Last week was a busy one here at GitBook, filled with new feature releases, announcements about things coming very soon, and teases of what we have planned for the future. The team worked so hard to have everything ready for a week of new stuff — thanks to them all for their hard work. We’re also so thrilled to hear all your feedback so far — please keep it coming!

Just in case you missed anything that we’ve talked about last week, here’s a quick summary of everything we talked about.

Monday – documentation & user experience

• Where GitBook is today – On Monday we reflected on how GitBook has been building features over the last 12 months to help you create incredible documentation experiences — and how essential documentation is to every modern product.

• Documentation shouldn’t be one-size-fits-all – Find out how we see the future of documentation shaping up — and what we’ve been doing to prepare for it.

Tuesday – Site sections, improved insights, customizations & more

• Site sections – You can now turn your docs into a content hub by adding multiple topics, such as separate products or product areas, to a single docs site — and it also unlocks global search.

• Site header buttons – You can now primary and secondary buttons to your docs site’s header, along with the links you could add before — which is great for things like ‘sign up’ and ‘sign in’ links.

• Stepper blocks – We’ve added a new kind of block that’s designed for detailing step-by-step guides, and lets you add multiple other block types within each step.

• Improved insights – We’ve given our built-in docs site insights a small facelift to show data trends over time, and soon we’ll add a dedicated detail page for traffic, search insights and page ratings, so you can click any of the cards to get more detailed insights.

• Coming soon: Ask AI insights – These new insights will show you the topics that people ask about the most, and the success rate of your docs providing an answer. So you’ll be able to see which topics you need to write more about to give your users a successful result.

• New pricing for new users – We’re updating our pricing for new users to cover different needs and use cases. Our new pricing structure only applies to new customers or organizations, and introduces site plans, which apply to each site you publish. Head to our pricing page to find out more.

Wednesday – Reusable content and editor improvements

• Reusable content – You can now create and reuse blocks of content across a space, and when you edit the original content, those changes sync across all of its instances — making it easy to update published docs faster than ever. Reusable content is available today as an alpha feature for Pro and Enterprise users.

• Broken link detection – We’ve been optimizing broken link detection to make it more useful than ever for avoiding publish docs with links that lead to a 404.

• Paste files between spaces – You can now copy any block that includes a file — such as an image or an API block — and when you paste in a new space the file will come along with you.

Thursday – free Sponsored sites for open source projects

• Sponsored sites – A new free docs site plan that’s designed specifically for open source projects. The Sponsored site has all the features you need to publish incredible documentation, including customization, data insights and integrations.

• Earn revenue from ads – Sponsored sites place a small, relevant ad in the corner of your project’s docs — every view earns you money, and GitBook doesn’t take a penny, so you keep it all.

• Git Sync is included for contributions – Sync your docs to your Git repository and contributors can create their own branches, edit, and submit pull requests — ready for you to review and merge. It’s all included in GitBook at no extra cost.

Friday – What’s next: computed and dynamic content

• Computed content – We’re working on a new way to ingest content from different sources without being directly created and edited by the team to create a semantic knowledge repository — which we consider to be the future of documentation.

• Dynamic content – With computed content adding and organizing data from other sources, GitBook can also offer optimized documentation experiences that are tailored to individual users’ needs, so they can find relevant information when they want it.

See it all in action

The week might be over but there’s one more thing to get excited about. You can see all these newly-announced features live in our upcoming webinar.

Join our DevRel Addison on 26 November 2024 at 17:00 – 18:00 CEST and he’ll walk you through everything from site sections to Sponsored sites — plus take your questions.

Register above and we’ll look forward to seeing you next month!

Thanks for joining us for a week packed with big announcements. We’re so thrilled to share these new features with you, and incredibly excited about the future. We’ve got big plans for the next few months and beyond, so stay tuned to hear more about everything we’ve talked about!