Beta: Monday 8 September, 2025 Full Client Release: Mon 15 & Tue 16 September, 2025

🎉 What’s new in Release 218?

🎯 Target specific shows with bespoke messaging

• The Content Library is now integrated in the Productions Dashboard module

• This enables you to create custom messages for individual Productions

• For any Production, pick one or multiple Content Library items to display on the detail page

• First, create a new Content Library item

• In the Productions dashboard, choose which Content Library item to show

• In Routes & Parts, drag and drop the Productions Content Library part to the position on the Production page where you want it. Note: the position is the same for all Production pages.

🔗 Partners can now connect directly to your data using our Events API

• New API lets partners connect directly to your Peppered data

• Covers Productions, Events, and related data including Halls, Locations, Genres, Prices.

• More data connections coming soon (sales data, CRM info)

• The API will not replace the current outgoing event feeds, it is an additional option with more flexibility.

• Create Access keys for partners in System menu > API access keys

• Give partners the keys they need to connect

✍️ Your text editor just got better

• URLs and email addresses in text editors automatically converted to links

• New "small" option makes text 20% smaller than original size

• Select any text and apply the “small” markup in the drop-down menu to make it 20% smaller

🧭 More Wayfinding icons added

• Added more icons like u-turns, ticket booth, and no entry

• Find the new icons in the Wayfinding module, ready to use

🖥️ Accessibility updates

• Menu items now marked as aria-current for screen readers so visitors know where they are on your website

• Clearer labels on required form fields

• Drop-down icons now have correct aria-expanded attribute (used in screen readers) when dropdown menu is in its default closed position

• No action needed: accessibility improvements work automatically

For Spektrix venues

🎫 Automated availability process just got better

• Event Availability updater can now switch events to "not on sale" as well as "on sale" or "sold out"

• Great for publishing shows before tickets are available

• Switches to "on sale" automatically based on ticketing system settings

• Use the Status updater to set these three default statuses

• Use Availability updater to configure event statuses

⚙️ Additional Fixes & Improvements

• Correctly display the user account options in mobile menu foldout for sites with a single sign-on (TNEW, Tixly)

• "My agenda" links directly to Ticketmatic e-ticket PDFs when enabled instead of downloading them first to your website. Peppered e-tickets with ticket sharing are always available by default when this feature is switched off.

• New redirects added in the Redirect module have a new default expiration time of one year. Existing redirects will remain unchanged, the option to add an expiry date has been added.

• Stories now use NewsArticle Schema

• Fixed Theme cards to be the same height

• Control Panel: Any string values (like the GTM code) are stripped of whitespace. No more errors due to unwanted spaces before or after a copied value.