🀡 What changed in the official facts

A changelog of verified official facts: UK tax and National Insurance thresholds, exam specifications, and official vehicle datasets (French RappelConso recalls, Japanese MLIT recalls and complaints), plus central-bank policy rates (Bank of England, Fed, ECB). Each entry records what changed (from β†’ to), when it took effect, the official source, the date it was verified, and a maintainer note. Entries are generated by scripts from committed data files and annotated by the maintainer β€” never written from memory. Coverage starts 2026-08-31.

Also available as RSS, Atom, JSON at /api/changes?since=YYYY-MM-DD, or over MCP: the what_changed_since tool at POST /api/mcp takes a date (an agent's training cutoff) and returns the entries after it.

October 2026

vehiclesMLIT owner complaints across covered models

Changed
19659 β†’ 39954
Effective from
2026-10-24
Official source
https://renrakuda.mlit.go.jp/
Maintainer note
Same refresh (2026-10-24): complaints for 313 models. MLIT's complaint search matches names by substring, so earlier per-model totals double-counted sibling models (e.g. カローラ included カローラフィールダー); complaints are now counted by exact model name with reviewed same-model spellings merged, so the change mixes new coverage (up) and that correction (down).
Verified
2026-10-24
Key
jp-recalls/complaints Β· permalink

vehiclesMLIT recall filings matched to covered models

Changed
919 β†’ 3283
Effective from
2026-10-24
Official source
https://renrakuda.mlit.go.jp/
Maintainer note
Refresh from the shaken-data MLIT pipeline of 2026-10-24: coverage grew from 75 to 313 models (Japanese makers, Lexus, 14 import brands and 47 motorcycle families, combined from MLIT's grade-level names), and recall matching now reads every typeList block of a filing (it had read only the first, undercounting filings that list many vehicle types). MLIT's portal data runs to filings of 2026-08-27.
Verified
2026-10-24
Key
jp-recalls/recall-filings Β· permalink

vehiclesEU Safety Gate vehicle alerts

Changed
none β†’ stub
Effective from
2026-10-03
Official source
https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport
Maintainer note
Stub only β€” eu_safety_gate_recalls returns covered:false with the official Safety Gate URL; no data is claimed or served. RappelConso republishes the Safety Gate automobile alerts that concern France, so fr_recalls_* covers most EU-wide vehicle recalls meanwhile.
Verified
2026-10-03
Key
eu-safety-gate/dataset Β· permalink

vehiclesMLIT recall filings and owner complaints dataset

Changed
none β†’ covered
Effective from
2026-08-30
Official source
https://renrakuda.mlit.go.jp/
Maintainer note
First derivation of data/vehicles/jp-recalls.json from the shaken-data MLIT snapshot of 2026-08-30: 919 unique recall filings (1,377 model links, 1994-03-24 β†’ 2026-07-30) and 19,659 owner complaints across 75 models. Filing PDF URL pattern https://renrakuda.mlit.go.jp/mt/recallpdf/<no>.pdf verified 200 on 2026-10-03. Snapshot is a month old at build; freshness says due until the monthly refresh runs.
Verified
2026-10-03
Key
jp-recalls/dataset Β· permalink

vehiclesRappelConso automobile recalls dataset

Changed
none β†’ covered
Effective from
2026-10-02
Official source
https://rappel.conso.gouv.fr/
Maintainer note
First derivation of data/vehicles/fr-recalls.json: 1,663 automobile fiches (2018-01-19 β†’ 2026-08-07), the full RappelConso V2 open-data export for sub-category "automobiles, motos, scooters" (DGCCRF, Licence Ouverte 2.0) as committed in the controle-technique repo on 2026-10-02; 568 fiches matched to 94 curated models by that site's reviewed alias table. Records reshaped, never edited.
Verified
2026-10-02
Key
fr-recalls/dataset Β· permalink

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