Announcement: Successful platformOS Scheduled Maintenance

We have upgraded internal component versions to stay up to date with security patches, performance patches, features, etc. All stacks have been updated successfully, and QA did not discover any unintended side-effects after the upgrade. Thank you for your understanding.

Congrats to the DevOps and Security team at platformOS, who do awesome things on production stacks to continuously improve.

Video: The Changing Face of eCommerce and the Future of Work in a Marketplace Driven Economy

Whitelance invited our founder and CEO, Adam Broadway, to their Whitelance Marketplace Interviews series for a conversation about the future of eCommerce, where we shared some insights about communities and marketplaces and presented a demo of the diverse business models and marketplace implementations on platformOS. See an outline of the topics discussed and check out the video on our blog. 

Documentation

Content production

• UPDATED Managing Models using AJAX (CRUD operations) - added section on soft and hard delete
• UPDATED Improving the User Experience of Remote Documentation - removed references to previous search implementation
• UPDATED Identity Provider - Google OAuth - updated steps
  
• IN PROGRESS Try out page: A new section of our documentation site dedicated to onboarding new users.
• IN PROGRESS Get Started: Build a ToDo List App
• PLANNED Add topic: working with date and time in platformOS 

Improvements, fixes

• NEW Search improvements: One of our main tasks planned for this year is to improve the search functionality so that you can reliably find the content you are looking for. We added Algolia Search to our documentation site and based on internal tests, it has greatly improved our search functionality.
  
  
  
  Please try it out, and let us know what you think! Did you find what you were looking for? Does the way we configured the display of search results work for you? Did it improve your experience?
  
• FIXED Fix release notes list
• FIXED Update platform-os.com -> platformos.com

UX

Research

• pOS Developer Experience Research - Interview
  We are running the Developer Experience Research until the end of January if you are interested you can still subscribe via this link.

Design and Development

• NEW Hard delete job with 30 days time delay - Soft deleted records will be automatically hard-deleted after 30-days
• NEW Partner Portal Design System - New core components: sorting, status indicators
• NEW Partner Portal Design System - Table components
• NEW Partner Portal Design System - Fine-tune header components and the spacing between them: breadcrumb, page title, subtitle, tab bar
  
• NEW Handle the case when property invalid
• NEW Fix overwriting form variable in form partial
• NEW Migration: clear deploy manifest after data clean so we deploy migrations once again
• NEW Data import: fix for importing model with user_id as a string
• NEW Add gil indexes - Speed up filtering by properties for models/users queries
• NEW Module Migrations: execute migration with oldest timestamp first
• NEW Data export: fix exporting properties with array relation
• NEW Fix edge case in import mutation which could exhaust resources on an Instance
• NEW Improve performance of models/users query by ignoring images/attachments and deprecated addresses when not needed
• NEW Data import: fix for importing model with customizable_id as a string
• IN REVIEW Partner Portal - Onboarding Journey selectors
• IN PROGRESS GCP QA deployment

Release Notes

To learn more about the most recent changes, improvements and fixes in platformOS, check out our latest release note: platformOS Release Note Jan 27, 2020 — Hard delete, internal components update