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Enahancement:

  • Added support for reading regions.json in both browser and Node environments.

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved NullReferenceException and JsonReaderException occurrences in the taxonomy model.

Bug Fix:

  • Prevented baseURL from concatenating when absolute URLs (http:// or https://) are passed to getData() or generated by Live Preview, avoiding malformed URLs.

Enhancement:

  • Added taxonomy localization support.

Enhancement:

  • Improved error messages for better clarity and debugging.

Enhancements

  • Added support for entries while generating typings in the types-generator (v3.9.0) and cli-tsgen (v4.8.0) plugins.
  • Introduced Studio support in the cli-cm-import (v1.30.0) and cli-cm-export (v1.22.0) plugins.
  • Added a session-based logger in the cli-utilities (v1.15.0), cli-command (v1.7.0), and cli-config (v1.16.0) plugins.
  • Implemented v2 logger support and upgraded packages in the cli-cm-clone (v1.18.0) plugin.
  • Integrated centralized logger in the cli-cm-import-setup (v1.7.1) and cli-cm-export-query (v1.0.0-beta.6) plugins.

Bugs & Security Fixes

  • Resolved taxonomy export failures when localization is not included in the plan in the cli-cm-export (v1.22.0) plugin.
  • Improved error messages and added unit tests across the following plugins for better stability and developer experience:
    • cli-audit (v1.16.1)
    • cli-auth (v1.6.2)
    • cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.17.1)
    • cli-cm-branches (v1.6.1)
    • cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.10.3)
    • cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.10.1)
    • cli-cm-migrate-rte (v1.6.2)
    • cli-cm-seed (v1.13.1)
    • cli-launch (v1.9.2)
    • cli-migration (v1.10.1)
    • cli-variants (v1.3.5)

We’ve introduced major enhancements to the Healthcheck app to improve usability and provide clearer, more actionable insights:

  • Healthcheck Report Download & Email Notifications: You can now enable or disable the report downloads and email notifications in the app configuration.
  • Enhanced UI: The Healthcheck app includes an updated layout with improved spacing, a cleaner visual hierarchy, and a redesigned Overview page for easier navigation and readability.Marketplace-Healthcheck-3-0-App
  • Run Healthcheck: Added a new Run Healthcheck button to execute checks with your customized configuration, with the replacement of the previous Customize & Re-run buttons.
  • Usage Checks: A new category that surfaces bandwidth usage, top URLs, status codes, and API activity to help you track traffic patterns more effectively.
  • New Checks: Added checks for delivery token usage, management token usage, global field redundancy, missing help text and instruction text, and template files (i.e. .md, .css etc) uploaded to Assets.

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

We’ve added new enhancements to the Brandfolder app:

  • Multiple Configuration Support: The Brandfolder app now supports multiple configurations for the Custom and JSON RTE fields, allowing you to connect multiple accounts.
  • Advanced Configuration: Customize the behavior of the selector page with new optional parameters in the advanced configuration settings in the Custom and JSON RTE fields.
  • Locale-specific Configuration Parameter Support: Set locale-specific parameters for custom fields to tailor asset selection by language.
  • Max Asset Limit: Define a maximum asset limit in custom fields to help maintain performance and prevent overloading.
  • Asset Validations: Use new asset validation checks for custom fields to ensure that assets meet configuration constraints for size and dimensions (height, width).

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

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

  • Support for Apex Domains in Custom Domains:
    You can now add apex domains with redirection options to subdomains or other domains in the environment. Domain ownership is verified using TXT records, and SSL certificates are automatically provisioned using DCV validation.
    To learn more, refer to the Custom Domains document.
  • Platform Limits for Launch Deployments:
    Contentstack Launch now documents request and response size limits to help ensure smooth, scalable deployments and optimal site performance.
    Learn more in the Platform Limits on Launch guide.
  • Blocking Default Launch Domains from Search Indexing:
    You are now able to prevent search engines from indexing your default Launch domains using methods like robots.txt, X-Robots-Tag headers, 403 responses, or CDN authentication.
    To learn more, refer to the Blocking Default Launch Domains From Google Search document.

We’ve expanded our migration resources to make your move to Contentstack even smoother. Our new AEM to Contentstack Migration Guide is now available, offering step-by-step instructions tailored for Adobe Experience Manager users.

What’s Included:

  • Detailed guidance on preparing your AEM content for export
  • Best practices for mapping AEM fields to Contentstack schemas
  • Tips for testing and validating your migration
  • Full integration with the Contentstack Migration Tool

By providing a structured, proven workflow, the guide helps reduce manual effort, minimize migration risks, and accelerate your transition to Contentstack. Whether you're planning a full migration or testing out a proof of concept, this guide ensures a streamlined experience from start to finish.

Read the AEM Migration Guide for more information.

You can now localize taxonomies and terms per locale, ensuring consistent structure across locales and branches. The new Taxonomy Localization feature allows you to display taxonomy terms in multiple languages without duplicating the hierarchy. Localizations can be applied to the entire taxonomy or specific terms directly from the Taxonomy Details page.

Each market can use localized labels for clarity, while administrators retain centralized control. Localization fallbacks ensure seamless behavior across branches and environments.

Key Benefits:

  • Localize taxonomy terms without changing core structure
  • Manage all localized labels from a centralized master taxonomy
  • Branch-aware fallback chains
  • Improve operational efficiency and audit tracking

Learn how to enable and use this feature in our Taxonomy Localization documentation.

Note: Taxonomy Localization is a plan-based feature. Contact our support team to enable it for your organization. This feature is currently available for CMA use only. Publishing localized taxonomy names and terms to CDA is coming soon. You can begin preparing your localized structures now, but localized values will not appear in published content until publishing support is released.

Organization owners and admins can now reset Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for users—helping restore access when someone loses their authentication app or switches devices.

What’s New

  • Reset MFA for individual users: Admins can initiate an MFA reset on behalf of any user.
  • Bulk reset: Select and reset MFA for up to 10 users at a time.

Refer to Organization Users and Bulk Operations on Organization Users for more information.

Introducing Allowed Email Domains—a new security enhancement that gives organization owners and admins tighter control over who can be added to their organization. This feature lets you define which email domains are permitted, ensuring only trusted users gain access.

Key Highlights:

  • Add up to 30 approved email domains to limit user invites to your organization.
  • Invitations for users with unapproved domains are automatically blocked.
  • Existing users are not affected when this setting is enabled.

By implementing this feature, you reinforce your organization’s security posture and ensure that only authorized enterprise users are granted access, supporting a Zero Trust model from the very first step.

Ready to tighten your access controls? Head to Administration > Security Configuration to get started. Read our documentation for more information.

Feature:

  • Updated getVariantParam and getVariantAliases to return only active variants and exclude null values, ensuring that only valid, active entry variants are requested from the Content Delivery API.

Enhancements

  • Added Taxonomy Localization support in cli-cm-import (v1.29.0) and cli-cm-export (v1.21.0).
  • Upgraded dependencies in the following plugins to ensure stability and compatibility:
    • cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.17.0)
    • cli-cm-clone (v1.17.0)
    • cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.10.0)
    • cli-cm-seed (v1.13.0)
    • cli-migration (v1.10.0)
  • Removed the cli-utilities dependency in types-generator (v3.8.0).
  • Upgraded dependencies in cli-tsgen (v4.7.0).

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed the app:create command in contentstack-apps-cli (v1.6.2) to properly prompt for an app name when the --name flag is not provided. Users can press Enter to use the default name, or input a custom one, with validation applied as before.

Documentation Updates

Bug Fix:

  • Prevented addition of empty attributes when a node is missing the attr field.

Bug Fix:

  • Added the exports field to package.json to resolve an ESM import issue where @contentstack/core did not provide a named export (getData) in modern ESM-based environments such as Nuxt.js and Vite.

Enhancement:

  • Improved error messages for better debugging and clarity.

Enhancement:

  • Improved error messages for better debugging and clarity.

Enhancement:

  • Improved error messages for better debugging and clarity.

We’re introducing Advanced Settings in Developer Hub, a powerful new way for Apps to integrate with external APIs securely and efficiently, without the need for a custom backend. With this feature, developers can now store, manage, and inject sensitive credentials directly within Contentstack Apps, enabling seamless and secure integrations.

Key Capabilities:

You can now streamline and secure your app integrations using these new configuration options in Developer Hub:

  • Variables: Safely store API keys and other sensitive credentials in encrypted form.
  • Mappings: Dynamically link customer or environment-specific configuration values.
  • Rewrites: Route API requests through clean, secure endpoints without exposing URLs.

Advanced Settings eliminates the need for custom backend systems by enabling developers to manage external API interactions entirely within Contentstack. It simplifies secure integration with services like AI models, analytics platforms, and third-party SaaS APIs.

Learn more about Advanced Settings and Build an App With Advanced Settings in Developer Hub.

Bug Fixes:

  • Refactored GitHub Action to eliminate redundant steps.
  • Enhanced error handling by throwing descriptive error messages.
  • Corrected the file path resolution to accurately locate the regions.json file.

As teams strive to deliver personalized digital experiences faster, traditional handoffs often slow them down. Studio is a visual experience builder that bridges the gap between design, development, and content composition. Studio integrates seamlessly with Contentstack’s CMS, empowering teams to compose dynamic experiences backed by structured content.

Key Highlights:

  • Transform Figma designs into reusable, production-ready components.
  • Govern components visually in a centralized Canvas.
  • Empower business users to create and update pages, without code.
  • Maintain design and brand consistency with built-in guardrails.

For example, a marketing user can update a homepage hero banner or create a campaign page using pre-approved components, all while maintaining design system guardrails and data integrity.

This results in faster iteration, reduced developer dependency, and consistent brand experiences.

Note: Studio is launching in Early Access and will be rolled out to customers in phases. Contact the support team to get access.

Read the Studio documentation to learn how to set up your first project, style components, and manage compositions

We’ve introduced the Bulk Export Entries feature to help teams manage large sets of content efficiently and maintain data consistency across the content lifecycle.

Key Benefits:

  • Define scope: Bulk export selected entries, entries in the current page, or all filtered entries.
  • Select columns: Include only the columns you need to keep exports concise.
  • Choose format: Export data in JSON or CSV based on your requirements.
  • Track progress: View export status and manage completed exports from the Bulk Task Queue.

The Bulk Export Entries feature provides a structured and consistent way to handle multiple entries at once.

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

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed an issue in the Personalize Edge SDK that caused the user ID to persist across browsers and devices.

Enhancement:

  • Added helper functions to simplify Contentstack endpoint construction and region-specific configurations.

We’ve rolled out three major updates to help teams improve governance, compliance, and editing efficiency in Contentstack, ensuring greater control, accountability, and ease of use across the content lifecycle.

  1. Prevent Self-Advancement in Workflows

    Maintain integrity in your review process with the new Prevent Self-Advancement option. When enabled, the user who last edited or updated an entry cannot move it to the next workflow stage, even if they’re assigned to that stage.

    This enforces independent validation at each stage, ensuring that no one can advance their own work without review.

    Learn more about the Prevent Self-Advancement option.

  2. Prevent Self-Approval in Publish Rules

    Strengthen publishing governance with the Prevent Self-Approval control. When enabled, the user who last edited or updated an entry cannot approve or publish it, even if they’re listed as an approver.

    This ensures that every publishing action is verified by at least two unique users, supporting dual-approval principles and reducing compliance risks.

    Learn more about the Prevent Self-Approval option.

  3. Tabs in the Entry Editor

    Make large entries easier to manage with Show as Tab, a new toggle for root-level fields such as Group, Modular Block, and Global fields. When enabled, these fields appear as separate tabs in the entry editor, helping editors navigate complex content types faster.

    Tabs reduce scrolling, improve focus, and enhance load times without affecting your API structure.

    Note: The Entry Tab is a plan-based feature and may not be accessible to all users. For more information or to request access, contact our support team.

    Learn more about the Show as Tab field property and Working with Entry Tabs.

We’ve introduced new capabilities and enhancements to the Salesforce Commerce app:

  • Locale Support: Added toggle to enable locale mapping between Contentstack and Salesforce locales, allowing localized product and category selection.
  • URL Auto Populate: Automatically populates product and category URLs in configured fields to reduce manual effort.
  • Product Variant Display: Introduced a Variant column in the selector page to select and display product variants.
  • Customizable List View Columns: Allows users to choose which columns appear in product and category list views.
  • Max-limit Functionality: Enables configuration of a maximum selection limit for products or categories within the custom field.

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

Bug Fix:

  • Standardized query parameter handling by using a common serialize method.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for the Australian (AU) region and the GCP Europe (GCP-EU) region.

Bug Fixes:

  • Removed deprecated availability messages from the sync method in Stack.swift.
  • Made the url methods publicly accessible.

Bug Fixes:

  • Refactored the whereIn and whereNotIn methods to use JSONObject directly for query values.
  • Updated error messages for improved clarity.

The Shopify Live Preview feature enables Contentstack Live Preview within Shopify Liquid themes, allowing editors to preview real-time storefront changes without publishing or reloading the page. This integration ensures seamless synchronization between your CMS and Shopify Liquid theme, helping you validate updates instantly.

With instant previews, this feature streamlines content workflows and minimizes publishing errors. Editors and developers can confidently review storefront updates, including Product and non-Product pages, before deployment.

A new Master Metaobject setup ensures consistent data access and smooth Live Preview behavior across all page types.

Note: The Shopify Live Preview is a plan-based feature and may not be accessible to all users. For more information or to request access, contact our support team.

Learn how to Set Up Shopify Live Preview through our documentation.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed the issue causing the cross-publish command to hang indefinitely in the cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.10.2) plugin.

We’ve added enhancements to the XTM app:

  • Entry References: You can now add referenced entries for translation directly from the Entry Sidebar.
  • Exclude XTM Workflow: You can exclude the XTM workflow configured during app configuration when the Auto Assign Template is selected in the sidebar.
  • Files to Import: You can import multiple reference files for translation in the Entry Sidebar and during Bulk Translate in the XTM Full Page App.
  • Stack-specific Projects: Now you can view the stack-specific projects in the Project Status dashboard in the XTM Full Page App.

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

Features:

  • Introduced support for managing variant groups, including linking and unlinking content types.
  • Added the VariantGroup model class with the following find(), linkContentTypes(), unlinkContentTypes() methods.
  • Implemented 33+ unit tests covering all key functionality and edge cases.

Bug Fixes:

  • Handled null and undefined values in the getTag function.
    • Fixed reference variant CSLP generation issue.

Feature:

  • Added support for TOTP (Time-based One-Time Password) authentication.

Enhancements:

  • Updated the GraphQL host for the Kickstart GraphQL app in the cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.16.1) plugin.
  • Increased the log file size threshold from 1 MB to 5 MB and raised the number of retained log files from 20 to 50 in the cli-utilities (v1.14.4) plugin.
  • Introduced the delayMs configuration parameter to add a configurable delay between API requests in the following plugins:
    • cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.10.1)
    • cli-cm-import (v1.28.3)
    • cli-variants (v1.3.4)

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Improved error logging in the cli-migration (v1.9.0) plugin to provide more detailed and actionable debug information.

Documentation Updates:

We’ve introduced major improvements to the Algolia app to enhance your experience and make data visibility more powerful.

As part of this update, the Stack Dashboard UI location has been sunsetted.

Introduced Full Page UI Location:

The app now supports a new Full Page UI location, providing a more comprehensive interface for managing your Algolia data directly within Contentstack.

The Algolia Full Page app includes:

  • Audit Logs: View and track all Algolia sync activities for better transparency.
  • Algolia Search Results: Instantly access and review your indexed content results.

Note: It is no longer required to add facets for _content_type and branch_uid to perform content type and branch delete operations.

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

Contentstack just got a major upgrade, smarter navigation, a revamped home screen, and easier access to what matters. With a brand-new home screen and an intuitive top navigation bar, your everyday workflows are now smoother and more efficient.

What’s new?

  • Home Screen: A smarter starting point in Contentstack – the home screen centralizes everything you need from building content to managing integrations:
    • Explore Apps: From the home screen, you can access all products—CMS, Launch, Automate, Personalize, Developer Hub, and more
    • Role-based Learning: Accelerate onboarding and upskilling with Academy courses, certifications, and quick-start guides tailored to your role
    • Quick Links and Updates: Access docs, training, community spaces, product changelogs, and upcoming events from one convenient dashboard
    • Just One Click Away: You can return to home anytime by clicking the Contentstack logo or using the dropdown menu under your profile icon
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  • Top Navigation: We’ve moved from the traditional left sidebar to a sleek, modern top nav:
    • 9-Dot Grid Menu: Quickly switch between products

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    • Centralized Shortcuts: Your most-used items, Favorites, is now easier to access
    • Streamlined Interface: A cleaner, consistent layout across the platform that reduces clutter and boosts usability

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These enhancements are now generally available to all users.

Explore the new look and feel now, just log in to Contentstack and get started. For more information, refer to our documentation.

Feature:

Introduced new methods for improved asset querying in AssetLibrary:

  • Added a Where method for simple key-value pair queries.
  • Enhanced the Query method to allow multiple chained calls with automatic merging of parameters.

Improvement:

  • Improved overall query handling with better null safety and error management.

Feature:

  • Added support for Variant Groups.

Enhancements:

  • Implemented the new logger system in the audit command via the cli-audit (v1.15.0) plugin to improve log consistency and error traceability.

Major Changes:

TypeScript Module Support (Default)

  • BREAKING: Removed export-info.json file generation across relevant plugins.
  • NEW: Export and import operations now use TypeScript modules by default in plugins such as cli-cm-export (v2.0.0-beta) and cli-cm-import (v2.0.0-beta).

Main Branch Export (Default)

  • BREAKING: Export now defaults to the main branch only, instead of all branches by default, as seen in cli-cm-export (v2.0.0-beta).
  • NEW: Use the --branch flag to export specific branches when needed.

Progress Manager UI

  • NEW: Introduced a visual Progress Manager with real-time updates in the core CLI (@contentstack/cli v2.0.0-beta).
  • NEW: Provides detailed tracking of operation progress, success/failure indicators, and an improved user experience.
  • NEW: Users can now toggle between the new Progress Manager UI and the traditional console log mode for better control and visibility.

Package Updates:

Core CLI

  • Upgraded @contentstack/cli from v1.49.0 → v2.0.0-beta.

Updated Plugins

  • cli-cm-bootstrap: v1.16.0 → v2.0.0-beta
  • cli-cm-clone: v1.16.1 → v2.0.0-beta
  • cli-cm-export: v1.20.2 → v2.0.0-beta
  • cli-cm-import: v1.28.1 → v2.0.0-beta
  • cli-cm-seed: v1.12.2 → v2.0.0-beta
  • cli-variants: v1.3.3 → v2.0.0-beta

Feature:

  • Added OAuth support to the .NET model generator.

Bug Fix:

  • Centralized the delay handling logic in the SDK interceptor using external configuration.

Enhancements:

  • Added Setup Branches in the cli-cm-import-setup (v1.6.0) plugin to validate the branch and map the --branch-alias flag to the corresponding branch UID.
  • Used the utility in the cli-cm-import-setup (v1.6.0) plugin to validate and set the branch if the stack is branch-enabled.

You can now compare two versions of a content type schema side by side. Once a content type has at least two saved versions, a Compare Versions button appears.

The comparison view highlights schema changes with tags such as Added, Deleted, and Modified, and includes filters to quickly focus on specific types of updates.

This makes it easier to track changes to your content models over time. For example, spotting when a new field is added or a validation rule is updated, helping teams review and approve schema updates before publishing.

Learn more in our Content Type Versioning documentation.

We’ve introduced three powerful capabilities to streamline content modeling and data management:

  • Field Visibility Rules for Modular Blocks and Group Fields: You can now dynamically show or hide fields within Modular Blocks or Group fields based on conditions you define. This helps create cleaner, more relevant entry forms and improves data accuracy.
  • Copy Field Values Across Group and Global Fields: You copy the values of a specific instance within Group and Global fields and paste them into another instance, whether in the same entry or across different entries, to save time and reduce manual effort.
  • Minimum and Maximum Limits for Remaining Fields: You can now define minimum and maximum limits for all fields that support multiple instances, providing greater control over how content is structured and managed. 

These updates improve efficiency, ensure consistency, and give you greater precision in managing content.

Features:

  • Added OAuth 2.0 support with PKCE flow.
  • Added support for TOTP-based Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Features:

  • Added support for the AWS Australia (AU) and GCP Europe (EU) regions.

Features:

  • Added support for the AWS Australia (AU) region.

Features:

  • Added support for the AWS Australia (AU) and GCP Europe (EU) regions.

Features:

  • Added OAuth 2.0 support with PKCE flow.
  • Refactored codebase to improve modularity and removed redundant methods.

Features:

  • Added Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) support for login operations.
  • Introduced the mfaSecret parameter in Login and LoginAsync methods for TOTP generation.
  • Enabled automatic TOTP token generation from Base32-encoded MFA secrets using the Otp.NET library.
  • Supports both access token-based and TOTP-based authentication flows.
  • Added unit and integration test coverage for MFA functionality.
  • Added OAuth 2.0 support with PKCE flow.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for the --branch-alias flag in the cli-cm-export-query (v1.0.0-beta.4) plugin.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved a corrupted config issue that occurred during the prepack stage in the cli-utilities (v1.14.3) plugin.

Documentation Updates:

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved handling of line breaks and newlines.
  • Updated internal dependencies for stability and compatibility.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for async/await.

Bug Fix:

  • Enhanced retry logic to use the configured retryDelay.

Feature:

  • Updated caching logic to use a combination of content type UID and entry UID.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed data-cslp generation logic for entries with applied_variants.

Feature:

  • Added support for the AWS Australia (AU) and GCP Europe (EU) regions.

Enhancements:

  • cli-cm-branches (v1.6.0):
    • Enhanced the cm:branches:diff command with CSV export support for the --format "detailed-text" option. Users can now generate detailed CSV reports that show actual field values and differences between branches.
  • cli-cm-import (v1.28.1)::
    • Updated logger to v2.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-cm-import (v1.28.1):
    • Fixed import path validation to improve accuracy in resolving paths.
  • cli-utilities (v1.14.2):
    • Resolved refresh token issues occurring with custom regions.

Documentation Updates:

We’ve added enhancements to the Constructor app:

  • Multiple Content Types Support: You can now add multiple Content Types and map their fields to Constructor fields during app configuration, enabling more flexible, streamlined workflows, and better personalization of search and recommendations.
  • Bug Fixes: Resolved issues to improve stability and performance.

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

You can edit and publish content faster with the new Visual Builder updates. These features give you more control, context, and flexibility so you can refine and publish directly from the webpage preview.

What’s New?

  • Sidebar rail extensions: Use apps like Automate to run translations or restructure the content of an entry while previewing changes in real time.
  • Field Modifier on the Canvas: Apply field modifiers (e.g., AI Assistant) without opening the Form panel, and reposition the modifier modal to keep content visible while using it.
  • More field hover context: Hover over fields to see field name, content type, and source entry (for referenced entries). This helps you identify and navigate complex content.
  • Enhanced audience editing and preview: Switch quickly between audience experiences with added support for Lytics audiences in both editing and preview modes, making personalization faster and more intuitive.
  • On-page workflows: Assign tasks, track progress, and collaborate with your team directly within the editing interface, without switching tools.
  • Publish with more control: Use the Publish button for immediate updates or Advanced Publish to select environments, schedule releases, and bulk publish multiple entries.

These enhancements help you refine, organize, and collaborate directly within Visual Builder, saving you time and effort.

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

We’ve added new enhancements to the SAP Commerce Cloud app:

  • Multiple Configuration Support: You can now set up multiple configurations for custom fields, making it possible to connect more than one account seamlessly.
  • Advanced Custom Field Configuration: The new advanced settings let you define optional parameters to fine-tune the behavior of the selector page.
  • Locale-specific Config Parameter Support: Locale-specific settings for product and category custom fields give you finer control aligned with language preferences.

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

Enhancements:

  • cli-cm-import (v1.28.0) and cli-cm-import-setup (v1.5.0):
    • Improved directory path validation to correctly resolve branch-specific paths for branch-enabled stacks.
  • cli-config (v1.15.2):
    • Improved config:set:log command behavior:
      • Log path and log level are now optional parameters.
      • Default values are applied if parameters are omitted, avoiding unnecessary user prompts.
    • Enhanced config:get:log output:
      • Now displays the absolute path of the configured log file for better clarity and debugging.
  • cli-variants (v1.3.3):
    • Fixed an issue where variant records were skipped or failed in the Publish Queue during import across production regions.
  • cli-utilities (v1.14.1):
    • Added detailed error reporting for API failures, including an errors property with specific failure information.

We’ve added more flexibility to how you manage scheduled publishing of entries in Contentstack!

  • Reschedule with ease: Change the date, time, or time zone of a scheduled publish/unpublish without starting over.
  • Cancel schedules: Stop a scheduled publish/unpublish action anytime from the Entry Status Panel.
  • Track changes in the Publish Queue: All updates and cancellations are logged for transparency.

This update gives content managers and publishers greater control and confidence when scheduling entries across languages and environments.

Learn how to reschedule or cancel schedules.

We’re excited to unveil our refreshed brand identity! This transformation marks a pivotal moment in our journey as we evolve into a fully adaptive digital experience platform, driven by innovation, inspired by change, and designed for what’s next.

What’s New:

  • Revamped Logo & Visual Identity: Our new look reflects sharpness, momentum, and bold thinking, mirroring the dynamic brands we serve.CS_Logo_Dark.gif
  • Updated UI Elements: A modern, cohesive interface with refreshed icons and branding across the platform.Top_Nav_1.png

This rebrand goes beyond visuals, it’s a commitment to helping brands adapt faster, move smarter, and lead boldly into the future.

Cleaning up just got faster. Delete up to 100 entries or assets in one action, an increase from the previous limit of 10.

What’s new

  • Enhanced bulk delete limit: Delete up to 100 entries or assets in a single action (previously 10).
  • Detailed job tracking: The Bulk Task Queue now provides complete visibility into bulk delete jobs. You can:
    • View all deleted entries and assets within the job.
    • Search for specific entries or assets in the job details.
    • See the exact reason if a particular entry or asset could not be deleted.

Refer to our documentation for more details.

If this enhancement isn’t available for your organization, reach out to our support team.

We are adding the Typesense Cloud Connector to Contentstack Automate. Now you can integrate your Typesense Cloud collections with your Contentstack content workflows, ensuring your search indexes stay up to date and deliver fast results.

Key Capabilities

You can now automate the following actions in your Typesense Cloud collection using Contentstack Automations:

  • Index an Entry: Automatically add new content entries to your Typesense Cloud collection.
  • Update an Entry: Keep your indexed documents up to date with the latest content.
  • Delete an Entry: Clean up your search index by removing outdated or deleted content from the Typesense Cloud collection.

Learn more about Typesense Cloud Connector.

We’re excited to announce that Field Visibility Rules (FVR) are now available for Global fields in Contentstack!

You can now dynamically show or hide fields within a Global field based on conditions you define, just like you do with Content Types. This helps you create cleaner, more relevant entry forms and improve data accuracy.

What’s New

  • Reusable Control: Apply visibility rules inside a Global field wherever the field is used in a content type.
  • Inherited Rules: Global field rules show as read-only in the Content Type’s FVR modal for consistency.
  • Multiple Instance Support: Rules work per instance, even for Global fields marked as Multiple.
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This update brings the flexibility of Field Visibility Rules to your reusable components, streamlining data entry and avoiding repetitive configuration.

Learn more about Field Visibility Rules for Global Fields.

Feature:

  • Added support for the AWS Australia (AU) and GCP Europe (EU) regions.

Bug Fix:

  • Replaced URLSearchParams.set() with a React Native-compatible implementation.

Bug Fix:

  • Improved null checks in the findEmbeddedEntry and findEmbeddedAsset functions.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced the publish_all_localized parameter for bulk publish/unpublish operations.

Feature:

  • Added support for the AWS Australia (AU) region.

Enhancements:

  • Added the --branch-alias flag to the following plugins:
    • cli-cm-export (v1.20.0)
    • cli-cm-import (v1.27.0)
  • Added the --source-branch-alias and --target-branch-alias flags to the cli-cm-clone (v1.16.0) plugin.
  • Added a utility to the cli-utilities (v1.14.0) plugin to fetch branches using a branch alias.
  • Added a bulk publish queue link to the cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.10.0) plugin for better visibility and tracking.
  • Added new bootstrap projects to the cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.16.0) plugin.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed issues with retrieving entries from specific branches in the cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.9.2) plugin.
  • Resolved branch prompt issues in the cli-cm-clone (v1.16.0) plugin for branch-enabled stacks when using the --source-stack-api-key flag.
  • Fixed issues with union references in the types-generator (v3.7.1) plugin for more accurate type generation.
  • Upgraded dependencies in the cli-tsgen (v4.6.1) plugin for improved compatibility and stability.

Documentation Updates:

  • Updated the Export, Import, and Clone documentation to include details about the new branch alias flags.

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

  • New cache-purging methods: You can now purge CDN cache using CacheTags for targeted invalidation and Hostnames to efficiently clear cache per domain.
    Learn more in the Revalidate CDN Cache guide.
  • AI crawler blocking: Launch now includes a built-in feature to block AI crawlers, helping developers safeguard their content by detecting and restricting AI-driven bots at the edge.
    To learn more, refer to the Blocking AI Crawlers document.
  • IP-based access control: Launch now enables IP‑based access control via Edge Functions, allowing developers to restrict or permit traffic by IP allowlisting or IP restricting at the edge.
    Learn how to set it up: IP-based Access Control Using Edge Functions in Launch

With the latest SDK (v4.0.0 or later), Live Preview now offers a more flexible Open in New Tab experience.

Here’s what’s new:

  • Your website now opens outside the Contentstack iFrame, enabling seamless use of SSO and third-party integrations.
  • A new Always Open in New Tab toggle in Live Preview setting lets you bypass extra clicks, taking you straight to a standalone preview tab.

Note: This is a plan-based feature. Contact our support team to enable this for your organization.

Learn more through our documentation. 

We’re excited to announce new enhancements to the Wordbee app, designed to give you more flexibility and control over your translation workflows:

  • Exclude Field Types: Choose which field types to exclude from translation, ensuring only the required content gets localized.
  • HTML Encode/Decode for JSON RTE: Manage HTML encoding and decoding in JSON RTE fields to avoid unnecessary formatting issues.
  • Retry Jobs: Once the translation status is ready, you can retry translation jobs from both the entry sidebar and full page location to reduce delays and improve efficiency.

For more information, refer to the Wordbee App Installation Guide.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed the timeout parameter and replaced the custom error object with native Axios errors to improve request handling and ensure consistent error behavior.

Bug Fix:

  • Simplified error handling by removing the custom error object. The SDK now returns native Axios errors directly for better consistency and debugging.

Feature:

  • Introduced support for content variants to enable personalized experiences and improve content flexibility.

Enhancement:

  • Added Plain Old Java Object (POJO) classes for easier deserialization and structured handling of API responses.

Enhancement:

  • Updated the retry logic in the SDK to respect the x-ratelimit-remaining header, reducing unnecessary retries and improving request efficiency under rate-limited conditions.

Enhancements:

  • types-generator (v3.7.0) and cli-tsgen (v4.6.0):
    • Enhanced error logging to provide clearer insights during type generation.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-cm-import (v1.26.3) and cli-utilities (v1.13.2):
    • Error messages are now logged to both the console and the log file for better visibility.
    • A user-friendly error message is now displayed when the environments folder is missing during entry import, replacing the previous generic or unhandled error.

Bug Fix:

  • Updated SDK to the latest version.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed retry logic to ensure all SDK requests resume after the rate limit resets.

Feature:

  • Added support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), enabling secure login and session handling for MFA-enabled accounts.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) using Authenticator apps in the login command via the cli-auth (v1.6.0) plugin.
  • Introduced the --include-referenced-entry flag in the types-generator (v3.6.0) and cli-tsgen (v4.5.0) plugins to enable retrieval of referenced entries in union types.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved potential runtime errors during import by handling cases where the environment sub-folder may be missing in the cli-cm-import (v1.26.2) plugin.

Documentation Updates:

You can now trigger webhooks for taxonomy-related changes, giving you better visibility and control over how taxonomies and terms evolve across your content infrastructure.

Key Highlights
  • Track Taxonomy Changes: Get notified when a taxonomy is created, updated, or deleted, either globally or by specifying a taxonomy UID.
  • Monitor Term Activity: Trigger webhooks for term-level changes, including creation, updates, and deletions across all taxonomies or within a specified one.
  • Granular Event Support: Use detailed event types (e.g., taxonomies.{taxonomy_uid}.update) to define exactly how webhooks should fire based on taxonomy structures.

For the list of supported events and setup instructions, check out our documentation.

Enhancements:

  • types-generator (v3.5.0):
    • Added taxonomy support for entries with term_uid.
  • contentstack-cli-tsgen (v4.4.0):
    • Added generation of term_uid for CmsTaxonomy type.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-cm-import-setup (v1.4.1):
    • Fixed import setup dependencies.
  • cli-cm-export (v1.18.1):
    • Fixed entries export with dependencies.
  • contentstack-apps-cli (v1.6.1):
    • Fixed fetch app issue by routing calls through the Marketplace SDK.

Enhancement:

  • Added the ability to search for apps by name, making it easier to quickly find the app you need.

We’ve rolled out enhancements to the Create and Update Entry Variants API endpoints—making it easier to manage localized or variant content with less effort and cleaner logic.

What’s New?

  • Simplified Field Updates: Specify only fields you're modifying—unchanged fields automatically inherit base values.
  • Automatic Change Detection: The API now detects additions, updates, and removals including in nested fields.

Key Benefits:

  • Less Complexity, More Efficiency: Eliminate redundant data input, reduce payload size, and streamline your logic.
  • Smarter Nested Field Handling: Ensures accuracy and efficiency with automatic nested field detection.
  • Streamlined Content Management: Enhances usability and clarity in your content management workflows.

To learn more, visit our documentation.

Enhancements:

  • Added robust error handling for transient network failures to improve request reliability.
  • Introduced api_version support in the getJobStatus method for version-specific API calls.
  • Added jitter to networkRetryDelay to reduce retry collisions and improve request distribution.

Bug Fix:

  • Updated the retryNetworkError method to correctly manage the running queue using shift.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed all linting issues to ensure consistent code formatting and maintain code quality.

  • Updated all dependencies to their latest version for enhanced compatibility and security.

  • Added a pre-commit hook to run Synk and Talisman scans before each commit, improving security and code hygiene. 

Bug Fixes:

  • Added a pre-commit hook to run Synk and Talisman scans before each commit, improving security and code hygiene. 

  • Updated dependencies to enhance security, stability, and overall performance.

Bug Fix:

  • Added test cases for the Release feature to validate functionality and improve reliability across workflows.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated dependencies to enhance security, stability, and overall performance.

  • Fixed all linting issues to ensure consistent code formatting and maintain code quality.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for the --show-console-logs flag in the cli-config (v1.15.0) plugin to enable optional logging to the console.
  • Added the Assets and Field-rules module to the audit fix executed before the import command in the cli-cm-import (v1.26.1) plugin.
  • Released the Beta version of the cli-cm-query-export (v1.0.0-beta.2) plugin for exporting filtered content via queries.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the default log storage path in the cli-utilities (v1.13.1) and cli-auth (v1.5.1) plugins, ensuring logs are stored correctly across environments.

We’ve rolled out four powerful updates to help you work faster, with more clarity and control:

  • Smarter Entry Versions Sidebar: When selecting a version, you’ll now see version details in the sidebar, allowing you to quickly compare and rename versions, and view version history without leaving the page.
  • Enhanced URL Field Controls: Content modelers now have more flexibility. Add custom help text, placeholders, and set advanced field requirements.
  • Copy Modular Block Values: Save time when duplicating content. You can now copy a block’s values within a Modular Blocks field and paste them into another block—either in the same entry or across entries.
  • Improved Bulk Publish Status: When publishing in bulk, you’ll now get clearer status updates that include visual cues and failure details to help you quickly flag issues.

Note: These features will be rolled out to all customers in the next few days.

Read the full blog post to learn more.

We’re introducing a subtle yet impactful enhancement to the HTML Rich Text Editor in Contentstack.

Pressing the spacebar preserves spacing more reliably in your content layout. The necessary spaces are now stored as   in the backend, using an optimized pattern to keep the HTML clean. This ensures spaces aren’t collapsed or lost during rendering, maintaining your intended layout across views.

Streamline your Live Preview setup and error resolution with our new step-by-step guide. Whether you're setting up Live Preview for the first time or troubleshooting errors, this guide walks you through each step smoothly.

What’s New?

  • Smarter Issue Detection: Get real-time alerts for common setup issues such as—incorrect environments, CORS restrictions, or outdated SDK versions—so you can resolve them immediately.
  • Instant Feedback: See setup and runtime errors on the go with clear suggestions—reducing the manual efforts of troubleshooting.
  • Seamless Compatibility: Works across various website architectures (e.g., React, Next.js, or Gatsby) and environments (e.g., staging or production), ensuring a reliable Live Preview experience across different configurations.
  • Comprehensive Error Reference: Access a centralized list of possible errors, their causes, and recommended solutions—all in one place.

To learn more, refer to our Live Preview Onboarding and Troubleshooting Guide or reach out to our support team.

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

We have improved how Link fields marked as mandatory are validated to ensure consistent behavior across the UI and API. This update helps maintain data accuracy and prevents incomplete content from being published.

With this change:

  • Entries with Link fields marked as mandatory now require both a title and URL before publishing.
  • Validation applies even when the entry is referenced in other entries.

This behavior applies only to entries created after this release. For more information, reach out to our support team.

Bug Fixes

  • Removed unused dependencies to streamline the SDK package.

  • Fixed installation warnings to improve the setup experience.

Enhancements

  • Added support for asset types in bulk operations to enhance flexibility and control.

Enhancements

  • Introduced the getReferences method in the Assets module to retrieve associated asset references.

  • Implemented comprehensive test coverage for the getReferences method across all test suites to ensure reliability and prevent regressions

Bug Fix

  • Updated dependencies to enhance security, stability, and overall performance.

Bug Fix

  • Resolved an issue with the apiVersion parameter in the Publish and Unpublish methods to ensure correct API versioning during execution.

Enhancement

  • Added support for fetching assets using tags, enabling more precise asset filtering in queries.

Enhancements:

  • Logger and ErrorManager Implementation:
    • Introduced consistent, secure, and contextual logging across the CLI apps. Features include:
      • Multi-level logs
      • Automatic error classification
      • Redaction of sensitive data
      • Centralized log storage
    • Implemented the above features in the following plugins:
      • cli-auth (v1.5.0)
      • cli-cm-import (v1.26.0)
      • cli-cm-export (v1.18.0)
  • types-generator (v3.4.0):
    • Added partial type generation support with improved error logging for better developer feedback.
  • contentstack-apps-cli (v1.6.0):
    • Replaced managementSDK calls with marketplaceSDK for app-related operations.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Upgraded dependencies in the following plugins to ensure up-to-date and secure operations:
    • cli-tsgen (v4.3.0)
    • cli-audit (v1.14.0)
    • cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.15.0)
    • cli-cm-branches (v1.5.0)
    • cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.9.0)
    • cli-cm-clone (v1.15.0)
    • cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.9.0)
    • cli-cm-import-setup (v1.4.0)
    • cli-cm-migrate-rte (v1.6.0)
    • cli-cm-seed (v1.12.0)
    • cli-command (v1.6.0)
    • cli-config (v1.14.0)
    • cli-migration (v1.8.0)
    • cli-utilities (v1.13.0)
    • cli-variants (v1.3.0)

Documentation Updates:

While creating content types, developers can now define minimum and maximum limits for how many items can be added in Multiple Group, Global, Modular Blocks, and Reference fields, giving you better control over how content is structured and managed.

You can also mark entire Group, Global, and Modular Blocks as required, ensuring editors fill in key sections before publishing.

Learn more about setting Min/Max limits and required fields.

Feature:

  • Added support for using custom attributes as live attributes, enabling real-time delivery to the personalization engine for immediate and accurate variant selection.

Voice Profiles: Import and Export Now Available

We’ve added the ability to import and export Voice Profiles. You can now download existing profiles or upload preconfigured files directly in CMS. This enhancement helps streamline setup, especially when working across multiple stacks or migrating configurations.

Refer to Import a Voice Profile and Export a Voice Profile documentation.

Knowledge Vault: Import and Export Functionality Introduced

You can now import and export items in the Knowledge Vault. Upload a batch of FAQs, policies, or content references, or export existing items for backup or reuse across projects.

Refer to Import Item in Knowledge Vault and Export Item from Knowledge Vault documentation.

We have streamlined the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) workflow and refreshed the Profile settings page to enhance security and improve the user experience.

What’s new?

  • Redesigned MFA: The new MFA flow removes phone number-based authentication and supports widely used authenticator apps such as Authy, 1Password, Google Authenticator, or Microsoft Authenticator. A simplified step-by-step process guides users through setup using QR codes or manual entry, making the login experience smoother and more secure.Whats New_3.png
  • Revamped Interface for Profile and Security: Both tabs have been visually redesigned to offer a cleaner and more intuitive experience.
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Note: The updates are rolling out gradually. If you don’t see them yet, they’ll be available soon!

These improvements reflect our ongoing commitment to delivering a secure, user-friendly platform. Visit your Profile and Security tabs to explore the enhanced experience.

For more information, refer to our documentation.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Taxonomy, allowing users to classify and organize content using structured, hierarchical terms.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the FileUpload method to ensure consistent and reliable file handling during uploads.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for nested Global Fields, enabling deeper content reuse and improved content modeling flexibility.

  • Introduced support for bulk operations, allowing multiple actions to be performed in a single request.
  • Added support for Release 2.0 to enhance content lifecycle management.

We are excited to introduce the Global Full Page UI Location, a powerful new addition for app developers.

With this new UI location, you can now build full-page applications at the Organization level, giving your apps access to APIs and data across multiple stacks. This is perfect for creating robust, cross-stack tools like:

  • Centralized admin dashboards
  • Workflow management tools
  • Content governance or review systems

Apps configured with this UI location will appear in the left-hand navigation panel, providing seamless access throughout the organization.

Learn how to configure and deploy your app using the Global Full Page UI Location documentation.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the pending global field update issues in cli-cm-import (1.25.1).

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

  • Max Limit Advanced Configuration: You can now set the maximum limit to add assets in the custom field advanced configuration settings.
  • Folder and Playlists Filter: You can now filter videos by Folders or Playlists in the Selector Page for easier content selection.

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

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a token-related issue that affected Live Preview functionality.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced support for Variants, allowing tailored content delivery to specific audiences or based on defined conditions.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for stack module import in cli-cm-import (v1.25.0), enabling more modular and reusable content structures.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Upgraded package dependencies in the following plugins to ensure improved performance and compatibility:
    • cli-utilities (v1.12.1)
    • cli-cm-clone (v1.14.3)
    • cli-cm-seed (v1.11.3)

Documentation Updates:

We are thrilled to introduce the integration of the Automate app into Contentstack’s Visual Builder.

This enhancement allows you to trigger and manage automation workflows directly within the page editing interface, bringing the convenience of automation to where you create and manage content.

With the Automate App now accessible in the Visual Builder, you can:

  • Execute various custom workflows without switching tabs or leaving the canvas.
  • Switch between multiple entries and run entry-specific workflows, tailored to the content and context of each entry.
  • Maintain a consistent automation experience across both the Entry Editor and Visual Builder.

This update simplifies repetitive tasks and enhances productivity, especially when managing dynamic, high-volume content across multiple entries.

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

The Aprimo app now allows you to define target languages while mapping content types and meta fields in Mapper during app configuration.

This enhancement gives you greater control over your Aprimo meta fields data by allowing language-specific metadata for each asset.

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

Enhancement:

  • Added support for AWS-AU region.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for AWS-AU region.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for AWS-AU region.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved conflicts related to branch headers.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved Single Publish issue by updating entry version type from String to Int.

Enhancements:

  • Added AWS-AU region support in the following plugins:
    • cli-cm-import (v1.24.0)
    • cli-cm-export (v1.17.0)
    • cli-cm-import-setup (v1.3.0)
    • cli-config (v1.13.0)
    • cli-tsgen (v4.2.0)
    • types-generator (v3.3.0)
  • Introduced stack module export functionality in the cli-cm-export (v1.17.0) plugin.
  • Added CSPL tags support in the following plugins:
    • types-generator (v3.3.0)
    • cli-tsgen (v4.2.0)

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-tsgen (v4.2.0):
    • Fixed issue where UID was not added as a field in types.
    • Handled scenario where file types have no dimensions.
    • Resolved duplicate name issue with modular blocks.
  • cli-cm-bulk-publish (v1.8.2):
    • Handled pagination in sync operations when no entries are returned, ensuring smooth processing.

Documentation Updates:

Contentstack just got a major upgrade—smarter navigation, a revamped home screen, and easier access to what matters. With a brand-new home screen and an intuitive top navigation bar, your everyday workflows are now smoother and more efficient.

What’s new?

  • Home Screen: A smarter starting point in Contentstack – the home screen centralizes everything you need from building content to managing integrations:
    • Explore Apps: From the home screen, you can access all products—CMS, Launch, Automate, Personalize, Developer Hub, and more
    • Role-based Learning: Accelerate onboarding and upskilling with Academy courses, certifications, and quick-start guides tailored to your role
    • Quick Links and Updates: Access docs, training, community spaces, product changelogs, and upcoming events from one convenient dashboard
    • Just One Click Away: You can return to home anytime by clicking the Contentstack logo or using the dropdown menu under your profile icon
    TopNav_WhatsNew_1.png
  • Top Navigation: We’ve moved from the traditional left sidebar to a sleek, modern top nav:
    • 9-Dot Grid Menu: Quickly switch between products
    • Centralized Shortcuts: Your most-used items—Favorites—is now easier to access
    • Streamlined Interface: A cleaner, consistent layout across the platform that reduces clutter and boosts usability
    TopNav_WhatsNew_2.png

Note: These updates are rolling out gradually. If you don’t see them yet, they’re on the way!

Explore the new look and feel now—just log in to Contentstack and get started. For more information, refer to our documentation.

The XTM app now supports Content Types Bulk Translate, allowing you to send all entries across multiple content types for translation in just a few clicks.

This update streamlines localization workflows by enabling bulk translation of entire websites, reducing manual effort and improving scalability. It also includes enhanced error handling and validation for large translation requests.

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

We’ve enhanced how the system handles variant names within a variant group to ensure uniqueness and data integrity.

What’s changed:

  • Existing duplicate variant names (created simultaneously in the past) are now automatically renamed:
    • The variant created first retains its original name.
    • Subsequent duplicates are renamed using numbered suffixes.
    • For example, if multiple variants with the same name (e.g., homepage-banner) exist, they will now appear as:
      • homepage-banner
      • homepage-banner_(1)
      • homepage-banner_(2)
  • New variants can no longer be created with a name that already exists within the same variant group, even across different sessions. If a variant with the same name already exists in that group, the system will prevent its creation.

These changes ensure consistent and conflict-free variant naming for existing and future data.

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved a “Request-URI Too Large” error for requests with long URLs.

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

  • Cache Priming

    Launch now supports Cache Priming—a performance boost that preloads key pages and endpoints to the CDN after each deployment. This minimizes latency, lightens the load on your origin server, and ensures consistently fast experiences for end users.

    Learn more in the Cache Priming Guide.

    For additional insights, explore our blog post and pulse live video.

  • File Size Limit Upgrade for launch.json

    We’ve increased the file size limit for launch.json from 200KB to 5MB, making it easier to manage larger sets of redirects and rewrites.

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

Healthcheck Cancellation Support: You can now cancel a running health check using the Cancel button on the progress screen. A confirmation pop-up allows you to cancel or continue the check.

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

We’ve introduced a new “Open in editor” button next to the page title in the Visual Builder’s Form panel. Clicking it opens the current entry in the full entry editor in a new tab, so you can:

  • Easily switch from Visual Builder to the full entry editor
  • Effortlessly access sidebar apps and integrations

No more switching or retracing your steps. Just click and edit seamlessly. Try it out the next time you’re editing in Visual Builder!

Bug Fix:

  • Addressed Snyk-reported vulnerabilities and fixed multiple bugs to enhance security and stability.

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

  • Manage Fields: Using the Manage Fields modal, you can now include or exclude fields at the content type level. This provides a simplified interface to select field UIDs for translation across multiple content types.
  • Source and Target Language Selection: When creating a project, you can now specify both the Source Language and one or more Target Languages. This allows for greater clarity and control over language mapping at the project level.

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

Bug Fix:

  • Added encode option to the find method to support query parameter encoding.

Bug Fix:

  • Reverted retry logic based on the x-ratelimit-remaining header.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed an issue where entry updates were not reflected in the timeline.

Enhancements:

  • cli-cm-export (v1.16.3):
    • Added support for including parent_uid in the asset metadata, enabling more accurate content relationships during the export operations.

The Add to Release workflow has been enhanced to improve visibility. The Add References to Release modal now displays nested references—entries and assets—linked to the selected item up to the organization's configured Nested Reference Publishing (NRP) depth. This enhancement provides transparency into what gets included in the release.

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What’s New:

  • Reference Visibility: View referenced entries and assets before adding an entry to a release.
  • Quick Edits: Open referenced entries in a new tab for editing without leaving the current workflow.

Note: The Add References to Release modal appears only when a single entry with references is added to a release.

This functionality is being introduced gradually into the Add to Release workflow.

Refer to the documentation for more details.

We’ve added new enhancements to the Wordbee app:

  • Disable pre-translated content: You can now select Disable pre-translated content to flag existing pre-translated entries.
  • Field selection update: The field types Reference, Select, Number, Date, Tags, and Taxonomy are no longer available in the Manage Fields modal.

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

We are excited to introduce the Show Localized Only toggle—a new feature in the Entries list view that simplifies multilingual content management.

What’s New:

With this toggle, you can filter and view only those entries that are explicitly localized in the selected language.

Key Benefits:

  • Prevents misinterpretation caused by fallback entries
  • Helps you focus only on directly translated content

To learn more, visit our Get Localized Entries documentation.

Move content into Contentstack faster with our all-new migration tool—built for seamless, secure migrations from platforms like WordPress, Sitecore, Contentful, and even older Contentstack environments.

Key Features:

  • Developer and Setup Guides: Detailed developer and setup guides empower developers to configure and run migrations independently.
  • Guided Migration Workflow: Step-by-step interface for selecting source CMS, mapping fields, and executing test or full migrations.
  • Centralized Project Dashboard: Manage multiple migrations with real-time tracking .
  • Smart Content Mapping: Auto-map fields, preview schemas, fine-tune data types, and validate data before going live.
  • Test Stack Support: Create test stacks to validate migrations without impacting your production environment.

Set up the migration tool and launch your first migration project in minutes.

Watch the tutorial video to get a complete walkthrough of the tool:

Refer to our documentation to get started. Need more help? Reach out to our support team anytime!

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-audit (v1.13.0):
    • Added support for Nested Global Fields to improve audit report accuracy.
  • cli-cm-bootstrap (v1.14.1):
    • Fixed failing test cases and added workflow for bootstrap test cases.
  • cli-cm-export (v1.16.2) & cli-cm-import (v1.23.0):
    • Added null checks for developerHubUrl before assigning to exportConfig
      and importConfig.
  • cli-config (v1.12.1):
    • Enhanced URL normalization using regex to better support dynamic environment handling.
  • cli-utilities (v1.12.0):
    • Added logger integration and improved error handling for more robust CLI output.
  • types-generator (v3.1.0):
    • Made the version key optional for global fields to support a broader range of content models.
  • cli-tsgen (v4.0.2):
    • Upgraded dependencies to maintain compatibility and address known issues.

Documentation Updates

Enhancement:

  • Added support for Global Fields

Enhancement:

  • Updated SyncStack to handle ArrayList objects

Bug Fix:

  • Added title and target attributes to <a> tags

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the Delivery Token URL
  • Improved summary readability

Bug Fix:

  • Added retry logic to check the Rate Limit Remaining header

Enhancement:

  • Implemented features from Release 2.0

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Release 2.0
  • Added support for Nested Global Fields

Enhancement:

  • Added support for preview tokens

Enhancements:

  • Added integration tests
  • Added support for Global Fields

Enhancement:

  • Added support for Global Fields

Enhancements:

  • Implemented SSL pinning
  • Added support for Global Fields

You can now customize list view columns for Products and Categories in the commercetools app configuration. You can now select which fields to display using the new multi-select dropdowns, helping you focus on the most relevant data. This enhancement improves content visibility and streamlines product and category management.

commercetools-Configuration-List-View-Columns-What's-New

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

Gain a deeper understanding of your audience and make smarter content decisions with the new Audience Insights app. This new experience surfaces real-time behavioral data to help you uncover who’s engaging with your content, identify high-impact opportunities, and align your strategy with audience needs.

The app includes three key components:

  • Opportunity Explorer: Compare audience interests with your existing content to spot gaps and prioritize new content opportunities.
  • Content Map: Visualize and understand the relationships between your site’s existing content topics to uncover coverage patterns and reveal strategic gaps.
  • Audience Explorer: Explore individual audience segments, see what topics they care about and how they engage with your content. Also accessible directly from the entry sidebar, so you can see relevant audience insights while editing a specific page.

To learn more, refer to the Audience Insights App Installation Guide.

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

  • Real-time Event Tracking

    Launch supports the Real-time Events Tag to capture real-time user behavior & insights. Connect your project using the Data Activation Layer (DAL), enable tracking with a simple toggle, and manage user consent using jstag.optIn() and optOut().
    Learn more in the Event Tracking (Lytics) in Contentstack Launch Guide.

  • Documentation Updates
    • Smarter Caching for Better Performance

      Launch supports fine-grained caching controls and on-demand revalidation using Automate, allowing you to improve site performance without redeploying the entire site.
      Learn more in the Caching Guide for Contentstack Launch.

    • Improved Support for Next.js RSC

      Encountering hydration errors or streaming issues with React Server Components? The new Handling Next.js RSC Issues on Launch guide provides solutions to ensure smooth performance for your Next.js applications.

  • Node.js 18 Deprecation Notice

    Support for Node.js version 18 will be discontinued for Launch on August 1, 2025.
    To keep your Launch projects running smoothly, update to a supported Node.js version and avoid any disruptions.

The Releases experience now respects your organization's Nested Reference Publishing (NRP) limit. When adding items to a release—individually or in bulk—the system automatically checks the configured NRP depth to ensure it’s not exceeded.

Refer to the documentation for more details.

Enhancements:

  • Improved retry logic by incorporating the x-ratelimit-remaining header, enabling more efficient request handling during rate-limited conditions.

When embedding entries or assets in HTML or JSON Rich Text Editors, the Inline option is now selected by default. This streamlines common workflows and keeps embedded content flowing naturally within text. You can still manually switch to the Block option as needed.

We’re introducing Contentstack Kickstarts, a faster way to build with pre-configured templates, starter code, and guided setup. Kickstarts help developers hit the ground running with best practices and ready-to-use integrations.

  • Kickstart Nuxt: Built on Nuxt 3 and Vue 3, this includes Live Preview and Visual Builder setup for intuitive content editing.
  • Kickstart Next.js: Based on Next.js 14 with App Router, it’s optimized for speed and flexibility, so you can easily connect to Contentstack and launch faster.

Start building smarter with Contentstack Kickstarts today!

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed case sensitivity issues with contentType and locale to ensure consistent behavior across environments.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the addSettings method to support generic updates to stack settings.

  • Added branch support for Global Fields.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced support for Global Fields, allowing you to create and reuse field structures across multiple content types.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue in the cli-cm-import (v1.22.0) plugin to prevent Marketplace apps from being recreated by default during import operations.
  • Upgraded dependencies for the following plugins to ensure security, performance, and compatibility:
    • cli-cm-clone (v1.14.1)
    • cli-cm-seed (v1.11.1)
    • cli-utilities (v1.11.1)
    • cli-cm-regex-validate (v1.2.4)

Enhancement:

  • Added support for preview token generation, allowing secure access to unpublished content through the Preview API.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed item processing in SyncStack to correctly handle JSONObject instances, preventing runtime crashes due to type mismatches.

  • Integrated sanity tests across core SDK modules to verify baseline functionality and enable early detection of regressions.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-cm-export-to-csv (v1.8.1):
    • Fixed failing test cases to ensure reliability.
    • Integrated plugin into the Unit Testing workflow for ongoing quality assurance.
  • types-generator (v3.0.1):
    • Fixed an issue with the Nested Global Fields in Modular Blocks, improving type generation accuracy.
  • cli-tsgen (v4.0.1):
    • Upgraded the types-generator dependency to align with the latest enhancements and fixes.

We’ve added Audit Logs to the XTM Full Page app to help you track and monitor Error logs, XTM logs, and Entry logs. Quickly identify errors or successes for each entry, making it easier to troubleshoot and maintain transparency across your translation workflows.

XTM-Full-Page-Audit-Logs

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

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue in contentstackClient where the base URL path was not correctly set when both region and host were undefine

Features:

  • Added support for Node.js version 18 and later.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved security issues and upgraded packages to ensure stability and compliance.

Features:

  • Updated project structure and dependencies for improved organization and compatibility.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated setuptools package version to maintain compatibility

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated setuptools package version to maintain compatibility

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated setuptools package version to maintain compatibility

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved unexpected fallback_locale behavior during direct locale updates to ensure consistent and accurate localization handling.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • cli-cm-branches (v1.4.2):
    • Resolved rate limit errors during branch merge operations.
    • Fixed merge failures that occurred when using various merge strategies (overwrite with compare, merge base, merge compare).
  • types-generator (v3.0.0):
    • Fixed Snyk vulnerabilities and upgraded packages for improved security.
  • contentstack-cli-tsgen (v4.0.0):
    • Upgraded packages for compatibility and stability.

We’re introducing two powerful updates to make content modeling more dynamic, scalable, and editor-friendly:

Nested Global Fields

You can now nest Global Fields within other Global Fields or inside Modular Blocks for added flexibility and less duplication across your content structures.

Key Benefits:

  • Modular Reusability: Build cleaner, more consistent content models by reusing Global Fields across components.
  • Greater Scalability: Make global updates once and apply them across entries.
  • Improved Editor Experience: Create more intuitive editing experiences for content teams.

Learn more about Nested Global Fields.

Non-localizable Fields in Modular Blocks and Groups

You can now mark individual fields within Groups (Multiple), Global fields, and Modular Blocks as non-localizable, giving you more control over localization.

Key Benefits:

  • Granular Flexibility: Mark specific fields as non-localizable—even within complex components like groups, global fields, and modular blocks.
  • Cleaner Content Models: Align localization rules directly with your editorial needs.
  • Better Content Governance: Maintain structure and consistency across locales with controlled flexibility.

Learn more about the non-localizable exception for developers and content managers.

These enhancements are part of our ongoing mission to support developer-first architecture and an editor-first experience. Whether you’re designing scalable models or managing localized content across markets, these tools give you the flexibility to do more—with less friction.

Note: These new enhancements are being rolled out to all customers in phases. Reach out to our support team for more information.

Searching in Contentstack just got smarter!

You can now combine filters—like content type, status, locale, and more—with Advanced Search queries for faster, more precise results.

  • Layer filters and queries together to refine your searches without having to start over
  • Clear filters individually or all at once for a cleaner search experience
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Try it out today to experience faster, more focused searches in Contentstack.

Refer to our documentation for more details.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added custom logger support to allow integration of user-defined logging mechanisms for better debugging and observability.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for setting region in client parameters to enable region-specific configurations.

Bug Fixes:

  • IAdded pre-commit hooks for Snyk scans and secret detection to enforce security checks and prevent sensitive data from being committed.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved an issue where empty payload objects were causing 400 Bad Request errors in the GCP region.
  • migrate-rte plugin:
    • Fixed test cases and included them in automated workflows for consistent validation.
  • cli-migration plugin:
    • Fixed all eslint issues to align with code quality standards.

We’ve introduced new updates to Contentstack Automate to expand functionality and improve localization workflows. Here’s what’s new:

New Action: Translate an Entry in Azure ChatGPT Connector

Translate CMS entry content into multiple languages using Microsoft Azure-hosted models. This action also supports prompt-based customization for tone and intent, helping teams automate localization within Automate workflows.

Learn more about the Azure ChatGPT Connector.

New Action: Translate an Entry in Gemini Connector

Use the Gemini AI model to translate CMS entries, with support for schema input, language selection, prompt customization, and token control—helping you automate localization while maintaining brand consistency.

Learn more about the Gemini Connector.

New Pause On-Demand Action in Automate App

The Pause On-Demand action is a powerful feature within the Automate app’s Entry Sidebar that allows users to manually control the flow of an automation. It introduces a pause for user confirmation, allowing you to proceed or stop the execution before continuing to subsequent steps.

For example, the system pauses after fetching new entry data in a content update automation. The user can review and confirm before the automation proceeds to update the entry title and body.

Learn more about the Pause On-Demand Action.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved a pagination issue related to taxonomy in the export plugin.
  • Resolved a bug related to modular blocks in the type-generator plugin (v2.3.2).

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

  • New Go-Live Guide for a Smooth Launch

    Get ready for a seamless, stress-free go-live experience with our all-new Go-Live Guide. It walks you through everything you need to know to launch with confidence.

  • Using Launch CLI in CI Environments

    You can now run the Launch CLI in CI environments. Learn how to automate your deployments in the CLI for Launch documentation.

  • Easily Repair Git Provider Connections

    We've introduced a quick way to repair Git provider connections for existing projects. Follow the simple steps in the Repair Git Provider Connection for Projects guide.

  • Skip Environment Variables During Project Creation from CLI

    You now have the option to skip adding environment variables when creating a new project. For details, see the CLI for Launch documentation.

  • Apex Domain Documentation Updates

    We’ve updated our Custom Domains documentation with new information about Apex domain support.

The Audit Log now supports Contentstack Personalize, giving Organization Owners and Administrators greater visibility into key activities.

This enhancement promotes operational transparency, streamlines troubleshooting, and aids in compliance by providing a detailed record of actions within Personalize.

Tracked Personalize-related activities:

  • Project: Create, Update, Delete
  • Experience: Create, Update, Delete
  • Experience Version: Create, Update, Activate, Pause, Delete
  • Experiences Priority: Update
  • Attribute: Create, Update, Delete
  • Audience: Create, Update, Delete
  • Event: Create, Update, Delete
  • User: Share, Unshare

To learn more, visit the related documentation article.

We’re excited to roll out a set of enhancements designed to improve your editing experience in both the HTML and JSON Rich Text Editors in Contentstack.

Let’s look at them in detail:

Enhanced List Management

  • Improved Tab Key Support: You can now indent multiple list items at once using the Tab key, making it easier to create and manage nested lists more efficiently.
  • Remove Formatting: Clicking the list button (ordered or unordered) again reverts the list back to plain text—giving you greater control over formatting.

HTML Code Comments Support in Code Mode (Specific to HTML RTE)

We’ve added support for HTML code comments in the editor’s code mode.

  • You can now add comments using {<!--__-->} and they will remain intact even after saving, refreshing, or toggling between modes.
  • This enhancement gives developers and editors more flexibility when working with structured HTML content.

Enhancements:

  • audit plugin:
    • Improved deletion handling for non-referenced fields when corresponding reference fields are empty.
    • Added checks to ignore boolean and select fields with empty schemas.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed handling of ignored content types during branch merging.
  • Resolved locale mapping issues involving fallback locales during import.
  • Fixed a path traversal vulnerability in the following plugins:
    • apps-cli (v1.5.1)
    • contentstack-import (v1.7.9)
    • contentstack-export (v1.6.5)

Documentation Updates:

We’re excited to introduce Preview Sharing—a game-changer for seamless collaboration!

With this feature, you can now generate shareable preview links to securely showcase your website before publishing. Whether you need internal approvals, stakeholder feedback, or a quick review, Preview Sharing makes it fast, easy, and efficient.

Key Benefits:

  • Share with anyone: No login required to preview.
  • Real-time updates: View the latest content changes instantly.
  • On-screen commenting: Provide and collect feedback directly on the preview for faster, clearer reviews.

Say goodbye to endless screenshots and back-and-forth emails. Try Preview Sharing today and streamline your workflow like never before!

Bug Fixes:

Improved sanity test execution to handle missing environment variables (ENVs) gracefully, preventing unexpected test failures.

Bug Fixes:

Fixed a path traversal vulnerability to prevent unauthorized access to restricted files and ensure application security.

Feature:

Added top-level export of the Module type to ensure compatibility with "moduleResolution": "Bundler".

Bug Fixes:

Fixed the return type for entry-queryable methods to improve type safety and developer experience.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with customRenderOption affecting reference entries embedded as links.

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.

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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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Bumped SDK version and applied security patches to enhance stability and ensure compliance with the latest standards.

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:

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.

Knowledge-Vault-Subfolders

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where migrating Rich Text Editor (RTE) global fields using the CLI triggered an “Empty Schema” error.
  • Fixed a bug that that prevented global field updates during imports in variant-enabled stacks.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed workflow-related issues to improve execution stability and process reliability.
  • Addressed code vulnerabilities to strengthen security and align with best practices.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added support for overriding query parameters in API requests.

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.

Amazon-S3-App

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

We’ve expanded our global reach! Contentstack supports AWS Australia, giving you greater flexibility and control over where your data is stored and how it's managed.

What’s New?

  • New Region Availability: Select AWS Australia (Sydney) as your primary region when creating a new organization. Region selection is permanent and cannot be changed later, ensuring long-term data governance compliance.
  • Reliable Data Backup: Ensure data reliability with automatic backups stored in Singapore.
  • Optimized Performance: Gain faster access and content delivery for your APAC (Asia Pacific) user base, powered by Amazon’s cloud infrastructure.
  • Dedicated URLs: To access the app and the APIs for this region, use the aws-au prefix in your URLs:
  • App Login URL: https://au-app.contentstack.com/#!/login
  • API Base URL: https://au-api.contentstack.com/

The data storage for AWS AU is logically and physically separated from other supported regions in Contentstack.

This region is being rolled out in phases, and some features may become available soon.

Learn more about regions in our documentation.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Replaced all occurrences of api with app in the uiHostName, regardless of their position within the string.

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).

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved the sync method to support query parameters such as number, string, object, boolean, and RegExp.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated project dependencies to ensure compatibility, security, and overall stability.

Bug Fixes:

  • Migrated test cases from TAP to Jest to enhance testing capabilities and maintainability.
  • Improved Slack messaging to deliver clearer and more informative notifications upon test failures.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced the Timeline feature, including essential stability improvements and integration fixes.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed code vulnerabilities to enhance security and maintain code integrity.
  • Fixed issues reported by Snyk to improve dependency safety and ensure compliance.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for stack headers in the Global fields response to provide additional context and metadata.
  • Introduced buffer upload capability to streamline binary data handling and enhance upload performance.

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.

Enhancements:

  • contentstack-cli-audit (v1.9.0)
    • Enhanced handling of references in entries using the legacy format.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • contentstack-cli-tsgen (v3.3.1):
    • Fixed SRE issues related to URL sanitization.
  • contentstack-cli-content-type (v1.2.3):
    • Updated dependencies and imports.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated imports and dependencies for improved compatibility and overall stability.
  • Refined unit test cases to enhance coverage and ensure more reliable test outcomes.

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.

Bug Fix:

  • Reverted the deprecation of the global variantParamToVariantAliases function, allowing it to be used without initializing the SDK.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Live Preview 2.0 and Timeline Preview

Enhancements:

  • Added AuditLog support to the Stack class, enabling enhanced tracking and auditing functionality.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed unit test cases and added a sanity test case for AuditLog to ensure reliability and accurate functionality.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed Snyk-reported security vulnerabilities to improve system security.
  • Fixed issues in Publish workflows to ensure accurate and consistent content deployment.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced support for Timeline Preview, offering enhanced content visualization and streamlined workflow management.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added data-mtec to the list of allowed attributes to enhance compatibility and resolve HTML validation issues.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with variant imports to ensure accurate and reliable data handling.
  • Removed stackHeaders from entry data assignment to prevent unintended data inclusion.
  • Upgraded Axios to version 1.8.2 to fix security vulnerabilities and improve overall stability.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for the GCP Europe (GCP-EU) region.

Bug Fixes:

  • Upgraded Axios to version 1.8.2 to fix security vulnerabilities and improve overall stability.

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved the reliability of sanity tests by updating test cases and configurations.
  • Upgraded Axios to version 1.8.2 to fix security vulnerabilities and improve overall stability.

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.

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Learn more in our documentation.

Bugs & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed the 'Expected "source" to be a string, but received an object.' error in the Import plugin.

Bug Fix:

  • Reverted the deprecation of the global variantParamToVariantAliases function, allowing it to be used without initializing the SDK.

Bug Fixes:

  • Ensured correct state handling by resetting timeline preview variables when not found.
  • Fixeded GitHub workflow issues to improve deployment reliability.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced skip and limit methods for Assets, providing better pagination control.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the includeContentType issue to ensure accurate data retrieval.
  • Fixed response type inconsistencies for improved API stability.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added an overloaded method to ContentstackClient to support a custom HTTP client.

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved test assertions for greater accuracy and reliability..

Bug Fixes:

  • Corrected docstrings for improved clarity and accuracy.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for setting a custom port.
  • Introduced getLastActivities to retrieve recent activities.
  • Enabled addParams in the Entry class to allow additional parameters.

Bug Fixes:

  • Upgraded Node.js to version 22 for better compatibility and performance.
  • Fixed license and semgrep issues to ensure compliance and maintain code quality.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed an issue where the SDK was generating a new user UID cookie on every page load in browser environments.

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.

Fixes:

  • cli (v1.35.2):
    • Dependency upgrade and removed unused dependency.
  • contentstack-cli-tsgen (v3.3.0):
    • Upgraded dependencies.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an HTML injection vulnerability to improve security.
  • Updated the updateAssetURLForGQL method to correctly support multiple entries.

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:

  • Optimized the updateAssetURLForGQL method for improved functionality and performance.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Including branch in the header when specified as an input to ContentType.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Nested Global Fields.
  • Introduced api_version support for publishing and unpublishing entry variants.
  • Improved support for variant types.

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.

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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!

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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):

Bugs & Security Fixes:

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

Documentation Updates:

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:

  • Introduced new methods for managing entry workflows, providing improved control and flexibility in workflow operations.

Bug Fixes:

  • Refactored getCacheCallback to use the parent promise’s resolve and reject methods directly. This simplifies error handling, eliminates nested promises, and resolves an issue where an empty object was returned when the API threw an exception.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Addressed Snyk-reported vulnerabilities and various bugs to enhance security and stability.

Bug Fixes:

  • Addressed Snyk-reported vulnerabilities and fixed multiple bugs to enhance security and stability.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for retrieving entry references.
  • Introduced delay sanity test cases to enhance testing coverage.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved Snyk-reported vulnerabilities and various bugs to improve security and stability.
  • Upgraded dependencies (axios, webpack, form-data, and qs) to their latest stable versions for enhanced security and performance.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated dependencies to improve security, stability, and performance.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the Live Preview URL to ensure proper functionality and accessibility.

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:

  • Introduced colgroup and col tags within the table tag to provide enhanced table formatting options.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the renderOption code block in the README file.

Feature:

  • Introduced support for creating isolated SDK instances. This prevents cross-request issues caused by shared global variables, especially in edge environments.

Deprecation:

  • Global versions of SDK methods are now deprecated and will be removed in the next major release. It is recommended to use instance-based SDK methods going forward.

Enhancements:

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue that prevented localized content from being retrieved correctly in live preview.

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.Search-Enhancements-15-01-2025-1.gif

Enhancements

  • Improved deployment targets to enhance functionality and provide greater flexibility.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with cache policy errors that occurred when selecting options other than "ignore cache.”

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with cache policy errors that occurred when selecting options other than "ignore cache.”

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed Snyk-reported vulnerabilities by updating dependencies to their latest secure and stable versions.

Enhancements

  • Introduced support for Release 2.0 to expand functionality and performance.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with retryDelayOption where the custom backoff mechanism failed to properly adjust the default 300ms delay.

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.
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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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where livePreviewConfig properties were not reset when missing in the parameters, ensuring consistent configuration behavior.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced "Include References" functionality to the Entry class for enhanced data access and flexibility.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved the ContentstackException issue in Live Preview when using the contentstack-dotnet SDK.

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.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the flag description mismatches in the UI and CLI documentation.
  • Resolved the Variant ID not found issue during import.

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.

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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-Enhancements-1.gif
  • Search by Title or URL: You can now search by Title or URL across all content types.Search-Enhancements-2.gif
  • ‘Is Empty’ and ‘Is Not Empty’ filters: Use new operators to narrow down search results or identify empty or populated fields.Search-Enhancements-3.gif

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.

Enhancements:

  • Added HTTP error code integration to the findOne method for enhanced error handling and improved clarity.

Enhancements:

  • Fixed an issue causing unsaved changes to be incorrectly displayed by removing the updateLPContent call.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the regex method to enhance its accuracy and reliability for validation processes.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed a GitHub issue to standardize the entry response format as a JSON array.

  • Corrected the parsing logic in EntriesModel to ensure accurate and reliable data processing.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for including all response headers via a configurable flag, allowing greater flexibility and customization of responses.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in the Launch plugin.

Enhancements:

  • Added a deprecation notice for customers using the outdated CLI versions.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed an error occurring during the import of variants.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added table cell merge functionality, providing improved content formatting and editing flexibility.

Bug Fixes:

  • Enhanced Live Preview to handle empty entries gracefully, ensuring seamless functionality and improved user experience.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue that caused variant resets during query calls.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced enhanced asset management capabilities with support for accessing a wider range of asset properties, providing greater flexibility in retrieval and customization.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced References and ReferencesAsync methods in the Asset class for retrieving references synchronously and asynchronously.

  • Introduced apiVersion support in the bulkPublish and bulkUnpublish methods, ensuring improved compatibility with API updates.

Bug Fixes:

  • Enhanced the inlineCode element by adding a data-type attribute for improved context and metadata handling.

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:

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.

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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.Brainstorm-With-AI-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.Manual-Update
  • 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.AI-Assistant-And-Brand-Kit-API-Key-Configuration

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

Bug Fix:

  • Prevented SDK from initializing successfully if the project is not found.

Bug Fixes:

  • Rebuilt the SDK using the tsup library for enhanced bundling efficiency and improved overall performance.
  • Removed the node-localstorage package to reduce dependency overhead and ensure better compatibility with Contentstack environments.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for rate limits in cross-publish, unpublish & publish-unpublished-env in the bulk-publish plugin.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the input type for the bulk delete operation to ensure accurate functionality and compatibility.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the getData function to accept both parameters and headers within the data object, improving flexibility and compatibility.

  • Upgraded the supported Node.js version to v20 for better performance and security.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the Node.js version to v20 in the GitHub package publishing workflow to ensure compatibility and improved performance.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the Node.js version to v20 for improved compatibility and performance.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the Node.js version to v20 for improved compatibility and performance.

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.Enhanced Entry Editor Experience_1.png
  • 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.Creating New Entries from Reference Fields.gif

    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.Navigating with Breadcrumbs for Referenced Entries.gif
  • 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.Enhanced-Entry-Editor-Experience (1).gif

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

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue where the import command was previously publishing only Entry Variants in the master locale, and now Entry Variants imports publish to all specified locales.

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.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced support for retrieving assets using fields other than UID, providing greater flexibility and dynamic options for asset queries.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced support for Variants, enabling tailored content delivery to specific audiences or under defined conditions.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed workflow issues and enhanced overall performance for a smoother and more reliable experience.

New Features:

Enhancements:

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the updateAssetUrl method.
  • Updated the qs library to the latest version for improved performance and security.
  • Addressed a GitHub workflow issue to ensure seamless CI/CD operations.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue in the GitHub workflow affecting Maven publishing, ensuring smoother and more reliable deployments.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added support for the includeReference method, ensuring seamless reference inclusion functionality.

Bug Fixes:

  • The media header is now exclusively applied to Assets API methods. It has been removed from all other API methods for both synchronous and asynchronous calls.

Bug Fixes:

  • Improved error handling: An error message is now logged if no host is specified when live preview is enabled.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced support for Live Preview 2.0, enabling seamless real-time content updates and enhanced user experiences.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • The logs folder, which was previously created in the root directory before command execution, will now be created in the location defined by the CS_CLI_LOG_PATH environment variable.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added support for ClassName and ID selectors during JSON to HTML conversion in the JSON RTE.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced support for the Early Access header.

Bug Fixes:

  • Enhanced the addTags method to now support Variants.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added support for Node.js v22.
  • Included test cases for Variants functionality.

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.Modular-Block-1.gif
  • 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.Modular-Block-3.gif
  • 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.Modular-Block-2.gif

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.

Feature:

  • Added triggerImpressions method to trigger multiple impressions.

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.

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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.

Here’s what’s new with Contentstack Launch:

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.Y9M_Image_2.png
  • 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.uZu_Image_3.png
  • 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.qgu_Image_4.gif

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.

Bug Fix:

  • Added API reference link to the README.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the link type attribute handling.

Enhancements:

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed SRE issues.
  • Fixed the deprecation warning issues in Node version 22.

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.

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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.

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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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the HTML reference issue to support referenced assets.

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.Brand-Kit-Collaborator
  • 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.Playground-In-Voice-Profile
  • 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.Knowledge-Vault-Dashboard

Learn more about these features in our documentation:

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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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!

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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:

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Upgraded Axios to the latest version to address security vulnerabilities.
  • Corrected the file upload issue in the sanity report file.

Feature:

  • Introduced support for Taxonomy

Feature:

  • Introduced support for Taxonomy

Enhancements:

  • Introduced the ability to fetch assets using queries.

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.

ActionsMac OSWindows OS
Entry Editor
Navigate Between Sections“command” + “/”“ctrl” + “windows” + “/”
Highlight Text“option” + “shift” + left/right arrow“ctrl” + “shift” + left/right arrow
Rich Text Editor
Inline Code“command” + “E”“ctrl” + “E”
Strikethrough“command” + “shift” + “X”“ctrl” + “shift” + “X”
Add Column (Right/Left)“control” + “option” + right/left arrow“ctrl” + “alt” + right/left arrow
Add Row (Top/Bottom)“control” + “option” + up/down arrow“ctrl” + “alt” + up/down arrow

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

The AI Assistant's built-in prompts have been updated to better align with modern prompting principles and work more effectively with Brand Kit, improving the consistency and relevance of generated content.

If you encounter any issues, please contact our support team.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Azure in the Launch plugin.

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.

Features:

  • Enhanced Live Preview configuration.
  • Added support for fetching assets using any Field UID, not just the Asset UID.

Feature:

  • Improved Live Preview configuration.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Removed encoding for query parameters.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved an issue where Custom Field names were duplicated in the UI location of a custom extension when re-importing to a different branch within the same stack.

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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue with the URL on iOS.

Feature

  • Added support for Taxonomy implementation.

Bug Fixes:

  • Applied strong naming to the assemblies.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed JSON RTE Serializer formatting issues for bold and underline styles in embedded link assets.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed SRE issues.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed SRE issues.

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:

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.

Enhancement:

  • Added test cases for Taxonomy permission roles.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed package publish issue in GitHub Workflow.
  • Upgraded axios and slack/bolt packages versions.

Enhancement:

  • Fetch assets using any asset Field UID.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed SRE issues.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed SRE vulnerabilities.

Enhancement:

  • Introduced Editable Tags.

Bug Fix:

  • Added type support for parameters in the LivePreviewQuery method.

Enhancement:

  • Added test cases for creating Roles with taxonomy permissions.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Added parameters to the disconnect method in type support.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed semgrep issues.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issues related to retry response error handling.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for updating content types without requiring the fetch method.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for image type assets in JsonToHtml

Enhancements:

  • Added support for Disconnect API in Marketplace SDK

Bug Fix:

  • Addressed issues concerning workflows

Bug & Security Fixes:

Bug Fix:

  • Removed Cheerio and DOMPurify packages.

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 support for GCP NA region

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed issue related to region configuration.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region

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.

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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.

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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.

Bug Fixes:

  • Implemented the Custom Host method.

Bug Fixes:

  • Addressed issue concerning nodes of td or th with the attribute void:true.

Bug Fixes:

  • Addressed issue concerning nodes of td or th with the attribute void:true.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region

Enhancement:

  • Added Sanity reports.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed Snyk issues.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced Timeline Preview functionality to streamline and enhance content review workflows.

Enhancement:

  • Added the Update Asset URL method for GraphQL.

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!

Bug Fixes:

  • Removed okio and txtmark packages.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issue with asset uploads.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.
  • Introduced the AddParam method for Entry, Asset, AssetLibrary, and Query.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed SRE vulnerabilities.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for the updateAssetURL method.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for the updateAssetURL method.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added a privacy manifest file.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issue where fs module was not found in web build.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed vulnerabilities associated with regular expressions and options.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for GCP NA region.

Bug Fixes:

  • Addressed vulnerabilities associated with strAttrs and children.

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're adding to the list of supported AI models for the AI Assistant, now including Google Vertex AI and its Gemini Pro model.

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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.Audience-Adding-Custom-Field
  • Block View: Audience data can now be displayed in a block format, supporting elements like lists, tables, and images.Audience-Introducing-Block-Format

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

Bug Fixes:

  • Addressed vulnerabilities identified by Snyk.

Bug Fixes:

  • Removed isBlank() method.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where duplicate languages in the Import plugin caused problems with publishing assets.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Improved tests and testing workflow.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issue with embedded assets not redirecting to the linked URL.

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.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for new parameters in the upload asset method.

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.

Enhancements:

  • Added an enhancement to the Audit Plugin to check if the title exists for an entry.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue with content-type filters in the cm:entries:publish command. This ensures that only entries from the specified content-types are published, rather than all entries across all content-types.

Bug Fixes:

  • Added missing headers to constructors in Java class files.

Bug Fixes:

  • Moved the slack/bolt npm package to devDependencies.

Enhancement:

  • Added proxy support

We are excited to announce that Taxonomy is now generally available on Contentstack!

Discover the transformative potential of Taxonomy through enhanced content organization, enabling you to handle vast and complex data structures with control and ease. Our latest feature introduces a seamless and intuitive interface crafted to redefine how you classify, organize, and manage your content.

New Solutions in Content Management

  • Simplify content organization with hierarchical, relational, or predefined list classifications based on metadata/attributes.
  • Effortlessly create and assign terms to categorize your entries, ensuring easy sorting and identification.
  • Streamline your workflow with enhanced content filtering, providing you with precisely what you need, precisely when you need it. Additionally, customize the width of the left-hand side filter section on the entry list page for enhanced usability.
  • Enjoy complete visibility into your content types, empowering you and your team to lead content projects efficiently from a single platform.

Seamless Export and Import

  • Export your taxonomy to JSON or CSV files for easy storage and access.
  • Import your taxonomy back into your stack easily, allowing for immediate utilization.

Restore with Confidence

  • Restore deleted taxonomies and terms effortlessly, with the Trash retaining deleted items for up to 14 days. Choose to restore with associated content types or entries for a seamless restoration process.

Harness the Power of APIs

  • Leverage our Content Delivery and GraphQL APIs to retrieve and filter content by taxonomy.
  • Manage your taxonomies effortlessly with our Content Management API.

Ready to revolutionize your content management? Dive into Taxonomy today!

For more information or any queries, reach out to our dedicated Customer Support team. Start your journey to streamlined content management now!

Enhancement:

  • Added support for retrieving the languages of an entry.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for query operators.

Enhancements:

  • Added a new script in the Migration plugin for changing the master locale for the new file structure of export.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue in cross publish command, where all entries were being published in spite of using the content-type flag and specifying the content-type.
  • Resolved the issue of recreating Marketplace Apps even after passing NO in the prompt.
  • Resolved the issue in Audit when branches were being checked even when they were not passed. Now branches are checked only when a branch is passed through Import or config in Audit.

Documentation Updates:

We've updated our Vimeo app to include Folder support. This allows you to organize videos into folders, making it easier to manage, view, and add videos to Custom Fields or JSON Rich Text Editor fields directly from the app.

To learn more about how to use the Vimeo app, refer to the Vimeo App Installation Guide.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • We resolved the issue where the reference field of an entry was in string format instead of an array of objects.

Bug Fixes:

  • Package bump

Enhancement:

  • Proxy Configuration in Dotnet CDA SDK

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issues with the publish workflow

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed None response issue

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issues with the publish workflow
  • Added support for fragment tag in JSON RTE

Enhancement:

  • Implemented changes for JSON Rich Text Editor (RTE).

New Features:

  • Integrated logger support in the Migration plugin.
  • Implemented branches support in the Audit plugin's workflow and extensions modules.

Enhancements:

  • Added the latest cloud function changes in the CLI for Launch plugin.
  • Added support for embedded entries in the Import plugin’s Rich Text Editor (RTE).

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue where import was failing due to branches in the workflow module.
  • Resolved Snyk security issues.

Documentation Updates:

  • Updated the Audit and Import documents to include branches support.

We are thrilled to announce the availability of the following functionalities in Contentstack Launch:

  • Venus 2.0 support on the Deployments Page: Contentstack Launch has extended its Venus 2.0 support on the Deployments page, introducing an enhanced user interface that offers improved usability. The previous deployments are now organized in a drop-down fashion, giving the Deployments page a more compact look.Launch-CreateProjGit-Deployment.png
  • Repair GitHub Connection for Projects: With Contentstack Launch, you can repair the GitHub connection on existing projects by replacing the invalid connection with a valid one.
  • Deploy any SSR framework on Launch: You can now deploy and host any SSR-based framework on Launch as long as it runs a Node.js server.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for new query operators.

Enhancement:

  • Implemented changes for JSON Rich Text Editor (RTE).

Enhancement:

  • Introduced a stack delete function.

Enhancement:

  • Implemented changes for JSON Rich Text Editor (RTE).

Our Optimizely app now features Variations. This update simplifies managing and publishing different content variations for your experiments directly within Contentstack, enabling you to more effectively customize content for your target audience.

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For more information, please refer to the Optimizely App Installation Guide.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved an issue in the import command when there was JSON RTE with embedded Asset as a link.

New Features:

  • Added Workflow & Extensions support in the Audit plugin.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved an issue that occurs when there are no items to merge in the Branches plugin.
  • Resolved an issue where the Config plugin displays a message code instead of a message text.
  • Resolved an issue caused by the missing extension folder(s) in the Import plugin.
  • Resolved SRE and vulnerabilities issues.

Documentation Updates:

  • Updated the Audit plugin document to include Workflow & Extensions support.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for query operators.

For Organization Owners and Administrators who need to track and monitor platform activity, the new Audit Log allows you to oversee activities across different Contentstack products. With visibility into things like app installation or creation, it provides essential insights that help you maintain control over your organization's usage.

To learn more, visit the related documentation article.

The Egnyte app simplifies file management directly within Contentstack by allowing users to access and manage their Egnyte files without leaving Contentstack's platform.

Additionally, it allows users to choose multiple files from their Egnyte account and add them to Contentstack’s Custom or JSON Rich Text Editor fields.

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To learn more about the Egnyte app, refer to the Egnyte App Installation Guide.

Bug Fixes:

  • Updated the Utils SDK dependency version.

Enhancement:

  • Added the fragment tag in JSON RTE.

Bug Fixes:

  • Enabled support for the fragment tag within nested lists.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue where the global field was missing after CLI import.

Enhancements:

  • Included validation for Extension/Marketplace applications within the Audit plugin for content types and entries.
  • Substituted taxonomy retrieval and creation API with an export and import API in Import, Export, Export-to-CSV, and Taxonomy Migration utility.
  • Added support for Nuxt3 Starter in the Bootstrap plugin.
  • Added support for including destination stack name in console upon successful completion of import.
  • Implemented automatic generation of the Developer Hub URL instead of relying on manual input prompts in the Apps-CLI & CLI plugins.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved version issues in the Tsgen plugin.
  • Resolved incorrect management token alias issue.
  • Resolved SRE and vulnerability issues.
  • Resolved entry publishing with references (NRP).

Documentation Updates:

  • Added Extension/Marketplace updates in the Audit plugin document.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the parsing of nested children when an entry is referenced as a link.

Enhancement:

  • Added a new style attribute fragment.

We are excited to announce new updates to Automation Hub, including new actions in ChatGPT Connector, Box Connector, Microsoft Azure Blob Storage Connector, and several other capabilities. Here’s what’s included:

“Automation Hub” will now be called “Automate”

We are simplifying the terminology for our visual workflow builder to align with our action-oriented product names, such as Launch, and to clearly communicate the tool's core purpose.

The update can be viewed in our product and will be reflected in the documentation and other Contentstack products very soon!

New Connectors

  • Azure Blob Storage Connector: Upload and create unstructured data (text, binary, images) to your Azure Blob Storage account efficiently. Automate tasks like data backup, transfer, and processing.

    Learn more about Azure Blob Storage Connector.

  • Box Connector: Simplify retrieving file URLs from your Boxa cloud drive, automating access and management for enhanced efficiency.

    Learn more about Box Action Connector.

New Trigger

Box Trigger: Automate file uploads from Box cloud drive to trigger actions in Contentstack. Create a Box trigger to automate file uploads from Box to Contentstack by sending file URLs for asset creation.

Learn more about Box Trigger.

New Action in ChatGPT Connector

DALL-E 3 Image Generator: This action lets you create AI-generated images based on a prompt text and provides an image URL for the image using DALL- E 3. This action can also be used in conjunction with the Chat with Vision action, where the image URL is sent to generate a text response for the prompt.

Learn more about ChatGPT Connector.

New Actions in Contentstack Connector:

We have introduced two new actions in the Contentstack Connector.

  1. Create an Asset: This action lets you create a new asset in Contentstack.
  2. Update an Asset: This action lets you modify an existing asset in Contentstack.

Learn more about Contentstack Connector.

Other Changes:

RTE Formatter Connector: This Connector now supports adding multiple JSON RTE content and converts them into HTML or Text formats.

Filter by Date in Execution and Audit Log: With the new Filter by Date feature, you can filter and view your execution and audit log for a specific duration.

We are excited to announce that we are extending the Launch functionality with the following releases:

  • Contentstack Launch has enhanced its support to include Server-Side Rendering (SSR) for the Angular framework. SSR allows Angular applications to render pages on the server, resulting in enhanced performance.
  • Contentstack Launch documentation now includes Quick Start Guides for all Launch-supported frameworks, making it easy for users to understand and try out the supported frameworks on Launch in simple steps.

We're thrilled to unveil a powerful feature designed specifically for Organization Owners and Administrators: Bulk Operations for Users.

With this feature, you can now efficiently perform bulk operations on multiple Organization users, removing users, updating their stack access, or changing their Organization roles in a single step.

Learn more about Bulk Operations for Organization Users in our documentation.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved cross-publishing entries issue. With this fix, specific versions of entries from the source environment will be published on the target environment.

Bug Fixes:

  • The system now automatically verifies the data type of the Asset object

We are pleased to introduce a new set of UI enhancements aimed at improving the overall platform experience. Here are their details:

Modified Language Selection Order in Publish Asset Modal: In the updated “Publish Asset” modal, the master locale is now consistently positioned as the initial choice, mirroring the arrangement in the existing “Publish Entry” modal. The subsequent languages are also listed alphabetically, ensuring a streamlined and organized selection process.

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Persistent User Preferences for Entry Editor Right-hand Sidebar: The Entry Editor sidebar now intelligently retains user preferences (whether expanded or closed) for not only “Entry Information” and “Entry Status” but also for “Workflow Details,” “Widgets,” and “Discussions,” ensuring a consistent and personalized experience even across page refreshes.

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Enhanced Workflow Icon Visibility for Intuitive User Experience: The visibility of the Workflow icon in the Entry Editor sidebar now utilizes prominent color representation to signify the current stage. This enhancement ensures that users can quickly identify and comprehend the workflow stage, providing more precise and intuitive visual cues.

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More Selection Control for the Select Field: We've introduced the ability to select or deselect all options within the “Dropdown” display type of the “Select” field with just a single click. This enhancement offers users the convenience of efficient mass selection or deselection, making interactions more user-friendly than ever before.

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This release also includes some bug fixes.

Stay up-to-date with alerts for crucial account events in Contentstack! Click the bell icon in the top-right corner of the Stacks list page to access notifications instantly at your fingertips.

Key Features:

  • Dive into detailed insights with analytical notifications such as periodic activity summaries.
  • Respond swiftly to app requests and collaboration invites via call-to-action buttons
  • Organize group notifications effortlessly by “Date”, “Product”, or “Type” for a clear overview

With Organization Notifications [Early Access Release], you gain a comprehensive overview of the platform, ensuring you stay ahead of all activities.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved issue with updating entries.

Enhancements:

  • Added style attribute fragment in alignment with JSON RTE updates.

Enhancements:

  • Added JSON converters for Node and TextNode of JSON RTE components

New Features:

  • Added Live Preview support by incorporating a preview token into the Bootstrap plugin.

Enhancements:

  • Introduced the config flag in the Clone plugin to support Export and Import external configs.
  • Added unit test cases in the Config plugin for the Early Access header.
  • Added a Project query and mutation updates in the Launch plugin.
  • Updated Starter apps.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue with the Audit plugin caused by the absence of a module folder.
  • Resolved SRE issues.

Documentation Updates:

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved issue related to exporting only the specified content types while using the flag --content-types.

Now, managing your taxonomy is simpler than ever! With Taxonomy, you can effortlessly export your taxonomy to a JSON or CSV file, enabling easy storage and access. Simply choose your preferred format, and voila – your taxonomy is ready for download and safekeeping on your local storage system.

But wait, there's more! Importing a taxonomy is just as seamless. Easily bring your JSON or CSV file into your stack, and watch as your taxonomy comes to life. Once imported, you can swiftly add terms to your taxonomy or associate it with content types, streamlining your content management process like never before.

Experience the power of simplified taxonomy management with Contentstack – your ultimate content creation companion. Try it out today and unlock a whole new level of efficiency!

Learn more about Exporting and Importing a taxonomy.

It’s the January Release so we’re kickstarting the year by introducing some powerful new updates to Automation Hub, including Sub Automations, an Automation Hub Management API, and a number of other new connectors and capabilities. Here’s what’s included:

New Feature Spotlight: Sub Automations

This is a big update to Automation Hub that allows you to create reusable automation components that can be invoked across different projects and workflows.

The Sub Automation action allows you to retrieve the Sub Automation created within a project. This can be especially valuable when employed in conjunction with the ChatGPT-based Function Calling action.

Whether you're updating web content, managing digital assets, or orchestrating complex content delivery processes, Sub Automations offer a modular approach to automate repetitive tasks efficiently.

Learn more about Sub Automation Action and Trigger.

Automation Hub Management API

Next, we introduce the Automation Hub Management API, a powerful tool for managing your projects and automations with ease. This API enables you to perform create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations on projects and project variables directly through API calls. It's perfect for those looking to automate project setup, updates, and management tasks, offering a programmable way to maintain your automation ecosystem efficiently.

Learn more about Automation Hub Management API.

New Connectors:

  • Google Vertex Connector: Leverage Google Vertex's AI models, including the Gemini API, to generate dynamic responses within your automations. Ideal for enhancing chatbots, automating content creation, or any task requiring AI-driven insights. Learn more about Google Vertex connector.
  • Azure DevOps Connector: Streamline your CI/CD workflows, from code build to deployment, directly within Automation Hub. This connector simplifies the integration of development and operations tasks, improving deployment frequency and reducing lead time for changes. Learn more about Azure DevOps connector.

New Trigger

BigCommerce Trigger: Automate eCommerce workflows with this new trigger that allows you to automate responses to events like new orders, customer creations, or product updates, streamlining operations for your online store and enhancing customer experiences.

Learn more about BigCommerce trigger.

New Actions for ChatGPT Connector

We have introduced two new actions in the ChatGPT connector.

  1. Function Calling: Generate responses based on the configured Sub Automation. Within the Function Calling action, you have the flexibility to specify various sub-automations. ChatGPT will then analyze the input and generate a response corresponding to the selected sub-automation.
  2. Function Calling Response: Utilize the Function Calling Response action to format the output obtained from both the Function Calling action and the Sub Automation.

Other Changes:

  1. Renumbering of Steps: If a user adds a new step in between two actions or any special action, the step numbers will now be renumbered automatically.
  2. Nested Reference Publishing: You can now publish the entries along with the referenced entries using the Nested Reference Publishing checkbox in the Contentstack connector.

New Features:

  • In this update, we've added support for the Google Cloud Platform North America Region to our CLI, Apps CLI Plugin, and Tsgen Plugin. This advancement offers users the flexibility to choose from different data centers with the inclusion of GCP NA.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the issue when the management token alias used for import is not already added in CLI.

Documentation Updates:

  • Added documentation updates for the GCP NA support in CLI.

We are super excited to announce a power-packed release, bringing a plethora of features and enhancements for users of all types.

This release contains some exciting UI enhancements and search capabilities for all platform users, new REST support for Live Preview service with Preview token for developers, and some useful governance options for organization admins. Let’s dive deeper into these updates:

UI Enhancements - Design system update

We are excited to announce the second and final phase of UI enhancements being rolled out as part of our design system update across the platform. This update focuses on enhancing user productivity and accessibility across the platform.

Earlier, in October 2023, we rolled out Venus Design System 2.0 changes for limited screens (for content managers). In this release, we extend these updates to the rest of the screens.

Here's an overview of what's new:

Enhanced Data Tables For List Pages

The list pages of all modules now feature newer, more flexible tables:

  • Easy column management: The new updates offer the ability to move, resize, reorder, freeze/ unfreeze, and add/remove columns as needed in the table view.
  • Pagination to jump through pages: Pagination at the bottom of the tables now replaces the previous infinite scroll and allows for easier navigation through records.
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Improved Input Fields and Forms for Better Readability

We have made some key enhancements to the input fields and forms, which significantly improves the readability of text and visibility of text area:

  • Borders for better visibility: To enhance the visibility of input fields, we have added distinct borders around them.
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  • Read-only fields with lock sign: The read-only fields within forms have a lock sign, indicating that the fields are not editable.
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  • Background Color for Forms: All forms get a distinct background color, whereas the fields and text area remain white, improving the contrast of pages.
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Improved “Date” Field and Date Picker

We have made some useful updates to the “Date” field for content managers:

  • The time zone picker is no longer within the time picker, but now sits outside within the date field for easier access.
  • The date selector gets “Cancel” and “Apply” buttons to avoid accidental updates to the date field.
  • The new “Use Current Date” and “Use Current Time” options in the date and time selectors, respectively, help you quickly select the current date and time in a few clicks.
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Here are some updates to the date picker:

  • Redesigned to include a single calendar view, aligning with the new date picker style
  • New “Reset” button to quickly clear the selected date ranges
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Update to Rich Text Editors (RTEs)

We have changed the look and feel of all the three RTEs (JSON, HTML, and Markdown) to improve their usability and make it consistent with the other fields. The RTEs now feature cleaner icons, prominent links to expand/minimize editors, and better spacing.

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Venus Design System 2.0 Update for All UI Components

All the components in the user interface get a refreshing update as per the Venus Design System 2.0.

  • Toggle switches for enabling/disabling features: We've incorporated a toggle switch feature for effortless enabling and disabling, making control more intuitive and efficient.
  • New information “Pills”: The new color-coded “Pills” feature has been added to a few screens such as the Invite Users module, in headers of Workflows and Publish Rules pages, for the Branches module, and the Webhooks page for better visualization.
  • Enhanced accessibility: This update brings a lot of changes for users with varying needs. Some of the prominent accessibility and usability changes include standardized icons, consistent text color and size, improved tooltips visibility, more user-friendly fields, aligning with the Version 2 design upgrades.
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Powerful Search capabilities

We have introduced some new search capabilities to the platform, helping you easily find that “needle in a haystack” when necessary. Here’s what’s included:

Search Entries by Title

You can now search entries by their titles across all content types. This means quicker access to the content you want without scrolling through pages. To do a title-only search, click on the search bar, and use “Title” from the “Recently Used Fields” section.

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It’s also available under “Advanced Search” in the system-defined fields.
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Support for JSON RTE and Custom field (JSON data type) in Advanced Search

We've expanded our Advanced Search capabilities to include JSON RTE and Custom fields (JSON data type). With the inclusion of these fields, utilizing the 'contains' operator, our search now fully supports all field types in entries, enhancing your search flexibility.

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Live Preview Service with REST support and Preview Tokens

We’re excited to announce the expansion of our Live Preview Service capabilities with the addition of REST support, complementing our existing GraphQL services. This enhancement ensures a more streamlined and intuitive preview experience, providing a comprehensive and versatile support of development needs and preferences. The APIs for this enriched service mirror the familiar structure of our Delivery API, maintaining consistent API contracts.

Alongside this, we will introduce Preview Tokens, a new way to provide improved security and control for Live Previews within Contentstack. Enhance your security measures and mitigate unauthorized data access by upgrading from read-only management tokens to a more robust protection of Preview tokens. Preview Token can be created while creating a Delivery Token, for the same scope.

Read our documentation on Preview Tokens.

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More Power to Organization Administrators

If you are an organization administrator, you get a host of new features to manage your teams. Administrators can now enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) and password expiration interval for all users in their organization. Coming soon: Admins can also manage team-level permissions for the “Teams” that are created within Contentstack CMS. This feature is available for early access beginning February 1, and will be rolling out to all users throughout the month.

Read our documentation on Security Configuration and Teams.

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We are thrilled to share that Contentstack Launch has expanded its support to include some very popular frameworks.

With this latest update, Contentstack Launch now seamlessly supports Vue, Create React App, Angular, and CSR (Client-Side Rendered) frameworks, providing a one-stop solution for hosting websites built on these frameworks.

This significant enhancement will empower more developers to effortlessly deploy and manage their web projects with unparalleled ease and efficiency!

New Features:

  • Added GraphQL type definition and Early Access support in the Tsgen plugin.
  • Added Early Access support in the Regex plugin.

Enhancements:

  • Updated the Apps CLI plugin to fetch the latest changes via an updated boilerplate GitHub URL.
  • Replaced the static manifest files in the Apps CLI plugin with a support for boilerplate manifest.json.
  • Added analytics support to the content-type plugin.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved npm publish issues in the Apps CLI plugin.
  • Fixed the unit test cases issue in the CLI caused due to package dependencies.
  • Fixed SRE issues.

Documentation Updates:

We are excited to announce that Developer Hub is now generally available on Contentstack! The experience provides a user-friendly interface for teams to easily create and manage custom applications, making it an ideal tool for developers and partners looking to enhance or extend the platform experience with personalized integrations and capabilities, whether for internal or public use.

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Key features of Developer Hub include:

  • Launch Hosting: Develop, test, and deploy your app within the Contentstack platform via Hosting with Launch.
  • App Boilerplates: Create custom apps with preconfigured templates tailored for specific solutions such as E-commerce or Digital Asset Management. Refer to our Getting Started with your First App guide to kickstart your app development journey via Developer Hub.
  • App SDK: Use pre-built SDK functions to enhance efficiency in platform interactions.
  • Version Logs: Document each update with detailed App Versioning.
  • Platform Extensibility: Seamlessly integrate custom apps across numerous UI locations.
  • Contentstack OAuth: Implement robust, token-based security with Contentstack OAuth and PKCE-enhanced OAuth.
  • Webhooks: Enable real-time interaction and data exchange with Contentstack using granular Webhook control.

Learn more about Developer Hub.

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

Introducing the all-new TypeScript Delivery SDK [Beta Release], designed to elevate your application development with Contentstack. Discover unparalleled simplicity and efficiency with these remarkable features:

  • Effortlessly manage data: Create, Update, and Delete content with ease
  • Lightning-fast data retrieval: Fetch your content seamlessly for a smooth user experience
  • TypeScript Compatibility: Unlock the full potential of TypeScript benefits
  • Contentstack Integration: Seamlessly connect with our versatile CMS

Get the TypeScript Delivery SDK today and simplify your development process for web, mobile, and more!

Refer to our documentation on TypeScript Delivery SDK to get started.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the generated command issue in Entry Migration for Windows OS.
  • Resolved the ignore option issue in Entry Migration.
  • Handled the scenario involving the removal of references from RTE during the creation of Global Fields in Import plugin.
  • Fixed the Audit plugin malfunction that occurred when a schema contained a taxonomy field.
  1. Unique Property Enhancement:

    Non-mandatory fields marked as Unique can now be saved even when empty, providing greater flexibility in data entry.

  2. Webhook Payload Update for branch_alias Events:

    The initial response for the webhook payload in branch_alias events included solely the alias UID. With this update, the webhook payload for branch_alias events has been expanded to encompass additional data fields, offering more comprehensive information:

    For Assigned Event:

    {
    "module": "branch_alias",
    "api_key": "blte60c757c14e646be",
    "data": {
    "branch_alias": {
    "uid": "test",
    "target": "main",
    "created_by": "blt221f108f46fb0fbe",
    "created_at": "2023-08-24T10:18:21.048Z",
    "updated_at": "2024-01-03T05:57:40.675Z",
    "updated_by": "blt221f108f46fb0fbe"
    }
    },
    "event": "assigned",
    "triggered_at": "2024-01-03T05:57:40.872Z"
    }

    For Unassigned Event:

    {
    "module": "branch_alias",
    "api_key": "blte60c757c14e646be",
    "data": {
    "branch_alias": {
    "uid": "test",
    "target": "main",
    "created_at": "2023-08-24T10:18:21.048Z",
    "created_by": "blt221f108f46fb0fbe",
    "updated_at": "2024-01-03T05:58:16.696Z",
    "updated_by": "blt221f108f46fb0fbe"
    }
    },
    "event": "unassigned",
    "triggered_at": "2024-01-03T05:58:16.840Z"
    }

New Features:

  • Added Early Access support in CLI.
  • Added Audit plugin support in Clone and Import plugins.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved the Entry Migration issue that caused data migration for remaining entries to halt in the event of a failure for an entry of a specific content type.
  • Fixed the refresh token issue in the Import plugin.
  • Fixed the type generation issue for the reference field in Tsgen Plugin.
  • Fixed SRE issues.

Documentation Updates:

  • Created a document to configure and use Early Access in the CLI.
  • Updated the Import and Clone documents to support the Audit plugin.
  • Added a note for the log path in the Entry Migration document.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Improved error handling.
  • Fixed the issue of skipping the organization prompt in the app:create command if the user logs in using OAuth.
  • Fixed the issue where the user is in the directory and uses manifest.json as the default input instead of the prompt.
  • Fixed the issue to include a guide to a stack after a successful app installation in the stack.

We are excited to announce the brand-new JW Player app in our Marketplace! With this app, content managers are empowered to fetch, view, and manage videos inside Contentstack entries. Additionally, it allows users to choose multiple videos from their JW Player account and add them to Contentstack’s Custom or JSON Rich Text Editor fields.

Content managers can use the app to display video content on their websites without accessing the JW Player platform independently. You can quickly build and manage playlists, upload videos, and alter player settings using the JW Player app.

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To learn more about how to use the JW Player app, refer to the JW Player App Installation Guide.

We are thrilled to announce some updates to Automation Hub as part of our December Release. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s included:

New Feature: Multiple Authentication

Introducing a brand-new feature in the Contentstack and Slack action connectors – Multiple Authentication. With this multi-authentication feature, you can now authenticate your Contentstack or Slack accounts using different methods, including Contentstack OAuth, Management Token, or a Slack Bot Token.

For customers who want to ensure that actions taken by Automation Hub are specifically recorded (in audit logs, for example) as coming from Automation Hub, creating a Management Token for authentication allows this to happen (since the name of the Management Token would be recorded in the audit logs).

Learn more about the Contentstack and Slack connector.

New Action in AWS S3 Connector:

We have introduced a new action in the AWS S3 connector.

  • Delete an Object: This action lets you delete an object (asset or files) from your AWS S3 account.

This new action will be helpful for customers who want to ensure that when assets or entries are deleted from Contentstack, that deletion is also reflected in their S3 backups.

Learn more about AWS S3 connector.

New Action in ChatGPT Connector:

We have introduced a new action in the ChatGPT connector.

  • Chat with Vision: This action lets you generate text-based responses for visual prompts. You can easily generate detailed description(s) of an image(s) using the Chat with Vision action.

Many exciting use cases can be accomplished with this new AI image capability. Firstly, customers can ask Chat with Vision to analyze and provide relevant keyword tags and descriptions for any asset they upload into the system. This can dramatically help with image SEO, accessibility for certain end users, and streamlining the image upload process.

Additionally, this process allows customers to compare two images and ask Chat with Vision to describe the differences or the similarities. Imagine asking for a comparison of the website before and after a release happens and then sending that description to Slack to keep the whole team in the loop.

Note: The Chat with Vision model is currently in preview. Users are reminded to transition to the production model upon its release for continued, enhanced functionality.

Learn more about ChatGPT connector.

Enhancements:

  • Replaced HTTP calls with SDK call in the export-to-csv plugin.
  • Replaced Marketplace HTTP calls with SDK in the export and import plugins.
  • Added Apps CLI & Audit plugin cases in e2e.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed OAuth failure cases in e2e.
  • Resolved Marketplace issue where the import plugin failed for Mantashape.
  • Resolved issue in the migration plugin where the Windows OS did not detect absolute CSV file path.
  • Fixed type error issues for empty Date and Select Fields in the tsgen plugin.
  • Resolved reported SRE issues and vulnerabilities.

Documentation Updates:

We're happy to share a significant update to our Workflow management, especially when using Branches. Let’s take a closer look.

Previously, users were restricted to creating just one workflow per content type, irrespective of the branches the content types were present in. 

Now, our updated system allows the creation of multiple workflows for the same content types across various branches. For instance, you can set up distinct workflows for the same content type under the "Main" and "Dev" branches, enhancing flexibility and efficiency in your workflow management.

This release also includes some minor bug fixes.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Fixed Bootstrap Next.js Starter App issues. Updated eslint dependencies to avoid eslint issues.
  • Resolved issues that caused entry import failure when JSON RTE had any reference inside the table.
  • Fixed the entry migration utility issue when an entry was deleted.

We are excited to announce some updates to Automation Hub as part of our November Release. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s included:

New Feature: Project Variables

The Project Variables section in Contentstack lets you easily add and manage key-value pairs for consistent use across various automations and projects. When creating a variable, you can choose to create them as plain text, which is useful to store email addresses, IDs, section names and so forth. Or, you can create obfuscated variables, which can be used for secret values such as client IDs or API keys, etc.

Additionally, when users clone an automation, there is a new interface which asks which variables should be brought over to the new project, or which should be re-established. This allows users to keep specific values secure by controlling access to high value projects.

For example, if you have a developer working on a development-themed project in Automation Hub, he or she would only have access to the Project Variables in that specific project. Later, when the final version of the automation is then cloned to the production project, new variables could be established for those same keys, and thus limiting access to that sensitive data.

In the Automation Hub application, we use advanced obfuscation techniques for storing these potentially sensitive values. This approach is designed to enhance security by decoupling secret information from your automation scripts. However, it is important to note that while these values are obfuscated, they still must be available inside the automations, and super admins or those with specific access to the project may still be able to create a way to retrieve them. We recommend that users exercise caution and regularly review their access controls, ensuring only trusted personnel have such elevated privileges. By following these practices, you can maintain a robust security posture within your automation environment.

Learn more about Project Variables.

New Connector: Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a cloud-based collaboration platform built for seamless communication and content sharing within and across organizations.

The integration of the Microsoft Teams connector enables users to automate message delivery throughout their organization using Automation Hub.

Learn more about Microsoft Teams connector.

New Connector: Google PubSub

Google PubSub, offered as part of the Google Cloud Platform, serves as a messaging service facilitating communication between standalone applications. The Google PubSub connector allows applications to publish messages to topics, while other applications can subscribe to receive these messages. This approach fosters asynchronous communication, empowering components to function independently.

Learn more about Google PubSub connector.

New Actions in Contentstack Connector:

We have introduced two new actions in the Contentstack connector.

  • Get Single Asset: This action lets you fetch details of a single asset.
  • Get All Assets: This action fetches details of all the assets present in a stack. Optionally, you can select the folder from which you want to fetch the asset details.

Learn more about Contentstack connector.

New Action in RTE Formatter connector: Format HTML RTE Content to JSON

We have introduced a new action in the RTE Formatter Connector. This action lets you format HTML content into JSON format. You can use the JSON content in your JSON RTE field in your Contentstack entry.

Learn more about RTE Formatter connector.

Other changes:

  • AWS S3: With the new update in the AWS S3 connector, you can select two different sources to upload your content, i.e. Content or File URL. This can be used to upload binary files, such as images or PDFs, to S3 as part of a backup process.
  • ChatGPT, Azure ChatGPT, and AWS Bedrock: We have introduced a new checkbox to enable text formatting, ensuring the proper escape of special characters from the response. This is enabled by default.
  • Revert changes for Triggers: You can revert to the previously configured trigger settings with the Revert Changes feature.

We’re excited to introduce the new Contentstack DAM App Boilerplate, simplifying the development of custom Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications for the Contentstack platform.

Like our other Marketplace app boilerplates, it offers a streamlined start to app development, providing a framework of files, code, and configurations geared towards DAM-specific functionalities.

To get started, check out our Marketplace DAM App Boilerplate guide.

New Features:

  • Added overwrite support to the Import plugin for entries.

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved branches plugin issue that generated incorrect file name in the merge scripts.
  • Fixed issue related to invalid management token alias.
  • Resolved unhandled error issue for invalid stack roles.
  • Updated regex plugin readme file and setup steps.
  • Resolved vulnerabilities.

Documentation Updates:

We are delighted to announce the following updates to Contentstack Launch:

CDN Cache Revalidation

  • Content Delivery Network (CDN) now actively checks the validity of cached content and updates it from the origin server when changes occur.
  • The CDN cache revalidation has been optimized to ensure the most up-to-date content is delivered to users.
  • This guarantees that visitors to your website experience the latest content, reflecting any recent updates or modifications.

For more information, refer to the Revalidate CDN Cache documentation.

Next JS On-Demand Revalidation for SSG

  • Introducing On-Demand Revalidation for Static Site Generation (SSG) pages with Launch.
  • With this feature, static pages are revalidated on demand, ensuring that users receive the latest version of your SSG pages when needed.
  • Enhance the user experience by dynamically updating static pages as changes occur in your content or configurations.

For more information, refer to the Next.js On-Demand Revalidation for Static Site Generation (SSG) pages documentation.

Increased server timeouts to 30 seconds across the board

  • Server timeouts have been extended across the board from 10 seconds to 30 seconds.
  • This extension applies to Cloud Functions and all other server-side requests, allowing for longer execution periods.
  • The increased timeout duration accommodates longer-running processes, providing more flexibility for server-side operations.

We’re excited to share the latest updates to our Algolia app, which keeps your Algolia search indices updated when changes are made to entries in Contentstack.

What’s new:

  • Support for Branches: Users can now initiate webhook events based on branch-related activities in Contentstack. Webhook settings can be customized for specific or all branches, allowing for more precise control over how content updates in Algolia.
  • UI Bug Fixes: Resolved UI-related bugs for a smoother user experience.

For more information, please refer to the Algolia App Installation Guide.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved the token refresh error.
  • Resolved issue in publishing failed entries using retry-failed options with failed log files.
  • Resolved audit fix including the absent global field schema in the content type.

Documentation Updates:

New Features:

  • Added taxonomies module support to the export and import plugins.
  • Added taxonomies support to the export-to-csv plugin.
  • Added taxonomies support in migration plugin.
  • Added taxonomy field type support in tsgen plugin.
  • Added unit test cases for taxonomies module in export-to-csv plugin.
  • Added taxonomy import utility support in migration plugin.

Enhancements:

  • Updated unit test cases for entries and user modules in export-to-csv plugin.
  • Added delimiter flag support in export-to-csv plugin.

Documentation Updates:

We are thrilled to announce a game-changing addition to our platform – Taxonomy [Early Access Release]. Taxonomy enables multiple ways to classify, organize and manage content, tailored to your specific needs. These classification methods can be structured hierarchically, relationally (may or may not be hierarchical), or as predefined lists based on metadata/attributes that can be applied across various use cases. It’s designed to simplify how you categorize and manage your entries, providing you with a seamless and efficient content organization experience.

Key Benefits:

  • Effortless categorization: Easily assign categories to your entries, making it a breeze to sort and identify content.
  • Streamlined content filtering: Filter your entry view, ensuring that you see exactly what you need at any given time.
  • Logical content organization: Group similar content together by creating custom taxonomies. This feature promotes a structured and organized approach to managing your data.
  • Direct line of sight: Manage and implement scalable content management processes for large-scale content projects across functions and systems.
  • Gain full purview: Navigate to the content types most relevant to you and your team’s priorities. Manage and lead content projects from a single vantage point, giving you the confidence and assurance to execute.

We believe that Taxonomy will revolutionize the way you handle your content and data structures, making your experience smoother and more productive.

Please note that this feature is currently in its Early Access Phase, and 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 will be invaluable as we work to refine and improve Taxonomy. Our goal is to roll out Taxonomy to all users in the near future, delivering a polished and valuable addition to your Contentstack experience.

To learn more about Taxonomy, refer to our documentation.

We've upgraded the process for adding assets to your entries. Now, when you use the 'File' field, you’ll notice the following improvements:

  • The pop-up modal retains your 'List' or 'Thumbnail' view preference.

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  • Click anywhere on an asset in 'Thumbnail' view to select it.

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  • The publish status of assets is now visible in 'List' view.

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This release also includes some bug fixes.

Welcome back to the Fall edition of Contentstack Pulse, your trusted source for the most recent news on platform enhancements, roadmap updates, and comprehensive answers to frequently asked questions. In the season of change, we are excited to share the advancements that have taken place within our platform. Our commitment to innovation remains unwavering, focusing on creating an increasingly efficient and user-friendly environment for marketers and developers. So, let’s dive into the details of our latest updates and provide insights into the future at Contentstack.

Bug & Security Fixes:
  • Resolved CLI region error for AWS NA when set through URLs.
  • Fixed vulnerabilities.

We are excited to announce some updates to Automation Hub as part of our October Release. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s included:

Protected Mode for “Live” Automations:

Consider a scenario where you have an active automation for publishing entries to the Algolia dashboard. If another user attempts to modify this automation while it is still operating, it may disrupt an ongoing execution. To address this concern, we will now protect “Live” automations from being changed to ensure stability. We indicate “Live” mode by showing a label at the top of the screen, and lock icons at various places throughout the automation, to indicate that it is protected from changes.

Live mode signifies that the automation is currently active. In Live mode, you can only view the automation's configuration. Adding new steps or deleting automation steps is not permitted.

If you want to make edits, you have two options: disable the automation so that it shows “Draft” mode, and then make your changes, or, you can create a clone of the automation, edit the clone, and then switch it for the previous Live version.

New Direct Queue for Unthrottled Automations:

The API rate limit feature empowers users to control the pace of executions within a designated time, ensuring adherence to their API rate limits. Users can choose to activate throttling for their automation or let them operate at their maximum speed, with the latter remaining the default setting.

Consider a scenario where an organization did not opt to throttle their automation. In that scenario, the executions for all the automations in all the organizations will go in the Direct Queue, where the rate limit has now been increased to 5000 executions per minute per organization.
Note that other rate limits (such as the Contentstack Management API “get” limit) would still apply.

Note: Execution request(s) will be sent to the direct queue only if your automation does not contain the Response connector.

The Response connector works synchronously in the background to fetch the response from any server. If an automation contains the Response connector, it will send the response based on the configuration and if it were allowed to go to the Direct Queue for execution, you might not be able to view the response. For that reason we limit automations that have a Response connector from being sent to the Direct Queue. If they are not throttled, they are effectively in another queue which is still limited to 100/executions per minute.

Clone an Automation to Another Project:

We have updated the functionality to Clone an Automation. You can select a destination project to move the cloned automation.

Other changes:

  • Venus Components 2.0 - We have introduced a new Automation Builder page with the latest UI to help you navigate and configure your automations easily.

We’re excited to introduce the Contentstack Python Management SDK—engineered to simplify interactions with the Contentstack Content Management API for Python developers.

Key benefits of the SDK include:

  • Streamlined integration: Easily integrate the SDK with various tools, services, and platforms.
  • Enhanced performance: Manage your stack data, using our Content Management API to create, update, delete, and retrieve information.
  • Robust security: Execute your applications securely using either authtoken or management token for authentication.

To get started, refer to our documentation on the Python Management SDK.

Introduce greater precision to your content with the JSON Rich Text Editor's new Block and Inline Properties. Easily add class or ID properties to entire content blocks or specific text, simplifying customization or personalization for dynamic documents.

To learn more, refer to our documentation.

Introducing the new Optimizely app from our Marketplace, enabling things like A/B testing and content personalization, by allowing users to embed audiences (JSON files) into a Custom Field on a Contentstack entry.

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

We are excited to announce some new updates to Developer Hub. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s new:

New Feature: Branch Support in Webhooks

We are thrilled to announce the latest addition to our Developer Hub section - Branch Support for Webhooks. This feature empowers users to initiate webhook events based on Branch-related activities.

Let's delve into the new options available within the Webhooks section:

  1. Branch-level Scope: Now, you have the flexibility to trigger webhook events on your chosen branch for Branch-enabled organizations.
  2. Branch Event(s): You can set up webhooks for various branch-related events, including Create-Initiated, Create-Completed, Delete-Initiated, and Delete-Completed.
  3. Branch Alias(es) Event(s): Webhooks can also be configured to respond to Branch alias events, such as Assigned and Unassigned.

To conveniently access your webhook logs, navigate to the Webhooks tab within the App Configuration screen on the Marketplace dashboard. When you need to update your branch, simply click the Branch dropdown and select the desired branch for your webhook setup.

Now available in our Marketplace, the Marketo Forms app enables users to do things like easily capture lead data through their digital experiences by embedding Marketo forms within the Custom Fields of Contentstack entries.

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To learn more, refer to the Marketo Forms App Installation Guide.

We're excited to share the latest enhancements to the Contentstack AI Assistant.

Introducing Sub-action Prompts

It is now possible to group related custom prompts under a unified dropdown using the sub-action prompt feature.

Access this feature in the AI Assistant's Advanced Configuration. Once you set up a sub-action prompt, it's readily available within your content entry fields. Simply select "AI Assistant" from the hovering menu, and your customized sub-action prompt appears for use.

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For example, a custom prompt could be created to generate various types of product descriptions with specific instructions for a business. Variables that can be used in the prompt include:

  • {{field_data}} - This will insert the text currently in the selected field in the entry editor.
  • {{selected_option}} - This will insert the text from the sub-action that is selected by the user.

Here is an example of a set of prompts with instructions to create various descriptions for a hypothetical Contentstack marketing page. Download the file and import it into your AI Assistant Advanced Configuration using the import button.

Remember that if you need icons for your custom prompts, we’ve made several SVGs from our Venus 2.0 design library available for you to use so that your actions match the look and feel of the Contentstack admin.

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New “Change tone” options now available

We have also implemented a new default prompt to subtly change the tone of an entry, while keeping the structure, facts and approximate length of the content the same.

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Options now include:

  • Persuasive: This option asks AI to modify the text to attempt to persuade the reader to the entry’s point of view. This is appropriate for sales-related material or call-to-action text.
  • Straightforward: This prompt asks AI to stay neutral, keep to the facts and reduce emotional language. This might be appropriate for documentation or technical instruction text.
  • Friendly: This choice asks for friendly and casual language, which would be great for email newsletters or event invitations.
  • Professional: This option will create professional business text and reduce casual language. It would be useful for technical blogs or thought leadership pieces.

Additionally, we’ve moved the “Make shorter” action into a new dropdown for “Change length” which includes options for “Longer” (about 25% longer) and “Shorter” (about 25% shorter).

Contentstack’s AI Assistant is now Generally Available! Install it from the Marketplace today.

New Features:

  • Added Audit fix command functionality for the global fields, content-type and entry modules.
  • Added overwrite support to the import plugin for extensions and global fields.

Enhancements:

Bug and Security Fixes:

  • Resolved an issue where reference fields inside modular blocks were erroneously replaced with dummyTest Single Line Textboxes.
  • Resolved the issue where a single reference generated multiple arrays within the tsgen plugin.
  • Resolved the issue where installed apps within a specific organization were not displayed correctly for uninstallation.
  • Fixed issue related to the export info meta file.
  • Resolved issue with bulk publish assets.
  • Fixed warning messages that were triggered when using deprecated or old flags.
  • Resolved vulnerabilities.

Documentation Updates:

We’re thrilled to introduce the latest addition to our Marketplace – the all-new Vimeo app! This integration enables content managers to fetch, display, and manage video content directly within Contentstack entries. Additionally, it enables users to select multiple videos from their Vimeo account and add them to Custom field or JSON Rich Text Editor fields in Contentstack.

The app empowers content managers to showcase video content within their website or application without the need to access the Vimeo platform separately. Users can easily create and manage video playlists, upload videos, and customize player settings using the Vimeo integration in Contentstack.

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To learn more about how to use the Vimeo app, refer to the Vimeo App Installation Guide.

We're excited to announce the release of our new JavaScript Marketplace SDK, loaded with features to elevate your marketplace integrations and aid in any app development.

Key advantages of our new SDK:

  • Seamless Integration: Effortlessly integrate marketplace functionalities into your applications, ensuring a smooth user experience.
  • Flexibility and Customization: Tailor the SDK to meet your specific requirements with ease, enabling limitless customization possibilities.
  • Comprehensive Tools: Utilize a rich feature set to build secure, efficient, and user-friendly marketplace applications.

To get started, visit our JavaScript Marketplace SDK.

We're pleased to unveil Content Models — a collection of predefined content types and global fields readily available for import into your stack to accelerate the content creation process.

Pre-built Content Models available now:

For more information, please refer to How to Import a Content Model documentation.

We're excited to introduce the new contentstack-audit plugin, now available for Contentstack CLI. This plugin enables you to conduct audit tasks directly through the CLI, allowing you to identify missing references within your exported stack data.

Requirements: A Contentstack account and CLI version 1.9.0 or higher, along with locally stored exported data.

For installation and usage instructions, consult our step-by-step guide.

We’re excited to announce the release of the new Wordbee app in our Marketplace. The app allows you to translate your Entries and provide localized versions in multiple languages. It includes:

Full Page Location: Streamline the translation process within the Contentstack platform by enabling users to access the Wordbee App within the Contentstack CMS, where they can select content types for translation, add entries, configure translation settings, and more. See the Full Page Location documentation page.

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Sidebar Widget: Provide users with comprehensive localization management for entries, including:

  • Language selection: Choose source and target languages or use presets.
  • Fields to include: Specify which fields to include or exclude during translation.
  • Translation workflows: Initiate and monitor translation status in real-time.

To learn more, visit the Sidebar Widget documentation page.

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For more information, refer to the Wordbee App Installation Guide.

We're thrilled to announce our updated design system that focuses on improving productivity and accessibility. As a result, you will see a host of enhancements — including standardization of design components, smoother user navigation, improved spacing, icon enhancements — to the content managers’ screens.

We've given a fresh look to various UI elements, such as input fields, tabs, buttons, dropdowns, tables, tooltips, modals, and icons, updating them to our new design system for a more refined experience. Let's dive into the details of what's new and improved!

Entry Editor Enhancements

  • Mandatory field requirements are now indicated with the word “required” instead of the previous “*” symbol
  • Refreshed the Left-hand side outline panel to be in line with our new design with a modernized search bar and icons
  • Outlined border of text field on hovering over a content block
  • Error messages now conveniently appear directly below the relevant field

Updated User Login Experience

  • Updated user flow for login via SSO, now with buttons instead of tabs
  • Validation messages are now displayed below the text input fields
  • “Submit” buttons will remain disabled until validation passes

User-friendly Stack Cards

  • Refreshed cards on the Stacks homepage, featuring new background colors, icons, and sectioned design
  • Improved text spacing for better readability
  • Tooltips on hover for truncated stack names

Changes to List Pages

  • Pagination added to Releases, Trash, Languages, Environments, and Tasks pages
  • Added the ability to resize tables and freeze columns for the above list pages
  • Introduced a new look for the toggle navigation option between Content Types and Labels tabs on the entries list page
  • A new icon for the collapse/expand feature for the left-hand side menu

Advanced Table Upgrades and Customized Views

  • Enhanced table filtering, which is now easily identifiable with a filter icon
  • Improved column management, offering the ability to freeze or unfreeze columns in table view
  • Updated the appearance of asset cards in thumbnail view
  • Enhanced the spacing of asset results with 4-grid or 8-grid views to prevent element misalignment

Enhanced Accessibility

  • Tooltips with better readability on hover
  • Updated fonts and spacing for headings (H1, H2, H3)
  • Larger action buttons for improved navigation
  • A standardized family of icons for greater cohesion
  • Icons now function as buttons with primary, secondary, and tertiary states

Changed Alerts

  • Introduced color-coded (blue, red, amber, gray) alert boxes for displaying different types of information

Here's a blog article on the latest Venus 2.0. design updates that you can check out.

As of now, we have introduced these changes for the content managers’ screen. We will roll out similar updates for the rest of the screens within the app in the coming weeks. Stay tuned for more updates!

We are excited to announce some actions and updates to Automation Hub as part of our September Release. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s included:

Throttle Execution:

The API rate limit protection allows users to throttle the rate at which executions take place within a specified time frame in order to help stay within their API rate limits. Users have the option to enable throttling for their automations or to leave them to run as fast as possible, which will continue to be the default.

Consider a scenario where an organization has a rate limit of 100 executions per minute, and their automation is set to run every time an entry is published. If they attempt to publish hundreds of items at once (such as several articles that may have dozens of locales each), the execution process may not perform as expected, potentially resulting in errors.

To address this challenge, users can opt to implement throttling for their executions. When an automation is triggered multiple times, these executions are systematically queued, and the executions occur in a sequential manner at a precise pace in order to try to stay within rate limits.

If an organization has multiple throttled automations running at once, the system will merge the requests so they process one item from each automation process at a time in a Round-Robin Scheduling fashion.

New Update in CS Connector:

Set Entry Workflow Action:
We have introduced two new fields, Assignee Name and Assignee Role, to keep users informed about workflow updates. You can add comments and notify the user via email based on the assigned name and role.

Other changes:

  1. Sub-Categorization of Connectors: We have enhanced our user interface to provide a more user-friendly experience. You can now filter connectors based on the categories provided.
  2. Tag filter for Projects: We have updated the Projects landing page to enable the filtering of projects based on tags. You can add tags in the Settings section within our Automations Listing page.
  3. Ability to change the Trigger: You now have the flexibility to update the configuration of a previously configured trigger, though related configuration settings in subsequent steps will be lost.

We're delighted to share that AI Assistant has now transitioned to General Availability. This tool, powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), comes equipped with a range of features tailored to improve and enhance the content creation experience.

Key features of AI Assistant:

  • Custom Commands: Create company-specific prompts with your brand knowledge or customized rules.
  • Brainstorming with AI: Ask AI Assistant to give you ideas on blog posts, titles or outlines.
  • Focused Editing: Easily edit paragraphs or individual sentences directly in your content.
  • Word Suggestions: Highlight any word or phrase, and AI Assistant can suggest synonyms to help diversify your text.
  • Text Length Options: Adjust the length of your content to either elaborate or condense as needed.
  • Bulleted Ideas: Convert selected sentences or entire paragraphs into bullet points for clearer representation.
  • Bring Your Own LLM: Choose which Large Language Model (LLM) will be the brains behind your AI Assistant: OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Azure OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or one of many foundation models available through Amazon Bedrock, such as Anthropic’s Claude.

In addition, our AI Assistant toolbar is now integrated into the JSON Rich Text Editor. This means even more tailored commands to fit your specific needs.

Getting started with AI Assistant is now easier than ever. Available in the Contentstack Marketplace, it can be added to your Contentstack interface with a simple one-click install. No lengthy sign-ups or setups.

Note: Once installed, AI Assistant is ready to use across every Content Type in your stack.

Enhancements:

  • Rewrote export and import command in typescript.
  • Updated export content format to version 2.

Bug & Security Fixes:

We are excited to share the addition of a new connector to Automation Hub; AWS Bedrock.

AWS Bedrock is an AI-powered solution provided by Amazon Web Services, designed to empower developers in harnessing AI to meet their specific needs. Utilizing the AWS Bedrock connector, you gain the ability to seamlessly incorporate foundational models from AI21 Labs, Anthropic, and Amazon Web Services to generate prompt responses.

For enterprises and businesses looking to deploy customized ChatGPT versions on the Azure cloud, the Azure ChatGPT connector is the solution of choice. It enables the integration of their Azure accounts, facilitating the generation of responses within the Azure ChatGPT environment.

Benefits of the Amazon Bedrock integration include:

  • Greater AI Diversity: Choose from new AI offerings like AI21 Labs, Anthropic’s Claude, and Amazon’s Titan models.
  • Robust Security: Secure data integrity with Amazon Bedrock's secure API.
  • Streamlined Procurement: Easily integrate Amazon Bedrock into the Contentstack environment for Amazon users.
  • AI-Powered Automation: Deploy generative AI applications and workflows using the Amazon Bedrock Connector in Automation Hub.
  • AI-Driven Content Creation: Enhance AI Assistant with Amazon Bedrock for easier tasks like text summarization and keyword extraction.

The collaboration between AI Assistant and AWS Bedrock offers businesses greater versatility and additional resources for seamlessly incorporating AI into their operational workflows.

Contentstack's AI Assistant, which can be found in the Contentstack Marketplace, simplifies content generation through the utilization of advanced Large Language Models (LLMs) powered by artificial intelligence.

We're excited to announce our new Java Marketplace SDK, loaded with features to elevate your marketplace integrations and aid in any app development.

Here are some noteworthy features of our new SDK:

  • Effortless Java Developer Integration: A tailored, smooth process for Java developers to seamlessly incorporate our solutions.
  • Reliable Marketplace Functionality: Robust features ensuring stable performance for confident marketplace management and growth.
  • Top-Notch Performance and Security: Ensured data safety and optimal system operation through superior measures.
  • Easy Customization with Extensive Documentation: User-friendly options, supported by thorough documentation, for tailored solutions to suit your unique needs.

Ready to dive in? Head over to our Java Marketplace SDK documentation to kickstart your journey!

Bug & Security Fixes:

  • Resolved security issue for CSV Injection in Export to CSV plugin/command.
  • Resolved embedded entry creation issue in CLI Import.
  • Resolved migration failure issue in CLI Import.
  • Resolved issue in Entry Migration script.
  • Resolved workflow import breakage issue for branch-enabled stacks.
  • Resolved issue for attaching SVG image in JSON RTE in CLI Import.

Vulnerability Fixes:

  • Upgraded CLI package with inquirer-checkbox-plus-prompt from 1.0.1 to 1.4.2.
  • Upgraded packages in the cli-cm-regex-validate plugin.
    • tslib from 2.5.0 to 2.6.1.
    • cli-command from 1.2.9 to 1.2.10.
    • cli-utilities from 1.4.5 to 1.5.0.
    • management from 1.8.0 to 1.10.1.

Documentation Updates:

  • Updated entry code in the Migration document.
  • Added a limitation regarding private apps in the Import doc.

We’ve made some improvements to our search to help you find relevant content more easily:

  • Improved search relevancy:
    When searching for a keyword using the global search, results that contain the searched keyword in the “Title” field are prioritized over results that have the keyword in other fields.
  • Indication for 10,000+ records:
    When conducting a search or applying a filter, if the returned results exceed 10,000 records, the count will now display as “10,000+” to signify that the actual number of records is more than 10,000.
  • Assets search bug fixes:
    • Users without read permission to specific asset folders will no longer be able to see those folders in basic search results.
    • If a user is assigned contradictory permissions to a file or folder (for example, read permission to a folder, and no-read permission to that folder in exception), the user won’t be able to see this file/folder in basic search results, as the defined exceptions take precedence.
    • If multiple custom roles with read/write access to specific folders are assigned to the user, the folders are now searchable and accessible through basic search.
  • Other bug fixes

We’re happy to announce a significant update to the Contentstack AI Assistant based on your feedback. This release introduces a new interface that allows you to interact with AI at a granular level within the JSON Rich Text Editor to edit and brainstorm more easily.

New to the AI Assistant App?

The Contentstack AI Assistant is available at no extra cost for our customers. If you'd like to join our Early Access Program, all you need to do is sign up by filling out this form. After agreeing to some additional terms, we'll send you a link so you can install the app.

JSON Rich Text Editor Enhancements

To improve our users' content editing experience in the JSON Rich Text Editor, we are introducing a new AI Assistant variant that lets you harness the power of AI at the granularity of paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, sentences, and even individual words.

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  • Paragraph and Sentence Re-write: Edit or re-write selected paragraphs or sentences directly using AI Assistant.
  • Synonym Suggestions: Highlight a word or phrase to get synonym suggestions. This can help in varying the text and finding a more suitable word.
  • Adjust Text Length: Make the highlighted text shorter or longer based on your requirements.
  • Convert Text to Bullets: Transform a group of sentences or paragraphs into a bulleted list for more understandable representation.
  • Custom Prompts in JSON RTE: The custom prompt system, previously available in the main toolbar, is now accessible in the JSON Rich Text Editor. This allows users to use specific commands tailored to their needs. Users can create new, separate prompts for the JSON RTE, or you can use the same prompts as on the main toolbar.

Set up the AI Assistant in your JSON Rich Text Editor

If AI Assistant is already installed on your site and you have custom prompts, you’ll need to update them.

  1. Go to Marketplace -> Manage -> AI Assistant.
  2. Edit the configuration.
  3. Edit your custom prompts. You’ll need to choose for them to go to either the entry field Assistant (the previous field-by-field implementation) or the new JSON Rich Text editor option, or both!
  4. Save the options.
  5. Save the configuration file.
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Configure the AI Assistant to be available in the JSON RTE

Once you have your configuration set up as described above, now you’re able to go to the Content Type editor, and install this as you would any other JSON RTE app. From here, you’ll find the ability to turn on or off the JSON Rich Text Editor app so you can decide when and how the AI Assistant is implemented.

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Now, go to your entry, and you can interact with your content within the JSON Rich Text Editor by highlighting the text and selecting AI Assistant from the hovering menu.

We are thrilled to announce the latest update to our Bulk Operations app, designed to simplify content management through bulk modifications to entries and assets.

New in this update:

  • Bulk Operations on Releases: This feature enables users to add multiple entries and assets to a release simultaneously, as well as initiate a new release. The result is quicker deployments and greater visibility into your content publishing workflow.

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For more information, please refer to the Bulk Operations App Installation Guide.

Introducing Contentstack Launch Edge URL Features!

Redirect & Rewrite with Ease:

  • Edge URL Redirects: Seamlessly guide users to updated URLs, landing pages, and more!
  • Edge URL Rewrites: Prevent duplicates, ensure consistency, and adapt to site changes effortlessly!

Contentstack Launch now offers static & dynamic options for both redirects and rewrites at the CDN edge.

Read more about the Edge URL Redirects and the Edge URL Rewrites features.

Stay ahead of the game with Contentstack Launch!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of our cutting-edge Ecommerce App Boilerplate, designed to supercharge your online store development process. This powerful tool is your gateway to creating seamless, feature-rich ecommerce websites with ease.

This solution, based on the robust foundation provided by Contentstack's Developer Hub, empowers you with unparalleled flexibility and efficiency.

Why choose our Ecommerce App Boilerplate?

  • Speedy Development: Say goodbye to tedious coding; accelerate your project timelines.
  • Versatile: Tailor-made for a wide range of ecommerce businesses.
  • Ready-to-Use Components: Easily customizable and extendable.
  • Built on Best Practices: Leverage our expertise for top-notch performance and security.

Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting your ecommerce journey, our boilerplate empowers you to create stunning online stores. Get started today and take your ecommerce game to the next level!

To learn more about the boilerplate explore it here: Marketplace Ecommerce App Boilerplate

New Features:

Bug and Security Fixes:

  • Fixed an issue where the auth:logout function was not correctly logging out users when using OAuth login in Contentstack.
  • Resolved an issue where field visibility rules were not being copied when cloning a stack or importing content types from one stack to another.
  • Resolved issue during the export of the entries using the cm:export-to-csv command setWorkflowStage has the [object Object] in the column.
  • Added support for the Azure EU region in the tsgen plugin.
  • Resolved an issue where workflow import was causing a 422 error (unprocessable data) specifically for the Azure NA region.
  • In the cm:branches:merge command, the sequence of prompts has been adjusted. Now, the branches:merge command displays the base branch prompt first, followed by the compare branch prompt, similar to the diff command.
  • The issue that users were facing when exporting entries to CSV for a specific content type has been resolved.
  • Various security vulnerabilities have been addressed and fixed in this release.

We’re excited to announce the release of Live Preview for GraphQL projects!

You can now access real-time previews of your content with our new API endpoints at https://graphql-preview.contentstack.com/stacks/:api_key

The endpoint lets you view and validate content changes in real time within your GraphQL projects, meaning less switching between tools.

To get started with Live Preview for GraphQL, refer to our documentation on Setting up Live Preview for Websites with GraphQL for more details.

In addition, we’re also releasing two new starter apps for the GraphQL framework, one using Next.js and the other React.js.

We're excited to unveil a game-changing feature, the Help Center, the singular access point to all essential resources within the platform!

  • Instant Documentation Access: With just a click, you can access the documentation site without leaving the app, ensuring a seamless workflow.

  • Tailored Suggestions: The Help Center goes beyond providing links. It understands your location within the app and provides context-aware recommendations, directing you to relevant sections of the documentation.

  • Effortless Search: Can't find what you're looking for? No worries! The Help Center equips you with a powerful search feature. Type in your query, and watch as the most pertinent documentation results appear instantly.

  • AI-Powered Assistance: We're taking things up a notch by introducing AI-driven assistance within the Help Center. Engage with the integrated AI to receive curated responses tailored to your queries.

  • Additional Resources: Inside the modal, you'll discover an "Additional Resources" section featuring essential links. From Documentation and What's New to Leave Feedback, Status Page, and Community, we've got you covered every step.

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With the Help Center your journey with Contentstack will become more intuitive, informed, and insightful. Click the help sign (?) within the app to open the Help Center, and get ready to revolutionize your experience.

We are thrilled to announce the updated release of the Cloudinary app, which enables content managers to fetch, display, and manage their assets directly within Contentstack entries. It also allows users to select multiple products from their Cloudinary account and add them to a Custom Field or JSON Rich Text Editor field in Contentstack.

This release enables content managers to add products seamlessly, reorder products using the drag-and-drop functionality, and view products in thumbnails and grid view, making it easier and more convenient.

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

New Features:

  • Introduced --uninstall-all flag for app:uninstall command in the @contentstack/apps-cli plugin.
  • Introduced Assets Migration - Migrating any new referenced assets (including folder structure).

Enhancements:

  • Handled all depths of referenced entries and circular references in Entries Migration.
  • Optimized Migration plugin.
  • Added option to select content merge preferences in Compare and Merge Branches.

Fixes:

  • Handled management token permission error.
  • Fixed workflow-related issues.
  • Fixed vulnerabilities and GitHub workflow issues in the cli-cm-regex-validate plugin.
  • Fixed an issue in the Entry Migration script for merging entries.

Doc Enhancements:

  • Added --uninstall-all flag for app:uninstall command in the @contentstack/apps-cli plugin.
  • Updated the cli-cm-regex-validate plugin documentation.

We are excited to announce some new connectors, actions, and updates to Automation Hub as part of our August Release. Here’s a quick roundup of what’s included:

New Connector: Salesforce Commerce Cloud

This new connector lets you fetch product details from your Salesforce Commerce Cloud platform. Use this connector to keep products in sync between Contentstack and Salesforce Commerce Cloud.

Learn more about the Salesforce Commerce Cloud connector.

New Connector: Asana

The new Asana connector is now available on Automation Hub. This connector allows users to create projects, update tasks, and fetch user information from their Asana dashboard and have those actions trigger content creation or updates in Contentstack.

Imagine that you use Asana to track your content creation projects. You will now be able to use a webhook event in Asana that could create a “starter assignment” entry in Contentstack, with a description of the assignment, and add the assigned user as the author. (Depending on the type of content, you could even ask ChatGPT to generate some example text, a story outline or story ideas as a start.) Then, when the entry transitions into the next workflow stage, you could use the Asana connector to make sure the status is updated in Asana as well, so your project plan remains up to date with no additional work.

Learn more about the Asana connector.

New Actions in Contentstack Connector

The Contentstack action connector now includes a new action:

  • Publish Queue: This action allows users to fetch the entries in the Publish Queue section in Contentstack. You can use this action to fetch all the entries published in a defined time, loop them over in a Repeat Path, and index them. For example, using the Publish Queue action you could look up all of the publishing activity for the last 24 hours and then send that to a ChatGPT connector step, asking it to create a report on which entries were created, which had translations, and if there were any other insights or observations. Then, take this report and send it to a Slack channel once a day (or once per week, depending on your content volume), in order to create an AI content analysis report that runs on your schedule.

Learn more about the Contentstack Action connector.

Other Changes:

  1. New UI Enhancements: We have made some enhancements to our user interface to provide a better experience to our users.
  2. AWS Connectors Updates: We have updated the Region field that you need to select while authorizing your AWS accounts so that it is now pre-populated with a drop-down list of available regions. This helps you to select any region of your choice from the dropdown.
  3. Notification for Automation Hub Usage Plan: Users are notified when their organization has hit the “soft” or “hard” limit for the number of monthly executions.
  4. Scheduler By Automation Hub Updates: The Scheduler by Automation Hub Trigger has been upgraded allowing users to select different time zones to schedule their trigger events.

Hot Fixes:

  • Fixed issues to handle global fields that have content-type references
  • Fixed issues to import field visibility rules
  • Fixed issues to handle images in RTE

As part of enhancing the overall platform experience, we’ve made some user interface improvements. Here’s a round up of what’s new:

Skip to Content: A Skip to content link is now available while navigating the interactive elements on a page using the Tab key. As of now, this is available for the Entries and Assets list and Asset and Entry editor pages, and we plan to roll it out for other pages soon. When you land on this link while working your way around the list or editor pages, the link will help you land directly on the entry/asset details and skip all the intermediate landing points.

Skip to Content

Resize and freeze columns: You can now resize and freeze columns for the Content Types and Assets list pages too.

Resize and freeze columns

Other UI updates:

  • The tooltips for the main left navigation items have been updated to align with the tooltips available on the rest of the items within the app.
  • The field icons on the Outline section within the Entry editor page have been updated to reflect the actual field icons.

Other bug fixes.

New Features:

Enhancements:

  • Added createBackupDir config option for the export plugin
  • Improved error handling and logging
  • Rewritten Entries and Stack modules to TypeScript
  • Added integration and unit tests for various modules

Fixes:

  • Resolved a bug with importing marketplace apps
  • Resolved issue --import-webhook-status flag not working for import command
  • Resolved issue for contentstack-cli-tsgen where global field types were not generated correctly when type is multiple

Hot Fixes:

We're excited to announce the release of the new contentstack-apps-cli plugin, now available in Contentstack CLI. The plugin lets you seamlessly perform CRUD operations on your apps in Developer Hub and install/uninstall them in your organization or stack as needed.

All you need is a Contentstack account and CLI version 1.7.11 or above and run the following command to install the plugin:

csdx plugins:install @contentstack/apps-cli

Follow our step-by-step guide to install and use the Contentstack Apps CLI plugin.

Hot Fixes:

  • Fixed unable to find .cs-launch.json issue
  • Fixed issue for app-config not being updated for some Marketplace apps during import
  • Fixed issue for field rules not being updated for content types while importing

Post August 8, 2023, there is an added query parameter in the Get Webhook Executions request.

We’ve added a new query param, only_events, which when set to "true," will exclusively provide events devoid of request_details in the response. Conversely, setting "only_events" to "false" will include request_details in the response.

We're happy to announce the latest update to the Contentstack AI Assistant, driven by user feedback. This release includes a blend of new features to boost usability, augment the customization process, and refine the user experience. Here is a detailed look at what’s new in the app.

New to the AI Assistant App?

The Contentstack AI Assistant is available at no extra cost for our customers. If you'd like to join our Early Access Program, all you need to do is sign up by filling out this form. After agreeing to some additional terms, we'll send you a link so you can install the app.

New Features

Multi-AI Support

In this release we are adding support for Microsoft Azure OpenAI ChatGPT. This means that organizations that are using Azure-based services will now be able to integrate seamlessly with our AI Assistant, offering more flexibility and choices. Simply navigate to the AI Assistant Configuration options in the app Marketplace, and update the configuration with your Azure credentials.

AI Assistant August Release Highlights

Custom Icon Upload

We've enhanced customization by allowing users to upload their custom icons directly from the "upload icon" overlay menu. This ensures that it is easy to add new icons so the UI aligns more with your brand identity, providing a more tailored experience for your users.

Enhanced Icon Visibility

With the increased font size of the icons, users can now have a clearer and more comfortable view of the available options, enhancing the overall user experience.

Improved Message Prompt Interaction

Clicking outside the toolbar will no longer auto-accept the message prompt, ensuring that users have full control and intentionality when selecting options. This minimizes the chances of inadvertent selections, ensuring accuracy in your interactions.

Bug Fixes

  • We've addressed an issue where entering a significant amount of text in the title field of custom actions would cause display or functionality issues.
  • We've resolved an edge case where sending responses to Rich Text Editors would occasionally get garbled.

Thank you for your continued support and trust in AI Assistant. We're committed to enhancing and improving our platform, and we appreciate your feedback that drives these updates.

We are thrilled to announce the latest release of the YouTube app, which enables content managers to fetch, display, and manage their video content directly within Contentstack entries. It also allows users to select multiple videos from their YouTube account and add them to a Custom Field or JSON Rich Text Editor fields in Contentstack.

Additionally, we’re introducing Multiple Channel Support, which now allows users to filter videos based on specific channels, making it easier to manage and view products relevant to each channel.

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For more information, please refer to the YouTube App Installation Guide..

We're excited to announce that the JSON Rich Text Editor now fully supports right-to-left (RTL) content creation. This update makes adding or writing information from right to left simple and quick.

You can enable RTL support in your JSON RTE by changing the entry language or keyboard to RTL scripts.

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This enhancement significantly improves the overall experience for content managers who work with RTL languages, making content management and editing more intuitive and user-friendly.

For more information, read our documentation on Right-to-Left Content Writing within the JSON RTE.

We have made some exciting enhancements to the app’s user interface and accessibility capabilities to give you a better experience. Here’s a rundown of what’s new:

Updated field icons: We have updated icons for some of the fields—Group, Modular Blocks, Extensions, and Global Fields—to make them more relevant and representative of the fields’ purpose.

Updated field icons

Pagination on content type list: Navigate through content types faster with paginated results (instead of infinite scroll previously).

Pagination on content type list

Accessibility improvements: The order of interactive elements that can be navigated using the “Tab” key now follows the visual flow of the page (left to right; top to bottom). We also added tab-navigation support for many interactive items, including items on the entry list page, apps’ main left and top navigation, content type builder, and on the entry editor screen.

Accessibility improvements

Expand/collapse child fields easily: The expand/collapse icon on the parent field will now help you expand/collapse all children fields (instead of expanding/collapsing the parent field itself previously).

Expand/collapse child fields easily

Other minor enhancements:

  • Tooltips have been optimized to improve the readability of the text within.

    Tooltips optimized to improve readability

  • The checkbox column on list pages is now fixed, so it is always accessible on the left, even when you scroll horizontally to the right.

    Fixed Checkbox column on left side of list pages

  • The outline section on the entry editor screen now has a white background color.

Other bug fixes.

Enhancements:

  • Support added for NRP
  • Support added for Branches Compare and Merge Content Type
  • Code coverage improvements

Bug Fixes:

  • Bug Fixed For Unlocalise An Entry
  • Fixed Timeout Issue
  • Fixed issue #32
  • General improvements with minor breaking changes

We are delighted to announce the new Password Protection feature for your environments in the Contentstack Launch projects.

The Password Protection feature allows you to restrict your environments in Contentstack Launch with a username and password, thereby giving you the facility to control user access to your non-production environments like development and staging.

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Read more about Password Protection feature.

New Feature:

  • Added Auditlogs functions
  • Added the Content type References function

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed token leak
  • Type definition correction for users function in stack
  • Type definition correction for ContentstackCollection
  • Type definition correction for Environment parameter

We’re excited to share what we’ve been up to this summer, but first off, have you heard the news? Contentstack's Headless CMS has been recognized as a leader for 2023 by IDC MarketScape. This recognition is based on a rigorous evaluation of product and service offerings from headless CMS vendors in the space. This achievement further highlights our commitment to our users and customers in providing top-notch solutions and products.

Now back to our summer highlights: In this blog, we’ll dive into what we accomplished in Q2. Learn about our new ChatGPT features for our Contentstack AI Assistant, productivity enhancements via our Marketplace, refined automation workflows for Automation Hub, as well as Contentstack’s availability on Microsoft Azure EU. We pride ourselves on continuously innovating our products so that anyone using the platform can reap the benefits right away with maximum efficiency. Read more to find out what to expect from us in the coming quarter. Chalo!

Enhancements:

  • Restructured the Webhook, Label, Custom Role, Content Type, Global Field and Extension Module in the Import plugin
  • Restructured the Webhook, Label, Custom Role, Content Type, Global Field and Extension Module in the Export plugin
  • Added support for management token in Seed command
  • Added support for management token in Bootstrap command
  • Added support for basic auth and OAuth in bulk publish for unpublish, publish, publish-revert, publish-configure and stacks:publish-clear-logs command
  • Added support for basic auth and OAuth in bulk publish for entries:update and entries:publish, unpublish, publish, publish-only-unpublished, publish-non-localised-fields and publish-modified command

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved issue for when 2FA is used, a message code is displayed in place of text
  • Resolved issue in Marketplace Apps, extension_uid refers to an extension that does not exist
  • Fixed issue for GitHub tags and release not working as expected in tsgen and Content Type plugins

Documentation Updates:

We are thrilled to announce the latest release of the Bulk Operations app! The app enables content managers to streamline their work and perform bulk operations to content with just a few clicks.

With this release, we’re introducing two new features:

  • Bulk Operations on Entries: Contentstack allows users to perform actions such as publish, unpublish, and delete on multiple entries. This is particularly beneficial when managing a large amount of content, hence saving time and effort.
  • Bulk Operations on Assets: Contentstack allows users to perform actions such as upload, publish, unpublish, and delete on multiple assets at once. This enhances productivity, optimizes workflows, and improves the quality of asset management by providing a centralized and efficient approach to handling multiple assets simultaneously.

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To learn more about how to use the Bulk Operations app, please refer to the Bulk Operations App Installation Guide.

We are pleased to announce the latest enhancements of Automation Hub, designed specifically with the aim of optimizing your operational processes and driving more efficiencies within your organization.

Proactive Data Fetching for Contentstack Trigger

Designed to preemptively pull relevant data based on the Content Type when setting up a trigger, this feature gives you the ability to automatically prefetch data in the Contentstack Trigger when setting up an automation. Previously, you’d need to open another window, do something to trigger the event, and then allow Automation Hub to capture the payload.

If there is still the need to update the payload information, you can trigger the event manually and then click “retest” to re-capture the data.

We believe this feature will make the automation set up process easier and more intuitive.

Learn more about Contentstack Trigger.

Example Data Structure templates for Contentstack Actions

To facilitate a more intuitive construction of your JSON object, the Contentstack Action now has the ability to procure an example data structure corresponding to your Entry data, premised on the Entry’s Content Type schema. This functionality should significantly improve the ease of use of some actions, like Entry Update.

You must still manually configure the entry data for JSON Rich Text Editor, Custom, and Experience Container fields. This feature is now available for Create Entry and Update Entry actions.

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Learn more about Contentstack Action.

New Actions in Utility Connector

The Utility action connector now includes new actions:

  1. Continue Automation If: Designed to provide greater control over your automation process, this action can be used as an Action Step within Condition and Repeat Paths. The automation will only execute subsequent steps if the defined conditions are met, thereby ensuring accuracy and reducing unnecessary processing.
  2. Continue Repeat If: This action is specifically designed to be used within a Repeat Path. It facilitates a smarter control flow by only executing the steps if the conditions are met. If conditions are not met, users have the flexibility to select an exit behavior that either exits the current Repeat Path iteration or exits the Repeat Path entirely, while ensuring steps outside the Repeat Path continue to execute.

Learn more about the Utility connector.

New Connector: Azure ChatGPT

The ChatGPT Connector is now available for customers who want to remain in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. This new feature allows users to authenticate to their Azure account and utilize ChatGPT deployments hosted on the Azure Cloud. This connector currently supports “Chat” and “Prompt” action types.

Learn more about the Azure ChatGPT connector.

Other changes:

  1. HTTP Action Connector Updates:In order to give you more granular control over your operations, the HTTP action connector now has the ability to throw an error when status codes range between 4xx - 5xx. This is sometimes required when trying to create a Conditional Path based on an error response. Furthermore, a feature to disable SSL verification has been added for increased flexibility in configuration.
  2. Email Notification Settings: We’ve updated our email notifications settings to allow users to schedule email errors on an immediate, daily or weekly basis. This helps ensure that critical information reaches the right users at the right time.
  3. Additional Prompt Text in ChatGPT Connector: The ChatGPT Connector has been upgraded to allow the sending of additional prompt text, providing more context to generate relevant chat responses. This feature further enhances your conversational AI capabilities.
  4. Validation for Connected Apps: You can validate connected apps on the Connected Apps page for ChatGPT and Netlify connectors.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed breaking changes introduced in v1.9.0.

We’re excited to announce the release of the new Ace Editor app, now available in our Marketplace. This app provides a user-friendly interface for editing and manipulating code within the Contentstack Custom field, and supports HTML, CSS, & JavaScript languages, syntax highlighting, auto-completion and code formatting.

The Ace Editor app allows developers to conveniently write and edit code snippets, templates, and scripts directly within Contentstack, enhancing productivity and streamlining development workflows.

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For more information, refer to the Ace Editor App Installation Guide.

New Feature:

  • Added support for NRP
  • Added support for audit logs APIs
  • Added support for the Content type References API

Bug Fix:

  • Type correction for ContentstackCollection
  • Type correction for BulkOperation
  • Type correction for Environment parameter

We're excited to announce the release of the new Calendar app, now available in our Marketplace. This app enables content managers to view their tasks, scheduled entries, and releases in an intuitive Calendar interface.

This Full Page UI Location app allows users to easily view scheduled events by the Month, Timeline, Week and display additional details. It provides greater visibility for assigned Workflow tasks, publishing entries, and deploying releases all in one place, helping increase productivity and efficiency for content managers.

Once installed, the Calendar app appears in your stack's left navigation panel, providing easy and direct access.

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For more information, refer to the Calendar App Installation Guide.

Enhancements:

  • Restructured the Assets, and Locale Module in the Import plugin
  • Restructured the Assets, and Locale Module in the Export plugin
  • High-level restructuring of the Import plugin
  • High-level restructuring of the Export plugin
  • Added support for basic auth and OAuth in bulk publish assets:publish command
  • Added support for basic auth and OAuth in bulk publish assets:unpublish command
  • Added support for basic auth and OAuth in bulk publish cross-publish command

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved issue while a user is not logged in while using the Branches plugin
  • Resolved issue while running seed command
  • Fixed fetching org list while logged in with OAuth
  • Resolved the issue of stack export for branch-enabled stack

Documentation Updates:

Post July 12, 2023, you will be able to omit the color and background-color attributes while copying content from vendors (Google Document, Microsoft Document) and pasting it into HTML and JSON Rich Text Editors by executing the Add stack settings API request.

You can pass the sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste key within the stack_variables section in the request body as follows:

  • "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:color": Skips the color attribute, and GD indicates the external vendor Google Document’s prefix.
  • "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:background-color": Skips the background-color attribute, and GD indicates the external vendor Google Document’s prefix.
  • "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"MW:color": Skips the color attribute, and MW indicates the external vendor Microsoft Word’s prefix.

While executing the API request, add the color or background-color attributes only if you want to retain the source formatting.

Note: We are currently supporting four attributes (GD:font-size, GD:color, GD:background-color, and MW:color) for this key. This is applicable for both HTML and JSON Rich Text Editors.

Here’s a sample of the Request Body:

{
   "stack_settings":{
      "stack_variables":{
         "enforce_unique_urls":true,
         "sys_rte_allowed_tags":"style,figure,script",
         "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:font-size", "GD:color", "GD:background-color", "MW:color"
      },
      "rte":{
         "cs_only_breakline":true
      }
   }
}

The digital landscape is rapidly evolving, and businesses must adapt to stay ahead. One key aspect of this composable transformation is the shift toward cloud-based infrastructure. Companies are leveraging platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure to develop applications, store data, and provide a range of online services. In this blog post , we'll explore how to harness the potential of AWS Marketplace and the expansion of Microsoft Azure EU while simplifying integration using a composable Digital Experience Platform (DXP) like Contentstack.

We're delighted to announce the latest update to the Contentstack AI Assistant, featuring an exciting new feature that enables organizations to create custom stored actions. We've expanded the capabilities of our AI Assistant to offer an even more tailored content creation experience for your unique organizational needs.

New to the AI Assistant App?

The Contentstack AI Assistant is available at no extra cost for our customers. If you'd like to join our Early Access Program, all you need to do is sign up by filling out this form. After agreeing to some additional terms, we'll send you a link so you can install the app.

Configure Custom Actions

Now you can configure custom actions specifically for your organization. Navigate to Marketplace -> Manage Apps -> AI Assistant and configure the app for your Stack.

Here you can create new actions, name them, add an icon, and create a custom prompt, enabling your team to further streamline and personalize your content creation process.

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Default Icons

To facilitate ease of use and aesthetic consistency, we've created a selection of icons you can use for your custom actions. These icons will blend seamlessly with the existing interface actions, maintaining a clean and consistent user interface.

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Download this file containing several SVG icons, and upload them to your asset folder. We recommend creating an “icons” folder to keep them together. Then, when adding your custom actions, you can use the newly-added matching icons.

Example Actions & Export/Import Functionality

To help you get started, we've included starter actions and icons you can import.

Additionally, we've added the ability to export and import sets of custom actions. This feature is handy for users supporting multiple stacks as it allows for the easy transfer of actions from one stack to another.

To use the starter actions, upload the SVG icons to your assets and import the sample action pack. Then, add the icons of your choice and save. Next, use the “Import” button and upload this JSON configuration file.

Our default starter actions are specialized for Contentstack, so you’ll need to customize them for your organization, using our examples as idea starters.

You're now all set to use your new custom actions!

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Include Variables

This release allows you to include data from the field directly in your prompts. By adding {{field_data}} to the prompt, any copy currently in the field will be included at that point when being sent to the AI service. If you do not include {{field_data}} at some point in the prompt, it will be automatically included at the end.

In addition, you can include the currently selected locale name by adding {{current_locale}} to your prompt. This feature brings a greater level of customization and context-aware content creation.

More features

  • Clicking on the “Stop Generating” button allows you to cancel a request while the AI is still processing.
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  • Re-phrase this text is now “Optimize text for SEO.”

  • “Shorten this text” now shortens by 50% instead of 25%.
  • “SEO tags” and “User Persona Tags” have been rewritten to be more consistent.
  • Several of the built-in actions now have specialized icons.

Enhancements:

  • Supported type_reference handling in the Tsgen package.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed issue with entries import and publish.

Enhancements:

  • Added OAuth support in Branches compare and merge.
  • Added Analytics support in Branches.
  • Added Unit testcases in Auth.
  • Added support for existing merge summary to execute the merge.
  • Added Stack API key support in Export to CSV.
  • Added Branches and Pagination support in Tsgen.
  • Added utility plugin, converted HTTP API calls to SDK calls, migrated Oclif changes, and deprecated stack & token-alias flags in contentstack-cli-content-type.

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved recursive backup folders created in Import.
  • Handled error while importing the global field having referenced content type.
  • Resolved org-name flag which is not working in Export to CSV.
  • Resolved Import error for a specific content type.
  • Fixed CLI dependency & vulnerability in contentstack-cli-content-type.

Documentation Updates:

We are thrilled to announce the latest release of the Akeneo app! This tool enables content managers to fetch, view, and manage Akeneo products and categories within Contentstack entries. With the latest enhancements, users can now enjoy even more functionality and convenience.

In this release, we’re introducing two new features:

  • Channel Support: You can now filter products based on specific channels, making it easier to manage and view products relevant to each channel.
  • Locale Support: Display your products in multiple languages with the new locale support feature, ensuring a localized experience for your users.

These additions empower content managers to add products and categories seamlessly, reorder products using drag-and-drop functionality, apply filters, and more.

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For more information, please refer to the Akeneo App Installation Guide.

We are elated to unveil the ensuing advancements implemented in Launch during the preceding month:

  • Customers can now show custom 404 pages for NextJS and Gatsby projects.
  • Cache optimization has yielded significant results, with Launch now efficiently caching over 88% of requests to Contentstack.com, a substantial increase from our previous architecture! Try Launch today and tell us your success story!
  • The Environments Settings page underwent a remarkable UX transformation:
    Contentstack Launch: UI Environments and Project Settings Updates

Read more about Contentstack Launch.

Enjoy hassle-free browsing with Pagination, a new feature for our core CMS platform that enables users to organize large content lists into easily navigable pages. Now, instead of scrolling through long lists, you can effortlessly flip through a set number of rows per page, bringing efficiency to tasks like managing a large library of articles or products.

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We’re happy to announce some exciting new updates for Automation Hub. Here’s a roundup of what’s new:

Mark a Project as Favorite

We’re introducing the ability to mark any project as a favorite. This feature can be used to display your favorite projects at the top on the projects page, making it easy to navigate through your most frequently used projects.

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Learn more about Mark a Project as Favorite.

New Actions in Contentstack Connector

The Contentstack action connector now includes new actions:

  1. Get All Entries: This action fetches up to 100 entries of a particular content type within a stack. Additional query parameters can be added to help search for entries with particular attributes, such as entries between certain dates, or entries that do not have a particular field filled out, etc.
  2. Get All Content Types: This action fetches the details of all the content types in a stack
  3. Delete an Entry: This action deletes a specific entry.

Learn more about the Contentstack Action connector.

New Connector: Utility

This new connector, which will be home to a number of future useful actions, now features a Wait action which lets you put your automation on hold for a short time before any following steps run. The Wait action can be used to throttle your automation in order to meet API rate limit requirements.

Learn more about the Utility Connector.

Other changes:

  1. You can now select recommended values from the output of a previous step in the Contentstack connector. For example: The Get All Entries field used to select Content Type recommends content_type.uuid, a value configured in the previous automation step.
  2. With the Email Notification settings, you can send email notifications to Automation Creators, Org Admins/Owners And any other users accessing Automation Hub and their respective Projects.

We are excited to announce that a new Europe datacenter for Azure is now available. The primary region for Azure EU will be US-East-1 (N. Virginia), with EU Central 1 (Frankfurt) serving as a backup region.

This means that Contentstack customers can choose from a wider variety of regions by different providers for their Contentstack account data storage. Learn more about different regions in Contentstack.

You can access the app and the API endpoints by adding the prefix "azure-eu-" to the default URLs.

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

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

Read more about Regions.

Enhancements:

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed vulnerabilities
  • Resolved stack clone issue
  • Improved error details in log file
  • Handled errors when importing individual modules

Documentation Updates:

Enhancements:

  • Unit test cases for Launch
  • Generated types for all CLI TS packages

Bug Fixes:

  • Vulnerability fixes
  • Resolved configstore issues
  • Resolved the duplicate asset download issue
  • Resolved user access error while branches list command
  • The set custom host and region command is not working for Blizzard

Explore the power of AI in content operations in our latest Contentstack Pulse blog post, featuring the new ChatGPT Connector for Contentstack's Automation Hub. Discover how the integration empowers developers and business users to automate tasks, quicken workflows and craft engaging digital experiences. The post provides a deep dive into six exciting use cases. Dive into the full blog post here.

If you are starting Contentstack with Ruby On Rails as your preferred framework, this starter will get you up and running in no time. You can import the resources, make configuration changes, and boom, you are ready to go. Once you set it up, you can use it as a playgroup to try out Contentstack or tweak the structure to create your own site.

The starter uses GraphQL queries to fetch content from Contentstack. Refer to our detailed guide on how to use this starter or dig into the code to get started.

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We’re happy to announce some exciting new updates for Automation Hub in the month of May!

Clone an Automation

We’re introducing the ability to clone an existing automation inside of the same project, which will include all configurations made within the trigger and the related actions (including authorizations and other options). This feature can be used to backup automations, to create duplicates in order to fast-track a similar automation, or to have a stable automation version while making changes or updates to an existing automation.

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Learn more about Clone an Automation.

Branch Support in Contentstack Connector

Contentstack Action and Trigger events now include branch support, so you can specify which branch should be used as part of the trigger, or which branch should be involved as part of an action.

Learn more about the Contentstack Action and Trigger.

New Connector: Airtable

This new connector enables you to create/update/delete/fetch records in Airtable. You can authenticate with your Airtable login information and use the different actions to perform operations in a table as part of an automation.

Learn more about the Airtable Connector.

New Connector: Launch Connector and Launch Trigger

The Launch Connector allows you to deploy your Contentstack-powered websites using Contentstack Launch.

Learn more about the Launch Connector.

The Launch Trigger allows you to create deployment and environment-based triggers such as create/update/delete/start/fail/complete for all projects created in Contentstack Launch.

Learn more about the Launch Trigger.

New Connector: Aprimo

This new connector allows you to automate fetching and updating asset details stored in Aprimo, such as title, ID, Name, Description, etc. This is a great way to keep Aprimo metadata in sync with your Contentstack information automatically.

Learn more about the Aprimo Connector.

New modifier for the Transform connector: truncate

A new modifier has been added to the Transform Connector to shorten a long string during an automation.

  • truncate: This modifier allows you to reduce the length of a string to a specific number of characters, and also supports allowing or disallowing word breaks, and choosing the truncate ending string, such as an ellipses (...).

Learn more about the new Transform modifier in our documentation.

Other changes:

  1. Array Filters in trigger conditions allow you to filter your trigger output based on the array value fetched from a previous step.
  2. With the Get User Information action, you can fetch details of a user; based on the user ID.
  3. With the quick select screen, you can select a new Action, Conditional Path, or Repeat Path quickly and easily.
  4. You can now add a new action step between two configured automation steps, allowing you to more easily make changes to your automation process.
  5. The ChatGPT Connector allows you to select GPT-4 as a model. GPT 4 is an enhanced version of GPT-3.5 with advanced functionalities.

New Feature:

  • Support added for Azure-EU region
  • Asset:
    • Support added for Include Metadata in AssetQuery class
  • Entry
    • Support added for include Metadata in EntryQueriable class

Bug Fixes:

  • ImageTransform initialization issue resolved

Feature

  • Support added for Azure-EU region
  • Support added for Include Metadata function for asset, entry, and query
  • Updated code for Live Preview

Enhancements:

  • General code improvement

Hotfix:

  • iOS deployment target updated to 11.0 as per XCode 14.3 minimum target.

We're thrilled to share the newest improvements to Contentstack's AI Assistant, a tool we've developed in partnership with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Based on feedback from our Early Access Program participants, we've made several updates that keep us focused on our mission: making creating content faster, simpler, and more tailored to your brand.

Don’t have the AI Assistant app yet?

The Contentstack AI Assistant is available at no extra cost for our customers. If you’d like to join our Early Access Program, you can fill out this form to sign up. After agreeing to some additional terms, we'll send you a link to install the app.

Update for the latest features

If you're already using the app, update it to get the latest features. Here’s how: Go to Marketplace, select manage your installed apps, click on AI Assistant, and click the update icon.

AI Assistant: May Release Highlights

New Features

JSON Rich Text Editor Integration

To further enhance its functionality, the AI Assistant can now operate within the JSON Rich Text Editor. This means when you type into ChatGPT inside the JSON editor, the AI Assistant will turn JSON data into HTML text and use it to prompt a response from ChatGPT.

AI Assistant: May Release Highlights

To maintain the formatting and structure of your content, the AI Assistant now asks ChatGPT to retain the HTML tags in its response. When it keeps the formatting (in specific prompts, it will not be maintained), the HTML in ChatGPT's response is converted back into JSON values, preserving the design of the original content.

ChatGPT Version Selection

You now have the choice between ChatGPT-3.5 Turbo and the more advanced (but slower) ChatGPT-4 in the app configuration screen. This gives you the flexibility to choose the model that best suits your needs, as long as your account has ChatGPT-4 API access enabled.

These updates are now live for those signed up for Contentstack's Early Access technology program. We appreciate all feedback as it helps us continuously improve our product to better serve your needs. Stay tuned for more as we continue to build more AI and automation capabilities into the Contentstack platform.

We’re excited to introduce a new “actions” shortcut for all items on list pages of entries, assets, and content models. Users can access these quick actions by hovering over any item on the list page, and then clicking the vertical ellipsis icon under the Actions column.

This gives users a quick and easy way to perform common actions such as edit, copy, publish, export, and more in just a few clicks.

quick_actions_for_list_pages

Beginning May 25, 2023, we will gradually roll out our Nested References Publishing feature to all customers based on their respective plans.

This feature will introduce a few changes to the Content Management API (CMA) requests. Listed below are a few changes that are introduced in the APIs of the Bulk Operations section.

If Nested References Publishing is part of your plan, you will be able to publish nested references up to five levels deep, along with all parent entries simultaneously.

Affected endpoints

New key in the Headers of the request

  • api_version(required): Enter the API version as 3.2 to enable Nested References Publishing.

If Nested References Publishing is included in your plan, you will notice an additional key called, summary, in the response body of the Get publish queue request when fetching details for a specific job. The summary key provides an overview of the status of all items within a bulk job.

To include job details, set the include_job_details parameter to true.

Affected Endpoint

For instance, here is an example of how the "summary" key appears in the response:

"summary": {
           "top_level_items": 2,
            "total_processed": 392,
            "success": 189,
            "unsuccess": 0,
            "approvals": 7,
            "skip": 196
        }

The status indicators are explained as follows:

  • top_level_items: Number of parent items selected for publish/unpublish
  • total_processed: Number of items processed within the bulk job
  • success: Number of items that have been successfully published in the bulk job
  • unsuccess: Number of items that were not published due to errors in the bulk job
  • approvals: Number of items that require approval before they can be published
  • skip: Number of items that were skipped because they were already published in the specified environments and locales

Within a job, if there are items that fail, you will receive details of the reasons for the failure within the publish_details key of the Get publish queue request’s response body.

Affected Endpoint

Format of the publish_details key:

"publish_details": {
        "status": "failed",
       "message": "message",
        "error": "error_message"
},

The details are explained as follows:

  • status: Status of an item within a job
  • message: Reason for failure as shown in the app
  • error: Detailed message for failure

Additional Resource: You can see the detailed publish status of each nested reference item (child entries sent for publishing with the parent entry) in the Status column of the Publish Queue. Refer to our documentation about monitoring the status of your bulk jobs in the publish queue.

Affected Endpoints

We have added new validations for a few of the parameters in the following requests:

  • Publish entries and assets in bulk and Unpublish entries and assets in bulk:
    • scheduled_at: When scheduling bulk publish/unpublish events, the scheduled time must be a future date/time.
    • entry_version: When scheduling bulk publish/unpublish events, it is mandatory to include entry versions for the items you intend to send for publishing/unpublishing.

      Note: After this release, it is mandatory to include entry versions when scheduling a bulk publish/unpublish event. Without specifying the version, your bulk event will not be processed, and an error will be returned.

  • Get publish queue:
    • Date Query: The format for the date query must be valid.
    • Sort Query: Sorting is supported only for the created_at and updated_at keys.
  • Cancel Scheduled Action:

    When attempting to execute the request for a job that has already been processed, an error message will be displayed with the following content:

    {
        "error_message": "Failed to unschedule the job.",
        "error_code": 141,
        "errors": {
           "uid": [
               "The job has already been processed."
            ]
        }
    }

    Note: You cannot cancel individual items within a scheduled publish job. You can only cancel the whole publish job.

The new Brightcove app allows content managers to fetch, view, and manage videos within your Contentstack entries. It enables users to select multiple videos from your Brightcove account and add them to the Custom Field or JSON Rich Text Editor fields in Contentstack.

This helps content managers stream videos, enable easy access to video content across multiple platforms, and organize video assets efficiently.

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To learn more about how to use the Brightcove app, refer to the Brightcove App Installation Guide.

Features:

  • Azure EU Implementation : Azure EU is now available as a region in CLI. Users can set this region and use the CLI on their stacks in Azure EU.

Issue Fixes:

Security and CI/CD updates for the following package:

We’re excited to announce the release of the new Trados app, now available in our Marketplace. The app allows you to translate your Releases content and provide localized versions into multiple languages. The Trados app Dashboard Widget creates projects for language translations and displays the translation status of your projects. This enables a smooth translation process and aids content managers in managing and streamlining their translation projects while providing correct and consistent translations of information in all languages.

Trados-GIF.gif

For more information, refer to the Trados Board App Installation Guide.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Contentstack Launch, a headless hosting solution that allows CMS customers to deploy and host front-end sites and middleware applications in the framework of their choice. With Launch, Contentstack provides enterprises with the first fully composable, fully automated, digital experience stack from front-end to back-end.

Launch makes it easy to connect stacks to code and deploy your starter stacks and front-end apps within minutes.

Some highlights for the release include:

  • Quickstart guides using NextJS and Gatsby to kickstart your Launch projects.
  • The GitHub and File Upload approaches to create projects in Launch.
  • Detailed guides for all the features of Launch.
  • How-to guides for Launch.
  • CLI support for Launch.
Launch - Projects Landing Page

We’re thrilled to be able to offer Contentstack Launch to all of our customers and look forward to seeing all the ways in which it will be used to host and deploy projects.

Learn more about Contentstack Launch.

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

Contentstack is excited to announce an enhancement to our Live Preview feature: Locale-based Live Preview. With this upgrade, you can now view your content in a locale-based preview environment.

Setting up Locale-based Live Preview is easy. Just define a preview environment when setting up Live Preview for your stack, and all your locale-based content will appear in the Live Preview panel at the base URLs specified for each locale under the set preview environment. Switching between locales is effortless, making it a breeze to preview content for different languages.


Locale based Live Preview What

For more information on how to use Locale-based Live Preview, check out our Live Preview documentation.


New Feature:

  • Added support for Branches Compare and Merge

New Feature:

  • Added support for Include Metadata in asset, entry, and query class
  • Added support for Azure-EU region

Enhancement:

  • General code and API document improvements
  • Breaking changes - PublishTyp Enums are updated to all CAPS

Bug Fixes:

  • Dependency Version released in release build type
  • #30 Fixed EntryModel publish_details parsing issue

We're excited to introduce the latest Marketplace app, Bulk Operations, which enables content managers to streamline their work and perform operations to content in bulk with just a few clicks.

With the Bulk Operations app, content managers can easily identify and replace content across many entries, then publish them all at once, making it simple to fix spelling mistakes, update outdated material, or make changes across large volumes of content, all in one go.

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To learn more about how to use the Bulk Operations app to increase productivity for your team, refer to the Bulk Operations App Installation Guide.

Are you a developer looking for the latest data on Contentstack’s front-end hosting solution? Then look no further. Contentstack Launch has officially entered its first quarter since announcing our product, which is now in general availability, and we’ve earned a wealth of knowledge and cultivated relationships along the way. 

In this blog post, we’ll take an in-depth look at our successes over Q1, provide insights into how it all came to be and what users can expect from us moving forward. We pride ourselves on continuously innovating our products so that anyone using the platform can benefit right away with maximum efficiency. Let’s explore together!

We’re excited to announce the release of the new Workflow Board app, now available in our marketplace. This app enables content managers to view their workflows in a Kanban format, displaying workflow stages and tasks in an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.

In your Contentstack environment, this Full Page UI Location app allows users to easily drag and drop tasks from one stage to another, search for workflows and entries, and sort them using various filters. This provides greater visibility into the status of workflows, aiding in work planning, time estimation, and increasing productivity and efficiency.

Once installed, the Workflow Board app appears in the left navigation panel of your stack, providing you easy access.

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For more information, refer to the Workflow Board App Installation Guide.

Welcome to Contentstack Pulse, your go-to source for the latest news on platform enhancements, roadmap updates and answers to frequently asked questions. Our mission is to keep you up-to-date on all the exciting developments at Contentstack and with our platform. Each month, we'll share the latest platform news to help you streamline your user experience. And every quarter, we'll offer a recap of everything that's happened, so you never miss a beat. Whether you're an existing customer or just curious to learn more about what we do, Contentstack Pulse has got you covered. Click here to learn more!

New Feature

  • Added support for Azure EU Region
  • Added support for includeMetadata in Asset, Entry, and Query class

We’re happy to announce some exciting new updates for Automation Hub in the month of April!

Repeat Paths

Repeat Paths allows users to loop over a set of instructions based on specific criteria like a date range or a numerical input, enabling them to automate repetitive tasks for large and complex data sets.

Learn more about Repeat Paths.

Repeat-Path

New Connector: Code Block

This new connector enables users to input limited JavaScript into their automation steps, allowing them to perform various functions, like clean up text or check between different field values. Ultimately, it provides greater flexibility and customization for users to automate complex workflows that were previously difficult to achieve without coding.

Code-Block Connector

Learn more about the Code Block connector in our documentation.

New action in Data Store connector: Append Data

Previously, the Data Store connector could Set and Get Data on different levels (i.e. Automation, Organization, and Execution Levels) but it could not append the data in an array or create a new collection of objects. This option is now available with the Append Data action.

Append-Action

Learn more about the new Data Store action in our documentation.

Project Delete

With Project Delete, users are now able to delete a project, its automations, and any of its connected apps in an organization.

Other improvements

  • Project Search allows users to search all projects within an organization.
  • The Constructor connector now allows you to select the Index Section present in the Constructor Dashboard and send an Email to a specific person in the event the index update fails.

Package Update:

  • Activesupport gem version limit removed (for supporting ruby v3.0 and above)

Feature:

  • Added support for Include Metadata to the Asset, Entry, and Query classes
  • Support added for Azure-EU region

Enhancement:

  • General code Improvement and bug fixes

Bug Fix:

  • SyncLocale Bug Fix

The new ‘Release Preview’ app allows you to see the upcoming content releases in a calendar format, preview web pages before a scheduled release, compare with existing content, and view release details that are added to a release with their specific titles, content types, and versions within your environment. It helps content editors get better control and visibility over future releases. This Full Page UI Location app, once installed, appears on the left navigation panel of your stack.

Release Preview What

For more information, refer to the Release Preview App Installation Guide.

Introducing a new app—Interstack Reference—that solves a complex problem for developers. It allows developers to add references to content types of other stacks within the same organization, without leaving the current stack. This opens up new possibilities for developers by ensuring availability of content across the entire enterprise, and saves a lot of time for content managers by reducing manual maintenance of managing duplicate data.

interstack_reference_field

Read the installation guide to learn more and use the app.

Introducing Full Page UI location—a new addition to our artillery of App Framework UI locations. In fact, this one is amongst the most versatile UI locations, as it allows developers to create custom apps that function as separate, independent pages or modules (unlike other UI locations that are restricted to and are part of other modules).

Once a new app is created, it will appear on the main left navigation bar of the Contentstack app, making it easy to access again.

full_page_ui_location

Note: For more information on this UI location, refer to the Full Page Location documentation.

We’ve added support for another UI location—Field Modifier—to our App Framework.

Using this type of UI location, developers can create apps that let them add custom functionalities to the entry fields, allowing content managers to do a lot more with their content.

While the possibilities are endless, some common use cases include adding AI capabilities to text fields, adding conversion capabilities to number fields, and so on.

You can use Field Modifier for various fields (such as Title, URL, Single Line Textbox, Multi-Line Textbox, HTML-based Rich Text Editor, JSON Rich Text Editor, Markdown, Select, Number, Boolean, Date, File, Reference, and Custom fields).

field_modifier_ui_location

Note: For more information on this UI location, refer to the Field Modifier Location documentation.

We’re happy to announce some exciting new capabilities for content editors to customize their view of Entries or Assets.

Freeze columns:

Users can now freeze up to two columns on the Entries list page (not yet available on the Assets list page), it easier to pin the data you want to the left, while scrolling over to view the rest of the columns.

lock_columns

Remove column (up to two columns):

With this update, it is now possible for users to remove any column from the view (including the Title field). Note that at least two columns must be visible.

add_remove_columns_in_assets

View options moved to ‘Table Settings’:

All settings that allow you to customize your Entries and Assets view, like “Change table view” and “Add or remove columns”, have been moved to “Table Settings”, found by accessing the gear icon at the top-right of the table view.

We're excited to announce that Contentstack now supports SCIM provisioning with Okta as well. With this, you can now leverage your Okta IdP to efficiently manage users and groups within your Contentstack organization.

For more information, refer to our Set Up SCIM Provisioning with Okta document.

  • Added support for dynamic type for extension field and branch support

New Feature

  • include_metadata support added

Enhancement

  • Default region set to ‘us’

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved issue while fetching the entry using PHP SDK

Enhanced Experience for SSR Websites in Live Preview

We're excited to announce an improved user experience for Live Preview in Server Side Rendered (SSR) websites. With this enhancement, you can now view entry changes for your SSR websites in real-time (with enhanced JavaScript support) even for delayed scripts on your website.

Note: This update does not have any impact on the fundamental working or mechanism of Live Preview.

For more information on SSR, refer to Set up Live Preview for Your Website documentation.

Feature:

  • Support added for Azure-EU region

  • Support added for Include Metadata function

Bug Fix:

  • Image Transform initialisation bug fix

New Feature:

  • Marketplace API implementation

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved bug #42

We’re happy to announce some exciting new updates for Automation Hub in the month of March!

New Connector: ChatGPT

This new connector brings the power of artificial intelligence to Automation Hub. With this connector, users can use ChatGPT's features, including extracting metadata or keywords from text, optimizing search engine ranking, and producing article or text summaries. Integrating ChatGPT opens up fresh opportunities and enhances your content's overall quality.

The ChatGPT connector currently has two action types: Chat and Prompt.

  • Chat: This action uses the gpt-3.5-turbo model to interact with ChatGPT.
  • Prompt: This allows you to use previous models, such as text-davinci-003, text-curie-001, or others in ChatGPT’s API.

Learn more about the ChatGPT connector in our documentation.

ChatGPT-Connector
New modifiers for the Transform connector: Replace, Replace All, and Trim

New modifiers have been added to the Transform connector to format or change text during automation.

  • Replace: This modifier allows you to replace the first occurrence of a character/word/string.
  • ReplaceAll: This modifier will replace all instances of a character/word/string.
  • Trim: This modifier will trim spaces from before and after a string

Learn more about the new Transform modifiers in our documentation

Other changes:

  • With the Data Store connector, you can store the data at the execution level, i.e., the data for an individual execution can be stored and fetched easily. This is useful when working with the Conditional Path. Read more here.
  • Email by Automation Hub connector now allows you to send up to 10,000 emails monthly in an organization.

Enhancements:

  • Improved SDK usage in CLI through common SDK instance
  • Improved developer experience with PNPM
  • Improved command class and utilities class management SDK instance utilities
  • OCLIF core V2 upgrade in CLI and its plugins

Vulnerability Fixes:

  • Vulnerability fixes for CLI - Tslib, Axios, dotenv package upgrade

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved - CLI Import: Custom name for a master language does not get imported
  • Resolved - CLI Import: Too many open files

Documentation Updates:

We are excited to announce the latest update to our JSON RTE Comments feature. You can now include comments for selected text within JSON RTEs, making it easier than ever to collaborate and discuss content with your team. To add a comment to a text, highlight it and click the "Add Comment" icon.

add_comment_within_json_rte

In the Discussion tab, you will find all the JSON RTE comments as well as entry comments.

Learn more about JSON RTE Comments through our documentation.

We are delighted to inform you about the release of our newest version of the Markdown editor. This upgrade introduces more HTML and Markdown syntaxes, providing you with a broader array of choices to enhance your content. Whether you need to incorporate headings, tables, or comments, the improved Markdown editor makes it effortless and easy for you to achieve your goals.

enhancements_to_the_markdown_editor

Learn more about the Markdown editor through our documentation.

Enhancement
  • Resolved the dependency gem max version (Activesupport gem)

Package Update

  • Dependency gem max version issue resolved.
Enhancement:
  • Entry:
    • Added support for addValue:forHTTPHeaderField function
  • Asset:
    • Added support for addValue:forHTTPHeaderField function
  • Query:
    • Added support for addValue:forHTTPHeaderField function

Package Update

  • Dependency gem update.

We’re happy to announce some exciting new updates for Automation Hub in the month of February!

Project Sharing

Project Sharing, the organization owner, organization admins, and the respective project owner can now invite various users to individual projects, facilitating collaboration.

Previously, only owners/admins had the ability to access and modify all projects within Automation Hub. However, with the Project Sharing feature, members can also participate as contributors in the specific project(s) they were invited to by the owner and admins of the organization.

Learn more about Project Sharing.

Enhancement

  • Dependency gem updated (Activesupport gem)

New Features:

String locale code support added for methods sync and syncLocale.

Bug Fixes:

None

Contentstack now lets you add Comments to content blocks and images within JSON RTEs. This feature lets you collaborate and efficiently initiate discussions around the content.

You can view all JSON RTE comments under the Discussion tab along with entry comments.

Refer to our documentation on JSON RTE Comments for more information.
Inline comments.gif

Features/Enhancements:

  • Upgraded OCLIF Core version to 1.21
  • Handled GitHub rate limit exceeded issue(429) for seed command on repeated seeding of GitHub repositories
  • Replaced HTTP calls with SDK calls for export-to-csv, seed, export, and import plugins
  • Introduced standard utility to create CMA object and imported this utility-based CMA object to perform CMA operations from import, export, export-to-csv commands

Vulnerability Fixes:

  • Upgrade sinon from 11.1.2 to 15.0.1
  • Upgrade tslib from 1.14.1 to 2.4.1
  • Upgrade fs from 0.0.1-security to 0.0.2
  • Upgrade json5 vulnerability
  • Vulnerability fixes for @contentstack/cli-cm-regex-validate repository

Bug Fixes:

  • Datasync does not update the entry payload if the referred assets are deleted and the entry is published again
  • Resolved the marketplace app’s configuration issues for the constructor.io app
  • Resolved CodeQL issues in the datasync-filesystem-SDK repository

Documentation Updates:

New Features:
  • The plugin support is added, where users can create their own plugins and attach them to the stack instance.

New Features:

  • Added the plugin support.

Bug Fix:

  • #67 error handling infinite loop issue.

Changes:

  • Breaking changes:
    • Enums PublishType changed from snake-case to CAPITAL.
  • General Improvements.

Bug Fixes

  • Resolved live preview reference entry extra field

Bug Fix:

  • Iframe window local storage

We have added some powerful enhancements to our search to make it more intuitive for you. Here’s a glance at what’s new:

  1. Adding support for stemming and word forms

    This means that if you, for example, search for “like”, it will fetch results that contain “likes”, “liked”, “liking”, and other words that share the same root. This helps you find what you are looking for, even when you don’t feed in the exact query.

  2. Making search accent insensitive

    You can now search content without using diacritics (or accents) and still find what you are looking for. So, for example, the search query “cafe” will fetch results that contain “cafe” and “café”.

  3. Ignoring stop words for more relevancy

    Our search algorithm now automatically ignores stop words (common articles, pronouns and prepositions such as “a”, “the”, “are”, “and” etc.) from your query to boost search relevancy.

Post January 13, 2023, when updating the content of your JSON Rich Text Editor, you do NOT need to pass the "dirty":true attribute within the request body.

Previously, when updating the content within the JSON Rich Text Editor, you had to pass the "dirty":true attribute within the request body to accommodate the changes introduced.

With this improvement, if the user doesn't supply the "dirty" attribute, the API takes care of this on its own. However, even if the user passes the dirty attribute, the entry is not affected.

The January release of Automation Hub is a game-changer. With a host of new features and improvements, this release will make it easier than ever to create and manage automated workflow processes to streamline your integrations and workflows.

ah_new_ui

What's new in this release:

  1. New actionable step outline tool

    This new outline will display the automation flow of steps, and a user can easily jump into any step and edit it just by clicking on the step within the step outline tool. The outline is a visual display of the full automation process and logic. This feature is designed to make it easy to build and maintain complex automations with ease.

    step_outline_tool

    In addition, the step outline now features a search capability that, as you’re typing a query, will automatically filter results to display the search term.

    search_steps
  2. Each step is displayed in a new, easy-to-read vertical display

    Next, after clicking on a step in the step outline, we have a step wizard on the right side of the page. This vertical step display provides easy visualization of the automation step setup. You can quickly view steps and related data and see previous steps and their configurations as needed. This feature makes it easy to understand how your automations are configured and how they fit together.

    vertical_step_display
  3. Introducing a powerful new feature: Conditional Paths

    A powerful new feature called Conditional Paths allows for if/else statement support. This enables you to create more complex business processes and logic. This feature allows you to create a multi-filtered query to target specific information. It supports OR and AND operators and has several different conditional checks like "matches," "is empty," and more. Each conditional path can have multiple statements to produce robust automations. This feature allows you to build automations that handle much more complex business processes.

    Learn more about Conditional Paths.

    conditional_paths
  4. Basic Information page provides an automation overview

    Finally, we've added a Basic Information page for each automation. This page will display an intro to the automaton, including the title, description, when it was created, and by whom. In the future, this page will incorporate additional information, such as the number of times the automation has run and if there have been errors, etc. This feature was designed to give you a quick overview of your automations and their history, making it easy to understand how they are being used and how they can be improved.

    basic_information

In summary, the January release of Automation Hub is packed with new features that make it easier than ever to create and manage automated processes. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or need help with this new functionality.

We have made some refreshing new visual updates to the entry editor experience, so content managers can work faster and with ease. Here is a rundown of what’s new:

  1. Prominent field blocks: The earlier formless editor gets a form-like design, with each field now more prominently displayed for better visual convenience for content managers.Entry Editor - What
  2. Smarter nested fields: Fields like “Group”, “Global”, and “Modular Blocks” — that can hold nested fields — now have color-coded icons and an easy way to collapse all child items. The nested fields also have color-coded icons so you can visually distinguish one from the other.Entry Editor - What
  3. Flexible custom fields: Custom fields are enclosed in accordions, so you can expand/collapse them as required.Entry Editor - What

This is the first of many new updates planned for making entry editor much more efficient and elegant. so, stay tuned updates.

We are excited to announce the general availability of Automation Hub, an integrated automation and streamlining tool for the Contentstack Content Experience Platform.

As we transition out of our Early Access phase, customers who were previously beta testing Automation Hub will be moved to our Explorer Plan, which offers up to 200 executions at no cost each month. Since Contentstack does not count additional usage for multi-step automations or charge extra for premium connectors, 200 executions is a generous allotment that can be used in production to help with critical but lower-frequency business tasks. Also, paid plans are available for those interested in additional usage of this valuable streamlining tool.

Some highlights for the release include:

  1. The new JSON RTE Formatter connector streamlines the output of JSON RTE fields to work more efficiently with third-party integrations.
  2. Improved connector actions enable additional functionality.
  3. New actions to several connectors, such as publishing assets and unpublishing entries in the Contentstack connector, updating or deleting entries from an Algolia index, and more!
  4. Custom options for various triggers enable additional use cases.
  5. More complex options are available for the Contentstack entry trigger, such as adding referenced or custom query parameters.

We’re thrilled to be able to offer Automation Hub to all of our customers and look forward to seeing all of the creative ways in which it will be used to streamline and automate business processes.

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

We are happy to announce some exciting new updates available for Automation Hub! What's new in this release:

  1. Introducing the RTE Formatter connector

    We’ve created a new Automation Hub connector, the RTE Formatter, to help with the complex nested nature of the JSON output that may need to be supported by some external systems to create automations or integrations.

    The RTE Formatter currently has two action types, “Format JSON RTE Content to HTML” and “Format JSON RTE Content to Text.”

    Learn more about RTE Formatter through our documentation.

    rte_formatter_connector
  2. New actions for the Algolia connector

    Previously, the Algolia connector could index content but could not delete an entry or do partial updates. These options are now available with the "Delete Entries" and the "Update Entries" actions.

    Learn more about the new Algolia actions.

    new_actions_for_algolia_connector
  3. The Scheduler connector now generates mock data

    Using triggers involves raising the trigger event first, thus triggering further automation steps to capture the payload. It is unreasonable to wait hours, days, or weeks for a scheduled trigger to happen.

    So, we've now added mock data to the Scheduler connector. Instead of waiting for the event to happen, testing the trigger will display default data, which can be saved and used in later steps.

    mock_data_for_scheduler_connector
  4. Other improvements:
    • The Algolia connector will now appropriately index items that contain quotes or other special characters.
    • We’ve fixed an issue related to the filename format with the Amazon S3 connector.

Bug Fix:

Resolved bug #37

Bug Fix:

  • Enable/Disable debug for logger

Fixes:

  • Resolved - Issue while updating references in global fields while CLI import
  • Resolved - Marketplace private app UI location update issue fixes

Documentation Updates:

Bug Fix:

  • URL cache issue resolved

Hotfix:

  • Fixed crash on NSInvalidArgumentException.

Contentstack OAuth now supports PKCE as a security extension to prevent malicious attacks and perform secure authorization flow.

For more information, refer to our documentation on PKCE for Contentstack OAuth.

We are glad to introduce some cool new capabilities to the entry list page, making it easier to filter and find your favorite entries. Here’s a peek at what’s new:

  1. Filter for table column headers: Select columns and apply filters to display only what you want.
    Filter for Headers.gif
  2. Column resizing: All columns can now be resized so you can accommodate just the data that you want.
    Column Resizing.gif
  3. Column shuffling: You can drag and move columns in the column selector to customize your table view.
    Column Shuffling.gif
  4. Add/remove columns: There are now no restrictions on which columns you can hide or display on the entry list page, giving you complete control of your view.
    Add or Remove Columns.gif

Features/Enhancements:

  • Introduced a new flag (--yes) for asserting boolean migration flags in the clone command
  • Logical code improvements in import and export modules

Fixes:

  • Resolved - New app names are not updated and are shown in console success messages
  • Resolved - Prompt showing to select branch even if target/source branch already provided
  • Resolved - Unable to create private apps on EU region stacks while importing data.
  • Resolved - Stack-clone: Failed to create entries in ‘undefined’ language error
  • Resolved - CLI script breaks while importing labels
  • Resolved - Backspace option not available in case of new stack flow in import step of clone
  • Resolved - Stack-clone: Cannot set properties of undefined (setting ‘dirty’)
  • Security and Vulnerability fixes
  • Initial Release

Introducing SCIM provisioning in Contentstack with Azure Active Directory. You can now use your Azure AD IdP to manage users and groups within your Contentstack organization.

For more information, refer to our Set Up SCIM Provisioning with Microsoft Azure AD document.

Contenstack introduces .NET and Java Management SDKs to help you manage your content. Integrate your .NET or Java applications with Contentstack to create, update, delete, and fetch data using these SDKs.

Refer to our documentation on .NET and Java Management SDK for more information.

Enhancement:

  • Token refresh support added

Features/Enhancements:

  • Marketplace apps import/export/clone support
  • Existing roles & custom roles export/import/clone support
  • Vue & Stencil apps support in bootstrap command
  • Introduced a ‘branch’ option in stack-clone command
  • Create Live Preview settings while creating starter apps using CLI bootstrap command
  • Utility to clone the stack data with different master locale

Fixes:

  • Resolved - Clone/import/export not working for stacks having Marketplace Apps 
  • Resolved - Entries having image preset data are not getting created while import using CLI import command 
  • Resolved - CLI and bulk publish utility gives error while cross publishing assets
  • Resolved - Regex Validation CLI plugin throws error while running csdx cm:stacks:validate-regex
  • Security and Vulnerability fixes

Documentation Updates:

The JSON Rich Text Editor now supports Markdown syntax for formatting content. You can add headings, inline characters, or lists, as well as more complex formatting, like images, URLs, or code blocks using the Markdown Syntax.

For more information, refer to our documentation on Use Markdown to Format Content within the JSON RTE.

Makrdown_GIF.gif

The Create and Edit Label modal has been enhanced with the following:

- Each parent label now has a line divider.

- Long label names are now truncated and an on-hover tooltip displays the full label name.

- Create Label Modal.png

Contentstack now lets you use the “venus-components” to open a modal within apps and extensions to display additional information, collect additional inputs from users, or draw attention to a specific feature (or features) on a page, etc. You can use "cbModal" to launch a new modal using the Contentstack’s Venus Modal Component.

modal_support_for_apps_extensions

Note: For a comprehensive collection of Contentstack’s UI components that you can use to build UI Extensions and Contentstack-based applications, please refer to the Contentstack Venus Component Library and the App SDK documentation.

For more information, refer to our documentation on Modal Support for Apps/Extensions.

Fixes:

  • Resolved - Unable to add tokens(Delivery/Management) without login
  • Resolved - All locally stored tokens got removed after updating/installing new version of CLI from Beta version
  • Resolved error Parent UID is not valid while importing assets
  • Resolved - Auth commands was showing template messages
  • Vulnerability fixes

New Feature

  • Added support for Reference update within entry in live preview

Bug

  • Live Preview feature for entry with reference update.

New Feature:

  • Support added for Azure NA region

New Feature:

  • Azure North America region configuration added.

Enhancements:

  • Added Retry request on failure
  • Added Http request proxy support

New Feature:

  • Support added for Proxy and Retry function

Features/Enhancements:

  • Major general access (GA) release for Contentstack Command-line Interface (CLI)
  • Command respecification and restructuring for achieving command standardization

Fixes:

  • Vulnerability fixes
  • Minor bug fixes
  • Added backward compatibility for old commands and their flags

Documentation Updates:

We are launching the Contenstack command-line interface (CLI) version 1.0.3. Along with overall improvements to, and bug fixes on the product, and introduces command respecification and restructuring for achieving command standardization.

With this release, we have:

- Resolved vulnerabilities and fixed minor bugs

- Added backward compatibility for old commands and their flags

Note: All other features and plugins remain as is.

For more information, refer to our documentation on the Contentstack command-line interface (CLI).

Upcoming Roadmap Items:

- Core CLI scripts stability (Import, Export, and Clone)

- Branches support on CLI

New Feature:

  • Added support for Developer Hub
  • App creation, fetch, and update
  • App configuration
  • App Installation, and getting installation details

Search Bar Enhancements

Introducing the following UI enhancements for the search bar:

- An interactive search icon is enabled as soon as you type something.

- Option for Saved Searches.

- In the Saved Searches option, only five searches are shown. Click View All to see other saved searches.

- Reordered sections in the search bar popup.

- Recent Searches displays the searched texts instead of the whole query.

- Use the Clear All button to delete all recent searches.

- In the Recently Used Fields section, you will see only the top five most recent searches.

View Complete Entry Title in the Popup Modal

While hovering over an entry name in the reference field pop-up, you can now see the full title.

Alphabetical Sorting of Reference Field Entries

Content types within reference field entries modal are now alphabetized.

Post this release, i.e., August 4, 2022, you will be allowed to skip the font size attribute while pasting content from a vendor (Google Document) while executing the Add stack settings API request. You can pass the "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste" key within the stack_variables section in the request body.

While copying content from an external app (e.g., Google Drive) into the HTML RTE field (using the Add stack settings API requests), the font-size attribute helps you copy content along with the font size used in the source.

If you wish to ignore the font size of the source and use the default or user-defined font size, you can skip this attribute while executing the API request.

To skip the font-size attribute, you can use the "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:font-size" key. Here, GD indicates the external app’s prefix (Google Document), while font-size signifies the attribute to skip.

Note: We are currently only supporting one attribute (GD:font-size) for this key. This is only applicable for the HTML Rich Text Editor.

Here’s a sample of the Request Body:

{
   "stack_settings":{
      "stack_variables":{
         "enforce_unique_urls":true,
         "sys_rte_allowed_tags":"style,figure,script",
         "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:font-size"
      },
      "rte":{
         "cs_only_breakline":true
      }
   }
}

While copying content from an external app (e.g., Google Drive) into the HTML RTE field (using the Add stack settings API requests), the font-size attribute helps you copy content along with the font size used in the source.

If you wish to ignore the font size of the source and use the default or user-defined font size, you can skip this attribute while executing the API request.

To skip the font-size attribute, you can use the "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:font-size" key. Here, GD indicates the external app’s prefix (Google Document), while font-size signifies the attribute to skip.

Note: We currently support only one attribute (GD:font-size) for this key. This is only applicable for the HTML Rich Text Editor. For more information, refer to the API Change Log for this update.

Here’s a sample of the Request Body: 

{
   "stack_settings":{
      "stack_variables":{
         "enforce_unique_urls":true,
         "sys_rte_allowed_tags":"style,figure,script",
         "sys_rte_skip_format_on_paste":"GD:font-size"
      },
      "rte":{
         "cs_only_breakline":true
      }
   }
}

The Mission Control dashboard is a plan-based feature that helps you monitor the overall health of your organization. Additionally, you can use it to identify and track issues in your organization, helping you minimize the impact of the issues on customers.

Refer to our documentation on Mission Control for more information.

Organization Analytics is now called Product Analytics under Organization Settings. With this release, the dashboard gets enhanced UX and new capabilities to explore your organization’s usage.

In case you are unable to access the Product Analytics dashboard, please contact our support team.

Refer to our documentation on Product Analytics for more information.

Enhancement:

  • Added support for Asset download
  • Add support for Set Entry workflow stages
  • Added support for OAuth token authorization

Post this release, i.e., July 26, 2022, we will stop supporting the ability to add multiple content deployment servers while setting up a specific publishing environment in Contentstack. We recommend that you instead make use of Webhooks to trigger deployment to multiple web servers whenever you publish content to an environment.

Once this product update goes live, all Content Management API (CMA) requests related to environments will no longer return the deploy_content and servers keys in the response. Here's a sample of an updated response body that returns environment data when you run the Get all environments API request:

{
    "environments": [{
            "urls": [{
                "url": "http://localhost.com",
                "locale": "en-us"
            }],
            "name": "local",
            "uid": "blta1212be1fcfdfad2",
            "created_by": "blt12e12121d12d1f81212a1b2f",
            "updated_by": "blt12e12121d12d1f81212a1b2f",
            "created_at": "2017-06-13T12:28:59.488Z",
            "updated_at": "2018-11-01T13:25:00.349Z",
            "ACL": [

            ],
            "_version": 2
        },
        {
            "urls": [{
                "url": "/staging",
                "locale": "en-us"
            }],
            "name": "staging",
            "uid": "bltf66ca6a66d66cecf",
            "created_by": "blt6565a6b056fc5bc6",
            "updated_by": "blt6565a6b056fc5bc6",
            "created_at": "2019-05-03T08:11:12.583Z",
            "updated_at": "2019-05-03T08:11:12.583Z",
            "ACL": [

            ],
            "_version": 1
        },
        {
            "urls": [{
                "url": "/production",
                "locale": "en-us"
            }],
            "name": "production",
            "uid": "bltfd8888c8bd8cb8cb",
            "created_by": "blt22e22222d22d2f22222a2b2f",
            "updated_by": "blt22e22222d22d2f22222a2b2f",
            "created_at": "2018-08-09T13:39:37.117Z",
            "updated_at": "2018-08-09T13:39:37.117Z",
            "ACL": [

            ],
            "_version": 1
        }
    ]
}

Please consider these missing parameters to avoid breaking changes in your application.

New Features:

  • Resolved Live Preview with reference entry issue on SSR web app.

Post July 26, 2022, we will stop supporting the ability to add multiple content deployment servers while setting up a specific publishing environment in Contentstack. We recommend that you instead make use of Webhooks to trigger deployment to multiple web servers whenever you publish content to an environment.

This update will be effective across both the new and classic Contentstack interfaces.

Breaking Changes: Once the July 26, 2022, product update is completed, all Content Management API (CMA) requests related to environments will no longer return the deploy_content and servers keys in the response. Please consider these parameters to avoid breaking changes in your application. For any inquiries, please reach out to our support team at [email protected].

For more information on this update, refer to our API Change Log documentation.

Finding assets is now easier than ever. Introducing three new filters — Code, Executable, and Archive — on the assets list page that help you find your code files, executable (.exe) files, and zip files, respectively. These filters are also available while searching for assets in the global search. Refer to our documentation on More asset filters for more information.

asset filter.png

We have added new sorting functionality to some of the common list pages:

  • Users & Roles (sort by Status)
  • Webhooks (sort by Status)
  • Workflow (sort by Status)
  • Extensions (sort by Name, Type, Field data type, Hosting method, Last modified)
  • Audit Log (sort by Date, Module, Remote address, Title).

It is no longer possible to select a date that has passed while scheduling a release.

past date graded out.png

The search bar now has a dedicated “Advanced Search” button that lets you switch to an advanced mode where you can add complex and nested condition sets. We have also added a shortcut to our documentation site and have improved the look and feel of the “Filters” button.

improved_search_experience

When you click on the "See more" option under the Localization Status section (see screenshot), the list now opens up in a separate pop-up modal window, making it easier to see all of the languages for which that entry has been adapted.

See more - modal:

see more modal.png

Selected localized language entry opens in a separate tab:

new screen visibility.png

We have added a “Default field” tag to the fields that come by default while creating a content type.

default tag.png

The “Remove” icon, which appears when you hover over the reference field of an entry, has been changed to be more consistent with other icons in the interface.

icon change.png

You can now easily cancel the scheduled publishing of an entry from the Publish Queue by simply hovering over the entry and clicking on “Cancel Scheduling".

cancel scheduling.png

Publishing content is now quicker and simpler for content managers. The list of your environments on the publish/unpublish modal for entries and assets is now sorted alphabetically, making it easier to find your preferred option(s) from the list.

Earlier, an Organization could perform as many webhook executions as they wanted at any given time, without restrictions. Due to this setup, there was a huge probability that a single customer could flood the network by occupying higher positions in the queue.

To avoid this bottleneck situation, we have imposed a rate limit of 200 Webhook executions per minute for all Organizations. So, when an Organization reaches this rate limit, further webhook messages will be set to process in the next queue, without dropping any of the events beyond the rate limit. For more information, refer the documentation on Webhook Rate Limit.

Bug Fixes:

  • #23 Implicit PendingIntent detected in Contentstack Android SDK.

New Features:

  • New region support - Azure North America.

Bug Fix:

  • #57 CompileJava issue in Gradle build ecosystem (contentstack-utils).
  • #58 content_type : Invalid warning for contentTypeUid.


Now, you can choose which users you want to notify when Webhook Circuit Breaker disables a particular webhook. You can specify the email addresses of the users to be notified under the Users(s) to Notify section when creating your webhook.

notify_users_about_disabled_webhooks

For more information, refer to the Create a Webhook and Webhook Circuit Breaker documentation.

New Features:

  • Resolved Live Preview with reference entry issue.

We introduced the following changes in our June 8, 2022 release:

  • Contentstack now allows you to run a text-based search for an asset folder present in your stack. You can enter a search phrase that entirely or partially matches the name of the asset folder to bring it up in your search results.

    For example, you can run a Basic Search based on a search phrase such as “Marketing” to search for the “Marketing Images” asset folder, thus reducing effort and time.

    • Partial_Search_for_Asset_Folder.png

  • Contentstack now allows you to run a Basic Search for assets and asset folders based on a search phrase that partially matches the name of the asset or folder to bring it up in your search results. Instead of entering an exactly matching search phrase, you can type in a specific part of the asset or folder name for your basic search.

    For example, you can run a basic search using partially matching search phrases such as “smart” or “phone” to search for the “Smartphone.jpg” asset in your stack.

    • Partial_Search_for_an_Asset.png

We introduced the following changes in our June 8, 2022 release:

  • Contentstack now allows you to run a text-based search for an asset folder present in your stack. You can enter a search phrase that entirely or partially matches the name of the asset folder to bring it up in your search results.
    For example, you can run a Basic Search based on a search phrase such as “Marketing” to search for the “Marketing Images” asset folder, thus reducing effort and time.
    basic_asset_search
  • Contentstack now allows you to run a Basic Search for assets and asset folders based on a search phrase that partially matches the name of the asset or folder to bring it up in your search results. Instead of entering an exactly matching search phrase, you can type in a specific part of the asset or folder name for your basic search.
    For example, you can run a basic search using partially matching search phrases such as “smart” or “phone” to search for the “Smartphone.jpg” asset in your stack.
    partial_asset_search

For more information, refer to our API Change Log documentation.

New Features:

  • High increase in memory consumption & thread count when updated to the 1.9.0 version.
  • Setting Proxy in config
  • Adding query parameter for the Live Preview #52.
  • Enhancement in logger for the different class (Suggested through a pull request) #51.


We are excited to introduce Contentstack Marketplace and our App Development Framework (in Public Beta).

  • Contentstack Marketplace is a one-stop platform that allows you to explore and use third-party integrations and pre-built extensions to solve all your business-specific needs. Read more about Contentstack Marketplace.
  • Contentstack Developer Hub is an app development platform that allows you to build your own apps and publish them to Contentstack Marketplace. It is currently in the Beta phase. Please reach out to your CSM to get access. Read more about how you can use Contentstack Developer Hub to build apps for Marketplace.

Note: This plan-based feature is available only in the new Contentstack interface.

Developers can now add custom metadata to entries and assets, so content managers can easily organize, categorize, and find content. You can add new metadata without incrementing the version, using the Metadata Content Management API requests.

Refer to our documentation on Metadata for entries and assets for more information.

Note: This plan-based feature is available only in the new Contentstack interface.

Asset Sidebar Extension, a new type of Experience Extension, allows developers to create custom sidebars for assets. With this new extension, they can add powerful new capabilities for content managers to manage, transform, and optimize assets easily.

select sidebar extn.png

Refer to our documentation on Asset Sidebar Extensions for more information.

Note: This plan-based feature is available only in the new Contentstack interface.

Contentstack now allows you to use the "Export" option to export details of all the users on the organization users list page into a Comma Separated Values (CSV) file. You can open this CSV file using any spreadsheet application to clearly view the exported user details.

With this option, you can skim through user details in a single view instead of viewing only 30 users on a page at a time, avoiding the need to constantly scroll through long user lists.

Note: The "Export users list" feature is available only in the new Contentstack interface.

For more information, read our Export Users List documentation

Now, you can also set trigger conditions based on actions performed on entry comments and discussions. Refer to our Comments and Discussions webhook documentation to learn more about the trackable events.

Enhancement
  • Json RTE image, link and frame source url issue resolved

Bug Fixes:

  • API request with URI.OPEN issue resolved

New Features:

  • Azure Na region and package updates.

Post this release, i.e., April 11, 2022, Contentstack will restrict you from creating or importing content types and global fields with unique IDs specified in upper case. If you try to create or import a content type or global field with an uppercase unique ID, your Content Management API (CMA) requests will return an error in the response.

Content Type Related Error Messages

For content type creation requests (with upper case UIDs), you will encounter the following error:

{
    "error_message":"Content Type creation failed. Please try again.",
    "error_code":118,
    "errors":{
        "uid":[
            "is not valid."
        ]
    }
}

For content type import requests (with upper case UIDs), you will encounter the following error:

{
    "error_message":"There was a problem importing the Content Type. Please correct the Content Type and try again.",
    "error_code":118,
    "errors":{
        "uid":[
            "is not valid."
        ]
    }
}

Global Field Related Error Messages

For global field creation requests (with upper case UIDs), you will encounter the following error:

{
    "error_message":"Global Field creation failed. Please try again.",
    "error_code":118,
    "errors":{
        "uid":[
            "is not valid."
        ]
    }
}

For global field import requests (with upper case UIDs), you will encounter the following error:

{
    "error_message":"There was a problem importing the Global Field. Please try again.",
    "error_code":118,
    "errors":{
        "uid":[
            "is not valid."
        ]
    }
}
  • Stack.live_preview_query function added in Stack.
  • Live preview funtions added in config.
  • Region support added.
  • New region support - Azure North America.
  • General code clean-up.

SAML attributes can now be encrypted in SSO login requests. This provides an additional layer of protection for your personal or corporate data. Once you enable encryption in your IdP and Contentstack, the IdP encrypts the SAML attributes using Contentstack's public key certificate.

Refer to our Enable SAML Encryption documentation for more information.

  • Resolved Modular block file generation issue
Bug Fix:

  • #47 issue fixed
  • #48 entry model issue resolved
  • #49 azure-na support added for the region

  • Multiple-Reference issue fixed.
  • New region support - Azure North America
  • Code general update and security update
  • Code clean-up
  • Live Preview support added.

If the "Branches'' feature is part of your plan, all webhook-related API requests that hit the Content Management API (CMA) will return the branch key in the response body. This key specifies the unique ID of the branch on which the concerned webhook was triggered. Additionally, it also highlights the unique ID for any alias assigned to the branch and the source branch from which it inherits data.

Here's a sample of the webhook data returned along with the branch key when you run the Get webhook executions API request:

{
  "webhooks":[
    {
      "uid":"bltf00ec3b37082288b",
      "channel":[
        "content_types.create"
      ],
      "created_at":"2021-09-21T07:24:48.757Z",
      "event_data":{
        "module":"content_type",
        "api_key":"blt29ec365eaa0c8d67",
        "event":"create",
        "data":{
          "uid":"new_content_type",
          "title":"New Content Type",
          "branch":{
            "alias":[
              "test"
            ],
            "uid":"development",
            "source":"main"
          }
        }
      },
      "event_headers":{
        "Content-Type":"application/json",
        "User-Agent":"Contentstack",
        "X-Contentstack-Signature":"d7b6d307f35086885f64a8a8sd7s878d7s8"
      },
      "org_uid":"blteac54a27425b3b0e",
      "request_details":[
        {
          ...
            "body":{
              "triggered_at":"2021-09-21T07:24:43.734Z",
              "module":"content_type",
              "api_key":"blt29ec365eaa0c8d67",
              "event":"create",
              "data":{
                "uid":"new_content_type",
                "title":"New Content Type",
                "branch":{
                  "alias":[
                    "test"
                  ],
                  "uid":"development",
                  "source":"main"
                }
              }
            },
            "headers":{
              ...
            },
            "json":true,
            "resolveWithFullResponse":true,
            "timeout":30000
          },
          "response":{
            "statusCode":500,
            "message":"Unable to connect to host.",
            "request":{
              "uri":{
                "href":"https://webhook.gatsbee.com/hooks/data_source/12345"
              },
              "method":"POST",
              "headers":{
                "Content-Type":"application/json",
                "User-Agent":"Contentstack",
                "X-Contentstack-Signature":"d7b6d307f35086885f64a8a2a47ef2e374837"
              }
            }
          },
          "created_at":"2021-09-21T07:24:48.757Z"
        }
      ],
      "retry_count":1,
      "status":500,
      "updated_at":"2021-09-21T07:25:28.860Z",
      "webhooks":[
        "blt6b256750460b99c0"
      ],
      "destination":{}
    }
  ]
}

If the "Branches" feature is part of your plan, you will see additional keys named branches and branch_aliases in the API responses in some of the Contentstack modules (listed below). The branches and branch_aliases keys specify the unique IDs of the branches and aliases selected within the scope for the concerned modules.

  • Webhooks-related API requests that hit the Content Management API (CMA) will return a top-level branches key in the response body. This key specifies the unique ID of the branch to which the webhook is applicable.

    When creating or updating a webhook, you need to specify the branch scope through the following schema in the request body:

    "branches":[
    "main"
]

    For instance, here’s the response that you will get for the Create a webhook API request:

    {
    "notice":"The webhook was created successfully",
    "webhook":{
        "uid":"blta4c0a90071d12f38",
        "channels":[
            "assets.create"
        ],
        "branches":[
            "main"
        ],
        "disabled":false,
        "concise_payload":true,
        "name":"Test",
        "destinations":[
            {
                "target_url":"http://example.com",
                "http_basic_auth":"basic",
                "http_basic_password":"test",
                "custom_header":[
                    {
                        "header_name":"Custom",
                        "value":"testing"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ],
        "retry_policy":"manual",
        "updated_by":"blta7eaf6883dd73a0b",
        "created_by":"blta7eaf6883dd73a0b",
        "created_at":"2021-09-20T18:54:01.105Z",
        "updated_at":"2021-09-20T18:54:01.105Z"
    }
}

  • Workflows-related API requests that hit the Content Management API (CMA) will return a top-level branches key in the response body. This key specifies the unique IDs of the branches to which the workflow is applicable.

    When creating or updating a workflow, you need to specify the branch scope through the following schema in the request body:

    "branches":[
    "main"
]

    For instance, here’s the response that you will get for the Create a workflow API request:

    {
    "notice":"Workflow created successfully.",
    "workflow":{
        "workflow_stages":[
            {
                "color":"#74ba76",
                "SYS_ACL":{
                    "others":{
                        "read":true,
                        "write":true,
                        "transit":false
                    },
                    "users":{
                        "uids":[
                            "$all"
                        ],
                        "read":true,
                        "write":true,
                        "transit":true
                    },
                    "roles":{
                        "uids":[
                            
                        ],
                        "read":true,
                        "write":true,
                        "transit":true
                    }
                },
                "next_available_stages":[
                    "$all"
                ],
                "allStages":true,
                "allUsers":true,
                "specificStages":false,
                "specificUsers":false,
                "name":"Review",
                "uid":"blt7336c2c86ede8b9a"
            },
            {
                "color":"#2196f3",
                "SYS_ACL":{
                    "others":{
                        "read":true,
                        "write":true,
                        "transit":false
                    },
                    "users":{
                        "uids":[
                            "$all"
                        ],
                        "read":true,
                        "write":true,
                        "transit":true
                    },
                    "roles":{
                        "uids":[
                            
                        ],
                        "read":true,
                        "write":true,
                        "transit":true
                    }
                },
                "allStages":true,
                "allUsers":true,
                "specificStages":false,
                "specificUsers":false,
                "next_available_stages":[
                    "$all"
                ],
                "name":"Complete",
                "uid":"bltace4f008c3156e97"
            }
        ],
        "admin_users":{
            "users":[
                
            ],
            "roles":[
                "bltc5412bb640c8cce1"
            ]
        },
        "name":"Sample Workflow",
        "enabled":true,
        "branches":[
            "main"
        ],
        "content_types":[
            "author",
            "header"
        ],
        "uid":"bltf502c1bf4b742857",
        "api_key":"blt29ec365eaa0c8d67",
        "org_uid":"blteac54a27425b3b0e",
        "created_by":"blt1fd0057b90905592",
        "created_at":"2021-09-22T14:05:54.454Z",
        "deleted_at":false
    }
}

  • Publish Rules-related API requests that hit the Content Management API (CMA) will return a top-level branches key in the response body. This key specifies the unique IDs of the branches for which the publishing rule is applicable.

    When creating or updating a publishing rule, you need to specify the branch scope through the following schema in the request body:

    "branches":[
    "main"
]

    For instance, here’s the response that you will get for the Create publish rules API request:

    {
    "notice": "Publish rule created successfully.",
    "workflow": {
        "status": {
            "publishing_rules": true
        },
        "publishing_rules": [
            {
                "uid": "blta7e8171bdaf013cd",
                "actions": [],
                "environment": "blta6fa90d8fc8a35b3",
                "branches": [
                    "main"
                ],
                "content_types": [
                    "$all"
                ],
                "locales": [
                    "en-us"
                ],
                "approvers": [
                    "blt1fd0057b90905592"
                ],
                "status": true
            }
        ]
    }
}

  • Delivery Token and Management Token-related API requests that hit the Content Management API (CMA) will return the branches and branch_aliases keys under the scope section in the response body. These keys specify the unique IDs of the branches and branch aliases for which a delivery or management token is applicable.

    When creating or updating a delivery or management token, you need to specify the branch and alias scope through the following schema in the request body:

    {
    "module":"branch",
    "branches":[
        "main",
        "development"
    ],
    "acl":{
        "read":true
    }
},
{
    "module":"branch_alias",
    "branch_aliases":[
        "deploy",
        "release"
    ],
    "acl":{
        "read":true
    }
}

    For instance, here’s the response that you will get for the Create a delivery token API request:

    {
    "notice": "Delivery Token created successfully.",
    "token": {
        "name": "Sample Delivery Token",
        "description": "Sample token.",
        "scope": [
            {
                "environments": [
                    {
                        "name": "staging",
                        "servers": [
                            {
                                "name": "default"
                            }
                        ],
                        "urls": [
                            {
                                "locale": "en-us",
                                "url": "http://example.com/"
                            }
                        ],
                        "deploy_content": true,
                        "app_user_object_uid": "system",
                        "uid": "blta6fa90d8fc8a35b3",
                        "created_by": "blta7eaf6883dd73a0b",
                        "updated_by": "blta7eaf6883dd73a0b",
                        "created_at": "2021-09-16T19:27:18.898Z",
                        "updated_at": "2021-09-16T19:27:18.898Z",
                        "ACL": [],
                        "_version": 1,
                        "tags": []
                    }
                ],
                "module": "environment",
                "acl": {
                    "read": true
                },
                "_metadata": {
                    "uid": "csfa77cbd080f5afbd"
                }
            },
            {
                "module": "branch",
                "acl": {
                    "read": true
                },
                "branches": [
                    "main",
                    "development"
                ],
                "_metadata": {
                    "uid": "cs766df728fb56e697"
                }
            },
            {
                "module": "branch_alias",
                "acl": {
                    "read": true
                },
                "branch_aliases": [
                    "deploy",
                    "release"
                ],
                "_metadata": {
                    "uid": "cs27a40bf57db84414"
                }
            }
        ],
        "uid": "blt9d62d10720189b2e",
        "created_by": "blt1fd0057b90905592",
        "updated_by": "blt1fd0057b90905592",
        "created_at": "2021-09-22T16:01:34.410Z",
        "updated_at": "2021-09-22T16:01:34.410Z",
        "token": "cs93d9e3bb4bf8a0612d8bdb77",
        "type": "delivery",
        "_metadata": {
            "references": []
        }
    }
}

  • User Roles-related API requests that hit the Content Management API (CMA) will return the branches and branch_aliases keys under the rules section in the response body. These keys specify the unique IDs of the branches and branch aliases of which a particular user role can access data.

    When creating or updating a user role, you need to specify the branch and alias scope through the following schema in the request body:

    {
    "module":"branch",
    "branches":[
        "main"
    ],
    "acl":{
        "read":true
    }
},
{
    "module":"branch_alias",
    "branch_aliases":[
        "deploy"
    ],
    "acl":{
        "read":true
    }
}

    For instance, here’s the response that you will get for the Create a role API request:

    {
    "notice":"The role created successfully.",
    "role":{
        "name":"Demo role",
        "description":"Demo role.",
        "rules":[
            {
                "module":"content_type",
                "content_types":[
                    "author"
                ],
                "acl":{
                    "read":true,
                    "sub_acl":{
                        "read":true,
                        "create":true,
                        "update":true,
                        "publish":true,
                        "delete":true
                    }
                }
            },
            {
                "module":"asset",
                "assets":[
                    "$all"
                ],
                "acl":{
                    "read":true,
                    "create":true,
                    "update":true,
                    "publish":true,
                    "delete":true
                }
            },
            {
                "module":"environment",
                "environments":[
                    "blta6fa90d8fc8a35b3"
                ],
                "acl":{
                    "read":true
                }
            },
            {
                "module":"locale",
                "locales":[
                    "blt37255d0c5a6d20b1"
                ],
                "acl":{
                    "read":true
                }
            },
            {
                "module":"branch",
                "branches":[
                    "main"
                ],
                "acl":{
                    "read":true
                }
            },
            {
                "module":"branch_alias",
                "branch_aliases":[
                    "deploy"
                ],
                "acl":{
                    "read":true
                }
            }
        ],
        "users":[
            
        ],
        "uid":"bltc590a9b813590e8e",
        "org_uid":"blteac54a27425b3b0e",
        "api_key":"blt29ec365eaa0c8d67",
        "created_by":"blt1fd0057b90905592",
        "updated_by":"blt1fd0057b90905592",
        "created_at":"2021-09-23T08:09:30.971Z",
        "updated_at":"2021-09-23T08:09:30.971Z"
    }
}

If the "Branches" feature is part of your plan, you will see an updated download URL format for all assets part of any branch, except the default main branch. The branch={branch_UID} query parameter is attached to the download URL.

For instance, if you upload an asset to the development branch, Contentstack generates the following asset download URL:

https://assets.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt252b550c5ccdae26/bltc56f275260214c0b/61280d9625aca65092ce7f15/Sample_Image.jpg?branch=development

For any asset that you upload to the main branch, Contentstack will continue to generate asset download URLs in the earlier format:

https://assets.contentstack.com/v3/assets/blt252b550c5ccdae26/bltc56f275260214c0b/61280d9625aca65092ce7f15/Sample_Image.jpg

If the "Branches" feature is part of your plan, you can pass the include_branch query parameter while running Content Delivery API (CDA) / CDN and Content Management API (CMA) requests. Set the include_branch key to true to allow the API to return the _branch top-level key in the response. This key specifies the unique ID of the branch and helps identify where the concerned Contentstack module resides.

Here’s the list of the components that support the include_branch query parameter:

  • Content Types [CDA / CMA]
  • Global fields [CDA / CMA]
  • Assets [CDA / CMA]
  • Entries [CDA / CMA]
  • Extensions
  • Languages
  • Releases
  • Audit Log
  • Publish Queue

    • Note: For Publish Queue and Audit Log related API requests, instead of "_branch": "{branch_ID}", you will see the "branch": "{branch_ID}" top-level key in the response.

    Let us look at an example to understand how the response would look when you pass the include_branch query parameter. For instance, here’s the response that you will get for the Get all content types API request:

    {
    "content_types": [
        {
            ...,
            "schema": [
                {
                    "display_name": "Title",
                    ...
                },
                {
                    "display_name": "URL",
                    ...
                },
            ],
            "last_activity": {},
            "maintain_revisions": true,
            "description": "",
            "DEFAULT_ACL": {
                "others": {
                    "read": false,
                    "create": false
                },
                "users": [
                    {
                        "read": true,
                        "sub_acl": {
                            "read": true
                        },
                        "uid": "blt690a3fed2a593445"
                    }
                ],
                "management_token": {
                    "read": true
                }
            },
            "SYS_ACL": {
                "roles": [
                    {
                        "uid": "bltdc9d89cd41565777",
                        "read": true,
                        "sub_acl": {
                            ...
                        },
                        "update": true,
                        "delete": true
                    },
                    {
                        ... 
                        }
                    },
                    {
                        ...
                        },
                        ...
                    }
                ],
                "others": {
                    ...
                    }
                }
            },
            "_branch": "development",
            "options": {
                "title": "title",
                "publishable": true,
                "is_page": true,
                "singleton": false,
                "sub_title": [
                    "url"
                ],
                "url_pattern": "/:title",
                "url_prefix": "/"
            },
            "abilities": {
                "get_one_object": true,
                "get_all_objects": true,
                "create_object": true,
                "update_object": true,
                "delete_object": true,
                "delete_all_objects": true
            }
        }
    ]
}

    Note: The “branches” feature is available in Contentstack only for the new interface.

Contentstack now offers branching functionality that allows developers to experiment and innovate freely and collaborate with business teams. With Branches, developers can create copies of content type structures (schemas) to make changes and iterate without affecting deployments on the production server.

Branches can have their separate workflows to involve business users in making content modifications, enabling cross-functional innovation. Read our docs for more information.

Breaking Changes: When activating “Branches,” you will see a change in the API responses returned for several Content Delivery API (CDA) / CDN and Content Management API (CMA) requests. We have listed the changes introduced within the Breaking Changes PDF file for smooth adoption of the feature. You need to update your code with the relevant parameters to avoid breaking changes in your application.

Note: The Branches feature will be rolled out to all customers gradually over the next few weeks. It is available in Contentstack only for the new interface. For any inquiries, please reach out to our support team at [email protected].

Branches flow.png

With the latest update to Key-value choices of Select fields, you no longer need to add spaces before and after the colon (:) of your key-value pairs. For example, if you're adding key-value choices for t-shirt sizes, you need to add the choices as: Large:L, Medium:M, Small:S, and so on.

Learn more about this change in the Select field documentation.

Post this release, i.e., February 11, 2022, the Publish Queue of the stack will only maintain records of publishing/unpublishing activities performed within the last 90 days. This update ensures that constant publishing activity does not overload the queue.

For more information, refer to the Publish Queue documentation. You can also refer to the Publish Queue API documentation to understand how to fetch details using the Content Management API.

Post this release, i.e., February 11, 2022, the Audit Log of the stack will only maintain records of activities (updates, deletes, publishing/unpublishing activities, etc.) performed within the last 90 days.

For more information, refer to the Audit Log documentation.

Post this release, i.e., February 11, 2022, Contentstack will sign all webhook events sent to your endpoints with a signature. This signature appears in each event's X-Contentstack-Request-Signature header. It allows you to verify the integrity of the data and the provider's authenticity (Contentstack) from which data is coming.

For more information, refer to the Webhook Signature documentation.

We introduced the following changes in our February 11, 2022 release:

  • The Publish Queue of your stack now only maintains records of publishing/unpublishing activities performed within the last 90 days. This update ensures that constant publishing activity does not overload the queue.
  • The Audit Log of your stack now only maintains records of activities (events) performed within the last 90 days.

Read more about these updates in our API Change Log documentation.

Contentstack now signs all webhook events sent to your endpoints with a signature. This signature appears in each event's X-Contentstack-Request-Signature header. It allows you to verify the integrity of the data and the provider's authenticity (Contentstack) from which data is coming.

For more information, refer to the Webhook Signature documentation.

Bug Fix:

  • Entry uid bug fixed #45.
  • Static logger implemented #43.
  • Scope-based dependencies.

You can now restrict access to the master language and add custom exceptions for all or specific languages while creating or updating a user role. For example, you can restrict a role from being able to "Create," "Update," or "Delete" entries localized in a specific language, e.g., English (United States) or French (France).

create_update_roles_with_language_specific_permissions

Read our documentation for more information.

You can now type in "/" in the JSON Rich Text Editor to open a formatting menu that contains options for formatting texts and bullets, embedding entries and assets, and so on. With the slash command, you can style and edit your content efficiently at a faster pace. To select a formatting option, choose from the displayed list or type the option you need to add.

slash_command_in_json_rte

For more information, read our documentation on Slash Command.

The new Update release items to their latest versions button updates all entries and assets in a release to their latest versions. This update feature ensures publishing up-to-date content with a release.

Whats new-update.png

For more information, refer to our documentation on Update Release Items to their Latest Versions.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed compile issue with target version 31.

Post this release, i.e., January 21, 2022, whenever a webhook sends data to a specified notification URL, if any key name in the response begins with a dollar sign ($), it will be prefixed with the acronym "cs" as a wildcard. For example, the key named "$success" would be replaced with "cs$success."

Let's consider the following sample webhook data that contains a key prefixed with a dollar sign:

{
    "$success": true
}

The key name will be prefixed with the "cs" acronym, as shown in the following webhook data:

{
    "cs$success": true
}

With this update, whenever a webhook sends data to a specified notification URL, if any key name in the response begins with a dollar sign ($), it will be prefixed with the acronym "cs" as a wildcard. For example, the key named "$success" would be replaced with "cs$success."

Let's consider the following sample webhook data that contains a key prefixed with a dollar sign:

{
    "$success": true 
}

The key name will be prefixed with the "cs" acronym, as shown in the following sample webhook data:

{
    "cs$success": true
}

Read more about this feature in our API Change Log.

Bug Fixes:

  • Host bug for lie preview resolved

Bug fix:

  • Live preview Query issue.

New Feature:

  • Entry

    • IncludeOnlyReference function added.

    • IncludeExceptReference function added.

  • Query

    • IncludeOnlyReference function added.

    • IncludeExceptReference function added.

Earlier, Contentstack did not impose an expiration timeframe on password reset links you generate when you forget the password. This vulnerability could expose users to information security attacks.

Post January 07, 2022, Contentstack will invalidate all password reset links within 60 minutes from when you generate them. This update maintains a robust security mechanism and prevents accounts from being hacked. Once the link expires, you can create another link using Forgot password and reset your password.

You can now extend the functionality of your JSON Rich Text Editor with our latest JSON RTE Plugins. These plugins let you inject specific functional logic directly into the JSON Rich Text Editor through third-party tools, without the need to add separate fields to perform complex content checks.

JSON RTE Plugins lets you dynamically interact with and improve the rich text content by introducing features such as auto suggestions, grammar, and terminology checks that helps enhance content quality and accelerate editorial velocity.

Entry.png

Note: This plan-based feature will be available only for the JSON Rich Text Editor in the new Contentstack interface.

Read our documentation on JSON Rich Text Editor Plugins to get started with this feature.

Contentstack now disables all password reset links within 60 minutes from the time you generate them. Once the link expires, you can reuse the Forgot password option to generate a new link and reset the password.

For more information on this update, refer to our Password Reset Link Expiry API Change Log documentation.

New Features:

  • Added support for Live Preview.
  • Added support for Branching.

Changes:

  • Removed the old version of jsoup dependency.
  • Code improved as per sonar vulnerability guidelines.
  • Removed deprecated code/non-working code marked deprecated.
  • A few breaking changes were added.

New Feature:

  • Live Preview feature support added

New Features:

  • Support added for Live Preview TS Configuration

Enhancements:

  • Package Update

New Feature:

  • Live preview feature support added

New Feature:

  • Live Preview feature support added

New Features:

  • Added support for Live Preview.
  • Added support for Branching.

Changes:

  • Removed the old version of jsoup dependency.
  • Code improved as per sonar vulnerability guidelines.
  • Removed deprecated code/non-working code marked deprecated.
  • A few breaking changes were added.

New Features:

  • Support added for Live Preview feature support.

Earlier, even though the Contentstack user interface did not allow the creation of multiple entries in a content type marked as "Single," users could still create them using the API. Post this release, i.e., October 19, 2021, Contentstack will restrict you from using the Content Management API (CMA) to create more than one entry in a content type that has been marked as "Single."

Note: This change will not affect existing entries created in a content type of type "Single" using the Content Management API (CMA). You will still be able to fetch those entries using the CMA.

To create multiple entries using the same content type, you need to mark that content type as "Multiple."

A webhook request may fail to retrieve data from a specific notification URL under the following scenarios:

  • The provided domain name is either invalid or does not exist
  • The API fails to respond with data within 30 seconds
  • The destination server aborted the connection

When a webhook request repeatedly fails 10 times under any of the above scenarios, the system detects the invalid URL and automatically disables the webhook configured for that client. Contentstack then marks the faulty webhook with an Unhealthy status.

If any webhook goes into an unhealthy state, webhook-related Content Management API (CMA) requests will return the unhealthy key in the response:

{
    "unhealthy":{
        "state":true
    }
}

We also send a notification email to the concerned client (user) whenever the Webhook Circuit Breaker disables any webhook in Contentstack. To enable the webhook again, you can refer to the webhook logs and debug the issue.

For more information, refer to our Webhook Circuit Breaker documentation.

Contentstack now deploys the Webhook Circuit Breaker (WCB) whenever any webhook uses up its allotted execution retry attempts. WCB automatically disables a webhook that repeatedly fails to retrieve data from a specific notification URL 10 times. The faulty webhook is then marked with an Unhealthy status.

If any webhook goes into an unhealthy state, webhook-related Content Management API (CMA) requests will return the unhealthy key in the response: 

{
    "unhealthy":{
        "state":true
    }
}

Read more about this feature in our API Change Log.

Dependency update

  • The issue for Monkey patching resolved.
  • Implemented Refine to extend class within module scope.

Any regular expression added within the validation property of your content type should be valid. This update will restrict you from saving your content type if an invalid regex has been entered to avoid catastrophic backtracking.

The Regex Validation property helps you define a set of validation options for a given field. Initially, content types with invalid regexes were saved, and the validation check became time-consuming when executed. Regular expressions like these either freeze the browser or utilize 100% of the CPU core process.


Post this release, i.e., September 6, 2021, any regulars expression added within the validation property of your content type should be valid. This update will restrict you from saving your content type if an invalid regex has been entered to avoid catastrophic backtracking.

With this update, you will be restricted from saving a content type that contains an invalid regular expression. This update will avoid catastrophic backtracking that may end up freezing your browser or utilizing 100% of the CPU core process.

Learn more about catastrophic backtracking.

Hotfix:

  • Fixed crash on NSInvalidArgumentException.

Dependency update

  • Added URI open on open uri deprecation.

The Get executions of a webhook API request now allows you to filter the webhook execution details based on a particular date range. To do so, you can pass from and to as query parameters within the API request. For both of these parameters, you need to provide a date in ISO format as the value. For instance, to set the start date in the from parameter to December 8, 2017, you can pass the date in ISO format as shown below:

from="2017-12-08T00:00:00.000Z"

Audit Log tracks and displays activities (events) performed in a particular stack. Initially, the API response body only contained information about the operations being performed. With multiple API requests being executed throughout the stack by various users, mapping each request was a tedious task.

After this release, you will be able to view a request_id key in the response body of the GET Audit Log and GET Audit Log Item requests. This key helps map the API requests made throughout a stack with the Audit Log.

The response schema would look as follows:

{
  "logs":[
    {
      "uid":"blt6f02145fb8599a9757be",
      "stack":"blt323b040550e614e3",
      "created_at":"2021-08-16T05:51:10.378Z",
      "created_by":"blt151bca2f320b01be",
      "module":"content_type",
      "event_type":"update",
      "request_id":"21028215907fbfe454c88df49ee5352a",
      "metadata":{
        "title":"Audit-log Test",
        "uid":"audit_log_test",
        "version":2,
        "scope":null
      }
    }
  ]
}
You can now use the "from" and "to" query parameters to filter the webhook execution details based on a specific date range. Here's more about these query parameters:
  • from: Allows you to provide the start date in ISO format as value, e.g., from="2016-10-07T12:34:36.000Z"
  • to: Allows you to provide the end date in ISO format as value, e.g., to="2017-12-08T00:00:00.000Z"
Learn more about this update in the Get executions of a webhook API documentation.
  • Linking Content Management API Requests with Audit Log: We have updated the response body of the GET Audit Log and GET Audit Log Item requests with a request_id key which helps map all API requests made throughout a stack with the Audit Log. Let's look at a sample Audit Log schema:
    {
  "logs":[
    {
      "uid":"blt6f02145fb8599a9757be",
      "stack":"blt323b040550e614e3",
      "created_at":"2021-08-16T05:51:10.378Z",
      "created_by":"blt151bca2f320b01be",
      "module":"content_type",
      "event_type":"update",
      "request_id":"21028215907fbfe454c88df49ee5352a",
      "metadata":{
        "title":"Audit-log Test",
        "uid":"audit_log_test",
        "version":2,
        "scope":null
      }
    }
  ]
}
    Learn more about the change in our API Change Log.
Enhancement
  • Support added for GraphQL JSON RTE to Html content

Enhancement:
  • Utils SDK Package update

  • Issue #17 resolved:
    • Stack.sync_init uses the wrong parameter names.

Whenever any webhook fails to send data to the desired notification URL or a session timeout occurs, Contentstack's exponential webhook retry policy attempts to send data to the destination URL again four more times after certain intervals. Setting a resend interval avoids several requests constantly hitting the server and prevents database overload.

The resend interval time lasts for 5 seconds, by default, for the first retry attempt. It increases exponentially as the retry instance number increases. The exponential backoff formula will look as follows:

{resend_interval} + {retry_instance} ^ 4

Read our Webhook Retry Policy section to know more.

  • Contentstack-utils updated to v1.1.0

New Features:

  • Added support for utils function gql.jsonToHtml().

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved bug #32 issue, removed e.printStackTrace()
  • Instead stacktrace used logger.error().

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved issue of timeout on asset upload while retrying request

New Features:

  • Support added for updated Utils package.

The new JSON RTE field provides a hassle-free content editing experience for writers and enables developers to render rich-text data across all channels seamlessly. It stores and returns field data in JSON format, allowing developers to serialize the data in any human-readable format, paving the way for a truly omnichannel experience for your customers.

You can migrate your existing content from the HTML-based RTE to the new JSON RTE field using our CLI or change JSON data of the RTE into HTML using our serializer package. For more information, read our docs.

Note: This feature is available only in the new Contentstack interface.

  • Support added for JSON RTE feature
Enhancement
  • Support added JSON RTE to html content functionality

Enhancement
  • Support added JSON RTE to html content functionality

Enhancement
  • Support added for JSON RTE

New Feature:

  • Support added for JSON RTE feature

Enhancement:

  • Utils SDK Package updated to support JSON RTE to HTML Parsing

Enhancement

  • Utils SDK Package Update
  • Version 2.6.1 - Release Date: Apr-09-2021

Bug Fix

  • Asset Model implementing Interface for Embedded Objects #11

You can now assign permanent URLs to assets and create custom URLs for every asset. These URLs remain unchanged even if the assets are updated multiple times, so you don’t have to update the referring hyperlinks in entries ever and can maintain your SEO scores. Learn more about permanent asset URLs.

Good news for developers! You don’t have to reach out to our support team any more to get a language added to our list of supported languages. You can add custom languages of your choice to your stack in a click. Here’s how.

You can now add key-value pairs as choices in the Select field. For example, to specify the state code for a state while defining choices in a government website, you can specify key-value pairs such as New York : NY. Learn more about this change in the Select field documentation.

Bug Fix:

  • Support added for request timeout
  • Package Improvement.
  • Pub dependencies version mismatch fixed.
  • Included UTF-8 encoding.
  • Removed unused dependencies.

Enhancement

  • Updated the gemspec Dependency

Enhancements:

  • Utils SDK package update
  • Active support dependency format update

Dependency update

  • Updated gemspec dependency.

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved Get Stack for specific organization from org_uid
  • Resolved Entry Publish and Update not work after find function
  • Resolved Workflow update issue on fetchAll function

Document:

  • Updated the Entry example code

Dependency:

  • Update Utils SDK dependency version.

You can now add a maximum of 10 JSON type custom fields per content type. Learn more about this change in the Limitations of Custom Fields section.

Bug fix:

  • Resolved IE 11 request method issue.

New Features

  • Embedded feature Support added.
  • Support added for RTE embedded Object feature
Enhancement:
  • Added dependency for Cocoapods

Enhancement:
  • Added Utils SDK with function support

Bug Fix:
  • Cocoapods issue resolved

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved package issue

New Feature:

  • Support added for includeEmbeddedItems function in Entry and Query Module
  • Utils SDK support added

New Feature

  • includeEmbeddedItems function added in Entry and Query Module
  • Utils SDK support added in SDK

  • Entry
    • include_embedded_objects support added.
  • Query
    • include_embedded_objects support added.
  • Support added for Utils SDK

Enhancement

  • includeEmbeddedItems function added in Entry and Query Module
  • Utils SDK support added in SDK

Update API:

  • Query
    • Added support for method includeEmbeddedItems.
  • Entry
    • Added support for method includeEmbeddedItems.

New Features:

  • Query :
    • query.includeEmbeddedItems() method support added.
  • Entry :
    • entry.includeEmbeddedItems() method support added.

New Feature:

  • Entry
    • ‘includeEmbeddedItems’ function added
  • Query
    • ‘includeEmbeddedItems’ function added

New Features

  • Entry
    • IncludeEmbeddedItems method added.
  • Query
    • IncludeEmbeddedItems method added.

New Features:

  • Entry: Support added for entry.includeEmbeddedItems()
  • Query: Support added for query.includeEmbeddedItems()

New Feature:

  • Entry
    • IncludeEmbeddedItems function added
  • Query
    • IncludeEmbeddedItems function added

Initial Release

Initial Release

New Feature

  • Sync API support added.

Enhancement

  • Added PSR 4 Standardized implementation.

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved organization function support to organization owner

Bug Fix

  • Updated addQuery method to pass non-encoded Json to Query object.

  • Removed parameter-check on functions that pass default values.

New Features

  • Sync API module support added.

New Feature:

  • Support added for workflow module

Enhancement:

  • Added support for request concurrency in SDK

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed release items update bug

  • Removed Delivery Token support from plugin use Authtoken instead.
  • Reference field List/Object issue for new Stack resolved.

  • Retry policy and timeout support included.
  • Set default timeout to 30 sec.

Bug Fix:

  • X User agent updates for API calls.

Changes:

  • Updated X-User-Agent to the header.

Changes:

  • Document updated.

Changes:

  • Increased default timeout time to 30 sec.

API timeout:

  • Updated timeout to min 30-sec.

Enhancement Typescript:

  • Support added Boolean value:
    • [Query] - where, equalTo, notEqualTo.

Bug Fix:

  • Error details information included
  • error_code
  • error_message
  • error_details

Deprecations:

  • Language enum
  • Language code enum

Documentation Updated

Bug Fix:

  • Content Type fetch Url issue resolved.

Bug fix:

Error contains information like

  • Error message
  • Error code
  • Error Details

Language Enum:

  • GERMEN changed to GERMAN.
  • Deprecated Language Enum.
  • Deprecated LanguageCode Enum.

New Features:

None

Bug fix:

  • Fixed Unhandled promise rejection on HTML response body.

  • Confirmation Step to Delete Delivery Token: We now force the user to type and confirm the name of the delivery token that they want to delete. Refer to the Delete a Delivery Token section to learn more about this change.
  • New Languages: We added a number of languages to the existing list of supported languages in which you can localize your entry. Learn more about these "Supported Languages".

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved retry count on request failure

We have stopped supporting Access Token for all stacks created post this release, i.e., December 16, 2020. For stacks created after this release, the Access Token will no longer be generated. Instead, you need to use the value of the environment-specific Delivery Token against the ‘access_token’ key to make authorized Content Delivery API (CDA) or CDN requests. Subsequently, you can use Management Tokens to make Content Management API (CMA) requests.

For stacks created before December 16, 2020, we will continue to support Access Tokens. However, we strongly recommend switching to Delivery Tokens and Management Tokens for the respective API requests mentioned above.

Read our FAQs on Access Token Removal to know more.

Note: Though we have stopped supporting Access Tokens, we haven’t removed the usage of the ‘access_token’ key for Content Delivery API requests. To make authorized Content Delivery API requests, you need to now pass the value of the delivery token against the access_token key.

  • Access Tokens Deprecation: We have stopped supporting Access Tokens for stacks created after December 16, 2020. This means that we will not generate Access Tokens for new stacks. You need to use Delivery Tokens for making authorized Content Delivery API requests and use Management Token or Authtoken for Content Management API requests.
    Learn more about this change through our FAQs on Access Token Removal.
  • Improvements in Upload Asset API Request: We now provide the ability to include image dimensions (height and width) in the API response while uploading an asset. You need to pass the include_dimension=true query parameter while running the API request.
    Learn how to upload an asset using our Content Management API.

New Features:

  • Asset
    • Support added for includeFallback
    • Support added for includeDimension
  • AssetQuery
    • Support added for includeFallback
  • Entry:
    • Support added for includeFallback
  • Query:
    • Support added for includeFallback

  • include_fallback support added

  • Timeout support included

  • Entry

    • added support for include_fallback.

  • Asset

    • added support for include_fallback.

  • AssetQueryable

    • added support for include_fallback.

  • Query

    • added support for include_fallback.

  • Entry
    • Publish fallback method added
  • Query
    • Publish fallback method added
  • Asset
    • Publish fallback method added
  • Assets
    • Publish fallback method added

New Features:

  • Entry
    • Publish fallback method added.
  • Query
    • Publish fallback method added.
  • Asset
    • Publish fallback method added.
    • includeDimension method added.
  • Assets
    • Publish fallback method added

Update API:

  • Asset
    • 'includeFallback' support added
  • AssetLibrary
    • 'includeFallback' support added
  • Entry
    • 'includeFallback' support added
  • Query

    • 'includeFallback' support added

New Features:

  • Entry
    • Publish fallback method added
  • Query
    • Publish fallback method added
  • Asset
    • Publish fallback method added
  • Assets
    • Publish fallback method added

Update API:

  • AssetLibrary

    • IncludeFallback function added

    • SetLocale function added

  • Asset

    • IncludeFallback function added

    • SetLocale function added

  • Entry

    • IncludeFallback function added

  • Query

    • IncludeFallback function added

New Feature

  • Entry

    • Added support for function 'includeFallback'.

  • Query 

    • Added support for function 'includeFallback'.

Update API:

  • Asset
    • ‘includeFallback’ function added
  • AssetLibrary
    • ‘includeFallback’ function added
  • Entry
    • ‘includeFallback’ function added
  • Query
    • ‘includeFallback’ function added

New Features

  • Entry
    • locale - function for passing locale is added.
    • only - function for getting only specified field.
    • except - function for getting field except for specified field.
    • include_reference - function for including a reference in an entry.
    • include_schema - function for including schema along with entry added.
    • include_content_type - function for including content type details along with entry added.
    • include_owner - function for getting the owner of an entry.
    • include_fallback - function for getting published fallback locale content if specified locale content is not published.
  • Query
    • include_fallback - function for getting published fallback locale content if specified locale content is not published.

When fetching published content, if the requested entry is not available for the specified language, you can get its published fallback language content in the same API request. You no longer need to make multiple queries or write custom code to get the fallback language content. Learn how to retrieve fallback language content for published entries.

Adding support for the include_fallback query parameter for the following Content Delivery API requests: Get All Entries, Get Single Entry, Get All Assets, and Get Single Asset.

Using the include_fallback=true parameter in the above API requests, you can fetch published content from the fallback languages, if the requested entry is not available for the specified language.

You can refer to our API documentation on entries and assets to learn more about retrieving published fallback content. Additionally, you can learn more about this feature in our Retrieve Fallback Language Content for Published Entries guide.

  • In case of a failure or if a session timeout occurs (webhook request timeout is 30 seconds), the webhook will immediately retry to send data to the destination URL again for three more times. After three unsuccessful attempts, the webhook will not make any further attempts automatically. However, you can trigger the webhook manually up to seven more times by clicking on the Retry link.
    Learn how to view webhook logs.

New Feature

  • Package gist support added 

Bug Fix:

  • Bug fixed for organization accessing stack instance

Bug Fix:

  • Resolved Live Preview SSR error on page refresh

Update API:

  • Retry limit for fetch request.
  • Retry delay option for fetch request.
  • Retry on error occurs for fetch request.
  • Typescript definition added.

Enhancement Documentation

  • Documentation update for Only and Except.

You can create discussions for each of the subfields present inside “Group,” “Modular Blocks,” or “Global” fields. However, when you mark the parent field as multiple, the discussion fails to recognize which subfield was linked to it.

To identify each instance of a field marked as “Multiple”, we send the _metadata key in the response of GET requests for draft entries. This key contains the unique ID assigned to each field instance.

This is useful in cases where “Group,” “Modular Blocks,” or “Global” fields have comments added to multiple instances of their subfields.

For example, consider an entry named “Demo Entry” that consists of the “Employee Address” Global field. If the Global field has been marked as “Multiple”, then the following response is returned for a “Get entry” API request:

{
    "entries": [
        {
            "_version": 6,
            "locale": "en-us",
            "uid": "blt60e06920a98836a6",
            "ACL": {},
            "_in_progress": false,
            "created_at": "2020-04-08T03:05:37.254Z",
            "created_by": "blt42e55757d70d5f81026a2b9f",
            "employee_address": [
                {
                    "rich_text_editor": "Sample address",
                    "boolean": true,
                    "_metadata": {
                        "uid": "csc8c89feb26118172"
                    }
                },
                {
                    "rich_text_editor": "<p>Two are there.</p>",
                    "boolean": true,
                    "_metadata": {
                        "uid": "cs1d57fbd82e175ba7"
                    }
                }
            ],
            "title": "Demo Entry",
            "updated_at": "2020-10-21T13:34:52.718Z",
            "updated_by": "blt6563a9b067fc1bc9",
            "url": "/demo",
            "publish_details": [
                {
                    "environment": "bltfd8970c7bd9cb0cb",
                    "locale": "en-us",
                    "time": "2020-10-21T13:40:35.127Z",
                    "user": "blt6563a9b067fc1bc9",
                    "version": 6
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
  • Contentstack provides the ability to add comments to entry fields. With this feature, content managers can add comments to fields of an entry and reply inline, letting them initiate discussions around the content to collaborate efficiently. Learn how to work with entry comments.
  • Initial Release

We have deprecated the include_workflow parameter for all Content Delivery API (CDA) or CDN requests. For stacks created post this release, i.e., August 31, 2020, users will no longer be able to fetch workflow stage details for published entries. However, for stacks created before this release, users will be able to retrieve workflow stage details for existing published entries. Read more about adding workflows and workflow stages.

  • Contentstack allows you to send a concise JSON payload to the specified URL whenever the selected event occurs. Learn how to send concise webhook payload.
  • Contentstack allows you to ensure that entry URLs are not duplicated across the stack and provide a warning when a duplicate URL is detected. This can be done through the API. Read more.
  • GraphQL Beta Hotfix 0.1.2: The Contentstack GraphQL API Beta version underwent the following changes in Hotfix 0.1.2:
    • The maximum objects that can be fetched in a single query is 7,500.
    • Contentstack’s GraphQL API paginates all the items referred in the Reference field, irrespective of whether they have been published or not.
    Read more about the Contentstack GraphQL API Beta.
  • Organization Bulk Task Queue: The "Bulk Task Queue" section under "Organization Settings" displays the queue of bulk operations that the users of your organization perform. Read more about the Bulk Task Queue.
  • Enable or Disable Releases through Super Admin: Incorporated the ability to disable the "Releases" feature from super admin.
  • Select Field: Added the ability to select all options when entering data for a Select field in the entry.
  • DisplayNameAttribute added for Modular block Enum
  • Skip limit functionality added to support Stack with more than 100 Content-Type and Global Field
  • Contentstack Response Class added
  • Modular block converter to implement CSJsonConverterAttribute to autoload converters

Update API:

  • AssetLibrary

    • Count function added

    • Limit, Skip functionality added

    • Only, Except function added

  • Query

    • Count function added

  • CSJsonConverter

    • Added class CSJsonConverter to allow autoloading of converters

Enhancement

  • Stack

    • Sync function to allow multiple SyncType

Bug Fixes

  • Entry

    • GetContentType exception resolved

Deprecation

  • Stack

    • AccessToken deprecated with support to add DeliveryToken

  • include_reference issue fixed.
  • EntryQueryable
    • updated include_reference function.

Bug Fix:

  • Fixed the following issues:
    • Build Issue and
    • Build update.

Bug Fix:

  • Bump Issue :
    • Bump Issue: log4j-core from 2.5 to 2.13.2.

Changes:

  • Query :
    • Query.locale() documentation.

New Features:

  • CSHttpConnection :
    • StandardCharsets.UTF_8 Support Added.

  • The Contentstack GraphQL API Beta version is now publicly available. This version facilitates optimized schema handling, returns error debugging responses, uses database resources efficiently, prevents malicious requests to the database, and has an increased rate limit. Read more about the Contentstack GraphQL API Beta.
  • Download and install our latest Postman Collection that covers all the GraphQL Content Delivery API endpoints for Contentstack.
  • Trash maintains a backup of all deleted items for up to 14 days from the date of deletion. You can restore the deleted items back to their original condition before they are permanently deleted. The following items are stored in the Trash after being deleted:
    • Content Types
    • Global Fields
    • Entries
    • Assets

Read more about the Trash feature.

Update API:

  • Included Content-Type in Entry.

Following changes have been introduced to new stacks of Organizations created post this release, i.e., June 24, 2020:

  • Users will no longer be able to use the stack Access Token to make authorized Content Delivery API (CDA) or CDN requests. Instead, you need to use the value of the environment-specific delivery token of the stack against the access_token key. Read more about the relevant authentication parameters.
  • Users will no longer be able to pass authentication parameters such as api_key (Stack API key), access_token (Access Token of the stack), authtoken (user-generated authtoken), and authorization (Management token of the stack) as query parameters for any stack-specific API requests. Read more about Queries.

Update API:

  • GetEnvironment issue resolved.

  • GetDeleted at Method addedAssetLibrary.

  • SyncType issue resolved.

API timeout:

  • Removed default timeout for request.

  • Added support for Modular block with Global field

Initial release

  • The initialization of stack has been modified

  • External config support moved to stack initialisation optional paramters

  • Added support for whereIn(String key) and whereNotIn(String key) methods in Query

  • Assets

    • Changes incorporated in Asset class.

  • Entry

    • Changes incorporated in the entry class.

  • Query

    • Changes incorporated in the Query class.

Update API:

  • Allowed support to add a timeout for requests.
  • Fetch option added for request.

Initial Release

  • Initial release for the Contentstack-dart-sdk for Content Delivery API.

Bug

  • Stack api key and access token moved to the header.

Bug

  • Stack Tokens Moved to Headers.
  • Beta release for the Contentstack-dart-sdk for Content Delivery API.

  • Added support to add host for Contentstack

  • Edit Access Permissions for Workflow Stages: A stack administrator or developer, can now define who can edit entries on different stages of a workflow. This access control ensures that your content reaches the end of its lifecycle, without any unwanted modifications. Read more about setting edit access permissions on workflow stages.
  • Webhook Log Enhancements: You can now filter out the Webhook Logs information according to days by using the date filter located at the top of the page. Additionally, you can apply the Call Status filter to retrieve only the logs with successfully triggered webhooks.
  • Contentstack Extensions SDK Enhancements: Extension fields that support data types such as text, number, boolean, or date can now programmatically change the data of another extension field using the field.setData() function. The field.onChange() function is called as soon as the other extension field witnesses change in data. We have also added the following new methods for the Entry class:
    • onChange(): Executes the callback function every time an entry has been updated.
    • onPublish(): Executes the callback function every time an entry has been published with the respective payload.
    • onUnpublish(): Executes the callback function every time an entry has been unpublished with the respective payload.
      Refer to the Extensions SDK API Reference document to learn more about the changes.
  • You can now add the “Group,” “Modular Blocks,” and “Reference” fields, along with other fields, to the Global fields. Also, you can add Global fields within Group fields or use Global field as a block within the Modular Blocks field. This means that developers can create really complex structures and use them across multiple content types. Read more about Complex Global Fields.

Read more about Complex Global Fields.

Enhancements:

  • Added support for the EU region

Bug Fixes:

  • Resolved the URL issue
  • EU
  • URL issue resolved

  • Contentstack allows you to delete multiple localized versions of an entry right from the “Delete” modal of the master language version of the entry. Read more.
  • Area-specific languages allow you to create content that caters to a specific continent or a group of politically or economically influential countries (for example, all Latin American regions). Read more.
  • Contentstack's Image Delivery API now provides enhanced image optimization parameters that serve pixel-perfect and bandwidth efficient images to your devices. The new parameters are: Smart and Fail-safe Cropping parameters, Canvas, Overlay Pad, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Resize-filter, Sharpen, Blur, and Frame.

Refer to the Image Delivery API documentation to learn how to use these parameters.

Bug

  • The issue with the name of the Query function in Asset has been resolved:
    • updated baseQuery function name to addQuery.

  • Updated ContentstackHelper with using statement
  • Updated class implementation with 'partial class'
  • Added const string 'ContentType' to specify content-type of class
  • Support added for set reference field class in MultiCT for single reference

Update API:

  • Query

    • update function ‘IncludeOwner’

  • Entry

    • update function ‘IncludeOwner’

Bug

  • Query array passing issue resolved

Bug Fix:

  • Dependency vulnerability Java GitHub reported a vulnerable issue on dependency Log4j.

Introduce CLI for model generator

  • Bulk Actions on Search Results: Content managers can now perform bulk actions on the result set of Basic or Advanced searches. The bulk action options available are Publish, Unpublish, Delete, and Change Workflow Details.
  • Perform Advanced Search Within Multiple Content Types: While using Advanced search, you can now select multiple content types within which you want to perform the search (previously, a search could be done on a single content type or all content types). This offers more flexibility to content managers and helps in getting accurate results.
  • Adding support for ‘Workflow Stage’ option in Advanced Search: You can now search entries by their workflow stage, provided they are associated with the same workflow.

Read more about these features.

  • Nested Modular Blocks: Developers can now add Modular Blocks within a Modular Block field while creating a content type. This enables content managers to create complex, flexible content pages without the help of developers. Read more.
  • Reference and File Field Type for Custom Field Extensions: Developers can now save the input data of their custom field extensions in the form of Reference or File data types. Read more.

New Feature

  • Region support added

Update API:

  • Entry
    • Updated in entry module.
  • Removed the unwanted code

Enhancement

  • Stack 

    • Added support for function 'getContentType'

  • ContentType

    • updated function 'fetch'

  • Query

    • Added support for function 'includeContentType'

Beta release

  • Initial release for the Contentstack-python-sdk for Content Delivery API.

Update API:

  • Stack
    • update function ‘getContentType:’
  • ContentType
    • update function ‘fetch:’

Update API:

  • Stack

    • update function ‘GetContentType:’

  • ContentType

    • update function ‘Fetch:’

New Features:

  • Stack:
    • Support added for function getContentType()
  • ContentType:
    • Updated function fetch()
  • Query:
    • Updated support for whereIn(String KEY, Query queryObject)
  • Query:
    • Updated support for whereNotIn(String KEY, Query queryObject)

New Features:

  • Stack:
    • Added support for function getContentType().
  • ContentType:
    • Updated function fetch().
  • Query:
    • Updated support of whereIn(String KEY, Query queryObject).
  • Query:
    • Updated support of whereNotIn(String KEY, Query queryObject).

New Features:

  • Stack
    • Added support for method getContentType().

Update API:

  • ContentType:
    • Updated method fetch().

  • Global Field: A 'Global Field' is a standalone, reusable field (or group of fields) that you can create once and use in multiple content types. It eliminates the need to create the same bunch of fields repeatedly in different content types. For example, an ‘SEO’ Global Field can be used to quickly add the subfields “Meta Title” and “Meta Data” across content types. Read more. 

New Features:

  • CSError
    • added a new class
  • CSNetworking
    • Implemented Contentstack Networking library
  • Management Token is a stack-level read-write token that lets you make authorized Content Management API requests. The token value needs to be passed in the new authorization header parameter. Read more about this token in the Authentication section.
  • The Get executions of a webhook API request will return a maximum of 100 records while fetching the execution details for a specific webhook. Previously, there was no limit on the number of records returned.
  • Management Tokens for your stack: Management Tokens are stack-specific, read-write tokens, used along with the Stack API key to make authorized Content Management API (CMA) requests. While Authtokens are user-specific, Management Tokens are not personal and no role-specific permissions are applicable to them. They are recommended to be used when you do not wish to use Authtokens in CMA requests, for example, for third-party integrations, in automation scripts, or for SSO-enabled organizations. Read more.
  • Set asset folder-level permissions: While setting up or modifying custom roles, you can now assign permissions to asset folders and subfolders as well. This allows flexible and granular access control over the asset folders of your stack. Read more.
  • Improved error messages on content type builder page: The new error messages are now crisper, friendlier, and more accurate than before. This ensures that you can save time diagnosing a problem and focus on fixing it right away. Read more.
  • Introducing “Gatsby Preview” extension: The Gatsby Preview widget extension helps content managers preview content changes instantly on their “Contentstack + Gatsby” websites and web apps. Read more.

New Features:

  • Stack
    • Added support for Region

New Features:

  • Query:
    • Support added for whereIn(String key) and whereNotIn(String key) methods in Query.
  • Config:
    • Support added for setRegion(ContentstackRegion region) in Config class.

New Features:

  • Config

    • added property attribute ‘region’.

  • Query

    • added method ‘ReferenceIn’.

    • added method ‘ReferenceNotIn’.

New Features:

  • Config
    • added property attribute ‘region’
  • Query
    • added method ‘whereKey:in:’
    • added method ‘whereKey:notIn:’

Enhancement

  • Region support added.

New Features:

  • Config
    • Added support for Region in Config.

  • Set preferences for your Dashboard and its widgets: You can now reorder the widgets on your stack Dashboard, and choose to show or hide them. Dashboard account preferences now work everywhere,  irrespective of the device or browser you use to access your stack. Read more.

New Features

  • Query
    • Added support for whereIn(String key) and whereNotIn(String key) methods.
  • CSAppConstants
    • Removed Google internet connection check from CSAppConstants.

  • TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have been deprecated and will not longer be supported. Read more.
  • Please reach out to Contentstack Support or your dedicated Customer Success Manager with questions.
  • Bulk publish localized entry versions: You can now bulk publish the localized versions of an entry from the master language entry. Read more.
  • Non-localizable Field: Specify fields as “non-localizable,” such as a URL or an image field that doesn’t require translation, to ensure that the contents of the fields are not editable in local entries. Read more.

Enhancement

  • Query and Entry

    • The 'includeReferenceContentTypeUID' method includes the content type UIDs of the referenced entries returned in the response.

New Features:

  • Entry:
    • Added support for includeReferenceContentTypeUid support in Entry.
  • Query:
    • Added support for includeReferenceContentTypeUid support in Query.
  • Entry:
    • setLanguage and getLanguage Deprecated in Entry.
  • Query:
    • language deprecated in Query.
  • Entry:
    • Added method for getLocale and setLocale(String locale) in Entry.
  • Query:
    • Added method for locale in Query.

Changes:

  • Query:
    • Removed deprecated method for includeSchema in Query.

New Features and Updates:

  • Entry:
    • Support added for includeReferenceContentTypeUid
  • Query:
    • Support added for includeReferenceContentTypeUid
  • Entry:
    • Deprecated setLanguage and getLanguage
  • Query:
    • Deprecated language
  • Entry:
    • Method added - getLocale and setLocale(String locale)
  • Query:
    • Method added - locale
  • Query:
    • Removed deprecated method - includeSchema

New Features:

  • Query

    • added method ‘includeReferenceContentTypeUid’.

  • Entry

    • added method ‘includeReferenceContentTypeUid’.

New Features:

  • Query
    • added method ‘includeReferenceContentTypeUid’
    • added method ‘locale’
  • Entry
    • added method ‘includeReferenceContentTypeUid’
    • added method ‘includeContentType’
    • added method ‘locale’

API deprecation:

  • Query
    • deprecated method ‘language’
  • Entry
    • deprecated method ‘language’

API removed:

  • Config
    • removed property attribute ‘ssl’
    • removed method ‘includeSchema’
  • Stack
    • removed property attribute ‘ssl’

New Features:

  • Query:
    • Support added for the method includeReferenceContentTypeUID.
  • Entry:
    • Support added for the method includeReferenceContentTypeUID.

The upgraded Reference field now allows you to add references to the entries of multiple content type. For example, the “Sample” Reference field in your “Demo” content type can refers to the “Content Type 1,” "Content Type 2", ... content types. So, while creating an entry for the “Demo” content type, the content manager can add any entry from the above mentioned content types as a reference to the “Sample” field.

This has an impact on some of the existing API Requests. They are as follows:

OLD NEW
Method: POST/PUT Method: POST/PUT
URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types
Request Body

{

"content_type": {

"title": "Old content type",

"uid": "old_content_type",

"schema": [{

"display_name": "Title",

"uid": "title",

"data_type": "text"

"field_metadata": {

"_default": true

},

"unique": true,

"mandatory": true,

"multiple": true,

}, {

"data_type": "reference",

"display_name": "Reference",

"reference_to": "referred_content_type",

"field_metadata": {

"ref_multiple": true

},

"uid": "reference",

"mandatory": false,

"multiple": false,

"unique": false

}],

"options": {

"title": "title",

"publishable": true,

"is_page": false,

"singleton": false,

"sub_title": [],

"url_pattern": false,

"url_prefix": ""

}

}

}

 Request Body

{

"content_type": {

"title": "Content Type With Multiple Content Type Referencing Field",

"uid": "content_type_with_multiple_content_type_referencing_field",

"schema": [{

"display_name": "Title",

"uid": "title",

"data_type": "text",

"field_metadata": {

"_default": true,

},

"unique": true,

"mandatory": true,

"multiple": true

}, {

"data_type": "reference",

"display_name": "Reference",

"reference_to": ["content_type_1", "content_type_2"],

"field_metadata": {

"ref_multiple_content_types": true,

"ref_multiple": true

},

"uid": "reference",

"mandatory": false,

"multiple": false,

"unique": false

}],

"options": {

"title": "title",

"publishable": true,

"is_page": false,

"singleton": false,

"sub_title": [],

"url_pattern": false,

"url_prefix": ""

}

}

}
Response Body

{

"notice": "Content Type updated successfully.",

"content_type": {

"title": "Old content type",

"uid": "Old_content_type",

"schema": [{

"display_name": "Title",

"uid": "title",

"data_type": "text",

"field_metadata": {

"_default": true

},

"unique": true,

"mandatory": true,

"multiple": false

}, {

"data_type": "reference",

"display_name": "Reference",

"reference_to": "referred_content_type",

"field_metadata": {

"ref_multiple": true

},

"uid": "reference",

"unique": false,

"mandatory": false,

"multiple": false

}],

"options": {

"title": "title",

"publishable": true,

"is_page": false,

"singleton": false,

"sub_title": [],

"url_pattern": false,

"url_prefix": ""

}

}

}

 Response Body

{

"notice": "Content Type updated successfully.",

"content_type": {

"title": "Content Type With Multiple Content Type Referencing Field",

"uid": "content_type_with_multiple_content_type_referencing_field",

"schema": [{

"display_name": "Title",

"uid": "title",

"data_type": "text",

"field_metadata": {

"_default": true

},

"unique": true,

"mandatory": true,

"multiple": false

}, {

"data_type": "reference",

"display_name": "Reference",

"reference_to": ["content_type_1", "content_type_2"],

"field_metadata": {

"ref_multiple_content_types": true,

"ref_multiple": true

},

"uid": "reference",

"mandatory": false,

"multiple": false,

"unique": false

}],

"options": {

"title": "title",

"publishable": true,

"is_page": false,

"singleton": false,

"sub_title": [],

"url_pattern": false,

"url_prefix": ""

}

}

}

OLD NEW
Method: POST/PUT Method: POST/PUT
URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries/:entry_uid URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries/:entry_uid
Request Body

{

"entry": {

"title": "Old Entry",

"uid": "old_entry",

"reference_field": ["blt1231232123123"],

"tags": []

}

}

 Request Body

{

"entry": {

"title": "New Entry",

"uid": "new_entry",

"reference_field": [{

"uid": "blt111111111111",

"_content_type_uid": "footer"

}, {

"uid": "blt123123123123",

"_content_type_uid": "author"

}],

"tags":[]

}
Response Body

{

"notice": "Entry updated successfully."

"entry":{

"title": "Old Entry",

"uid": "old_entry",

"reference_field": ["blt123123123123"],

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blt35a04ea07a42f95f",

"created_by": "blte75599b1e529fa3a",

"updated_by": "blte75599b1e529fa3a",

"created_at": "2019-01-09T10:03:25.096Z",

"updated_at": "2019-01-09T10:03:25.096Z",

"ACL": {},

"_version": 2

}

}

 Response Body

{

"notice": "Entry updated successfully."

"entry":{

"title": "New Entry",

"uid": "new_entry",

"reference_field": [{

"uid": "blt111111111111",

"_content_type_uid": "footer"

}, {

"uid": "blt123123123123",

"_content_type_uid": "author"

}],

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blt35a04ea07a42f95f",

"created_by": "blte75599b1e529fa3a",

"updated_by": "blte75599b1e529fa3a",

"created_at": "2019-01-09T10:03:25.096Z",

"updated_at": "2019-01-09T10:03:25.096Z",

"ACL": {},

"_version": 2

}

}
OLD NEW
Method: GET Method: GET
URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries
CDN users: https://cdn.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries CDN Users: https://cdn.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries
Response Body

{

"entries": [{

"title": "Old entry",

"reference_field": ["blt123123123123"],

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blta777c7777777d777",

"created_by": "blt15adac31fdb46cd9",

"updated_by": "blt15adac31fdb46cd9",

"created_at": "2019-04-15T09:36:19.960Z",

"updated_at": "2019-04-15T09:36:19.960Z",

"ACL": {},

"_version": 1,

"publish_details": [],

"_rules": []

}]

}

 Response Body

{

"entries":{

"title": "New Entry",

"reference_field": [{

"uid": "blt111111111111",

"_content_type_uid": "footer"

}, {

"uid": "blt123123123123",

"_content_type_uid": "author"

}],

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blta777c7777777d777",

"created_by": "blte75599b1e529fa3a",

"updated_by": "blte75599b1e529fa3a",

"created_at": "2019-01-09T10:03:25.096Z",

"updated_at": "2019-01-09T10:03:25.096Z",

"ACL": {},

"_version": 2

}

}
OLD NEW
Method: GET Method: GET
URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries?include[]=reference_field URL: https://api.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries?include[]=reference_field
CDN Users: https://cdn.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries?include[]=reference_field CDN Users: https://cdn.contentstack.io/v3/content_types/:content_type_uid/entries?include[]=reference_field
Response Body

{

"entries":[{

"title": "Old Entry",

"reference_field": [{

"title": "Forbes",

"about_us": {

"title": "About US",

"href": "/about-us"

},

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blt1137fe73e677645f",

"ACL": {},

"_version": 1,

}],

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blta785c1339591d092",

"_version": 1

}]

}

 Response Body

{

"entries":[{

"title": "Old Entry",

"reference_field": [{

"title": "Forbes",

"about_us": {

"title": "About US",

"href": "/about-us"

},

"tags": [],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blt1137fe73e677645f",

"_content_type_uid": "footer",

"ACL": {},

"_version": 1,

}],

"locale": "en-us",

"uid": "blta785c1339591d092",

"_version": 1

}]

}

  • Referencing Multiple Content Types: The upgraded Reference field now allows users to add references to more than one content types in a single instance. Read more.

New Features:

  • Query

    • added method ‘SetLocale’.

  • Entry

    • added method ‘SetLocale’.

Update API

  • Query

    • update method ‘Fetch’.

    • update method ‘FindOne’.

  • Entry

    • update method ‘Find’.

Deprecated API

  • Query

    • deprecated method ‘SetLanguage’.

  • Entry

    • deprecated method ‘SetLanguage’.

  • In-progress Entries: Content managers can now save entries that are "in-progress," even if mandatory fields are left blank, and come back to continue adding content and editing later without losing their work. The "mandatory" field validation is checked only when publishing the entry. Contact us to enable this feature for your organization. Read more.

HOTFIX:

  • Override response hot-fix.

  • Set a ‘Fallback Language’ for easy localization: You can now specify the language to use as source content if the entry does not exist in the specified primary language. Read more.
  • Support for generic languages: Create content in generic languages, i.e., languages that are not tied to any region or country (e.g., English, Spanish, French). Read more.

Bug

  • Made changes in the helper file for fetching proper data on language query

Changes:

  • Code Improvement:
    • Removed println.
  • Code Improvement:
    • Added support for Logger.

Bug Fix:

  • Bug fixed for include reference.
  • Added testcase report for v1.3.1.

  • Analytics dashboard: Introducing the all-new Analytics dashboard for organizations. Get one-click access to the overall usage and API analytics of your organization, and make better, more informed business decisions.

New Features:

  • Support added for the below methods in SDK:
    • getContentTypes() in the Stack class
    • fetch in the ContentType class.
  • Support for the following Config classes has been removed permanently:
    • public void setSSL(boolean isSSL)setSSL()
    • public boolean isSSL()

New Features:

  • ContentstackClient

    • added method ‘GetContentTypes’.

    • added method ‘SyncRecursive’.

    • added method ‘SyncPaginationToken’.

    • added method ‘SyncToken’.

  • CotentType

    • added method ‘Fetch’.

API deprecation:

  • Config
    • removed property attribute ‘ssl’
  • Stack
    • removed property attribute ‘ssl’

New Features:

  • Stack
    • added method ‘getContentTypes:’
  • ContentType
    • added method ‘fetch:’

New Features:

  • Added support of below methods in SDK:
    • getContentTypes() in Stack class
    • fetch in ContentType class
  • Below two support from the Config class has been removed permanently:
    • public void setSSL(boolean isSSL)setSSL()
    • public boolean isSSL()

New Features:

  • Stack:
    • Support added for the method getContentTypes.
  • ContentType:
    • Support added for the method fetch.
  • Version Naming: You can now assign names to versions of entries and assets to quickly identify the status of the entry or asset. For example, you can specify an entry as important ('Production Ready') or less urgent ('First Draft').

Changes:

  • Support removed for unsafe (HTTP) requests.
  • Following breaking changes from Config class have been deprecated for:
    • public void setSSL(boolean isSSL)setSSL()
    • public boolean isSSL()

  • Dashboard for stacks: Dashboard—the new homepage for your stack—is a collection of widgets that provide a quick overview of your stack’s recent entries and assets.
  • Dashboard Widget: This release introduces our third type of Experience Extension, the Dashboard Widget, that allows you to add useful widgets to the dashboard of your stack. 
  • Instance-level config for custom fields: You can now add a separate configuration for each instance of a custom field in a content type. 
  • New functions in SDK: We have added support for new functions in the Extensions SDK.
  • DataSync: The latest addition to our data synchronization offering, DataSync, lets you sync your Contentstack data (assets and entries) with your database (FileSystem, MongoDB, etc.) over 8x faster.


Hotfix:

  • Resolved locale storage issue.
  • IdP Role Mapping in SSO: Now you can map your SAML Identity Provider (IdP) roles to Contentstack roles for your SSO-enabled organizations, and manage users and roles from your IdP. Read more.

When a webhook is triggered for an entry or asset because it was published/unpublished via a release, the webhook data of such an event contains a source key. This key contains the JSON data of the release (type, title, and uid) through which it was deployed.

This is useful in cases where a lot depends on the webhook data. For example, in the case of static site generators, a build is generated every time an item (entry or asset) is published or unpublished. So, if a release is deployed with 200 items, it will generate a build 200 times, instead of just one time for the release. To avoid such cases, the developer can write custom code that ignores events whose response contains the source key. So, only one build will be generated for the whole release.

Here's what's added to the webhook data:

{
    "event": "publish",
    "source": {
        "title": "March'19 Release",
        "uid": "blt1111111d11cd111a",
        "type": "release"
    },
    "data": {
        ...
    },
    "api_key": "blt2222d2ad222beedc",
    "module": "entry",
    "triggered_at": "2019-03-07T04:55:11.352Z"
}

Our webhooks just got stronger. Here’s what’s new in our webhooks:

  • New support for ‘Release Deployment’ events in webhooks: You can now set up webhook events related to the deployment of releases on any or specific environments. Read more.
  • We’ve added the ability for you to import and export webhooks: Import and export webhooks at the click of a button.

Customizations for Rich Text Editor (RTE): Developers can now customize the formatting options in the toolbar of the Rich Text Editor (RTE) field.  This will allow you to deliver an experience that is more tailored to your content managers’ needs.

  • GraphQL Content Delivery API: GraphQL is a popular query language that enables one-trip relational queries. It lets you fetch exactly the data you want via Contentstack’s API as an alternative to making multiple round-trip queries with RESTful calls.
  • Field Visibility Rules: Dynamically show or hide fields on the entry page, based on the value entered in other fields. Read more.
  • New Content Type Builder: Content Type Builder has a new look that makes the process of building content types quicker and more enjoyable. Read more.
  • Advanced Search: Contentstack now offers advanced search capabilities that let you perform field-level searches and combine multiple search queries to find your proverbial needles in a (content) haystack.
  • Bulk Operations: Perform bulk operations (such as publish, unpublish, delete) on multiple entries and assets at once.

We’ve added some powerful and exciting capabilities to our workflows, giving you more flexibility and control over your content creation process. Here’s a rundown of what’s new:

  • Multiple workflows in a stack: Create different workflows for different content types within your stack.
  • Stage transition rules: Define next stage options for each stage, and manage who can move from one step to another.
  • Superusers with unrestricted access: Superusers can change the entry stage without any restrictions. The purview of stage transition rules does not limit them.
  • Birds-eye view of all tasks: Stack owners and administrators have visibility into all workflow tasks assigned to all users.
  • Conditional publishing: Add conditions to publishing/unpublishing actions. For example, allow publishing "only if" the entry reaches a particular workflow stage.

Read more about Workflows.

New Features:

  • Stack
    • added method ‘sync:’
    • added method ‘syncToken:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncPaginationToken:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncFrom:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncOnly:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncOnly:from:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncLocale:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncLocale:from:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncPublishType:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncOnly:locale:from:completion:’
    • added method ‘syncOnly:locale:from:publishType:completion:’
  • SyncStack
    • added New Class
  • Sync API: We have introduced the Sync API that takes care of syncing your Contentstack data with your apps and ensures that data is always up-to-date and updates are performed with maximum efficiency by fetching only incremental changes. Read more.
  • Upgraded RTE: We upgraded the Rich Text Editor field to provide users with new and improved editing features. For any new stacks you create, you will automatically be using the upgraded Rich Text Editor. All of your existing stacks will continue to use the same Rich Text Editor as before until you are ready to upgrade, which you can do (and undo) at any time by editing the appropriate content types. Learn how to upgrade to the new RTE.

    Here’s what’s new in the new Rich Text Editor field:
    • New ‘Undo’ and ‘Redo’ shortcut keys
    • Support for ‘Heading level 6’ under the Format option
    • Option to apply custom ID and class without switching to the HTML mode
    • New ‘List’ button that contains ‘Unordered List,’ ‘Ordered List,’ ‘Outdent,’ and ‘Indent’ options
    • Options to add title, caption, and hyperlink to images; set position of the image
    • Keyboard shortcut ‘ALT + ENTER’ to unselect image or video
    • Removed options to change font properties (size, family, color, background color)
    • Removed keys ‘Horizontal Rule’, ‘Superscript’ and ‘Subscript’

    List of bugs fixed:
    • Improper rendering of code snippets when switched to HTML view
    • Text formatting doesn’t work as expected on Google Chrome browser
    • Link is wrapped automatically when a URL is inserted in a code block
    • Improper alignment of the ‘Choose File’ option in Internet Explorer 11
    • The field doesn’t work as expected if an invalid script tag is used
    • Internet Explorer 11 crashes if more than 300KB of data is inserted
    • Small images disappear is added in a table
    • Heading-1 tag doesn’t render properly on Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox when published
    • Random HTML tags added when switched to HTML mode

New Features:

The following function supports are added for sync in Stack class:

  • sync
  • syncPaginationToken
  • syncToken
  • syncFromDate
  • syncContentType
  • syncLocale
  • syncPublishType
  • sync(contentType, fromDate, locale, publishType, syncCallBack)
  • New class - SyncStack.
  • Account Lockout Policy: To secure your account from potential hacking threats, we have introduced account lockout policy that locks your account after several unsuccessful login attempts. Learn more.
  • Delivery tokens: Create a separate delivery token for each environment. These delivery tokens ensure only specified people have access to the content of the required environment.
  • Fine-grained permissions for roles: Custom roles are now more customizable. You can assign entry-level, field-level as well as asset-level permissions to roles for greater control.
  • Custom widgets: Build powerful custom functionality and incorporate it directly into your CMS editing environment. Custom Widgets can integrate with any third-party app and data source to, for example, perform sentiment analysis on a text entry, provide SEO recommendations, and deliver realtime translation capabilities. The possibilities are endless. 

Bug

  • Replaced the createError method with New method contentstackcreateError.

  • Localization support for Query and Entry is added

  • Custom Fields: Custom Fields are part of Contentstack’s new ‘Experience Extensions’ integrations framework that allows developers to create a unique, custom-built field. For example, you might create a Custom Field to add a ‘color picker,’ ‘video selector,’ or a ‘star rating’ review widget.
  • Global search (beta): The new search bar in the header lets you search content, entries, and assets, across your entire stack.
  • ‘Title’ field becomes more flexible: You can now set minimum and maximum character limits for the ‘Title’ field and also rename it according to your preferences.
  • New languages added: We have added support for two additional languages – ‘English - China’ and ‘English - Korea’.
  • No default master language: When creating a new stack, no master language is selected by default (previously, the default was set to ‘English - US’).
  • Spaces allowed in tags: We have added support for spaces in tags (e.g., Business News) to allow multi-word tags for entries. You can use a comma to separate multiple tags.
  • Upload assets in bulk: You can now bulk upload multiple assets to the platform.
  • View active collaborators: ‘Entry presence’ allows you and your team to see a list of all collaborators currently working on an entry.
  • Organize all your assets into even more folders: We have raised the maximum limit for asset folders to 500 from 300.
  • Added string ‘BUILT_NULLABLE_P’ in Entry.h
    • Old Code - (void)fetch:(void(^)(ResponseType type, NSError *error))callback;
    • Updated Code - (void)fetch:(void(^)(ResponseType type, NSError * BUILT_NULLABLE_P error))callback;
  • Introduced Contentstack SDK for .NET.

  • Introducing .NET SDK: Power the content and ensure lightning-fast content delivery of your .NET applications using our new .NET SDK.
  • Content type versioning: Contentstack now maintains a history of all versions of your content types. You can retrieve any previous version through the API.
  • Reference field 2.0: Reference field gets a makeover. You can now edit referenced entries/assets quickly, create new references on-the-go, and do a lot more.
  • Compare languages of an entry: Now perform a side-by-side comparison of versions across all languages of an entry. 
  • View entry localization status: We have added a new ‘Localization Status’ section within the ‘Entry Information’ tab in the entry. It gives you localization details of all languages of the entry.
  • Reference info of an entry: Get a list of all the entries within which the current entry is referenced.

Enhancements:

  • Query - Added function for passing locale
  • Workflow: A powerful feature that streamlines content creation and optimizes content review and approval processes for your team.
  • Releases: By assigning entries/assets to a ‘Release’, content can be published/unpublished in bulk and perfectly timed with a critical event, such as an announcement or product release.
  • Introducing ‘Modular Blocks’ Field: A powerful tool that gives content managers the flexibility to dynamically create components of a page or app without requiring developer’s assistance. 

Update API:

  • New addParam() method added
  • Added support for NativeScript

Enhancement

  • Entry 

    • 'addparam' method added.

  • Query  

    • 'addparam' method added.

  • Asset 

    • 'addparam' method added.

New Features:

  • Entry
    • added method ‘addParamKey:andValue:’
  • Query
    • added method ‘addParamKey:andValue:’
  • Asset
    • added method ‘addParamKey:andValue:’

New Features:

  • Entry
    • Method added - ‘addParam’
  • Query
    • Method added - ‘addParam’
  • Asset
    • Method added - ‘addParam’

New Features:

  • Entry
    • Added method ‘addParam’.
  • Query
    • Added method ‘addParam’.
  • Asset
    • Added method ‘addParam’.

  • Introducing Single Sign-On: Contentstack introduces Single Sign-On (SSO) for organizations, so you can authenticate users securely with your corporate identity provider.
  • Introducing ‘Select’ Field: A multiple choice field that allows users to choose one or more options from a given set of values (choices). This allows your content editors to pick options quickly without creating a reference content type.
  • Image dimension validation: Set width and height dimension limits to images that can be uploaded in the ‘File’ field.

New Features:

  • Stack

    • added method ‘imageTransformWithUrl:andParams:’

  • Query

    • added method ‘includeContentType:’

  • QueryResult

    • added property ‘content_type’.

API deprecation:

  • Query

    • Deprecated property ‘includeSchema’.

New Features:

  • Stack
    • Method added - ‘ImageTransform’
  • Query
    • Method added - ‘includeContentType’
  • QueryResult
    • Method added - ‘content_type’

API Modifications:

  • None

API Deprecation:

  • Query
    • Deprecated method ‘includeSchema’

Bug Fixes:

  • None

New Features:

  • Stack:
    • Added method ‘ImageTransform’.
  • Query:
    • Added method ‘includeContentType’.
  • QueryResult:
    • Added method ‘contentType’.

API deprecation:

  • Query:
    • Deprecated method ‘includeSchema’.

Enhancement

  • Image Optimisation support added.

Deprecated

  • Deprecated includeSchema and added includeContent.

New API:

  • Stack: Imagetransform API added
  • Added support for NativeScript

Deprecate API

  • Query
    • findOne
    • includeSchema

Feature:

  • [Asset]:
    • Added support for find() method
    • Added support for fetch() method

Initial Release

New API:

  • Asset: Image delivery support
    • find
    • fetch
  • The URL of assets for stacks created after this release will include the file name, and the URL pattern will be /v3/assets/:api_key/:asset_uid/:token/:filename. To enforce the changes on images of existing RTE or Markdown fields, you need to re-upload the images and then re-publish the entry for the changes to reflect. For more information, contact us.
  • It will now be possible to get entries by URL even if the entries use default URL pattern. This change will be applicable only to the stacks created after this release.
  • Entries that have empty URL after the upgrade, the user will have to re-save the entry to get them autopolulated in the URL field.
  • Organization: Manage your users and stacks from one administrative panel. 
  • Image Delivery API: Manipulate and optimize images with a new set of APIs for best delivery in your sites and apps.
  • Limit Multiple field instances: Set a maximum limit to the number of instances that can be created for the fields marked as ‘Multiple’.
  • We’re excited to announce four brand new SDKs: PHP, Ruby, Java, and React Native. 
  • The URL of assets for stacks created after this release will include the file name, and the URL pattern will be /v3/assets/:api_key/:asset_uid/:token/:filename.
  • It is now possible to get entries by URL even if the entries use default URL pattern. This change is applicable only to the stacks created after this release.

Initial Release

Initial Release

Built.io Contentstack is upgrading its TLS version and is deprecating TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Support for the older versions will end on March 30, 2018.

What You Need To Know

After March 30, 2018, our CDN/API services will use the upgraded TLS version and will no longer support TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1 over HTTPS on the api/cdn/images/assets.contentstack.io domain. We will only accept requests made by browsers or API clients that have TLS 1.2 or higher.

Why Are We Making This Change?

The TLS 1.2 protocol was defined in RFC 5246 in August 2008. It is an improvement over TLS 1.1 standard and is more secure. Among other items, it provides protection against cipher block chaining (CBC) attacks. One of the major reasons for this revision from TLS 1.1 to TLS 1.2 is to remove the protocol’s dependency on the MD5 and SHA-1 digest algorithms. TLS 1.2 supports the expansion of support for authenticated encryption ciphers with AES-GCM cipher suites that are not prone to these attacks.

What Do I Need To Do?

Most browsers have supported TLS 1.2 for at least the last few years. So, end users are unlikely to be affected by this change. The impact is likely only going to be felt by API users with very old libraries. A comprehensive list of support is available here: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/clients.html

API Library Support

If you have code that connects with the Built.io Contentstack API, it is important to ensure that it will continue to work after March 30, 2018. While each language and library is different, we have identified some of the popular ones as a starting reference.

Here’s the list of languages that will need significant changes/upgrades in order to continue operating uninterrupted:

  • Java 6u45 / 7u45
  • .NET before 4.5 (does not support TLS 1.2)
  • .NET 4.5 (must be have setting changed to explicitly enable TLS 1.2)
  • OpenSSL 0.9.8

Most dynamic languages such as Ruby, PHP, and Python rely on the underlying operating system’s OpenSSL version. You can check it by running openssl version. 1.0.1 is the minimum requirement.

Browser Support

Most browsers support TLS 1.2, and have been supporting it for several years. The following are the browser versions (including lower versions) that DO NOT support TLS 1.2:

  • Google Chrome 29
  • Firefox 26
  • Internet Explorer 10
  • Safari 8
  • iOS 4
  • Android 4

Please let us know if you have any questions. You can reach us using the chat function in your Built.io Contentstack account or by email at [email protected].

  • Introducing asset versioning: Any new update to an existing asset will be saved as a new version of the asset, enabling you to rollback to or retrieve data from the earlier versions.
  • Give an identity to assets: We have added the ‘Title’ and ‘Description’ fields for assets so you can store your file in a organized manner and retrieve them with ease.
  • A product update page has been added in the Built.io Contentstack UI that will provide updates on all the newly introduced features and changes.
  • Updates in Assets Management:
    • Asset will now be displayed in List View (latest on top), instead of Grid View.
    • You can now search assets on a global scale irrespective of the folder you currently working on.

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed the bug in Cache Policy
  • Increased the timeout for Cache Policy

New Features:

  • None

API Modifications:

  • None

API Deprecations:

  • Asset
    • Removed method - getPublishDetails()
  • Entry
    • Removed method - getPublishDetails()

Bug Fixes:

  • None

API deprecation:

  • Entry

    • removed property ‘publishDetails’

  • Asset

    • removed property ‘publishDetails:’

The 'publish_details' key that was available in the response of 'Get Entry', 'Get Entries', 'Get Asset' and 'Get Assets' API requests will be no longer returned by default. To include it in the response, use the 'include_publish_details' parameter.

Affected endpoints

Get Entries: 

/v3/content_types/{content_type_id}/entries

Get Entry: 

/v3/content_types/{content_type_id}/entries/{entry_id}

Get Assets: 

/v3/assets/

Get Asset: 

/v3/assets/{asset_id}

Webhook: All entry relevant webhook channel response

  • The 'publish_details' response key now contains the details of only the environment(s) specified in the 'environment' parameter, and not of all the environments.
  • The format of the 'publish_details' response key has been changed from array to JSON object.

Affected endpoints

Get Entries: 

/v3/content_types/{content_type_id}/entries?environment={environment}

Get Entry: 

/v3/content_types/{content_type_id}/entries/{entry_id}?environment={environment}

Get Assets: 

/v3/assets/?environment={environment}

Get Asset: 

/v3/assets/{asset_id}?environment={environment}

Webhook: All asset relevant webhook channel response

Example Response

{
"uid": "blte3458e663de6bef5",
...
...
"publish_details": {
          "environment": "blt381ebc884693ff29",
          "locale": "en-us",
          "version": 37,
          "user": "blt2a4852543181169c2e36d422",
          "time": "2017-05-17T19:16:26.983Z"
        },
...
}

When an image URL is opened in a browser, it now renders the image in the browser, instead of downloading it (which was the case earlier).

All endpoints will return a maximum of 100 records (changed from 1000 earlier). The next batch of records can be retrieved by making the same request and changing the 'skip' parameter to 100 from 0.

Publish references in a click: When you publish an entry that has references to other unpublished (or draft) entries or assets (like images, a blog post author, or category), you will get an alert. This alert works as a reminder as well as tool to publish all the references in a single click.

We have made some changes to our APIs. However, these changes are applicable only for stacks that have been created after June 24, 2017.

  • The ‘publish_details’ key in the response of the GET requests of draft entries and assets has been made optional. To include it in the response, use the ‘include_publish_details’ parameter.
  • The ‘publish_details’ key in the response of GET requests of entries and assets of specific environment(s) now contains the details of only the environment(s) specified in the ‘environment’ parameter.
  • The image URL, when opened in the browser will render the image, instead of downloading it.
  • A single API request will return a maximum of 100 records (reduced from 1000 earlier). The next batch of records can be retrieved by using the ‘skip’ parameter.

This release also includes some minor changes to the user interface.

  • On the entry page, clicking or hovering over a field will highlight the field.
  • The ‘Not Published’ filter option has been removed from the entries and assets list page.
  • The checkboxes for filter options on the entries and assets list page have been changed to radio buttons. Consequently, only one filter option can be selected at a time.
  • The ‘Mark as group title’ property has been added to the ‘Date’ and ‘Link’ fields.
  • Create and manage folders in Assets: Users will now be able to create folders for Assets. The folders can be renamed, deleted, and moved with ease. Also, you can create nested folders, i.e., folders within folders, too.
    Note: This feature is available for V3 stacks only.

New Features:

  • None

API Modifications:

  • None

API Deprecation:

  • None

Bug Fixes:

  • Support added for TLSv1.2 for older android versions.

New features

  • New validation properties for 'File' and 'Date' fields: New validation properties have been introduced for two of the existing fields: 'File' and 'Date'.

    In the 'File' field, we have introduced File Type, that will let you specify the types of files that can be uploaded, and File Size, that will let you set validations on the size of an uploaded file. In the 'Date' field, we have introduced the 'Date Range' property that will allow you to set the range of dates that a user can select in a 'Date' field.
  • Field validation error message: You can now define and display custom validation error messages for single-line and multiline text fields if the regex validation that you have set fails.

Update API:

  • Multiple stacks can be configured rather than a singleton Stack Object.

Bug fix:

  • Fixed the issue with the support for import attribute on the client side.
  • Introducing two-factor authentication (2FA): We have introduced two-factor authentication in Built.io Contentstack. After logging into the account using their credentials, users will be prompted to verify the security code that they get on Authy app. It is an opt-in security feature, so users can enable/disable it at will.

New Features:

  • Group

    • Added New Class.

  • Entry

    • added method ‘groupForKey:’

    • added method ‘groupsForKey:’

    • added method ‘entriesForKey:withContentType:’

  • AssetLibrary

    • added method ‘sortWithKey:orderBy:’

    • added method ‘objectsCount’

    • added method ‘includeCount’

    • added method ‘includeRelativeUrls’

    • added method ‘setHeader:forKey:’

    • added method ‘addHeadersWithDictionary:’

    • added method ‘removeHeaderForKey:’

  • Asset

    • added method ‘setHeader:forKey:’

    • added method ‘addHeadersWithDictionary:’

    • added method ‘removeHeaderForKey:’

Modifications:

  • Asset

    • Class name modified from ‘Assets’ to ‘Asset’.

    • renamed property ’assetType’ to ‘fileType’.

New Features:

  • New class added - Group.
  • Entry:
    • Method added - getAllEntries(String refKey, String refContentType)
    • Method added - getGroups(String key)
    • Method added - getGroup(String key)
  • Asset:
    • Method added - setCachePolicy(CachePolicy policy)
    • Method added - getTags()

AssetLibrary:

  • Method added - setCachePolicy(CachePolicy policy)

API Modifications:

  • Asset:
    • Renamed method getContentType() to getFileType()
    • Renamed method getUploadUrl() to getUrl()

API Deprecation:

  • None

Bug Fixes:

  • None

The ‘master_locale’ key has been introduced.

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

  "stack": {

    "name": "My New Stack",

    "description": "My new test stack",

    "master_locale": "en-us"

  }

}

{

  "stack": {

    "name": "My New Stack",

    "description": "My new test stack"

  }

}

The request/response format has been changed. The default value of 'unique' field under 'schema' has been changed. The position of ‘description’ and ‘singleton’ keys have been changed.

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

  "content_types": [

    {

     “title”:”Page”,

     ‘uid”:”page”

      ...

      "schema": [

        {

          "display_name": "Title",

          "uid": "title",

          "data_type": "text",

          "field_metadata": {

            "_default": true

          },

          "unique": false,

          "mandatory": true,

          "multiple": false

        }],

     "options": {      

         ...

         "singleton": false

      },

    "description": "Content_type Description"

  }

}

{

  "content_types": [

    {

     “title”:”Page”,

     ‘uid”:”page”

      ...

       "schema": [

        {

          "display_name": "Title",

          "uid": "title",

          "data_type": "text",

          "field_metadata": {

            "_default": true

          },

          "unique": "global",

          "mandatory": true,

          "multiple": false

        }],

      "options": {

        ...

        "description": "Content_type Description"

      },

      "singleton": false

    }

}

The ‘_metdata’ key has been removed from the ‘entry’ response body, and all they keys ('locale', 'uid', and 'publish_details') that were under ‘_metadata’ are now available directly under the ‘entry’ key.

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

 ...

  "entry": {

   “title”:”example”,

   “url”:”/example”,

    "locale": "en-us",

    "uid": "abcdefhgi123",

    "publish_details": []

  }

}

{

  ...

  "entry": {

   “title”:”example”,

   “url”:”/example”

    "_metadata": {

      "locale": "en-us",

      "uid": "abcdefghi12345",

      "publish_details": []

   },

}

The environment name is now mentioned instead of its UID. ‘locale’ and ‘version’ keys have been made independant. Finally, the ‘content_type’ key has been eliminated.

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

  "entry": {

    "locales": [

      "en-us"

    ],

    "environments": [

      "development"

    ]

  },

  "locale": "en-us",

  "version": 1

}

{

  "entry": {

    "content_type": {

      “title”:”Page”,

     “uid’:”page”

    },

    "entry": {

      "locale": "en-us",

      "version": "1"

    },

    "locale": [

      "en-us"

    ],

    "environment": [

      "qwertyuiop123456"

    ]

  }

}

The ‘_metadata’ object has been removed from the asset body, and the response data, ‘publish_details’, is now wrapped in the ‘asset’ object instead of the ‘upload’ object. The format of the 'url' key has been changed.

Version 3 (New)
Version 2

{

    "asset": {

      ...

      “uid”:”blt7b6c042533cdb1eb”,

      “filename”:”filename.jpg”,

      "url":"https://images.contentstack.io/v3/assets/
    {{api_key}}/{{asset_uid}}/{{unique_id}}/download",

      "publish_details": []

    }

}

{

    "upload": {

    ...

    “uid”:”blt7b6c042533cdb1eb”,

    “filename”:”filename.jpg”,

    "url":"https://api.contentstack.io/v2/uploads/
        {{unique_id}}/download?uid={{asset_uid}}",

      "_metadata": {

...

        "publish_details": []

     },

}

The asset details are now wrapped in the ‘asset’ object instead of the ‘entry’ object. The ‘entry’ and ‘action’ keys have been eliminated.

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

  "asset": {

    "locales": [

      "en-us"

    ],

    "environments": [

      "development"

    ]

  }

}

{

  "entry": {

    "locale": [

      "en-us"

    ],

    "environment": [

      "1234567890abcdef"

    ],

    "entry": {

      “title”:”filename.jpg”,

       “entry_uid”:”blt7b6c042533cdb1eb”

    },

    "action": "action"

  }

}

The request/response format of the locale object has been changed from ‘locale_uid’ to ‘code’.

Version 3 (New)
Version 2

{

  "locale": {

    "code": "zh-cn"

  }

}

{

  "locale": {

    "locale_uid": "zh-cn"

  }

}

The ‘_metadata’ object removed from the environment response body and the ‘status’ key has been brought to the top level.

Version 3 (New)
Version 2

{

   "environment": {

      “uid”:”blt7b6c042533cdb1eb”,

     “name”:”development”, 

    "status": “1”

  },

}

{

 "environment": {

    “uid”:”blt7b6c042533cdb1eb”,

     “name”:”development”,

    "_metadata": {

      "status": “1”

     },

}

The ‘form’ object has been replaced with ‘content_type’ and the ‘entry_uid’ key under the ‘entry’ object has been replaced with ‘uid’. The ‘_metadata’ object has been eliminated and all the keys (i.e., publish_details, user, roles, and cancelled_by) within it has become independent objects. The ‘status’ key has been included under the ‘publish_details’ object.

Version 3 (New)
Version 2

{

  "queue": [

    {

      ...

      "content_type": {

        "title": "Title",

        "uid": "uid"

      },

     ...

      "publish_details": {

        "status": 2,

        "user": "sys_bltd0f5afe8abcd",

        "roles": []

      },

      ...

    }

  ]

}

{

  "queue": [

    {

      “uid”:”abcd123”

      "form": {

        “title”:”form title”,

        “form_uid”:”uid”

      },

     ...

      "entry": {

        “locale”:”en-us”,

       “title”:”title of entry”

        "entry_uid": "abcdefhgi1234567890"

      },

    ...

      "_metadata": {

        "publish_details": [

          {

            "name": "server-name",

            "status": "-1",

            "message": ""

          }

        ],

        "user": "abcd1234567890",

        "roles": []

      },

      ...

    }

  ]

}

The ‘_metadata’ object has been renamed to ‘metadata’ from audit log body.

Version 3 (New)
Version 2

{

  "logs": [{

    ...

    “event_type”:”create”,

    “module”:”entry”,

    "metadata": {

      "title": "Test",

      "locale": {

        "title": "English - United States"  ,

        "code": "en-us",

      }

      "content_type": {

        "title": "Page",

        "uid": "page",

      }

    }

  }]

}

{

  "logs": [{

    ...

    “event_type”:”create”,

    “module”:”entry”,

    "_metadata": {

      "title": "Test",

      "locale": {

        "title": "English - United States",

        "uid": "en-us",

      }

      "content_type": {

        "title": "Page",

        "uid": "page", 

      }

    }

  }]

}

The ‘rights’ object has been renamed to ‘permission’ and the ‘locales’ object has been added.

Version 3 (New)
Version 2

{

  “role”:{

    “uid”:”abcd1323”

    ...

    "permissions": {

      "content_types": [{

        "uid": "content_type_uid",

        “name”:”content_type_name”,

        "SYS_ACL": {

          "sub_acl": {}

        }

      }],

      "environments": [

        {   

          "uid": "environment_uid",

          "SYS_ACL": {

            "sub_acl": {}

          }

        }

      ],

      "locales": [

        {

           "uid": "locale_uid",

            "SYS_ACL": {

            "sub_acl": {}

          } ...

        } ]

      }

    }

  }

}

{

  “role”:{

    “uid”:”abcd1323”

    ...

    "rights": {

      "content_types": [{

        "uid": "content_type_uid",

        “name”:”content_type_name”,

        "SYS_ACL": {

          "sub_acl": {}

        }

      }],

      "environments": [

      {   

        "uid": "environment_uid",

        "SYS_ACL": {

          "sub_acl": {}

      }

    }]

    }

  }

}

Three new calls, ‘execution’, ‘logs’, and ‘retry’, have been incorporated in the new release.

Webhook Request

The ‘webhook’ request object has been modified to include ‘basic_auth’ and ‘custom_header’ subkeys. The ‘url’ key has been renamed to ‘target_url’ and is now included under the ‘destinations’ key. Finally, we have added the ‘retry_policy’ key which will enable the user to manually trigger a webhook.

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

  "webhook": {

    "name": "Test",

    "destinations": [

    {

      "target_url": "http://example.com",

      "http_basic_auth": "basic",

      "http_basic_password": "test",

      "custom_header": [

      {

        "header_name": "Custom-Header",

        "value": "testing"

      }]

    }],

    "channels": [

      "content_types.entries.create"

    ],

    "retry_policy": "manual"

  }

}

{

  "webhook": {

    "name": "Test",

    "url": "http://example.com",

    "channels": [

      "content_types.entries.create"

    ]

  }

}

Webhook Trigger Response

The trigger response body has been modified. The changes are illustrated in the following examples:

Publishing Entries:

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

    "event": "publish",

    "data": {

        "content_type": {

            "options": {

            ...

                "singleton": false

            },

             "schema": [{

                "multiple": false,

                "mandatory": true,

                "unique": false,

                "field_metadata": {

                    "_default": true

                },

                "data_type": "text",

                "uid": "title",

                "display_name": "Title"

            }],

             "description": "Description"

            "uid": "content_type_uid",

            "title": "content_type_title"

        },

        "entry": {

            "publish_details": [{

            ...

                "locale": "en-us",

                "environment": "aabcdf9733d7045cde5"

            }],

            "title": "example",

            "url": "/example"

        },

        "environment": {

            "uid": "babcd9ff9733d7045cde5",

            "name": "environment_name"

        }

    },

    "api_key": "abcdc820784d36d152f",

    "module": "entry"

}


{

    "event": "publish.success",

    "data": {

        "form": {

            "singleton": false,

            "options": {

            ...

                "description": "Description"

            },

            "schema": [{

                "multiple": false,

                "mandatory": true,

                "unique": "global",

                "field_metadata": {

                    "_default": true

                },

                "data_type": "text",

                "uid": "title",

                "display_name": "Title"

            }],

            "uid": "content_type_uid",

            "title": "content_type_title"

        },

        "entry": {

            "_metadata": {

                "publish_details": [{

            ...

                    "locale": "en-us",

                    "environment": "aabcdf9733d7045cde5"

                }]

            },

            "title": "example",

            "url": "/example"

        },

        "environment": {

            "uid": "babcd9ff9733d7045cde5",

            "name": "environment_name"

        }

    },

    "api_key": "abcdc820784d36d152f",

    "module": "entry"

}

Publishing Assets:

Version 3 (New)Version 2

{

    "event": "publish",

    "data": {

        "asset": {

    ...

            "publish_details": [{

    ...

                "locale": "en-us",

                "environment": "bdffff9733d7045cde5"

            }],

            "filename": "test.png"

        },

        "environment": {

            "uid": "bldgs733d7045cde5",

            "name": "environment_name"

        }

    },

    "api_key": "abcd820784d36d152f",

    "module": "asset"

}

{

    "event": "publish.success",

    "data": {

        "upload": {

    ...

            "_metadata": {

                "publish_details": [{

    ...

                    "locale": "en-us",

                    "environment": "bdffff9733d7045cde5"

                }]

            },

            "filename": "test.png"

        },

        "environment": {

            "uid": "bldgs733d7045cde5",

            "name": "environment_name"

        }

    },

    "api_key": "abcd820784d36d152f",

    "module": "asset"

}

New Features:

  • New class added - Config.
  • New class added - Asset.
  • New class added - AssetLibrary.
  • Contentstack:
    • Method added - stack(Context context, String stackApiKey, String accessToken, String environment, Config config)
  • Stack:
    • Method added - asset()
    • Method added - assetLibrary()
  • Entry:
    • Method added - getPublishDetails()

API Modifications:

  • None

API Deprecations:

  • Contentstack:
    • Removed method - stack(Context context, String stackApiKey, String accessToken, String environment, boolean isEnvironmentUid)
  • Stack:
    • Removed method - setVersion(String version)
    • Removed method - setURL(String hostName, boolean isSSL)
    • Removed method - setEnvironment(String environment, boolean isEnvironmentUid)
    • Removed method - isEnvironmentUid()
    • Removed method - getEnvironment()
    • Removed method - getVersion()
    • Removed method - getURL()
  • Entry:
    • Removed method - getMetadata()
  • Query:
    • Removed method - afterUid()
    • Removed method - beforeUid()

Bug Fixes:

  • None

New Features:

  • Config

    • Added New Class

  • Assets

    • Added New Class

  • AssetLibrary

    • Added New Class

  • Contentstack

    • added method ‘stackWithAPIKey:accessToken:environmentName:config:’

  • Entry

    • added property ‘publishDetails’

  • Stack

    • added readonly property ‘config’

    • added method ‘asset’

    • added method ‘assetWithUID:’

    • added method ‘assetLibrary’

    • added method ‘fetchLastActivity:’

API deprecation:

  • Contentstack

    • removed method ‘stackWithAPIKey:accessToken:environmentUID:’

  • Entry

    • removed property ‘metadata’

  • Stack

    • removed property ‘isEnvironmentUID’

    • removed method ‘setEnvironment:isEnvironmentUID:’

  • Query

    • removed method ‘afterUID:’

    • removed method ‘beforeUID:’

New Features:

  • None

API Modifications:

  • None

API Deprecation:

  • None

Bug Fixes:

  • Fixed API calls issue for Android 7.0 Nougat.

Bug Fixes:

  • Entry

    • Fixed fetch method which now return response as per environment.

  • Query

    • Fixed search method issue causing improper result.

New Features:

  • None

API Modifications:

  • None

API Deprecation:

  • None

Bug Fixes:

  • Query:
    • Fixed search method issue causing improper results.
  • Entry:
    • Fixed includeReference method issue causing improper results.
    • Fixed fetch method - now it returns responses as per the environment.

Changes:

  • Introduce ContentStack SDK for iOS.

Initial release:

  • Introduced Content Delivery API SDK for Android.
  • Points to Contentstack.