As we dive back into a brand new year it's time for our annual review of major features shipped over the last 12 months, plus details of our latest enhancements and what to look forward to in 2019.

2018 was a very important year for us at Hail in which we made big improvements to our formats and reached exciting customer goals.

In case you missed some, read on for the list of major features we shipped in 2018 and a sneak peek at this year's plans.

Latest enhancements 📈

Our worker pigeons have been busy over the break with more system upgrades which have greatly reduced load times for publications, websites and content listings in Hail's CMS. So now it's not only faster for your community to open your Homepage, Newsletters, Magazines and Yearbooks, but it's also much quicker to load your list of Articles, Images and Publications in the Hail backend and start editing.

You can also now search your Publications by Title to quickly find and update that older School Info Book, for example.

Just be sure to refresh Hail in your browser for all the latest goodies 👩‍💻

2018 Year in Review

New in Hail: Say It With Emoji! 😂

Do you L❤VE emoji for getting your messages across and having them stand out in email and social media? Fantastic, because Hail's now packing over 2000 emojis to help spice up your comms! 🌶 Read more »

Updates to our Privacy Policy

We believe in keeping the information you share with us as safe as possible. We have updated our Privacy Policy in line with the requirements set out by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Read more »

🍊 Fresh Magazine Design!

As the latest publication style to get updated, the Magazine has been carefully ripened and freshly squeezed for you to relish 😋. Check out the brand new design. Read more »

Introducing Hail Widgets ⚙

Your Newsletters and Hail Homepage are getting much smarter thanks to Hail’s new widget platform that we’re introducing with Alerts and International Translations today! Read more »

New Homepage Widgets

Today we're releasing 3 new Widgets for Hail Homepage users and a couple of smaller updates for all... (Rejoice all you Instagrammers 😂). Read more »

Expect big things from 2019! 🤩

This year we'll be continuing to grow the service, customer base and team. We're already working on some very exciting new features, one of which has often been requested 😇 and other innovations that will surprise and delight.

As always, we'll keep updating our formats so that everything you publish with Hail looks and works great on all devices and channels. We're also working on lots of refinements and tweaks to the Hail backend so creating and sharing your stories and updates will be smoother and easier than ever!

Thanks again for being the brilliant, engaged Hail users you are! If you're enjoying using Hail as much as we do bringing it to you, then please help spread the word by introducing us to anyone you think might benefit from our one-stop communications platform. And if you're just getting back up and running for 2019 but have a feeling you could be using Hail better, why not try booking a Hail Health Check 🚑.

Thanks again,
Team Hail 💚