Beta: Monday 6 April, 2026
Full Client Release: Mon 13 & Tue 14 April, 2026
🎉 What’s new in Release 228?
This release is headlined by a major upgrade to your website's search engine – faster, smarter, and built to handle pressure. Alongside that, we've brought a cleaner CMS navigation experience, a more forgiving mailing list import, and a rebuilt Coming Soon part that sets the platform up for new features ahead.
🔍 A smarter search engine built to handle the rush of onsales
What changed?
- Our brand new search engine running on its own dedicated server, completely separate from your main site.
- This means search queries no longer slow your website down, especially during busy on-sales.
- Indexed search results load faster and deliver cleaner, more meaningful matches.
- More accurate results: searches now match whole words, not just any word that happens to contain them.
- Matches words that are not exactly the same as the search terms, but similar enough to still be relevant.
- Now finds matches based on similarity rather than exact spelling.
- Productions/events in search results now show based on relevance, not chronologically
- Search results for Productions in the past have been temporarily disabled for performance reasons. We can switch you back to the “classic search” if you need them.
Your website's search engine has been decoupled from the main website, so high volumes of search queries will no longer affect website performance.
How do I use it?
- No action needed. The new search is already implemented for you.
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Learn more about our new search engine
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- 🤓What to know how it works under the hood?
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This new search engine, together with the new CDN rollout introduced in Release 227 and a new Queue system coming soon, is part of a wider set of performance upgrades we're rolling out across the platform that will improve site performance, protect you malicious traffic and make your website more robust during onsales periods.
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