Happy New Year! The Creatiq team is back onboard after a refreshing holiday break and ready to rock in 2011. Just posting to let you know that we have our next scheduled system upgrade on 13 January 2011 1:00AM US PST (check local times here).

As you know, upgrades to the system are frequent. Before the holidays they were more frequent, but our system was acquired recently by Adobe Systems, Inc. one of the leaders of internet technology and while that dust has settled, we're ready to you bring some fantastic new features. We'll first be starting with some major improvements to the system and here is a quick brief of what's in store:

1. Export/Import functionality for Products and Web App Items has been overhauled to make it more robust - this means BC will be exporting CSV files making large exports faster and more reliable. 
2. Product codes will become mandatory for new products being created or existing products being edited. If you have existing products that do not have a product code as at 12 January we will run a batch process to automatically generate a random code to fill it in for you for those products. For products with duplicate codes we will give you a warning and provide you with the tools to correct this. 
3. OpenSRS Mail will be enabled on all new sites created from 15 January onwards. If you create a site after that date, upgrade it to a paid site then add a domain, the users of that site will receive improved mail functionality with a new interface and 2GB mail storage. Existing users will be migrated to the new mail system in February 
4. We are removing Sitewalk - for users who wish to use InContext Editing inside Firefox, we recommend that you download the Firefox 4.0 Beta otherwise please use a different browser. To clarify, we are awaiting a Firefox bugfix that's coming in 4.0 so that InContext Editing will work properly 
5. Email Marketing with 1000 included emails/month to be included in the 'Websites' Plan - This means if you have any customers on a 'Websites' plan they will be able to see the 'Marketing' tab starting and use its functionality from 12 January 2011 unless you disable it for them. New sites on the "Business" plan will also receive this feature.

We'll be back soon with more updates and some more articles and tips on how to make the most of your business in 2011 and beyond. Thank you for reading!

UPDATE - 13 January 11:00AM PST: Deployment and Validation of this mornings release was successful across all legacy and Adobe datacenters. New features and new pricing are now available.