We are thrilled to announce the powerful Analytics feature, designed to give you a comprehensive view of how your organization interacts with Contentstack's suite of products—CMS, Launch, Automate, and more.

You can now effortlessly monitor and manage your usage data across all the products in one place, making it more intuitive and centralized.

Key Highlights:

• Product-based Segregation: Easily track and manage analytics specific to CMS, Launch, Automate, and more. This segregation ensures that you can easily manage usage metrics for each product individually, providing clarity and precision in your analysis.
• In-Depth Metrics: Access a wide range of metrics, including status codes, cache usage, SDK usage, top URLs, and more, all in one unified interface. This unified interface ensures that all critical data is at your fingertips, empowering you to make informed decisions.
• Advanced Filters and Saved Views: Apply filters to narrow down data based on projects, services, time ranges, and more. Save your filter combinations as custom views for quick access to insights you frequently monitor.

More on the Way: This is just the beginning. Our team is actively working on additional features such as granular API traffic and logs, deeper insights for Launch-hosted websites, and other powerful tools to help you make data-driven decisions across the board.

This enhancement empowers you with a streamlined and efficient way to oversee and optimize your organization's interactions with all Contentstack products.

Note: Analytics is currently available only to organization Owner and Admin roles. The ability to share access with additional user roles will be available soon.

For more details, visit our documentation.

Enhancements:

• cli-audit (v1.12.0):
  • Added a summary section in CLI for Audit Fix to improve clarity in CLI output.
• cli-config (v1.12.0):
  • Updated the AWS region names to support AWS-NA and AWS-EU.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

• cli-cm-import (v1.21.1):
  • Upgraded dependency packages to enhance stability and maintain security compliance.

Documentation Updates:

• cli-config (v1.12.0):
  • Updated the Configure Regions in the CLI doc to include the AWS-NA and AWS-EU regions.

We’re pleased to share the latest enhancements to the XTM app:

• Full Page UI Location: The XTM app is now available in a Full Page UI dashboard, offering a more expanded and focused translation experience.
• App Configuration Updates:
  1. Workflow Stages: Introduced new translation workflow stages—Request, In Progress, Completed, and Error—to give you better visibility into translation progress.
  2. Select Roles: Selected roles will be applied to both the Sidebar Widget and Full Page UI locations.
  3. Version Naming: You can now append the master locale to the version name for better version tracking.
  4. Character Limit Validation: Translators can now view maximum and minimum character limits directly in the XTM dashboard to ensure compliance.
• Project Name: Providing a project name is now mandatory when creating a project in the Sidebar Widget or Full Page UI location.

To learn more, refer to the XTM App Installation Guide.

We’ve added support for Subfolders in Knowledge Vault, giving you more control over how you organize and manage its contents.

Now, you can group related items into folders—making it easier to navigate large volumes of content and select what gets included in your AI prompts.

This is especially useful for things like translation, where teams may want to separate content by language or topic while still working from a shared kit.

To learn more, refer to the Knowledge Vault documentation.

Exciting news—your CMS just leveled up! We’ve expanded key platform limits to support larger projects, faster workflows, and smoother scaling.

What’s New?

• Bulk Actions: Bulk publish/unpublish up to 100 entries at once
• Fields per Content Type: Now you can define up to 500 fields, up from 400
• Asset Folder Limit: Now add up to 10,000 folders per stack—previously capped at 5,000
• Content Types per Reference Field: Expanded from 30 to 50 content types per reference field
• Entries per Reference Field: Reference up to 200 entries in a single reference field (up from 150)
• Modular Blocks per Entry: Up to 100 instances supported per entry
• Modular Block Definitions: Add up to 100 block types per instance
• JSON RTE Instances per Content Type: Increased from 10 to 15
• JSON Custom Field Size: Now supports up to 100 KB (10x the previous limit)
• Management Tokens: Create up to 30 management tokens, up from 10

These updates give your team more flexibility and control across large-scale content operations. Reach out to our support team for more information.

Enhancements:

• Migrated CLI from oclif v3 to v4 to ensure long-term compatibility and stability.
• Replaced deprecated ux.table() with the new cliux.table() utility based on tty-table.
• Standardized table rendering across all commands for consistent CLI output.
• Impacted internal plugins::
  • cli-audit (v1.11.0)
  • cli-auth (v1.4.0)
  • cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.14.0)
  • cli-cm-branches (v1.4.0)
  • cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.8.0)
  • cli-cm-clone (v1.14.0)
  • cli-cm-export (v1.16.0)
  • cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.8.0)
  • cli-cm-import (v1.21.0)
  • cli-cm-import-setup (v1.2.0)
  • cli-cm-migrate-rte (v1.5.0)
  • cli-cm-seed (v1.11.0)
  • cli-command (v1.4.0)
  • cli-config (v1.11.0)
  • cli-migration (v1.7.0)
  • cli-utilities (v1.10.0)
  • cli-variants (v1.2.0)
  • contentstack-cli-launch (v1.8.0)
• Impacted external plugins::
  • contentstack-apps-cli (v1.5.0)
  • contentstack-cli-content-type (v1.3.0)
  • contentstack-cli-tsgen (v3.5.0)

We’ve released the all-new Amazon S3 app in our Marketplace! This DAM app integrates Amazon S3 with Contentstack, allowing you to access and manage your S3 files directly within Contentstack entries.

With this app, you can upload new assets or select multiple assets from your Amazon S3 account and add them to Custom Fields or JSON Rich Text Editor fields. For example, you can easily insert product images stored or recently uploaded in S3 into your entries—no need to download and reupload.

To learn more, refer to the Amazon S3 App Installation Guide.

We’ve expanded our global reach! Contentstack now supports a new region: GCP Europe, giving you greater flexibility and control over where your data is stored and how it's managed.

What’s New?

• New Region Availability: Select GCP Europe (Belgium) as your primary region when creating a new organization. All data in this region is backed up in GCP Frankfurt, ensuring reliability and redundancy.
• Optimized Performance: Enjoy faster access and content delivery for your European user base, powered by Google Cloud’s robust infrastructure.
• Dedicated URLs: To access the app and the APIs for this region, use the gcp-eu prefix in your URLs:
  • App Login URL: https://gcp-eu-app.contentstack.com/#!/login
  • API Base URL: https://gcp-eu-api.contentstack.com/

The data storage for GCP EU is entirely remote and separated from other supported regions in Contentstack.

Learn more about regions in our documentation.

We're excited to introduce three impactful enhancements across both the HTML and JSON Rich Text Editors in Contentstack.

These updates will help you effortlessly build complex tables, manage images, and fine-tune image layouts—making your content creation faster, smarter, and more intuitive.

Let’s look at them in detail:

Smarter Table Merging for Cleaner, More Dynamic Layouts

Crafting organized tables is now simpler and more flexible:

• Merge Header Cells: Group multiple rows under a unified header for improved readability.
• Advanced Merging: Merge already-merged cells for complex layouts without starting over.
• Seamless Row/Column Adjustments: Add or remove rows and columns, even within merged sections, without disrupting your table’s structure.

These improvements streamline your table editing experience, helping you present data clearly with minimal effort.

Multi-Image Selection for Faster Visual Management

Easily manage visuals without repetitive uploads:

• Bulk Image Insertion: Quickly insert multiple images at once—no more uploading one by one.
• Cross-Folder Selection: Choose images from different folders without navigating back and forth.
• Ordered Insertion: Images appear exactly in the order selected, maintaining content flow.

This update makes image handling quicker and more intuitive, perfect for blog posts, product pages, or galleries.

Auto-Adjust Image Dimensions for Responsive Display

With automatic resizing, images adapt seamlessly to your layout and screen.

• Smart Sizing: Enable auto-adjust within image properties to let images scale automatically, ensuring they fit the editor's available space for optimal visibility across devices.
• Manual Control When Needed: Disable auto-adjust for precise sizing by defining custom width and height.
• Persistent Settings: Custom dimensions are saved automatically, turning off auto-adjust for that image.

This enhancement ensures your visuals always look polished and professional effortlessly.

Try out these enhancements today and experience smoother, smarter editing in Contentstack.

Enhancements:

• Added missing branch flag handling in cli-cm-import-setup (v1.1.2).
• Published packages to npmjs in the following plugins:
  • datasync-mongodb-sdk (v1.0.10)
  • datasync-filesystem-sdk (v1.0.16)

Bugs & Security Fixes:

• Masked Contentstack patterns and OAuth tokens in the following plugins:
  • cli-cm-export (v1.15.2)
  • cli-cm-import (v1.20.2)
  • cli-utilities (v1.9.0)
  • cli-variants (v1.1.6)
• Validated multiple field is an array in cli-audit (v1.10.0).
• Upgraded dependencies in the following plugins:
  • cli-auth (v1.3.25)
  • cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.13.3)
  • cli-cm-branches (v1.3.1)
  • cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.7.4)
  • cli-cm-clone (v1.13.3)
  • cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.7.4)
  • cli-cm-migrate-rte (v1.4.22)
  • cli-cm-seed (v1.10.3)
  • cli-config (v1.10.1)
  • cli-migration (v1.6.6)
  • cli-tsgen (v3.4.1)
  • datasync-content-store-filesystem (v2.1.2)
• Fixed RTE JSON field handling and removed unused imports in types-generator (v2.3.1).

We are thrilled to introduce several updates to Contentstack Automate, designed to enhance its functionality and user-friendliness. Here’s a glimpse of what’s new:

New Anthropic Connector

The Anthropic connector empowers you to integrate advanced AI capabilities into your automation workflows by leveraging Claude models from Anthropic, a leading AI research company focused on safe and reliable AI systems.

This connector offers the Chat action, enabling you to generate intelligent, context-aware responses for text and image inputs. With seamless integration via the Anthropic Console, users can fine-tune prompts, choose from multiple Claude models (like Claude 3.7 Sonnet), and access advanced features such as reasoning support, sanitized outputs, and token-level control.

Learn more about the Anthropic Connector.

New Gemini Connector

The Gemini connector lets you harness the power of Google’s Gemini AI model to generate intelligent chat responses from text and image prompts directly within your Contentstack automation workflows. The connector simplifies AI integration through a single Chat action, making it ideal for content creation, support automation, or creative applications.

Learn more about the Gemini Connector.

Other Improvements

• Copy, Paste, Delete, and Clone Action Steps: You can now easily copy, paste, delete, or clone action steps anywhere in your automation, making workflow adjustments quicker and more efficient.
• Editing Project Variables: Seamlessly update Project Variable values during automation imports. Changes are instantly reflected in the recipe and the Project Variables tab, ensuring consistency and accuracy.

Here’s an overview of the latest updates in Contentstack Launch:

• Remix Framework Support:

  Launch now supports hosting projects built with the Remix framework, enabling seamless deployment of modern web applications.

• Support for Node.js 22.x:

  We've added support for the Node.js 22.x runtime, ensuring compatibility with the latest Node.js features and improvements.

• Launch CLI in CI Environments:

  You can now utilize the Launch CLI within Continuous Integration (CI) environments. For implementation details, refer to the CLI for Launch documentation.

• Troubleshooting for Monorepo Build Failures:

  We've introduced enhanced troubleshooting support for monorepo build failures, assisting you in diagnosing and resolving issues more efficiently.

• Bearer Token Authentication for Log Targets:

  Launch now includes Bearer Token authentication in Log Target requests, adding an extra layer of security to your logging processes.

• Redeploy Across Environments with CLI:

  The Launch CLI plugin now supports an --environment flag, allowing you to seamlessly redeploy projects across multiple environments.

We’re excited to announce new enhancements to the Aprimo app:

• Advanced Settings in Configuration: You can now view the additional Aprimo meta fields in the assets JSON object within the entry.
• Multiple Configuration Support: The Aprimo app now lets you set up multiple configurations for Custom fields and JSON Rich Text Editor, enabling connections with multiple accounts.
• Advanced Configuration: You can now define optional parameters in the advanced configuration settings to customize the selector page's behavior.
• Locale-Specific Configurations: New locale-based settings for assets provide finer control based on language preferences.

To learn more, refer to the Aprimo App Installation Guide.

We’ve added new enhancements to the Wordbee app:

• 2:1 Language Mapping: Map two Wordbee languages to a single Contentstack language for more flexible and consistent translation workflows.
• Project Naming Convention: You can now view the full Entry Title in your project names by using the new Contentstack Entry Title custom field in the Wordbee dashboard.

To learn more, refer to the Wordbee App Installation Guide.

We’re excited to announce new enhancements to the Salesforce Commerce app:

• Multiple Configuration Support: The Salesforce Commerce app now supports multiple configurations for custom fields, allowing you to connect more than one account.
• Custom Field Advanced Configuration: In the Custom Field Advanced Configuration settings, you can now configure optional parameters to modify the behavior of the selector page.
• Locale-specific Config Parameter Support: New locale-specific settings for product and category custom fields allow more precise control based on language preferences.
• Search Category in Selector Page: You can now easily search for categories within the selector page, helping you quickly locate and select the desired category.

To learn more, refer to the Salesforce Commerce App Installation Guide.

New Features:

• cli (v1.36.0):
  • Added support for GCP-EU.

Enhancements:

• cli (v1.36.0):
  • Added versioning to assets and entries that will be published using Bulk Publish.
  • Introduced Audit and Audit Fix to check and correct the publish details of entries and assets.
• datasync-filesystem-sdk (v1.0.16):
  • Updated release.yml actions to the latest versions and upgraded to Node.js v22.
• datasync-content-store-mongodb (v1.0.9):
  • Updated release.yml actions to the latest versions and upgraded to Node.js v22.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

• cli (v1.36.0):
  • Fixed general bugs and improved stability.
  • Upgraded Axios to version 1.8.2.
• datasync-manager (v2.0.8):
  • Fixed SRE issues related to URL sanitization.
• datasync-content-store-mongodb (v1.0.9):
  • Refactored error messages in deletion, publishing, and unpublishing test cases.
  • Updated dependencies.
  • Upgraded to Node.js v22.
• datasync-content-store-filesystem (v2.1.1):
  • Updated Node.js version to 20 in the Readme.md file.

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Import Content using the CLI doc to include the skip-assets-publish and skip-entries-publish flags.
• Updated CLI documentation for the GCP-EU support.

We’re excited to introduce nested reference filtering in the Contentstack GraphQL API! This feature allows you to filter referenced entries within a reference field, ensuring you retrieve only the most relevant data and bring more precision and flexibility to your queries. By refining your queries at a deeper level, you can optimize data retrieval, reduce payload size, and improve the overall API performance.

What’s New?

• Filter nested references: Retrieve only the entries that match your criteria
• Refine results further: Apply multiple filters
• Optimize API queries: Fetch only the data you need

This feature is plan-based. To enable it, contact our support team. Learn more in our GraphQL API documentation.

Collaboration just got easier! With shared views, you can share your saved and filtered searches with specific users or roles within your stack, ensuring your teammates always have quick access to the right content.

What’s New?

• Share your Saved Views: Save time by sharing your custom search filters for entries or assets with teammates, eliminating the need to set up the exact search multiple times.
• Control Access: Assign view or edit permissions based on team needs. Users with view permission can use the shared filters but not modify them, while users with edit permission can update the shared view.
• Instant Availability: Once shared, the view appears immediately in the recipient’s Saved Views list under entries or assets—no additional setup is required.
• Simplified Management: You can modify access levels or remove users at any time, giving you full control over who can view or edit the shared search.

With shared views, collaboration is faster, smoother, and more organized, ensuring that everyone has access to the most relevant content exactly when they need it.

Learn more in our documentation.

We're thrilled to introduce several updates to Contentstack Automate, designed to enhance its functionality and user-friendliness. Here’s a glimpse of what’s new:

New Actions in the Transform Connector

Elevate your data management capabilities with new actions added to the Transform connector. These enhancements allow you to:

• Aggregate data to calculate totals, averages, and other key metrics.
• Filter information based on specific conditions to refine your data insights.
• Sort data to organize it more effectively.
• Transform date and time values with precision.
• Convert objects into JSON format for enhanced compatibility and integration.
• Merge multiple datasets into a cohesive output.
• Modify object fields by adding, removing, or updating them for tailored data structures.
• Remove duplicates to keep your data clean and accurate.

Learn more about the Transform Connector.

Enhancements:

• Added support for maxContentLength and maxBodyLength keys in the Export and Import commands.

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Import and Export documentation to reflect the new maxContentLength and maxBodyLength parameters.

We’ve introduced new features to make the Contentstack GraphQL API even more powerful, giving you greater flexibility and precision in managing your content.

• Strict Type Checks on Non-Nullable Fields: Ensure data integrity with strict type enforcement on mandatory fields. If a required field is missing, an error will show. You can enable this by passing the x-graphql-strict-typechecks: true request headers.
• 8KB Payload Restriction Removed: The previous 8KB payload limit no longer applies, allowing for more extensive and flexible API queries.
• Filter Assets by Parent Directory: Easily retrieve assets based on their parent directory using the parent_uid filter, making asset management more structured.
• Filter Assets by Permanent URL: Filter assets using their permanent URLs with the permanent_url filter, helping you quickly locate specific files.
• Sort Responses by Published Time: Sort API responses based on the published_at timestamp in ascending or descending order for better content organization.

Note: Sorting responses by published time and strict type checks on non-nullable fields might not be enabled by default for your organization. Reach out to our support team to enable them for your organization.

These enhancements improve efficiency and give you more control over your GraphQL queries. Try them out today!

Refer to our GraphQL API documentation for more details.

We have introduced updates to the Constructor connector, including a new action. Highlights include:

New Action: Delete an Entry action

The Delete an Entry action in the Constructor connector enables you to remove product details from your e-commerce website's index. This helps ensure that outdated or irrelevant product information is no longer accessible in search results, keeping your product catalog accurate and up-to-date.

Example Use Case: Whenever an entry is unpublished from Contentstack, this action deletes the entry from the Constructor website’s index.

For more information, visit Constructor Connector documentation.

Enhancements:

• types-generator (v2.2.0):
  • Added support for JSON RTE fields.
• datasync-content-store-filesystem (v2.1.0):
  • Added support for enableContentReferences and enableAssetReferences.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

• contentstack-import-setup (v1.0.1):
  • Fixed an issue where extension UID was missing due to incorrect Marketplace App UID mapping.
• datasync manager (v2.0.7):
  • Upgraded package: braintree/sanitize-url.
• datasync-content-store-filesystem (v2.1.0):
  • Fixed an issue for handling undefined objects.
  • Upgraded packages: rimraf, mkfrip.

We’ve expanded the options for setting Group field titles, giving you more control over how you organize content. In addition to the existing field options for Group titles, you can also use values of Boolean, Rich Text, JSON Rich Text, Markdown, or Reference fields.

This update makes identifying and managing Groups within your entries easier, streamlining your workflow and saving you time when handling complex content structures.

Start leveraging these additional title field options today!

For more details refer to our documentation.

We’re excited to introduce the Content Type Sidebar UI Location, a powerful feature that enhances content types with additional functionality. This location ensures consistency at the schema level, making it easier for developers to optimize content workflows. Apps using this location will appear in the right navigation panel under Apps.

For more information, refer to the Content Type Sidebar UI Location documentation.

Content Type Sidebar UI Location in Marketplace Developer Tools App

The Developer Tools app now integrates seamlessly into the Content Type Sidebar, offering deeper content analysis and intelligent suggestions. For TypeScript users, the sidebar provides instant type definitions for API responses, streamlining your development process like never before!

To learn more, refer to the Developer Tools App Installation Guide.

Enhancements:

• cli (v1.35.0):
  • Added support for branches and global fields in the import-setup command (v1.0.0).
  • Added skip-app-recreation flag in the import plugin.
• types-generator (v2.1.0):
  • Added support for nested global fields.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

• contentstack-cli-tsgen (v3.2.0):
  • Updated workflows and test cases to enhance functionality and security.

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Import Content using the CLI documentation to include guidance on overwriting existing content.
• Introduced new documentation on Overwriting Existing Content using the CLI Import.

We have introduced several updates to Automate this month, including new actions and enhancements. Highlights include:

New Contentstack Management Branch Alias Actions

Simplify your branch management with new Branch Alias actions in Contentstack Management. These actions help maintain an organized development workflow by enabling features like assigning new aliases to branches, reassigning existing aliases, deleting aliases, and retrieving details of a single or all branch aliases.

Learn more about Contentstack Management Branch Alias Actions.

New On-Demand Automate Connector Action: User Draft Update

Update entries in real-time with the User Draft Update action through the Automate app in the Entry Sidebar. This action dynamically updates the entry whenever an automation is executed, enhancing real-time content management.

Learn more about User Draft Action.

New Data Store Action: Clear Data

Ensure data integrity with the new Clear Data action. This action allows you to manually delete outdated, unnecessary, or sensitive information, which is particularly useful for maintaining accurate data storage when working with dynamic data updates, such as those generated through Set Data or Append Data actions.

Learn more about Clear Data Action.

New ChatGPT Action: Translate an Entry

Automatically translate content into multiple languages with the new Translate an Entry action. This action leverages ChatGPT's advanced API models for accurate and context-aware translations, reducing manual effort and ensuring consistency across multilingual content.

Learn more about Translate an Entry Action.

New Trigger: Entry Variant

Automate workflows based on changes to entry variants with the new Entry Variant trigger. This trigger is especially useful for content teams managing updates, localization, or stakeholder communications, automating notifications and other processes to enhance efficiency.

Learn more about Entry Variant Trigger.

New Feature: Export and Import Automation

Streamline your workflow deployment across projects with the new Export and Import Automation feature. This feature allows for easy backup and migration of automation setups as JSON files, which is ideal for testing or maintaining consistency across environments.

Learn more about Export and Import an Automation.

New Feature: Error Management for Action Steps

Improve workflow efficiency with enhanced Error Management for Action Steps, allowing flexible error handling to keep critical processes running smoothly.

Learn more about Error Management for Action Steps.

Other Improvements:

• Update Variant of an Entry Action: This enhancement allows you to update or fetch Change Set data, enabling seamless updates to entry variant data in the CMS.
• Enhanced Recipe Feature: The new pre-installation details feature provides more context during recipe installations, improving clarity and user experience.
• Data Store Connector – Set Data Action: The Set Data action now includes a Data Expiration Time field, allowing for better data lifecycle management.

Enhancements:

• Added support for server command in cli-launch (v1.5.0)
• Added redeploy-latest & redeploy-last-upload flag in launch command for cli-launch (v1.5.0)
• Added support for enableContentReferences and enableAssetReferences in datasync-content-store-mongodb (1.0.8)

Bug and Security Fixes:

• Fixed Synk issues in:
  • datasync-mongodb-sdk (1.0.8)
  • datasync-filesystem-sdk (1.0.15)
  • datasync-content-store-mongodb (1.0.8)

We're excited to introduce new data-saving options for Form.io JSON keys, which will give you greater control over how form data is stored in your entries.

• All Fields: Automatically include all keys from the response data structure.
• Custom Fields: Select specific form keys to store only the data you need.

We've also made technical enhancements to improve app performance and flexibility.

To learn more, refer to the Form.io App Installation Guide.

We're thrilled to introduce the Contentstack Shopify Integration!

Effortlessly sync products and collections between Shopify and Contentstack CMS. With real-time, bi-directional updates, you can manage content, create custom content types, and synchronize data seamlessly using webhooks.

This integration streamlines your workflow, providing a seamless content management experience across all your digital channels.

Learn more in the Contentstack Shopify Integration Guide.

We’re excited to announce new enhancements designed to make your publishing workflow faster and more efficient!

What’s New?

• Increased Bulk Limit: You can now select up to 100 top-level entries directly from the entry listing page for bulk publishing or unpublishing—10x more than before!
• Seamless Reference Handling: The selected 100 entries can collectively include up to 50,000 nested referenced entries, and our system will process all of them seamlessly.

Ready to experience these upgrades? Navigate to your entry list page and give it a try! If you have any questions, refer to our Bulk Publish and Bulk Unpublish documents or reach out to our support team.

Enhancements:

• Added auto-installation of TSGen Plugin in the CLI.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• cli-cm-regex plugin (v1.2.2):
  • Updated dependency versions.
• datasync-filesystem-sdk (1.0.14):
  • Fixed an issue where the non-published references were returned by DataSync when using the include([Array of refs]) function, causing UIDs to become mixed up.

We’ve upgraded Advanced Search with a powerful enhancement to help you find exactly what you need:

• "Does not contain" Operator: You can now exclude specific values from your search results for more precise filtering by selecting Does not contain from the operator field within Advanced Search.

Enhancements:

• Added entry locale and content-type UID in generated audit reports.
• Introduced support for custom region types-generator (v2.0.3).

Bug & Security Fixes:

• CLI:
  • Fixed server response errors when fetching server logs using CLI Launch.
  • Resolved inconsistencies between flag descriptions in the documentation and the CLI UI.
  • Fixed type mismatch issues in generated types using the types-generator (v2.0.3).
• datasync-filesystem-sdk (1.0.13):
  • Updated broken links in the Readme.md file that previously pointed to non-existent pages.
• datasync-mongodb-sdk (1.0.7):
  • Fixed all failing test cases.
  • Resolved SRE and Snyk issues.

We’re excited to announce that you can now customize image dimensions within the HTML and JSON Rich Text Editors (RTEs), giving you greater control over your content.

You can now:

• Set custom width and height for images directly within the image properties panel.
• Lock the aspect ratio to maintain proportional scaling when resizing images by adjusting the width or height.

This update gives you more control over how images are displayed, making it easier to create polished and professional content.

Try it out today to elevate your content editing experience!

We’re introducing new enhancements to the Bynder app:

• DAT Feature Support for Multi-Select Mode:: The Bynder app now supports the Digital Asset Transformation (DAT) feature in Multi-Select Mode, enabling you to apply predefined or custom asset transformations to multiple files simultaneously.

To learn more, refer to the Bynder App Installation Guide.

We’re introducing new enhancements to the XTM app:

• XTM custom fields drop-down: Select and configure custom fields to ensure their values are reflected in XTM during project creation.
• Exclude languages drop-down: Refine language options in the sidebar by removing unnecessary languages in the updated app configurations.
• Translate and Status Tabs:
  • Translate Tab: Create projects with options to add a due date and description and manage fields.
  • Status Tab: Track project progress with details like creation date, time, and submitter’s name. Cancel individual translation jobs or entire projects as needed.

To learn more, please refer to the XTM App Installation Guide.

We have introduced several updates to Automate this month, including new actions and enhancements. Highlights include:

New Contentstack Management Content Type Action: Get a Single Content Type

This action lets you fetch details of a specific content type in Contentstack.

For example, localizing entries for a content type like Product Details. You can retrieve the schema to create language-specific workflows, ensuring consistency. Localized data can then be seamlessly added as new entries in the CMS.

Learn more about Contentstack Management Content Types - Get a Single Content Type action.

New Brand Kit Action: Get Data Chunks from Knowledge Vault

Retrieve relevant data chunks from the Knowledge Vault in your Contentstack Brand Kit. You can fetch a maximum of two relevant data chunks at a time.

For example, Efficiently retrieve specific brand assets, like introduction or guidelines, for campaigns using the Get Data Chunks of Knowledge Vault action. This ensures only relevant data is fetched, reducing bandwidth, improving performance, and maintaining brand consistency across marketing channels.

Learn more about the Brand Kit - Get Data Chunks from Knowledge Vault action.

Other Improvements:

• Scheduler by Automate Trigger Connector: We have upgraded the trigger functionality by introducing flexible time intervals, including minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and custom CRON expressions. This enhancement allows you to precisely define trigger intervals, set specific execution times, and leverage optional metadata fields for advanced automation. With detailed examples and versatile customization options, you can seamlessly tailor schedules to fit your unique requirements.
  

  For example, you can schedule recurring emails to remind your team about weekly meetings or set up automated weekly or monthly Slack messages to keep your team on track with specific tasks.

  Learn more about the Scheduler by Automate trigger connector.

• Automate App Enhancements: We have enhanced the capabilities of the Automate App in the Entry Sidebar location. You can now configure Input Options within the On-Demand Automate trigger and view the modal directly in the Entry Sidebar during automation execution. This allows you to input a request in the designated field and receive a response in the Response modal upon execution.
  

  Learn more about the Automate App.

We are thrilled to unveil the Notifications panel, which is gradually rolling out to all users. The bell icon lets you keep track of essential updates like weekly summaries, app requests, and collaboration invites.

Key Features:

• Instant Alerts: A red dot on the bell icon indicates unread notifications.
• Interactive Updates: Respond to updates or requests directly from the panel.
• Streamlined Management: Mark notifications as read or delete them individually or in bulk.
• Organized View: Group notifications by Date, Product, or Type for easy navigation.

This exciting update will be available to your organization soon. Stay tuned! Read more.

The Healthcheck app is a personalized Full Page Location app that provides a clear overview of your stack's performance.

The app provides advanced tracking capabilities, enabling precise examining of key health metrics while providing personalized insights to empower informed decision-making regarding your stack's health.

Install the Healthcheck app now from our Marketplace and unlock a suite of tools designed to keep your stack at its absolute best.

To learn more, refer to the Healthcheck App Installation Guide.

Find what you need faster with greater precision in Advanced Search.

What’s new:

• Text field: Use the new Text field option in the Content Type or Field dropdown to do a full text search using Advanced Search.
• Search by Title or URL: You can now search by Title or URL across all content types.
• ‘Is Empty’ and ‘Is Not Empty’ filters: Use new operators to narrow down search results or identify empty or populated fields.

To learn more about all the ways you can use Advanced Search, check out our documentation.

We’re excited to announce new enhancement to the BigCommerce app:

• Multiple Configuration Support: The BigCommerce app now supports multiple configurations for custom fields, allowing you to connect more than one account.
• Category Structure Support: You can now choose to save the data based on the category id using the Category Structure.
• Custom Field Advanced Configuration: In the Custom Field Advanced Configuration settings, you can configure optional parameters to modify the behavior of the selector page.

To learn more, please refer to the BigCommerce App Installation Guide.

Here’s what’s new with Contentstack Launch:

• Read-Only User Role:

  A new Read-Only role is now available, enabling users to access Launch projects without the ability to make changes.

  Explore the different user roles and their functionalities in Launch.

• Load Testing:

  We’ve introduced a comprehensive checklist to help you conduct effective load testing on Launch.

We’re excited to announce new enhancement to the Bynder app:

• Max Limit: Now you can set the maximum limit to add assets in the custom field to ensure optimal performance.
• Single Select Mode: You can now select only one asset at a time in Single Select mode, simplifying asset management and improving workflow precision.
• Bug Fixes: Resolved bugs to enhance the overall performance and user experience of the Bynder app.

To learn more, please refer to the Bynder App Installation Guide.

We’re introducing Variant support in Webhooks, allowing you to trigger webhooks for actions specific to entry variants across content types, entries, and environments.

Key Highlights

• Track Variant Actions: Get notifications when an entry variant is created, updated, or deleted across different content types or specific entries.
• Environment-Specific Publishing: Get notified on publish or unpublish events for variants in specific environments, including success or failure notifications.
• Workflow Stage Changes: Trigger webhooks when entry variants move through workflow stages.
• Monitor Discussions and Comments: Track activity on discussions or comments within variants, including creation, resolution, or reopening events.

Visit the Webhooks module in your stack to set up variant-enabled webhooks. For more details, see our documentation.

We’re excited to announce new enhancement to the commercetools app:

• Multiple Configuration Support: The commercetools app now supports multiple configurations for custom fields, allowing you to connect more than one account.
• Locale-specific Config Parameter Support: New locale-specific settings for Product and Category custom fields allow more precise control based on language preferences.

To learn more, please refer to the commercetools App Installation Guide.

Enhancements:

• Added support for bulk publishing of variants in the Bulk Publish plugin, allowing users to publish multiple variants simultaneously.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Resolved an issue with null values in the Select field of the Audit plugin to prevent errors during audits.

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Bulk Publish and Unpublish Content documentation to reflect support for bulk publishing of variants.

We have introduced several updates to Automate this month, including a new connector and enhancements. Highlights include:

Notion Connector

Easily manage and organize content in Notion with actions for creating, deleting, and retrieving Page and Database details. Use it to integrate Notion with other apps to streamline workflows, manage databases, and organize tasks.

Learn more about Notion Connector.

New Contentstack Management Variant Action: Get All Variants of a Content Type

Retrieve comprehensive details of all variants of a specific content type, making it easier to access and manage variant-specific content across multiple entries.

Learn more about the Contentstack Management Variants action.

Other Improvements:

• Contentstack Management Get All Entries Action: In the Customized Data (query) field, you can now retrieve entries created on a specific date, using date-specific operators like "Less than specified number" or "Greater than specified number" with the Created At and Updated At fields.
• ChatGPT Connector: Added a new option to the Response Type, allowing structured output to be retrieved in JSON format for easier data handling and integration.
• Payload Limit for the Output: In Automate's Design mode, test action output previews are now optimized—when a payload exceeds 1 MB, only the first 10 nodes of arrays are displayed. For payloads under 1 MB, the complete output is shown.

Brand Kit API Key Credentials:

We have introduced the API Key support in Brand Kit! You can now choose between Contentstack-managed Keys and custom credentials. This gives you the flexibility to align AI-powered content seamlessly with your brand's tone, style, and voice.

To learn more, refer to the Brand Kit documentation.

Brand Kit APIs Updates:

• Introducing two new APIs for getting and setting up the API Custom Credentials.
• Adding Postman Collections for Brand Kit Management API, Generative AI API, and Knowledge Vault API! Now, you can quickly access and test these APIs with dedicated Run in Postman buttons, making it easier than ever to integrate and manage your API configurations seamlessly.

To learn more, refer to the Brand Kit Management API, Generative AI API, and Knowledge Vault API documentation.

We’re introducing new updates to the AI Assistant:

• Brainstorm with AI Assistant: Engage in a conversational brainstorming chat with the AI Assistant to generate content easily with your AI-powered assistant.
• Enhanced Security for API Key Management: Improved API key management adds security for stored keys. A red dot next to your stack name in Manage > Installed Apps indicates a manual app update is needed to make changes to API keys.
• App Configuration UI Updates: The AI Assistant user interface has been updated to improve workflow. You can now enable or disable the Brand Kit Configuration before setting up the API Credentials. This prevents the overriding of API keys.

To learn more, refer to the AI Assistant with Brand Kit documentation.

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Contentstack Visual Builder, our new authoring experience that equips marketers and content editors with a visually intuitive canvas that simplifies how you create and manage content on your website.

With Visual Builder, you can:

• Edit in Real-Time: Instantly see changes as you make live in-line edits right on the page.
• Flexible Page Building: Create new pages with on-brand, drag-and-drop components —no coding skills required.
• Collaborate Seamlessly: Streamline your content development process by working seamlessly with your team in a single, intuitive interface.
• Personalize & Power with AI: Use the AI Assistant in the editor to quickly create personalized variations of your content and then preview how everything will appear to different audience segments.

Contentstack’s visual building experience is designed to help bring your content to life faster, reducing dependency on developers and accelerating time-to-market.

Start using Visual Builder today and unlock a new level of creativity and flexibility in content creation!

For more details, visit our documentation or contact our support team.

Enhancements:

• Updated the package type to Module (previously CommonJS) for improved compatibility and modern standards.

Bug Fixes:

• Enhanced the getData method to support both parameters and headers within the data object.

• Upgraded the SDK to support Node.js v20 for better performance and security.

We’re excited to announce new enhancements to the Cloudinary app:

• Multiple Configuration Support: The Cloudinary app now supports multiple configurations for Custom and JSON Rich Text Editor fields, including locale-specific settings for custom fields that provide finer control based on language settings.
• Asset Validations: Use new asset validation checks for Custom and JSON Rich Text Editor fields to ensure that assets meet configuration constraints for size, height, and width.

To learn more, please refer to the Cloudinary App Installation Guide.

Introducing the Coveo Automate Connector. This tool automates the process of managing content by either pushing content to a Coveo source or deleting outdated items.

Key Features:

1. Push Content: Automatically add new content from Contentstack to a designated Coveo source.
2. Delete Content: Remove outdated entries from a Coveo source as part of an automation.

For more information, visit Coveo Automate Connector documentation.

We have introduced exciting updates for content managers, helping them streamline the content creation process and enhance overall efficiency. Here’s a rundown of what’s new:

• Wider view for content editing: Fields on the entry editor now utilize the full-page width, giving you more room to create content and manage complex nested structures. Learn more about the improved editor layout.
• Create new entries from reference fields: Speed up your workflow by creating new entries directly from reference fields without saving the parent entry first. Maintain your workflow without interruptions. Learn how this feature streamlines your workflow.

  Note: The Create new entry button will only be visible if the Save In Progress Entry feature is enabled in your organization's plan. Please contact our support team for more information.

• Breadcrumbs for referenced entries: Easily navigate through nested references with breadcrumbs that keep your path visible, making it effortless to jump between nested reference entries. Learn how to navigate nested references effectively.
• Seamless embeds in JSON RTE: Insert embedded entries directly within the Rich Text Editor (RTE). Now, you can add embedded content immediately when needed, without any delays. Discover how to embed entries in JSON RTE.

Note: This feature will be gradually rolled out to all customers over the coming days.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixed the following GitHub issues:
  • Addressed an issue causing unhandled timeout exceptions when making API calls to Contentstack. This fix ensures smoother request handling and better performance during high-latency scenarios.
  • Fixed a JSON parsing exception triggered by malformed API responses. The SDK now gracefully handles such cases, enhancing error resilience and data reliability.
• Corrected inconsistencies in field ordering within SDK responses. This update ensures a more predictable and readable data structure across all operations.

New Features:

• Added a rate limit configuration option in the CLI for setting and removing the rate limits.

Enhancements:

• Added support for rate limits in bulk publishing of assets and entries.
• Replaced Developer Hub URL with getter method in the apps-cli plugin version 1.3.4.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Fixed the issue of missing variant entries when using the branch flag.
• Migrated oclif unit test cases from version 2 to version 4 in apps-cli plugin version 1.3.4.
• Resolved the exit issue that occurred when an organization was not selected in apps-cli plugin version 1.3.4.
• Handled the incomplete initial sync issue caused by entry references in datasync-manager version 2.0.6.
• Fixed the issue of lost references due to incorrect merge during schema list creation in datasync-filesystem-sdk version 1.0.12.
• Updated the getReference path method to remove duplicate values in datasync-mongodb-sdk version 1.0.6.
• Upgraded MongoDB to version 6 in datasync-mongodb-sdk version 1.0.6.
• Resolved a UID clash that caused TypeScript file generation issues in contentstack-cli-tsgen version 3.0.1.

We’re excited to introduce the ability to set custom rate limits for your management tokens!

This new feature allows you to define specific read and write request limits for each management token, giving you greater control over API usage at the token-level rate limits while staying within your organization’s overall limits.

• Default Rate Limit: Use the organization-wide rate limit
• Custom Rate Limit: Set tailored read and write requests per second per token

This update provides more flexibility to optimize API performance based on your stack's needs. Refer to our documentation for more details.

Note: This feature is currently available as part of an Early Access Program and may not be available to all users. For more information, you can reach out to our support team.

Enhancements:

• Added support for Personalize and Variants in the import and export CLI plugins.
• Added OAuth authentication support for Personalize and Variants in CLI.

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Import Content using the CLI, Export Content using the CLI, and Configure Regions in the CLI documents to include support for Personalize and Variants.

We’re excited to introduce several new updates designed to improve your content management experience. These enhancements focus on increasing efficiency in the entry editor and providing more intuitive access to your data. Here’s what’s new:

• Copy/Duplicate Modular Block Instances: Content managers can now copy or duplicate modular block instances in the entry editor. This feature helps content managers create copies of modular blocks with content, reducing manual re-entry and speeding up the content creation process.
• Improved Date Column Sorting: When sorting any date columns, the default behavior now displays records in descending order (most recent first) on the first click. This change helps you access the latest entries faster in fewer steps, offering a more streamlined column sorting experience.
• Reference Field Count Display: Reference fields that are marked as multiple now show the total count of referenced items. This update provides better visibility into the content relationships, allowing you to manage and track linked references at a glance.

These updates are designed to make your Contentstack experience even smoother and more efficient. Keep an eye out for more enhancements coming soon!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Audience Preview in Timeline, now available through our Early Access Program!

This new feature lets content managers preview how content variations will appear to different audience segments, such as geographic regions, customer types, or languages, directly within Timeline.

With Audience Preview, you can:

• Visualize content for specific audience segments in real-time.
• Ensure each user group experiences the most relevant and engaging content

To start using Audience Preview, ensure your Personalize project is linked to your stack. Then, link variant groups to content types and begin creating entry variants.

This feature simplifies content management for personalized experiences, ensuring each audience sees the most relevant version of your content.

For more information refer to our documentation on Audience Preview.

We have several updates to Automate this month, including new connectors, actions, and other enhancements. Highlights include:

Personalize Connector

Contentstack Personalize is our built-in optimization engine designed to deliver personalized content based on target audiences. It offers two types of experiences:

• Segmented Experience: Delivers content tailored to specific demographics and other factors.
• A/B Test Experience: Measures the performance of different content variations.

Within these experiences, you can create content Variants in the CMS, linked to Variant Groups (equivalent to Experiences in Personalize). The Personalize connector allows you to fetch details of all Audiences and Experiences within your Personalize project.

Example: You can automate the creation of new variants in the CMS by fetching experience data using the "Get All Experiences" and "Create a Variant" actions.

Learn more about Personalize Connector.

Contentstack Management: Variants Action

Variants are different content versions displayed to specific audiences, known as Variant Groups in the CMS, created within Experiences in a Personalize project. The Contentstack Management Variant Action allows you to update, publish, and fetch details of all variants in a Variant Group.

Note: You can create entry variants through Automate or the CMS, but Audiences can only be created using the Contentstack Personalize platform.

Learn more about the Contentstack Management Variants action.

Contentstack Management: New Action

Get Asset Reference Action: The new Get Asset Reference Action in the Contentstack Management Connector allows you to retrieve details of all entries where an asset is referenced.

For instance, if you need to update an asset's description and want to identify all entries where the asset is referenced, this action can be used to gather the entry details, enabling you to update the description accordingly.

Learn more about the Get Asset Reference action.

Other Improvements:

• Get User Information Action: This action lets you conveniently select multiple user IDs from the Suggested Data Elements drop-down menu. This automatically retrieves all user IDs generated in the previous steps, streamlining the entire process.

Here’s what’s new with Contentstack Launch:

• Troubleshooting GitHub Connection:

  If you encounter errors while repairing your GitHub connection, refer to the Troubleshooting section in the Repair GitHub Connection for Projects document.

  For GitHub integration issues, follow the steps in the Troubleshooting section in the Create a Project Using GitHub document.

• Supported Node.js Versions and Package Managers:

  Launch now supports Node.js versions 18.x and 20.x, and also provides support for the yarn package manager.

  For more details, refer to the Supported Node.js Versions and Supported Package Managers documents.

We are thrilled to announce a groundbreaking innovation – Contentstack Personalize (Early Access), the first-of-its-kind, edge-optimized personalization engine. Create customized experiences with unmatched speed at any scale. Edge-based APIs enable outstanding speed and a flicker-free experience plus it's all inside our CMS.

Deliver the right story to the right audience every time.

Key Features

• High Scalability: Handle large volumes of personalized content and user data easily, while maintaining peak performance as your audience grows.
• Low Latency: Deliver real-time, data-driven content with minimal delay, creating seamless user experiences.
• Seamless Integration: Integrate seamlessly with Contentstack CMS and third-party tools like Customer Data Platforms and Google Tag Manager. Simplify implementation and deliver cross-channel personalization with full support for Contentstack Variants.
• Comprehensive Analytics: Gain insights into user interactions to inform and optimize your personalization strategies.
• No-Code Personalization: Empower teams to create personalized experiences without writing a single line of code.
• Optimized Performance: Ensure fast load times and flicker-free personalization.

Key Components

• Attributes: Define key-value pairs to segment audiences and deliver tailored content. Learn more.
• Audiences: Create dynamic user segments based on shared behaviors and traits. Learn more.
• Experiences: Serve personalized content using Segmented and A/B Test Experiences. Learn more.
  • Experience Analytics: Analyze user interactions to drive personalization strategies. Learn more.
  • Experience Versioning: Manage multiple versions of personalized content with ease for testing and optimization.
  • Experience Prioritization: Adjust priorities for conflicting experiences to enhance engagement.
• Events: Track user interactions like clicks or conversions to measure performance. Learn more.
• Variants: Leverage Variants within Experiences to create, test, and manage multiple content variants directly in the CMS using Entry Variants, enabling streamlined workflow and dynamic personalization to optimize performance and deliver tailored content at scale. Learn more.

Integrations

• Twilio Segment Destinations: Streamline your content delivery with the Twilio Segment integration to enhance user engagement within Personalize. Sync custom traits, events, and audiences from Segments to Contentstack to deliver dynamic, personalized experiences across all user touchpoints in real-time. Learn more.
• Google Tag Manager (GTM): Simplify personalization management with the Personalize Actions GTM template. Sync user attributes, events, and triggers seamlessly with GTM to deliver dynamic, personalized content across your site without additional code. Leverage built-in tags to streamline tracking and optimize content delivery. Learn more.

APIs and SDK

• Personalize Management API: Perform CRUD operations and retrieve attributes, audiences, events, and experiences. Fetch analytics and geolocation reports to optimize personalization strategies. Manage the priority order of experiences to define their importance. Retrieve and update the experiences priority order using the appropriate API requests. Learn more.
• Personalize Edge API: Enable real-time, edge-based interactions to deliver personalized content quickly, minimizing latency and enhancing user experience. Learn more.
• Personalize Edge SDK: The JavaScript SDK allows you to personalize content for your Contentstack-powered digital properties, including fetching variants for the user, triggering events, setting attributes, etc. Learn more.

Support in CLI:

Import and export data for the Personalize modules (Experiences, Audiences, Attributes, and Events) linked to a stack containing your Variants via the CLI.

Please note that Contentstack Personalize is currently in its Early Access phase. We appreciate your participation as early adopters. If you're interested in joining our Early Access Program, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager. Your feedback is invaluable as we refine and improve this feature. Our goal is to roll out Contentstack Personalize to all users soon, providing a polished and valuable addition to your Contentstack experience. Join the private #personalize-ea channel in Discord to meet and share knowledge with other early access participants.

To learn more about Contentstack Personalize, refer to our documentation or contact our support team.

We are excited to introduce powerful upgrades to the release management process that will significantly streamline your content deployment:

• Bulk Add to Release: You can quickly select and add multiple entries to a release in one go, simplifying content deployment and saving time.
• Stack Bulk Task Queue: The new bulk task queue within a stack gives you a comprehensive view of items added to the release, ensuring better tracking and management.
• Release Locking/Unlocking: You can lock releases to protect them from unintended edits, ensuring your scheduled content remains intact. You can also unlock them anytime to refine your content prior to deployment.

These enhancements are designed to simplify your content management workflow, giving you greater control and flexibility over your publishing process.

To enable this feature for your organization, contact our support team.

We're excited to introduce new ways to extend and enhance your Contentstack experience with Machine to Machine (M2M) applications.

• Machine to Machine (M2M) Applications (Beta): Designed for server-to-server communication, M2M apps automate tasks like data syncing and backend jobs, ensuring smooth data flow between Contentstack and third-party systems.

These new capabilities empower developers and teams to streamline workflows and enhance platform functionality. Explore the possibilities with Standard and M2M apps in Developer Hub today!

To learn more, refer to the Introduction to Contentstack Applications documentation.

Introducing the JSON RTE Configuration in Trados, designed to streamline the translation process by converting complex JSON RTE objects into a single, easy-to-manage HTML code block. This enhancement ensures smoother content handling and improves efficiency for translators.

To learn more, refer to the Trados App Installation Guide.

You can now preview documents before adding them to your Brand Kit’s Knowledge Vault, the repository of contextual brand details used to keep AI responses consistent with your brand. Upload a document and key text details will be displayed instantly, allowing you to confirm its content before saving.

To learn more, refer to the Knowledge Vault documentation.

New Features:

• Compass Starter integration with the Bootstrap command (version 1.11.0).

Enhancements:

• Added support for generating separate interfaces for the modular blocks in the Tsgen Plugin (version 3.0.0).

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Updated the Axios Library to version 1.7.4.
• Fixed an issue in which CSV files were not generated for entries missing a Title field.
• Fixed an issue in which a select field was treated as empty when the data type was numeric and the value was 0.
• Resolved the audit failure issue in organizations with disabled branches.
• Ensured that branches present in custom roles are handled properly before importing to the Audit Plugin.

We’re thrilled to announce three new features designed to enhance your experience with Brand Kit:

• Collaborators: Invite and add people to manage a Brand Kit’s Voice Profiles. They can create, update, and delete Voice Profiles, making it easier for your team to maintain and configure your Brand Kit.
• Playground in Voice Profile: Experiment with AI-powered content generation directly within your Voice Profile using the new Playground feature. Leverage AI to spark creativity, refine brand messaging, and explore new content possibilities by enabling the Knowledge Vault.
• Knowledge Vault: Centralize, organize, and manage your essential brand information effortlessly through the Knowledge Vault user interface. Easily add, update, and delete items to ensure your brand assets are always accessible and up-to-date.

Learn more about these features in our documentation:

• Invite Collaborators
• Playground in Voice Profile
• Knowledge Vault

We’re excited to introduce our enhanced search functionality designed to help you find what you need quicker and easier than ever before.

Here’s what’s new:

• New, User-Friendly Search Bar

  Our updated search bar now offers options to refine your search by title, URL, and more, making it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for.

  
• Quick Filtering Options

  Save time by filtering search results with just a click. Whether you're looking for specific types of content or want to narrow down by categories, our quick filtering options have you covered.

  
• Saved Views

  Personalize your search experience! Our latest “Views” feature offers a simple method to save and retrieve your current page view. Save your preferred views for easy access, so you can pick up right where you left off.

  
• Easy Advanced Search

  Experience the simplicity of our new advanced search interface. The new intuitive interface provides visual representations of your set conditions and sub-conditions.

  
• Quick Search in the Header

  Access our new search bar directly from the header on any page. No matter where you are, searching has never been this seamless!

  

Start exploring these new features today and see how they can enhance your daily tasks!

Consider refreshing your browser or clearing the cache for a seamless experience. To learn more, visit our documentation.

Note: The new search experience is being rolled out to all customers in phases. So, if you don’t see the new search today, you will likely receive it in the next couple of weeks.

Enhancements:

• Added support for Launch and Developer Hub URLs in the Config region.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Updated Axios to version 1.7.4 in the apps-cli plugin (version 1.3.3).
• Fixed an issue with Launch URL creation in the Deploy command of the apps-cli plugin (version 1.3.3).

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Config Regions in the CLI document to include the --launch and --developer-hub flags.

We have several updates to Automate this month, including new actions in the Utility and Transform Connector and other enhancements. Highlights include:

Automation Sharing

Automations can now be easily shared between organizations using shareable recipe links. This feature streamlines collaboration and knowledge transfer while offering options to include or exclude Project Variables to protect sensitive information.

Learn more about Automation Sharing.

Transform Connector: New Action

Template Action: The enhanced Transform Action offers expanded capabilities for data transformation. You can now leverage predefined functions, HTML formatting, inline CSS, and custom helper functions to manipulate and structure your data more effectively. This provides greater flexibility and customization compared to the previous Transform action.

With the new Template action, you can send customized email newsletters to enhance your brand reputation.

Learn more about the Transform Connector.

Utility Connector: New Action

Log Action: The new Log Action in the Utility Connector lets you view outputs from previous steps directly in the Execution Log. This feature provides greater visibility into automation processes, aiding in troubleshooting and optimization.

Learn more about the Utility Connector.

We’re excited to introduce new shortcuts designed to make working with entry editors effortless!

Whether you’re navigating between entry sections or managing tables within Rich Text Editors, these shortcuts are here to help you work smarter and faster.

These enhancements will help streamline your editing process and help you work faster and efficiently. Try these shortcuts out and experience the difference!

We’re updating our password policies to enhance security. You can now set a minimum password length of 8 characters for all users.

For users in multiple organizations, the organization with the highest minimum password length will take precedence during password resets. This policy will also apply to existing users when their passwords expire and need to be reset.

For more details on configuring password policies, refer to our documentation.

Enhancements:

• New Script for Environment Mapping: Added a script to map environments from one stack to another, allowing entries to be published in the corresponding environment in the destination stack.
• Marketplace SDK Integration in apps-cli Plugin (version 1.3.2): Updated the apps-cli plugin (version 1.3.2) by replacing all API calls with the new Marketplace SDK for the reinstall and deploy commands.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• SRE Issues: Fixed all SRE issues.
• Breaking Test Cases in apps-cli Plugin (version 1.3.2): Fixed all breaking test cases in the apps-cli plugin (version 1.3.2).
• --org Flag Addition in apps-cli Plugin (version 1.3.2): Added the --org flag to the --help section, now included under FLAGS for all the commands and under EXAMPLES in the deploy command.

Enhancements:

• New flags for environment variables: Introduced new flags to allow adding environment variables in the Launch command.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Localization issue fixed: Resolved the issue where localized entries were being published from the master locale during the import operation.
• Region setting error fixed: Resolved the "cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'replace')" error that occurred when the region was not set while creating an app.

Documentation Updates:

• CLI documentation: Updated the CLI for Launch guide with flag changes for environment variables.

We’re excited to introduce significant updates to Automate this month, including new actions in the Google Vertex Connector and several other enhancements. Highlights include:

Retry Execution Feature in Execution Log

The retry executions feature allows you to configure an automation to retry if it fails due to API errors or missing configurations, up to two times. You can view the retry attempts in the execution log.

Learn more about the View Execution Log of Automations.

Google Vertex Connector: New Actions

Function Calling (Beta): Function Calling (Beta): This action enables specific function calling to allow an automation to interact with external APIs, opening the door to much more powerful automations. This functionality, when incorporated with Sub Automation, mini packaged automation steps available for reuse, can act as semi-autonomous AI agents that carry out time-consuming and other complex tasks.

Function Calling Response (Beta): This Function Calling Response (Beta) lets you format the output from the Function Calling (Beta) action and the Sub Automation.

These Function Calling actions are currently in beta on the Google Gemini side, and their availability is subject to Google’s beta program.

New Field in Send Prompt: We have added a new field in the Send Prompt action: System Instruction Text, to provide specific guidance or directives to the model, helping it understand the context and generate an appropriate response based on the provided prompt text.

Learn more about the Google Vertex connector.

Nested Lookup Feature in Box Connector and Contentstack Management - Assets Actions

The Box Connector and Contentstack Management Connector now support nested lookup for folders and assets.

Contentstack Management - Assets Actions: If you have assets stored in nested folders within your Contentstack CMS, you can select these assets to update, publish or delete them from the CMS.

Box Connector: If you have nested folders created in your Box account, you can select the folders and perform related activities.

Learn more about the Box Trigger, Box Action, and Contentstack Management - Assets Actions.

Enhancements:

• Added installation to handle missing modules while running the Migration command.
• Enhanced the CLI logger.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Fixed the org UID validation issue in CLI Launch.
• Updated UI texts for the Migration plugin.
• Fixed SRE issues in the apps-cli plugin (version 1.3.0).
• Fixed the invalid boilerplate error in the apps-cli plugin (version 1.3.0).

Documentation Updates:

• Updated the Apps CLI Plugin document with --boilerplate flag changes.

Here’s what’s new with Contentstack Launch:

• Automatic Deployments with Git Tags or Releases: Now you can configure automatic deployments on the Launch platform whenever you create a new tag or release in your Git repository. Learn how to set it up in our step-by-step guide.
• New Edge Functions Examples: We have added new examples in our Launch Edge Functions documentation, covering scenarios like zero-downtime deployments, optimizing content delivery for different devices, and enhancing security with single sign-on.

We are excited to introduce new authentication methods for Webhooks, which will provide enhanced flexibility and security. You can now choose from multiple authentication options that best suit your needs.

• Basic Auth: Use a username and password for simple integrations.
• OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials: Securely connect using a client ID and secret to obtain an access token for robust security and access control.
• Bearer Token: Use token-based access for secure, stateless communications.
• None: Open access for internal or less secure integrations..

Additionally, the Create a Webhook API request now supports these new authentication methods.

For detailed information on using the new authentication methods, please refer to the Secure Your Webhook documentation.

Reach out to our support team to have this feature enabled for your organization.

Managing future content updates can be challenging, especially in large-scale organizations where changes must be coordinated across multiple teams and regions, often conflicting with other ongoing projects and initiatives. That's why we're introducing Timeline. This new platform experience allows you to navigate through a visual timeline of your content, providing a clear view of future updates.

Timeline highlights:

• Preview future content: Preview the future state of any of your content, including specific entries or an entire interactive version of your website.
• Compare and collaborate: Easily compare versions side by side with highlighted differences to streamline the review and collaboration process.
• Personalized previews: When Personalize becomes available, preview content based on your audience data to see how it will appear to different segments.

Whether you're planning a new campaign, managing localized content, or coordinating updates across teams, Timeline makes it easier to ensure everything is aligned and ready to go live.

For more details, visit our Timeline documentation.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Resolved the issue where plugins installed from the Marketplace were removed from entries after cloning.
• Fixed SRE issues for the contentstack-cli (version 3.1.6) plugin.
• Fixed SRE issues and added Utility Deprecation Warning notes for the contentstack-export (version 1.6.4), contentstack-import (version 1.7.8), and bulk-publish-entries-assets (version 1.1.1) plugins.

We are excited to share the latest enhancements to the Brandfolder app:

• New data saving options for Brandfolder Assets
  1. All Fields: Ensure all information is retained by saving the full JSON data associated with an asset.
  2. Custom Fields: Only store what’s relevant by selecting specific keys to save from the JSON asset data.
• New view options for Brandfolder Assets within Custom Fields
  1. Thumbnail View: Easily find what you need fast using a new grid view that displays larger asset previews.
  2. List View: Browse your assets with a table view that provides a more comprehensive or specific look at asset details.

To learn more, refer to the Brandfolder App Installation Guide.

We are excited to share that we have added the following support to the Cloudinary app:

• Private Assets: You can now view private assets. This functionality allows you to access and manage media files that are not publicly accessible, ensuring that sensitive or proprietary content remains secure while still being available for authorized users within the Contentstack environment.
• Transformed Assets: Transformed assets are media files modified using Cloudinary's capabilities. This feature enhances and optimizes the user experience through effective asset management.
• Custom Field Advanced Configuration: In the Custom Field Advanced Configuration settings, you can configure optional parameters to modify the behavior of the selector page.

To learn more, refer to the Cloudinary App Installation Guide.

We are excited to introduce new Job Status API requests designed to help you efficiently monitor the status of publish and unpublish operations within Contentstack.

With these new API requests, you can:

• Retrieve Job Status: Check the current status of your ongoing jobs, ensuring you are always informed about their progress.
• Track Job Items: Access detailed information on each item within a bulk job, including their publish status, environment, and locale.
• Error Handling: Identify and troubleshoot issues more effectively by accessing detailed error messages.

To get started with the Job Status API, refer to our API documentation.

New Features:

• Introduced the app:deploy command in the apps-cli plugin version 1.2.0.

Enhancements:

• Added a flag in the Import plugin to exclude the import of global modules (Webhooks) when importing multiple branches of the same stack.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Fixed the audit failure that occurs when there are no publish_details included in the entry.
• Fixed SRE issues.

Documentation Updates:

• Added the app:deploy command updates in the Apps CLI Plugin document.
• Updated the Import document with a new flag to exclude the import of global modules.

We’re excited to introduce significant updates this month to Automate, including a new trigger in the Contentstack Trigger Connector and several other capabilities. Highlights include:

Contentstack Trigger Connector: New Trigger

• Job Trigger: With this trigger, you can initiate an automation whenever you bulk publish or unpublish entries, assets, and releases. Each job can involve multiple related items that require a specific action. For instance, publishing an entry with all the assets and entries it references is considered a single job.

Learn more about the Contentstack Job Trigger.

AWS S3 Connector: New Action

Get All Files action: This action lets you fetch the details of all the files from your AWS S3 bucket. You can select an optional Folder Name to fetch the files associated with the folder.

Learn more about the AWS S3 connector.

Automate App: New Updates

The Automate App now allows you to view the app within the Asset editor. To view the app within the Asset editor, you can configure the Asset Sidebar action from the On Demand Automation Trigger.

Learn more about the Automate App.

Additional Updates:

1. ChatGPT Connector: The Chat action now has a new field for selecting the response type. After choosing the type as JSON, you can generate a response in a valid JSON format.
2. Code Block Connector: The Code Block connector allows you to debug your code by inserting `console.log` statements at multiple points. This helps identify errors or failures at different stages. After testing the action, you can view the `console.log` outputs in the payload.

We’ve made the following updates to the Audience app:

1. Audience Tag Scopes: We have introduced two Audience Tag Scopes: Block and Inline. These scopes help provide more precise targeting and improved content personalization.

2. Bug Fixes: Resolved bugs to enhance the overall performance and user experience of the Audience app.

For more information, please refer to the Audience Plugin Usage Guide.

We are glad to announce two major updates that will help editors search content faster and get more done in less time. Here’s a quick overview of these updates:

• Partial keyword search: We now support searching by partial terms.
  Prefix matching is supported by default, meaning you can find entries with matching keywords just by entering the initial part of the keyword. For example, you can just enter the term ‘cap’ and hit enter to get entries containing the words cap, captain, capabilities, etc. To perform suffix or infix matching (i.e., search by the middle or end of the term), you can prefix *. For example, use ‘*tain’ to search for entries containing the words captain, curtain, or even entertainment.
  Learn more about partial keyword search.
• Enhanced dialog for entries and assets reference selection: We have enhanced the dialog you see while selecting reference entries or assets. These modals are now much larger, allowing you to add, remove, or resize table columns. You can also use filters or sorting options for the data columns to find what you want quickly.

Enhancements:

• Added pagination support in Entry Migration.
• Added Marketplace SDK support in the Apps CLI Plugin for the Create, Install, Delete, Get, and Update commands.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Fixed the issue causing nested folder creation for assets in the Entry Migration scripts.
• Fixed the issue with entry creation containing RTE fields.
• Removed the deprecation warning message appearing before command execution in Node.js version 21 and above.

We're thrilled to introduce Taxonomy-based Permissions in Contentstack! Empower your team with custom roles tailored to your needs!

With Taxonomy-based Permissions, Stack Owners, Admins, and Developers have more flexible permissions to finely tune access to entries based on specific taxonomies and terms.

Here are the key benefits:

• Granular Access Control: Pinpoint access to specific entries, ensuring users focus on what matters most to their role
• Enhanced Security: Shield sensitive data by restricting access only to authorized personnel, fortifying your organization's defenses
• Operational Efficiency: Streamline workflows for large teams by defining clear roles and permissions, reducing the risk of unauthorized changes, and ensuring smooth operations
• Enhanced Scalability: As your need for diversification grows, add new taxonomies and corresponding roles without disrupting existing workflows

Leverage this new addition to streamline team collaboration and workflows on content projects, safeguard sensitive information, and propel your organization toward success!

Explore Taxonomy-based Permissions in Contentstack today!

We’ve released the all new Digizuite app in our marketplace. This app integrates Digizuite with Contentstack, allowing users to access and manage their Digizuite files directly within Contentstack entries.

With the Digizuite app, you can select multiple files from your Digizuite account and add them to Contentstack's Custom or JSON Rich Text Editor fields. For example, if you have product images in Digizuite, you can easily insert them into your Contentstack entries without needing to download and reupload them.

To learn more, refer to the Digizuite App Installation Guide.

We're excited to announce the general availability of Contentstack Brand Kit – a new platform tool designed to ensure AI-generated content aligns with your brand’s intended voice across all digital touchpoints.

To learn more, explore the Brand Kit documentation.

Brand Kit – Key Features

• Voice Profile: Set up custom profiles that provide instructions that shape AI content’s tone, style and language used.
• Knowledge Vault: A repository to store, manage, and organize all brand-related content that the AI uses to ground responses or supplement its knowledge.

Brand Kit Integrations

• Marketplace AI Assistant: Apply Brand Kit within the AI Assistant to incorporate your Knowledge Vault and Voice Profiles into your AI prompts. Refer to our Get Started with Brand Kit guide for instructions on using this seamless integration. .
• The Brand Kit Connector for Automate: Control the voice of your AI-generated content within Automate workflows. The Brand Kit connector can be used to fetch Voice Profile data, automatically generate on-brand content, and even manage the contents of your Knowledge Vault.

Brand Kit Management APIs

• The Brand Kit Management APIs enable you to perform CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on your Brand Kit and Voice Profile.
• You can use the Generative AI API call to take a prompt, process it based on the respective Brand Kit and Voice Profile, and generate the content.
• The Knowledge Vault API is a repository for storing, managing, and curating brand-related data. It allows you to ingest, update, and delete content and get usage data.

If you have any questions or need more information, please contact our Customer Support team.

This month’s update for Automate introduces a new Brand Kit connector and the Marketplace Automate app. Highlights include:

Brand Kit Connector Actions

Brand Kit lets you streamline the management of brand identity and guidelines for your content. It uses brand-specific data stored in the Knowledge Vault and defined Voice Profiles to ensure AI-generated content aligns with your brand's style and messaging.

The Brand Kit connector enables you to perform several specific actions within your automations:

• Generative AI Action: Retrieve responses generated using a Voice Profile and the Knowledge Vault. This action fetches a response based on the provided prompt and can use the Knowledge Vault for improved precision.
  
  

  Learn more about Generative AI Action.

• Knowledge Vault Actions: Manage the contents of a Knowledge Vault with various operations, such as creating, deleting, updating, and fetching item details to leverage the content stored within the Knowledge Vault to enhance your brand voice.
  
  

  Learn more about Knowledge Vault Actions.

• Voice Profile Actions: Retrieve and manage Voice Profile details and Brand Kit components, and apply specific brand voice and style rules to your automations.
  
  

  Learn more about Voice Profile Actions.

Marketplace Automate App

The Marketplace Automate App integrates Automate into the CMS experience, allowing you to access and execute automations from Automate right within the content entry sidebar. This is especially useful for running automations on-demand, giving you flexibility beyond scheduled or automated triggers.

The Automate app brings all of Automate's functionalities into your CMS entry editor where you can view a list of all active automations and execute them with a single click.

Learn more about Automate App.

Here’s what’s new with Contentstack Launch:

• Now, execute your code closer to your users’ locations with Contentstack Launch’s Edge Functions.
• Server Logs are now available for up to 24 hours and show up twice as fast as before, with a maximum of 5000 most recent logs viewable. With this update, you can debug issues more efficiently!
• Locate your project faster with the newly introduced Search bar on the Project Listing page of the Contentstack Launch app!

Enhancements:

• Upgraded oclif/core from version 2.9.3 to 3.26.5.
• Updated the Bulk Publish command logs to remove publish details and display only the asset or entry information.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Resolved the display issue within the authentication plugin messages.
• Changed the Tsgen plugin version property as optional in the generated types.

Introducing the Job-based Webhook Events! This webhook event triggers upon the completion of any specified job (Publish, Unpublish, Delete, or Create) for entries and assets across all environments. For bulk actions, it triggers once at the end, regardless of the number of items processed. The webhook provides a concise summary of the job, including the total count and counts of skipped, failed, and successful items.

Learn more about the job-based webhook events and how they differ from our existing entry/asset events.

New Features:

• We've added support in the Audit plugin to validate and fix the Select and Mandatory fields.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where private apps in the Marketplace were not being created when selecting the yes option.
• Fixed an issue that incorrectly displayed a success message when extensions are not actually updated.

We are excited to announce that a new datacenter for Google Cloud Front North America (GCP NA) is now available. The primary region for GCP NA will be Oregon, US (us-west1), with South Carolina, US (us-east1), serving as a backup region.

Contentstack customers can choose from a wider variety of regions by different providers for their Contentstack account data storage.

You can access the app and the API endpoints by adding the prefix “gcp-na” to the default URLs.

• Login URL: https://gcp-na-app.contentstack.com/#!/login
• API Base URL: https://gcp-na-api.contentstack.com/

The data storage for GCP NA is entirely remote and separated from other supported regions in Contentstack. Read more about Contentstack regions.

We’ve made updates to our Audience app:

• Custom Field Support: For added flexibility in content models, users can now add audience data to the Custom Field UI Location.
• Block View: Audience data can now be displayed in a block format, supporting elements like lists, tables, and images.

For more information, please refer to the Audience Plugin Usage Guide.

Introducing the all-new “Webhook Configuration” feature! Now, you can cumulatively manage the maximum connection rate limit per second for your webhook URLs.

Webhooks are custom HTTP callbacks, enabling real-time data transmission to third-party apps or services. With the Connection Rate Limit, you can define the maximum connections allowed to your webhook URLs per second. Once the rate limit is reached, connections are efficiently throttled to maintain stability.

Learn more about Webhook Configuration.

Automate introduces significant updates this month, including new actions in the Contentstack Management Connector and several other capabilities. Highlights include:

Contentstack Management Connector: New Actions

• Taxonomy Actions: Using Taxonomies, you can organize stack content into categories, making it easier to navigate, search, and retrieve information. The new actions let you manage these taxonomies, allowing you to create or delete them, import or export for backup, or update or retrieve details.
  
  Learn more about Contentstack Management - Taxonomy Actions.
• Global Fields Actions: Global Fields in Contentstack allow you to define fields or groups of fields once and reuse them across multiple content types,helping maintain content structure consistency and reusability. You can now fetch details of specific or all global fields in a stack.
  
  Learn more about Contentstack Management - Global Fields Actions.
• Languages Actions: Contentstack provides an extensive range of advanced multilingual content capabilities with support for over 200 pre-configured locales, enabling users to easily create and publish entries in multiple languages or retrieve the details of all the locales within a stack.
  
  Learn more about Contentstack Management - Languages Actions.
• Branches Actions: Branches offer isolated workspaces for safe, independent development of new features or updates. With branches you can create multiple copies of your stack content. The new actions let you manage these branches, allowing you to create or delete them, merge them, or retrieve details.
  
  Learn more about Contentstack Management - Branches Actions.
• Delete an Asset Action: Delete any asset in Contentstack.
  
  Learn more about Contentstack Management - Assets Actions.
• Remove Localization Action: Restore any entry to its original, non-localized state with this action.
  
  Learn more about Contentstack Management - Entries Actions.

Additional Updates:

1. Throttle Frequency: Adjust the execution rate settings in Automate to decrease total execution times. For instance, selecting two executions per second for 1000 requests can cut the total time needed to 500 seconds.
2. Authentication in Code Block and HTTP Connectors: A new field has been introduced for securely fetching sensitive data from connected apps.
3. Project Variables in Connectors with Custom Authentication A feature to access project variables in connectors with custom authentication, such as AWS S3 and AWS SNS, has been added.

Here’s what’s new with Contentstack Launch:

• To see which core features of popular frameworks are supported by Contentstack Launch, refer to the About Launch Framework Support documentation.
• Contentstack Launch now supports hosting for any SSR framework sites, cloud functions, or static sites using the Other framework option. To learn more, visit our Other Frameworks on Launch documentation.
• Advanced routing capabilities allow you to set up custom request and response headers for redirects and rewrites to more effectively manage upstream traffic. For more details, visit the Edge URL Redirects and Edge URL Rewrites documentations.

New Features:

• Added a new migration script in the Migration command examples to update any entry references.

Bug & Security Fixes:

• Fixed an issue where loggers were not being correctly created when using the configuration settings in the Import and Export.
• Fixed an issue where a missing or empty title field in an entry could cause the audit process to fail.

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of the all-new TypeScript Delivery SDK, specially crafted to enhance your application development experience within Contentstack.

• Explore an array of extraordinary features that come with it:
• Easily create, update, and delete content with unparalleled simplicity
• Seamlessly fetch your content for a smooth and speedy user experience
• Unleash the full potential of TypeScript's advantages for smoother development
• Connect seamlessly with our versatile CMS for streamlined operations

Elevate your development process to new heights for web, mobile, and beyond with the TypeScript Delivery SDK today!

Dive into our comprehensive documentation on the TypeScript Delivery SDK to kickstart your journey.