New YouTube API Version Available for Testing

[Jeffrey Posnick]

We wanted to draw specific attention to the new version of the Google
Data YouTube API that has just been pushed out to our staging servers.
There are two specific changes that we'd like to give our developers
and partners a chance to test before they go live. Both changes affect
important areas of the API: ClientLogin authentication, and playback
URLs in media:content entries.

We fully intend for the changes to be backwards compatible, and from
the developer's perspective you should not have to change any code.
But testing your code is always a best practice, so if you rely on
ClientLogin or retrieving media playback URLs from the Google Data
YouTube API, please repoint your code to http://stage.gdata.youtube.com
and confirm functionality.

Any incompatibilities should be reported as soon as possible in our
YouTube API Developer Forum. We expect to move the changes from the
staging environment into production on November 17.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team