Changelog

This release adds full support for Eleventy in CloudCannon. Try Eleventy with your own custom site or with one of our templates. Read our documentation for details on how to configure your Eleventy site for CloudCannon.

We’ve made some updates to the flow for creating a new site. Helpful suggestions are displayed prominently if the first build fails. Terminal output has been replaced with configuration tips for non-technical editors. Build options are sorted more neatly into accordions.

This release also introduces a new configuration file for CloudCannon, which can be used to streamline the site creation process by defining build configuration in advance.

Features:

• Full support and new starter templates for 11ty
• Updated site creation pages and loading states
• Updated build failed state with more prominent fix suggestions
• New product tips for non-developer template build screens
• Support for a new build configuration file for CloudCannon
• CloudCannon branding has been removed from emails to site users who need to set up an account
• Terminal output can be enlarged during the site creation flow
• noTimes is now enabled by default for Hugo sites
• npm install is now run automatically for Hugo sites with a package.json file

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue which could slow down build times
• Fixed an issue where build suggestions could sometimes get stuck loading

This release brings our new preview options used in Snippets (Hugo shortcodes) and Structure configuration to a number of inputs. We’ll be bringing these across to collections next so that configuration is consistent everywhere. We’ve also included a number of other features and fixes in this release.

Features:

• Move text_key, subtext_key, image_key and icon to new preview option for Select, Multiselect, Choice, Multichoice, Object and Array inputs.
• Creating configuration from the site setup task list now pre-populates the configuration file with automatically discovered settings and helpful comments.
• Improved design for unsubscribe link on various emails.
• The configuration cascade now includes schemas, allowing you to configure _inputs differently per schema.

Fixes:

• Change placeholders in Captcha form to look more like placeholders.
• Fixed some icons displaying incorrectly in Safari.
• Show user menu on organization list.
• No longer incorrectly highlighting https protocol as insecure in some places of the interface.
• Fixed default structure previews not displaying correct text and subtext.
• Re-ordered site authentication select input to show options in order of complexity.
• Fixed links shown in some brand colors being unreadable.
• Now correctly using icon from schema for add_options derived from schemas.
• Fixed an edge case missing billing changes when transferring sites in some cases.
• Security updates for services.

This release adds support for Eleventy snippets! Now you can configure your custom Liquid or Nunjucks shortcodes and add them directly to your content.

Features:

• Default snippet configuration for Eleventy
• Added Java and Graphviz support to the build machine
• Changed the look of the Organisation setup task-list progress indicator
• Added an option to force reconnection when a site has a syncing error

Fixes:

• GitHub App integration no longer requires admin permissions
• Fixed a bug causing nested folders in certain custom Hugo collections to be hidden

This release provides a number of useful options for controlling the size of some of our larger inputs in the Data Editor. We also now allow JPEG profile images and have a nicer title-to-filename mapping.

Features:

• Resize options for Rich Text inputs.
• Resize options for Code inputs.
• Allow JPEG profile images.
• Improve slugify behavior for new filenames.
• Improved initialization of new Hugo shortcodes in the Content Editor.
• Added Hugo snippet templates for shortcodes with no arguments.

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug with escaped characters in Hugo shortcode parameters

This release adds much-requested support for Hugo shortcodes in the Content Editor! And boy, we are excited to get this feature out.

CloudCannon automatically supports all built-in Hugo shortcodes. Over the coming months we’ll start to reveal more of the bigger picture for our Snippets feature, which will include full support and integration for shortcode equivalents in other static site generators (like Liquid tags in Jekyll and Eleventy), as well as full MDX support. Read the full Hugo shortcode release post in our blog.

Features:

• Added support for Hugo shortcodes with Snippets
• Updated structures to use the new preview options
• Update to the login screen
• Trial accounts can add additional shares above base plan limits

Fixes:

• Fixed issue where schema keys are not applied to new collections items
• Change plan modal closes after navigation to the subscription screen
• Fixed a syncing issue when multiple sites were connected to the same branch
• Fixed a syncing issue after changing branches
• The subscription screen now includes the current plan’s name
• Security updates to all services