[2024-09-04] New in Nylas - September 2024

Welcome, friends, to our monthly episode of New in Nylas! 👋 We have some exciting updates in store for you. But first…

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✨ As a friendly reminder, Nylas maintains compatibility within major versions. This means if you’re on Nylas v3, you don’t need to do anything to use the features we’re talking about here. (If you’re still using v2, we can’t wait to show you our latest and greatest! Check out the Upgrade guide.)

Nylas v2 deprecation news

Nylas v3 is our faster, more reliable, easier to use new platform, and we can’t wait to show you what you’re missing. To help us focus, Nylas is only making critical updates to Nylas v2 at this time.

To make sure you have time to finish your migration, we’ve extended the v2 deprecation date to December 31, 2024.

If you haven’t already, check out the Nylas v2 to v3 Upgrade guide for instructions on how to get started building your project on v3, and the App Migration guide, the Migration API references, and our detailed instructions on migrating the many types of Microsoft accounts out there.

We also built Migration Station, a customized upgrade and data migration guide built for you based on what Nylas features you use. Fill out the form and build a guide, and save the URL to share or to come back to later. We’d love your feedback on it!

One-click migration for v2 apps

To make migration even easier, we’ve introduced one-click migration in the v3 Dashboard. Just find your legacy v2 application and click Migrate app — the rest is done for you!

Wrapping up the Nylas DEV Challenge

The Nylas DEV Challenge is a wrap! 👏 Thank you to everyone who participated. We've announced the winners over on DEV.to, so go check them out if you're interested! 🎉

Introducing ExtractAI

Nylas' Engineering teams have been hard at work on this for a while, and we're excited to finally introduce it! ExtractAI uses Nylas' integrated AI to parse information about e-commerce orders and shipments from your end users' email inboxes. Check out the ExtractAI documentation and API references.

New features in the v3 Dashboard

We’ve introduced a couple features to the v3 Dashboard this month:

You can now find auth and webhook logs in the Dashboard — just choose an application and hop over to Logs in the left navigation.
You can now create Pub/Sub notification channels from the Notifications page.

Updates to Nylas Scheduler

This month, we improved the performance of CDN packages for Nylas Scheduler. This means that components loaded using CDN packages now render much faster!

Organizers can now modify the visual elements of their Scheduling Pages. You can pass a custom-page-style-inputs slot with input components to the Scheduler Editor Component to display styling options on the Page styles tab. For non-hosted Scheduling Pages, you also need to listen for the configSettingsLoaded event and apply the settings to the Scheduling Component. For more information, see Add styling options to the Scheduler Editor.

Nylas SDK changelogs

Our intrepid team of developers is always working to improve Nylas, and that includes the SDKs that we maintain. During August, we updated the Ruby SDK to v6.1.1.

Nylas API improvements and bug fixes

You can now use the Migration APIs to migrate v2 virtual calendars to v3.
Nylas now recursively returns all folders for Microsoft accounts, instead of only the top-level folders and their immediate sub-folders.
Fixed an issue where filtering using primary instead of a calendar ID would return different results. Nylas now normalizes filter queries by looking up the calendar ID.
Fixed an issue where ical_uids displayed an incorrect value on Graph Events created by non-Microsoft accounts.
Fixed an issue where Nylas returned only a partial result for Get all Folders requests on Microsoft accounts.
Fixed a partial 404 error in the Get all Messages, Get Message, and Get Attachment Metadata endpoints for IMAP accounts.

New and updated docs

We’re always working to make our docs better! This month, we’re pointing the spotlight at these pages:

We also continued to work on clarity and consistency in some of our older docs. Here’s a rundown of the changes.

Revamped Microsoft provider guide

Our journey to overhaul the Microsoft provider guide has reached its end! 🎉 You should notice that the whole section is now more relevant to your experience with Nylas, and easier to navigate.

Latest Nylas Tech blogs

Our DevRel team is hard at work bringing you cool demos built on Nylas v3. Here are the new posts from the last month:

That's all for now

We appreciate you joining us for our release, and welcome your feedback and suggestions. If you have comments or suggestions on the documentation, please drop us a line.