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.
- 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 Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor maintenance changes |
Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor maintenance changes |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Planning: Language assignment is now available for tasks. |
New Feature ⭐ | Purple Blocks - Image Validation: With our Purple Blocks Plugin, you can now specify required metadata fields for images used in articles |
Improvements 💫 | Media Library - Cropping Improvements: Enhanced functionality for cropping images and previewing image formats. A feature flag is available to enable and disable the improved functionality. |
Improvements 💫 | SSO (Single Sign-On): To support SSO functionality, the login flow has been updated. The login process now involves two steps: entering the email first, then being redirected to a second step to enter the password. |
Purple Hub | |
Improvements 💫 | Curator: Various improvements to the Curator. |
Improvements 💫 | Editor/Blocks: Check title length; Blocks in articles can be set to "required"; Unused blocks have been removed from the system. |
Improvements 💫 | Purple Wires: Open Wire items in new tab added to the New Purple Wires UI |
Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Improvements 💫 | Subscription API: Support of Collections |
Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Improvements 💫 | Various minor improvements |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | DeepL integration with Polylang to support Bulk Translations |
Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Improvements 💫 | Optimization of content table UI in Content Cloud Explorer |
Purple Manager | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Internal Bug Fix |
Purple Hub | |
Improvements 💫 | Various improvements |
Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | Various improvements |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Hub Import API: When working with multi-language content, importing the original content linked with the different language variants is now possible. |
Improvements 💫 | Better performance when filtering custom properties with complex values (arrays or objects). |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Bug Fix |
Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | Internal Improvements |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Internal Improvements |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Maintenance |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | When working in a multi-language Hub, the timezone is displayed at all times in the editor, post-overview, and when setting the publish date. This allows the editors to know at all times when specific content is scheduled for. |
New Feature ⭐ | The new Purple Wires overview has been expanded to include a quick view of the content's first two lines, and the word/character count has been directly displayed. Additionally, search terms are highlighted in the overview. |
New Feature ⭐ | The prompt to "save" an article has been removed when nothing has been changed. Now, when just viewing and exiting an article immediately, users will no longer be prompted to save "unsaved changes". |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Bug Fix |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Internal Improvements |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | New Post Overview: Ability to bulk edit articles |
New Feature ⭐ | New Post Overview: Compatibility with PPI/Starlink plugin |
New Feature ⭐ | New Post Overview: Ability to configure columns globally and on a user level |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Internal Improvements |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Post Overview: Allow display of the full excerpt with the option to copy and paste it |
Improvement 💫 | Ability to configure quotation marks and apostrophes per language for automatic conversion in the editor |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bug Fixes in diverse areas |
Purple Content Cloud | |
New Feature ⭐ | Teaser API: Allow activation of the Future Articles API per app. Retrieve articles with a scheduled publication date (includes only the key information needed to create teasers). |
Improvement 💫 | Internal Improvements |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bug Fixes in diverse areas |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Ability to configure quotation marks and apostrophes per language for automatic conversion in the editor |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bug Fixes in diverse areas |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Improvements to Receipts user interface |
Improvement 💫 | Technical improvements to Catalog API |
Improvement 💫 | Hub Management adjusted to use the same logic screen and mechanism as the Content Cloud Explorer |
Purple Content Cloud / Purple Manager | |
New Feature ⭐ | Multi-factor Authentication |
Improvement 💫 | Allow publishing of field configuration for feeds |
Improvement 💫 | Make some article metadata available for future articles |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Allow selected ACFs to be included in RSS Feeds |
Improvement 💫 | UI Improvements for Custom Blocks |
Improvement 💫 | Ability to configure a custom Preview domain per used language |
Improvement 💫 | Post Overview: Add SEO support and column |
Improvement 💫 | Curator: Add preview button for individual items |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
No deployment due to Whit Monday (Pfingstmontag), a public holiday in Berlin
Purple Content Cloud | |
New Feature ⭐ | Option to make multi-factor authentication mandatory for a team |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
Purple Hub | |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Content Planning and Social Media Messaging: Ability to work with multi-language content |
New Feature ⭐ | Live feedback on character limitations for excerpt |
Bug Fixes 🐛 | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | New post overview improvements |
Improvement 💫 | New status naming: Posts that are scheduled are shown as "Scheduled", not "Publishing" |
Improvement 💫 | Performance improvement: The object cache is briefly turned off during deployment, so the Purple Hub may be slower for about 5-10 minutes. |
Entitlement Service | |
Improvement 💫 | Internal improvements for generic entitlement integration |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Allow special characters in posts |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | DSB entitlement: make sure, that only brand specific subscription numbers can be used |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Adjustable autosave frequency |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Several minor bug fixes |
Entitlement Service | |
Improvement 💫 | Customer-specific Entitlement extension |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | New Single Sign-On |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | New Single Sign-On |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Plenigo Entitlement: Support for publication-based unlocking |
Purple Entitlement Service | |
Improvement 💫 | Plenigo Entitlement: Support for publication-based unlocking |
Purple Experience Web Version 3.3.1 (Hotfix) | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Improved scroll position restoration after opening modal views |
Improvement 💫 | Customer-specific Entitlement Upgrade: Limitation to a maximum of 5 logged-in devices per user account |
Purple Experience App Version 3.3.1 (Hotfix) | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Query optimisation for performance improvement of page load times in the App Experience (requires upgrade of the App Experience in Purple Experience Builder to version 3.3.1) |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Multi-language in Post Overview: Display language variants in the Post Overview table |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Print Preview does not show images and embeds |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Articles in new post overview cannot be opened in new tab |
Bug Fix 🐛 | App themes can’t be synchronised |
Purple Entitlement Service | |
Improvement 💫 | SSOfact Entitlement: Add devide_id parameter to login url |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Galledia Entitlement: Wrong claim for subscription check used |
Purple Experience Web Version 3.3.0 | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Refactoring of the entitlement for web |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Switching the web cache to a new Redis cluster |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Prevent reload loop while entitlement is enabled |
Purple Hub | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Two pages with different content have the same slug and external ID |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Duplicate Posts in GraphQL API based on one Hub Post |
Purple Hub | |
New Feature ⭐ | Workflows: "Revision" and "Duplicate post” feature added |
Improvement 💫 | Improved UX behaviour of the side menu entries |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Block patterns list overview is shown empty |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Avoid publishing body content as excerpt when excerpt is set to 0 |
Bug Fix 🐛 | New post overview: "Create new” button added to article lists not using the new post overview |
Purple Importer | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance tasks |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | Extension of the Entitlement integration with UNIDY |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Extension of the Entitlement integration with UNIDY |
Purple Experience Web Version 3.3.0 | ROLLED BACK |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Refactoring of the entitlement for web |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Switching the web cache to a new Redis cluster |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Prevent reload loop while entitlement is enabled |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Make custom fields visible and filterable in the new post overview |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Featured Image change overrides last image in article |
Purple Manager | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Fair web resource creation queue for the new Purple Importer version |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Post-Overview: New improved post overview and enhanced performance. Create and save your own filters. Configure Advanced Custom Fields to be used as filters in the overview. |
Update 🔼 | Wordpress 6.4 upgrade: Includes an updated version of Workflows and some minor changes without impact on user activities. |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | Extension of the Entitlement Interface for OneLog |
Entitlement Service | |
Improvement 💫 | Extension of the Entitlement Interface for OneLog |
Purple Hub | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Several minor bug fixes |
Entitlement Service | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Several minor bug fixes |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on new Post Overview UI |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Ongoing work on Bulk Publisher improvements |
Purple Manager | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Ongoing maintenance work on Entitlement Integrations |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Ongoing maintenance work on Entitlement Integrations |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on new post overview |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Publish button disappears in custom set-ups |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance |
Purple Growth | |
New Feature ⭐ | Purple Prompts |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | New feature release Dossiers |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | New feature release Dossiers |
Purple Hub | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Smaller bug fixes |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on Dossiers feature |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | Migration of the Purple Growth standalone UI to 2.0 |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor Maintenance |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Minor Bug Fixes |
Purple Hub | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General Maintenance |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | 'Nicefication' redesign of the user interface for the Link Optimizer |
Improvement 💫 | Hub sidebar changes: Added automatic Link Optimizer button within the sidebar, and a new indicator showing when synced keywords are actively saved. |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor Maintenance |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Minor Bug Fixes |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on dossiers feature |
Purple Importer | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Manager | |
Bug Fix 🐛 | PDF search returns duplicate results |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | Improve entity recognition in Link Optimizer |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Link Optimizer generates overlapping links |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on dossiers feature |
Purple Importer | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Manager | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Maintenance work on Entitlement Service |
Purple Growth | |
Update 🔼 | Update to Content Related Articles section in the Growth Sidebar |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on dossiers feature |
Purple Importer | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Manager | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Maintenance work on Entitlement Service |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | Revamped Purple Growth sidebar: Enhanced usability, eliminated redundancies, and refined interaction capabilities. |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Minor bug fixes |
Purple Hub | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Maintenance work on bulk publishing |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Importer | |
Improvement 💫 | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General maintenance and system enhancements |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | Link Optimizer: Decreased weight of sentence similarity for very short sentences |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Product Linking: Error message appears when manually generating Product links. |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Link Optimizer: 'Generate Links' button is shown as active, even when no article is selected. |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | Link Optimizer: When generating recommendations, the published date is used to suggest fresh articles. |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Link Optimizer: Visual bug with buttons when an article does not yet have any links. |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Link Optimizer: Bug where new links could accidentally be created over existing links. |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | Updated UI for the Link-Optimizer "Save" button |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Smaller bug fixes for recommendation engine |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Content viewer search bar on Firefox |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor performance improvements |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Several minor optimisations |
Purple Growth | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor performance improvements |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Optimized post processing pipeline |
Upgrade 🔼 | Upgrade Spring Boot to 3.1.3 |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | UI improvements (navigation sidebar and header) |
Bug Fix 🐛 | Recommendations: smaller bug fixes |
Purple Hub | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor optimizations on the Purple Hub |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Minor optimizations on the content pipeline |
Improvement 💫 | Catalog API: Improved documentation of search connection |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | UI improvements (profile settings, drawer menu) |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Infrastructure performance improvement |
Purple Hub | |
Bug fix 🐛 | More minor bug fixes for slug redirects, issue publishing and the encoding of image URLs |
Purple Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Performance optimization of the content pipeline |
Improvement 💫 | Catalog API: Allow searching for Custom Fields |
Purple Manager | |
Clean up 🧹 | Improve setup time for Web Experience custom domains |
Bug fix 🐛 | CloudFront is not deactivated when the app is deleted |
Purple Growth | |
Maintenance 🛠️ | General stability improvements |
Maintenance 🛠️ | Upgrade of EKS and Kubernetes clusters |
Purple Hub | |
Feature ⭐ | Purple Wires: Set the first image from the feed as the featured image |
Improvement 💫 | Purple Wires: Enhanced UX for source fetching configuration |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | 'AppID' and 'copy-to-clipboard' are added to API View |
Clean up 🧹 | 'Print subscription' checkbox is hidden |
Purple Growth | |
Improvement 💫 | UI improvement on Purple Growth standalone interface |
Purple Hub | |
Improvement 💫 | Redirects page: Added search and a setting to configure elements per page |
Purple Manager | |
Improvement 💫 | Entitlement service: Support Asmiq Entitlement |
Content Cloud | |
Improvement 💫 | Minor little changes to the Post Processor |
Purple Growth | |
Feature ⭐ | Link Optimizer: Blocked selections can now be displayed and removed on a separate page in the standalone UI |
Improvement 💫 | New design on the login page |
Improvement 💫 | Link Optimizer: Recommendation scores can be hidden to provide a cleaner UI. |