Over the past few weeks, we've rolled out improvements to our billing flow, including annual billing and supporting additional ways to pay. Customers who switch to one of the new annual plans will receive a discount on the monthly rate. In addition to paying via credit card, we now support payments via ACH as well as cards that require Enhanced Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).

Improvements

• Recipes: Added class names for components in Recipes for use with Custom CSS
• Security: Warning when deleting a project with a custom domain to remove CNAME in DNS provider

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert):

• Recipes: Fixed menu overflow for projects with a lot of API Endpoints
• Recipes: Fixed error that occurred when reordering specific Recipes
• API Reference: Fixed setting the browser page title when navigating within the reference section
• API Reference: Fixed bug with redirect not persisting from the "Authenticate" button on the API Getting Started page
• API Reference: Fixed issue where certain browsers were missing styles in select components
• Discussion: Show suspected spam posts a captcha to prevent false positives
• Documentation: Fixed issue where the table of contents would be shown after navigating even when disabled
• Documentation: Fixed issue where non-teammates were able to view hidden versions
• Search: Fixed issue where project filters in search weren’t showing up until after a search was started
• Staging: Fixed issue where Group Viewers logged in via SAML were unable to view staging
• Editor: Fixed issue where focus was being lost when adding embedded content

We’ve switched over to native system emoji set for a more consistent experience. Emojis in our editor and recipes were previously using a different set of characters (native unicode and Twemoji). And now we also support even more emoji (Emoji 14.0), and aliases to make it easier to find emoji when searching.

Improvements

• Owlbot AI: Now using GPT-4o; for faster responses
• Admin Dashboard: Manage Plan page now shows upcoming plan changes
• Search: Minor improvements to search network performance
• PDF Export: Customers on the Business tier can now export PDFs

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert):

• Editor: Fixed an issue where duplicate dividers were shown in the API Reference editor
• Editor: Fixed an issue where duplicating synced endpoint pages would fail
• Editor: Fixed an issue where menus weren’t accessible on active pages
• API Reference: enums formatted as int32 now renders as a select element instead of text input
• API Reference: Fixed a regression with menu sizes for the language selector
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where optional parameter values were being set with the default handling option was enabled
• Search: Fixed an issue where long titles in search were not completely visible
• Changelog: Fixed an issue where variables weren’t being rendered in RSS feeds
• Recipes: Fixed an issue where emojis weren’t being displayed
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue where the global landing page would crash with Owlbot and private projects
• Custom CSS: Fixed an issue where .rm-Header-bottom wasn’t applying to the correct element
• Custom CSS: Added .rm-SearchModal-empty classes for easier customization of search UI

Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working on new options to customize your API References. As we've added more options we decided the page to set that up needed a refresh! Go to Appearance → API Reference to see the settings:

• Show Request History UI to view past Try It and actual API requests
• Automatically populate parameter inputs with default values
• Edit the request body with JSON
• Expand response schemas by default
• Expand the first 200 response example by default
• Make use of ReadMe’s SDK generator for code examples in 20 languages

Improvements

• Search/Reusable Content: Content on a page from a Reusable Content block will now be indexed by search
• API Reference: Add a toggle to mask or show API Key

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert):

• Search: Don’t show empty pages in search results
• a11y: Better maintain screen reader location when closing the search modal
• Editor Sidebar: UI Improvements for spacing and consistency while editing Category titles
• Editor: Fix list items being unnecessarily escaped from within headers
• Transfer Ownership: Fix transferring ownership on projects without active plans
• API Reference: Fix situations where the browser back button wouldn't take you to the correct page
• API Reference: Fixes for generated Swift code samples
• API Reference: Fix the height of request code samples being too small on pages with long responses
• API Reference: More even spacing between parameter sections
• API: Fix body_html response in the Get Doc endpoint being returned as Markdown
• UI: Fix some icons in buttons appearing too close to the button label
• Staging: Fix links to preview suggested edits while on staging
• Staging: More reliably clear cache on staging promotion

Improvements

• Editor: Emoji search is improved by including aliases
• Enterprise: Teammates should now be able to view non-public versions
• Custom CSS/JS: Added rm-MobileFlyout-item, making it easier to customize mobile links

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• Search: Empty pages will no longer appear in search results
• Redirects: Fixed an issue where redirects could sometimes lead to blank pages
• Docs: Fixed an issue where login links weren’t appearing on some projects
• Changelog: Fixed an issue where changelogs couldn't be saved in Safari
• Changelog: Removed Reusable Content from Changlogs (it’s not working…yet!)
• End User Management: Updated copy on the new user access settings for clarification
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where boolean params could appear as empty strings in request code
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where navigating to the My Requests page from the Authentication page could 404
• API Reference: Temporarily removed the Share Request feature
• Accessibility: Fixed an issue where the jump to button wasn’t jumping to the content on Guides pages

We’ve added quality of life improvements to the My Requests page as well as My Developers. End users in your documentation will now be able to filter the requests they are viewing by custom date ranges. In addition, both admins and end users will be able to search for a specific log by its Request ID.

Other Improvements

• API Reference: Added Node.js as an option for custom code samples
• API Reference: Improvements to showing top level examples in endpoints with Array types
• Custom CSS: Added class names to the documentation version dropdown to allow for easier CSS customization

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• UI: Fixed some scrollbars appearing light against dark content
• API Reference: Fixed issues with reset to default in API reference not always appearing when it should
• Editor: Fixed creating links for projects with only one enterprise project
• Accessibility: Added aria-live to search results
• Accessibility: Added aria-hidden=true to icons in navigation that shouldn’t be read by screen readers
• Reusable Content: Headers in reusable content will now show up in the table of contents
• Dashboard: Improved validation for setting configuring custom login
• Changelog: Fixed issue with removing type of a Changelog post after it had been created
• Editor: Added a tooltip when linking pages in the editor to allow seeing the entire title
• API Reference: More consistent padding and margin in the parameter table in the reference section

We’ve added the ability to pair request examples with their respective responses when using the code-samples extension and the new correspondingExample key. A new tab UI will render on endpoints with these examples to make them more discoverable. Example OAS snippet:

post:
  ...
  responses:
    '200':
      content:
        application/json:
          examples:
            Cat:
              summary: An example of a cat
              value:
                name: Meredith Grey
                petType: cat
                color: white
                gender: female
                breed: Scottish Fold
  x-readme:
    code-samples:
    - name: Cat
      language: curl
      code: "curl --request POST \n     --url http://api.example.com/v2/pet \n        \    --header 'content-type: application/json' \n     --data '\n{\n  \"type\": \"cat\"\n}\n'"
      # corresponding example value needs to match example name
      correspondingExample: Cat

🪶 Other Improvements

• Sidebar: Subtle Increase to the indentation of nested sidebar items
• Docs: Updated copy icon throughout the docs
• Discussions: Improvements to spam prevention
• Custom Pages: Refactored to match the guides and reference editing experience

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• Login: Fixed an issue where users using passwordless login were unable to create a new password
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where the page could crash when timestamps for a request were invalid
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where lists in parameter descriptions had a different font-size than the rest of the description
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where parameters rendering <select multiple /> would render poorly in dark mode
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where the table of contents was missing from reference pages
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where the request example menu could go missing
• API Reference: Fixed an issue preventing users from deleting API definitions
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where Try It would fail to use the correct authorization data in successive calls
• Docs: Fixed an issue where the page would crash when opening a blank page and the first nested page is an external link
• Developer Dashboard: Disabled API key dropdown if there’s only a single key
• Developer Dashboard: Fixed an issue where inspecting a log would cause the reference page to crash
• Developer Dashboard: Fixed an issue where users were unable to link to "Getting Started" or "Authentication" pages from the what’s next UI
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue on some projects where landing pages weren’t showing the full set of navigation links
• Enterprise: Fixed several issues where permissions weren’t being applied properly when using the "set all" action
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue granting access to docs when assigning permissions to users who haven’t yet created accounts
• Staging: Fixed an issue where you wouldn’t be able to access a staging page if you had previously viewed the page while logged out
• Editor: Fixed an issue where creating article links would move the cursor to the top of the page
• Editor: Fixed an issue where creating links could cause subsequent text to appear backwards and in a different color
• Editor: Fixed an issue where pages nested 3 levels deep weren’t appearing in the link menu
• Import Docs: Fixed an issue where importing docs that were previously exported would fail
• Reusable Content: Fixed an issue where sorting alphabetically was ignoring letter casing
• Reusable Content: Fixed an issue inserting reusable content when searching with only numbers
• SEO: Fixed an issue where some pages were not being indexed

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• Reusable Content: Fixed UI issue with blocks having long names
• Reusable Content: Fixed issues concerning blocks with names starting with a number
• Reusable Content: Fixed pagination issues for projects with a large number of content blocks
• Variables: Improved support for longer variable names
• SEO: Added a setting to use page SEO metadata as the title HTML tag
• Translations: Improved search reliability for projects using many languages
• API Reference: Improved setting and removing default values
• Developer Dashboard: Added more explanatory tooltips and revised empty states
• Suggested Edits: Prevented edge cases that allowed crawling for suggested edits routes
• Guides: Include all nested pages when forking a version
• Search: Fixed issues with losing focus on the search box in Windows when using the keyboard
• Discussions: Improved spam prevention in discussion forums
• Editor: Fixed unexpected behavior when inserting links
• Guides: Fixed incorrect "What’s Next" link at the end of the guides section

The Getting Started page shows developers how to use your API as quickly as possible. Sometimes, you want to start with a slightly more complicated request, so the Getting Started page now includes all parameters and headers that make up the request.

🪶 Other Improvements

• Reusable Content: Added the ability to search the page usage list
• API Reference: APIs using custom code samples will no longer show auto-generated samples
• Documentation: We’ve refactored some of our documentation login pages; they may look a little different, but you should see no change in functionality

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• Developer Dashboard: Fixed an issue where the Getting Started or Authentication pages could be in a broken state when the endpoints used on those pages are deleted
• Developer Dashboard: Fixed an issue where API keys menu on the My Requests page wasn’t working
• Developer Dashboard: Fixed an issue where duplicated query parameters would appear when replaying requests
• Documentation: Fixed an issue where users couldn't log in via passwordless login
• Documentation: Fixed an issue where the Jump To menu weren’t showing endpoints nested 2 levels deep
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue where selecting a deprecated version in some enterprise projects would load a blank page
• Variables: Fixed an issue where project admins could edit group-level variables
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where server variables were incorrectly marked as invalid
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where resetting server variables without a default would show undefined
• Custom Page: Fixed an issue where custom JS would load twice when custom pages were used as an error page
• Editor: Fixed a bug when bolding text in list items
• Translations: Fixed an issue where users couldn’t save after removing a language

For users with lots of reusable content, you’ll now be able to search and sort by name or last edited.

🪶 Other Improvements

• CLI: Added an error message when conflicting flags are used
• Developer Dashboard: You should see faster load times when viewing a request log
• Sign Up / Log In: ✨New and improved✨

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• Editor: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t add pages nested pages to “What’s Next”
• Editor: Fixed an issue where you could lose access to a Guides page if it was moved to References if you didn’t have a Reference section
• Landing Page: Fixed an issue where external links on the Landing Page were taking users to a blank page
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue where Group Viewers were unable to search on the Global Landing Page
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue where color scheme setting wasn’t being respected properly
• Enterprise: Fixed an issue where metadata tags weren’t including the title and description from project settings
• CLI: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t update a version without also renaming it
• Custom Pages: Fixed an issue where navigating to a custom page would 404 when switching versions
• Email: Fixed an issue where logos weren’t appearing in sign up emails
• Recipes: Fixed an issue where Recipe link colors could be too low contrast to see
• API Reference: Fixed an issue where Markdown in parameter descriptions weren’t rendering properly
• Docs: Fixed an issue where previous buttons weren’t working on child pages with an empty parent page
• Quick Start: Fixed a typo on step 2

ReadMe now supports webhooks documented in your OAS 3.1 files. Try it out with an example webhooks specs.

ReadMe Labs

We’ve added ReadMe Labs in the dashboard so you can enable experimental features—just GraphQL for now. You can find it under configuration settings, which we’ve reorganized to make your settings easier to find.

🪶 Other Improvements

• Developer Dashboard & Doc Metrics: Show/hide column preferences persist across browser session
• Developer Dashboard: Increase requests per page from 20 to 30 rows
• Reusable Content: Added support for renaming reusable content blocks
• Docs: Deprecated banner now spans the full-width of the page
• Docs: Refactored mobile page navigation to support more interactions and additional levels of nesting
• Enterprise: Improvements made for more reliable PDF generation
• Editor: Improvements made to sidebar performance—especially ones with a large amount of categories and pages
• Suggested Edits: Added notifications to our Slack integration when an anonymous user makes a suggested edits
• API Reference: Response schema examples can now expand by default instead of in a modal (this can be changed in your Reference configuration)
• Search: HTML tables are now indexed

🐛 Bugs Eaten (by Owlbert)

• Editor: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t edit Iframe URLs
• Editor: Fixed an issue where extra characters were being added to image links when viewing in the editor
• Enterprise: Updated copy to clarify password access behavior
• Developer Dashboard & Doc Metrics: Fixed an issue where exports could crash the page in Safari and Firefox
• Developer Dashboard: Fixed an issue where long API Keys in the Authentication page were being truncated after clicking "Show API Key"
• Owlbot: Fixed an issue where Owlbot wouldn’t reveal its source if there were only one
• Admin Dashboard: Fixed an issue where the ReadMe rating UI was not accessible