Changelog

"All the updates that are fit to print"

November

  • Session replay

    Session recording playlists

    Monitoring Team

    Steady improvements to the session replay tool have made it easier to find interesting replays, but how about collecting them for later reference? We don't want users to resort to bookmarking the page, so we've created the option to save sessions into static playlists. Plus, you can create dynamic playlists by specifying the events you're interested in!

    Try it out

October

  • Deployment

    PostHog Cloud EU launched

    Infrastructure Team

    It's the same old PostHog Cloud, but now it's GDPR-ready and hosted in Frankfurt. That means better performance for users in Europe, and not having to worry about [whether Google Analytics is illegal in your country[(https://www.isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com/). Users who host in the US can also switch easily to our EU servers if needed.

    Migrate from US to EU cloud
  • Feature flags

    Turbo feature flags

    Feature Success Team

    It used to be that checking a feature flag in client libraries other than posthog-js resulted in up to two network requests to our servers. This wasn't ideal for our users because it slowed down their render times and adds load for us. So, we got rid of this problem by introducing turbo feature flags.

    Create a feature flag

September

  • Sparks joy

    Revamped persons modals

    Product Analytics Team

    The new person modal now looks and feels like the rest of the app. We've made it easier for you to search and perform actions on those lists of users, too.

    Find out more
  • Sparks joy

    Redesigned calendar and annotations

    Product Analytics Team

    The 1.40.0 update was all about visual polish, and we start with new calendar and date components. These are some of the most used modals in PostHog, so we gave careful attention to providing an improved and more unified experience.

    We also updated our annotations interface! This resolved several layout and interaction issues that had previously been impacting annotations. We also touched up the annotations page to highlight important information better!

    Give it a go

August

  • People & properties

    Beta: Combining persons and events

    Product Analytics Team

    In Update 1.39 we released a new beta which changes how we store Person and Event data, essentially combining the two into a new format. The upside? Significant performance increases for all users on the test.

    Following this beta, the work was greenlit and rolled out to all users on PostHog Cloud.

    Find out more
  • Product analytics

    New big number insight type

    Product Analytics Team

    This new, much requested and very exciting big bold number insight type does exactly what it says: simplifies a query result down to a single number. And it works great with durations too!

    Give it a go

July

  • Product analytics

    Insight subscriptions

    Product Analytics Team

    We made it possible to export insights and dashboard as images so you can more easily share them with colleagues, as well as adding an option to subscribe to them in Slack and email. This is great if you have an insight or dashboard you want a whole team to monitor on a regular basis!

    Check the docs

June

  • Event pipelines

    Rapid ingestion pipeline

    Pipeline Team

    We made it faster to load insights and replays. The issue was that some data payloads were quite big, which resulted in the network slowing things down. To improve this, we added compression to a few of the endpoints in the app, and now see at least 50% smaller responses sent to clients. Hurrah!

    Send us your feedback

May

  • Sparks joy

    Accessible colour palette added

    Product Analytics Team

    Update 1.36 saw a number of interface improvements, including a rebuilt funnels experience and, most importantly, a new colour palette that's more accessible for users.

    Send us your feedback

April

  • Session replay

    Console log tracking in replays

    Monitoring Team

    Session replays, formerly known as session recordings, continue to get more powerful with the introduction of console log tracking. It's especially handy when you're debugging bugs in a session replay!

    Try it out

March

  • More

    Offsite: Iceland

    People & Ops Team

    Once a year, the entire company gets together for a week. We spend the time running sessions about our company values, discussing our strategy and completing a hackathon. Our trip to Iceland also saw the start of our tradition of keeping promises for what each of us will do when we IPO.

    Why do we do offsites?

February

  • More

    7,000 stars on GitHub

    Marketing Team

    Can you ever truly have enough GitHub stars? We don't think so. That's why we keep asking people to consider giving us more.

    Add a star
  • A/B testing

    A/B Testing

    Feature Success Team

    Update 1.33 added a full experimentation suite, built on the back of our existing Feature Flag setup. The primary feature is the ability to run multivariate A/B tests and analyze the results in PostHog. We immediately started using it to test further product improvements.

    Build an experiment
  • People & properties

    Data Management Suite

    Pipeline Team

    In Update 1.34 we added a new tool which helps you organize your PostHog data in-house through event definitions, definition tagging and many more features. This is especially useful in large teams, where it can sometimes be difficult to know if your insights are using the right events.

    Take a look

January

  • More

    5,000 stars on GitHub

    Marketing Team

    What does a hedgehog with 5,000 GitHub stars want more than anything else? More stars, of course!

    Star the repo