# API Updates

Please be aware that **Sirdata** may make **backwards-compatible changes** to the API at any time, including adding new optional request and response properties. 

**New features** and **options** will be communicated to clients, but please ensure that your JSON serialization library will allow unknown properties to appear in the JSON response without causing an error; this is standard behavior in most JSON serialization libraries.

Should a change be required that breaks backwards compatibility, **Sirdata** will **notify clients** in advance to ensure a smooth transition.