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Owlet Weekly Update (Week of October 26)

October 29th, 2020

Happy Tuesday Thursday folks! Apologies for the delay on this week’s release—we’ve been spending the week huddled on Zoom for our fall offsite (check out Greg’s Twitter recap of our summer offsite here)! Fortunately, we’ve still been busy—this release includes some great design and performance updates as well as even more refreshed code samples. Details below! :owlbert-reading:

✨ New & Improved

  • We’re keeping the “get our JavaScript code samples with the times” energy going from last week and taking it from the server to the browser! This week, we’re finally saying goodbye to XMLHttpRequest in favor of the more widely used Fetch API. See it in action in our API reference by clicking the JavaScript tab above the code samples. 🚂
  • A couple eagle-eyed folks noticed that Markdown list elements were ever so slightly different in color than the rest of the text on a page. While we all love a little pop of color from time to time, this wasn’t the time nor place. This release includes a couple touch-ups on that front. 🖌️
  • We've included some performance optimizations in this release that should help with the initial load times on your project dashboard—with more optimizations to come soon. 🚀
  • The trusty Save button in the dashboard got a nice little refresh! Check it out and let us know what you think. 🎨

🛠 Fixes & Updates

  • We had enterprise customers that were running into issues where an Auth0 SAML connection would apply to one enterprise group of projects, but not any of their other project groups. If you’ve ever seen an ad on TV for a $5 footlong only to walk into a Subway that does not in fact honor that deal, you can understand how painful this can be. While we have no control over your local Subway deals, we’ve included some fixes to apply a single SAML connection across all of your project groups. 🥪
  • There was an issue within the API Explorer for the last week or so where certain text input fields would lose focus, meaning you’d have to click back into the field after entering each individual character. Great news if you’re an Architect in the Bad Place in need of inspiration, but bad news for everyone else. Fortunately, this release includes a fix for the rest of us. 🌤️
  • A couple of small security fixes to further prevent hackers from hackity-hacking into the mainframe. 🧑‍💻
  • Some minor circular reference handling fixes in the API Explorer. 🔄

Thanks again for reading and for being a part of the ReadMe community! Go vote! 🗳️

—Kanad and the ReadMe Team :owlbert:

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What is the Owlet Weekly Update?

Thanks for tuning in to another edition of our Owlet Weekly Update—an owlet-sized update (posted every Tuesday to the ReadMe Changelog) where we provide an overview of the product updates that went out as part of our new Tuesday release cycle. As we refine our format and process for providing these updates, we'd love to hear what you think at [email protected]!