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Upside Release

Written by Vince Forrington | February 17, 2022

Released February 24, 2022 (build 45.21.11)

Special release

Aside from the usual fixes and improvements, the majority of new features included in Upside will be used to provide the foundation for upcoming advancements. As such, there are no stand-alone, customer-facing features to highlight for this release.

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TOTAL:  67 bug fixes and/or performance enhancements.

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Release cycle theme: Sweet treats

Did you know that this release was not named in error, and "Upside" is actually a nod to the sweet treat more commonly known as the upside-down cake?

An upside-down cake is named so because it is prepared "upside-down". That is, by layering fruit on the bottom of a skillet or pan and then pouring prepared cake mix overtop the fruit and the placing the whole thing in the oven. Once baked, the cake is popped out of the pan "right-side" up and voila! Your bottom layer of fruit is now the tasty baked-in topping of your cake. Impressive!

Except not as far as my childhood self was concerned. When I first saw an upside-down cake, I was not impressed. Because I've always adhered to a very simple scientific theory:

   spongy layers + frosting = cake 🥳

Therefore:

   spongy layer + fruit layer + no frosting = not a cake 😒

I mean, I'm all-in with everything from mini-cakes (cupcakes) to inside-out cakes (Twinkies), but don't try to trick me by calling something an upside-down cake, when it's really just a right-side up fruit flan.