dotDEV: January 2026
A message from our Technical Writer, Jamie Mauro:
As we wish one another a Happy New Year, we resolve to renew; we drop some signifiers and adopt others. When I type the characters 2-0-2-5, they trigger different sets of associations - lighting up different neural pathways - for every reader. But there’s this in common: those memories grow less dependent on the hippocampus, letting go of its guiding hand as they make their way into the cortical world. Graduations always get me misty-eyed.
Fittingly, December focused on feature maturity.
Analytics and conversion tracking have grown in repertoire. We’ve added a new SDK method for tracking purchases, downloads, and sign-ups; new automatic impression tracking with configurable thresholds, using the web-standard Intersection Observer API; new conversion metrics; and new simplicity, with automatic click tracking now built in. Behind the scenes, analytics events migrated to batch ingestion—enabling efficient processing for a healthy appetite.
In the new content editor, Custom Fields continue to improve, now offering render-mode selection between VTL- using a new endpoint that returns rendered Velocity - and modern Web Components.
There’s more maturation than there is intro space: critical fixes, refactorings, dependency modernizations, bundle audit logging, and more await you in the changelogs. Here’s to 2026 and to features that stand on their own.
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See Timelines for 2026 Updates
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