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.
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvements π« | Curator: Various improvements to the Curator. |
Improvements π« | Editor/Blocks: Check title length; Blocks in articles can be set to "required"; Unused blocks have been removed from the system. |
Improvements π« | Purple Wires: Open Wire items in new tab added to the New Purple Wires UI |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloud ο»Ώand Purple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvements π« | Subscription API: Support of Collections |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloud ο»Ώand Purple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvements π« | Various minor improvements |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | DeepL integration with Polylang to support Bulk Translations |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloud ο»Ώand Purple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvements π« | Optimization of content table UI in Content Cloud Explorer |
ο»ΏPurple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Internal Bug Fix |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvements π« | Various improvements |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloud ο»Ώand Purple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Various improvements |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Hub Import API: When working with multi-language content, importing the original content linked with the different language variants is now possible. |
Improvements π« | Better performance when filtering custom properties with complex values (arrays or objects). |
Bug Fix π | Bug Fix |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloud ο»Ώand Purple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Internal Improvements |
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ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Internal Improvements |
Maintenance π οΈ | Maintenance |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | 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 β | 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 β | 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". |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Bug Fix |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Internal Improvements |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | New Post Overview: Ability to bulk edit articles |
New Feature β | New Post Overview: Compatibility with PPI/Starlink plugin |
New Feature β | New Post Overview: Ability to configure columns globally and on a user level |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Internal Improvements |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Post Overview: Allow display of the full excerpt with the option to copy and paste it |
Improvement π« | Ability to configure quotation marks and apostrophes per language for automatic conversion in the editor |
Bug Fixes π | Bug Fixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | 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 π« | Internal Improvements |
Bug Fixes π | Bug Fixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Ability to configure quotation marks and apostrophes per language for automatic conversion in the editor |
Bug Fixes π | Bug Fixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Improvements to Receipts user interface |
Improvement π« | Technical improvements to Catalog API |
Improvement π« | Hub Management adjusted to use the same logic screen and mechanism as the Content Cloud Explorer |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloud ο»Ώ/ Purple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Multi-factor Authentication |
Improvement π« | Allow publishing of field configuration for feeds |
Improvement π« | Make some article metadata available for future articles |
Bug Fixes π | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Allow selected ACFs to be included in RSS Feeds |
Improvement π« | UI Improvements for Custom Blocks |
Improvement π« | Ability to configure a custom Preview domain per used language |
Improvement π« | Post Overview: Add SEO support and column |
Improvement π« | Curator: Add preview button for individual items |
Bug Fixes π | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
No deployment due to Whit Monday (Pfingstmontag), a public holiday in Berlin
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Option to make multi-factor authentication mandatory for a team |
Bug Fixes π | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fixes π | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fixes π | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏHο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Content Planning and Social Media Messaging: Ability to work with multi-language content |
New Feature β | Live feedback on character limitations for excerpt |
Bug Fixes π | Bugfixes in diverse areas |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏHο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | New post overview improvements |
Improvement π« | New status naming: Posts that are scheduled are shown as "Scheduled", not "Publishing" |
Improvement π« | Performance improvement: The object cache is briefly turned off during deployment, so the Purple Hub may be slower for about 5-10 minutes. |
ο»ΏEntitlement Serviceο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Internal improvements for generic entitlement integrationΒ |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏHο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Allow special characters in posts |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏMο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | DSB entitlement:Β make sure, that only brand specific subscription numbers can be used |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏHο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Adjustable autosave frequency |
Bug Fix π | Several minor bug fixes |
ο»ΏEntitlement Serviceο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Customer-specific Entitlement extension |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏHο»Ώubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | New Single Sign-On |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏMο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | New Single Sign-On |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏContent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Plenigo Entitlement: Support for publication-based unlocking |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏEο»Ώntitlement Serviceο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Plenigo Entitlement: Support for publication-based unlocking |
ο»ΏPurple Experience ο»Ώ ο»ΏWeb Version 3.3.1 (Hotfix)ο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Improved scroll position restoration after opening modal views |
Improvement π« | Customer-specific Entitlement Upgrade: Limitation to a maximum of 5 logged-in devices per user account |
ο»ΏPurple Experience ο»Ώ ο»ΏApp Version 3.3.1 (Hotfix)ο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | 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) |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Multi-language in Post Overview: Display language variants in the Post Overview table |
Bug Fix π | Print Preview does not show images and embeds |
Bug Fix π | Articles in new post overview cannot be opened in new tab |
Bug Fix π | App themes canβt be synchronised |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ ο»ΏEο»Ώntitlement Serviceο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | SSOfact Entitlement: Add devide_id parameter to login url |
Bug Fix π | Galledia Entitlement: Wrong claim for subscription check used |
ο»ΏPurple Experience ο»Ώ ο»ΏWeb Version 3.3.0ο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Refactoring of the entitlement for web |
Maintenance π οΈ | Switching the web cache to a new Redis cluster |
Bug Fix π | Prevent reload loop while entitlement is enabled |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Two pages with different content have the same slug and external ID |
Bug Fix π | Duplicate Posts in GraphQL API based on one Hub Post |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Workflows:Β Β "Revision" and "Duplicate postβ feature added |
Improvement π« | Improved UX behaviour of the side menu entries |
Bug Fix π | Block patterns list overview is shown empty |
Bug Fix π | Avoid publishing body content as excerpt when excerpt is set to 0 |
Bug Fix π | New post overview: "Create newβ button added to article lists not using the new post overview |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Iο»Ώmporterο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance tasks |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Mο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Extension of the Entitlement integration with UNIDY |
ο»ΏPurple Content Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Extension of the Entitlement integration with UNIDY |
ο»ΏPurple Experience ο»Ώ ο»ΏWeb Version 3.3.0ο»Ώ | ο»ΏROLLED BACKο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Refactoring of the entitlement for web |
Maintenance π οΈ | Switching the web cache to a new Redis cluster |
Bug Fix π | Prevent reload loop while entitlement is enabled |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Make custom fields visible and filterable in the new post overview |
Bug Fix π | Featured Image change overrides last image in article |
ο»ΏPurple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Fair web resource creation queue for the new Purple Importer version |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | 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 πΌ | Wordpress 6.4 upgrade: Includes an updated version of Workflows and some minor changes without impact on user activities. |
ο»ΏPurple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Extension of the Entitlement Interface for OneLog |
ο»ΏEntitlement Serviceο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Extension of the Entitlement Interface for OneLog |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Several minor bug fixes |
ο»ΏEntitlement Serviceο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | Several minor bug fixes |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on new Post Overview UI |
Bug Fix π | Ongoing work on Bulk Publisher improvements |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Mο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Ongoing maintenance work on Entitlement Integrations |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Ongoing maintenance work on Entitlement Integrations |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on new post overview |
Bug Fix π | Publish button disappears in custom set-ups |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
New Feature β | Purple Prompts |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | New feature release Dossiers |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | New feature release Dossiers |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance |
Bug Fix π | Smaller bug fixes |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on Dossiers feature |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Migration of the Purple Growth standalone UI to 2.0 |
Maintenance π οΈ | Minor MaintenanceΒ |
Bug Fix π | Minor Bug Fixes |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General Maintenance |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | 'Nicefication' redesign of the user interface for the Link Optimizer |
Improvement π« | Hub sidebar changes: Added automatic Link Optimizer button within the sidebar, and a new indicator showing when synced keywords are actively saved. |
Maintenance π οΈ | Minor MaintenanceΒ |
Bug Fix π | Minor Bug Fixes |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on dossiers feature |
ο»ΏPurple Iο»Ώmporterο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Mο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug Fix π | PDF search returns duplicate results |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Improve entity recognition in Link Optimizer |
Bug Fix π | Link Optimizer generates overlapping links |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on dossiers feature |
ο»ΏPurple Iο»Ώmporterο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Mο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Maintenance work on Entitlement Service |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Update πΌ | Update to Content Related Articles section in the Growth Sidebar |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on dossiers feature |
ο»ΏPurple Iο»Ώmporterο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Cο»Ώontent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Mο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Maintenance work on Entitlement Service |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Revamped Purple Growth sidebar: Enhanced usability, eliminated redundancies, and refined interaction capabilities. |
Bug Fix π | Minor bug fixes |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Maintenance work on bulk publishingΒ |
ο»ΏPurpleο»Ώ Mο»Ώanagerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurple Iο»Ώmporterο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Ongoing work on SSO integration |
ο»ΏPurple Content Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General maintenance and system enhancements |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Link Optimizer: Decreased weight of sentence similarity for very short sentences |
Bug Fix π | Product Linking: Error message appears when manually generating Product links. |
Bug Fix π | Link Optimizer: 'Generate Links' button is shown as active, even when no article is selected. |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Link Optimizer: When generating recommendations, the published date is used to suggest fresh articles. |
Bug Fix π | Link Optimizer: Visual bug with buttons when an article does not yet have any links. |
Bug Fix π | Link Optimizer: Bug where new links could accidentally be created over existing links. |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Updated UI for the Link-Optimizer "Save" button |
Bug Fix π | Smaller bug fixes for recommendation engine |
Bug Fix π | Content viewer search bar on Firefox |
Maintenance π οΈ | Minor performance improvements |
ο»ΏPurple Contentο»Ώ Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Several minor optimisations |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Minor performance improvements |
ο»ΏPurple Contentο»Ώ Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Optimized post processing pipeline |
Upgrade πΌ | Upgrade Spring Boot to 3.1.3 |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | UI improvements (navigation sidebar and header) |
Bug FixΒ π | Recommendations: smaller bug fixes |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Minor optimizations on the Purple Hub |
ο»ΏPurple Contentο»Ώ Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | Minor optimizations on the content pipeline |
Improvement π« | Catalog API: Improved documentation of search connection |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | UI improvements (profile settings, drawer menu) |
Maintenance π οΈ | Infrastructure performance improvement |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Bug fix π | More minor bug fixes for slug redirects, issue publishing and the encoding of image URLs |
ο»ΏPurple Contentο»Ώ Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Performance optimization of the content pipeline |
Improvement π« | Catalog API: Allow searching for Custom Fields |
ο»ΏPurple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Clean up π§Ή | Improve setup time for Web Experience custom domains |
Bug fix π | CloudFront is not deactivated when the app is deleted |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Maintenance π οΈ | General stability improvements |
Maintenance π οΈ | Upgrade of EKS and Kubernetes clusters |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Feature β | Purple Wires: Set the first image from the feed as the featured image |
Improvement π« | Purple Wires: Enhanced UX for source fetching configuration |
ο»ΏPurple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | 'AppID' and 'copy-to-clipboard' are added to API View |
Clean up π§Ή | 'Print subscription' checkbox is hidden |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | UI improvement on Purple Growth standalone interface |
ο»ΏPurple Hubο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Redirects page: Added search and a setting to configure elements per page |
ο»ΏPurple Managerο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Entitlement service: Support Asmiq Entitlement |
ο»ΏContent Cloudο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Improvement π« | Minor little changes to the Post Processor |
ο»ΏPurple Growthο»Ώ | ο»Ώ |
Feature β | Link Optimizer: Blocked selections can now be displayed and removed on a separate page in the standalone UI |
Improvement π« | New design on the login page |
Improvement π« | Link Optimizer: Recommendation scores can be hidden to provide a cleaner UI. |
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