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Version 3.18.0​

Release Date: December 16, 2025

Availability: This release is currently available only in the cloud; the self-hosted version will be available in January 2026.

What's new​

  • Added CaptureConditions::Hybrid that allows Accept for cropped images (skipping liveness)
  • Updated to BlinkID v7.6.1.
  • Added Format Check support for new documents (Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Liberia, Mexico, Nigeria, Vietnam, Panama, Moldova, Romania). – The API now returns 400 Bad Request for invalid or unreachable image URLs.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed document number format for South Carolina 2025.
  • Fixed date of birth format for Thailand.
  • Fixed issue where a document could end up in Undeterminable while in FullRecognition.
  • Disabled contentCheck for British Columbia documents when the first or last name is missing and the barcode cannot be parsed.

API Changes​

  • Added the Hybrid value to the CaptureConditions option

Version 3.17.1​

Release Date: November 27, 2025

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed the issue where extraction processing status ends up in AwaitingOtherSide in case of US passports

Version 3.17.0​

Release Date: November 13, 2025

What's New​

  • Updated to BlinkID v7.6
  • Changed Version Check not to fail on unsupported documents
  • Allowing processing of the second passport page on some supported passports
  • Added Format Check support for new documents (USA, Afghanistan, Argentina, Bahrain, Cameroon, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Peru, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Vietnam)
  • Expanded face photo tampering checks scope in USA, UK, Japan, Brazil, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Mexico
  • Cloud only change - added validation request to image fields. If imageFront / imageBack / imageBarcode are provided as empty strings, the API will now return 400 Bad Request. Use null when no image is provided.

Example request (using null for missing images):

{
    "imageFront": {
        "url": "image"
    },
    "imageBack": null,
    "imageBarcode": null,
}

Note: Instead of "url" you can also provide a "base64" field:

{
    "imageFront": {
        "base64": "/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQE..." // cropped
    }
}

Example of an invalid request:

{
    "imageFront": {
        "url": "image"
    },
    "imageBack": {
        "url": ""
    },
    "imageBarcode": {
        "url": ""
    }
}

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed rare document logic check bug on Manitoba DL

Version 3.16.0​

Release Date: October 20, 2025

What's New​

  • Removed VA (Visual Anomaly) support

Version 3.15.2​

Release Date: October 2, 2025

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed an issue where MRZ checks could run on incomplete scans
  • Updated the document number format for Bahraini ID
  • Updated license lease time logic

Version 3.15.1​

Release Date: September 1, 2025

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed issue with readiness on runner service

Version 3.15.0​

Release Date: August 27, 2025

What's New​

  • Significant improvement for Canadian face photo forgery check. Reduced both FRR and FAR and added support for all provinces
  • Improvements on Canadian data format checks - increased coverage

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed the bug with barcode anomaly check that caused false accepts on higher match levels

Version 3.14.0​

Release Date: July 19, 2025

What's New​

  • Introducing Barcode Anomaly check for Canadian documents with barcodes
  • Improved data checks for Austria, Bahrain, Czechia, Croatia, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Uruguay, USA
  • Updated to BlinkID v7.4
  • Improved document coverage for all Canadian provinces, Tribal cards and Healthcare cards
  • Improved Barcode Anomaly check for USA

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed the issue that caused higher FRR for Netherlands documents due to umlaut letters
  • Fixed the issue with data checks for Austrian documents that caused higher FRR

Version 3.13.0​

Release Date: June 5, 2025

What's new​

  • Expanded face photo tampering checks scope in USA, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bahrain, Paraguay, Singapore, Hungary, Peru, Germany, South Korea, Haiti, and Australia
  • Added new data format checks for Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, France, Germany, Haiti, Hungary, Mexico, Peru, Singapore, South Korea, and the USA
  • Improved robustness for USA and Canada extraction, which reduces the FRR
  • Update to BlinkID v7.3
  • Enabled return of extraction result in case of cropped images

API Changes​

  • Added FirstSideAdditionalProcessingInfo and SecondSideAdditionalProcessingInfo fields (of type AdditionalProcessingInfo) to the AdditionalInfo object in the V2 API
  • Added CertificateNumber, CountryCode and NationalInsuranceNumber to BlinkIdMultiSideRecognizerOutput and VIZResult (V1 API and V2 API)

Increase in hardware requirements for self-hosted environments​

  • Increased requirements for the model-proxy from 4CPU, 5GB ram in total to 5CPU and 6GB in total

Version 3.12.0​

Release Date: April 30, 2025

What's new​

  • Updated to BlinkID 7.1
  • Improved fraud checks for Tennessee and Wyoming documents
  • Added additional data format checks for multiple documents

Version 3.11.0​

Release Date: April 7, 2025

What's new​

  • New and improved check for face photo fraud for Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, UAE and UK documents
  • Added key validation to the API. If request contains keys that don't exist, status code 400 (bad request) is returned

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed document side values for extraction results
  • Various smaller improvements and minor bugfixes for barcode and data format checks for the US documents

Version 3.10.1​

Release Date: March 13, 2025

Bugfixes​

  • In some cases, the rate limiter on the API mulfunctioned and didn't return the status code 429 when the rate limit was exceeded. This is now fixed

Version 3.10​

Release Date: February 13, 2025

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed several bugs that cause scaling issues with the runner service. Scaling to multiple instances should now run much more smoothly

Version 3.9​

Release Date: February 5, 2025

What's new​

  • Added ability to get extraction results and possible verification checks on fully cropped documents using CaptureConditions option. The default is set to Basic with an option to set it to NoControl, allowing processing of fully cropped documents. Note: it is not possible for a fully cropped document to pass and be "Accepted".
  • Added ability to get back partial extraction results in case some fields weren't extracted properly

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed an issue that caused the document number on Croatian IDs that caused it to falsely fail in some cases
  • Fixed an issue with ID number data match check on Bangladesh passport that caused it to falsely fail in some cases

Version 3.8​

Release Date: December 18, 2024

What's new​

  • Updated to BlinkID 6.13
  • Added coverage for the latest US drivers licenses (2024 DLs and IDs from North Carolina, Michigan, Mississippi, Wyoming)
  • Extended coverage for data checks outside of US

Changes​

  • Fully cropped images are now resulting in a "Retry" recommended outcome
  • BarcodeAnomalyCheck will no longer Fail in MultiSide mode for unsupported documents but result in NotPerformed

Version 3.7​

Release Date: November 27, 2024

What's new​

  • Recommended Outcome: you can now use a single response parameter to easily interpret the document verification result and get outputs like "Accept", Reject", Manual Review", "Retry" and "Undeterminable"
  • Use-case definition: going hand-in-hand with the Recommended Outcome, these new request parameters allow you to use just a few simple settings to define the product behavior (verification strategy, sensitivity etc) without touching all the match levels. The match levels are still available for more advance configuration
  • Handling the fully cropped images. Fully cropped images often can not be verified and should not be accepted. This case is now handled as a processing status + a detailed message
  • Photocopy change of behaviour: failure in the photocopy check will result in a failure within the verification object as well, making the logic simpler and easier to interpret
  • We are introducing optionsUsed field in the response which lets you easily in one place see all the set options (all configuration) to make your iterations and analytics easier to implement
  • We added the traceId field which binds the unique ID to each transaction, making the debugging easier
  • Data formats coverage for US and Caribbean documents is increased

API Changes​

  • Added the following optional fields to the request: useCase

Other Changes​

  • Increased the recommended resources for deployment in order to prevent the out of memory problem that can happen with the model serving service

Added the following fields to the response

  • useCaseUsed
  • optionsUsed
  • recommendedOutcome inside Verification object
  • traceId
  • FullyCroppedDocument value added to the ProcessingStatus field

Version 3.6​

Release Date: October 10, 2024

What's new​

  • BlinkID updated to the v6.11
  • We changed the way ML models are packaged. They are now bundled with the docker image and don't need to be downloaded

Version 3.5​

Release Date: October 3, 2024

What's new​

  • Increased document coverage for face photo forgery check
  • Improved photocopy model to better detect color photocopies while keeping the low false rejection rate
  • BlinkID updated to the v6.10
  • Changed the default for visual anomaly service deployment. It's off by default. This results in significant improvements in both latency and throughput. Requires config changes for all customers using VA services.

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed the license leasing bug that caused empty responses in some cases
  • Fixed the logging to reduce the amount of data being logged that wasn't useful for troubleshooting

Version 3.4​

Release Date: August 30, 2024

What's new​

  • Added an option that allows changing the default behavior of field anonymization

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed the false rejection issues for MyTentera documents caused by misclassification of a security feature

Version 3.3​

Release Date: August 23, 2024

What's new​

  • Improvements in color photocopy detection
  • Add additional data format checks for Malaysia, Peru, Philippines, and Colombia
  • BlinkID updated to v6.9
  • Improved FAR and FRR for Paraguayan ID documents

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed Hungary DL Data logic bug that caused false rejections
  • Fixed v1 endpoint to return empty response instead of http 500 when processing returns no results
  • Fixed JPEG format checks to avoid decoding issues with valid JPEG images

Version 3.2​

Release Date: August 12, 2024

What's new​

  • For Indonesian documents, the data checks and screen detection thresholds are changed to improve false rejection rate (FRR)
  • Significant expansion of document number and personal id number logic check support in Australia, Canada, Dominican Republic, Kuwait, Philippines, UAE and the USA
  • Improved screen detection for all the documents
  • Improved photocopy detection for color photocopies
  • Improved face photo tampering detection (face photo forgery) on US documents
  • Face photo forgery default match level changed from Level1 to Level2
  • Improved the broadcasting of telemetry signals to make debugging and troubleshooting easier for each verification service.

API Changes​

  • Added the following fields to DataLogic
    • documentDiscriminatorLogic
    • customerIdNumberLogic
    • inventoryControlNumberLogic

Version 3.1​

What's new​

  • Update to BlinkID v6.8.0

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed data matching issues on Paraguay 2023 ID

Version 3.0​

What's new​

  • Significant improvements in our ability to detect color photocopies for all supported documents
  • New API that makes result interpretation easier
  • Added an additional data check for MyKad document number

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed bugs in DocumentNumberLogic, PersonalIdNumberLogic and DateLogic checks
  • Fixed MatchCheck bugs caused by permanent and partial dates
  • Fixed gender format for New York documents

Version 2.7.2​

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed data matching issues on Paraguay 2023 ID

API Changes​

  • Removed BlurCheck from ImageQualityCheck

Version 2.7.0​

What's new​

  • Added Image quality checks that determine if the image is clear enough and of high enough quality to allow for reliable verification
  • Added ImageQualityInterpretation which allows setting a desired image quality strategy, ranging from high assurance to high conversion
  • Increased fraud check coverage for US drivers licenses issued in 2023
  • Added fraud checks for the ID documents from Paraguay and Peru

API Changes​

  • Added readCheck and contentCheck to BarcodeAnomaly result
  • Added ImageQualityInterpretation to control how ImageQualityCheck results impact the decision to make an overall fraud verdict
  • Added overall and clarityCheck to ImageQualityCheck result

Bugfixes​

  • Fixed bug with DataMatch on documents with non-uppercase names
  • Fixed 2 bugs with MRZs where characters with ~ are replaced with the latin equivalent + "XX"
  • Fixed barcode anomaly bugs relating to issuer anomaly
  • Fixed bug with DataMatch where certainty is High for NotPerformed checks
  • Fixed bug with partial first names in MRZ in MatchCheck
  • Fixed bug where unsupported MRZ (Luxembourg ID) failed MRZ check
  • Fixed sample string check false rejections on certain real names

Version 2.6.0​

What's New​

  • Update to BlinkID v6.6.0
  • Added new formats for some newly supported classes (China, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, USA)
  • Removed inconsistent formats for Philippines Tax Id

API Changes​

  • Added version object in response, it returns API version and BlinkId Verify core version

Version 2.5.0​

What's New​

  • Added new fraud check called Data integrity which checks that the document contains all the information that is expected on that particular version of the document
  • Removed Visual Anomaly check due to its high impact on false rejections. The overall true acceptance rate (BPCER) is improved. Exact improvement depends on the country/document
  • Significant latency reduction by changing the return image format to JPEG
  • Updated the Screen Check models which improves BPCER and APCER in terms of screen ### API Changes
  • Added dataIntegrityCheck to DataCheck member
  • Added imageFormat optional parameter. The default value is PNG
    • set to JPG for improved performance in request time
  • Removed AnomalyCheck from VisualCheck member
  • Removed returnAnomalyHeatmap optional setting from request
  • Added new endpoint docver/multipart to support multipart form data
    • Added imageFrontFile, imageBackFile and imageBarcodeFile for image file upload
    • The endpoint supports all optional parameters
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