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The latest updates and product improvements.

January 08, 2025

Introducing the Update Builder

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We're excited to introduce the new Update Builder feature! This tool empowers you to manually gather multiple commits into a single update, streamlining the process of creating cohesive customer updates. With the Update Builder, you can manage commits efficiently and generate comprehensive updates with ease.
The feature includes a user-friendly dashboard that organizes commits by date and allows for easy interaction with your commit cart. You can now view commit information dynamically, ensuring a smooth and intuitive experience as you prepare your updates. Additionally, the cart items are now scoped by team, providing seamless transitions between different team contexts without mixing items from other teams.
We've also made several enhancements to the underlying functionality, ensuring better performance and a more organized user interface. These changes include improved database management for cart items, optimized page-specific data loading, and a refined navigation structure.
To access the Update Builder, look for the feature in the navigation bar, which is now conditionally available depending on your feature settings. We hope this new addition enhances your workflow and makes managing updates even more efficient!

December 30, 2024

Performance Optimization for Product Data Access

We've made a performance improvement related to managing multiple products within your account. 

This change helps streamline our system, ensuring that your experience remains fast and efficient—getting those updates to customers in a flash!

December 21, 2024

Enhanced Styling for Published Updates

We've improved the styling of our published updates to enhance your user experience. The updates are now wrapped in a new div element, allowing for better layout management.
Additionally, we've improved the look of the updates page to ensure that the interface looks great on all devices, providing a more polished and user-friendly appearance, even if your customers are browsing on the go.

December 21, 2024

Enhanced Update Page with Infinite Scroll

We're excited to introduce infinite scroll pagination to the team updates page! 

We know how important that "jaw-dropping" moment is when you show a customer (or a potential customer) your changelog and it seems to go on foooreeeverrrrr, this new infinite scroll feature makes sure that you still get that same "wow" effect while also loading the page quickly. 

Best of both worlds!
By implementing this feature, updates will now load seamlessly as you scroll, eliminating the need for manual page switching. This means you can view more content effortlessly while enjoying a smoother and more efficient browsing experience.

December 20, 2024

Improved Performance with Asynchronous Loading

We've made some behind-the-scenes enhancements to improve the performance of our application. User-related operations, such as loading your teams and products, now happen asynchronously. This means that your experience will be smoother and faster, especially when accessing your account and related data.

Additionally, we've optimized the way customer updates are processed, ensuring that the information you see is always up-to-date without unnecessary delays. These improvements aim to make your interaction with our platform more efficient and enjoyable.

December 19, 2024

Introducing the Update Builder

We're excited to introduce the Update Builder feature, a powerful new tool designed to help you efficiently gather and manage multiple commits into a single customer update. This functionality simplifies the update process by allowing you to select and bundle relevant commits, ensuring a cohesive and consistent update delivery.
With the new Dashboard, you can now easily organize and view commits by date, providing a clear overview of changes and enhancements, then generating an update specifically for the selected commits.
We're adding this feature to both allow customers to be specific on which commits should be turned into updates as well as providing an interface for many commits to be written as one update.
These updates are part of our ongoing commitment to improving your user experience by providing more control and visibility over your software updates and interactions.

December 13, 2024

Improved Email Display in Navbar

We've made an important update to how email addresses are displayed in the navbar dropdown. Previously, some users experienced issues with the display of their email address being obfuscated, resulting in a placeholder like "[email protected]" being shown instead. This was due to a conflict with Cloudflare's email protection feature.

To ensure a smoother and more accurate experience, we've adjusted the display settings to disable this feature in specific instances, allowing your actual email address to be visible where intended. This change enhances usability by ensuring you see the right information at the right time.

December 12, 2024

Automatic Default Product Creation for New Users

We've made it easier for new users to get started by automatically creating a default product when they sign up and create a team. This change ensures that new users can immediately begin using the platform without encountering errors, even if they haven't completed onboarding by connecting a GitHub repository.

If you're a new user, this means you won't run into issues when attempting to create a manual update, as the application will no longer require you to have an associated product from the start. You can rename this default product anytime to better reflect your work.

This update enhances the onboarding flow and improves the overall stability of the application, ensuring a smoother initial experience for all users.

December 10, 2024

Improved Manual Update Publishing

We're excited to share that we've fixed an issue with our manual update publishing process. Previously, when trying to publish a manual update, you might have encountered an error. This issue has now been resolved, ensuring a smooth and error-free publishing experience.
Additionally, we've enhanced the publication date selection by dynamically generating date options based on the actual commit dates. This improvement allows for more accurate scheduling and flexibility when publishing updates.

December 06, 2024

New Feature Alert: Manual Update Creation

Have you ever wanted to add an update totally unrelated to recent product development to your Changebot hosted update page?

Well, now you can!

We've added a new feature that allows you to manually create customer updates directly from within the platform. This new feature is designed to give you greater control and flexibility over how you communicate updates to your customers.
The process is made easy with a user-friendly update creation page found right on your dashboard behind the "Write Update" button.

As we look to add more features around updating your customers and distributing the content we know that being able to add your own update to the feed is a killer addition.

Give it a try and let us know what you think! 

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