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description: Cloudflare is removing five fields from the meta object of DNS records. These fields have been unused for more than a year and are no longer set on new records. This change may take up to four weeks to fully roll out.
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## 2025-02-02

**Removed unused meta fields from DNS records**

Cloudflare is removing five fields from the `meta` object of DNS records. These fields have been unused for more than a year and are no longer set on new records. This change may take up to four weeks to fully roll out.

The affected fields are:

* the `auto_added` boolean
* the `managed_by_apps` boolean and corresponding `apps_install_id`
* the `managed_by_argo_tunnel` boolean and corresponding `argo_tunnel_id`

An example record returned from the API would now look like the following:

```json
{
  "result": {
    "id": "<ID>",
    "zone_id": "<ZONE_ID>",
    "zone_name": "example.com",
    "name": "www.example.com",
    "type": "A",
    "content": "192.0.2.1",
    "proxiable": true,
    "proxied": false,
    "ttl": 1,
    "locked": false,
    "meta": {
      "auto_added": false,
      "managed_by_apps": false,
      "managed_by_argo_tunnel": false,
      "source": "primary"
    },
    "comment": null,
    "tags": [],
    "created_on": "2025-03-17T20:37:05.368097Z",
    "modified_on": "2025-03-17T20:37:05.368097Z"
  },
  "success": true,
  "errors": [],
  "messages": []
}
```

For more guidance, refer to [Manage DNS records](https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/).

## 2025-01-27

**Zone IDs and names on individual DNS records**

Records returned by the API will no longer contain the `zone_id` and `zone_name` fields. This change may take up to four weeks to fully roll out. The affected fields were deprecated with an End of Life (EOL) date of November 30, 2024.

## 2024-10-15

**Quote validation for TXT records added via dashboard**

When creating [TXT records](https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/manage-dns-records/reference/dns-record-types/#txt) via the dashboard you will now find:

* Field validation errors if double quotes `"` are added inconsistently.
* Automatically quoted TXT content upon save if no quotes exist in the record content field.

## 2024-10-07

**API support for per-record CNAME flattening**

Paid zones now have the option to flatten specific CNAME records. When using the API, specify the setting `cname_flatten` as `true` or `false`. Refer to the [documentation](https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/cname-flattening/set-up-cname-flattening/#per-record) for details.
