Release Notes

Go from a brief to a production-ready email in moments with AI Campaign Creation in Dyspatch

Stop starting from scratch with every campaign. Scribe AI is now your custom Campaign Creation tool, transforming your simple briefs into ready-to-send marketing, transactional, and lifecycle email sequences, complete with optimized content.

How it works:

• Input your campaign brief and goals to generate on-brand, personalized customer communications
• Scribe AI crafts subject lines, body content, and calls-to-action, and more, all optimized for each channel
• The result: cohesive messaging across your campaigns created in minutes

Learn more about our tools for Email Marketers here.

Improved Template Management with Draft Revision History & Restore from Draft

Preview earlier states of your drafts to identify when changes were made and in what context. Easily restore previous versions and maintain control over your template evolution.

DML - Pill Component

Introducing a new pill abstraction for tags, labels, and callouts. This common design element makes it easy to add professional, styled elements into your emails without custom coding.

Brandfolder Integration for Assets

Connect your Brandfolder DAM directly to Dyspatch. Select images from your Brandfolder library right within the email builder, with automatic hosting via Brandfolder's CDN and thumbnail previews for easy browsing.

And More Workflow Improvements

• Themes - Set button alignment directly in the theme editor without touching CSS
• Integrations - Enhanced Braze integration with user agent headers for better tracking
• Localizations - Upload localized images with thumbnail previews and easy replacement options
• DML - New substring checking support for conditional logic

Reference a Module & Updates Sync Automatically 

Using the new Import Block feature, you can define a reusable module once and reference it multiple times across your email design system. Create a product card, list item, or gallery element as an individual module, then call it in multiple templates. Then update the partial once and all unlocked instances update automatically.

This is a game-changer for block development. Instead of copying and pasting the same code structure throughout your block, you maintain a single source of truth. 

Import Block dramatically reduces code duplication, eliminates the risk of inconsistent updates, and makes maintaining complex blocks significantly easier.

Benefits:

• Building more sophisticated, component-based layouts is now easier
• Simplifies long-term maintenance and updates across your email design system
• Ensures consistency across repeated elements

New to the Localizations tab

Commenting is now supported for localized content in External Links for every localized version of your template. This makes localize-specific feedback easier to find and quicker to act upon. 

New Advanced Controls in Theme Editor 

We’ve expanded the "Enable all editable styles for blocks" toggle in the Theme Editor to support middle-level granularity. Email designers can now control which editable styles are globally available for each DML element (row, column, button, text, etc.) without having to lock in these individual customizations at the block level. 

When the toggle is enabled, all styles are available by default, and a new "Style Controls" tab allows you to disable specific styles per element. Block-level editable-style attributes still take highest precedence.

Benefits:

• Fine-tunes the email builder experience without maintenance overhead
• Keeps blocks more modular and theme independent
• Allows for more flexibility in your email design system and guardrails

API Updates

List variables used in a template Template and draft fetch calls now include the unique set of variables used in the template. Variables are pulled from dynamic content, static content, conditionals, and for loops. Filters are stripped from variables, so @{var|default("hi")} returns as var.

UTM Builder

Data-no-utm attribute extended The data-no-utm attribute can now be used to prevent the link-level UTM builder from showing in the Email Builder. This prevents users from accidentally creating broken links on buttons, links, or images that already include UTM parameters or query strings in dynamic variables.

SMS

Duplicate variants in SMS SMS message variants can now be duplicated for faster workflow iteration.

Advanced Logo Support in Themes

Logos can now be configured at the theme level and dynamically referenced throughout your email blocks using reserved theme variables. 

This new approach allows for:

• Consistent branding across all email templates
• Easy logo updates without modifying individual blocks
• Streamlined theme management for multi-brand organizations

Reserved theme variables can be called dynamically into any block, giving you increased reusability for the blocks in your email design system.

New ESP Integration: Listrak!

We've expanded our ESP and CRM integrations library with the addition of Listrak. Listrak is a powerful tool that is ideal for teams creating hyper personalized experiences. This integration includes:

• Full Listrak (Liquid) template compatibility
• New export option added to the download options list

Customer Profile Selection 

When sending test emails, you can now select specific customer profiles to ensure personalization and dynamic content render correctly. 

Preview exactly how your conditional content looks, live and in your inbox. Allowing you to ensure your dynamic content renders properly across different customer personas before your message goes live.

And More Workflow Improvements

• Blocks Overview Panel: Now visible for both submitted and published drafts, allowing you to get a comprehensive view of your email structure at any stage. This panel lists all blocks used in the email, along with any conditional logic applied to a block
• Enhanced Export Metadata: Two new <meta> tags are now automatically included on export:
  • Force Internet Explorer to use the latest rendering engine for optimal display
  • Prevent automatic conversion of numbers to phone number formatting, ensuring design integrity
• LocalizationKeys Access via API: Published emails now support pulling LocalizationKeys through the Drafts API, enabling better internationalization workflows and content management

Introducing Variants - Design Flexibility at Your Fingertips

With Variants, your team will be able to turn your email design system into a powerhouse with a greater variety of on-brand customization options. Now available in the theme editor, Variants empower you to create multiple pre-styled versions of any element (buttons, text, headers, and more) that your team can instantly apply to their designs.

What this means for your team's workflow:

• Faster email creation - No more manual styling for each campaign
• Brand consistency - Pre-approved design options ensure every email stays on-brand
• Team efficiency - Email builders can focus on content while design standards are maintained automatically across all of your communication channels
• Simplified block library - Button and text variants can now be contained within 1 block, reducing the need for duplication 

Simply define your brand's button styles, text, and design elements once, then watch your team build beautiful, consistent emails in record time.

Adobe Campaign v8 Integration

Bridge the gap between creative collaboration and campaign execution with our Adobe Campaign v8 integration. Design your emails in Dyspatch's collaborative environment, then seamlessly sync them to Adobe Campaign v8 for orchestrated, personalized customer journeys.

Perfect for enterprise teams:

• Advanced personalization capabilities
• Streamlined creative-to-campaign workflows
• Comprehensive customer journey orchestration

Knock.app Integration - Developer-Friendly Notifications Made Simple

Product and engineering teams, this one's for you! Our Knock.app direct integration puts notification template management directly in your admin portal, making it easier than ever to maintain consistent messaging across your product notifications.

Streamlined workflow:

• Export templates directly from Dyspatch to your Knock workflows
• Create new workflows on-the-fly during export
• Full admin control over integration setup and management

Repeating partials within blocks

Using the new <dys-include> element, you can define an element once then call on it multiple times within a block. Simply define your <dys-partial> element within your block, whether it’s a product cart, list item, gallery element or more, then call on it multiple times within a block using the <dys-include> element. 

Defining repeatable elements will help you build more sophisticated layouts, and help reduce code duplication and simplify layout management.

More Enhanced User Experience & Productivity Boosters

• Smarter Localization Management: Rich text editing support has been added to our localization functionality with HTML fallback options available at your fingertips. 
• Persistent Preview Settings: Templates and blocks will now remember your dynamic data preferences. 

Ready to experience these powerful new features? These updates are designed to accelerate your email marketing operations while maintaining the design quality and brand consistency your customers expect.