aka. The Bountiful Update 
Last night we deployed a site update that includes a fair number of new features & improvements. These include;
- Reputation Center.. read about this new feature in this blog post
- Countdown timer to enrolment deadline added to RoadTests and Design Challenges
- RoadTest/Design Challenge applications can be saved as drafts
- New widget that shows open questions created within the last 24 hours
- New widget to show enrolling/open RoadTests and Design Challenges
- Video pages now have a 'This video has been embedded in' section
There are also a number of improvements within the Design Center area;
- Design Center: LivePerson / Live Chat added to certain product pages (will be enabled in the next few days)
- Design Center: Featured Technologies pages can now accommodate large numbers of products with pagination
- Design Center: Add "clear all" to the search keywords area
- Design Center: Allow keyword and part number search to operate simultaneously
- Design Center: Add search keyword/part number terms to the "selections" area at the top of search results screen
- Design Center: Maintain the "bread crumbs" for search filters when zero results returned.
- Design Center: Add a spinner to show progress when searching
- Design Center: Updated graphics in the Design Center header
- Design Center: Modification date+time added in for Design Center documents
There have been a number of bug fixes and small improvements which include;
- Standard HTML anchor tags no longer cause an error when trying to publish a piece of content
- Terminology + icons brought up-to-date in the part list for guest users
- You can't accidentally apply to a RoadTest/Design Challenge they've already applied for
- Improvements to start+end times in RoadTests/Design Challenges
- Notifications won't get sent out for automated updates made to Design Center documents
- Unenrolling from a RoadTest/Design Challenge won't result in an error
- Fix to stop product links erroring when a quantity of >9 was used
- Product links with multiple items weren't always working correctly
- Product preview wasn't working in some circumstances
- Fix to stop RoadTest Applications erroring when @mention was used
- Inserting videos from 'From Your Videos' wasn't working correctly (it was pulling in videos from all users)
- Canadian users weren't given the opportunity to choose their customer type on Raspberry Pi products
- Problems with product links now track what piece of content the issue occurred in (helps us track down bad links)
- Custom buttons now allow you to specify a target window, e.g. _blank.
- 360 degree product images with long titles almost caused the close icon to disappear
- Main description for RoadTests now wraps around the applicants box instead of being thin all the way down the page
- View count was missing from videos shown on the grid/thumbnail view
- Minor updates to documents were still triggering a notification
- Dreamboard Application header updated
- Registration was failing for users from the .bio domain
- Allow videos and images to be added to RoadTest Applications
- Fix for URLs causing an error in RoadTest Applications
- Pressing tab whilst on the Username field on the login dialog will now take to the Password field
- Datasheets have been removed from the search results page in advance of our store sites phasing out this feature
- Expired Events were displaying "Event is Read Only" when Logged Out
- YouTube video descriptions containing certain extended characters failed to get embedded
- Broken image icon appeared in the part list when a product was unavailable in a certain locale
- Search results navigation was spilling into the page footer
- Recent Blogs widget extended to allow you to only show Featured Blog Posts
Thank you to everyone who reports site issues or improvement suggestions to us.. those help guide our development efforts and make the site better for all our members.
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