Platform Updates

Changelog

101min

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.
Deployment on Monday, 20 January 2025
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Optimized German-language Labels in Hub
We fixed the German-language labels in Hub, translating English labels that were shown there by mistake. More information can be found here.﻿
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor Maintenance Issues
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Deployment on Monday, 6 January 2025
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor Maintenance Issues
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Deployment on Monday, 9 December 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Use Prompts to fill specific custom fields ("ACF fields")
Purple prompts got more powerful: You can now directly fill out custom fields with your favorite AI prompt. For example you could extract locations from an article and add them to a metadata field. Learn more in the Purple Docs.﻿
Improvement 💫
Finalize your article with one click
Define a set of prompts to apply, and they all get executed simultaneously. You can now finalize your article in one click. Title, excerpt, meta-description, custom fields, social message, ... all in one go! Learn more in the Purple Docs.﻿
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor Maintenance Issues
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Deployment on Monday, 2 December 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 25 November 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Improved search configuration
The search configuration has been updated to prioritise exact matches when you're searching for specific article titles in the post overview e.g. for feed (articles), issues or dossiers.
Improvement 💫
New user role "Hub Editor" is now also available for use in the Purple Hub
The Hub Editor role will be created in Purple Manager and will also be accessible in the Purple Hub, allowing users with this role to automatically log in to the Purple Hub. This role is designed for Hub Users who primarily work within the Purple Hub and do not require permissions to make changes in Purple Manager.
This role provides administrators and project teams with a flexible and secure way to manage access to selected apps. Please contact us if you have any questions about this update! Learn more in the Purple Docs or read the Product Update.
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Improvement 💫
Improved login experience & email notifications
We have made updates to enhance the login experience and improve communication through email notifications for smoother user interaction.
Design: We have adjusted text, buttons and visual design to make the steps clearer and more appealing.
Communication: Feedback messages (e.g. for incorrect logins or password resets) have been redesigned to make the process more transparent and easier to understand.
Deployment on Monday, 18 November 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Improvement 💫
New Hub Editor role in Purple Manager
From this Monday, you'll see the new Hub Editor role option available in Purple Manager.
Key details:
Availability: You will be able to select the Hub Editor role in Purple Manager from Monday 18 November.
Activation: Role permissions will go live the following week, on Monday 25 November, after the scheduled Purple Hub release.
The Hub Editor role will be created in Purple Manager and will also be accessible in the Purple Hub, allowing users with this role to automatically log in to the Purple Hub. This role is designed for Hub Users who primarily work within the Purple Hub and do not require permissions to make changes in Purple Manager.

This role provides administrators and project teams with a flexible and secure way to manage access to selected apps. Please contact us if you have any questions about this update! 
Deployment on Monday, 11 November 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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New Feature ⭐
Share filters with your team (for article overview in Feeds, Issues and Dossiers)
Filter sharing: Users can share saved filters with their team so that all Purple Hub members can see the same information.
My Filters vs. Public Filters: The filter panel now clearly separates 'My Filters' (personal) from 'Public Filters' (shared with the team) for easy navigation and organisation.
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 4 November 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 28 October 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿Hub﻿
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Update 🔼
WordPress Update to version 6.6. This update contains significant UI changes in the article Sidebar. Please read our Product Update for further details.﻿
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 21 October 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 14 October 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Performance improvements: We've optimised some settings for better performance. You may notice faster loading times and a smoother experience when using the Purple Hub.
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 7 October 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 30 September 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 23 September 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
Deployment on Monday, 16 September 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor maintenance changes
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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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.
Deployment on Monday, 2 September 2024
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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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
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Improvements 💫
Subscription API: Support of Collections
Deployment on Monday, 26 August 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Improvements 💫
Various minor improvements
Deployment on Monday, 19 August 2024
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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New Feature ⭐
DeepL integration with Polylang to support Bulk Translations
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Improvements 💫
Optimization of content table UI in Content Cloud Explorer
Deployment on Monday, 12 August 2024
﻿Purple Manager﻿
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Bug Fix 🐛
Internal Bug Fix
Deployment on Monday, 5 August 2024
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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Improvements 💫
Various improvements
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿and Purple Manager﻿
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Improvement 💫
Various improvements
Deployment on Monday, 22 July 2024
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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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
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Improvement 💫
Internal Improvements
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Deployment on Monday, 15 July 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Internal Improvements
Maintenance 🛠️
Maintenance
Deployment on Monday, 8 July 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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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
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Bug Fix 🐛
Bug Fix
Deployment on Monday, 1 July 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Internal Improvements
Deployment on Monday, 24 June 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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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
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Improvement 💫
Internal Improvements
Deployment on Monday, 17 June 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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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
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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
Deployment on Monday, 10 June 2024
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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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
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance
Deployment on Monday, 3 June 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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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
Deployment on Monday, 27 May 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud ﻿/ Purple Manager﻿
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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
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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
Deployment on Monday, 20 May 2024
No deployment due to Whit Monday (Pfingstmontag), a public holiday in Berlin
Deployment on Monday, 13 May 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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New Feature ⭐
Option to make multi-factor authentication mandatory for a team
Bug Fixes 🐛
Bugfixes in diverse areas
﻿Purple﻿ H﻿ub﻿
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Bug Fixes 🐛
Bugfixes in diverse areas
Deployment on Monday, 6 May 2024
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Bug Fixes 🐛
Bugfixes in diverse areas
Deployment on Monday, 29 April 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿H﻿ub﻿
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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
Deployment on Tuesday, 15 April 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿H﻿ub﻿
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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
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Improvement 💫
Internal improvements for generic entitlement integration 
Deployment on Tuesday, 2 April 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿H﻿ub﻿
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New Feature ⭐
Allow special characters in posts
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿M﻿anager﻿
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Improvement 💫
DSB entitlement: make sure, that only brand specific subscription numbers can be used
Deployment on Monday, 25 March 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿H﻿ub﻿
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New Feature ⭐
Adjustable autosave frequency
Bug Fix 🐛
Several minor bug fixes
﻿Entitlement Service﻿
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Improvement 💫
Customer-specific Entitlement extension
Deployment on Monday, 18 March 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿H﻿ub﻿
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Improvement 💫
New Single Sign-On
Deployment on Monday, 11 March 2024
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿M﻿anager﻿
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Improvement 💫
New Single Sign-On
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿Content Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Plenigo Entitlement: Support for publication-based unlocking
﻿Purple﻿ ﻿E﻿ntitlement Service﻿
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Improvement 💫
Plenigo Entitlement: Support for publication-based unlocking
Deployment on Tuesday, 5 March 2024
﻿Purple Experience ﻿
﻿Web Version 3.3.1 (Hotfix)﻿
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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)﻿
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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)
Deployment on Monday, 4 March 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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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
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Improvement 💫
SSOfact Entitlement: Add devide_id parameter to login url
Bug Fix 🐛
Galledia Entitlement: Wrong claim for subscription check used
Deployment on Wednesday, 28 February 2024
﻿Purple Experience ﻿
﻿Web Version 3.3.0﻿
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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
Deployment on Monday, 26 February 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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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
Deployment on Monday, 19 February 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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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
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance tasks
﻿Purple﻿ M﻿anager﻿
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Improvement 💫
Extension of the Entitlement integration with UNIDY
﻿Purple Content Cloud﻿
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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
Deployment on Monday, 12 February 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Make custom fields visible and filterable in the new post overview
Bug Fix 🐛
Featured Image change overrides last image in article
Deployment on Wednesday, 14 February 2024
﻿Purple Manager﻿
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Bug Fix 🐛
Fair web resource creation queue for the new Purple Importer version
Deployment on Monday, 5 February 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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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
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Improvement 💫
Extension of the Entitlement Interface for OneLog
﻿Entitlement Service﻿
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Improvement 💫
Extension of the Entitlement Interface for OneLog
Deployment on Monday, 22 January 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Bug Fix 🐛
Several minor bug fixes
﻿Entitlement Service﻿
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Bug Fix 🐛
Several minor bug fixes
Deployment on Monday, 15 January 2024
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on new Post Overview UI
Bug Fix 🐛
Ongoing work on Bulk Publisher improvements
Deployment on Monday, 18 December 2023
﻿Purple﻿ M﻿anager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Ongoing maintenance work on Entitlement Integrations
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Ongoing maintenance work on Entitlement Integrations
Deployment on Monday, 11 December 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on new post overview
Bug Fix 🐛
Publish button disappears in custom set-ups
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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New Feature ⭐
Purple Prompts
Deployment on Monday, 4 December 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
New feature release Dossiers
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
New feature release Dossiers
Deployment on Monday, 27 November 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance
Bug Fix 🐛
Smaller bug fixes
Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on Dossiers feature
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Improvement 💫
Migration of the Purple Growth standalone UI to 2.0
Maintenance 🛠️
Minor Maintenance 
Bug Fix 🐛
Minor Bug Fixes
Deployment on Monday, 20 November 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General Maintenance
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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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
Deployment on Monday, 13 November 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on dossiers feature
﻿Purple I﻿mporter﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple﻿ M﻿anager﻿
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Bug Fix 🐛
PDF search returns duplicate results
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Improvement 💫
Improve entity recognition in Link Optimizer
Bug Fix 🐛
Link Optimizer generates overlapping links
Deployment on Monday, 06 November 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on dossiers feature
﻿Purple I﻿mporter﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple﻿ M﻿anager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Maintenance work on Entitlement Service
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Update 🔼
Update to Content Related Articles section in the Growth Sidebar
Deployment on Monday, 30 October 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on dossiers feature
﻿Purple I﻿mporter﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple﻿ C﻿ontent Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple﻿ M﻿anager﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Maintenance work on Entitlement Service
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Improvement 💫
Revamped Purple Growth sidebar: Enhanced usability, eliminated redundancies, and refined interaction capabilities.
Bug Fix 🐛
Minor bug fixes
Deployment on Monday, 23 October 2023
﻿Purple﻿ Hub﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Maintenance work on bulk publishing 
﻿Purple﻿ M﻿anager﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple I﻿mporter﻿
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Improvement 💫
Ongoing work on SSO integration
﻿Purple Content Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General maintenance and system enhancements
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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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.
Deployment on Monday, 16 October 2023
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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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.
Deployment on Monday, 9 October 2023
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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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
Deployment on Monday, 25 September 2023
﻿Purple Content﻿ Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Several minor optimisations
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor performance improvements
Deployment on Monday, 18 September 2023
﻿Purple Content﻿ Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Optimized post processing pipeline
Upgrade 🔼
Upgrade Spring Boot to 3.1.3
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Improvement 💫
UI improvements (navigation sidebar and header)
Bug Fix 🐛
Recommendations: smaller bug fixes
 Deployment on Monday, 11 September 2023
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor optimizations on the Purple Hub 
﻿Purple Content﻿ Cloud﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
Minor optimizations on the content pipeline
Improvement 💫
Catalog API: Improved documentation of search connection
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Improvement 💫
UI improvements (profile settings, drawer menu)
Maintenance 🛠️
Infrastructure performance improvement
 Deployment on Monday, 4 September 2023
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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Bug fix 🐛
More minor bug fixes for slug redirects, issue publishing and the encoding of image URLs
﻿Purple Content﻿ Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Performance optimization of the content pipeline
Improvement 💫
Catalog API: Allow searching for Custom Fields
﻿Purple Manager﻿
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Clean up 🧹
Improve setup time for Web Experience custom domains
Bug fix 🐛
CloudFront is not deactivated when the app is deleted
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Maintenance 🛠️
General stability improvements
Maintenance 🛠️
Upgrade of EKS and Kubernetes clusters
 Deployment on Monday, 28 August 2023
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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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
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Improvement 💫
'AppID' and 'copy-to-clipboard' are added to API View
Clean up 🧹
'Print subscription' checkbox is hidden
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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Improvement 💫
UI improvement on Purple Growth standalone interface
 Deployment on Monday, 21 August 2023
﻿Purple Hub﻿
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Improvement 💫
Redirects page: Added search and a setting to configure elements per page
﻿Purple Manager﻿
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Improvement 💫
Entitlement service: Support Asmiq Entitlement
﻿Content Cloud﻿
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Improvement 💫
Minor little changes to the Post Processor
﻿Purple Growth﻿
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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.
 

Purple Hub
Improvement 💫	Optimized German-language Labels in Hub We fixed the German-language labels in Hub, translating English labels that were shown there by mistake. More information can be found here.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor Maintenance Issues

Purple Hub
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor Maintenance Issues

Purple Hub
Improvement 💫	Use Prompts to fill specific custom fields ("ACF fields") Purple prompts got more powerful: You can now directly fill out custom fields with your favorite AI prompt. For example you could extract locations from an article and add them to a metadata field. Learn more in the Purple Docs.
Improvement 💫	Finalize your article with one click Define a set of prompts to apply, and they all get executed simultaneously. You can now finalize your article in one click. Title, excerpt, meta-description, custom fields, social message, ... all in one go! Learn more in the Purple Docs.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor Maintenance Issues

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Hub
Improvement 💫	Improved search configuration The search configuration has been updated to prioritise exact matches when you're searching for specific article titles in the post overview e.g. for feed (articles), issues or dossiers.
Improvement 💫	New user role "Hub Editor" is now also available for use in the Purple Hub The Hub Editor role will be created in Purple Manager and will also be accessible in the Purple Hub, allowing users with this role to automatically log in to the Purple Hub. This role is designed for Hub Users who primarily work within the Purple Hub and do not require permissions to make changes in Purple Manager. This role provides administrators and project teams with a flexible and secure way to manage access to selected apps. Please contact us if you have any questions about this update! Learn more in the Purple Docs or read the Product Update.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Improvement 💫	Improved login experience & email notifications We have made updates to enhance the login experience and improve communication through email notifications for smoother user interaction. Design: We have adjusted text, buttons and visual design to make the steps clearer and more appealing. Communication: Feedback messages (e.g. for incorrect logins or password resets) have been redesigned to make the process more transparent and easier to understand.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Improvement 💫	New Hub Editor role in Purple Manager From this Monday, you'll see the new Hub Editor role option available in Purple Manager. Key details: Availability: You will be able to select the Hub Editor role in Purple Manager from Monday 18 November. Activation: Role permissions will go live the following week, on Monday 25 November, after the scheduled Purple Hub release. The Hub Editor role will be created in Purple Manager and will also be accessible in the Purple Hub, allowing users with this role to automatically log in to the Purple Hub. This role is designed for Hub Users who primarily work within the Purple Hub and do not require permissions to make changes in Purple Manager. This role provides administrators and project teams with a flexible and secure way to manage access to selected apps. Please contact us if you have any questions about this update!

Purple Hub
New Feature ⭐	Share filters with your team (for article overview in Feeds, Issues and Dossiers) Filter sharing: Users can share saved filters with their team so that all Purple Hub members can see the same information. My Filters vs. Public Filters: The filter panel now clearly separates 'My Filters' (personal) from 'Public Filters' (shared with the team) for easy navigation and organisation.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Hub
Update 🔼	WordPress Update to version 6.6. This update contains significant UI changes in the article Sidebar. Please read our Product Update for further details.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Hub
Improvement 💫	Performance improvements: We've optimised some settings for better performance. You may notice faster loading times and a smoother experience when using the Purple Hub.

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Hub
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

Purple Content Cloud and Purple Manager
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor maintenance changes

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

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

Updated 16 Jan 2025

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Product updates

Release Notes

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.

Purple Hub
New Feature ⭐	Adjustable autosave frequency
Bug Fix 🐛	Several minor bug fixes

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 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 Hub
Improvement 💫	Make custom fields visible and filterable in the new post overview
Bug Fix 🐛	Featured Image change overrides last image in article

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 Hub
Improvement 💫	Ongoing work on new Post Overview UI
Bug Fix 🐛	Ongoing work on Bulk Publisher improvements

Purple Hub
Improvement 💫	Ongoing work on new post overview
Bug Fix 🐛	Publish button disappears in custom set-ups

Purple Growth
Improvement 💫	Migration of the Purple Growth standalone UI to 2.0
Maintenance 🛠️	Minor Maintenance
Bug Fix 🐛	Minor Bug Fixes

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 Growth
Improvement 💫	Improve entity recognition in Link Optimizer
Bug Fix 🐛	Link Optimizer generates overlapping links

Purple Growth
Improvement 💫	Revamped Purple Growth sidebar: Enhanced usability, eliminated redundancies, and refined interaction capabilities.
Bug Fix 🐛	Minor bug fixes

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 🛠️	Optimized post processing pipeline
Upgrade 🔼	Upgrade Spring Boot to 3.1.3

Changelog

Deployment schedule

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Deployment on Monday, 25 March 2024

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Deployment on Monday, 11 March 2024

Deployment on Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Deployment on Monday, 4 March 2024

Deployment on Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Deployment on Monday, 26 February 2024

Deployment on Monday, 19 February 2024

Deployment on Monday, 12 February 2024

Deployment on Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Deployment on Monday, 5 February 2024

Deployment on Monday, 22 January 2024

Deployment on Monday, 15 January 2024

Deployment on Monday, 18 December 2023

Deployment on Monday, 11 December 2023

Deployment on Monday, 4 December 2023

Deployment on Monday, 27 November 2023

Deployment on Monday, 20 November 2023

Deployment on Monday, 13 November 2023

Deployment on Monday, 06 November 2023

Deployment on Monday, 30 October 2023

Deployment on Monday, 23 October 2023

Deployment on Monday, 16 October 2023

Deployment on Monday, 9 October 2023

Deployment on Monday, 25 September 2023

Deployment on Monday, 18 September 2023

Deployment on Monday, 11 September 2023

Deployment on Monday, 4 September 2023

Deployment on Monday, 28 August 2023

Deployment on Monday, 21 August 2023

Purple Growth
Improvement 💫	UI improvements (navigation sidebar and header)
Bug Fix 🐛	Recommendations: smaller bug fixes

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 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
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.