Here at the Guardian, we work on several things simultaneously – for example our Open Platform Content API, the new Identity Platform and our Discussion Platform which are detailed elsewhere. Some weeks we spend a lot of time on improving our R2 platform; other weeks we concentrate on other projects.
This iteration we’ve been working mainly on other internal projects, so this fortnight’s release (number 102) is smaller than most. However, below are highlights of the changes we can talk about which we’ve added to our R2 core content management and delivery system:
We now include ‘first published’ in article history + newspaper meta data
Sometimes an article is updated so significantly that its publishing date is changed. We’ve now added the original publication date information to the article history so readers are able to see when the original version was published.
Other items
- We’ve enhanced our Twitter Feed software for use on our Ashes Interactive
- We have made improvements to and upgraded our Omniture tracking software
- To improve performance, we now call our jQuery Javascript library from Google’s servers
Bug Fixes and small enhancements
Each release includes a number of bug fixes (raised by our readers via userhelp@guardian.co.uk and editors) and small enhancements, some of which are highlighted below:
- Length of email opt-in field on Competition page extended to 100 characters
- Currency now showing on Guardian Bookshop Bestsellers component
- Styling fixed on Multimedia Placement Unit (MPU) component
- Removed several redundant templates
- The Information link that appears on the crumbtrail on community pages was going to a an error page