dotDEV: March Edition
A message from our Technical Writer, Jamie Mauro:
The month of March shares a name with a frontier! And yet, to remark that we live every day at such an interstice is trite; novelty in the abstract is old hat, stripped of sheen by the long years of breathless boosterism. Nor can we retreat to some favorite year and take up permanent residence. What does that leave? Why, the steady footfalls through the present moment, the moment of decision. The march beckons.
Our journey has led us to new features, such as our Content Style Editor, which offers hooks to define styles by content type. Create sets of visual options, and your authors and editors can select them through the UI — choosing freely without straying too far.
Journeys also call for attentiveness. A new Usage Dashboard shows active sites, languages, content types, templates, active users, and more; the Engagement Dashboard details session time, conversion rates, and other details to judge the quality of your visits.
We also mind our flank, with the usual attention to security and stability, solving problems via infrastructure updates, feature fixes, and even a new endpoint to refresh a contentlet’s indexing and caching.
For the exhaustive account of every zig on our route, see our changelogs. But there’s leagues more to come, and far yet to go.
“How far?” you may ask. I reply: Indeed.
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