What's new in Bolt 4.1?
Written by Benji Weiser
Updated at September 3rd, 2024
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Release dates
Bolt iOS 4.1.3 - 2024-06-27
Bolt iOS 4.1.5 patch - 2024-07-02 (slow network-related crash + Pushly SDK update)
Bolt iOS 4.1.8 - 2024-08-09
Bolt Android 4.1.1 - 2024-09-03
Major changes
Enhanced user control over notifications
Useful for: Your product and audience teams
We've created a new preference centre for your users to highlight the topics that they're most interested in. Users who opt in to specific topics will have a tag assigned to them in your push provider dashboard, allowing you to send targeted and curated pushes to particular audiences and improve your push engagement.
While the new preference centre is currently only available for OneSignal customers, we plan to expand it to other providers soon.
Who's affected: Bolt customers using OneSignal as their push provider.
What you need to do: Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to update your Bolt product to iOS 4.1 or Android 4.0 and to configure your push preference centre for you.
Choose how you read
Who's affected: All Bolt customers with double page edition content.
What you need to do: Update your app to iOS 4.1 or Android 4.0 and let us know if you would like to add this setting item for you.
Fine tune your analytics reporting
We have many analytics events and while all have a purpose they may not all be as useful to some as they are to others, especially if your analytics provider has an event quota. Because of this we've added the option to opt out of certain Pugpig analytics events so you only need to see the ones that matter most to you.
Who's affected: All Bolt customers.
What you need to do: Update your app to version 4.1 and let our Customer Support team know which events you would like to opt out of.
More ways to show ads
To expand our supported Google ads suite, we have added full page interstitial advert capability on app launch, which can have particularly high visibility and engagement compared to our existing ad types.
Who's affected: Any Bolt customer wanting to use full page Google ads
What you need to do: Update your app to iOS 4.1 or Android 3.24 and enquire about configuration details.
Additional changes
- Fixed an issue on iOS causing timelines not to display images when loading from an offline state.
- Added support for a new type of unmanaged webview tab.
- Added optional alternative method of tracking for Chartbeat analytics, using URL rather than view id.
- Added the option to enable SKAN postback in app config, required for some third party advertising attribution tracking.
- Optimised background downloading for editions including better download metrics and logging.
- OneSignal in-app messages can now be triggered based on viewing a certain screen.
- Applied voucher codes can now be cleared from the secret menu.
- Removed support for UA / GA3.