March 16th, 2023 | Minor
This release provides increased support for static sites built with Astro and marks the end of our beta.
Try our Sendit template, a fully featured Astro template optimized for visual editing in CloudCannon. Check out our starter guide for Astro here.
Features:
- Commit message templates are now available to all users.
- Build configuration fields now use a mono-space font for better readability.
- When exporting form submission data to CSV, the form data is now separated nicely into columns.
- Updated build suggestions for errors occurring on some versions of Astro.
- Bridgetown and Lume SSGs are now available in beta.
- The Intercom chat widget has been replaced by Hubspot for contacting support in app. There will be no change to how support is delivered.
Fixes:
- Logging out of site authentication now works more reliably.
- Fixed a bug preventing the upload of files with certain strings of characters in the filename.
- Fixed a bug preventing files in an Azure DAM from being selected.
March 14th, 2023 | Minor
This release adds integration with GitHub Enterprise Server as a Git Provider.
Features:
Fixes:
March 7th, 2023 | Major
All changes from our Beta environment are officially released. These changes include consolidation of information to the site dashboard, menus for switching between project branches more easily, greater configurability of the CloudCannon interface, and an overhaul of our documentation site.
If you need to go back for any reason, click "Enter CloudCannon Legacy" in the contextual menu in the bottom-left of the app.
Features:
- Site activity is now shown on the Dashboard, and reports are shown on the Status page.
- When editing a site, you can now use a dropdown in the top-left to quickly access the associated project, and other sites from that project.
- Consolidated preview options for collections.
- You can now configure the color of icons in the CloudCannon interface, using the
preview.icon_color option.
- Added bespoke icons for more source file types
- CloudCannon can now auto-detect Forestry and Netlify CMS configuration on new sites and migrate it to CloudCannon configuration.
Fixes:
- Fixed a case where the branch name in the sidebar would not update when the source branch was changed.
- Fixed a typo on the Forms setting page
- Fixed an issue related to nested post/draft collections in Jekyll
March 2nd, 2023 | Minor
This release fixes issues relating to collection configuration. The options and default behavior for commit templates has also been updated.
On Tuesday 7 March 3pm NZT (2am UTC), changes from the CloudCannon Beta will be released to all users. There will be an option to "Enter CloudCannon Legacy" next to your personal settings if you need to go back for any reason.
Features:
- Added a new commit template placeholder to match the existing default commit message. Non-data placeholders can use any filters.
Fixes:
- Site files can no longer be assigned to multiple collections at once
- Fixed a bug where collections configured at specific paths were ignored in Jekyll sites.
February 24th, 2023 | Minor
This release provides increased support for static sites built with Gatsby and marks the end of our beta. Try out our fully featured Gatsby template called Sendit.
Features:
- Gatsby support is no longer in beta.
- Added automated suggestions for several common build issues.
- The UI for image inputs have been reworked to display more helpful information.
- Commit messages have a larger text area for editing by default. Inputs for commit messages can now be configured for finer control.
Fixes:
- Popups in the editor will now resize automatically when moving between parent/child objects of different sizes.
- Prevent blank popups from opening when clicking on uneditable snippets.
- Added some checks to confirm before overwriting DAM files, in case of filename collisions.
February 15th, 2023 | Minor
The link editor will now allow you to add rel="nofollow", when you want to prevent search engine crawlers from following links.
We have also noticed an issue with builds failing for sites using Astro versions 2.0.7 and above. We have added a build suggestion to the app that should fix these sites. Affected sites should change their Astro version to 2.0.6 until a later Astro release that fixes this issue.
Features:
- A "nofollow" option is now available when editing links.
- The Sendit template is now available for Gatsby and Nuxt, in beta.
- Added a suggested fix for a known build issue with Astro
v2.0.7 and above.
Fixes:
- DigiCert is now deprecated as a certificate authority for SSL. Affected users will be sent advice about how to proceed.
- Requests to sites with invalid routing rules will now result in informative error pages, instead of generic 500 errors.
February 13th, 2023 | Minor
This release fixes a bug, stemming from the previous release, which prevented image uploads in the editor in some cases.
Fixes:
- Prevent the Save button from breaking after an image is uploaded.
February 10th, 2023 | Minor
This release provides support for the recent Eleventy version 2.0.0. A number of other features and fixes are also included.
Features:
- More explanation around Cloudinary fields when adding DAM.
- Increased support for Eleventy/11ty
v2.0.0.
- Increased build time limit to 30 minutes (except on legacy plans).
Fixes:
- Filename prompt for new data files no longer empty.
- Preview images in the Data Editor no longer fail to load when the path/URL contains spaces or some other non-ASCII characters.
February 8th, 2023 | Minor
This release fixes a bug that made the Data Editor fail to load.
A number of items that were documented in our last changelog were not included in the previous release. They have been included in this release, and we apologize for any confusion caused.
Fixes:
- Fixed a bug where certain inputs with null values caused the Data Editor to crash
- Fixed SAML authentication callbacks for subpath sites
February 7th, 2023 | Minor
This release adds full support for static sites built with Next.js. Check out our starter guide for tips on configuring your Next.js site for CloudCannon. We have also released a new Sendit template for Astro.
The CloudCannon Beta is now open to everyone to preview upcoming CloudCannon features and improvements. You can switch in and out of the Beta by using the button in your user profile in the bottom left.
Features:
- Support for Next.js is now out of beta.
- Updated the Sendit template for Next.js.
- Added a Sendit template for Astro.
- The CloudCannon Beta is now available to everyone.
- MDX is now supported in the Content Editor.
- Added support for the hugo.toml configuration file.
- On-going incident reports are now visible from the login page.
- Automatically give new sites a sensible name based on the source, if not named deliberately.
- Increase the maximum size for uploaded .zip files to 500mb, and improved the error message when this limit is exceeded.
- When creating a backup of your site, there is now an option to exclude the .git folder for a smaller download size.
- Added Deno to the build image
Fixes:
- Fixed a bug preventing the index page of a multilingual Hugo site from being opened in the Visual Editor.
- Handle a potential edge-case bug on the fileserver.
- Fix trial text overflowing the sidebar.
- Fixed a bug preventing files from being compressed if they contained an invalid srcset attribute.
- Fixed a handful of issues that could occur when creating pages and posts on a Jekyll site with a custom source directory.
- Improved performance of editor for pages with unknown snippets.
- Fixed an issue where a misconfigured array could prevent the Data Editor from opening properly.
- Fixed an issue where Partners could never complete the organisation setup checklist.
- Builds are now marked as failed if they output no files.
- Fixed an issue where image previews failed to load when the image path contained certain Unicode characters.