Changelog

purple is on the move we are constantly working to improve our publishing suite to make it even more valuable to you here is a weekly summary of all the new features, improvements, updates and bug fixes included in the releases deployment schedule purple hub deployments are processed on mondays, every two weeks, alternating between late night (23 00) and early morning (06 30) deployment times, both cest purple content cloud deployments take place every monday between 10am and 11am cest there are no deployments on public holidays in berlin purple changelog purple hub the deployment for the purple hub is planned for monday, 23 february 2026 , at 23 00 cet general improvements purple newsletter there have been significant improvements in the configurability of templates and the usage of scheduled articles for our newsletter module as well as other small improvements implementation of the newsletter module can be requested by contacting your project manager or our support helpdesk purple prompts we have solved some bugs (including reactivating our german translations) and implemented a simplification of the rewrite article dialog the rewrite dialog is now standard and always set to what was previously called the 'visual split' view seeing the underlying html code can be done by clicking 'show code' purple wires fetching article updates purple wires can now be configured to automatically fetch and overwrite an article when it has been detected that the source has been updated read more how to set this up in our documentation updates & bugs fixes we have updated our ppi plugin to the latest version and we have solved various bugs purple hub the deployment for the purple hub is planned for monday, 9 february 2026 , at 6 30 cet general improvements article overview open article in a tab you can now open an article in a new tab by clicking the icon next to the article title, instead of opening it in the current tab update menu items we have updated the configuration possibilities for (sub )menu items if you want to hide an item, or move that item to the settings page, please get into touch with our support helpdesk this could be useful in the case when certain article types (legal documents, contact info, etc) should not be displayed in the menu interface for all employees purple hub the deployment for the purple hub is planned for monday, 26 janary 2026 , at 23 00 cet general improvements curator collection visibility articles in the curator now display which collections they belong to at a glance a new column shows collection membership with clickable tooltips, making it easy to avoid duplicate assignments and understand article usage across collections flexible dossier publishing dossiers containing draft or scheduled articles can now be published with only the already published articles included the system provides a clear warning modal showing which articles are unpublished, allowing you to either proceed with partial publication or cancel to review the content first default language settings users can now set their preferred default language for creating new articles directly in their profile page this ensures new articles are automatically created in the author's preferred language, eliminating the need to manually select the language each time purple cloud + manager purple cloud + manager deployments take place monday 26 january 2026 between 10am and 11am cest general improvements app store naming purple manager now separates the internal app name from the name displayed on users' devices you can configure platform specific app store names while maintaining clear, searchable names within the manager unified tts configuration text to speech settings are now consolidated at the publication level in one central location this eliminates confusion between different configuration sources and ensures consistent tts generation across all import methods enhanced webhook notifications webhooks now include publication date information and scheduling status for content systems can automatically distinguish between immediately published and scheduled content, with optional notifications when scheduled content goes live purple hub the deployment for the purple hub is planned for monday, 12 january 2026 , at 6 30 cet general improvements curator deblock collection access editors can now manually unlock blocked collections directly in curator using a new takeover button when a collection is occupied, hovering over the button shows who's editing and allows you to take over with a confirmation modal, immediately restoring editing access faster custom post type switching switching between custom post types in the sidebar menu is now significantly faster using content filtering instead of full page reloads improved timezone support users working in different timezones can now edit both hub time and local time fields interchangeably in the scheduling dialogs the "now" button correctly sets the current local time, and both time fields automatically sync when either is changed newsletter as main menu item newsletter is now a top level sidebar item instead of a submenu under articles it includes two subitems newsletter and ads, making newsletter management more accessible only available for customers who have the newsletter module active configurable default access levels admins can now set default access levels (free/paid) per custom post type in purpledshub settings this includes an option to completely hide the access level field for specific post types, reducing manual work and preventing errors variant type filtering the variant type field, that is used by some of our customers that have the ppi plugin activated, is now filterable in the post overview this needs to be configured first in the post overview settings dossier page enhancements the new dossier overview page now display publish status with dates for each dossier and issue article lists within dossiers show post status as text (published/draft/scheduled) instead of visibility icons for better clarity and consistency bug fixes we fixed critical issues including author information being incorrectly changed when duplicating articles, autosave problems with online headlines and teasers, and multi select actions now working correctly on the all articles page with appropriate options displayed