What's new in Bolt 3.21?
Written by Benji Weiser
Updated at July 4th, 2024
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Release dates
Bolt iOS 3.21.7 - 2024-03-06
Bolt Android 3.21.14 - 2024-03-06
Major changes
How far are users getting through your content?
Useful for: Your analytics team
We have added a new way for you to understand how much of your content your users are reading. Our new scroll depth article event will let you know how far a user gets through each article in percentage increments. It will fire once per article if a reader passes a minimum threshold of 25%. The specific percentages are customisable but based on best practises we recommend scroll depth be tracked in the following increments: 25%, 50%, 75%, 90%, 100%.
Who's affected: All Bolt customers with article content.
What you need to do: App update to Bolt 3.21 and reach out to Pugpig support to configure the new event for you.
Hide banner ads for specific users
Who's affected: All Bolt customers using Bolt's Google Ad Manager SDK and wanting more control over which users see ads.
What you need to do: App update to Bolt 3.21, then tell your tech team to add a disable_adverts = true flag to your auth response for any users who shouldn't see ads. If the flag is not there, or has any value other than true, ads will be shown as normal.
Features from Bolt 3.20
Three Android features in our last update were marked as "Coming soon to iOS".
- Control the visibility of individual articles
- More control for issue-based auth
- More intuitive edition navigation
They are now here and you can read more about them in our What's new in Bolt 3.20? post.
Additional changes
- Alignment of items on the timeline picker can now be leading or centred. Behaviour on larger screens or with fewer timelines is improved
- Metered paywall banner can now be hidden after a few seconds
- Save and share icons can now be hidden from the toolbar when inside an article
- Added an optional blur for content behind the paywall
- Added new analytics dimensions for tab group and filter group
- Added a new analytics dimension to see whether a user has any single issue purchases
- Added a new analytics event for PKCE auth token renewal
- User-scoped parameters now also send as event-scoped (GA4)
- Removed any tracking for screen events while the app is in the background
- Improved logging for auth state
- Updated Lottie SDK
- iOS - 4.4.0
- Android - 6.3.0
- Updated OneTrust SDK
- iOS - 202401.1.0
- Android - 202401.1.0.0
- Updated OneTrust implementation to support per-build versions, so you do not need to use the latest version we have updated to