Last reviewed: August 27, 2024What’s new
This page provides a summary of notable changes to Writers’ Toolkit guidance.
July 2025
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| Added badgeto Shortcodes page. | Shortcodes | 
March 2025
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| Updated screenshot guidelines with resolution information. | Screenshot guidelines | 
February 2025
January 2025
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| Updated the release life cycle stages labels to match those documented in Release life cycle for Grafana Labs. | Labels | 
| Added fixed-tableshortcode that prevents column overflow by breaking content to a new line at any character, not just spaces between words | Shortcodes - Fixed-table | 
| Added column count parameter to the column-listshortcode that controls the number of columns in the multi-column list. | Shortcodes - Column-list | 
November 2024
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| Added drawer to UI elements and updated description and image for main menu. | UI elements list | 
October 2024
September 2024
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| Added preference for end-to-end when talking about testing. | Word list | 
| Added preference for meta-monitoring when talking about monitoring other monitoring tools. | Word list | 
| Added preference for use of self-managed when talking about Grafana deployment methods. | Word list | 
| Added preference to use the title Best practices for best practice guidelines | Concept and Word list | 
August 2024
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| Added documentation for Grot guides. | Grot guides | 
| Revised Vale rule for use of exclamation marks and reduced its Vale severity from “error” to “warning”. | Grafana.Exclamation | 
| Added a What’s new page used to summarize notable changes. | What’s new | 
| Added guidance regarding dark and light mode for images. | Media guidelines |