Bolt Release Notes - Web App
Release notes for all major versions of the Pugpig Bolt web platform. Bolt web versions automatically roll out to all sites the day after release, unless specifically configured otherwise.
Note: date is in DD/MM/YY format
5.16 - Dual auth (Released 07/09/23)
- Added the ability to support both promo codes and 3rd party auth methods at the same time
- Added the ability to control the width of the web reader
- Fixed an issue causing enhanced PDF hotspots to not be tappable
- Fixed an issue causing external Oauth flows to not complete sign in
5.15 - Zoom lock, slim reader (Released 04/04/23)
- Added the ability to lock their page zoom level when navigating between pages. This is available via a padlock icon to the left of the zoom bar.
- Added the ability to serve a slimmed down version of the web app, rather than the full site
- Fixed an issue causing save and share analytics not to send when used in content on web
- Various accessibility improvements including
- Better keyboard navigation
- Better highlighting when in accessibility mode
- Renaming voiceover labels
- Improved performance on iOS mobile devices
5.14 - (Released 08/02/23)
- If an edition is not assigned to a specific collection set it will now show in all sets
5.13 - (Released 30/01/23)
- Re-added ToC hamburger menu for editions
- Updated scrubber icon to match iOS and Android
- Fixed an issue causing the close icon from share panel to not appear
5.12 - (Released 10/01/23)
- Fixed an issue with deeplinking on Web preventing you from navigating to the next or previous page in a collection
- Stability improvements to the page zoom in feature
5.11 - Query strings (Released 06/12/22)
- Query strings will no longer be stripped out from Bolt Web URLs
- If viewing your Web app in preview mode, refreshing the page will no longer reset it to non-preview
5.10 - (Released 24/10/22)
5.9 - (Released 25/08/22)
- Fixed an issue where the collection sets modal would conflict with the timeline loading mask and not display
- Fixed an issue where moving to another tab could require more than one click
5.8 - Collection set images (Released 09/08/22)
- Added the ability to display an image on the collection set selection screen
- The share icon will now not display, rather than displaying greyed out, if sharing is turned off
- Fixed an issue where PDF pages were not able to be zoomed when accessed via search
- Fixed an issue causing all editions to display, regardless of what collection set is chosen. Timelines were unaffected
5.7 - Collection sets (Released 07/06/22)
- Added Collection set support, which allows a users to select specific regions/locales to receive content from
- Removed editions from showing under the edit timelines settings option
- Fixed an issue where the browser tab title would get stuck on a PDF page title, rather than the website name
- Fixed an issue where URL settings pages would not display
5.6 - Bug fixes & performance improvements (Released 25/04/22)
- Standardised the font used for the selected timeline, in the timeline picker, between app and web
- Fixed an issue where PDF pages would appear blurry on certain types of devices
5.5 - Bug fixes & performance improvements (Released 15/03/22)
- Fixed an issue with double page spread PDFs causing the last page not to show
5.4 - Storefront improvements (Released 28/01/22)
- Added the option to show an additional customisable button on the paywall (eg for subscriptions)
- Added the option to show automatic 'Subscribe in-app' buttons on the paywall that link to the respective stores
- Added the ability to display URL settings items
- Added support for hidden tabs, that don't show in the nav bar and are only accessible via a direct link
- Added the ability to download a single page or double page spread as an image
- Added the ability to print a single page or double page spread
- Added buttons to skip to the first or last page of an edition
- Page numbers are now displayed
5.3 - PDF improvements (Released 14/12/21)
- Added support for double page spread PDFs
- Added improved PDF controls including an edition navigator and a zoom scale
- Accessibility fixes
5.2 - Bug fixes & performance improvements (Released 02/12/21)
- Various bug fixes & performance improvements
5.1 - PDF (Released 25/11/21)
- Support for PDFs
- Support for Enhanced PDF
- Ability to open images on the timeline in the full screen gallery viewer
5.0 - Edition storefronts (Released 07/10/21)
- Support for storefront and the edition view, including the edition navigator
4.9 - GA4 (Released 14/09/21)
- Google Analytics 4 support
- Added support for dynamic timelines, which allows a timeline to be generated from any term
- Ability to automatically append token as a query parameter, allowing automatic log in on other domains
4.8 - Content fetching (Released 24/08/21)
- Fetch new content whenever switching to a new timeline from the picker
- The toolbar logo can now be fetched from a URL, and transitions smoothly when switching to timelines with a different logo
- Toolbar colours can now be set per-timeline
- Added support for hidden timelines, which don't appear in the timeline picker
- Added buttons for clicking to next and previous articles
4.7 - Timeline ads
- Added Google Ad Manager-served 320x50 banners to the timeline
4.6 - GTM
- Google Tag Manager support
- Ability to theme hover colour for toolbar items
- Support new WhatsApp share structure, including share title and URL
4.5 - User registration
- Support user registration from paywall and login screen
4.4 - Address bar theming
- Added theme meta-tag, allowing theming of address bar in supported browsers
4.3 - Internal linking
- Added support for internal linking from the timeline