# Changelog of Yandex News Scraper (`searchapi/yandex-news-scraper`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/searchapi/yandex-news-scraper/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/searchapi/yandex-news-scraper.md

## Changelog

### 3.0.0

- Migrated from the retired `yandex.ru/news/search` URL to the current public Dzen-hosted Yandex News search.
- Replaced full-load navigation and long sleeps with `domcontentloaded` plus exact current semantic card readiness.
- Added stable IDs, canonical tracking-free destination URLs, fair multi-query selection, exact global/per-query limits, and atomic writes.
- Added publisher, publication-date, domain, keyword, time-range, and sorting controls.
- Removed fabricated breaking/sponsored/ad fields and the sparse legacy schema.
- Added coherent Chrome fingerprints, session cookies, explicit direct/Residential/custom proxy behavior, bounded retries, resource optimization, and fail-closed challenge handling.
- Added deterministic dependencies, input/output/dataset schemas, unit tests, output audits, QA inputs, and documentation.