My August in a word or two: "covid" and "rebound". I'm recovered, and had some beautiful visions of the future as well as time for reflection.

I have to come clean about something. Last month I mentioned that our developers are continuing to work on several new features behind the scenes. I feel bad now, because that's not really accurate. We're working on a new product. And we started to use it ourselves for our intranet about a week ago. 🥳 🎉

Our R&D team is over triple the size compared to the start of last year. And, with the exception of February and part of March (the start of the war in Ukraine), our productivity has been at an all-time-high. And you may be thinking... yes, you are shipping new features and fixes all the time. However, there is a lot of R&D we haven't shipped. This ties into this new product we've been building.

I'll share more on that in my next update.

On to the things we did ship that you can use today.

Workflows

On the Workflows side, besides some bug and performance fixes, there is one new feature we didn't ship yet. We're going to ship it in another week due to vacation schedules. It is an improvement to the file editor which enables multiple file editing as well as our some features of our lint tool and language processor inside of the editor.

API docs

A reminder from the last update: we renamed Reference docs to API docs because it is more clear to new users.

Visual and theme changes:

• Added a new custom hook AfterApiTitle to inject additional HTML or a React component after the API title. The API title is set inside of the info object.
• Added visual view for deprecated in oneOf + discriminator.
• Added nestedAlternativeBackground for customization background color alternative for nested schemas which have a zebra-stripe-like pattern.
• Added theming options for the titles and subtitles in the middle panel.

We made more improvements to the try it feature:

• Added client_secret_basic support for token endpoint authentication.
• The Target server field in the Try it console was moved to the top.
• Save state of the Request Body in the Try it console.

We also fixed a bunch of bugs and made other minor enhancements. Read more at the API docs changelog.

Developer portal

Features in the developer portal?

Yes, we've added features into the developer portal. While I want to mostly freeze development there, so that we can focus on our new product, we couldn't resist shipping some features this past month:

• Added support for wildcard (*) redirects. You can get more familiar with redirects feature here.
• Added export of the Footer component, so it can be wrapped in some container and extended.
• Added disableAutoApiDocs config option to disable automatic API docs pages creation from OpenAPI files (without explicit .page.yaml).
• Added possibility to customize external link icon with a new theme externalIconUrl option.
• Added a disableLinkPrefetching config option. If it is set to true, the developer portal will do data prefetching only for hovered links.

Developer portal changelog Read about all the latest fixes and enhancements in the Developer portal changelog.

Redocly CLI

Reminder: OpenAPI CLI was renamed to Redocly CLI and we announced that in our last month's blog post.

Rules, rule! A few updates about rules:

• We are interviewing power users and novices so that we can make our powerful assertions rule (renamed to custom rules in 1.0.0-beta.112 based on this feedback) easier to use. If you're interested in helping, let us know.
• Renamed no-servers-empty-enum to no-server-variables-empty-enum and fixed incorrect docs of no-empty-enum-servers.
• Fixed docs for no-server-example.com.
• We merged (and will release it this week) a new rule that enforces RFC 7807 problem details format.

Redocly CLI changelog The full list of fixes and enhancements is available in the Redocly CLI changelog.

Redoc

We're working hard towards a general availability release of Redoc 2.0.

That was to give you context for the massive changes if you go check out that changelog on our GitHub repo.

A few more bugs to fix, and maybe a surprise feature before the big 2.0 release.

Redoc changelog

You can find more fixes and enhancements in the Redoc changelog.

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