Metadata is now no longer returned when it is not included in the select operator.

When fetching content using the Contentful REST APIs the select operator allows you to choose which properties you'd like to retrieve from an entity. However, since the introduction of Tags, the API always returned an extra metadata.tags property.

This was an unintentional behavior that increased the response size. We have fixed this behavior so that when the select operator is present we only return specified properties.

If you're using select operator and rely on the extra metadata.tags in the response, make sure to include metadata.tags property in the select operator value.

Read more about the select operator in the API documentation.

This change was previously announced in the API Changes log.