We're back for the July edition of our monthly changelog where we highlight some of our big and small feature releases, user experience changes, and bug fixes!

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Features

  • Multiplayer prescence now extends to the whole editor! We added cursor following and presence in the file tree. Blog post
  • 11% of our languages are now runnable via nix! Check out https://arewenixyet.com to track our progress.
  • Launched a brand new status page to track our uptime.
  • We released a Python framework with built-in database and auth support. Blog post
  • You can now embed .draw files in markdown as if they were images: ![my cool drawing](art.draw).

User experience changes

  • Our password requirements are now stronger! Sorry not sorry.
  • Repl descrptions can now contain links and have a longer limit (1000 chars).
  • All thread notifications in a repl can be marked as read with one click.
  • You can now double-click the filename in a tab to edit it. replit draw files
  • Linux and Windows users can now use CTRL+SHIFT+C in the console or shell to copy from the terminal and CTRL+SHIFT+V to paste in the terminal.
  • Our terminal now uses the same typeface as rest the of our interface, IBM Plex Mono.
  • Code highlighting in the editor is now up to 20x faster!

Professional Development

Replit hosted our very first Teacher Professional Development this month!

  • 120 CS educators participated, 15 of them received certification for their CS curriculum which you'll be able to find and use in our Curriculum Hub this August!
  • Participants came together from all over the world, with educators tuning in from South Africa, the USA, Scotland, Sweden, Mexico, Japan, Canada, Spain, and more!
  • Check out their advice on teaching CS with Replit.

Bug Fixes

  • Multiplayer sessions did not always show users online.
  • Improved search accuracy in Teams for Education submissions.
  • Email notifications for certain actions were being sent even when notifications were switched off.
  • Hyphens in usernames were causing issues with our proxy for HTML repls.
  • Several fixes that reduced the possibility of data loss.