Adestra Release History

Here you will find legacy Adestra release notes. For the most recent releases, refer to our latest release notes.

Release	Features and fixes
3.69	AI assist - subject line assistant, file manager - sort function, UI - search box styling
3.68	AI assist - subject line assistant
3.67	DKIM - key length, bug fix - Inbound emails, bug fix - SMS unsubs
3.66	One-click unsubscribes, import logs - download link, PDT - launch copies
3.65	Bug fix - API campaign sends, bug fix - editing scheduled export
3.64	PDT - launch groups, UI - campaign compose cards, AI assist - subject lines (beta), bug fix - list report summary
3.63	Campaign options - subject line box, SMS limit preferences
3.62	Domain group report - improved readability
3.61	AI assist - subject lines (beta), UI - tag display settings
3.60	User management - update details
3.59	API - bulk subscribe/unsubscribe, campaign - name/subject editing, filters - UI, summary tables - UI, bug fix - campaign message view
3.58.2	Bug fix - core tables
3.58.1	Right-hand navigation - deprecated, support menu - relocated
3.58	API - cancel scheduled launches, file manager - improved drag-and-drop, file manager - resizing in Mozilla Firefox, tags - improved visuals
3.57	Filters - associated lists, bug fix - login page, bug fix - table reset, bug fix - modals, bug fix - launch approvals
3.56	Filters - disassociate filter, UI - message details, bug fix - table views in Mozilla Firefox
3.55	Campaigns - default launch settings, campaigns - targeting, UI - campaign details, bug fix - campaign variants
3.54	Campaign navigation - lists, style update - spam and link checks, bug fix - domain group reports, bug fix - failed export reruns
3.53	UI - campaign details, UI - message details
3.52	Email editor - navigation, domain headers - navigation, bug fix - summary tables
3.51.1	Bug fix - source editor
3.51	Bug fix - pinned menus
3.50	Left-hand navigation - new menu design, personal delivery time - updated defaults, right-hand navigation - frequency manager delete rule, UI - improved accessibility
3.49	Bug fix - list management
3.48.1	Performance enhancement - table queries
3.48	Campaigns - launch lists, bug fix - recent places, Bug fix - PDT time errors
3.47	Domain group reporting - visual overhaul, SMS messages - UTF-8
3.46	Bug fix - campaign overview, bug fix - file navigation
3.45	UI - navigation icons, bug fix - SMS errors with UTF-8
3.43	UI - campaign workflow, SMS reports - program link, bug fix - email editor placeholder images
3.42	Campaign - edit options, email editor - file locations, bug fix - conditional images
3.41	UI - button colors updated, UI - form builder, test email - personalisation
3.40	Email editor - HTTPS images
3.39	Tags - suggested tags added, UI - create buttons moved
3.38	Workspace API - active parameter added, bug fix -test email sending
3.37	UI - chat button moved
3.36	SMS - message length
3.35	Link check - URL shorteners, login authentication flow
3.34	UI - recent places relocation
3.33	UI - search bar, file manager - addition of search bar, bug fix - tags
3.32	Performance enhancements
3.31	Content & Spam Check - new email clients, bug fix - spam filters, Bug fix - data filter AND rule
3.30	Bug fix - tag mapping
3.29	Full name - character limit error message
3.28	Content preview creation process, bug fix - spam checker, bug fix - avatars
3.27	Event API - object ID, link conversion - campaign variant tabs, additional menu, and test campaign, bug fix - widget placement
3.26	UI - spam filters, content preview list - Litmus results, bug fix - login domain tab, bug fix - clear search
3.25	UI - campaign workflow, UI - content and spam check
3.24	Heatmap - web version and simple version clicks, bug fix - SMS report
3.23	Event match filter - campaign tags as a filter category, form elements table - element labels
3.22	List API - list type in query parameter, file names for bad and duplicate record zip files
3.21	Export manager - campaign tags in system fields, Move automation programs to another workspace, auto-generated reply ID

Adestra 3.69

AI assist - subject line assistant

Rollout of Adestra's AI assisted subject line generation tools, allowing you to:

• Add emojis to a subject line.

• Generate alternative subject lines.

• Generate subject lines based on previous campaigns.

To access the AI subject line tools:

1. Create a campaign and navigate to the options page.

2. Select the subject line entry field to reveal the AI Assistant button.

3. Press the AI Assistant button to reveal the AI icons.

File manager - sort function

Updated sort functionality when in grid view to replace column header UI with a dropdown menu for sorting, e.g. sort by date modified.

UI - search box styling

Standardised the search box styling across the platform.

• Filtered searches always have a line between the filter and the text box.

• Drop down boxes sized according to their contents.

• X button in the search input replaces the functionality of the clear search button.

  

Adestra 3.68

AI assist - subject line assistant (beta)

Improvements to the subject line assistant:

• You can now generate subject lines based on previous campaigns. When this icon is pressed, the AI assistant uses up to the 25 most recent distinct subject lines in the current project to generate subject line suggestions.

  Note: attempting to generate suggestions using historic subject lines when there are none for the given project will result in an error notice.

• Personalise button relocated under the subject line box

• AI assistant button located under the subject line text box. Pressing the AI Assistant button reveals AI icons.

  

• Link to Upland AI Disclaimer for OpenAI added.

Adestra 3.67

DKIM - key length

The DKIM validator now works with key lengths up to 4096 bits.

Bug fix - Inbound emails

Adestra now converts HTML to text in the inbound email UI to prevent Apple mail rich text mailings rendering as blank.

Bug fix - SMS unsubs

Opt out events are now accurately recorded in the event log.

Adestra 3.66

One-click unsubscribes

Mailings from DKIM enabled accounts will be compliant with upcoming changes to Google and Yahoo bulk send requirements for one-click unsubscribe headers.

Google email sender guidelines (opens in new window).

Yahoo sender hub (opens in new window).

Import logs - download link

The duplicate/bad record download link is now available on both the list and the core table page.

PDT - launch copies

Launch copy emails are only sent on the first launch.

Adestra 3.65

Bug fix - API campaign sends

Improved domain checking process to avoid false domain error messages.

Bug fix - editing scheduled export

When editing a scheduled export, you no longer get the error 'You have reached the maximum number of scheduled exports allowed for your account'.

Adestra 3.64

PDT - launch groups

Launch groups tab added to campaign launch menu (for projects with PDT enabled).

UI - campaign compose cards

Updated the styling of the cards on the compose step of campaigns.

• Added a title to each card.

• Added a background shadow.

AI assist - subject lines (beta)

Subject line generator now provides multiple options when the generate suggestions buttons are pressed.

• You can select the subject line you like and that will replace the one you initially entered.

• Pressing the 'more like this' button will generate new options based on the subject line that was pressed.

Bug fix - list report summary

Restored the missing actions in the list report summary.

Adestra 3.63

Campaign options - subject line box

Increased the size of the subject line entry box in the campaign options to make it easier to read subject lines.

SMS limit preferences

Changed the functionality of SMS limit preferences (sms_account_limit and sms_account_limit_period) such that:

• If neither limit preference is set, default values apply.

• If a value is set for only one limit preference, that value is applied. The other preference uses the default value.

• If both preferences are set, both of those limits apply instead of default values.

Previously, both settings required new values to override defaults. If either value was not populated, defaults were applied for both.

Adestra 3.62

Domain group report - improved readability

Added coloured backgrounds to cells to highlight outliers in your table and make them easier to spot.

Adestra 3.61

AI assist - subject lines (beta)

Adestra is introducing a new feature, currently in beta, that uses generative AI to, at the press of a button:

• Add emojis to a subject line.

• Get suggestions for similar subject lines.

UI - tag display settings

Updated the display settings of long tags to avoid overlapping, improving the user experience.

Adestra 3.60

User management - update details

You can now update your user details via the user management menu as if you selected user settings under your avatar in the main menu.

Adestra 3.59

API - bulk subscribe/unsubscribe

You can now subscribe and unsubscribe contacts in bulk via the API.

Campaign - name/subject editing

Update to the inline editing such that:

• If you select the from name/subject line in the campaign overview and then click away without editing anything, Adestra cancels the edit selection.

• If you have made changes, Adestra requires an explicit press of the tick or cross to accept/cancel the edits.

Filters - UI

Removed duplicate buttons for removing filters.

Summary tables - UI

Updated alignment of columns to improve visuals.

Bug fix - campaign message view

Fixed incorrectly oriented arrows on expand/collapse function for editor dropdown.

Adestra 3.58.2

Bug fix - core tables

Fixed missing core table browsing checkboxes.

Adestra 3.58.1

Right-hand navigation - deprecated

The right-hand sidebar has been removed from the application. Functionality previously contained in the sidebar has been relocated within the application, e.g. new buttons, new tables, etc.

For more details, refer to the navigation update article for this release.

Support menu - relocated

As part of the right-hand sidebar deprecation, you can now find the support links in a dedicated menu, identified by a question mark icon in the main top bar of the app.

Adestra 3.58

API - cancel scheduled launches

You can now cancel scheduled launches via the API.

File manager - improved drag-and-drop

Improved visual cues (highlights) when using drag-and-drop in file manager.

File manager - resizing in Mozilla Firefox

Added the ability to resize the file manager window when using Firefox.

Tags - improved visuals

Improved the display settings of long tag names in the tag field to provide better visual consistency.

Adestra 3.57

Filters - associated lists

Already associated dynamic lists appear in the associate dynamic lists page.

Bug fix - login page

Account names now appear correctly, i.e. appears as a link when previously logged in successfully. Selecting the link will open a text field to enter a different account name.

Bug fix - table reset

Resetting a table search no longer requires a page refresh to update the table view.

Bug fix - modals

Using the ESC key now closes the modal when the focus is inside either an iframe or a table within the modal.

Bug fix - launch approvals

Launch approval page no longer redirects to the launch page sub-steps.

Adestra 3.56

Filters - disassociate filter

The disassociate filter button has moved from the right-hand navigation menu to the associated campaigns table header.

UI - message details

When editing email content, the message details (last edited by, template, etc.) are now displayed in a summary table. This replaces the information icon in the editor pane.

Bug fix - table views in Mozilla Firefox

Row dividers in tables now display correctly in Mozilla Firefox.

Adestra 3.55

Campaigns - default launch settings

To prevent accidental launches, the launch time is no longer set to now by default. You will need to select a launch option before being able to launch a campaign.

Campaigns - targeting

Updated create buttons to show create dynamic list option whether a list has already been selected or not. You will still need to select or create a list before the create dedicated filter button is displayed.

UI - campaign details

When on the compose step of a campaign, you will now find campaign details in an information card to the right of the compose pane.

Bug fix - campaign variants

The variant message description for split test previews, e.g. showing content for variant A, now only displays when the variant you're looking at doesn't have it's own content, i.e. if the variant you're looking at has its own HTML then no message gets displayed.

Adestra 3.54

Campaign navigation - lists

When canceling a new list creation in the campaign target step, you will now navigate back to the target step instead of the compose step.

Style update - spam and link checks

Spam and link check appearances updated in the test options to have the same style as the campaign launch step.

Bug fix - domain group reports

Column options updated to prevent accidentally breaking the report by removing the domain group column from the domain group report.

Bug fix - failed export reruns

Rerunning a failed scheduled export now uses the time boundary of the original export.

Adestra 3.53

UI - campaign details

When on the compose step of a campaign, you can now press an information icon in the action bar to view campaign details such as owner and creation date. This replaces the about this campaign link in the right hand navigation menu.

UI - message details

When editing email content, you can now press an information icon in the editor pane to view message details such as template used and recent edit history. This replaces the about this message link in the right hand navigation menu.

Adestra 3.52

Email editor - navigation

Delete message button moved from the right-hand navigation menu to the editor pane.

Domain headers - navigation

Delete domain header button moved from the right hand navigation menu to the editor pane.

Bug fix - summary tables

Summary tables removed from pages where they were incorrectly being displayed. You should now only see summary tables on pages when they are relevant.

Adestra 3.51.1

Bug fix - source editor

The save button in the source editor works as expected.

Adestra 3.51

Bug fix - pinned menus

Pinning a menu in the left-hand navigation no longer obscures the edge of the page view.

Adestra 3.50

Left-hand navigation - new menu design

Changes to the main navigation menu design to:

• Revise the icons and labelling.

• Change the menu pinning functionality.

• Improve the menu selection functionality.

Personal delivery time - updated defaults

You now need to select a launch start time and a fallback time in PDT as these fields no longer default to midnight.

Right-hand navigation - frequency manager delete rule

Frequency manager delete rule link removed from the right-hand navigation menu. You can still delete a rule within the frequency manager UI.

UI - improved accessibility

Tooltips added to icons, e.g. download, edit, etc.

Adestra 3.49

Bug fix - list management

Automated SMS lists are now correctly filtered in list management.

Adestra 3.48.1

Performance enhancement - table queries

The Adestra table system no longer queries every defined column, regardless of whether it needs them or not, i.e. if a column doesn’t need to be rendered, that column is not queried.

Adestra 3.48

Campaigns - launch lists

UI improved to make it easier to see scheduled launches when following the scheduled launch link.

Bug fix - recent places

Deleting a project no longer results in blank entries or hyperlinks to non-existent projects in the recent places list.

Bug fix - personal delivery time errors when using browser back button

Campaigns no longer display incorrect time information when you cancel a PDT launch and use the browser back button to return to the scheduling options.

Adestra 3.47

Domain group reporting - visual overhaul

To better identify positive and negative conditions in the domain group report:

• The avatar next to bounced, complained and unsubscribed are now red.

• The columns of the table have been reordered to read from left to right in order from least to most negative, i.e. bounced, unsubscribed, complained.

SMS messages - UTF-8

Improved handling of UTF-8 characters in SMS messages.

Adestra 3.46

Bug fix - campaign overview

Under certain conditions, you could create a campaign that could not be reopened, making it uneditable. These conditions no longer lock a campaign.

Bug fix - file navigation

When in a file selector, e.g. when selecting images for an email, the system remembers your last location. This functionality does not apply to the project file manager navigation.

Adestra 3.45

UI - navigation icons

Reports icon changed to make it more distinguishable in the navigation menu.

Bug fix - SMS errors with UTF-8

Fixed a bug where automation SMS messages with UTF-8 characters could result in an exception error.

Adestra 3.43

Campaign workflow - UI update

This release cycle saw the introduction of a new campaign workflow UI.

SMS reports - program link

The SMS message summary report now includes a column for the program ID. Selecting the linked ID will take you to the completed contacts page for that program.

Bug fix - email editor placeholder images

Improved reliability of placeholder images to address rescaling errors.

Adestra 3.42

Campaigns - edit options

You can now edit and save your subject line and from name within the campaign overview screen instead of having to return to the campaign options screen to make changes.

Email editor - uploaded file location remembered

When using an email editor, the file manager will remember the last folder for that session when browsing for the location of a file/image for upload.

Bug fix - conditional images in email editor

Fixed a bug where conditional nested images wouldn't save when adding conditional content to multiple containers.

Adestra 3.41

UI change - button colors

The color of the remove buttons in the target section of the campaign workflow is changed to red to be able to differentiate from other buttons easily.

UI change - form builder

Form elements moved from sidebar to a create element button/menu in the table header. Some redundant elements removed.

Test email - personalisation

Test emails now use automatically generated example data instead of the records in your list to help prevent contacts' personal data from being disclosed accidentally.

To send tests personalized with data from your list:

1. Select "more test options".

2. Select "Populate using a contact from your list" .

Adestra 3.40

HTTPS Images in Email Editor

Previously, images added in email editor were sent as HTTP. This resulted in images not appearing in the Outlook web app. With the latest enhancement, the images added in the email editor will be sent as HTTPS and will correctly appear.

Adestra 3.39

Tags - existing tag suggestions

While adding tags to your workspaces, projects, or campaigns, you can now see a list of existing tags on that specific level.

Tags are sorted according to their popularity, i.e. the tags most used on that level appear at the top of the list. After that, the tags are listed in alphabetical order. The pop-up can display up to 100 tags.

UI change - create buttons moved

The create buttons, e.g. create workspace, create project and create campaign, are moved from the right sidebar to the table header that appears at every level.

On pages with multiple create buttons at the same level, the options are now located within a drop-down create button.

Adestra 3.38

Workspace API

A new parameter called active is added to the return body of the workspace struct that specifies if the status of the called workspace is active or archived. The active parameter is a boolean parameter where 1 depicts that the workspace is active, and 0 depicts archived.

For more information, see the following Adestra API docs links:

• REST API

• XMLRPC API

Bugfix

A test email is not sent after clicking More Test Options under Test Options within a campaign.

Adestra 3.37

UI change - Zendesk chat button

The Zendesk chat button has moved from the bottom right of the sidebar to the right of the Adestra header.

Adestra 3.36

SMS - message length

While sending a personalised SMS, you can now view the length of characters in SMS. You can also see the number of messages when the length of characters exceeds 160.

Adestra v3.35

Link check - URL shorteners

You will now receive a notification that your campaign contains links that use URL shorteners during the Link Check process.

Login authentication flow

Now that Adestra is able to support SSO we have made some changes to the authentication flow. Depending on the type of authentication assigned to the user, you will be further guided to enter a password, or OTP token, or redirected to your organization’s SSO page.

Adestra v3.34

UI - recent places relocation

As part of the wider project to optimise the Adestra UI, the Recent Place section has been relocated from the right sidebar to the left-hand menu.

Adestra v3.33

UI - search bar

To incorporate Upland style and guidelines in Adestra, there will be some changes made to the right sidebar. The first step in this change is the change in the behaviour of the search bar.

After clicking the Search icon a drop-down search tab appears, instead of an expanding tab.

File manager - addition of search bar

A new Search bar is added to the File Manager that will allow you to search files at a specific level like workspace level, user level, or at an account level. For more information, see Searching files in File Manager.

Bugfix - tags

Tags used across the platform do not split after a pipe character within a tag. For example, the tag EXAMPLE|TAG will not split and can be used from this release.

Adestra v3.32

Performance enhancements

Minor performance enhancements.

Adestra v3.31

Content & Spam Check - new email clients

As email clients become obsolete and others are introduced by our content preview vendor Litmus, we now have the ability to automatically add new clients and remove the old ones, therefore, improving user experience by not having errors appearing on the preview page.

Bug fix - spam filters

The status icons on the Spam Filters page appear correctly.

Bug fix - data filter AND rule

After relaunching a campaign, while creating a follow-up for non-opener, in the data filters, you can now create an AND rule.

Adestra v3.30

Bug fix - tag mapping

The mapping of transaction tag and product tag in a scheduled import works as expected.

Adestra v3.29

Full name - character limit error message

While entering the user details, if the Full name is longer than 50 characters you will see a warning message. This will prevent the form upload issues due to a large number of characters.

Adestra v3.28

Content preview creation process

Previously, the content preview creation process involved an additional form page for entering content preview information. This form page is replaced by a modal dialog box.

For more information, see Content and Spam Check.

Bug fix - spam checker

The Spam Checker for Subject Line in the Campaign Options page now behaves as expected by displaying a notification after entering a potential spam subject line.

Bug fix - avatars

The avatar for a persona which does not use a profile image now displays a custom avatar.

Adestra v3.27

Event API - Object ID

The Event Search and Event Stream functionalities of the Event API can now return the Object ID of the form for a particular event. A new parameter called include_object_id is added to the request body to fetch the object_id in response.

For more information, see the following Adestra API docs links:

• REST API

• XML-RPC

Link conversion - campaign variant tabs, additional menu, and test campaign

The UI components in the Campaign Overview page, like the variant tabs, additional menu, and Test Campaign drop-down, are converted to links so that users can access the context menu and open the links on a new tab.

Content and spam check

Campaign variant

Bug fix - widget placement

In the automation program builder, if a widget was placed on the canvas near the drop-down options, the widget overlapped the drop-down making it difficult to work with the drop-down options.

Before

After

Adestra v3.26

UI - spam filters

The Spam Filter page now has a center-aligned list. The icons are updated to display the result in red for failure, and in yellow for warning. Also, the page load message is moved to the top of the list.

Page load message

Red flag for failed filters

Content preview list - Litmus results

On the content previews page, the current tab will only display the content preview list for Litmus results. The archive tab will display a content preview list for both Litmus results as well as the return path results.

Current tab

Bug fix - login domain tab

Incorrect tab name for the Login Domain page.

Bug fix - clear search

The clear search button now clears the search results correctly.

Adestra v3.25

UI - campaign workflow

The new UI for the Campaign Workflow includes a new intuitive UI for Campaign Overview, Test and Launch Campaign, Testing Campaign, and Split Testing for Campaign.

The new Test Options dropdown

The Preview and Download dropdown

UI - content and spam check

The Overview page of Content and Spam Check and the Content Preview window are modified to be more aesthetic.

The Overview page

The Content Preview window

Adestra v3.24

Heatmap - web version and simple version clicks

When the web version and simple version links are clicked in a campaign the links will be highlighted in the heatmap and they are included in the list of links, with the correct contact count and a data viewer link.

Bug fix - SMS report

The SMS report for a campaign now displays correct numbers for delivered SMS messages.

Adestra v3.23

Event match filter - campaign tags as a filter category (On-demand)

In the Event Match filter category, you can now filter your contacts according to the tags of the campaigns received by them. For more information, see Using Campaigns Tags in Event Match filter.

Form elements table - element labels

In the Form Elements table, the Table field column displays the associated field name from the core table in which the user entry gets stored. If a form element label must be stored but is not associated with any field name then the Table field column now displays Not recorded, to notify that the user entry will not be stored for that particular label. For more information, see Form Elements.

Adestra v3.22

List API - list type in query parameter and response struct

The new Type parameter in the query of list API allows you to fetch lists that are dynamic, remote, or regular. This is an optional parameter. The type parameter appears in REST and XMLRPC for the list.search, list.get, list.create, and list.update response structs. For list.all response struct the type parameter only appears for XMLRPC. For more information, see the following Adestra API docs links:

• REST API

• XML-RPC API

File names for bad and duplicate record zip files

The bad and duplicate record zip files now follow a naming convention bad_records+timestamp+import ID, which makes each file name unique and easy to identify.

Adestra v3.21

Export manager - campaign tags in system fields

The Export Manager has a new parameter in System Fields called Campaign Tags which can be used for Event , and Device and Location export types. For more information, in the Create an Export topic, see System Fields.

Move automation programs to another workspace

For assistance in the reusability of programs, you can now move an Automation Program to another Workspace within the same Core table. For more information, in the Program Builder Interface topic, see the Settings Tab.

Automatically generated reply ID

The automatically generated replies will now return the reply name if a reply mail ID is not mentioned in Campaign Settings. If a reply name is not specified, the input in the Address name parameters is picked.