YQL Blog

• Console and web service now support an “env” query parameter. This is a url that points to an environment/shell file that YQL will load. Currently this enables multiple tables to be used at once.
• “Use” table no longer requires the “as” clause. When “as” is absent it will default to the final path segment filename minus the extension. e.g. use 'http://somewhere/service.api.xml; select * from service.api;
• Show tables now shows where the open data definition was defined
• Desc table format tweaked
• Open data table paging fixes, including better support for none paging but flexible result sized services and fixed page models. Moved “matrix” to the paging parent element.
• Offset bug fixed in table(offset,number) processing

New tables

• upcoming.user
• microformats
• flickr.photos.sizes

Table updates

• local.search “location” key is now optional
• mybloglog user by service
• fixed typo in mybloglog.members.find
• “charset” is now an optional key in html table, to enable developers to force a particular charset to be used when parsing the web page

Bug fixes, including:

• more html and xhtml and i18n issues fixed for html table
• subselect fix for optional keys

Other:

• publiclyCallable element in diagnostics is set to true if the query can work across the public entrypoint
• show tables response format changed

Note: future releases will more strictly apply robots.txt to html table fetches