So long, 2021! It was marked by productivity and growth. If we had to sum this year up in a few words, here’s what we’d say: more features, better user experiences, and even more success stories.

Here are some of the most important highlights of the year 🎉:

• New Dashboard

  Last year, our dashboard took a step forward with a more intuitive, fresh, and easier-to-navigate interface. We also released analytics, developed a rich text editor, a live widget editor, added support for Call-To-Actions (CTA), implemented notification preferences, and many other customization options.

• New Widgets and JavaScript SDK

  In 2021, we released a new version of the popup widget but also new modal and top-banner widgets. More layouts for more use cases and better product updates placement.

  Additionally, we also added support for code injection in widgets and the new JavaScript SDK makes use of the standard Web platform with a concise API that enables events support and cross-device synchronization.

• Single Sign-On (SSO)

  Early last year we launched support for SSO. Our implementation supports OIDC and SAML industry-standard protocols. SSO reduces chances of hacks by only requiring one set of credentials and only logging each user in once per day. We also created an integration to appear in the Okta catalog for easier usage.

• Improved Newspages

  2021 was also the opportunity to bring several enhancements and features to Newspages. This includes support for private Newspages to restrict accesses with a shared secret or by IP addresses, but also Right-to-left (RTL) support with Newspages and Widgets.

And many other amazing features!

Thank you!

This year Noticeable helped more businesses around the globe to engage and keep their users updated. Among them are Airfair, Checkout, Firstbase, Huggy, IBM, Lytx, Nylas, Picdrop, Pipplet, Synthesia, Testlodge, and more.

For the sake of every user, we’re committed to making Noticeable the best changelog as a service but we couldn’t do it without your support. Your feedback and suggestions were a valuable resource for the improvements we made in 2021, and they will continue to drive our roadmap this year.

We’d love to continue hearing from you in 2022! If you want to say a quick hello or drop a few suggestions, drop a line below, send us a message on Twitter or by email.

From the whole team at Noticeable, we want to wish you a great year ahead!

• The option to duplicate a publication has been improved to enable the creation of a copy in the project of your choice:

  

• User feedback messages displayed in the dashboard are now formatted with line breaks appropriately.

• Fixed a cache invalidation issue that prevented to move on widgets a publication from the published state back to the draft state.

• Fixed an invalid quota limit (related to the number of collaborators you can invite) upon new project creation for some accounts created before November, 2021.

• Widgets are up to 50% faster to load and render. Although Noticeable widgets were already amazingly fast and lightweight components, we made improvements by serving content from Cloudflare CDN (with HTTP3) and upgrading the Lit library we are using to its new major 2.0 version.

• New customization options are available with the modal and popup widgets: you can set a custom background color and select whether the publication author must be displayed or not.

• Upon background color change, the color of the text and some other user interface elements automatically adapt to meet color contrast standards.

Effective October 18, 2021, we are adding the following Subprocessors:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• MongoDB Atlas

• Redis Cloud

AWS is added for some features we will introduce in the future.

Regarding MongoDB and Redis we already have on-premise instances hosted and running on Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Starting October 18, 2021, instances will remain hosted on GCP but fully managed by MongoDB Atlas and Redis Cloud.

Our page listing service-providers has been updated in consequence:
https://noticeable.io/service-providers

• When you create a new project label with a name that includes non-Latin characters, the slug that is generated is automatically transliterated to make it valid.

• Transactional emails delivery has been improved: all users should now consistently receive invitations or sign-in links within seconds when they log in by email address.

• Fixed a recurring bug preventing customers on the Growth plan to create a publication through Zapier with an empty list of segments.

• Fixed a bug disabling configured Newspage custom domains when moving from a paid plan to another.

• We’ve added a new option to set a link on the title of a top-banner widget (in addition to or replacement of a CTA button). When enabled, you can either redirect to the publication on your Newspage or the URL of your choice:
  

  

• When defining a custom URL (for instance in a CTA button while configuring your publication on step 2 Options, or with the title link of your top-banner), you can now use the placeholder {publication_slug} inside your URL to create a dynamic redirection. The placeholder is automatically replaced by its corresponding value when the URL is created.

• The live widget editor on the Noticeable dashboard now includes a dark mode to better visualize your widgets when using light colors:
  

  

• The top-banner vertical padding set on mobile devices has been decreased to improve the aesthetic.

• An issue preventing the Newpage embed widget to load on mobile devices has been fixed.

• The widget setup page has been reworked to mention useful resources, including new links for integration examples with Angular, Lit, React, and Vue.

• A sizing and positioning issue has been fixed with the Icon trigger widget. You can still adjust the vertical positioning using for instance a negative CSS margin-top but this will no longer be required in most cases.

• Iframes created and injected by the Noticeable SDK now include a title to prevent a warning with Lighthouse inspection.

• We’ve fixed an issue preventing the publication date and time to display on Newspages for newly created projects.

• The input color picker used in many places on the dashboard was not always behaving as expected. This is now fixed.

• A bug that was preventing the deletion of the last segment value associated with a publication has been fixed.

• Date and time on Widgets are now localized using the project language that is configured, similarly to Newspages.

• New settings have been introduced in the dashboard for Newspages and Widgets to control the date and time format for publications displayed individually or in a list:

  

  
  

• Options named Absolute and Relative to control publication time format from the Noticeable dashboard have been rename respectively to Custom pattern and Distance to now.

• Publication state icons that appear on the publications overview page to quickly identify whether a publication is expired or scheduled are now displayed when the publication is published only (i.e. not a draft).

• Publication labels on Widgets were sometimes not updated after a project label edition due to a cache invalidation issue. This is now fixed.

• The maximum number of characters you can input as publication content has been doubled.

Dashboard

• The links to download PDF for invoices have been fixed (this was broken due to a change on Stripe).

Newspages

• You can filter content using multiple labels. For instance, if you have labels A, B, C, D and you click on labels A and D from your Newspage’s menu, then you will get publications that have label A or label D set.

• A visual loading state has been added to the button used to submit the subscription form.

• Clicks on Call-To-Action buttons using the mouse middle click are counted as regular clicks.

• Publication date and time are formatted using the locale defined in your project settings. If no formatting rules are available for your project language, we fall back to en-US.

• The background color for CTA buttons is set to transparent by default instead of white.

• The number of JavaScript files required to render the page has been drastically reduced.

• The number of publications displayed on the home page has been increased to 9 from 5.

• The subscribe button is hidden on pages related to subscriptions.

• The resource /subscribe has moved to /subscriptions and a redirection has been set up for the transition.

Widgets

• The Newspage Embed widget is now communicating with other widgets. This means that publications read or seen state changes on your Newspage via the Embed widget are instantly propagated to the Popup widget if you are using both widgets in your pages.

• When clicking on publication images from a Newspage Embed widget, the image opens in full resolution in a lightbox that is no longer attached to the inner frame but to the parent page, thus making the widget integration smooth and transparent.