Product release roundup: summer ‘21 edition

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1. © 2021 Contentful
   Building the leading content platform for digital business
   Contentful Product
   Release Roundup
   Summer ‘21
   

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   Today’s speakers
   Paul Biggs
   Product
   Marketing
   Jamie Bolland
   Product
   Marketing
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   Housekeeping
   ● First off: new on-demand video series! Welcome to our
   first edition!
   ● Keeping you up to date on our latest product releases,
   with commentary and highlights from our Changelog
   ● Please fill out the feedback survey at the end of the
   video — we’d like to improve with each edition
   ● Keep an eye on your inbox — we will follow up with the
   recording so you can easily rewatch the video.
   ● Any questions? Write to us at team@contentfulmail.com
   

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   Underpinned by our core value pillars
   Best for
   builders
   Most flexible
   platform
   DX
   at scale
   SPEED FLEXIBILITY EXTENSIBILITY SCALABILITY RELIABILITY
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   Content platform focus areas for 2021
   

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   ● Tag-based permissions
   ● Content management API
   (CMA) endpoints
   ● App hosting *new
   ● Marketplace apps and
   custom community apps
   *new
   ● Compose + Launch
   improvements *new
   ● Tags
   ● Embargoed assets
   Best for
   builders
   Most flexible
   platform
   DX at
   scale
   We’ll focus on the newest features, and just touch briefly on the rest
   Recent release overview
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   Recent releases
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   Best for builders:
   Compose improvements
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   *new
   ● Documentation: Installing Compose in an
   existing space
   ● Duplicate pages: Quickly build new pages
   that share a lot of content
   ● Extend Compose page settings with asset
   and entry references: add preview images
   for social sharing and establishing page
   hierarchies
   

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   Best for builders:
   Launch improvements
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   *new
   ● Improved time zone visibility
   and support: teams working
   globally can now easily
   schedule by time zone and
   have more clarity on time
   zones
   ● Easily reschedule
   (un)publication of releases,
   entries and assets: a faster
   workflow to change
   scheduling plans
   

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   Most flexible platform:
   App hosting
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   *new
   ● Host apps without the need for
   an external service
   ● Easily rollback your app to an
   older version if there are any
   issues
   ● Released 23rd June, learn more
   in our blog post about how to
   use app hosting
   

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    Most flexible platform:
    New Marketplace apps &
    custom apps from the community
    Revise
    Dev & editor
    productivity
    JSON Viewer
    Developer
    productivity
    Jumpgate
    Editor
    productivity
    *new
    

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    Other recent release highlights
    (these are a little older, but wanted
    to make sure they are on your radar!
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    Digital experiences at scale:
    New content management API endpoints
    ● Programmatically manage large content releases such as seasonal
    campaigns or product launches
    ● New API endpoints were released behind the scenes to power our new
    Contentful Apps:
    ○ Bulk actions: validate and (un)publish up to 200 entries/assets with
    a single API call
    ○ Releases: schedule up to 200 items for (un)publishing at the
    indicated time
    ○ References: retrieve a reference tree for a given entry with a single
    API call
    ● Developers benefit from quicker turnaround times and straightforward
    debugging
    ● Released April 6th, learn more: blog post, API reference
    

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    ● Editors can quickly and easily identify which content is most
    relevant for them
    ● Developers can efficiently query content across content types via
    the Content Delivery and GraphQL APIs, and programmatically
    manage tags via the Content Management API
    ● By making tags a first-class citizen on our platform, it:
    ○ reduces manual processes when creating and updating tags
    with a purpose-built UI
    ○ improves governance, as multiple teams can work with the
    same set of tags, which are centrally managed in a space
    ● Released April 8th, learn more: blog post, help center
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    Best for builders:
    Tags
    Tags
    Campaign x Name x Market x
    Channel x Temporary x Team x
    Descriptive x Agency x
    

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    Digital experiences at scale:
    Tag-based permissions
    ● Provide more granular content governance by
    defining access permissions based on our new Tags
    feature
    ● Admins can visually create and manage tag-based
    permissions in for each space in Contentful’s web
    app
    ● Developers can easily apply or remove tags via the
    Content Management API
    ● Editors can search and manage only the content
    that is relevant to them
    ● Released April 8th, learn more: blog post, help
    center
    

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    Best for builders:
    Embargoed assets
    ● Reduce the risk of leaks while preparing big launches or
    announcements
    ○ Authentication can also help with other use cases:
    intranets, paywalls, gated portals, etc.
    ● Restrict access to CDN-cached assets using signed URLs.
    Flexible implementation enables you to:
    ○ restrict access without sacrificing performance
    ○ integrate with authentication provider of choice
    ○ reduce vendor footprint by addressing more use cases
    with a single platform
    ● Released April 15th, learn more: blog post, FAQ, tutorial
    

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    All recent releases are in our Changelog
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    Visit our Changelog to sign up for RSS updates (or
    use an app like Mailbrew to get them in your inbox)
    Other smaller, recent examples include:
    ● Admins can delete spaces without contacting Contentful
    ● JS Client Library support for Bulk Actions, References,
    Releases, and Tags
    ● Improved GraphQL error messaging
    ● Flexible URL slug generation
    ● And more…
    

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    Join us:
    Product discovery
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    Call for customers:
    research panel
    We’d love your input on our discovery topics
    Join the Contentful research panel to take part
    in our internal product development and
    research projects.
    Our Product team invite customers and
    partners to take part in new research initiatives
    that are relevant to their experiences. It could
    be a short survey or a one-on-one interview.
    Sign up here:
    https://www.contentful.com/researchpanel/
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    Please take our
    feedback survey
    https://ctfl.io/roundup-survey
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    Thank you!
    

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