Amplience release notes 2023

A summary of product releases for 2023, covering new features, enhancements, and updates across Dynamic Content, Content Hub, Dynamic Media, and Amplience AI services.

Note

For all release notes, see release notes by year.

Amplience AI playground

11 December 2023: A new AI Playground tab in Dynamic Content lets users explore Amplience AI services with no setup required. It surfaces tools like the Generative Rich Text Editor and shows what's available or coming soon. Content created in the playground is temporary.

Personal access tokens

7 December 2023: Developers can now generate Personal Access Tokens (PATs) as a self-service alternative to API key/secret pairs, for authorising access to the Content Management and GraphQL Asset Management APIs. Tokens inherit the creating user's permissions, do not expire, and can be listed or deleted via the GraphQL playground.

Automatic shoppable images extension

4 December 2023: An Automatic Shoppable Images extension (Amplience Labs Preview) uses AI to detect objects in images and automatically set focal points and hotspots - including polygon hotspots. No external AI account is needed.

Enhanced AI services

1 November 2023: Several AI services were introduced or updated:

• Background Removal API - removes image backgrounds via GraphQL, returning a transparent-background version for consistent product imagery.
• Amplience Credits - allows organisations to use AI services without a separate OpenAI account.
• Updated extensions - the Generative Rich Text Editor and Image Alt Text Generator now use Amplience credits.
• Filter API page size increase - maximum page size increased to 50 when depth is 0 or not set.

GraphQL Content Delivery - type name collision helper

4 October 2023: A new diagnostic HTTP API helps developers debug GraphQL Content Delivery graph issues. It validates whether a hub's graph published successfully, surfaces error details on failure, and identifies type name collisions where two schemas generate identical GraphQL type names.

Personas announcement

30th October 2023: Our original persona permissions used by Dynamic Content users, have been replaced with roles as part of changes to account structure and management. Personas represented the actions that could be performed by different types of users within a team: content producer, planner, developer, admin and a read only user. Each user was allocated one of these personas.

Repository management

3 October 2023: Administrators can now create and manage repositories directly within Dynamic Content - previously only possible via the API or Amplience Support. Repositories can be named, typed (Content or Slot), and assigned locales from the UI.

Accelerated media

27 September 2023: An optional add-on introducing features to optimise media delivery:

• AVIF image format - up to 50% smaller than JPEG and 20% smaller than WebP.
• VP9 and HEVC video codecs - approximately 40% smaller than VP8/H.264.
• Updated Amplience Smart Images - automatically serves AVIF to supported browsers via fmt=auto.

Amplience Search - search index archiving

27 September 2023: Users can now archive and unarchive Amplience Search indexes from the contextual menu. Archiving removes all records (non-reversible); unarchiving restores the index and webhooks but requires re-indexing content. An auto-archiving rule also runs on indexes inactive for over a year.

Rename assets from Dynamic Content

20 September 2023: Content authors can now rename assets from the Assets tab in Dynamic Content, without switching to Content Hub. Renaming updates both the display label and underlying asset name; the asset must be republished to update its public URL.

Bulk copy - advanced rename

16 August 2023: Dynamic Content Bulk copy now includes a find-and-replace rename feature, allowing users to swap a term across all selected item names in one step - useful for repurposing seasonal content (e.g. replacing "2023" with "2024"). Individual names can also be edited manually in the same operation.

Algolia search webhooks

1 August 2023: A new Algolia search webhook template keeps an Algolia index in sync with Dynamic Content automatically. Users configure the content type and triggering events (publish, create, update, archive); the Algolia index is created if it doesn't exist. Recommended for new Algolia integrations over the legacy Amplience Search product.

Generative rich text editor

19 July 2023: The rich text extension was updated with a ChatGPT-powered AI assistant and renamed the Generative Rich Text Editor. Authors can use natural language prompts to generate, rewrite, shorten, or expand text, and can add custom shortcuts for common operations.

GraphQL Content Delivery API - unpublished content (VSE support)

12 July 2023: The GraphQL Content Delivery API now supports Virtual Staging Environments (VSEs), enabling developers to retrieve the latest unpublished version of content via a staging endpoint. This makes it possible to build GraphQL-based delivery preview visualisations.

Developer trial

3 July 2023: Amplience launched a free 60-day developer trial covering Dynamic Content, Content Hub, and Dynamic Media. A guided get-started wizard walks users through creating content types, publishing sample content, and exploring the HTTP/GraphQL Content Delivery APIs with a React rendering example.

Enhancements for bulk copy

28 June 2023: Dynamic Content Bulk copy was extended with the ability to individually rename copies and create a new destination subfolder during the copy operation, via a unified two-page dialog. Also included: delivery key change confirmations now link directly to copy the key and publish the item.

Bulk assign and copy content

21 June 2023: Two new bulk actions added to the Dynamic Content: bulk assign (assign/unassign up to 20 items to users) and bulk copy (copy up to 20 items to a chosen folder). Also included: a delivery key one-click shortcut letting authors add a key by hovering over an item's empty key field.

Bulk actions for set status and assign locale

7 June 2023: Added bulk actions for setting content statuses and assigning locales to up to 20 items at once, with a "Select all" option for convenience. Streamlines localisation workflows and team-based content review in Dynamic Content.

Account management teams

16 May 2023: Introduced Teams in account management, enabling administrators to set permissions for groups of users rather than individuals. Roles are assigned per hub and repository; where individual and team permissions overlap, the higher-access role applies. Also included: a refreshed landing page, a new Account Management icon, and an updated app switcher now available to non-SSO users.

Bulk archive for content

15 May 2023: Users can now archive multiple content items at once from the Dynamic Content library, removing them from active views without permanent deletion.

GraphQL Content Delivery API - filter, sort, and playground

19 April 2023: The GraphQL Content Delivery API gained filtering and sorting capabilities, giving developers greater control over query results. A GraphQL playground was also added for building and testing queries interactively.

Delivery key search

19 April 2023: Added the ability to search content items by delivery key within Dynamic Content, making it faster to locate specific published items when the key is known.

Content Hub - optimised asset workflow

18 April 2023: A set of Content Hub enhancements to improve the asset upload and management workflow, including a more streamlined upload experience, better processing status visibility, and refinements to publish and approval state transitions.

Delivery key enhancements

15 March 2023: A series of improvements to delivery key management in Dynamic Content, making it easier to add, edit, and track delivery keys across content items.

Account management

25 January 2023: Launched the new Account Management application - a centralised UI for managing users, organisations, hubs, and permissions across all Amplience products, replacing the previous per-product approach.

Custom locale labels

18 January 2023: Organisations can now define user-friendly display names for locales (e.g. "English (UK)" instead of a raw locale code), improving the authoring experience in Dynamic Content for multilingual teams.