Changelog History
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v6.0.1 Changes
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v6.0 Changes
March 06, 2025🔖 Version 6 Changelog and Migration Guide - Plus Unique New Add-Ons
👍 A bigger focus on command-line and future automation support, a refreshed but still familiar design, and more.
⚡️ This update has breaking changes to CSS, changes to the config file, and some fun, long awaited features.
👍 A paid Pro version of cState with support is coming
👌 Support development!
👍 If you want to support me, [go to my sponsors page](https://github.com/sponsors/mistermantas) or%C2%A0or), better yet, hire me for your project (you can email me using my profile email).
The upcoming Pro version of cState is not set to replace the open source version of cState but simply to make setting up everything, including monitoring, much easier.
🔄 Changes available today
⚠ It is recommend to upgrade to Hugo version 0.140.0 (the minimum Hugo version is 0.110.0 ).
https://github.com/cstate/cstate-cli CLI tool - make new posts easier than ever before with a global
cstatecommand. Learn more on the repo page aboutcstate devand many other commands- Read more here: #333
🆓 Free monitoring bot now available. We’re introducing a bot to monitor for downtime and update cState programmatically. This is the current replacement for a POST API while maintaining the same unique structure of cState. https://github.com/cstate/monitorbot
➕ Added a histogram, enabled by default for every component, drawing stats from the data cState already has – to enable when upgrading, add a
.Site.Params.enableUptimeHistogramoption as true.⚡️ Updated base design CSS and introduced new detail details , thus IE8 is no longer supported. New default font is DM Sans, replaceable with Custom HTML by creating a file under
/layouts/partials/custom/meta.html.👍 Better component pages. Extended description support is officially added (plus system pages now show the status) - #270
➕ Added /issues/ for viewing - and an option to hide a part of your incident history - #286
➕ Added Romanian language #335 from MarcUs7i
🚚 T he Netlify CMS
/adminbackend has been removed by default , since it’s been discontinued and the Netlify CMS’s successor Decap CMS is included at custom site level by default inexampleSiteif you still want to use it.🛠 Fixes community raised issues, some of which are years old - #275, #330, #287, #320, #286, #257, #270
🆕 New translation strings updated with AI
Coming later this year
- Notifications and the Subscribe button - all pages have an API and RSS option by default, with push notifications now available later this year with service workers or a monitor bot (cstate/monitorbot) for other services like Discord, Webhook URLs and more. These updates will be pushed to the repo and a future version of cState.
Also available: cState HTML Embed
cstate-cliis here to make managing your cState status page a breeze! 🚀I'm excited to announce the first release of
cstate-cli, a command-line tool designed to simplify creating and managing content for your cState status pages.What it does:
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cstate create: Interactively create new incident or informational posts. - 📝
cstate draft: Quickly draft posts from templates (Incident Post, Maintenance, Experiment, Postmortem). - 💻
cstate dev: Run a local Hugo development server with the cState theme. - 🏗 🔨
cstate serve&cstate build: Handy aliases for Hugo'sserveandbuildcommands.
Why you'll love it:
- 💾 Saves time: Automates tedious tasks.
- ⬇️ Reduces errors: Ensures consistent formatting.
- 👌 Improves workflow: Streamlines content creation.
Get started:
# Install globallynpm install -g cstate-cli# Or use with npxnpx cstate-cli\<command\>Example:
cstate draftThis will prompt you to choose a template and guide you through creating a new post.
📚 Check out the full documentation and usage instructions in the README.
I hope you find
cstate-clihelpful! Feedback and contributions are always welcome. ✨
Full Changelog : v5.6.1...v6.0.0
🆕 New Contributors
- @liimee made their first contribution in #311
- @alekswilc made their first contribution in #317
- @gridhead made their first contribution in #319
- @Isrofilov made their first contribution in #321
- @gvillo made their first contribution in #324
- @asem-hamid made their first contribution in #328
- @MarcUs7i made their first contribution in #335
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v5.6.1 Changes
January 18, 2024🛠 This update includes no new features, only a bugfix for long titles that may overflow on mobiles and smaller screens.
Happy new year. 2293 have starred this repo as of today.
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v5.6.1.b Changes
June 18, 2024Same as v5.6.1 or v5.6.1b.
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v5.6 Changes
December 01, 2023🆕 New features include:
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pin: falsenow always excludes all posts, even issue - 📌 pinned issues are now exposed to the JSON API
- issue content is now exposed in the JSON API
- 0️⃣ UA, SE language files added by default
- time handling changes #273 – switched from .Date.Format to dateFormat – this should in theory lead to better localized date and time formats but if you see issues please report them
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v5.6.0.b Changes
December 03, 2023🆕 New features include:
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pin: falsenow always excludes all posts, even issue - 📌 pinned issues are now exposed to the JSON API
- issue content is now exposed in the JSON API
0️⃣ UA, SE language files added by default
- b version includes a correction for the UA file
time handling changes #273 – switched from .Date.Format to dateFormat – this should in theory lead to better localized date and time formats but if you see issues please report them
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v5.5.2 Changes
November 25, 2023⚡️ This update adds the UA language file by default and fixes a typo in another part of cState.
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v5.5.2.c Changes
November 30, 2023⚡️ This update adds the UA and SE language files by default and fixes a bug from the version b version.
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v5.5.1 Changes
October 29, 2022cstate turns 5 years old this year! happy hacktoberfest!
⬆️ HTML Embed upgrades to version 2! See the status without even opening a new tab
🚨 Show a dialog when the status changes in the corner of the screen OR 🟢 / 🔴 show a status indicator dot in the HTML markup (like in the footer)
🔧 ⏰ Checks only on page load OR can be configured to do so every x seconds with setTimeout / programatically
💻 And there's still an option to provide your own UI like in version 1!
🚑 cstate v5.5.1 includes an important hotfix for users of hugo v0.101 or later as well as other modifications from v5.5:
- 👍 #243 – replace icons to be better supported across operating systems
- 🛠 #246 - translation bugfix (disrupted label did not show)
- #248 - Respect timezone even in last modified date when timeZone was set
- 👍 Better out of the box support for Cloudflare Pages:
0️⃣ To allow for the reading of API output by default on CF Pages, a
_headersfile is now added to /static/ from this version on. Netlify still hasnetlify.tomlfrom the root. https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/headers/ – if you use CF Pages and the API does not work, make sure you have this file in the static folder. -
v4.4 Changes
October 27, 2020⚡️ Why you should update
This update fixes some somewhat significant bugs like with official support for non-root directories , adds a lot of translations , and improves upon other quality of life aspects of cState. including *Netlify CMS updates.
👀 There are changes to default CSS, see changelog.
More exciting things coming soon.
Everything new
- ⚡️ Massive translations update Thank you, #hacktoberfest members!
- 🛠 Bugfix #126 - support for non-root directories
- Low to medium priority - new feature You can now filter issues on Netlify CMS (click to see screenshot example)
- Low to medium priority - new feature You can now hide pages and issues by turning them into drafts on Netlify CMS (this is a native feature of Hugo, by the way — you can do this on earlier versions in the frontmatter, but not from the CMS UI)
- Low priority - new feature By default, there will now be a cState logo on the Netlify CMS login page as well as a "Go back to site" button on that same page. Also, the link to go back to the site should now be more reliable and work with non-root directories.
- 0️⃣ Default CSS change - FOR CUSTOM HTML/CSS USERS The years in the yearly archive now look like blocks instead of things separated by lines in earlier versions. See the "after" screenshot here and what it looked like before for a comparison.
- 🛠 Netlify CMS bugfixes - see #149
- ➕ Added another example site to README - #150
Credits
🚀 Thank you to everybody who submitted translations and other fixes — I couldn't @ mention everybody, but I tried to reference every issues our community had a part in. Most of the things in this release came from user initiave!
🚀 Stars at time of release - 1081
🚀 At the time of release Statuspal.io is sponsoring cState and its author.
👍 Learn more about how you can support the author
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