# Changelog of DictionaryAPI Batch Word Definitions (`automation-lab/free-dictionary-batch-definitions`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/free-dictionary-batch-definitions/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/automation-lab/free-dictionary-batch-definitions.md

## Changelog

### 2026-10-24

- Reliability: use a browser-compatible TLS/HTTP fingerprint on the final UK residential attempt, preserving the four-attempt ceiling and honest upstream-failure reporting.

### 2026-10-20

- Reliability: use a fresh UK residential route for the final bounded retry when datacenter routes fail; source-confirmed missing words remain distinct from upstream failures.

### 2026-10-19

- Reliability: recover denied DictionaryAPI routes through bounded fresh-route retries instead of stopping before fallback; persistent denials still fail clearly.

### 2026-10-16

- Reliability: recover transient malformed DictionaryAPI JSON through bounded fresh-route retries, while still failing clearly if no valid response is available.

### 0.1.0 — 2026-10-13

- Batch lookup for supplied English words with normalization, deduplication and a global unique-word limit.
- Preserve DictionaryAPI meanings, examples, phonetics, pronunciation audio URL references, entry/audio licenses and source attribution.
- Explicit source-confirmed not-found rows; outages and malformed responses fail clearly instead of inventing meanings.
- No translation, audio download or alternate-source substitution.