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Owlet Weekly Update (Week of March 1)

March 2nd, 2021

Hello and happy March, folks! The arrival of March brings us lots of things—a bleak reckoning with the fact that we (at least those of us in the US) have been dealing with this pandemic for about a year now, but also longer and warmer days (for the most part). And y'all—climate science isn't alone in bringing sunshine and warmth into your lives! This week, we're shipping instant cache invalidation, Google Analytics 4 support, and lots of other little fixes and improvements. Details below! 🌞

✨ New & Improved

  • Don't you hate it when you do something and the effects of those changes aren't immediate? In this case, I'm referring to my dying plants and my desperate attempts to bring them back to life, but this can also apply to web pages that are served through a content delivery network (like ours)! While CDNs are great because they make for far faster experiences when using the web, it may take some time for your users to see content changes reflected in their browsers. But what if we could get the best of both worlds? Well this release includes instant cache validation—meaning that whenever you update page content, we purge the cache on Cloudflare, meaning that your users will instantly see your latest and greatest content. 🌱
  • Last year, we got deep into our quarantine feelings and enhanced our API errors with a few (and by that I mean over 30) poems. Well it's been a long time coming, but they're finally making their way back around to several places where you create API definitions in the dashboard. This will hopefully lead to less confusion when getting your OpenAPI file set up with ReadMe! 🖋️
  • Great news for our Enterprise users (but bad news for people that like to make sneaky updates to the Global Landing Page): whenever someone makes a change to the Global Landing Page, those changes will now be documented in the Audit Logs! 🌐
  • As of this release, you can now integrate your developer hub with Google Analytics 4! We also made this easy—to upgrade to GA4, you can simply update the property in the integrations settings in the dashboard. 📊

🛠 Fixes & Updates

  • Certain projects were sending out Slack and email notifications for Suggested Edits that contained broken links. Sorry y'all. While we wish we could go back in time and fix all those emails and Slack messages, that'd be both difficult and slightly invasive. Fortunately, this release includes a fix so links should be fixed in future notifications! 🔗
  • Several small improvements in the API Explorer, including bundle improvements, more readable JavaScript fetch code samples, and better handling of raw JSON. 🤓
  • A couple of user data fixes for users that were unable to see their API logs from within the hub for projects utilizing zero-configuration API metrics. 🎫
  • This release fixes an issue where project administrators were unable to select custom pages when configuring links in the Top Navigation bar. 🧭
  • Fixed an issue for certain enterprise projects where project administrators were unable to properly preview unpublished API reference pages. 👀
  • Minor performance improvements in the API Metrics Dashboard. 🚀

Thanks for reading and for being a part of the ReadMe community, folks!

—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 week to the ReadMe Changelog) on the product updates we're shipping here at ReadMe. We'd love to hear what you think of these updates at [email protected]!