🎨 New Theme Customizer
Readers can now customize their reading experience with light, dark, and sepia themes. Font size, line spacing, and font family preferences are saved automatically.
📊 Writer Analytics Dashboard
Published authors now have access to detailed analytics including page views, reading time, engagement heatmaps, and audience demographics.
🐛 Fixed image upload crashes on mobile Safari
Resolved an issue where uploading images on iOS Safari would cause the editor to crash intermittently.
🔒 Patched XSS vulnerability in comment section
Fixed a reflected XSS vulnerability that allowed malicious scripts to be injected through malformed comment submissions. All user inputs are now properly sanitized.
🐛 Fixed broken search indexing for articles published in December
Articles published between Dec 20-31 were not appearing in search results due to a date formatting bug. Indexing has been rebuilt.
⚡ 40% faster page load times
Implemented edge caching, lazy-loaded images, and optimized bundle sizes. Average page load time dropped from 2.1s to 1.2s globally.
🐛 Fixed email notification duplicates
Subscribers were receiving duplicate weekly digest emails. Deduplication logic has been implemented at the mail queue level.
🐛 Fixed broken table of contents for long-form articles
Articles over 3,000 words had missing or misaligned table of contents entries due to an anchor ID collision. Now uses unique hash-based IDs.
🔔 Real-time push notifications
Web Push notifications now keep you updated when your favorite authors publish new content. Works across Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge.
🖼️ Image caption & alt-text support in editor
Writers can now add captions and alt-text to uploaded images directly within the block editor, improving accessibility for all readers.
⚡ Improved mobile reading experience
Larger tap targets, optimized font rendering on iOS, and smoother scrolling on Android. Reading progress bar added at the top of articles.
⚠️ Legacy RSS v1.0 endpoint deprecated
The old RSS feed endpoint (/rss/v1) will be sunset on March 1, 2025. Please update your feed readers to use /rss/v2. Migration guide available in docs.
🐛 Fixed pagination infinite scroll on category pages
Browsing deeply into category archives caused the infinite scroll loader to hang. Now properly handles empty result sets.
🐛 Hotfix: Registration email not being sent
A misconfigured SMTP template caused new user verification emails to fail silently. All pending registrations have been resent manually.
🚀 Complete platform redesign & rebuild
From the ground up: new design system, rebuilt editor with block-based composition, revamped reader experience, and a modern microservices architecture. Over 6 months in the making.
✍️ Block-based article editor
Write with flexible content blocks: paragraphs, headings, images, code, quotes, embeds, and more. Drag-and-drop reordering and inline formatting.
⚡ 99.95% uptime SLA with new infrastructure
Migrated to a multi-region cloud setup with automatic failover. Database reads are now served from edge caches with <50ms latency worldwide.