What's new in Bolt 4.2?
Written by Benji Weiser
Updated at October 22nd, 2024
Table of Contents
Release dates
Bolt iOS 4.2.2 - 2024-10-21
Bolt Android 4.2.4 - 2024-10-21
Major changes
Remembering where you were in an article
Useful for: Your product team
Something we've had a lot of requests for is the ability for Bolt to remember a user's position in an article if they leave the app. Sometimes people aren't able to finish an article in one sitting, particularly if it's a long one. From 4.2 onwards that is no longer the case! Now, when users exit the app and return at a later time to a specific article, the app will remember exactly where they left off, making it easier to continue reading without losing their place. This is true even if a user navigates elsewhere in the app and reads other articles.
This change is live on both platforms but requires further improvement on Android. This is currently planned for Bolt 4.3.
Who's affected: All Bolt customers, especially those with long-form content.
What you need to do: Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to update to Bolt 4.2. No configuration changes are needed.
If you notice this behaviour doesn't happen or is inconsistent post-launch, please get in touch as this likely a result of the content's markup.
More toolbar flexibility
Useful for: Your product team
In this release we've increased the options available for what you can put in your app toolbar. Previously content tabs would show your logo, while search, saved and settings tabs would show the tab title. Now you can have a logo or title on any tab, or you can show neither.
On top of that we've increased the allowed number of trailing toolbar icons to two, up from one. Toolbar icons can have any in-app link behind them so you can have icons for any app tab or feature. They're easy to add and you can even have different icons on different tabs if you want, all tabs are independent.
Who's affected: Any Bolt customers desiring more options for their app toolbar.
What you need to do: Reach out to your Customer Success Manager to update to Bolt 4.2 and let them know what changes you'd like.
Additional changes
- Added 0.75x and 1.25x speeds to the audio player and new matching analytics events.
- The content url for Google Ad Manager requests is now more flexible, and can be set to the canonical URL for a piece of content. This should result in higher yields for these ads, which we'll be monitoring post-launch. Read more about this here.
- Chartbeat analytics subscriber status mappings adjusted to reflect Chartbeat update:
- ExistingSubscriber or (Store)Subscriber => “paid subscriber” aka UserPaid
- InactiveSubscriber => “registered subscriber” aka UserLoggedIn
- Anything else => “unregistered guest user” aka Anonymous
- SDK updates
- Google Play Billing Library v7 (Android)
- Comscore - 6.13.0 (iOS)