Change Log


Sep 2, 2026

Caching

  • Unchanged pages are skipped on republish based on the sitemap <lastmod> value.  
  • Removed API caching strategy.

301 Redirects

  • Pages that answer with a permanent redirect (301/308) are now removed like a 404 instead of publishing the redirect target under the old URL
  • Temporary redirects (302/303/307) are no longer followed on page fetches — the page is left in place for retry instead of being deleted

Error logging & notifications

  • Publish logs and dashboard errors now come from one consolidated source, so counts match across sessions
  • Broader error logging across the publish pipeline (file moves, asset chunks, HTML path substitution)
  • Added log filtering and log pagination
  • Suppressed noisy entries from the user-facing log

Sitemap

  • Added <lastmod> support to sitemap.xml
  • Continued sitemap publish hardening
  • Removed paginated URLs (?…_page=2) from sitemap.xml
  • Sitemap respects the project's root directory setting

Team & project settings

  • Added a publishing mode setting at the team level
  • Added an enterprise plan check on the team, applied when projects are created
  • Added a "remove trailing slash" setting — when on, trailing slashes are dropped from sitemap URLs and canonical URLs

Publishing

  • Improved output paths in API publishing mode
  • Improved data-wch-output-path handling and publish path resolution
  • Added AWS S3 resource policy connection

SEO

  • SEO link tags (including canonical) are now rewritten when data-wch-output-path is set, so they point at the published path
  • Fixed a bug in SEO link tag output

Archives

  • Archives view now shows one month of history

CMS webhooks

  • CMS webhooks now carry hosting and destination, so a webhook publish targets the right place

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Aug 10, 2026

Sitemap & publishing

  • Sitemap now emits hreflang alternates for localized pages, using the project's locale subdirectories
  • 404 pages are excluded from the sitemap in every locale
  • Hardened pagination handling on publish

Webhooks

  • Syncing from Webflow now deletes webhooks that no longer exist in Webflow
  • User can delete webhook in Webflow from WCH
  • URL rewrite settings UI updates

Accounts

  • Pending invites are now accepted automatically when the account is created through SSO

Platform

  • Graceful shutdown handling for publish workers on server termination
  • Cache updates
  • Hid project settings, team settings, and other admin-only controls from non-admin users, and enforced it on the API
  • Moved the frontend build to CodeBuild
  • Improved default locale publishing for CMS items

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Jul 29, 2026

Team & project settings

  • Added team settings for including code components
  • Added team settings for publishing type

Webhook management

  • New webhook management: list the webhooks on a project, import existing ones from Webflow (deduped), and delete them from both Webflow and WES
  • Production webhook publishes now promote the stored build instead of re-rendering the whole project, when the destination is marked as production
  • Added logs for the CMS unpublish webhook, plus a toast in the UI
  • Improved CMS webhook localization

Publishing

  • Added support for a parent directory on CMS items
  • Added a staging URL setting for webhook publishing
  • Fixed missing files in code components
  • Fixed localized page publishing
  • Fixed CSS not landing in the production folder
  • Updated S3 configuration
  • Added default localization handling for CMS items

Platform

  • Improved notifications to include publishing information
  • Improved toast message updates

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Jul 19, 2026

Code Components

  • Added support for code components, letting you publish and manage custom code blocks in your project
  • Added a file directory prefix option for code component directories
  • Added configuration setting for including local code components

Sitemap & Publishing

  • Added a setting to exclude specific URLs from the generated sitemap
  • Added individual file uploads for Aliyun deployments
  • Enabled pagination for large publishes
  • Added a setting for a custom JavaScript and CSS path
  • Improved JavaScript and CSS path handling
  • Added team setting for JavaScript and CSS path update

CMS Webhooks

  • Added CMS webhooks, automatically publishing CMS items to WCH
  • Added webhook creation flow in settings
  • Improved webhook user notifications

Improvements

  • Refined per-page CSS generation and asset refetching
  • Updated S3 configuration and scheme for deployments
  • Improved handling of "publish all pages" and push-to-production
  • Reduced log noise by downgrading a non-critical error to a warning
  • Surfaced file directory prefix in settings

Platform

  • Upgraded the backend for improved performance and security

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Jun 30, 2026

URL Rewrite Publishing

- Added URL rewrite support as a publishing option in project settings
- Added support for publishing CMS items to custom WCH Output Path values
- Improved URL rewrite handling for created, updated, and deleted CMS items
- Improved sitemap generation for projects using URL rewrites
- Added URL rewrite field naming to use data-wch-output-path

Publishing

- Improved per-page CSS handling for single-page and multipage publishing
- Added publish duration to production publish notifications
- Improved handling for deleted pages during production publishing
- Improved support for publishing static pages, CMS pages, and all pages from the Render page
- Added pagination to the Render page
- Improved file tracking for CSS and JavaScript assets

Search App

- Launched the WCH Search/API app
- Added Webflow sync support through API and webhook workflows
- Added staging and production data sync gates
- Added sync history for staging and production syncs
- Added syncing notifications and loading states
- Added CMS and design page weighting
- Added word weighting for search results
- Added fuzzy search support
- Added controls to include or exclude CMS and design pages from search data and API endpoints
- Added JSON endpoints for site search and collection data
- Added collection-level search settings
- Added support for static pages in API sync and search data
- Added webhook creation flow after Webflow connection

301 Redirects

- Added a 301 Redirects extension page
- Added support for generating a JSON export of all Webflow 301 redirects

Deployments

- Added Aliyun deployment destination support
- Improved Azure deployment settings by allowing more fields to be edited
- Added Azure setup help text after connecting with Azure
- Improved S3 deployment messaging

Infrastructure & Reliability‍

- Updated application packages
- Improved reliability for large project publishing
- Improved archive cleanup for deleted pages and assets
- Improved sitemap generation across standard, paginated, template, and URL rewrite publishing workflows

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May 28, 2026

Deployments
- Added Azure deployment support for teams
- Added support for multiple Azure deployment destinations
- Added Production toggle support for Azure deployments
- Added ability to delete Azure deployments
- Improved Azure deployment flow so users are guided to complete SSO after creating a new deployment
- Improved deployment creation user experience

Publishing
- Added llms.txt support
- Improved safety checks for archive creation
- Improved Render page UI for autogenerated pages
- Added non-published pages to Render page for multipage publishing
- Removed unnecessary checkboxes from autogenerated /page directory files

Webflow Integration
- Began beta testing Webflow Designer app experience

Settings
- Improved API settings confugration
- Added source form validations to prevent invalid configurations

Infrastructure & Reliability
- Completed infrastructure updates to improve deployment stability
- Improved speed and support for large projects
- Added additional validation around publishing workflows

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April 29, 2026

Performance & Scalability
- Enhanced performance for handling extensive Webflow projects
- Improved UX for multi-page publishing, including selection of new and existing pages

Publishing
- Multi-page publishing from the Render page
- Added support for Webflow single-page publishing

Assets & Styling
- Improved per-page CSS handling for sites with page-specific stylesheets

Webflow Integration
- Webflow auth flow added when API publishing is enabled
- Improved cache support using the Webflow API
- Webflow auth flow triggered when cache is enabled

Reliability
- Detection of private staging Webflow sites with graceful error messaging

Teams & Projects
- Expanded Excluded URL support for teams
- Added project search for faster navigation across projects
- Ability to define and customize project slugs during setup

UX Improvements
- Improved help text across team and project settings

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April 8, 2026

API Publishing
- WCH now supports importing Webflow pages through the API
- Enterprise Webflow customers can now import websites that don't have site plans

Server Architecture
- Server architecture has been refactored to improve speed, stability, and performance during large and concurrent publishing jobs

Team Level Settings
- Meta.json can now be toggled at the team level
- Staging visibility can now be configured at the team level
- Improved help text across team and project settings

Webhook Improvements
- Logging added for webhook creation
- Improved webhook setup during destination create and edit

Rendering & Publishing
- Improved UI updates on the Render page

Logging Improvements
- Improved logging UI
- Increased logging coverage across workflows
- Publishing errors are now elevated for better visibility

Pagination Support
- Pagination can now be enabled in project settings
- Documentation added for proper pagination setup
- Improved reliability when publishing paginated pages

Azure Upgrades
- Azure Deployments are now able to create webhooks
- Staging visibility can now be toggled at the team level
- Meta.json can now be enabled at the team level
- Publishing metadata now includes user email (when configured)

UI/UX Improvements
- Helptext has been updated across the app

General
- Various minor bug fixes and optimizations

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March 16, 2026

Staging Configuration
- Staging visibility is now configurable per project: public, private, or no staging

Webhook Management
- Webhooks can now be configured at the team level
- Webhooks are now created automatically during project setup

Project Archive Improvements
- Project archive now supports a root directory
- Meta.json added to project.zip

Asset Handling
- Webflow-hosted fonts are now pulled into projects automatically

Performance & Security
- Improved speed and reliability of publishing process
- Security updates completed

General
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes

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February 16, 2026

Team Deployment Support (AWS)
- Admins can now configure a shared AWS deployment at the team level
- Team members can reuse the deployment configuration without needing to set it up per project

Archive Name Configuration
- Archive names can now be customized to better support multi-project and multi-environment deployments

Azure Blob Storage Deployment
- You can now deploy directly to Azure Blob Storage

Multi-Repo GitHub Deployment
- You can now add multiple GitHub repositories to a deployment

Clear Assets After Deploy
- When enabled, WCH automatically clears stored deployment assets after publishing
- This allows WCH to avoid storing any client data, ideal for more sensitive projects

Improved Asset Support
- Transferring video background images and CSS-based SVG images is now supported

Security Improvements
- Strengthened security across the entire WCH application
- Improved role management to give admins clearer control
- Improved invitation flow

Interface Improvements
- Updated WCH interface and added new logo
- Overhauled user experience for Azure Deployments
- Miscellaneous bug fixes

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