Released November 12, 2024 (build 47.20.31)
AI image suggestion in News
News Editors and Reporters can now select a high-quality Cover image for their News item with the help of AI recommendations. Images are recommended based on the item's title and content.
Updated Profile cards
The design of cards in People view has been updated to better highlight important information. The new cards clearly feature the user’s job title and badge details. And, when you sort people by any field (like birthday or join date), that information is displayed for each user in the top right corner of each card.
TOTAL: 46 bug fixes, improvements, and enhancements.
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Release cycle theme: Flowers and Herbs
T is for Tulip
You may have heard of the Amsterdam Tulip Festival, but did you know that tulips actually originated in the Tian Shan mountain region in the Himalayas? They were first imported to Turkey, where Sultans held annual tulip parties, and were only brought to the Netherlands in the 16th century. Since then, however, the tulip has become a substantial part of Dutch culture. The Amsterdam festival hosts more than one million visitors annually, and similar festivals have popped up all over the world in places with Dutch heritage or influence. In fact, the largest tulip festival in the world (by number of tulips) is no longer in Amsterdam but in the nation’s capital of Jostle’s home country—Ottawa, Canada.
The beginnings of that festival are another story worth telling. During World War II, the Dutch Royal Family fled Europe—to Ottawa, of all places. Princess Margriet was born in Ottawa’s Civic Hospital, and her room was declared Dutch territory so she could officially be born on home soil. As a thank you, the Netherlands pledged to send 10,000 tulip bulbs to Ottawa every year, a tradition that continues today.
