What’s New

Fixes tutorials where explanatory text and screenshots that followed a code sample inside a numbered step were mistakenly rendered as raw code, so those steps now read the way the author intended.

Restores automatic credit for completing tutorial groups and missions, so finishing all the tutorials in a learning path once again marks the whole path complete.

Makes the AI code-check grader judge your answer against what the exercise actually asks for rather than nitpicking details of the reference solution, so correct submissions are no longer rejected over unrequested specifics.

Fixes puzzle tutorials where edited answers were ignored, so updated puzzle solutions now validate correctly on the live site.

Makes tutorial search work again on the QA author-preview channel so authors can find and open the tutorial they are searching for.

Replaces a raw error on QA-preview group and mission pages with a graceful redirect to the live page, and shows a friendly error page when a catalog page can't render.

Fixes the Featured Missions cards on the Tutorial Navigator that were rendering blank, so they once again show their title, description, and link.

Fixes tag chips on group and mission pages so acronyms like 'SAP BTP Cockpit' display with proper capitalization instead of 'Sap Btp Cockpit'.

Fixes hundreds of tutorials where code blocks indented inside list steps showed their raw backtick fences instead of a proper highlighted code window.

Fixes the admin crossword puzzle designer so clicking a black grid square turns it white again, unblocking puzzle layout work.

Fixes Petoberfest photo uploads behind the CDN that were reloading the page instead of surfacing the real error, so upload failures now report a meaningful message.

Stops content rebuilds from crashing on out-of-memory by no longer loading the entire catalog's content into memory during publish, making large publishes reliable.

Gives the floating Devtoberfest scavenger-hunt clue captions a solid background so the clue text is readable against the page behind it.

Fixes the 'My Tutorials' panel so tutorials you authored show up, not just ones where you match on email or name.

Switches advocate photo uploads to a CDN-friendly format so they succeed on developers.sap.com and report clear errors when something goes wrong.

Adds a proper puzzles landing page listing every puzzle, replacing the 404 that used to appear at /puzzles/.

Fixes newly created puzzles that returned a 404 by serving every puzzle page dynamically from the catalog instead of relying on hand-authored files.

Fixes Petoberfest pet-photo uploads that failed silently on developers.sap.com by switching to a CDN-friendly upload format and surfacing errors.

Fixes the Petoberfest page so anonymous visitors see a sign-in prompt instead of the upload form.

Fixes the admin puzzle builder so importing a puzzle JSON file after creating a new puzzle actually loads it.

Fixes the tutorial step 'Done' button so that in an expired session it prompts you to sign in again instead of silently failing to record your progress.

Fixes the per-question pass/fail badge in tutorial quizzes so it stays a neat circle next to long questions instead of squishing into an oval.

Lets desktop MCP tools such as Joule Desktop complete sign-in through their local callback, so connecting them to the platform's MCP server works reliably.

Repairs the tutorial feedback form so the detailed-feedback popup opens and submissions go through, letting you share feedback on tutorials again.

Adds a way to force-refresh tutorial images that were saved incompletely, cleaning up broken entries so those images display correctly.

Fixes a startup configuration gap that was causing tutorial-image uploads to storage to fail, so images now persist as intended.

Fixes the homepage Featured Missions carousel that had stopped showing any cards, so featured missions appear again.

Fixes an issue that prevented tutorial images from ever being written to storage, so the image store now populates correctly.

Moves tutorial-image storage to BTP Object Store and fixes a startup crash, so the service boots reliably and images are stored in the right place.

Fixes product-tag deep links in the Tutorial Navigator so clicking a product now shows all of that product's tutorials instead of just a subset.

Restores the missing Mission entry in tutorial breadcrumbs, so you can navigate back up to the mission when you reached a tutorial through one.

Fixes a missing separator in the breadcrumb when you open a tutorial from a group or mission link, so the trail reads clearly.

Fixes tutorial images that were failing to load on mobile devices due to rate-limiting on mobile-sized image variants, so screenshots now render on phones and tablets.

Adds hover tooltips to all the icons in the top-right header bar, so it's clear what each button does.

Fixes an error that stopped some new users from saving their community profile link on first sign-in, so account linking now works for everyone.

Redirects old sitemap URLs left over from the previous platform to the current sitemap, so search engines can crawl and index tutorials again.

Fixes broken images in the 'You will learn' section of tutorials so those screenshots display instead of returning 404s.

The navigation dropdown and concepts filter now refresh reliably after updates, so you always see the latest version instead of a stale cached one.

Fixed an internal deploy safety check so that correctly versioned page assets are no longer mistakenly flagged, keeping deployments smooth and dependable.

Resolved several accessibility issues around progress indicators, image alt text, and control labels so the site works better with screen readers and assistive tech.

Fixed shared links so search engines can crawl them properly and read meaningful link text, improving how tutorial pages surface in search results.

Tutorials that also belong to a special event mission now show their real learning group in the breadcrumb and navigation, so you can find your way around a series correctly.

The admin puzzle builder now saves reliably when grid dimensions are entered and its Import button works again, so authors can build puzzles without hitting validation errors.

Fixed an internal routing gap so per-advocate detail pages are served correctly after the content-serving migration.

Resolved an internal routing mismatch introduced when the homepage and author pages moved to dynamic serving, keeping the build checks green.

Fixed the glossary and preferences popover links so search engines can crawl them and their text is meaningful, improving SEO across pages.

Repointed the automated accessibility scans to reliable live pages so they properly test real content instead of erroring on missing URLs.

Fixed breadcrumb structured data and added meaningful descriptions to group and mission pages, and cleaned up leftover placeholder text, improving how these pages appear in search.

The tutorial image lightbox now displays properly with a single focused image and its styling, instead of dumping all images stacked and unstyled.

Adjusted an internal build guard so shared UI5 code splitting no longer trips a false failure, keeping the build pipeline healthy.

Fixed tutorial pages on mobile so content no longer overflows horizontally and the Steps button no longer overlaps, for a cleaner reading experience on phones.

Fixed several homepage accessibility issues around color contrast, keyboard focus, link labels, and ARIA attributes so the page works better with screen readers and meets WCAG AA.

Concept, group, and mission pages now emit their own title, description, canonical URL, and social-preview tags instead of inheriting placeholder metadata, so they're properly indexed by search engines and share cleanly on social media.

The call-to-action button on notification alerts now renders correctly in the popover, so links surfaced in announcements are actually clickable.

Clicking an experience-level tag like "Beginner" on a tutorial now sets the Experience filter in the navigator instead of quietly breaking the Software Product filter, so browsing by product returns the results you expect.

The consent banner is now pinned as a fixed overlay so it no longer pushes homepage content around on a first visit, giving new visitors a stable, jank-free first impression.

Made the badge-tracking resend process more reliable and correctly scoped to the right completion window, so recent tutorial completions get their badges assigned as expected.

Fixed the badge backfill tooling so it runs against live environments and only stamps recent activity, avoiding an unnecessary sweep of the entire historical backlog.

Anonymous visitors clicking "Join the Fest" on the Devtoberfest homepage now see a friendly log-in prompt instead of a confusing error.

The Next button no longer disappears at the end of a group within a multi-group mission, so you can now flow straight from one group into the next without hitting a dead end.

Fixed multiple-choice knowledge checks that rendered every option pre-selected and always graded as wrong, so quizzes now start unchecked and grade correctly.

Author profile pages no longer vanish (404) after nightly catalog rebuilds, so links to an author's page stay reliably available.

Tutorial completions now carry the tracking identifier the badging system needs, plus backfill and resend tooling for past completions, so badges get awarded reliably.

The alert call-to-action URL field in the admin UI now keeps a hand-typed URL instead of discarding anything not in the suggestion list.

When a tutorial is embedded in another page, the cross-tutorial "More from this author" rail is now hidden so the embed stays focused on its own content.

The link-health override field in the admin UI now offers a proper OK/SLOW/BROKEN dropdown instead of a free-text box, making it clear what values are valid.

The QA author-preview navigator is now preserved across content-rebuild swaps, ending the recurring issue where it kept disappearing after a rebuild.

Fixed local deploys so the QA author-preview tutorial navigator is built and shipped rather than serving a broken (404) page, with a guard to catch it if it ever regresses.

Author pages, the "more from author" rail, and bylines now only show published, active tutorials, so unpublished or removed content no longer lingers on author profiles.

Long text fields such as descriptions and markdown content in the admin content editor now render as a properly-sized textarea, making it much more comfortable to write and review multi-paragraph content.

Code blocks no longer show distracting red error styling from the syntax highlighter on tokens it could not parse — those tokens now render as plain text instead of looking like errors.

The quiz completion badge is now easier to spot, and your current tutorial step is highlighted with a ring and a subtle pulse animation so you can always see where you are at a glance.

Devtoberfest sessions and activity times now display exclusively in your local timezone, removing the confusing dual-timezone display that showed UTC alongside local time.

Quiz questions that require selecting multiple correct answers (checkboxes) now validate correctly, so tutorials using multi-select questions work as expected instead of falsely rejecting valid answers.

Recorded Devtoberfest live-stream sessions now display their YouTube thumbnail previews on the sessions page instead of showing a blank placeholder image.

Tutorial notes and callouts that were originally authored across multiple paragraphs in the old AEM system now render as a single properly-formatted block instead of splitting into bare disconnected text fragments.

The Joule AI assistant button in the read-only embedded tutorial view now correctly opens the Joule panel when clicked, instead of silently doing nothing.

Upcoming SAP CodeJam events now appear in the homepage events section alongside other community events, so visitors can discover in-person learning opportunities without having to navigate to a separate page.

Badge and point awards to the gamification system resume reliably after fixing how the platform reads authentication credentials — completions that were queued will now flush through.

Badge and point awards now complete successfully after a server-side credential flow issue that was silently blocking all deliveries has been resolved.

Link health overrides set by content authors in the admin interface are now correctly applied when the page is built, preventing valid links from being incorrectly flagged as broken in the homepage navigation.

Tutorial pages no longer briefly flicker with unstyled UI5 browser components before the UI framework finishes initialising — content is now hidden until it is ready, removing the visual flash on page load.

The breadcrumb dropdown that lets you jump between tutorial steps now lists them in their correct authored sequence rather than alphabetically, so the picker matches the actual reading order of a mission or group.

The tutorial navigator on the QA content preview channel now shows only the search and filter interface, dropping the promotional homepage sections that were inappropriate for a content review environment.

The live event display screen used at SAP community events can now establish its real-time WebSocket connection without requiring an authenticated session, fixing the connection errors that were disconnecting kiosk displays.

The Joule AI help floating button no longer covers the Next navigation button when reading tutorials in a group, so both controls are independently accessible without one obscuring the other.

Single-tutorial hotfix rebuilds now correctly embed versioned JavaScript asset references in the published HTML, preventing visitors from receiving stale interactive components after a quick content update.

The portal no longer automatically triggers a login redirect for first-time visitors — only returning users who previously authenticated are silently re-signed in, giving new readers a frictionless anonymous experience.

Edit history logging in the admin interface is working again — changes to tutorials, missions, and configuration now correctly appear in the Change History panel as expected.

A database compatibility issue that caused tutorial reading-time statistics to fail silently on HANA (while appearing to work locally) has been resolved by switching to the correct SAP CAP query API.

The homepage shelf configuration and verb definitions list pages in the admin interface now load their data automatically when opened, rather than requiring a manual refresh click.

The admin notification popup now displays a clean empty state when there are no pending alerts, instead of showing an awkward layout gap.

Code samples in tutorials originally authored in AEM that were wrapped in blockquotes now render correctly inside the code window instead of appearing as raw text outside it.

When a content publish correctly blocks a rollback to an older version, the outcome is now shown as 'Rejected' rather than misleadingly displayed as a verification failure.

Tutorial overview pages now correctly display the contributor's display name instead of 'Unknown' for authors whose profile is linked to an SAP Community account.

When reading a tutorial that is part of a group or mission, the Next and Previous buttons now stay within that group's sequence instead of jumping to unrelated tutorials from outside the learning path.

Editing homepage shelves, featured topics, or other catalog content in the admin interface now automatically triggers a content rebuild, so changes reach visitors without needing a separate manual rebuild step.

The QA preview version of the tutorial navigator is now correctly served at its own path, allowing content reviewers to access it independently from the main navigator.

Admin panel content updates and deletions now work correctly for all users in production, fixing an edge compatibility issue that was causing edit and delete actions to fail silently.

The real-time event display used at SAP community events can now establish its WebSocket connection correctly after WebSocket support was explicitly enabled in the app router configuration.

Developer Advocate profile photos now appear immediately after uploading a new image — the CDN cache is invalidated on save so the updated photo is visible right away instead of being stuck behind a stale cached version.

The Devtoberfest Sessions page now fails gracefully if a session has an unrecognised timezone value, rendering the remaining sessions normally instead of going completely blank.

The `.model.json` endpoint that SAP Discovery Center uses to display developer portal missions has been reinstated, restoring the integration that was broken during the migration away from the legacy AEM platform.

JavaScript and CSS bundles from the previous deployment are now retained during new releases, preventing the brief window where visitors with cached HTML could request a versioned asset that no longer existed on the server.

Quiz questions and interactive step validation now display correctly on the content preview channel, fully resolving the issue that had prevented them from appearing in preview pages.

Tutorial quiz questions and interactive step validation now display correctly on the QA content preview channel after a missing JS asset reference file was added to the QA build process.

Automatic user account creation when a visitor links their SAP Community profile now works correctly in the HANA-backed production environment, fixing a silent insert failure that left users unable to have their progress tracked.

Configuration values that admins edit at runtime — homepage shelves, featured topics — are no longer overwritten by seed data during deployment, preventing live edits from being silently wiped on every new release.

An unbalanced HTML tag in the CDS syntax highlighter was pushing the tutorial progress sidebar off-screen; the fix restores correct side-by-side layout so the right rail displays normally alongside CDS code samples.

SAP Core Data Services (CDS) code blocks in tutorials now show correct syntax highlighting colours after a CSS mapping regression was identified and fixed.

Progress made on coding puzzles before signing in is now correctly merged with your account when you log in, completed puzzles are properly recognised after a browser refresh, and orphaned draft submissions are automatically recovered.

CDS syntax highlighting was missing from published tutorials after a build pipeline regression; the syntax highlighter is now correctly invoked when tutorials are published to the content store.

The homepage link-health checker no longer incorrectly marks internal portal URLs and login-protected pages as broken — those links are now either skipped or probed with the correct authentication context.

Mission cards in the tutorial navigator now link correctly when the mission's tutorials are structured as nested groups, fixing cards that previously led to a dead end.

Broken placeholder links in the homepage directory footer and a stray sign-in padlock icon have been hidden, cleaning up footer content that was inadvertently visible since launch.

On mobile devices, tapping the Navigate button in the site header now correctly opens the navigation popover instead of doing nothing.

The admin portal no longer enters an infinite reload loop when a session lacks the required authorization scope — it now shows a clear access-denied message so the user knows what action to take.

The application router now retries its module-loading step when a transient import error occurs, preventing a page refresh from leaving the site in a broken state after a brief network hiccup during startup.

The Devtoberfest App Space now correctly resolves which mission is associated with an event, fixing a lookup direction bug that was preventing mission content from loading on the App Space page.

Animated GIFs embedded in tutorial content now play their animations correctly — they are no longer flattened to static images by the CDN image processor.

Images and hyperlinks placed inside Prerequisites tables in tutorial content now render as expected instead of showing raw markdown syntax or escaped HTML tags.

A timing race between the app router's legacy redirect module and its initial page load was causing intermittent blank pages or redirect loops for some visitors — the startup sequence is now deterministic.

Single-tutorial hotfix rebuilds triggered via GitHub Actions now correctly generate versioned JavaScript asset references, ensuring published pages load current interactive components rather than stale cached code.

SAP events on the homepage now show on the calendar day they actually occur, rather than being shifted by server-side timezone conversion — community events authored in a non-UTC timezone no longer appear on the wrong date.

Content cache and navigator cache invalidations now propagate reliably across all running server instances, preventing visitors from seeing stale content on one instance after a content publish updated another.

Community events such as CodeJams and workshops now display the date as authored, rather than being shifted by server timezone conversion — events authored as starting on a Monday no longer appear as Sunday in the portal.

Linking your SAP Community profile to your developer account now works when you paste the full profile URL, and automatically creates your account record if it does not yet exist.

Images inside option-tab blocks in tutorials no longer leak their raw HTML attributes as visible text below the image — the rendered output is now clean.

Refreshing or directly navigating to a `/concepts/` URL with a query parameter no longer returns a 404 — the route is now correctly handled server-side.

The Joule AI assistant stylesheet and the SAP Fundamental Styles base CSS are now content-hashed, preventing browsers and CDN edges from serving stale cached versions of these critical stylesheets after a platform update.

Placeholder concept links on the Topics page now point to real published concept pages instead of broken placeholder slugs, so all concept browsing links reach actual content.

Interactive JavaScript components on portal pages are now content-hashed so CDN edges and browsers always fetch the current version after a deployment, eliminating the stale-JS problem that could leave interactive page elements in a broken state.

Developer Advocate profile cards now flip correctly on iOS Safari — the front photo is properly hidden when the card flips to reveal the back, instead of both sides being visible at the same time.

Clicking a learning verb tile on the homepage now reliably navigates to the correct page even after hovering over the card triggered the flip animation — the click target was previously lost after the animation completed.

The remaining page-level stylesheets not yet covered by content hashing are now versioned, completing full CDN cache-busting coverage for CSS across the platform.

Devtoberfest event registrations can now be correctly persisted — a missing database sequence for generating registration IDs was causing all registrations to fail silently.

Hugo-managed CSS files are now content-hashed at build time, ensuring CDN edges and browsers always retrieve the latest stylesheets after a new release rather than serving stale cached versions.

The Type and Experience filter panels in the tutorial navigator now render all available options instead of being cut off partway through the list.

Duplicate Software Product tags in the tutorial navigator filter — caused by slight label variations across tutorial metadata — are now merged by display label, resulting in cleaner filter lists without repetitions.

Option-tab controls in tutorials now render as interactive buttons as intended, rather than showing the raw HTML tag text that was being escaped by the Markdown renderer.

A special character in the Explore page frontmatter description that was causing Hugo build failures has been escaped, restoring the ability to build the full site with the Explore page included.

The production app router was running out of memory under real traffic and crash-looping; its memory allocation has been increased to handle the load seen since the platform went live.

The Devtoberfest Planner link in the admin interface now correctly resolves to the current environment — it was previously always pointing to DEV even when accessed from the PROD admin panel.

Topic publish and unpublish actions in the admin interface now correctly normalise the topic slug before performing the lookup, fixing a case-sensitivity mismatch that was causing failures on any topic change.