In this release, we've been spending a lot of time on a feature that won't go live until later this year, and it's needed quite a bit of foundational work behind the scenes. We'll share more details once it's ready.
The bulk tagging tool that our content team started using in the last release has been improved with user-level filtering. It'll also soon be joined by a new widget to help with tagging content by manufacturer and product category. Longer term, we're hoping to make the latter available to all members.
We've also made some improvements to our build and deployment process, cutting the time it takes to release an update by around 50%. Our automated tests now run significantly faster too, which means the site spends much less time in maintenance during releases.
There are also a couple of homepage performance improvements aimed at speeding things up for logged-in users.
The site already has several layers of bot protection in place, and we're extending this further by introducing a CAPTCHA challenge for users who would previously have been blocked by those safeguards. If you see a screen like the one below, simply follow the instructions and you'll be able to continue to the site.
There's plenty of other behind-the-scenes work included in this release, but these are the changes most relevant to members.
We hope you enjoy the improvements.
element14 Community Development Team