v9.0.0 release

🌎 Multilingual support

• German (translated via OpenAI)
• Japanese (thanks to mayumihara)

🧪 Experimental features

• External UI script support for dashboards and Front Matter panel
• Front matter AI 🤖

Info: To enable the experimental features you need to set the frontMatter.experimental setting to true.

✨ New features

• Added description AI suggestion for GitHub sponsors
• The Visual Studio Code theme support is now released in the stable version
• #424: Snippet wrapping to allow easier updates or changes to previously set snippets in the content
• #585: New content relationship field type (contentRelationship)
• #598: Multilingual support
• #615: Added support for astro:assets - Astro Assets

🎨 Enhancements

• #558: Moved the tags and categories to a .frontmatter/database/taxonomyDb.json file
• #566: Keep the panel context on the live preview
• #568: Update the preview URL if the slug changes
• #569: Remove the page bundle folder on content removal
• #586: Allow to specify the content card fields
• #588: Added extensibility support to override card fields
• #591: Support for date format in the datetime field
• #593: Add support for date formatting in the preview path
• #599: Add a placeholder when the base panel view is empty
• #602: Find content outside the Front Matter workspace folder
• #611: Fix typo in the frontMatter.global.disabledNotifications setting
• #619: Added the fmWebviewUrl property to be used in the registerCardImage extensibility library

⚡️ Optimizations

• #584: Ignore type field in content-type validation

🐞 Fixes

• #564: Fix to only pass strings to the taxonomy dashboard
• #567: Fix taxonomy filters that are incorrectly positioned
• #572: Fix the media snippet placeholder link
• #577: Fix in the dataFile field where data entries get overwritten
• #590: Fix for image fields inside a sub-block
• #595: Fix for media metadata now showing up
• #596: Fix for number field in block data
• #603: Fix problem with page bundles and path placeholders
• #616: Fix content filtering
• #617: Fix insert media snippet dialog by using a slideover instead of a dialog
• #620: Fix in array field of data files
• #621: Create data file if it does not exist yet

v8.4.0 release

🧪 Experimental features

• External UI script support for dashboards
• Visual Studio Code Theming support for the dashboards
• Front matter AI 🤖

Info: To enable the experimental features you need to set the frontMatter.experimental setting to true.

🙏 Exclusive Features for Sponsors

We're excited to announce a brand new feature exclusively available to sponsors of Front Matter CMS. With this update, we've added Front Matter AI to the project, which provides helpful suggestions for creating new content such as title suggestions and tag/category suggestions.

Important: To access the Front Matter AI feature, you will need to sign-in (backers & supports sign-in instructions) and set the frontMatter.sponsors.ai.enabled setting to true and you're good to go! We put it behind a setting to not automatically enable it and let you decide if you want to use it or not.

If you're not already a sponsor, now is a great time to consider supporting the project. By becoming a sponsor, you not only gain access to exclusive features like Front Matter AI, but also help to support the ongoing development and maintenance of the project. You can become a sponsor by visiting the GitHub sponsor page.

✨ New features

• #363: Multiline support for the string field in data view
• #513: Added support for external UI scripts to add custom HTML on the dashboard elements
• #530: Implementation of the Front Matter AI 🤖 powered by mendable.ai
• #537: Allow to use the root path / as the public folder
• #541: Added title AI suggestions for GitHub sponsors
• #548: Project selection support when working in mono-repos or multi-root workspaces
• #550: Added taxonomy (tags/categories) AI suggestions for GitHub sponsors

🎨 Enhancements

• Added an unknown field for uniforms when it has no type defined
• #512: Added the jsonc file association for the frontMatter.json file. That way, you can use comments in the file.
• #522: Configuration support added for Astro
• #523: Added support for floating/decimal numbers with a new number field property called numberOptions
• #524: Removed the Global settings view from the panel. You can still get it back by configuring a custom view mode.
• #535: Retain the scroll position after selecting a media file
• #538: Added support to encode emojis in the string field
• #549: Git submodule support to sync changes
• #554: When inserting snippets, only the content snippets will be shown

⚡️ Optimizations

• #534: Moved the mediaDb.json file to a .frontmatter/database folder instead of the .frontmatter/content folder
• #536: Set the start location from the script to the root of the workspace
• #555: When generating a content-type from existing content, Front Matter will better detect the type of field
• #556: Content values are aligned to the type of field

🐞 Fixes

• #518: Fix an issue where the YAML parser adds line breaks to long strings
• #520: Add the URL protocol to the host on opening the preview if it's missing
• #521: Fix empty snippets dashboard placeholder
• #526: Fix card content menu
• #528: Fix where the .astro code section --- is seen as front matter
• #529: Fix YAML parsing in Windows which added an extra carriage return
• #531: Fix prettier update which caused data views to not render list items
• #539: Fix the override of the default file prefix on content creation
• #543: Fix JSON schema for script commands
• #547: Fix setting default value in a hidden group field (block)
• #552: Fix for content retrieval in multi-root workspaces
• #557: Fix for dropdown of the tag picker

v8.3.0 release

✨ New features

• #407: External config support

🎨 Enhancements

• #425: Added support for placeholders in the content paths and previews
• #473: Allow setting the SEO title name with the frontMatter.taxonomy.seoTitleField setting
• #474: Allow to define the file prefix on content types
• #484: Support for overriding scripts per environment type
• #494: Support for external image URLs in previews
• #497: Support for movie media previews in the content dashboard
• #502: Keyboard bindings added to open dashboard, insert media, and insert snippet
• #503: Allow making changes to the preview URL in the webview
• #504: Allow specifying the filename for your page bundles
• #505: Experimental Visual Studio Code theming support

⚡️ Optimizations

• #496: Make use of the storageUri and globalStorageUri for storing larger states

🐞 Fixes

• #469: Fix for using the root folder as content folder
• #470: Fix initialize project dashboard description
• #480: Updated add missing fields label to add missing fields to content-type
• #482: Update the description when you want to overwrite the default content type description
• #488: Fix an issue where the .frontmatter folder gets created before initializing the project
• #493: Fix an issue where a custom placeholder value is replaced by an array instead of a string

v8.2.0 release

✨ New features

• #362: Support for conditional metadata
• #412: Allow frontmatter.json to be split in multiple files

🎨 Enhancements

• #360: Define which content types can be used on your page folders
• #406: Added support for single data entries in the data dashboard
• #428: Improved UX for inserting images to your content
• #430: Support for HEXO its post_asset_folder setting (image location)
• #434: Webview errors are logged in the extension output
• #440: Type to search/filter in the snippets dashboard
• #447: Allow to use placeholders on git commit messages
• #449: Show filename if the title is not set
• #450: Additional time placeholders added {{hour12}}, {{hour24}}, {{ampm}}, and {{minute}}
• #458: Ability to configure the file prefix on folder level

⚡️ Optimizations

• #431: Performance improvements for the content dashboard
• #448: Retrieving files fails when content folder name and workspace folder name are the same
• #455: Show a description for the SEO section when title nor description is set

🐞 Fixes

• Fix field error message color
• #433: Fix issue with rendering an incorrect title value on the content dashboard
• #462: Fix issue in script error notification
• #465: Deleted content does not get added in git when syncing
• #471: Fix typo on data dashboard

v8.1.2 release

🐞 Fixes

• #435: Fix required fields text color
• #436: Fix inserting image/video snippets without defined fields

v8.1.1 release

🐞 Fixes

• #422: Fix in panel initialization logic

v8.1.0 release

✨ New features

• #369: New required property to specify if a content-type field is required
• #376: Ability to run scripts after content was created
• #377: Git sync actions added on panel and content dashboard (pull and push your changes to remote)
• #379: New frontMatter.config.reload command to reload the configuration file + reinitialize its listeners
• #391: New description property to show a message underneath the input field
• #401: Content dashboard now has pagination enabled and can be disabled via the frontMatter.dashboard.content.pagination setting

🎨 Enhancements

• #352: Custom placeholders now support scripting
• #370: Define the tags and categories as reserved keywords for custom taxonomy
• #372: Rename Taxonomy tab to Taxonomies
• #374: Hide the front matter section to use the panel instead
• #383: Add the item menu to the content list view
• #385: If no default value for the draft field is defined, the field value will be set to true
• #388: New stop server action has been added to the panel
• #390: Implement another JSON parser in order to be able to parse the frontmatter.json file better
• #394: Ordering of snippet fields is based on their field definition
• #395: Added support for custom snippet fields on media snippets
• #402: Custom sorting of content now supports number fields
• #417: New hyperlink wysiwyg option
• #418: New heading and divider fields for your content-type definition

⚡️ Optimizations

• Internal post message optimizations to the webviews
• Preview tab now shows the title of the page/content if present

🐞 Fixes

• #378: Fix last modified update only to content in content folders
• #384: Fix issue title field in sub-fields
• #393: Fix Windows file path for retrieving the preview path
• #396: Fix for index and _index page previews
• #398: Fix Windows folder path parsing in data folder retrieval
• #400: Fix for draft/published content grouping
• #403: Fix for media files with spaces on importing in article content
• #404: Fix for published sorting option in media dashboard
• #408: Fix for missing dashboard.taxonomy.view view mode in the JSON schema

v8.0.1 release

🐞 Fixes

• Fix PSD media card icon image
• Fix missing clipboard icon for the media card action
• Fix in tags rendering on content cards

v8.0.0 release

✨ New Features

• #291: New taxonomy dashboard for managing tags, categories, and custom taxonomies

🎨 Enhancements

• Ignore the SEO keywords field for missing content-type field
• #307: New list field which allows creating a list of items
• #345: Media dashboard UI improvements to visualize the content and public folders
• #349: New slug field which allows you to manage the slug of your post from the Front Matter panel
• #350: New previewPath property for the frontMatter.content.pageFolders setting. This allows you to specify a section prefix for all content created in that directory.
• #351: New template property for content types that allows you to combine templates and content types for content creation
• #353: Add the default content type on project initialization
• #366: Better support for using block fields in another block field

🐞 Fixes

• #348: Fix media dashboard breadcrumb when multiple page folders are in use
• #356: Re-introduce the labelField to the frontMatter.taxonomy.fieldGroups setting
• #358: Fix for relative path of the public folder
• #364: Honour file ending rules in data files
• #365: Show spinner on the initial load of the content dashboard

v7.3.4 release

🐞 Fixes

• #354: Fix Windows file path parsing for inserting media files