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# Changelog

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{% update date="2026-08-05" tags="data-quality,enhancement,events-api" %}

## Cricket Predicted Attendance - Accuracy Improvements in the UK & Australia

Predicted Attendance for cricket events in the UK and Australia is now more accurate. We've added observed match attendance as a signal for this category, reducing aggregate prediction error by around 65% across a validation sample of UK and Australian cricket events. Predictions now capture more of the variation in crowd size between fixtures at the same ground, from marquee internationals through to domestic matches.

If you have locations near cricket grounds, this improves match-day demand forecasts and makes each fixture's expected impact easier to explain.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-08-05" tags="developer-tools,webapp,enhancement" %}

## Bolt - Notebook Sharing and UI enhancements

Bolt notebooks can now be shared with other users in your organization. Give your team view access to your notebooks with or without the chat history. Your team can pick up a use case you have already worked through, seeing the visual previews and data exactly as you built them, copying the integration code straight from the cards.

Bolt's interface has also been improved to include an activity pane showing exactly which PredictHQ APIs have powered the results in your notebook, live statuses so you know the moment a Beam Analysis or Forecast training run finishes, and streaming code generation so you can follow progress. The notebooks page also has improved search and sorting.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-06-19" tags="data-quality,enhancement,events-api" %}

## Juneteenth - Standardised Holiday Naming

Juneteenth is now published under a single, consistent title across US states and territories. Individual states chose their own Juneteenth holiday names before the federal government standardised the federal name in 2021, which meant the same day appeared under several different titles depending on the state and year. All variants are now standardised to **Juneteenth**, with substitute observances published as **Juneteenth (substitute)**.

The change covers US states and the US territories of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa. Customers whose models learn holiday effects by name now see one consistent event.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-06-19" tags="data-quality,enhancement,places" %}

## Region Polygons Across the Places Index

Region-level places in the Places index that did not already have a polygon or multipolygon geometry now have one, sourced from PredictHQ's high-resolution polygon dataset. This was applied across the 3,885 region-level places in the index.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-06-16" tags="enhancement,developer-tools" %}

## MCP Server - Tech Docs Search

The PredictHQ MCP server now includes tools for searching and retrieving PredictHQ's technical documentation. AI assistants and coding agents can look up API parameters, integration guides, tutorials, and conceptual content directly through the MCP - without leaving the AI client or switching to a browser.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-06-04" tags="new-feature,developer-tools" %}

## MCP Server - Full API Coverage

The PredictHQ MCP server now exposes tools across the full public API surface, including Events, Broadcasts, Features, Saved Locations, Beam, Forecasts, Predicted Impact Area, and Places & Geocoding.

Previously limited to event search, the MCP server now supports the complete PredictHQ integration workflow through natural language: create Saved Locations, run Beam analyses, retrieve ML-ready features, build and train forecast models, and query impact areas - all without writing API calls directly. Works with any MCP-compatible client including Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Claude Code.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-06-03" tags="data-quality,enhancement,events-api" %}

## NHL Postseason Labelling

NHL fixtures played in the postseason now carry the postseason label. Customers who filter or weight NHL games by season stage get an accurate stage label on these games.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-06-01" tags="new-feature,developer-tools,webapp" %}

## Bolt - beta launch

Bolt is now available to all users in the PredictHQ WebApp.

Bolt is an AI-native developer environment that guides you through the right PredictHQ workflows for your use case and produces production-ready integration code. Describe what you're building and Bolt handles the rest — Saved Locations, Beam Analysis, calibrated features, forecasts — following PredictHQ best practices throughout.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-27" tags="data-quality,enhancement,events-api" %}

## Concert Venue and Attendance Accuracy

Two refinements to concert data quality. Events from organisers who announce their venue only shortly before the show - where a large default venue stands in until then - are now identified and filtered out, so intimate gigs are not published with the attendance profile of a large venue. Separately, concert records that arrive attached to a sports team entity are also filtered out.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-25" tags="events-api,features-api,deprecation" %}

## Aviation Rank Retired

Aviation Rank has been retired, and the `aviation_rank` field is no longer populated.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-08" tags="data-quality,enhancement" %}

## Denmark School Holidays - Municipality-Level Granularity

School holidays for Denmark have been expanded from national-level to municipality-level coverage, reflecting how school holidays are determined locally in Denmark. This applies to all future school holidays and historical data back to 2016, adding 8,900+ events to the dataset. Customers using Danish school holiday data will see increased granularity in event results; historical data has been backfilled to 2016.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-04" tags="data-quality,enhancement" %}

## Restaurant Predicted Impact Patterns - Holiday & Observance Improvements

Predicted Impact Patterns for the Restaurant industry have been rebuilt for US public holidays, observances, and school holidays using data-driven analysis of real restaurant demand data. This improves forecast accuracy for customers in the restaurant and quick-service retail sectors, particularly around key holiday periods.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-04" tags="enhancement,developer-tools" %}

## MCP Server - OAuth & Connector Improvements

The PredictHQ MCP server now supports OAuth session management and token refresh, and is compatible with Claude connectors (previously only ChatGPT was supported). Event search parameter validation has also been improved. The MCP server allows AI agents and LLMs to query PredictHQ event data directly without building custom API integrations.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-04" tags="python-sdk,enhancement" %}

## Predicted Impact Area in Python SDK

The Python SDK now includes full support for the Predicted Impact Area endpoint, replacing Suggested Radius as the recommended way to define the geographic area around a location.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-04" tags="enhancement,loop" %}

## Loop Links - Feedback on Predicted, Cancelled, and Postponed Events

Loop Links now accept feedback on predicted, cancelled, and postponed events, in addition to active events.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-05-04" tags="data-quality,enhancement" %}

## Event Descriptions

Descriptions have been added at scale to attended events that previously had none - approximately 79% of the catalogue. Higher-ranked events were prioritised. This improves the usefulness of event data for customers building AI applications, search, and recommendation features where event context matters beyond title and category. More descriptions to come.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-04-29" tags="enhancement,webapp" %}

## Stronger Password Policy

Password requirements across the PredictHQ WebApp, signup, and account flows have been updated. New passwords use a 12-character minimum, with no complexity requirements beyond the minimum length.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-04-15" tags="data-quality,enhancement" %}

## US Academic Events - 2026–2027 Calendar Year

Academic events for the 2026–2027 calendar year have been added to PredictHQ's dataset, covering 10,804 events across 958 US institutions.
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{% update date="2026-04-02" tags="data-quality,enhancement" %}

## UK Local Authority Boundaries - Updated Polygons

UK council polygons have been updated to reflect the Cumbria and Northamptonshire local government reorganisations, with dedicated boundaries now in place for Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, North Northamptonshire, and West Northamptonshire. UK school holiday polygons have also been refined so each holiday maps cleanly to a single county rather than overlapping neighbouring authorities.

Customers matching UK school holidays and public holidays to a place ID now get a single, unambiguous match per event, with boundaries that reflect the current local authority map.
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{% update date="2026-03-26" tags="enhancement,webapp,features-api" %}

## Include Predicted Events Toggle in Event Trends

Event Trends now includes an "Include Predicted Events" toggle, bringing it in line with the Features API, which has included predicted events by default since early 2025. With the toggle off, `predicted_events.exclude` is applied when querying the Features API. Synthetic events are excluded from the Events API results shown on the page, matching how they are treated in the Features API.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-03-14" tags="new-feature,events-api,features-api,beam,forecasts-api,saved-locations" %}

## Predicted Impact Area - General Availability

Predicted Impact Area is now generally available across Events API, Features API, Beam. It replaces Suggested Radius as the recommended approach for defining the geographic catchment area around a business location. Unlike a simple radius, Predicted Impact Area uses a data-driven model to define the area where events actually influence demand - accounting for real-world geography. The Suggested Radius endpoint remains available but is no longer the recommended default.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-03-13" tags="data-quality,enhancement,events-api" %}

## Local Public Holidays Scoped to Region

Public holidays that are observed locally rather than nationally are now published at region scope rather than country scope. Italian patron saint holidays are a good example - the Feast of Saint Januarius in Naples, the Feast of St Mark in Venice, and the Feast of St John in Florence, Genoa, and Turin are each celebrated in their own city and region rather than nationwide.

Customers now see these holidays scoped to the places they apply to.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-03-09" tags="enhancement,beam,webapp" %}

## Beam Charts - Independent Axis Scaling

The demand and predicted attendance axes on Beam Analysis charts now scale independently of one another. Where one series operates at a much larger magnitude than the other, both curves stay readable at full detail - useful when presenting an analysis and talking through how event attendance tracks against actual demand.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-02-19" tags="data-quality,enhancement" %}

## Northern Ireland Half-Term Holidays - Full-Week Coverage

Northern Ireland half-term school holidays are now published as the full week that schools take off. Where a half-term starts midweek, the dates are extended back to the previous Saturday; where it finishes midweek, they are extended forward to the following Sunday. Customers with locations in Northern Ireland get school holiday events that cover the complete break.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-01-30" tags="new-feature,saved-locations" %}

## Store Closures & Operating Hours in Saved Locations

Saved Locations now support `closed_days` and `operating_hours` fields via the API and WebApp. Beam and the Forecasts API treat closed days as non-demand days, ensuring that forecasts are not distorted by days when a location is not trading. This is particularly relevant for customers with locations that have non-standard trading patterns - seasonal closures, variable hours, or planned shutdowns.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-01-15" tags="enhancement,beam,forecasts-api" %}

## Local Rank Defaults for Restaurant and Parking

The default Local Rank threshold for the Restaurant and Parking industries is now 50 in both the Beam API and the Forecasts API, lowered from 65 for Restaurant and 60 for Parking.
{% endupdate %}

{% update date="2026-01-08" tags="data-quality,enhancement,events-api" %}

## MLB Spring Training Labelling

MLB Spring Training fixtures now carry both the `mlb` league label and the `pre-season` label, following the addition of the Spring Training competition to the MLB league mapping. Affected events have been republished.
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