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New *Schema APIs coming to the V3 API!

  • April 30, 2026
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john.vogt
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On May 11th***, there will be several new Schema endpoints to interact with at Alpha stability. These endpoints support Create and Update! In addition, we also support applying Fieldsets. Please be on the lookout for the following new API endpoints!

  • CustomEntitySchema
  • AaSequenceSchema
  • DnaOligoSchema
  • DnaSequenceSchema
  • OligoConjugateSchema
  • OligoDuplexSchema
  • RnaOligoSchema
  • RnaSequenceSchema
  • MixtureSchema
  • MoleculeSchema
  • EquipmentSchema

In the V2, API, this schema information was provided through the /entity-schemas resource. In the V3 API, we broke them out to work alongside the associated endpoint that provides the data from a particular schema type:

  • AaSequence
  • AaSequenceSchema
  • etc

***Apologies--we pushed back the dates a few days do to some timeline shifting!

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vinniev
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  • May 4, 2026

 


jorge.cordero
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  • May 5, 2026

RemindMe! 3 days 😂

Looking forward to this!


Ken Robbins
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  • May 5, 2026

Tingling with anticipation ​@john.vogt ! This is perhaps the (my) longest sought for capability.

Are you able to provide guidance on the planned schedule for progression from alpha to beta to GA?

Similarly, what’s the plan for SDK support?

 


Ken Robbins
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  • May 6, 2026

Hey ​@john.vogt , I guess I’ll find out more in 2 days, but one thing I’m thinking about is if these new APIs will have the notion of a transaction (or rollback). In other words, config migration does a remarkable job of validating a plan across multiple object create/update operations, and then only executing when it is certain to succeed. (The team has done a remarkable job with this IMHO.) If we use APIs for coordinated multi-schema updates, will there be any support for validation or transactions or anything else to support changes of more than one schema at a time?


john.vogt
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  • May 8, 2026

@Ken Robbins apologies, but I haven’t yet been able to get an answer on the SDK.

RE: Transaction/Rollback - When we have discussed this support, we have typically discussed the need for a composite API resource to group sets of changes. This capability is not part of the API feature work at this point in time.


Ken Robbins
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  • May 8, 2026

Thanks for the update. A “composite API resource” would be great to have and important for more complex changes. Is the API still being released today? Will notification appear in the change log or just here?


john.vogt
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  • May 8, 2026

@Ken Robbins - apologies for the confusion. We updated the original post to reflect May 11th as the release date. I should have followed that update with a reply in this thread for those that were following.

 

We found a couple of bugs this week and were optimistic we could still hit our rollout date today, but unfortunately, the pull requests are still making their way through our CI system, so the updates won’t land until Monday.


Ken Robbins
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  • May 8, 2026

No worries at all. Thanks for letting us know.


vinniev
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  • May 11, 2026

Noice - so today’s the day? :)


nirmit.d
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  • May 12, 2026

This is awesome! I’m excited to work these new API endpoints into Liminal for creating and updating entity schemas. Applying fieldsets is also something I was really looking forward to and I hope to build functionality in Liminal to be able to define fieldsets in code as abstract classes.

 

-- Nirmit


john.vogt
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  • May 12, 2026

Hey Everyone - Another quick update and apology. You may have noticed the new API endpoints and, if so, you probably also noticed that creating and updating is not yet available. That should be fixed soon. We found another issue and it is already fixed. The ability to create/update will be rolled out today.