What's New

Every update to XBGuide, newest first.

August 2, 2026

API keys - profile lookups through the API now need a key, sent as the X-API-Key header. This is the only endpoint that spends our paid Xbox quota, so it is the only one that needs one. Keys are issued by the bot owner, have their own hourly limit, and can be revoked instantly
Keys are stored as a one-way hash, so even a database leak would not expose a working key
Developer portal at /dev - a private, code-protected reference for everything XBGuide exposes: every endpoint, authentication, rate limits, example responses, error codes, and a tool to check a key's usage
Still completely open with no key: live status, the Xbox 360 archive, signature badges and gamer cards. Badges and cards are embedded by ordinary people in forum signatures, and the archive being freely usable is the whole point of it

XBGuide now keeps a permanent record of every change it observes in Xbox 360 back-end infrastructure: a hostname disappearing, a service moving to an address it has never used before, or a response signature changing. Routine address rotation is filtered out, so the timeline only shows real movement
The full archive is public as JSON, free to use for preservation and research work
Response fingerprinting - XBGuide now sends a real request and compares the answer to each service's established baseline, so it can tell the difference between a service that is genuinely fine and one that opens a port but answers differently than it used to. Confidence now goes up to 85% instead of 75%
Advanced infrastructure - five more hostnames from historical Xbox tooling, kept separate from the main figures. Three of them still hold a DNS record while nothing listens, which is a service switched off rather than a service down, and the page now says so
Every service lists every address it has ever resolved to, and when each was first seen

Mobile navigation now works. Every page link was hidden on phones, leaving only the invite button. The nav wraps to a second row instead
Fixed a broken link on the Terms page, and unknown addresses now get a real page with a way back instead of a blank error
The home page lists every command, grouped by category, and is generated from the same source as /help so it cannot go out of date again
Terms and Privacy rewritten to describe everything XBGuide does today, including the website, the public API and vote records
Better link previews and page descriptions, plus a sitemap

The Xbox 360 page now separates infrastructure reachability from service confidence, so a green network check is no longer presented as proof that Xbox Live works on a console
Confidence is scored from the evidence actually collected and capped at 75%, because only DNS and network checks run today. The page lists all six possible evidence layers and marks the three that are not tested
Shared endpoint disclosure - several of these hostnames resolve to the same address, so a good result for one does not confirm the others. The page now says which ones, and tracks how often addresses change
Services show real states (Reachable, Degraded, Unreachable, Decommissioned) instead of just up or down. Nothing is marked Operational, because that is reserved for protocol-level checks that are deliberately not implemented yet, and the page explains why

Xbox 360 status - /xbox360 tracks the Xbox 360 era back-end services that are still alive, including sign-in, auth and the title update servers, plus a record of what has been decommissioned
Link previews - sharing any XBGuide page now unfurls with a proper title, description and card image instead of a bare link
Favicon - the site finally has an icon in your browser tab
This changelog now groups everything shipped on the same day under one date

Game Pass alerts - /settings gamepass #channel posts a daily summary of what joined and left the Game Pass catalog
Deal alerts - /settings deals #channel posts big new Xbox store discounts in USD, with your own minimum discount threshold
Forum signature badges - grab an auto-updating banner at /badge/yourgamertag.png, with copy-ready BBCode, HTML and Markdown on every player page
Easier linking - running a command without a linked account now hands you a button and a pop-up form instead of an error message
Honest errors - when Xbox Live itself is having problems, XBGuide says so instead of blaming itself
Supporter perks - voting for XBGuide halves your cooldowns for 12 hours
Behind the scenes: sharding support for future growth and a cleanup of deprecated Discord API calls

/wrapped - your year on Xbox as a shareable card: games played, hours logged, most played games and your rarest unlock of the year
Card v2 - gamer cards now show a career stats line (games scored, total G earned, average completion), and you can set a custom accent color with /card accent:
Dev tools - xbguide.com/tools: gamertag to XUID converter and a public JSON API for developers
Status badge - /status.svg, a live Xbox status badge for forums and GitHub READMEs
Better /help - browse commands by category with a dropdown menu
This page - the new changelog at /updates

Web theme picker - flip any player page through all 8 card themes and share the themed URL
Embeddable widget - /widget is a live Xbox status board any site can embed
/settings alerts - subscribe a server channel to Xbox Live outage alerts with automatic recovery messages

The status monitor now probes real Xbox Live service hosts (sign-in, profiles, presence, achievements, social, title services) instead of public web pages
Single network blips no longer count as outages - a service is only "down" after repeated failures
Microsoft's official status feed now appears alongside XBGuide's independent checks
Hover any history bar for exact UTC timestamps; every service shows its 90-day uptime

Public player pages - xbguide.com/player/yourgamertag, with gamer card embeds that unfurl in Discord and Twitter
Status page: latency sparklines, 90-day history strips and a recent incident log
Gamertag search on the home page

27 commands: cards, trophies, flexing, stats, compare, leaderboards, Game Pass search, USD deals, LFG, presence boards, playtime and more
8 card themes from OG Xbox scanlines to Gold Prestige
Globally linked gamertags - link once, works in every server
Live Xbox status monitoring every 5 minutes at /status
xbguide.com launched behind Cloudflare