Ghost v5.3.0stable Released Jul 12, 2022
Impact Score: 5/10

Ghost v5.3.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact

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⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)

Ghost v5.3.0. Source highlight: ✨ Added native site search functionality (read more) - Rishabh Garg

Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)

💻 Software Engineers & Devs

Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.

📊 Product & Engineering Leads

Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.

⚙️ DevOps & Security

Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.

✨ New Features & Capabilities (2)

  • ✨ Added native site search functionality (read more) - Rishabh Garg
  • ✨ Added Ghost Explore endpoint - Daniel Lockyer

🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (3)

  • 🐛 Fixed "Published" date for recent posts in dashboard always showing current time - Kevin Ansfield
  • 🐛 Fixed issue with `excerpt` field in API - Ronald Langeveld
  • 🐛 Fixed dashboard member activity feed always showing current time for timestamp - Kevin Ansfield
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
* ✨ Added native site search functionality ([read more](https://ghost.org/changelog/search/)) - Rishabh Garg * ✨ Added Ghost Explore endpoint - Daniel Lockyer * 🎨 Updated Casper to v5.2.0 - Sodbileg Gansukh * 🐛 Fixed "Published" date for recent posts in dashboard always showing current time - Kevin Ansfield * 🐛 Fixed issue with `excerpt` field in API - Ronald Langeveld * 🐛 Fixed dashboard member activity feed always showing current time for timestamp - Kevin Ansfield --- View the changelogs for full details: * Ghost - https://github.com/tryghost/ghost/compare/v5.2.4...v5.3.0 * Admin - https://github.com/tryghost/admin/compare/v5.2.4...v5.3.0 🪄 Love open source? We're hiring [Node.js Engineers](https://careers.ghost.org/product-engineer-node-js) to work on Ghost full-time