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Field, schema and delivery changes to the Specter datasets — newest first. Use the tags to filter by dataset. A field leaving a dataset is a breaking change for whatever loads it, so every removal is announced here at least a month before it ships, with the date it takes effect. Changes to the API are tracked separately, in the API changelog.
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Company DB
Two breaking changes to the Company DB, both effective 2026-09-30. Both fields change on the API on the same date — see the API changelog.

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Removed — news

news packs up to 10 articles into a single serialized string. It is dropped from every Company DB delivery from 2026-09-30.Take news from the News Signals dataset instead. It delivers daily, one row per article, with the fields parsed out rather than packed into a string — see Delivery and formats for its cadence and file naming.What to do: drop news from your load, and add the News Signals delivery if you don’t already take it.

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Replaced — funding_round_details becomes funding_rounds_details

funding_round_details carries every funding round — type, date, amount, investors — with the investors as bare names: "investors": ["Andreessen Horowitz"]. It is dropped from the same delivery.Use funding_rounds_details instead. It is already delivered alongside it and carries the same rounds, but each investor arrives as a record of specter_investor_id — which resolves against the Investor DB — name and is_lead_investor, and each round adds lead_investors_partners. A sample record shows the shape.
The two names differ by one letter. The field to read is funding_rounds_details, plural rounds.
What to do: repoint your funding reads at funding_rounds_details.