Previous value: -"District only. Bezirksverwaltungsbehörde name, e.g. \"Bezirkshauptmannschaft Liezen\" — full list: ris_list_reference topic district_authorities."New value: +"District only. Bezirksverwaltungsbehörde name, e.g. \"Bezirkshauptmannschaft Liezen\" — full list: ris_list_reference topic district_authorities. Omit to leave unfiltered; a blank value is rejected."

Added value: +"\\S"

Previous value: -"Issuing body — federal (EinbringendeStelle, e.g. \"BMF\") or ordinance gazettes (Vbl Einbringer: Landeshauptmann/frau, Landesregierung, Amt der Landesregierung, Sonstige Landesbehörden) only. Phrase field."New value: +"Issuing body — federal (EinbringendeStelle: a ministry abbreviation such as \"BMF\" or a full designation; an abbreviation missing from ris_list_reference topic ministries is rejected, a full designation missing from it is sent as written) or ordinance gazettes (Vbl Einbringer, exact match with no wildcards: Landeshauptmann/frau, Landesregierung, Amt der Landesregierung, Sonstige Landesbehörden) only. Omit to leave unfiltered; a blank value is rejected."

Added value: +"\\S"

Previous value: -"Municipal only. Exact municipality name (Gemeinde), RIS’s spelling."New value: +"Municipal only. Exact municipality name (Gemeinde), RIS’s spelling. Omit to leave unfiltered; a blank value is rejected."

Added value: +"\\S"

Previous value: -"Gazette number, e.g. \"171/2026\" or \"BGBl. II Nr. 171/2026\" (federal), \"61/2026\" (state), a Kundmachungsnummer (district/municipal). A trailing year routes a federal query to the right era tier; a bare number searches the current tier."New value: +"Gazette number, e.g. \"171/2026\" or \"BGBl. II Nr. 171/2026\" (federal), \"61/2026\" (state), a Kundmachungsnummer (district/municipal). A trailing year routes a federal query to the right era tier; a bare number searches the current tier. Omit to leave unfiltered; a blank value is rejected."

Added value: +"\\S"

Removed value: -[
-  {
-    "const": 10,
-    "type": "number"
-  },
-  {
-    "const": 20,
-    "type": "number"
-  },
-  {
-    "const": 50,
-    "type": "number"
-  },
-  {
-    "const": 100,
-    "type": "number"
-  }
-]

Previous value: -"Documents per page — RIS accepts 10, 20, 50, or 100. Default 20."New value: +"Documents per page: 10 or 20 (default 20). For more results, keep the size and raise page."

Added value: +[
+  10,
+  20
+]

Added value: +"number"

Previous value: -"Full-text search (Suchworte). Boolean operators UND/ODER/NICHT or AND/OR/NOT, parentheses, quoted phrases; wildcard * is trailing-only. Syntax: ris_list_reference topic search_syntax."New value: +"Full-text search (Suchworte). Boolean operators UND/ODER/NICHT or AND/OR/NOT, parentheses, quoted phrases; wildcard * is trailing-only. Syntax: ris_list_reference topic search_syntax. Omit to leave unfiltered; a blank value is rejected."

Added value: +"\\S"

Previous value: -"Title search (Titel) — phrase field: * allowed leading or trailing with ≥2 characters beside it."New value: +"Title search (Titel) — phrase field: * allowed leading or trailing with ≥2 characters beside it. Omit to leave unfiltered; a blank value is rejected."

Added value: +"\\S"

Previous value: -"Machine-readable failure mode. Declared by this tool: `scope_filter_mismatch`: A filter was combined with a scope that does not support it (part off federal; series/state_era off a state scope; district_authority off district; municipality off municipal; issuer outside federal/ordinance gazettes), or series: ordinance_gazette was combined with state_era: legacy (ordinance gazettes have no legacy counterpart) — rejected locally before any upstream call; the message names the offending pair. `cross_tier_range`: A federal published_from/published_to interval overlaps more than one Bundesgesetzblatt era tier (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940) — including a one-sided bound, which is open into every tier beyond it. Rejected locally before any upstream call: one call serves exactly one application, so a spanning range would return the records of a single tier and silently omit the rest of the interval. A year-bearing number or part: pre_1997 names the tier outright and is never rejected. `invalid_query`: A page past the last page of results; or a parameter the resolved gazette does not carry — sort_by, number, type, part, issuer, or a state absent from the historical Lgbl series — rejected locally before any upstream call, naming the field and the gazette that rejected it (by scope/series/state_era, or for a federal era tier by its window and the input that routed there); or RIS rejecting a value in-band (the Client error message is passed through verbatim, in German, and it does not name the page). `upstream_error`: RIS is unreachable, returned a server error, or served an HTML error page. `upstream_timeout`: RIS did not answer the search within the request deadline. Other values are possible when a failure originates below the handler."New value: +"Machine-readable failure mode. Declared by this tool: `scope_filter_mismatch`: A filter was combined with a scope that does not support it (part off federal; series/state_era off a state scope; district_authority off district; municipality off municipal; issuer outside federal/ordinance gazettes), or series: ordinance_gazette was combined with state_era: legacy (ordinance gazettes have no legacy counterpart) — rejected locally before any upstream call; the message names the offending pair. `cross_tier_range`: A federal published_from/published_to interval overlaps more than one Bundesgesetzblatt era tier (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940) — including a one-sided bound, which is open into every tier beyond it. Rejected locally before any upstream call: one call serves exactly one application, so a spanning range would return the records of a single tier and silently omit the rest of the interval. A year-bearing number or part: pre_1997 names the tier outright and is never rejected. `unresolved_ministry`: A federal issuer is an abbreviation-shaped value matching no row of the RIS ministries table (the message names the closest matches), or a ministry the table lists only for another issuer parameter (the message names the parameters that accept it) — rejected locally before any upstream call. A value the table does not know that contains a space is sent to RIS as written instead. `invalid_query`: A page past the last page of results; or a parameter the resolved gazette does not carry — sort_by, number, type, part, issuer, or a state absent from the historical Lgbl series — rejected locally before any upstream call, naming the field and the gazette that rejected it (by scope/series/state_era, or for a federal era tier by its window and the input that routed there); or RIS rejecting a value in-band (the Client error message is passed through verbatim, in German, and it does not name the page). `upstream_error`: RIS is unreachable, returned a server error, or served an HTML error page. `upstream_timeout`: RIS did not answer the search within the request deadline. Other values are possible when a failure originates below the handler."

Previous value: -[
-  "scope_filter_mismatch",
-  "cross_tier_range",
-  "invalid_query",
-  "upstream_error",
-  "upstream_timeout"
-]New value: +[
+  "scope_filter_mismatch",
+  "cross_tier_range",
+  "unresolved_ministry",
+  "invalid_query",
+  "upstream_error",
+  "upstream_timeout"
+]

Previous value: -"http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"New value: +"https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"

Added value: +false

Previous value: -"http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#"New value: +"https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema"

Added value: +[
+  {
+    "not": {
+      "required": [
+        "error"
+      ]
+    },
+    "required": [
+      "results",
+      "totalCount",
+      "page",
+      "pageSize",
+      "servedApplication"
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "required": [
+      "error"
+    ]
+  }
+]

Added value: +{
+  "additionalProperties": {},
+  "description": "Present when the call failed. Absent on success.",
+  "properties": {
+    "code": {
+      "description": "JSON-RPC error code for this failure.",
+      "maximum": 9007199254740991,
+      "minimum": -9007199254740991,
+      "type": "integer"
+    },
+    "data": {
+      "additionalProperties": {},
+      "properties": {
+        "reason": {
+          "description": "Machine-readable failure mode. Declared by this tool: `scope_filter_mismatch`: A filter was combined with a scope that does not support it (part off federal; series/state_era off a state scope; district_authority off district; municipality off municipal; issuer outside federal/ordinance gazettes), or series: ordinance_gazette was combined with state_era: legacy (ordinance gazettes have no legacy counterpart) — rejected locally before any upstream call; the message names the offending pair. `cross_tier_range`: A federal published_from/published_to interval overlaps more than one Bundesgesetzblatt era tier (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940) — including a one-sided bound, which is open into every tier beyond it. Rejected locally before any upstream call: one call serves exactly one application, so a spanning range would return the records of a single tier and silently omit the rest of the interval. A year-bearing number or part: pre_1997 names the tier outright and is never rejected. `invalid_query`: A page past the last page of results; or a parameter the resolved gazette does not carry — sort_by, number, type, part, issuer, or a state absent from the historical Lgbl series — rejected locally before any upstream call, naming the field and the gazette that rejected it (by scope/series/state_era, or for a federal era tier by its window and the input that routed there); or RIS rejecting a value in-band (the Client error message is passed through verbatim, in German, and it does not name the page). `upstream_error`: RIS is unreachable, returned a server error, or served an HTML error page. `upstream_timeout`: RIS did not answer the search within the request deadline. Other values are possible when a failure originates below the handler.",
+          "examples": [
+            "scope_filter_mismatch",
+            "cross_tier_range",
+            "invalid_query",
+            "upstream_error",
+            "upstream_timeout"
+          ],
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "recovery": {
+          "additionalProperties": {},
+          "description": "Actionable next step for the caller.",
+          "properties": {
+            "hint": {
+              "type": "string"
+            }
+          },
+          "required": [
+            "hint"
+          ],
+          "type": "object"
+        },
+        "retryable": {
+          "description": "Whether retrying may succeed.",
+          "type": "boolean"
+        }
+      },
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "message": {
+      "description": "Human-readable description of what went wrong.",
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "code",
+    "message"
+  ],
+  "type": "object"
+}

Removed value: -[
-  "results",
-  "totalCount",
-  "page",
-  "pageSize",
-  "servedApplication"
-]

Previous value: -"Earliest promulgation date (YYYY-MM-DD). A pre-2004 range routes a federal query to an earlier era tier."New value: +"Earliest promulgation date (YYYY-MM-DD). A pre-2004 range routes a federal query to an earlier era tier. Federal: the interval must stay inside one tier — set published_to as well, since a one-sided bound is open into every tier beyond it."

Previous value: -"Latest promulgation date (YYYY-MM-DD)."New value: +"Latest promulgation date (YYYY-MM-DD). Federal: the interval must stay inside one era tier, so pair it with published_from — an interval crossing 2004-01-01 or 1945-01-01 is rejected with the boundaries to split at."

Previous value: -"The RIS application that served the query — for federal, the era tier auto-routed by year (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940); otherwise the resolved state/district/municipal application."New value: +"The RIS application that served the query — for federal, the single era tier auto-routed from the number’s year or the publication-date interval (BgblAuth 2004+, BgblPdf 1945–2003, BgblAlt 1848–1940); otherwise the resolved state/district/municipal application."

Previous value: -"^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$"New value: +"^\\d{4}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])$"

Previous value: -"^\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2}$"New value: +"^\\d{4}-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|[12]\\d|3[01])$"

Removed value: -{
-  "description": "State scopes only. Adds the historical non-authentic state gazette — Niederösterreich’s systematic LgblNO, or the older Lgbl for the other Bundesländer (Wien is not carried).",
-  "type": "boolean"
-}

Added value: +{
+  "description": "State scopes only. current (default when omitted) searches the authentic Landesgesetzblatt; legacy searches the state’s earlier non-authentic series — Niederösterreich’s systematic LgblNO collection, or the historical Lgbl for the other Bundesländer (Wien carries neither).",
+  "enum": [
+    "current",
+    "legacy"
+  ],
+  "type": "string"
+}