Release Notes

Water Release 🌊

Released on 2020 Feb 13

What’s new

  • Special Release

    Water is a special release, rolling out just a week after Vino, in order to isolate an architectural feature that will be applied to an upcoming login server update.

    Our regular format and release cadence will resume with the next release (Xylitol).

 


Vino Release 🍷

Released on 2020 Feb 09 

What’s new

  • Custom Categories for News
    Users can look forward to an improved News view with the arrival of Categories. These custom, colored tags will be displayed at the top of each News tile, providing quick, at-a-glance info on the content it contains. They'll also appear as the newest sorting option in the Filter Drawer (under "Category", of course).

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    For News Admins: To accommodate Categories, any Custom Article types currently used by your News creators will be automatically migrated to your org's initial Category List (located under Options > Category when creating any News item).

    Also, this change will not affect any previously-published Custom Articles, as they will be automatically updated with their Custom Article type now becoming their Category. For more information on Categories, please see this article.

Who can do this: All users (sorting)/News Reporters & Editors

  • Grouped notifications for Mobile (iOS)
    For iOS users of the Jostle mobile app, notifications that originate from the same source in your intranet (for example, from a particular Discussion) will now be stacked together in a group with the most recent one on topcreating less notification clutter on your touch screens.

Who can do this: All iOS mobile app users 

 

          PLUS  67 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.


Did you know that the reason 750ml bottles became the wine bottle standard was most likely due to glass blowers? Turns out that back in ye olde days of wine production, the lung capacity of the average glass blower was just enough that they could create a 750ml bottle in one “blow”, so in the name of efficiency, it became the standard.

It’s a good thing that box wine came along when it did, then! I’d hate to think of all those traditional glass blowers suddenly sustaining catastrophic respiratory issues had their required daily output been upped to include 4-litre bottles as well.


Udon Release 🍜

Released on 2020 Jan 29

What’s new

  • Tasks improvements
    Minor updates have been made to Tasks to provide more clarity about its features and improve the overall user experience.

Who can do this: Orgs with Tasks enabled

          PLUS  58 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

Did you know that Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry enforces a strict specification on udon noodles? Both the diameter of a round udon noodle and the width of a flat udon noodle can measure no less than 1.7mm.

I wonder if there's an upper measurement limit as well? There surely must be, or else restaurants would probably have to offer both "regular udon" and "mega-udon" noodle dishes...and then someone like me would come along, think that "Mega-Udon" was one of Godzilla's old sparring partners, and then confusingly wonder if kaiju cuisine had suddenly become a thing.


Taco Release 🌮

Released on 2020 Jan 12

What’s new

  • Org Units
    It's now a whole lot easier to find information about the Org Units in your organization!

    When viewing any Chart in the Teams view, just look for a thin green bar that appears above a Role Card. That indicates it's the top (or parent node) of an Org Unit.

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    Just hover/click on that card to see the Org Unit info or select "View Org Unit in Teams" from its menu to see the full Org Unit roster. System Admins can also manage Org Units directly from the menu as well.

Who can do this: All users

  • Library Search
    Search results now show the breadcrumb navigation info for Library items (for example: Marketing > Promotional Materials), allowing users to easily see the Volume and Category location of each matching item.

Who can do this: All users 

  • Links improvements
    Some minor updates have been made to Links to improve its navigation, usability, and overall look. Most notably, if you only have a single Links Category, it will now be automatically opened for you whenever you arrive in Links.

Who can do this: All users


          PLUS  90 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.


Did you know that Taco Bell serves an average of 46 million customers a week?

With numbers like that, it's no surprise that the fast food giant has made a couple of lofty goals for 2020: 

  • Have 9,000 restaurants globally 
  • Have a revenue of $15 billion in sales

And after finding this out, it left me feeling like my list of 2020 goals (which kicks off with "make some significant progress on my video game backlog" and only goes down from there) to be a little...lacking. So, I made some Taco Bell-inspired changes:

  • Make some significant progress on my video game backlog while eating Taco Bell.

Perfect.


Sushi Release 🍣

Released on 2019 Dec 29

What’s new

  • Red dot notifications in Tasks
    Whenever you're assigned a task or there's been new activity or comments on one of your existing tasks, you'll now see a red dot next to "Tasks" in the Main Navigation, as well next to the individual task(s) on the Tasks list.

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    And if you have a task on your list that you don't need to be notified about every time it's updated, you can use a new option in the action menu to mute the task, so you don't receive any red dots for it at all.

Who can do this: All users with Tasks

  • Video support for Tasks
    The steady roll-out of our new platform-wide viewer continues, with it now supporting videos that have been posted to tasks.

Who can do this: All users with Tasks

  • Access the latest product update info from your intranet
    The What's New blog (aka this very blog you're reading right now) is now accessible from your intranet. Just go to Help > Product Updates to see what's new and what's coming up next for your intranet.

Who can do this: All users


          PLUS  84 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

Did you know that I'm not a fan of sushi?  But when I was going out for dinner with some friends I hadn't seen in a while and they wanted to have sushi, I thought to myself, "Well, who knows - maybe my palate has matured in the 20+ years since I last had it, let's give it go!"

So our food arrives and I take a deep breath, select some mackerel sushi and pop it in my mouth. 45 chews later, the mackerel is still in my mouth, turning into a sushi slurry and my friends are starting to look a little concerned. At 60 chews my body was still refusing to let me swallow, so out of desperation, I grabbed my glass of water, took a big gulp and force-washed the whole thing down. And then, well…let me just say that I learned a lesson that day:

Swishing slushy sushi slurry surely signals a shaky swallowing situation.


Rice Release 🍚

Released on 2019 Dec 08

What’s new

  • Links are now easier to add
    The New Link form has been reorganized so that the URL field appears at the top, making it easier to create and add new Personal or Org-wide links.

Who can do this: All users

          PLUS  81 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

Did you know that besides being the staple food of over half the world's population, rice provides 20% of the world's dietary energy supply (ahead of wheat at 19% and corn at 5%)? 

It's no wonder then that the Rice Krispies Elves are the oldest and longest-running cartoon cereal mascots in Kellogg's history. Constantly chowing down on one of the world's top sources of dietary energy has kept them snapping, crackling and popping for 80+ years now!


Question Release ❓

Released on 2019 Nov 26

What’s new

  • Viewing PDF files in Library and Tasks
    PDF files in Library and Tasks no longer need to be opened in a new browser tab, as they are now supported by our improved Article Viewer.
    (NOTE—for IE users, only PDF support in Tasks will be included in this update)

Who can do this: All users/All users with Tasks enabled

  • Copy-pasting images in Tasks
    And speaking of Tasks, you can now copy-paste a browser image directly into a tasks's timeline and it will automatically upload as an attachment to that task.

Who can do this: All users with Tasks enabled


          PLUS  71 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

Did you know that I actually found a way to make the name of this release fit in with the theme of this release cycle—which has never really be nailed down, but is pretty much "edible things that are also emojis"? (And since there isn't a quiche emoji, for our "Q" release we went with...Question? Yes, this is me, questioning the choice of Question as the fill-in edible emoji).  

Now, it's one thing for me to find a way to justify including a fruit-named release (...or six) in a vegetable-themed release cycle, but how was I going to make a case for a punctuation entry on an edibles list? Well, I needn't have worried. Turns out there's such a thing as "question mark cakes" which happen to be very popular for baby gender reveal parties (which are also a thing). So there you go, problem solved—we can have our punctuation and eat it, too!


Pizza Release 🍕

Released on 2019 Nov 07

What’s new

  • Links reordering
    Your saved links can now be manually reordered by click-dragging them within their Category. Categories can be similarly reordered but only within their current section (Shared Categories or My Categories).

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    To organize your list of links, just click on the action menu (three dots) next to any link and select Arrange. Then click on any link and drag it to a new position on your list.

Who can do this: All users

  • Contact info for Event attendees
    Need to contact everyone who'll be attending an upcoming Event?  No problem! The guestlist file for Events now contains the email, phone, and location info of all invitees. Better yet, the list is now automatically ordered according to RSVP status, making it easy to find and extract a contact list of all "Attending" guests only.

The "Download guestlist" link can be found on Event notices under the RSVP stats.

Who can do this: Events Administrators


          PLUS  102 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

Did you know that the modern pizza originated in Naples in the 18th century? Since then, pizza has gone from a local cuisine served in the rustic, open-air markets of Italy to a world-wide food phenom, available everywhere from restaurants to shopping mall food courts, by delivery or store-bought. But these mass-produced versions are often cited for their unhealthy balance of ingredients and many (especially native Italians) tend to be unimpressed with these inauthentic takes on one of Italy's beloved cultural dishes.

In other words, it's probable that plenty of people, from priests to paparazzi, prefer the pure perfection of a piazza pizzeria over the pretend pizazz of a shopping plaza pizza place.


Oden Release 🍢

Released on 2019 Oct 27

What’s new

  • Improved platform-wide viewer
    The pop-up viewer is a thing of the past! Our improved viewer (rolling out in this release to News, Events, and Classifieds) provides a more immersive experience and boasts a larger viewing area. This should be especially pleasing for all News Reporters, since it means videos no longer need to be resized before they're embedded in articles, notices, and listings.

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    As before, just click on any article or similar item to open it in the new viewer. To close the viewer, either click the X in the top left corner or tap your ESC key. 

    For content creators, the Edit link on their published content can now be found in the upper right corner of the new viewer.

Who can do this: All users

  • Additional export/import support for Teams
    Chart Admins can now export their Chart structures from Teams via .txt file. This option is great way to back up your org's Chart structures and can also be used to make minor edits and updates.

Who can do this: Chart Administrators

  • Filter settings in People
    Your saved filter settings in the People view will now be retained across multiple browsers. NOTEthis update may cause an issue where your People view appears empty. To correct this, reset and then save your settings (via the filter icon in the upper right corner).

Who can do this: All users


          PLUS  68 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

Did you know that oden has its own emoji? Or, let me back that up a bit more, do you even know what oden is? Because I sure didn't. I figured it was some type of foodsince our current run of emoji-themed release names have all been consumables,but at least I wasn't the only one in the dark.

One colleague in particular was a little dejected once he found out that the name of this release referred to a Japanese soup made with sliced (and sometimes skewered) chunks of meat, fish, eggs, and veggies, and wasn't meant as a shout-out to Thor's father, the almighty Norse god Odin. Who, come to think of it, was also notable for slicing and skewering (…his enemies).


Nut Release 🥜

Released on 2019 Oct 14

What’s new

  • Improved attachments in Tasks
    No need to be cautious clicker in Tasks anymore, because clicking on an attachment will no longer start an automatic download of the file. Even better, clicking on almost any image attachment in Tasks (or Library) will now display the image via an in-platform viewer instead of opening it in a new browser tab.

Who can do this: Orgs with Tasks enabled (Library images: all users).


          PLUS  69 other bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.


Did you know that there are SO many nuts out there? Botanical nuts refer to small, hard-shelled fruits like hazelnuts and chestnuts while culinary nuts also rope in the non-nut legume (peanut) and hard-walled kernels like pecans and almonds. And in modern language, "nuts" is used to describe everything from a fixture component to dejection or obsession to something preposterous or mentally unbalanced.

That’s a lotta nuts! But it does come in useful when you're in that oft-occurring situation where you need to quickly refer to an eccentric, crazy-acting person who obsesses over hard-shelled fruits and hard-walled kernels, and can just go with "That nutty nutter's nuts for nuts."