Version 6 Changelog and Migration Guide - Plus Unique New Add-Ons

A bigger focus on command-line and future automation support, a refreshed but still familiar design, and more.

This update has breaking changes to CSS, changes to the config file, and some fun, long awaited features.

A paid Pro version of cState with support is coming

Support development!

If you want to support me, [go to my sponsors page](https://github.com/sponsors/mistermantas) or, better yet, hire me for your project (you can email me using my profile email).

The upcoming Pro version of cState is not set to replace the open source version of cState but simply to make setting up everything, including monitoring, much easier.

Changes available today

⚠ It is recommend to upgrade to Hugo version 0.140.0 (the minimum Hugo version is 0.110.0).

• https://github.com/cstate/cstate-cli CLI tool - make new posts easier than ever before with a global cstate command. Learn more on the repo page about cstate dev and many other commands
  • Read more here: CLI tool! cstate draft as a new way to create incidents #333
• Free monitoring bot now available. We’re introducing a bot to monitor for downtime and update cState programmatically. This is the current replacement for a POST API while maintaining the same unique structure of cState. https://github.com/cstate/monitorbot
• Added a histogram, enabled by default for every component, drawing stats from the data cState already has – to enable when upgrading, add a .Site.Params.enableUptimeHistogram option as true.
• Updated base design CSS and introduced new detail details, thus IE8 is no longer supported. New default font is DM Sans, replaceable with Custom HTML by creating a file under /layouts/partials/custom/meta.html.
• Better component pages. Extended description support is officially added (plus system pages now show the status) - extended system description on affected-page (with markdown support) #270
• Added /issues/ for viewing - and an option to hide a part of your incident history - Enable date-based archiving/hiding of history #286
• Added Romanian language Added Romanian language #335 from MarcUs7i
• The Netlify CMS /admin backend has been removed by default, since it’s been discontinued and the Netlify CMS’s successor Decap CMS is included at custom site level by default in exampleSite if you still want to use it.
• Fixes community raised issues, some of which are years old - use cstate colors instead of "ok"/"warning"-color for Incident severities #275, Recommended Hugo version? Rendering issue informationals in incident history with links #330, count in days/years after 24h #287, On the front page categories status is empty if components are ok. Would be nice to have it "Operational" #320, Enable date-based archiving/hiding of history #286, Category / System Page Anchor Links #257, extended system description on affected-page (with markdown support) #270
• New translation strings updated with AI

Coming later this year

• Notifications and the Subscribe button - all pages have an API and RSS option by default, with push notifications now available later this year with service workers or a monitor bot (cstate/monitorbot) for other services like Discord, Webhook URLs and more. These updates will be pushed to the repo and a future version of cState.

Also available: cState HTML Embed

Learn more

cstate-cli is here to make managing your cState status page a breeze! 🚀

I'm excited to announce the first release of cstate-cli, a command-line tool designed to simplify creating and managing content for your cState status pages.

What it does:

• ⚡️ cstate create: Interactively create new incident or informational posts.
• 📝 cstate draft: Quickly draft posts from templates (Incident Post, Maintenance, Experiment, Postmortem).
• 💻 cstate dev: Run a local Hugo development server with the cState theme.
• 🔨 cstate serve & cstate build: Handy aliases for Hugo's serve and build commands.

Why you'll love it:

• Saves time: Automates tedious tasks.
• Reduces errors: Ensures consistent formatting.
• Improves workflow: Streamlines content creation.

Get started:

# Install globally
npm install -g cstate-cli

# Or use with npx
npx cstate-cli <command>

Example:

cstate draft

This will prompt you to choose a template and guide you through creating a new post.

Check out the full documentation and usage instructions in the README.

I hope you find cstate-cli helpful! Feedback and contributions are always welcome. ✨