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Visual Editor performance improvements

August 10th, 2022 | Minor

This release brings significant performance improvements for live editing on the Visual Editor. We have also added resolution options for git conflicts, a cleanup job for old logs, and several general fixes.

Features:

• 2x faster live editing updates on the Visual Editor
• Added options to resolve git conflicts on pull in Source Syncing settings
• Added scheduled job to clean up old builds, syncs, and build deploys logs
• Reduced divergent branch conflicts with merge commits

Fixes:

• Fixed syncing errors sending multiple email notifications
• Fixed Visual Editor not loading when using custom CSS
• Fixed issue not saving changes to site publishing settings
• Fixed issue with select box inputs getting cutoff within panels and models
• Fixed race condition error when moving the same file multiple times
• Fixed error when handling files with a name longer than 250 bytes

Editor and syncing fixes

August 5th, 2022 | Minor

This release includes a number of follow up improvements and fixes from recent large releases. Thank you for reporting these issues and your patience while we resolved them. Contact support if you have any further issues or feedback.

Fixes:

• Fixed handling filenames that are over a certain length
• Fixed a number of minor JavaScript errors

Editor fixes

August 4th, 2022 | Minor

This release includes a number of follow up improvements and fixes from recent large releases. Thank you for reporting these issues and your patience while we resolved them. Contact support if you have any further issues or feedback.

Features:

• Optimized application payload.

Fixes:

• Dates saved in YAML are now correctly persisted in configured timezone rather than UTC.
• Jekyll publishing workflow no longer generate multiple saves.
• Sequential saves no longer generate empty commits.

Editor Improvements

August 3rd, 2022 | Major

This release brings our series of editor improvements and features to everyone in CloudCannon. After weeks of Beta testing and ironing out a few bugs, we are excited to bring this new functionality to users. Our release from Beta also includes several new features and bug fixes:

Features:

• Ability to edit multiple files before saving and triggering a build
• New save button behavior
• New review screen for unsaved changes
• Edit immediately after saving changes, even while your build is in progress
• Allowed editing of front matter on unpublished HTML files in the visual editor
• New option new_preview_url to set your preview to another page’s output URL
• Support for nested inputs in _inputs config (e.g. seo.title will select title within the seo object)
• Search added to our documentation using Pagefind

Fixes:

• Fixed regression in syncing file permissions
• Fixed syncing issue with large diffs
• Fixed syncing issue with private submodules
• Filenames are trimmed when files are created
• Empty collections with schemas allow you to create new files
• Fixed issues with the source editor saving invalid data/markup
• Fixed issues with uploading after saving
• Fixed issue where create routes used an incorrect file type
• Fixed issue closing split editor after being prompted to discard changes
• Fixed path issues around creating new files in the source editor with custom source paths
• Fixed issue with generated pages not loading in the visual editor

Beta Features:

Some features on CloudCannon can be turned on by the support team. These are still in testing and are subject to change. Reach out to support if you want to try these new features.

• Ability to write custom commit messages

Need more time on the old version?

If you, your team, or your clients need time to acclimate to the new saving flow and prefer to switch to the old way, we’ve added access to Legacy CloudCannon in your account settings menu.

Syncing improvements

August 1st, 2022 | Major

This release drastically improves source syncing. CloudCannon can now recover from errors hit when pushing/pulling with external Git repositories.

Features:

• New option to swap connected branches without disconnecting and reconnecting repositories
• External Git errors are recovered from and retried in subsequent syncs
• Resolution options added to source syncing settings
  • Create new branch from commits on CloudCannon
  • Reset to origin
  • Reset to a different external branch
• Backups include the .git folder allowing for faster recovery
• New branch connection UI
• Better source syncing and build deploy output logs

Fixes:

• Fixed button position for external repository site creation
• Sync history updates on failed syncs

Output Syncing renamed to Build Deploys

July 27th, 2022 | Minor

This release renames Output Syncing to Build Deploys and moves the feature to the hosting section in the Site Settings. Build deploys are used to deploy your built files to an external provider. User interviews identified confusion with which syncing to use (output or source) and we hope this clears things up.

Features:

• Renamed Output Syncing to Build Deploys

Fixes:

• Resolved circular reference error on visual editor load

Improvements to SSO users onboarding

July 22nd, 2022 | Minor

This release improves the process of onboarding new users through SSO. We've also simplified the context menu when editing arrays on the Data Editor.

Features:

• Better workflow to SSO onboarding
• Simplified context menu for editing arrays. The option to add a new structure is now a sub-context menu
• Added support for Referrer-Policy and Permissions-Policy as custom headers

Fixes:

• Fixed unclear error message when failing to login with a provider

Nested object schemas

July 15th, 2022 | Minor

This release adds support for nested objects within your collections schemas. We've also added support for Pipenv on the build server, and released a variety of bug fixes.

Earlier we released a set of major improvements to the CloudCannon Editors on open beta. You can read all about the changes in our Editor improvements blog post.

Features:

• Collection schemas now support nested objects
• Installed Pipenv on the build server

Fixes:

• Fixed an SSO issue with Microsoft Azure
• Fixed a copy issue on the SSO settings page
• Using the enableGitInfo Hugo build option will no longer break the build
• Fixed a link to the documentation not opening in a new tab
• Fixed Gemfile autodetection in a site's vendor folder

Lowered Bitbucket permissions

June 15th, 2022 | Minor

This release lowers the number of permissions that CloudCannon asks for when connecting to Bitbucket. CloudCannon users who signed up using Bitbucket will be asked to accept the new permission set when re-logging in. Other users who have connected their Bitbucket account to an organization will need to disconnect then reconnect this Bitbucket account.

We've also changed how we store git provider details, and released a couple of fixes related to syncing files.

Features:

• Lowered the number of required permissions for Bitbucket
• Standardized the git provider connection in the backend. You may be prompted to reconnect your git provider

Fixes:

• Fixed an issue when cloning files with Git LFS enabled
• Authentication for self-hosted GitLab should now automatically refresh

During this release we also caused some build delays. During this half an hour period, builds were not queuing correctly. This has all been resolved and sites impacted have been built.

Organization setup guide

June 9th, 2022 | Minor

This release contains a new Organization setup guide to help on-board new organizations. This replaces the 'Home' menu item in the app sidebar. Your organization dashboard can now be accessed by clicking the logo in the top of the sidebar.

We've also added the ability to trial the Team Plan, and you can now view the sync logs for your site. Also included in this release are a number of bug fixes.

Features:

• Organization setup guide
• Organizations that are on trial of the Standard Plan can now upgrade their trial to the Team Plan. This will not extend your trial duration
• Sync logs are now available on your site status page, which may help you debug syncing issues
• Emojis are now allowed in site names 🎉💯😎🙌

Fixes:

• Fixed a bug preventing new DNS records from being shown after creating them in the app
• Quoted status codes in routing.json will now be correctly processed