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Owlet Weekly Update (Week of November 16)

November 19th, 2020

Another week, another set of release notes dedicated to LeBron James! This week we come to you with search improvements, design tweaks, and response examples for days.

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✨ New & Improved

  • We’re continuing our homage to LeBron James and the example he sets and bringing response examples in the API Explorer to everyone! Previously, you needed to define examples via the example or examples keywords, but now we’re taking it a step further—for any OpenAPI operation that contains a response schema definition, we use those schemas to generate an example response with placeholder data. This even brought response examples to our docs—check it out!
  • We’ve added little color customizer in the Enterprise project appearance theme settings to make it a little easier to set your project theme color (used for accent colors in the Search modal, as well as other minor places). 🧑‍🎨
  • A few little performance improvements and coats of polish in the dashboard. 💅

🛠 Fixes & Updates

  • Our search indexes have had issues with Changelog posts (like these!) for a bit now—sorry, y’all. This release includes some fixes which should bring Changelog posts into your search results over the next few days. 🔍
  • Minor filtering fixes in the API Metrics Dashboard. 📈
  • A few padding adjustments on Changelog posts and Custom Pages. 📏
  • Small touchups to our footer banners. 👣

And lastly, this release (along with most of the releases for the last few months, honestly) includes some work on a soon-to-be-released feature that will really elevate the experience of learning how to use an API. In fact, if you’ve looked at our docs recently, you may have noticed a new section in the navigation bar! We’ll have much more to say in the coming weeks, but if you’re interested in trying it out in your documentation, get in touch. 👀

As always, stay safe, keep voting constantly regardless of what the law dictates (just kidding, please follow your local election laws), and thanks for being a part of the ReadMe community!

—Kanad and the ReadMe Team :owlbert:

(also huge thanks to Naomi for taking over for the last couple weeks!)

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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]!