Notes on Release 102

Every two weeks, we release an update to our core content management and delivery system – here are some of the latest changes we've made

Martin Hearn

Published on Friday, 3 December 2010



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

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An example of the new publication history details Photograph: guardian.co.uk

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

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:

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