Platform Updates
Among several new features, enhancements and fixes, a performance improvement we recently introduced is the dynamic loading of page-level tab content via AJAX. This results in significant decreases in page load times for complex multi-tab pages, especially those with many formula fields and templates spread across different tabs.
To clarify what this means to you and your users, the screen-shot below shows a typical View page of a "Customer" object record with several page-level tabs: "Details", "Subscribers", "Support Requests", "Lead Info", etc. Previously the content of all tabs were downloaded when the page is first loaded. However, this is often unnecessary because users may not always visit more than 1 or 2 tabs on that page. With this enhancement you will now notice that the content of each tab is downloaded dynamically when the tab is clicked, minimizing overall page load time.
Infrastructure Updates
On Saturday March 20th we performed scheduled maintenance to upgrade our web and application software to the latest production releases:
- Apache 2.2.15
- Tomcat 6.0.26
- mod_jk 1.2.30
While none of these infrastructure updates will be visible to you, our updated stack includes performance fixes and enhancements that ultimately improve user experience.
Rollbase private cloud customers will receive upgrade instructions.
