This release introduces a redesigned sports fixture workspace for head-office teams and venue managers, with easier fixture discovery, automatic competition imports and clearer control over what each venue shows. It also brings more flexible page design, faster editing across multiple venues, automatic menu updates from uploaded PDFs and improvements to events, publishing, bookings and platform reliability.

New features

A new home for managing sports fixtures

For organisations where the sports workspace is enabled, fixtures have a dedicated home built around planning the games your venues show. Two clear views keep the process simple: Your fixtures for managing fixtures you have added, and Find fixtures for discovering and importing more.

• Search by team, competition or fixture, with filters for sport, competition, dates and start times. Additional discovery filters include season, event country and TV channel where provider listings are available.

• Choose from the SportsDB competition directory instead of being restricted to the previous fixed competition list. Fixture and TV coverage depend on the information available from the provider.

• Select a day, the displayed results or all matching fixtures across pages, then review your selection and choose venues before importing. Larger competition imports are no longer blocked by the previous 200-fixture selection limit.

• Filter imported fixtures by publication status and find unassigned fixtures for housekeeping. Clearer start times, venue assignments and publication labels make the list easier to scan.

Read the guide to finding, importing and managing sports fixtures.

Automatically add fixtures from your chosen competitions

Enabled organisations can choose competitions whose upcoming fixtures should be added automatically. Each rule has its own venue assignments and an optional automatic-publishing setting. Rules can be edited or paused, while manual imports remain available without setting up a rule.

Background updates keep provider information refreshed after the required production workers and configuration have been enabled. If a schedule changes and you need to check sooner, you can refresh imported fixtures together and follow the background progress. Refreshing existing fixtures preserves venue assignments, publishing choices and venue-specific settings. Finished fixtures are hidden from the default live-and-upcoming view and remain available for a limited period before routine cleanup.

Learn how to set up automatic imports, choose venues and manage publishing.

A simpler, faster experience for venue managers

Manager mode presents fixtures in date groups with clearer start times, team details and actions. Managers can search and filter their venue’s fixtures, find additional games and control which fixtures show at their venue.

• Active shows published fixtures currently showing at the venue. Review brings together fixtures needing attention, including unpublished fixtures, with a visible reminder when there are items to review.

• Show and hide actions update the affected fixture without restarting the whole fixture list, making it quicker to work through several games.

• Venue visibility controls apply only to the selected venue, while assignment and shared publication remain clearly distinguished.

Read the venue manager guide to reviewing fixtures and choosing what to show.

Help when you need it

Admin, manager and automatic-import guides open directly in the dashboard’s help panel. Both admins and managers can report missing fixtures, missing competitions or incorrect fixture details from the sports workspace.

Create coloured, full-width page sections

Content blocks now have consistent controls for their surrounding section. Editors can choose primary, secondary and accent theme backgrounds, card-style and inverted backgrounds, the website’s default page background or a custom colour.

When a custom colour is selected, an appropriate text colour is applied automatically to maintain readable contrast. These controls are available across most content blocks, making it easier to create visually distinct areas without relying on a specialised section block.

More control over spacing and page composition

Sections now have separate controls for the space above and below their content, with no, compact, default and spacious options. Advanced controls provide responsive padding and offsets for mobile and desktop layouts.

These controls can add or remove space, tighten the gap between sections or create overlapping layouts. Nested and full-width blocks now handle margins, padding and page width more consistently. Existing content remains supported while editors gain a more predictable set of layout controls.

Schedule individual items inside repeating content

Editors can schedule when an individual item inside supported repeating content appears or disappears, including nested repeating content. This is useful for time-limited slides, accordion items, columns and similar content without scheduling the entire surrounding page block.

Changes to an item’s content should still be scheduled through the containing block.

Keep menu sections in sync with uploaded PDFs

Where menu synchronisation is enabled, structured menu sections can stay in sync with an uploaded menu PDF. Replacing the PDF or its thumbnail can regenerate the structured sections used by the website.

Editors can request a manual refresh, start a refresh when enabling synchronisation, see when extraction is already in progress and avoid accidentally starting the same refresh twice. Existing structured sections remain unchanged while synchronisation is disabled, and generated content can be reviewed before publication.

Configure richer Eventbrite event descriptions

Where Eventbrite is configured, the event page’s rich-text content can supply the generated long description. Supported templates can use the long-description placeholder, and ticket settings can be changed for an individual event without changing shared settings for other events.

Nothing is published or updated in Eventbrite until the existing external-event workflow is used.

Improvements

Manage visibility across multiple websites

Content visibility can now be changed across several selected websites at once. Instead of opening each website individually, editors can select the relevant brands and venues and apply the visibility change in one action, making campaign launches and other multi-site updates considerably quicker.

Existing assignments, drafts and venue-specific values are preserved unless they are explicitly changed.

Edit venue-specific content in bulk

Venue-specific content can be managed directly from an entry’s assignments view. Teams can review assigned venues, edit venue-specific values from one place, publish each venue’s changes through the override workflow and reset a venue when it should inherit shared content again.

Where an editor’s role requires approval, venue-specific changes can be saved as drafts but cannot be published, unpublished or scheduled directly. A publisher or approver must review and publish them.

The platform also removes unnecessary overrides when a venue’s value matches the shared content, helping keep entries easier to understand without changing genuine venue-specific values.

Choose the order of facilities

Selected facilities can be arranged in the order they should appear on the website. The chosen order controls which facilities visitors see before selecting View more.

Clearer event setup and recurrence

Event editing now makes two time-related behaviours clearer: occurrence duration applies to one occurrence rather than the whole repeating series, and Repeat until includes the entire selected final day.

New events receive a sensible internal name based on their title, date and time. Editors can change that name, and keyboard users can once again select event assets through the media picker.

More accurate event pages and links

Events are linked, indexed and presented more consistently across multi-venue websites. Single-venue events use their venue-specific public address, while events shared across several venues use the main website address.

The same choice is used for website links, search-engine canonical URLs, structured event data, sitemaps and llms.txt. Single-venue events are not duplicated in brand discovery files, multi-venue events are not incorrectly added to venue sitemaps, and missing event pages return the correct not-found response.

Easier event filtering

Event-category filters are listed alphabetically and displayed with consistent capitalisation. Filtering continues to use the original stored category, so existing events and assignments continue to work as before.

Clearer scheduled-publishing history

Scheduled publishing activity records the editor who arranged the change and distinguishes scheduling, changing, cancelling and applying a scheduled update more clearly.

More control over search-engine access

Website settings support additional paths that should be excluded through robots.txt. Editors can manage these paths as a structured list with validation, while existing page-level “hide from search” controls continue to work as before.

Product updates inside the dashboard

Signed-in users can open the product-updates panel to read current and previous release notes and share feedback without another login. The panel follows the dashboard’s selected light or dark appearance.

Updated public API guidance

The public v3 API now has a maintained reference and a separate guide for retrieving venue information. The documentation brings authentication, routes, parameters, pagination and response structures together in one place.

Bug fixes and reliability

• Closed venues, and venues whose sports-opening policy excludes a fixture, no longer show that fixture in public sports results.

• Event details entered in a dialog are no longer incorrectly saved as media links.

• Draft previews retain the content-form information needed by editors and scope visibility checks to the signed-in viewer.

• Draft-only changes no longer trigger unnecessary public website refreshes; publishing and other live-state changes continue to refresh affected pages.

• Optimised images handle source addresses containing separator characters more reliably.

• Menu-grid card descriptions use the intended centred alignment.

• Booking-package text and selected states remain readable on dark themes and stay within the intended content width.

• Address lookup waits while an editor is typing and limits unnecessary requests, reducing avoidable search errors.

• Large content and event collections are handled more defensively, reducing avoidable editing, reporting and background-processing failures.

• Public websites load less unused monitoring and routing code while preserving error reporting and navigation behaviour.

Customer action

No action is required for existing content. Teams that want to use automatic sports imports, menu PDF synchronisation or Eventbrite templates may need the relevant feature or integration enabled for their organisation before the controls appear.