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+Title: Kosmos Episode 80
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+Date: 25.05.2023
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+With a handful of early adopters, we've been working behind the scenes to finally make something come true that had been planned for a long time: our **Kirby Partner directory**.
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+Today is also the day you've all been waiting for: Here comes the **Kirby 4 Alpha pre-release**. We are deliberately calling it an Alpha to emphasize that Kirby 4 is neither feature complete nor ready for production, and there will definitely still be many changes until the final release – and plenty of bugs. But we want to give you the chance to get your hands on the game early and are excited to hear your feedback.
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+But read on below:
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+## Partner directory
+
+Today marks the beginning of something great for developers, designers and their future clients: We are launching the [Kirby Partner directory](https://getkirby.com/partners) !
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+For you as developers/designers, this directory presents an opportunity to demonstrate your Kirby and web development expertise to a large, growing audience.
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+For clients all over the world, it is vital to have partners who know Kirby well, create great websites or apps, and provide high-quality services, in short, to be reassured there is always someone to trust with their Kirby project.
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+(image: partner-profile.jpg)
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+[Become a partner](https://getkirby.com/partners/join)
+
+
+## Kirby 4 Alpha pre-release
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+(image: chameleon.png)
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+Kirby 4 is all about a new editing experience for users. With new field types and views, a way to move pages, customizable page create dialogs, query support for sections, options and enhancements for the textarea, writer, blocks and layouts fields, and cool image editing improvements, using the Panel is now more impressive than ever. Here are just a few of the highlights waiting for you(and we are not done yet, more is planned for the release in late summer).
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+### Link field
+Link to anything
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+(columns…)
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+(image: file-link.png)
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+Link to external websites, internal pages, files, email addresses and telephone numbers.
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+The new dialog is also available for the writer and textarea fields.
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+(…columns)
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+
+### Page creation dialogs
+Faster, better page creation
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+(columns…)
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+(image: page-creation-dialog.png)
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+Customize the page creation dialog to your needs.
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+Give the title a fitting label, add new fields or disable redirecting to the new page. Did we mention you can also define the initial page status after creation now?
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+(…columns)
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+### Moving pages
+I like to move it, move it
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+(columns…)
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+(image: move-dialog.png)
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+Created a page in the wrong place, or made up your mind? Just move it to a new parent!
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+(…columns)
+
+### Section Filters
+Filter pages and files with queries
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+(columns…)
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+(image: section-filters.png)
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+Filter pages and files by any criteria: The pages and files sections now come with support for our powerful query string syntax.
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+(…columns)
+
+### Color field
+Color me surprised
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+(columns…)
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+(image: color-field.png)
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+Color in all its facets: Multiple color notations, color picker, pre-defined colors, custom color names and transparency. You can't get more color than that.
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+(…columns)
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+
+### Image Focus
+Focus Pocus
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+(columns…)
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+(image: image-focus.png)
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+Never cut off the most important part of your images again. Set a focus point and let your images shine in all their beauty.
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+(…columns)
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+### Uploader
+Uploading files the smart way
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+(columns…)
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+(image: uploader.png)
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+Screenshot-123.jpg? With the preview and edit options in the new upload dialog, meaningless file names are now a thing of the past.
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+Use the new blueprint options to optimize uploads before they land on the server.
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+(…columns)
+
+### Blocks field improvements
+Our best field is now 25% bester
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+(columns…)
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+(image: field-preview.png)
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+The block type preview of type fields lets you edit(and display) your block fields right in place.
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+Other block field improvements include block splitting and merging, restricted heading levels, keyboard shortcuts and more.
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+(…columns)
+
+### Language editor
+No longer lost in translation
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+(columns…)
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+(image: language-view.png)
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+Each language got its own view now. Easily configure your languages or edit language variables right from the Panel. Easy, right?
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+(…columns)
+
+### New search view
+Deliver results
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+(columns…)
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+(image: search-view.png)
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+The larger your website, the more important becomes search. With Kirby's new search view, searching in the Panel has become a breeze.
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+(…columns)
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+There are so many new features, we cannot list them all here. For a full list of all new features and enhancement, visit our release page.
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+[Learn more about Kirby 4](https://getkirby.com/releases/4.0)
+
+
+## Kirby plugins
+---------------
+
+[ThumbHash for Kirby](https://github.com/tobimori/kirby-thumbhash) promises smarter image placeholders, represented by small hashes.
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+
+Lukas Bestle created a new custom block type: [Kirby Downloads](https://github.com/lukasbestle/kirby-downloads).
+
+Integrate the PHP Debug Bar into Kirby with the [Kirby Debugbar](https://github.com/Treast/kirby-debugbar) plugin.
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+[Kirby Block Preview fields](https://github.com/junohamburg/kirby-block-preview-fields) provides a block preview that directly displays the block fields, including tabs.
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+Automatically reload the frontend when content changes are saved in the panel, made possible with the [Kirby Reload on Save](https://github.com/junohamburg/kirby-reload-on-save) plugin.
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+[Kirby Seo](https://github.com/tobimori/kirby-seo) is an all-in-one SEO and meta solution, completely configurable.
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+With the [Visual Block Selector](https://github.com/junohamburg/kirby-visual-block-selector) plugin, you get a customized block selector that displays a preview image for each block.
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+The [Headless Image Transformations][https://github.com/moritzebeling/kirby-headless-image-transformations) plugin adds a new route to your Kirby installation that allows you to transform images on the fly. This is useful when you want to let the frontend decide what image size to load.
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+The [Kirby components](https://github.com/youngcut/kirby-components) plugin brings snippets and blueprints together in one place. It includes useful tools that change the way you work with Kirby.