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Changelog

What's new?

A rundown of the latest DevRel Directory feature releases, product enhancements, design updates, and important bug fixes.

Feature

Events and CFP calendar

DevRel events now have a home here: the events calendar lists upcoming conferences and community events alongside CFPs that are still open.

What's new?

  • Browse upcoming DevRel-relevant events, each linking straight to the official site
  • See which CFPs are still open, sorted by deadline
  • Know an event we're missing? Submit it through the new event submission form
Improvement

The fundamentals guides got a full rewrite

The four core fundamentals pages were rewritten from generic overviews into reference material.

What's new?

Feature

Latest posts on the homepage

The homepage now shows what is new instead of staying the same between visits.

What's new?

  • A "Latest insights" section on the homepage with the three newest posts from the blog
  • The announcement banner at the top of every page now links to the most recent article, so it stays current as new posts are published
  • Dismissing the banner hides it until the next new article comes out
Feature

The jobs board is live

DevRel roles now have a home here: the jobs board lists open positions in developer advocacy, community, docs, and DevRel leadership.

What's new?

  • Browse open DevRel roles, each linking straight to the official posting
  • Listings stay live for 60 days, newest first
  • Hiring? Community listings are free, and featured posts get pinned on top
Feature

Follow the blog with RSS

You can now follow the site from anywhere, and search engines can find every page.

What's new?

  • An RSS feed with every blog post, so new articles land straight in your feed reader
  • A new RSS link in the footer, next to GitHub
  • A sitemap covering the docs, blog, changelog, directory, and jobs pages, so search engines index everything
Feature

Branded preview cards for shared links

Links you share from devrel.directory now come with a proper preview image.

What's new?

  • Every page generates its own preview card, showing the page title on the site's dark theme
  • Cards appear wherever link previews are supported: social platforms, chat apps, and messengers
  • Docs, blog posts, the directory, and the jobs board are all covered
Improvement

The DevRel strategy guide is now a quick reference

The DevRel strategy page is now a quick-reference framework instead of a second long read.

What's new?

  • The framework in four parts: goals, audience, activities, and metrics, each with concrete examples
  • The three failure modes that sink most DevRel programs, each with a self-test
  • A pointer to the comprehensive blog guide for the full walkthrough
Feature

Submissions are open

You can now suggest additions to the site through structured submission forms. The Submit buttons on the directory lead straight to them.

What's new?

  • Suggest a tool, community, newsletter, podcast, or agency for the directory
  • Submit an open DevRel role for a free listing
  • Every submission is reviewed before it goes live
Improvement

Search now covers the whole site

Site search used to look through the docs only. Now it covers everything: blog posts, directory listings, and open jobs show up in the results alongside the docs, each labeled by section.

What's new?

  • Search for a topic and matching blog posts appear next to the docs
  • Tools, communities, newsletters, and podcasts from the directory are searchable by name, description, and tags
  • Open DevRel roles turn up when you search for a job title or company
Content

New docs section: AI-era DevRel

New docs section: AI-era DevRel

Developers increasingly arrive through AI assistants and coding agents, not browsers. The new AI-era DevRel section is a practical, first-principles guide to that shift.

What's new?

The section sits right after Fundamentals in the docs sidebar.

Feature

AI-friendly docs

devrel.directory now practices the AI-era DevRel it writes about. AI assistants and crawlers can read the whole knowledge base in plain Markdown, and every docs page has quick actions for working with it in your AI tool of choice.

What's new?

  • /llms.txt - a Markdown index of the docs and blog for AI agents, following the llms.txt convention
  • /llms-full.txt - the entire documentation as one Markdown file
  • Every docs page is also available as raw Markdown by appending .md to its URL
  • New actions on each docs page: copy the page as Markdown, view it raw, or open it directly in ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor
Improvement

Blog highlight boxes match the new design

Two highlighted callouts in our DevRel strategy guide still used bright blue boxes from before the site's design refresh. They now use the same card style as the rest of the site.

What's new?

  • Highlight boxes in the DevRel strategy guide now match the site-wide design
  • They read comfortably in both light and dark mode
Improvement

Blog icons now match the new look

The icons in our blog posts still carried their old mixed colors from before the site's design refresh. They now use the same calm, unified style as the rest of the site.

What's new?

  • Icons across all blog posts now match the site-wide design
  • Less visual noise, so the content itself stands out more
Improvement

A clearer changelog

The changelog you are reading right now got a layout upgrade. Updates now sit on a timeline, so it is easier to scan what changed and when.

What's new?

  • Each update shows its date and tags in a column next to the entry
  • Entry titles and text follow one consistent style
  • Updates always appear newest first
Feature

The Directory is live

The site now does what its name promises: there is an actual directory at /directory. It is a curated map of the DevRel ecosystem, seeded with the resources practitioners actually use.

What's new?

  • Browse listings across five categories: tools, communities, newsletters, podcasts, and agencies
  • Filter by category or search across names, descriptions, and tags
  • Every listing links straight to the resource itself
  • Know something that belongs here? Submit a listing right from the page
Improvement

Docs cleanup

We removed the placeholder pages that were sitting in the docs navigation without real content. Everything you see in the sidebar now is an actual article, and the start page reflects what the knowledge base currently covers.

What changed?

  • Placeholder pages were removed from the docs and the navigation
  • The start page was rewritten to point at the content that exists
  • Small fixes across the fundamentals pages (typos and formatting)

More sections will come back as they are written properly - follow the changelog or the blog for updates.

Fix

Fixed link previews

When you shared a devrel.directory link in chat apps or on social platforms, the preview card could show the wrong site name. Link previews now show DevRel Directory with the right page title and description.

Fix

Fixed page styling

We fixed an issue where documentation and blog pages could display without their intended text styling. Headings, lists, and article layouts now render the way they were designed to.

What changed?

  • Documentation pages show proper headings, spacing, and typography again
  • Blog posts got their formatting back, including the table of contents and article layout
Improvement

A fresh look

devrel.directory has a new visual identity. The site is now dark by default, with a single blue accent and a calmer, more focused layout across every page.

What's new?

  • A redesigned start page that shows what lives here: the docs, the blog, and the changelog
  • Dark mode is the default look, and the light theme is one click away
  • The blog index is easier to scan, and posts got a cleaner header
  • The changelog you are reading right now was restyled to match
Content

Three new practice guides

The knowledge base now has a Practices section with three in-depth guides.

What's new?

  • DevRel Activities - the core activity clusters, when each one earns its place, and how to combine a few into a coherent program
  • Community Building - starting, growing, and measuring a developer community, plus how to show up well in communities you do not own
  • Content Creation - content types and their jobs, writing craft for developers, distribution, and a sustainable pipeline

These replace pages that previously sat in the navigation as placeholders. More sections are being expanded the same way - follow the changelog for updates.

Feature

Changelog 0.1 added

We've added a changelog to the site. This is the first entry.

What's new?

We're excited to introduce our new changelog feature! This addition will help keep you informed about the latest updates, improvements, and features added to the devrel.directory.

Keep an eye on this space for future updates!

Future iterations will also include credits to the contributors who made the changes. 🤗