Hi everyone!
We’re starting something new in the CloudCannon Community: a monthly roundup of everything we ship to CloudCannon. These posts will highlight the most useful changes, call out fixes for common pain points, and generally keep you in the loop without making you dig through release notes yourself. This is the first one — here’s what landed in April.
Branch and repository selection improvements
This month we reworked how you pick repositories and branches when setting up or managing Sites and Projects. A few highlights:
- The Main Branch field is now a dropdown populated with your actual branch names, rather than a free-text field.
- Branch selection defaults to your repository’s default branch.
- If you’ve only connected one Git provider, CloudCannon will now auto-select it when creating a new Site or Project.
- If a repository has no branches at all, you’ll now see an inline error with a link to your Git provider.
- The Submit button on the Change Branch modal is now disabled when no branches are available or you’ve selected the branch you’re already on.
There were also several smaller UI and UX polish changes in that area.
Collaborative editing fix
Fixed an issue where you couldn’t see a teammate’s unsaved changes when collaborating in an Editing Interface, or update the file after using Switch to Editing.
Account Settings performance improvements
The Account Settings pages have been converted to Lit, so they should load faster. Opening Account Settings now also keeps the App Sidebar for your current Organization open.
DAM fixes
- Uploading to an Azure DAM would fail if your Azure account didn’t have
x-ms-useragentin its allowed headers. That’s fixed. - Files uploaded via the + Add button inside the DAM Browser now appear immediately without requiring a refresh.
- Searching for a file by its exact name in a large DAM now works correctly.
Publishing page improvements
- The Publish button is now correctly enabled when your only changes are binary files (PDFs, images, etc.).
- The button no longer shows “Publishing…” incorrectly when merging from a Publish Branch.
SSL: Try again button
If automatic SSL generation fails on your subdomain, there’s now a Try again button on the page so you can force a retry without contacting support.
A few other things worth mentioning
- Build Failure and Sync Failure notification emails have clearer messaging.
- Fixed a bug showing “undefined days remaining” on Free Trials.
- Adding your first credit card now correctly marks it as “In Use” without needing a refresh.
- Conflict resolution highlighting now works correctly in long files.
- GitLab Pull Request merge status now updates correctly after a CI pipeline finishes.
- Dependencies were updated to patch security vulnerabilities (twice this month).
That’s April! If you run into anything unexpected or have feedback on the branch/repository changes, drop it below or message our support team. 