Livingdocs Release November 2026: Navigate Faster, Type Cleaner, See More
Every other month, we at Livingdocs release an updated version of our product wherein we expand its functionality with new features, capabilities and improvements. Now, our November 2026 Release is live and ready for users to explore.
New Navigation
The main navigation is one of the first things every user touches, and in projects with many dashboards it had become a long list to scroll through. We rebuilt the navigation panel so everyone gets to their views faster.
Favorites: Single entries or whole groups can be marked as favorites. They are collected in their own section.
Filter: Typing into the new filter field narrows the navigation to the matching entries.
Collapse and expand: The button next to the filter field closes or opens all groups at once.
The panel is also wider, so longer labels stay readable. The new navigation replaces the old one for all users, with the same entries and groups as before.
Smart Quotes: Apostrophes While Typing
On some keyboards, the typographic apostrophe (’) cannot be typed at all. A German keyboard on Windows, for example, only produces the straight one ('). Until now, editors had to insert the correct character by hand.
Smart quotes, which already turn straight quotation marks into typographic ones, now take care of the apostrophe during typing:
don't becomes don’t
O'Brien becomes O’Brien
rock'n'roll becomes rock’n’roll
Editors keep writing, and the correct apostrophe appears on its own.
The replacement is active once smart quotes are enabled and an apostrophe is set in the project configuration.
News Agency Reports: Images
News agencies sometimes deliver images together with their reports. Until now, a news agency report in Livingdocs could only hold text, so the images did not arrive with it.
Reports can now carry images, and they arrive already imported into the Media Library. Editors who scan incoming reports see all images of a report in one place and can look through them in a larger view before they decide to pick up the story.
Two things need to be in place before images reach the newsroom. The images have to be delivered with the reports, which our partner 200ok sets up for newsrooms that already use the news agency module. And each project defines whether and where the images land when a report becomes an article. The technical release notes describe the details.
Breaking Changes & Upcoming Deprecations
In order to keep Livingdocs as streamlined and user-friendly as possible, we periodically remove features when we have found better solutions to the problems they solve. We will always give you ample notice so that you have plenty of time to make adaptations to your setup.
In the November Release, there are some technical breaking changes you need to be aware of as a technician working with Livingdocs. No user-facing features are affected. Please read the Technical Release Notes for a comprehensive list of changes that may affect your newsroom.
To get more in-depth, technical information about this release, please refer to our documentation site.
We look forward to showing you what’s in store for our next release!
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