Fixed (OAuth): Internet Explorer users were not being correctly redirected back to the originating site when using the authenticate method. (
issue 644)
Fixed (OAuth): Internet Explorer users were seeing a warning about insecure items on OAuth pages.
Fixed (REST): The source parameter was incorrectly being reported as 'from web' in all cases (
issue 634)
Feature (OAuth): Updated OAuth to 1.0a and added a PIN-based desktop workflow for OAuth apps. (
announcement)
Fixed (Search): Search errors are now returned in the API format requested (
issue 509)
Fixed (Search): Searches for never-used phrases incorrectly returned an error rather than 0 results. (
issue 740)
Fixed (Search): The combinations of some operators with since_id incorrectly returned an error, now it returns results. (
issue 742)
Feature (REST): Added screen_name and user_id attributes to direct_messages/new for disambiguation (
issue 550,
documentation)
Feature (REST): Added new friendships/show method (
issue 474,
documentation)
Fixed (REST): Partially fixed issue with tiling background images via the API (
issue 650)
Fixed (OAuth): Added a more helpful error message when you try to use a request token in place of an access token.
Fixed (OAuth): Improved error handling when invalid data is submitted in place of a token.
Fixed (REST): The JSON returned in maintenance mode now correctly contains null rather than NULL (
issue 703)
Fixed (Mail): Improved outbound email reliability (for apps parsing DM/friend emails)
Fixed (Search): Searches for accented and non-accented words are now combined. (
issue 503)
Fixed (REST): The new friendships/show method no longer returns 502 on large users. (
issue 757)
Feature (Search): Added Farsi/Persian to the list of available languages.