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+kind: change
+title: New Payload format for Deployments
+created_at: 2014-03-03
+author_name: atmos
+---
+
+As we [iterate on the preview][january-deployment-api-post] for the new Deployment API, we're making sure that it's friendly to work with for the apps built on top of it.
+
+## Deserialize Deployment Payloads
+
+If you've built anything around the API then you're probably doing a second deserialization of the returned JSON body for Deployment or DeploymentStatus objects. It seemed silly to keep this in place and it was a convention that we don't follow anywhere else in the API. 
+
+## Code you need to update
+
+You should only need to remove the JSON parsing if you're taking advantage of the custom payloads. The formats for creating Deployments remain unchanged.
+
+As always, if you have any questions or feedback, please [get in touch][contact].
+
+[january-deployment-api-post]: /changes/2014-01-09-preview-the-new-deployments-api/
+[contact]: https://github.com/contact?form[subject]=Deployments+API