v1.71.0

What’s Changed

There are two major host-company configuration changes in this release:

• Make gdpr default value required config (#1422). This one's easy, just make sure you define
• Revise account configuration structure and migrate to stable JDBC contract (#1431).
  • Please refer to changes in docs/application-settings.md for how account config SQL query has to be tuned.
  • The analytics-sampling-factor setting no longer exists as a common configuration property. Analytics modules relying on this property should be adapted to rely on analytics.modules.<module-name>.sampling-factor property instead (or any like it in analytics module specific configuration sub-space).

Other General Updates

• Implement flag to allow VAST modification for unknown bidders (#1419) - see issue prebid/prebid-server#1967
• pricegranularity option handling added (#1435)
• Fix VtrackHandlerTest with updated Account (#1436)
• Fix default analytics events config handling (#1434)
• Add java 11 workflow (#1429)
• Add account CCPA enabled and per-request-type enabled flags (#1044)
• Add enabledOnly flag for /info/bidders endpoint (#1421)
• Wrong duration in resolved request (#1420)

Bidder-Specific Updates

• Fix Pubmatic bid.ext.bidtype case-sensitivity (#1445)
• Smaato: Rework multi imp support and add adpod support (#1405)
• InteractiveOffers - Parameters changed & dynamic endpoint (#1417)
• Revert Triplelift Endpoint [open source id] (#1427)
• Rubicon: update passing DFP adUnit code to XAPI (#1403)
• Tappx: new bidder params (#1410)

Contributors

@And1sS, @IOTiagoFaria, @nickluck8, @nllerandi3lift, @rpanchyk, @schernysh and @snahornyi

v1.70.0

What’s Changed

General Changes

• Support additional GDPR-related AMP params (#1379) - issue 1817
• Align /bidder/info endpoint with Go behaviour (#1414) - related to issue 1788
• Remove Site object when both App and Site present (#1411) - this is related to issue 1947. This workaround may be removed once the Prebid.js update is done and rolled out to most publishers
• Allow app and site simultaneously in bid request and assume "app" channel in this case (#982)
• Add content-type header to /vtrack and /status endpoints (#1399)
• Update allowed metadata add dchain (#1398)
• Fix integration test against PBS version in debug header (#1416)
• Remove redundant meta model (#1415)
• Add headers to response debug section (#1147)
• Bump commons-compress from 1.19 to 1.21 (#1400)

Bidder-specific Changes

• Update TripleLift endpoint (#1418) - note, host companies using triplelift need to get a supplier_id from them
• IX: update required site id field to be more flexible (#1406)
• InteractiveOffers - New endpoint (#1408)
• Appnexus: make AdPodId optional (#1397)
• Support pods in video requests to Appnexus bidder (#1073)
• Rubicon: fix NPE caused by null deal bid price (#1395)
• Rubicon: Update site segTaxes, to work with 5 and 6 (#1404)
• Rubicon: convert boolean FPD to strings (#1389)
• Added medianet adapter (#1378)
• Sharethrough: Add support for GPID (#1394)

Contributors

@And1sS, @BraslavskiyAndrey, @IOTiagoFaria, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @garrix-fan, @laarchenko, @nickluck8, @rpanchyk, @schernysh and @snahornyi

v1.69.0

What’s Changed

Note: this release contains an important configuration file syntax change that's paving the way for a bigger change in the next release to support prebid/prebid-server#1672

See https://github.com/prebid/prebid-server-java/blob/master/docs/config-app.md -- settings.default-account-config has changed from YAML to JSON.

General Changes

• Change default account config format to plain json (#1142)
• Fix AuctionContext model to be suitable for JSON encoding (#1385)
• Change Cache service to use ttlseconds instead of expiry (#1384) - this aligns PBS-Java with PBS-Go and PBC-Java already supports either param.
• Add missing header 'Content-Type' in /getuids response (#1382)
• Fix podconfig duration processing in video endpoint (#1392)
• Remove duplicated and obsolete docs (#1381)
• Fix NPE for missing imps, while resolving ext (#1373)
• Bump jetty-webapp from 9.4.41.v20210516 to 9.4.43.v20210629 (#1377)
• Add HttpResponseSender to generify HTTP output (#1290)

Bidder-Specific Changes

• IX bidder: make impTrackers to always be unique (#1396)
• Pubnative bidder: force currency to USD (#1387)
• Inmobi: user sync (#1386)
• Keywords creator code cleanup (#1383)
• Criteo: Fix fields mapping error when building bid from bidder response (#1380)
• Review IC bidder (#1372)
• Simplify bidder tests (#1374)
• Add Axonix bidder (#1376)
• Review PubmaticBidder (#1371)

Contributors

@And1sS, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @rpanchyk, @schernysh and @snahornyi

v1.68.0

What’s Changed

General Changes

• Remove TCF1 support (#1129). TCF1-formatted strings are ignored. Note that the adapter.BIDDER.openrtb2-web.tcf.userid_removed metric no longer measures anything. This issue is being discussed.
• Remove unnessaccery 'pbs-enforces-gdpr' test property (#1368)
• Simplify integration tests (#1356)
• Add auctionId to PBS events strings (#1327)
• Pass bidders' ext without 'bidder' wrapper (#1360) - issue prebid/prebid-server#1676
• Fix account fetching from stored requests for auctions (#1355)
• Fill initial bid request with all possible values from query parameters and headers during AMP processing (#1353)
• Validate bidder code for empty value (#1197)
• Eid permissions honor bidder aliases (#1207)
• Update PriceGranularity logic to work with missing values (#1324)
• Remove call to cache in bidder integration tests (#1329)

Bidder-specific Changes

• Change MarsMedia endpoint URL (#1370)
• Add SaLunamedia bidder (#1364)
• Change SaLunamedia endpoint url (#1367)
• Fix NullPointerException after MaxMindGeoLocationService could not find country by IP (#1366)
• Change SmartyAds usersync url (#1365)
• Pubmatic: Sending GPT slotname in impression extension (#1338)
• Add smilewanted bidder (#1357)
• New bidder brightmountain (#1362)
• Add evolution bidder (#1354)
• Outbrain adapter: overwrite tagid only if it exists (#1358)
• New bidder bidmyadz (#1352)
• Add bidscube bidder (#1350)
• Add kayzen bidder (#1346)
• New bidder adxcg (#1342)
• Add madvertise bidder (#1339)
• Criteo: Update Json validation schema and maintainer email (#1337)
• BeachfrontBidder: fix beachfront bid floor (#1334)
• Sovrn: Change Imp.bidfloor if invalid (#1331)
• RP adapter: update segtax logic (#1344)
• Avoid filling response extension with hooks trace output when no hooks have been executed (#1351)
• Introduce a framework for hooks at different stages of request processing (#1345)
• Update warnings for corrupted consent (#1348)
• Fill bids as much as possible before they are cached (#1326)
• Price Granularity: Update validation logic (#1343)
• New bidder: Bidmachine (#1328)
• update interactiveoffers contact info (#1335)
• remove lifestreet (#1336)

Contributors

@And1sS, @BraslavskiyAndrey, @nickluck8, @rpanchyk, @schernysh and @snahornyi

v1.67.0

What’s Changed

General Updates

• Implement x-prebid headers support (#1301)
• Bump httpclient from 4.5.5 to 4.5.13 (#1295)
• Update test cases for ext prebid meta (#1325)
• Add analytics metrics to docs (#1323)
• AnalyticsDelegator: Tolerate with not processed requests (#1322)
• Create one line logging for requested json (#1318)
• Make logged request to be without new line and space symbols (#1300)
• Bump jetty-servlets from 9.4.35.v20201120 to 9.4.41.v20210516 (#1312)
• Clean user.ext.digitrust when user ids not legal (#1158)
• Aws deploy instructions update (#1076)

Bidder Updates

• Pubmatic: add dctr and pmzoneid params (#1320)
• Pangle: add appid & placementid to bidder param (#1319)
• RubiconBidder: Copy seatbid.buyer to bid.ext.prebid.meta (#1313)
• AdOcean adapter - add support for mobile apps (#1317)
• Outbrain: Transform native eventtrackers (#1299)
• Log bidresponse validation (#1109)
• Interactiveoffers bidder (#1306)
• Between bidder: fix bid floor (#1315)
• New Bidder: Viewdeos (Alias Of Adtelligent) (#1316)

Contributors

@BraslavskiyAndrey, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @nickluck8, @rpanchyk and @snahornyi

v1.66.0

What’s Changed

General

• Support impression tracking on VAST wrappers (#1310)
• Update vastModifier to group inserted impression tags with existing (#1309)
• VAST modify case sensitive issue fix (#1308)
• Update VAST logic (#1271)
• Added Prefer deals targeting flag to determine winning bid comparison logic (#1182) Issue prebid/prebid-server#1355
• Fix windows build issues (#1307)
• Amp account fetch fix (#1303)
• Update AnalyticsReporterDelegator to tolerate with missing BidRequest (#1302)
• Bump hibernate-validator from 6.1.0.Final to 6.1.5.Final (#1298)
• Make generic HTTP exceptions less wordy (#1296)
• Add request.ext.prebid.trace flag (not used for now) (#1287)
• Add check for aliases pointing on disabled bidder (#1209)
• Extend setting native asset types to all requests (#1285)
• Allow Native Ad Exchange Specific Types (#1276)
• Turn on decompression support in Vert.x HTTP server (gzip and deflate as of Netty 4.1.31) (#1284)

Bidder

• New Adapter: Criteo (#1252)
• IX: Set bidVideo when category and duration is available (#1274)
• Add processing of imp.ext.data to mediagrid (#1293)
• Conversant: fix bid floor (#1291)
• New Adapter: Loopme (#1270)
• Loopme integration test update (#1294)
• Made account fetch as first step fro AMP (driven by modularity) (#1272)
• Add schain support to beachfront bidder (#1289)
• New Bidder: Adf (#1288)
• Handle not found stored auction response by throwing InvalidRequest e… (#1185)
• New Adapter: AlgoriX (#1275)
• Add metrics to track settings cache population if it is enabled (#1016)
• Pubstack analytics module (#1013)

Contributors

@BraslavskiyAndrey, @Bugxyb, @DGarbar, @RodionOrets, @dependabot, @dependabot[bot], @nickluck8, @rpanchyk, @schernysh, @snahornyi and @vsyso

v1.65.0

What’s Changed

General

• Fix ext.prebid.analytics flag to be tolerant for invalid input (#1283) - Prebid.js 4.37 is sending ext.prebid.analytics as an array. This fix throws it away -- fixed in 4.38.
• Implement analytics by code metrics (#1281) - new metrics: analytics.ADAPTER.auction.*
• Copy bidder headers before affecting them (#1279)
• Update AnalyticsReporter to support adapter analytics (#1238)
• Store original hostname in site.domain and put derived top-level domain at site.publisher.domain (#1277) - prebid/prebid-server#1813
• Pass Global Privacy Control header to bidders (#1186) - prebid/prebid-server#1712
• Remove overriding of fields for BidResponseCreator (#1273)
• Use ipv6 for geo location call if ipv4 is not defined (#1256)
• Fix IPv6 processing according to privacy ip masking (#1280)
• Moved bid enhancement logic before caching (#1266)
• Improve CookieSync and Setuid logging and metrics (#1253) - emit usersync..tcf.invalid when /setuid or /cookie_sync calls are blocked due to missing or invalid consent strings

Bidder Specific

• rubicon adapter: update segment logic (#1260)

Contributors

@DGarbar, @rpanchyk, @schernysh and @snahornyi

v1.64.0

What’s Changed

• InMobi: Updating support for sites (#1269)
• AppNexus: reform bid floor handling (#1261)
• Openx: use bidfloor if set - prebid.js adapter behavior (#1262)
• Tappx: rewrite schema in case of protocol in host param (#1267)
• Review bidders to cover not matched imp.id with bid.impid (#1264)
• Tappx: add path concat instead of rewrite (#1265)

Contributors

@RodionOrets and @rpanchyk

v1.63.0

What’s Changed

General

• Added basicEnforcementVendors fro TCF (#1236) (Issue prebid/prebid-server#1750)
• Add bid response imp validation and log for corresponding imp matching (#1259)
• Add bidderInfoResponse container as a first step to use BidInfo in workflow (#1254)
• Make bid immutable (#1249)

Bidder-Specific

• Resolve bidfloor currency for Rubicon bidder (#1117)
• Update Adyoulike endpoint to hit production servers (#1258)
• Kidoz: Update JSON Schema Reference To Type String (#1257)
• Orbidder: Update gvl vendor id and site media types (#1255)
• Bugfix POST requests with Adhese adapter (#1124)
• DMX: Enforcing w and h in imp (#1245)
• Configure Mediafuse allias for Adtelligent (#1251)
• Improvedigital bidder: Functionality update (#1175)
• Beachfront update (#1177)
• Implement Outbrain bidder (#1229)
• Implement Adyoulike bidder (#1194)
• Implement Unicorn bidder (#1201)
• Implement Jixie bidder (#1189)
• Implement Pangle Bidder (#1190)
• Implement Epom bidder (#1191)

Contributors

@BraslavskiyAndrey, @DGarbar, @RodionOrets, @rpanchyk, @sander-adhese and @snahornyi

v1.62.0

Notes

• This release contains the /setuid endpoint modifications outlined in prebid/prebid-server#1477 . A side effect of this change is that the usersync.BIDDER.tcf.blocked metric drops significantly as it is changed into a general setuid error metric (usersync.bad_requests) when the TCF consent string is missing or invalid. We'll fix this metric situation in the next release.
• The same change resulted in extra error log entries for missing consent strings in /cookie_sync and /setuid. The next release will also drop these to a 1% sample of errors.
• Turns out when PBS-Go and PBS-Java implemented prebid/prebid-server#745 we did them differently. Go is treating ext.prebid.debug as a boolean while Java is expecting 0 or 1. To be fair, the issue didn't clearly specify this. Anyhow, PBS-Java now supports wither 0 or false, 1 or true.

What’s Changed

General

• Implement bid adjustments by media type (#1226) (#1243) (issue 1601)
• Make /cookie_sync and /setuid respond with 400 for invalid gdpr consent (#1235) (issue 1477)
• Update setuid format parameter and make pixel depends on cookie type (#997) (also part of issue 1477)
• Store original bid cpm (#995) (issue 1526)
• Implement usersync method choosing according to filter settings from request (#1130) (issue 1554)
• Usersync URL supports format parameter (#1242) (also part of issue 1554)
• Support boolean for bidrequest.ext.prebid.debug together with integer (#1160)
• Fix Ortb2RequestFactory to throw error if StoredRequestProcessor fails (#1233)
• Add lookup of account from stored requests (#1231)
• Merge master into hook framework (#1228) - starting to refactor for modularity
• Refactored: Extracted Ortb2RequestFactory (#1224)
• Make generation of Bid Adm as a first step to remove duplicating call (#1214)

Bidder-Specific

• Update deepintent usersync redirect-url uid param (#1244)
• GumGum: adds pubId and irisid properties/parameters (#1184)
• Implement OneTag bidder (#1181)
• Update SmartyAds sync url and fix Decenterads imp.ext resolving (#1248)
• Decenterads adapter: align with cache request changes (#1246)
• Add Decenterads bidder. (#1167)
• RTB House: update parameters (#1240)
• Merge site object for SmartadserverBidder (#1225)
• beachfront: Changes to support real 204 (#1230)
• Openx: use bidfloor if set - prebid.js adapter behavior (#1218)
• Tappx changes - Backward compatible change of version (#1222)
• Add App support for Smaato (#1221)
• Adtarget, Adtelligent, Mediafuse: Update sync type (#1220)
• Mobfox: Add rout to adexcange (#1183)
• Change EngagedBDR bidder config (#1237)
• Update tappx and between usersync config (#1171)
• Adform bidder currency issue fix (#1232)

Contributors

@BraslavskiyAndrey, @DGarbar, @RodionOrets, @laurb9, @muuki88, @rpanchyk, @schernysh and @snahornyi