Amplience release notes 2021

A summary of product releases for 2021, covering new features, enhancements, and updates across Dynamic Content, Content Hub, and Dynamic Media.

Note

For all release notes, see release notes by year.

Dynamic Content- Fresh API

27 October 2021: Introduced the Fresh API - a variant of the Content Delivery 2 API designed for use with static site generators (Next.js, NuxtJS, Gatsby). Unlike the standard CDN-cached API, the Fresh API returns uncached content, ensuring SSG build tools always retrieve the latest published version. Rate limited to 100 requests per second; requires an API key provisioned per hub.

Dynamic Content- Add to edition from content library

20 October 2021: Extended the Add to Edition feature so content items can be added to an edition directly from their contextual menu in the Content Library, as an alternative to using the content form Save menu or the scheduling view content browser.

Dynamic Content- Add to edition

6 October 2021: Content authors can now add content directly to an edition from the content form via the Save menu. Also added: a usages panel showing which editions a content item appears in, and a rename of "Save snapshot to edition" to "Tag snapshot to edition". Saving linked content no longer automatically navigates back to the parent item.

Dynamic Content- Content library enhancements

28 September 2021: A significant update to the Content Library UI. Key changes include a collapsible side panel for more workspace, a repository breadcrumb for quick navigation, drag-and-drop folder management, a one-click filter icon, and a relocated search button. Navigation labels were also updated: "Production" renamed to "Content" and "Planning" to "Scheduling".

Dynamic Content- Scheduling content

16 August 2021: Content can now be added directly to an edition without using slots, via a new Content tab in the edition view. This supports content types that don't map to a slot - such as pages, blog posts, or navigation menus. Hierarchy nodes and their descendants can also be added to an edition in bulk.

Content Hub- Transformation template UI enhancements

16 August 2021: The transformation templates interface in Content Hub was updated with a larger template URL editor, a shortcut menu for adding common parameters (width, height, format, quality), drag-and-drop parameter reordering, and sortable template list with search.

Dynamic Media- Amplience Smart Images

2 June 2021: Introduced Amplience Smart Images, allowing images to be requested in the most appropriate format for the browser by adding fmt=auto to the image URL. Dynamic Media automatically selects WebP (Chrome/Firefox), JP2 (Safari), or JPEG as fallback. Also introduced format-specific quality settings (e.g. fmt.webp.qlt=90).

Dynamic Content- Hierarchies and the Filter API

26 May 2021: Two major new features released together: Hierarchies allow tree-structured content relationships to be modelled and managed in Dynamic Content (navigation menus, page structures, store directories, tag taxonomies, etc.). The Filter API enables listing, sorting, and filtering content by type and custom properties, and is designed to work with hierarchies for tree traversal.

Dynamic Content- Realtime visualizations

19 May 2021: Introduced realtime visualizations - content previews that update instantly as the author edits the form, without needing to save first. A new Visualization SDK handles content updates and locale switching automatically. Also included: a hosted delivery preview visualization for debugging, and support for the default keyword in content type schemas.

Dynamic Content- Edition ID token and linked content usability

7 April 2021: Preview app URLs can now include a {{context.edition.id}} token, letting preview apps retrieve edition details via the Management API. Also: saving a linked (nested) content item no longer auto-navigates back to the parent - a Back button is shown instead.

Dynamic Content- Content type registration UI enhancement

31 March 2021: The content type registration window was reorganised into two tabs - Setup and Visualizations - making it easier to manage visualization URLs separately from schema registration. Help text was added to guide developers through visualization setup.

Dynamic Content- Visualization scaling

17 February 2021: A new scale toggle on the visualization panel lets developers turn off automatic scaling, allowing the visualization to fill the full window and respond to resizing. Useful for testing responsive visualization apps. When scaling is on, the previous device-size and orientation controls remain available.

Dynamic Content- Dashboard extensions

15 February 2021: Introduced dashboard extensions - full-screen web apps displayed as tabs on the Dynamic Content dashboard. They can access the Management API and third-party services, enabling custom content views, analytics dashboards, and workflow tools. Sample extensions (Google Analytics, Kanban board) were released on GitHub. The extensions SDK was updated to v2.0.0 and common extensions (e.g. rich text) are now hosted by Amplience.

Dynamic Content- Content type schema and content type search

9 February 2021: Added search to both the content type schemas list and the content types list, filterable by schema ID or label. Also: the Content Library list view was updated to give more space to content item names.