SelfMailKit Self-Hosted v1.1.0: Major Cloud Features Update (Backwards Compatible with v1.0.0)

We're excited to announce a major update to SelfMailKit Self-Hosted, bringing features from our cloud platform to your self-hosted installation. This release includes email events, enhanced metrics dashboard, improved editors, and improved contact cleaning.

What's New in v1.1.0

This release bridges the gap between our cloud and self-hosted offerings, bringing you the most requested features and improvements to the self-hosted version.

Analytics & Events

Get comprehensive insights into your email performance with our new email events system. You can see all the events with details for each email sent to your contacts. Just click on the email event to see the details.

New Features:

Detailed Email Events: Detailed information about opens, clicks, bounces, complaints, spam and more.
Broadcast Unsubscribe Statistics: Track unsubscribe rates at the broadcast level
Click Tracking for Broadcast Links: Monitor which links perform best in your campaigns. You can see the total and unique clicks.

Related Cloud Releases:

These analytics features were originally developed for SelfMailKit Cloud. Learn more about the specific improvements:

• Broadcast Metrics Enhanced - Detailed link analytics and unsubscribe tracking

Frontend Enhancements

We've ported key features from SelfMailKit Cloud and added new capabilities to the self-hosted version.

New Frontend Features:

New Metrics Dashboard: Redesigned dashboard with improved data visualization and insights
Variable Suggestions in Block-Based Editor: Smart auto-complete for personalization variables
Ported SelfMailKit Cloud Editors: Block-based and Code-based editors from SelfMailKit Cloud.

Enhanced Block Editor

The block-based editor now includes intelligent variable suggestions, making it easier than ever to personalize your emails with dynamic content.

Smart Auto-Complete: Automatically suggests available variables as you type
New block features: New block features from SelfMailKit Cloud.
Improved User Experience: General improvements

Note:

The AI features are not available in the self-hosted version.

Related Cloud Releases:

These frontend improvements were first introduced in our cloud platform:

• Complete Metrics Dashboard Redesign - New card-based interface and dual view system
• Block-Based Editor Enhanced - AI writing assistant and variable auto-complete

Backend Improvements

We've improved the contact cleaning functionality and added some general system improvements.

Key Backend Updates:

Enhanced Contact Cleaning Functionality: More accurate and efficient contact validation and cleaning
Edge Case Handling: Improved handling of unusual scenarios and error conditions

Upgrading to v1.1.0

This release is backwards compatible with v1.0.0. We recommend all users upgrade to take advantage of these powerful new features and improvements. All you need to do is pull the latest changes and deploy.

Looking Forward

We will continue to improve the self-hosted version and add new features.

As always, we appreciate your feedback and suggestions. We'll continue to evolve the platform based on your input.