs 7 feeds (CFS, MFS, SES, CFS-PAGER, SES-PAGER, SAAS-PAGER, BOMBER-PAGER)
  • VIC expanded to 5 feeds (EMV, EMV-FIRE, EMV-FLOOD, CFA-FDR, SES)
  • Multi-agency correctness: feed_status now keys on (state_code, agency) so every feed has its own row
  • Homepage State Coverage + /api/v1/status now report per-feed rather than collapsing by state
  • Batched upserts (500 rows/chunk) fix Postgres statement_timeout on large feeds like GA-HOTSPOTS
  • Segregation-check warnings no longer block engine startup (were blocking on Alpine where `ps` is unavailable)
  • YAML-driven feed configs replace bespoke per-feed code. Adding feeds is now a config change, not a code change
v1.5.0

Expanded Data Coverage

  • QLD now covers all incident types (structure fires, rescues, MVAs, hazmat) via ESCAD, not just bushfires
  • TAS incidents now include real geographic coordinates (previously placeholder geometry)
  • WA warnings feed added (CAP-AU format with alert polygons and circles)
  • Geoscience Australia earthquake data added nationally (Australian earthquakes, magnitude 2.0+)
  • Feed count increased from 10 to 12
  • Poller resilience improved with Docker health checks and log rotation
  • NT duplicate incident ID issue resolved
  • Terms of Service agreement checkbox added to signup
  • Attribution endpoint updated with all data sources including SA pager feeds and GA earthquakes
v1.4.0

SEO and Analytics

  • Open Graph and Twitter card meta tags for link previews
  • XML sitemap (emergencyapi.com/sitemap.xml)
  • Canonical URLs and structured metadata (19 keywords)
  • Vercel Analytics for visitor tracking and page view metrics
v1.3.2

Production Polish

  • Landing page stats are now live from the database (not hardcoded)
  • State coverage table pulls real-time feed status, incident counts, and last polled timestamps
  • Agency labels show all agencies per state (not just primary feed)
  • WA and NT event type mapping improved (25+ new types, reduced "other" count)
  • Status values standardised to "healthy/degraded/down/unknown" across all code
  • Better sample JSON response on landing page
v1.3.1

Security Hardening and Next.js 16

  • Full security audit: 20 findings identified, 11 fixed in code
  • Removed service key from client-side bundle
  • IP-based rate limiting on auth routes (login 5/min, signup 3/hr)
  • Signup no longer reveals if an email is already registered
  • Auth callback redirect validated against path allowlist
  • Max 10 API keys per user account
  • Password change now requires current password verification
  • Docker container runs as non-root user
  • Cursor pagination validates input format
  • Feed status endpoint no longer exposes internal error details
  • Upgraded from Next.js 14 to 16, React 18 to 19 (zero code changes needed)
v1.3.0

SA Pager Feed Integration

  • Integrated SA CFS/MFS and SES pager feeds from urgmsg.net RSS
  • Dispatch-level data: exact addresses, units dispatched, incident details
  • Automatic deduplication between government and pager feed data
  • Address token matching merges pager enrichment into government incidents
v1.2.0

Auth System and Dashboard

  • Email/password signup with Supabase Auth email verification
  • User dashboard with API key management (create, name, revoke)
  • Live feed status panel showing all 10 feeds (8 government + 2 SA pager)
  • Quick test panel to try API endpoints from the dashboard
  • 7-day usage history tracking
  • Settings page with profile editing and password change
  • Forgot/reset password flow
  • Per-user rate limiting across all API keys (500 requests/day shared)
v1.1.0

Design System and Landing Page

  • Retro Macintosh System 7 design aesthetic
  • Chicago font, Mac window chrome, teal desktop background
  • Design system document (DESIGN-SYSTEM.md) for consistency
  • Security headers: CSP, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options
  • robots.txt and security.txt (RFC 9116)
v1.0.0

Initial Launch

  • 8 Australian state feeds: QLD, NSW, VIC, SA, WA, ACT, TAS, NT
  • 6 API endpoints: incidents, incidents/:id, incidents/nearby, states, status, attribution
  • GeoJSON FeatureCollection responses aligned with CAP-AU standards
  • Cursor-based pagination, bbox filtering, geo-radius search
  • Poller deployed on Raspberry Pi 4B with Docker
  • Resilience: cockatiel retry/circuit breaker, email alerting, stale detection
  • API deployed on Vercel at emergencyapi.com
  • 212+ tests passing
v0.1.0

Project Kickoff

  • Monorepo scaffolded with pnpm workspaces
  • Database schema designed and deployed to Supabase
  • Unified incident type definitions aligned with CAP-AU and GeoJSON RFC 7946
  • First two feed parsers: QLD QFD and ACT ESA
  • Research completed: competition, legal, technical feasibility, pricing, demand

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