Overview

A completely overhauled markdown editor now built on Slate, Git Gateway support (allowing CMS users to log in without a GitHub account), along with plenty of bugfixes and improvements. Noteworthy changes listed below.

Features

Markdown Editor

Rebuilt the Markdown editor from the ground up for reliability, now on Slate (@erquhart in #254)

• Added new toolbar options to visual editor for lists, code spans/blocks, and blockquotes
• Smarter markdown entity escaping in visual editor to avoid unnecessary escaping of benign chars
• Major performance improvements for large docs
• Lots of bugs and reliability issues resolved

Git Gateway

Authentication with Git Gateway & Netlify Identity (@biilmann in #580)

• Invite users to the CMS via email - editors no longer need a GitHub account
• Connect easily with Netlify Identity to manage users through the Netlify dashboard
• Create Deploy to Netlify templates with automatic Netlify Idenitity authentication built in
• Run open source Git Gateway on your own server to enable authentication without Netlify

Improvements

• Number Widget: More control over value type, interval, and min/max (@bruce-one in #541)
• Entry Editor: Save button is now disabled if the document hasn't been changed (@tech4him1 in #576)

Bug Fixes

• Auth: Login fixed for users with many repos (@tech4him1 in #543)
• Entry Editor: Entry editor page will no longer close after save/delete if save/delete failed (@tech4him1 in #566)
• Entry Delete: Entry deletion now works on branches other than master (@Benaiah in #604)
• Config: Collections no longer break if the folder has a trailing slash (@tech4him1 in #617)

Docs

• Readme: Added Kent Dodd's All Contributor's graph to showcase our amazing contributors! (@DirtyF in #599)
• Auth: Updated docs with Netlify Identity/Git Gateway instructions (@verythorough in #626)
• Tools: Simplified Gatsby setup docs (@tech4him1 in #652)

Dev

• Frontmatter: Moved back to gray-matter for frontmatter parsing (@tech4him1 in #601)
• Build: Upgraded to Webpack v3 (@tech4him1 in #641)
• Deps: Lots of updates (@tech4him1)

Breaking Changes

Improvements

• Slugs: Sluggification completely overhauled (@tech4him1 in #640)
  • Uses the new IRI standards rather than URI
  • Supports Unicode/non-Latin characters
  • No longer strips accents