Changelog

Every change shipped to Etch Studio, newest first.

November 5, 2026

• Fixed Clearer component highlights for clients

  Hovering inside a component highlights the component instead of its individual elements.

• New See who else is editing

  The action bar warns you when someone else, or another of your tabs, has the website open.

November 4, 2026

• Fixed Reordering inside components

  While you edit a component, its elements are no longer locked in place in the Structure panel, so you can drag them into a new order again.

November 3, 2026

• New Field presets and copy & paste

  Add a ready-made set of fields, copy fields from one content type to another, or delete all fields at once, from the ··· menu next to the content type name in the Content Hub's Fields view.

• Improved Lighter content queries

  Pass omit to queryContent() in a JavaScript data source to leave parts of each item out, linked items included. For example, omit: ['content'] skips page content, so a menu or listing that only needs titles and slugs loads far less.

November 2, 2026

• New Deploy through the AI Connector

  Agents connected through the AI Connector can now deploy your site to Cloudflare.

October 29, 2026

• New Fallbacks in expressions

  Use ?? or || in a dynamic expression to fall back to another value when the first is empty, for example {this.fields.metaTitle || this.title}.

• Improved Social image from a URL or expression

  A route's social image can now be a URL or a dynamic expression, as well as an image from the media library.

• Improved camelCase field keys

  New Content Hub fields get camelCase keys, like heroImage, so they read cleanly in dynamic expressions. Field keys can no longer contain hyphens.

October 28, 2026

• New Client editing

  Invite clients to edit page text and links, replace images and SVG icons, update component properties, and manage Content Hub items. Clients can publish changes while design and code controls stay out of their way.

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• New SEO through the AI Connector

  Agents connected through the AI Connector can now read and set each route's SEO, from title and description to social image, search visibility and redirects, and check the result for every page at once.

• Improved Page titles for new routes

  A new route under the site root starts with a title that puts each page's own title in front of the site's, instead of naming every page after the site.

• Fixed Steadier canvas scrolling

  Clicking a block on the canvas no longer scrolls the page, and selecting a block in a loop scrolls to its nearest copy.

October 27, 2026

• Improved The Content Hub now has multiple views

  The Content Hub now offers three views for editing content: popover, drawer, and fullscreen. Switch between them as you work, and the Content Hub remembers your preferred preview view.

• New Routes from data sources

  Add a data source to a dynamic route to publish a page for each item it returns. Template previews and the search preview use those items too.

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• Fixed Editing link text

  Clicking into a link's text now keeps it editable instead of dropping out on the first click.

• Fixed One outline at a time

  The canvas now outlines only the block under your pointer, and the parts of a component no longer look separately selectable.

October 26, 2026

• Improved SEO length guidance

  Title and description fields show a length bar and warn when the text is longer than search results display, counted on the text your page will actually show.

• Fixed Smoother client editing

  The client editing popover now stays inside the window, closes when you click elsewhere on the page, and shows a component's settings when you edit something inside it.

October 25, 2026

• Improved Refreshed icons

  Image, duplicate and edit icons were redrawn, and Content Hub item actions use them in a clearer order.

October 24, 2026

• Improved Clearer builder sidebar

  The sidebar has its own Builder button and shows more clearly which area is open and which ones you can't use.

October 23, 2026

• New Clients can edit images

  Clients can replace an image and its alt text right on the page.

• New Clients can manage content

  Clients can create and edit Content Hub items, while content types stay with the rest of the team.

• Improved Jump to content from the command palette

  Search content types and items from the command palette and open them directly.

October 22, 2026

• New Invite members

  Invite people to your workspace from the Members page.

• New Client role

  Give someone the Client role so they can edit and publish content without code, design, structure or settings controls getting in the way.

• New Unread updates indicator

  A dot on the What's new button shows when there are changes you haven't seen yet.

• Improved Clearer error messages

  When settings fail to save, or your role doesn't allow an action, the message now tells you why.

• Improved Safer file uploads

  Uploaded files that aren't images, video, audio or PDF are downloaded instead of opened in the browser.

• Fixed Redirects on published sites

  Redirects now take effect on the published site.

• Fixed Asset name conflicts

  Renaming or replacing an asset with a name that's already taken now shows an error instead of breaking the asset.

October 21, 2026

• New Redirects per route

  Send a route's visitors to another address with the status you choose, from the new Redirects & Errors tab. Redirects are published with the site.

• New Error page per route

  Any route can now set its own 404 page. Routes without one show which page they inherit.

• New What's new

  Open the changelog from the dashboard sidebar or from the builder.

• New Automatic canonical URL

  The canonical URL field has an automatic mode that fills it in for you.

• Improved SEO panel tabs

  The SEO panel is organized in tabs, and search visibility is picked with a single segmented choice.

• Fixed Steady search preview

  The search preview no longer jumps around while it loads.

October 20, 2026

• New Multiple workspaces

  Belong to more than one workspace and switch between them. Etch Studio opens the last one you used.

• New Member roles and access

  Change a member's role and choose which websites they can reach from the Members page.

• New Canonical URL per route

  A route can set its own canonical URL for its pages.

• Improved SEO Essentials panel

  The SEO panel was redesigned and simplified.

• Improved Settings apply right away

  The site reloads with the new values as soon as you save.

• Improved Cloudflare connection

  Connecting Cloudflare now links it to the correct workspace.

• Improved Removing members

  Removing someone from a workspace no longer deletes their account.

• Fixed Failed saves are reported

  A save or delete that fails now shows an error instead of looking like it succeeded.

• Fixed Canonical URLs with special characters

  Canonical URLs that contain special characters are now escaped correctly.