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Owlet Weekly Update (Week of January 25)

January 27th, 2021

Hello and welcome to another Owlet Weekly Update! We've been full steam ahead on some major changes to our front-end architecture (which we've previously alluded to) and we couldn't be more excited about it. While I currently don't have any updates on that front (stay tuned! 👀)... what better way to ring in Aquarius season than with audit log improvements? It makes sense if you don't think about it. Details below! ♒

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Release Delays

If you're an avid follower of our Changelog feed, you may have noticed that the publish date on this post was January 27th and that this post was published, unpublished, and then subsequently republished on February 3rd! Unfortunately, we ran into a couple of hiccups deploying this release—check out our status page for a full rundown of the ordeal. But I'm happy to report that this release did eventually go out around 8pm PST on February 2nd with everything listed below. Apologies for the hiccups and thanks so much for your patience with this release, folks!

✨ New & Improved

  • When a lot of people can edit your organization's website content, it's important to have an audit log so it's easy to track who is making changes. If you don't believe me, ask Mike Pompeo. Thankfully, ReadMe has great audit log support and this release takes our audit log feature a step further—with support for changes to your documentation that are made via the ReadMe API.
  • This release kicks off a series of massive behind-the-scenes optimizations to how we load data into the Hub. This means a reduced memory footprint when making requests, meaning a faster and lighter documentation experience for you and your users. Stay tuned for more updates on this front! 🚀

🛠 Fixes & Updates

  • When writing a new post in the discussion forums, we perform a little search that shows potentially related posts that may answer your question. There's been an issue where these suggestions were missing some critical content and the links weren't even working. Yikes! While that's great if you are in desperate need of affirmation that you are a unique individual with unique needs, it's not so great if you're trying to find some related posts in the discussion forum. Thankfully, this release fixes those issues so you can properly find fellow keyboard warriors in the fight to get ReadMe to support GraphQL. ⌨️
  • Safari desktop users, you matter. I really mean that. All six of you! You can rest easy knowing that we've tweaked a couple of margins (just for you!) in the API Metrics Dashboard. 🧭
  • A few bug fixes and security updates to RDMD. ✍️
  • Some minor linking improvements in the Dash. 🔗

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 Tuesday-ish 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]!