Changelog - March, 2025
New Features
Lambda Region
The Lambda Region setting specifies the AWS region where your Topol Plugin’s serverless Lambda functions run. This determines the physical location—either Frankfurt (eu-central-1) or Northern Virginia (us-east-1)—where your backend logic executes.
Why It Matters
Choosing the nearest region minimizes network round-trips, so your templates render faster and your API calls complete with lower latency. At the same time, selecting a European data center can simplify compliance with GDPR or other local data-residency rules, while a U.S. region may better suit North American workloads.
How To Enable
Add or update the lambdaRegion
key in your TOPOL_OPTIONS
. If you don’t set it explicitly, eu-central-1
is used by default:
lambdaRegion: "eu-central-1", // "eu-central-1" for Frankfurt
// "us-east-1" for N. Virginia
For full details on configuring this feature, see our documentation.
Hover Preview for Saved Blocks
You can now get an instant visual preview of any saved block by simply hovering over its thumbnail in the Premade Blocks panel. A lightweight pop-up window will display the block’s full rendering—complete with content and layout—without the need to drag it into your canvas first.
Why It Matters
Being able to inspect a block’s actual appearance before insertion eliminates guesswork and reduces trial-and-error iterations. Designers can scan through dozens of saved components, instantly spotting the right header, footer, or call-to-action without cluttering their editor workspace.
Improvements
New Configuration Option for Merge Tags
You can now swap out the default merge-tag sets on the fly by calling window.TopolPlugin.setMergeTags(yourMergeTagsArray)
, letting you load different tag groups at runtime without rebuilding the plugin. For full details, see our documentation.
Replaced Missing Images in Premade Templates
Several premade templates were displaying broken or missing images. As a temporary measure, we’ve swapped in a universal placeholder for every missing asset. We’re working on a full review of our Premade Templates to deliver a permanent fix soon.
Improved Border-radius Settings
You can now define a single border-radius value to apply uniformly to all four corners of a Content Block, or specify each corner’s radius independently (top-left, top-right, bottom-right, bottom-left) for fully custom shapes.
Inner vs. Outer Column Offsets
You can now choose whether a column’s offset applies inside its own padding (inner offset) or outside its container (outer offset), giving you precise control over how columns shift relative to their content and neighboring blocks.
Bugfixes
- Fixed an issue where removing the link from a Video block left an empty, zero-dimension placeholder in the template.
- Resolved a bug where deleting the text label of a Button block caused it to collapse to zero dimensions while still remaining in the template.
- Resolved an issue where HTML conditional comments inside an HTML Block were incorrectly flagged as invalid code.