Changelog
API and platform changelog for Sendbound.
2026-01
New features
- SMTP relay — Send transactional email over SMTP on port 587. Authenticate with
apikeyas the username and your secret key as the password. - Inbound routing — Receive inbound email at your verified domain and forward it to a webhook endpoint.
- Preference center — Hosted unsubscribe page automatically linked in campaign footers.
- A/B testing — Test up to 5 subject line variants on a campaign before sending to the full audience.
- Warm-up schedules — Automatically ramp sending volume on new domains to build reputation.
Improvements
POST /v1/contactsnow performs an upsert by email address — no more duplicate errors on re-import.- Webhook payloads now include
messageIdfor correlation with your email provider. - Campaign stats are now available via
GET /v1/campaigns/:id— no separate stats endpoint required.
2025-Q4
New features
- Segments — Dynamic contact segments based on tag, subscription status, or custom data.
- Templates — Reusable HTML templates referenced by ID in campaign and transactional send requests.
- Contact tags — Attach arbitrary string tags to contacts for filtering and segmentation.
Breaking changes
- None. The API remains backward-compatible on the v1 prefix.
2025-Q3
Initial API launch. Core endpoints: /v1/send, /v1/contacts, /v1/domains, /v1/api-keys.

