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🐝 Improved Usability, Flexibility, Customization and More! 🐝

October 1, 2024

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We’re back! 14.5.0 is live in Nitro and is packed with improvements, bug fixes and more!
This release focuses on continued improvements to usability, customization, and visual consistency!

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Spot Everyone at a Glance: Meet the New Multiple Users Component!

September 18, 2024

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We've added a fresh option to our MultipleUsersStacked component with the new bubble variant! This update showcases full user avatars in a sleek, Apple-inspired grid layout, enhancing recognition and clarity. It's a versatile addition to your toolkit, offering a refined way to display multiple users!

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Star Ratings and Page-Turning Upgrades 💫

September 6, 2024

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Our Star Rating kit now shines brighter with added interactivity and hover effects! ⭐ And don’t forget to flip through content with our Pagination kit, now available in React in addition to Rails.

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⭐ Improving Usability, Flexibility, and Accessibility ⭐

August 31st, 2024

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This release brings several enhancements and new kits aimed at improving user experience, customization, and visual clarity!
To make things easier on devs, Playbook now allows you to import our custom themes directly into your apps to style Highcharts charts. In this release, we also introduced different size options for form pills, offering more flexibility for you. We added a new form control for star ratings, provided a new error variant for badge notifications to bring clarity for error states, and added a loading state for buttons in the Dialog. Check out all the other great improvements in 14.2.1 here:

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⏫ Leveling Up: Enhancements, Bug Fixes, and More! ⏫

August 13, 2024

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As always, we’ve been hard at work to bring you new features, bug fixes, and improvements that not only improves our platforms quality and usability but will help you create even better UI and experiences! Here’s everything that shipped on 14.1.0:

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🎨 Playbook, Now With Vite! 🌈

August 5, 2024

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With 14.0.0, Playbook is now Vite-driven! This means that devs can continue to ship code faster and more efficiently, and it makes contributing to Playbook even easier! Additionally, our bundle size decreased by 24%! Enjoy this new, faster and more efficient Playbook experience!

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🎨 Icon Colors Made Easy! 🌈

July 31, 2024

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Customize icons effortlessly with the new color prop! 🎨 Apply any text, status, data, product, or category color with just a prop—no more custom CSS or text wrapping. Enjoy instant, hassle-free updates! 🚀🌟

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🗂️ Tabbing Your Way Through Rails! 🛤️

July 19, 2024

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Hey Rails devs! 🎉 Our Nav Kit just got an upgrade with a new tabbing variant! Now, you can navigate dynamic content like a pro. Dive in and let your content flow! 📚✨ Happy coding! 💻🎨

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🐉 Effortless Drag and Drop Functionality with the NEW Draggable Kit! ⬆️⬇️

July 10, 2024

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We are excited to introduce the new Draggable kit, a highly flexible solution for all your drag-and-drop needs! Use the simple subcomponent structure for greater flexibility or use the customized solutions for the List, Selectable List or Card kits for super easy implementation out of the box!

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🌁 Introducing the New Overlay Kit — A Seamless Way to Implement Overlays! ‍🌁

June 28, 2024

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Our latest Overlay component provides depth and dynamic feel to otherwise flat page elements. From artfully containing overflowing content, to improving page readability, to directing your users' attention to important content and actions; our Overlays give you even more power to expertly control your users' experience.

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13.30.0

June 12, 2024

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Unlock Ultimate Customization with a Single Prop for All Chart Kits!

June 07, 2024

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Our latest addition simplifies customizations for all of our chart kits by allowing users to pass any settings accepted by Highcharts through a single prop. This enhancement ensures you have complete control over your chart’s appearance and behavior without the hassle of managing multiple properties or needing custom, 1-to-1 props to support your unique chart requirements.

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Level Up Your UI With Our NEW Dropdown Kit!

May 21, 2024

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Our new Dropdown kit was carefully crafted without third-party dependencies or config requirements to ensure ease of use. In fact, the only thing easier than implementing our dropdown is customizing it; custom triggers, multi-component options with complex layouts, custom displays for select options, and much more are easier done than said. Experience unparalleled customization with Playbook's meticulously crafted Dropdown kit!

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⛰️ Elevate Your Avatars With Our Latest Component Overlays! ⛰️

May 06, 2024

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Customize your Avatars with our new, innovative component overlay feature. Seamlessly integrate essential information and interactive elements with an intuitive prop API to effortlessly enhance your Avatar kits.

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13.26.0

May 01, 2024

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Upgrade Your Data Game: Explore the Enhanced Features of Bar Charts!

April 22, 2024

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Say hello to a whole new level of versatility! With our new updates, you can showcase negative values, stack data for clearer insights, and effortlessly integrate a secondary yAxis for comprehensive data representation—all in a single, dynamic graph. Elevate your data visualization game and unlock limitless possibilities with Playbook's enhanced Bar Chart. Here is what else we shipped with 13.25.0:

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🙌 Teamwork Makes the Dream Work 🙌

April 02, 2024

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We’ve been hard at work to ship requests from teams! To keep you up to date, our latest release, 13.23.0, is live in nitro-web, so keep an eye out for that.

In an effort to keep supporting all of you great developers, we're excited to announce that we shipped 2 feature requests to teams, as well as fixed 5 bugs! In addition to that, we have also made a huge improvement to our system by upgrading to rails 7.0.8.1.

Lastly, we're continuing to monitor and upgrade key parts of our system to keep Playbook up-to-date, so you can keep shipping great work!

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🔨 Squashing Bugs, Enhancing Kits, and Introducing New Features! 🔨

March 27, 2024

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We squashed a lot of bugs, and spruced up Playbook as a whole by upgrading to Ruby 3.3.0.
We're also proud to announce that we will be upgrading Rails to 7.0.8 in the next release. 🙌

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✨ Enhance Your UI Flexibility with Absolute Positioning in Global Props for Advanced Kit Layering ✨

March 18, 2024

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Take your UI design to the next level! Our latest update introduces absolute positioning in our global position props, empowering you to seamlessly arrange and layer kits. Great for intuitive status indication, notification placement, and overall enhanced user experience. 💅🎨

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13.20.0

March 05, 2024

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🌳 Explore Data Depths with the New Advanced Table Component in Playbook!

February 27, 2024

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Explore depths of nested data effortlessly. This latest addition to Playbook's design system brings clarity and control, transforming complex tables into intuitive insights.

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13.18.0

February 17, 2024

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13.17.0

February 2, 2024

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13.16.0

January 22, 2024

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13.15.0

January 5, 2024

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Customize Your Calendar: Introducing Quick Pick Custom Ranges for Tailored Date Selection

December 19, 2023

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Say goodbye to generic date options! Quick Pick Custom Ranges is here, allowing you to define and label your own date presets or add personalized choices to our default selection.

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13.13.0

December 8, 2023

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Dynamically Control Your Tooltips!

November 22, 2023

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Gone are the days that a tooltip appears on its own. You can now control tooltips' visible state via props, so they are rendered conditionally. Text truncation? Data values? You have the power to dynamically display your Tooltips when and where you need them!

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Multi Level Select with Customizable Radio Button Selectors!

November 13, 2023

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Introducing the upgraded Multilevel component with customizable radio selectors🚀🌟 – now with a touch of tech magic! 🪄📻

Say goodbye to boring checkboxes and hello to snazzy radio buttons that let you pick just ONE option. Why? Because less is more!

📢🚨New Feature Alert! - Hide those unwanted radios from any tree node that's not in the mood to play. 🌳🎩💫

Level up your kit with some radio button charm and dynamic hide-and-seek.

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13.10.0

October 19, 2023

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13.9.0

October 5, 2023

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The Unstyled Currency Kit Variant: Your Key to Dynamic Styling

September 23, 2023

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Now, with a simple boolean prop and our versatile typography kits, your currency displays can effortlessly adapt to any style for a more flexible user experience!

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🧠 Smart Multi-Line Truncation is Here!

September 22, 2023

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Got text content that’s too long to fully display? No job’s too large for the new truncate prop. Pop it into the Body or Title kit, set the number of lines to truncate to, and your overflow text will… 👋

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13.6.0

September 19, 2023

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No More Custom CSS! The Global Text Align Prop is Here!

September 14, 2023

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Gone are the days of adding custom CSS to align kits. With the global text-align prop, you can align any kit left, center, just by using textAlign=” ” as a prop!

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✨New Unstyled Variant✨: More Style options for Date 📆, Time ⏰, and Timestamp⏱️ Kits!

September 12, 2023

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In addition to the Date and Time kit, the Timestamp now also supports the 'unstyled' variant! The days of not having styled options for Date/Time kits are over. The new & improved Timestamp kit is now more flexible than ever with the ability to customize font sizes, weight, and color by wrapping the kit in any of our typography kits!

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13.3.0

September 7, 2023

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🤸 🎉 Collapsible, Flexible, Customizable: Introducing the New and Improved Nav Kit!

September 1, 2023

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Nesting navigation is easy with the Nav kit's new Collapsible variant. And we didn't stop at a built-in collapsible feature, we refactored the Nav kit to make it more flexible overall! You can now use global props to customize text, spacing, and icons, making Nav kit design possibilities almost endless!

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🚄 Playbook's On Track: Introducing the New File Upload for Rails ViewComponents! 📂

August 29, 2023

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The File Upload kit for Rails ViewComponents redefines HTML's default input to match Playbook's aesthetics, ensuring consistency and elegance for every upload. 🚀📂🎉

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💔 Say Goodbye to the Past: We're Breaking Up with moment.js! 🕒

August 22, 2023

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Say goodbye to the old and make way for the new as we bid adieu to moment.js in our Playbook design system! We've given our Date and Time kits a makeover, retiring the dated library in favor of a more vibrant and efficient solution. Our kits still handle dates and times flawlessly, but with the breakup, our bundle size has shed a whopping 25%, giving you a snappier experience.

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Collapsible Kit ✨Enhancements✨: External Controls and Customizable Icons!

August 17, 2023

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Have a stack of collapsible sections and need a way to expand & collapse them all at once? You can now implement external controls like buttons to do just that! There’s more -- you can also pass custom icons like plus (‘+’) or minus (‘-’) if you don’t fancy chevrons.

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12.38.0

August 15, 2023

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Text Fields Just Got Smarter!

August 9, 2023

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Get better control over your forms with our new input_options prop on our Text Input kit! Set any HTML input option as a prop and have it effortlessly get passed down to the styled input!

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August 4, 2023

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Tagging Made Easy! Say Hello to Seamless @mentions in Your Messages! 💬 👋

August 2, 2023

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Highlight users dynamically within chats with our new Message kit subcomponent, @mentions! Choose 'user' (default, blue) or 'self' (yellow) variants for easy implementation and level up your chat experience!

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Enhance Chat Engagement: Introducing the Reaction Button for Instant User Reactions!

July 28, 2023

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The new Reaction Button variant and its delightful, dynamic UI is our latest enhancement to your users' chat experience! Watch as emoji use and interactions take center stage, making every conversation more immersive and enjoyable. Say goodbye to bland chats and let emotions shine through like never before!

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Get Ready to Hover: Introducing the Global Hover Prop!

July 21, 2023

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Add some flair to your page by adjusting the shadow, scaling, or background color of elements when they’re being hovered over. The global hover prop is in beta now, and works with all kits. In particular, try it out with the Card, Button, or Message kit to add interactions to your page!

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Customize Your Toasts: Introducing 'Children' for Fixed Confirmation Toast Kit!

July 19, 2023

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Level up your toasts with our latest feature – "Children" for Fixed Confirmation Toast Kit! 🚀 Now, web developers can fully customize Fixed Confirmation Toast contents by easily passing ‘children’, making it a breeze to add custom content like links to your toasts. Say goodbye to static toasts and say hello to interactive and engaging user experiences! 🎉

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Responsive Design Made Easier: Introducing Responsive Titles!

July 13, 2023

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Titles can now dynamically change based on screen size, making responsive design easier to implement. Try it out by passing multiple size values to the size prop!

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Condensed Spacing for Data Heavy Tables

July 11, 2023

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Sometimes tables can be very data heavy and users run out of room quickly. With the new default spacing in the first and last columns, there is more room in the table, allowing users to add more data!

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Introducing Quick Pick: Effortless Date Range Selection with the Enhanced Date Picker

July 6, 2023

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A new Quick Pick variant now in DatePicker! This sleek and intuitive component provides a range of pre-defined date options, enhances user experience, and streamlines workflows.

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Updated Phone Number Input: Easier Value Manipulation in React Forms

June 29, 2023

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We’ve updated our PhoneNumberInput so that it’s more react-friendly. You can now pass a ref directly to the PhoneNumberInput kit, giving you more control over the input! This should make it much easier to manually clear the values when using with form libraries like formik, react-hook-form, or any form in general.

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An Easier Way to Display Structured Data: The MultiLevelSelect kit!

June 28, 2023

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We're excited to announce the release of our Multi Level Select kit for Rails and React. With this zero-dependency component, developers can easily add data to complex forms, bringing effortless navigation to any application.

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Detail Kit Unleashed: Supercharge Data Display in Your UI

June 22, 2023

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Need to display a wealth of information without cluttering your UI? Look no further than our brand-new Detail Kit! Designed specifically for showcasing hierarchical relationships of text and maintaining clarity in data-rich layouts, Detail is your go-to solution for tables, charts, and data-heavy UI.

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Styling typography just got easier!

June 9, 2023

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Sometimes you don't need all the styles that ship with the Date kit.
We have added a simple boolean prop called "unstyled" that puts control in your hands.
You can now wrap our Date kit with any of our typography kits (Title, Body, Caption, etc) and the date kit will inherit that component's styles! 🎉

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