At Zesty.io we understand that in today’s fast-paced content operations, teams don’t just need flexibility — they need clarity, speed, and the tools to work in sync. 

The Summer 2025 update brings exactly that: a suite of purposeful improvements across Zesty.io’s platform that reduce friction in your daily workflows, make publishing more reliable, and bring our interface into sharper alignment with modern design and usability standards.

From building complex schemas, to managing hundreds of content relationships, or pushing code in a collaborative environment, here’s what’s new — and why it matters.

Blocks App

Starter Blocks: Build Layouts Without Starting from Scratch

Designing a layout from a blank slate can slow momentum — especially when building under time constraints or onboarding new team members. Starter Blocks solve this by introducing a set of curated, pre-configured block templates available when creating a new Block Model.

Instead of manually building layout structures from scratch, users can now jumpstart their designs using pre-built templates for common scenarios — like product listings, blog summaries, or hero sections. When creating a new Block Model, they can select from their own curated library of pre-designed blocks, helping teams prototype faster and maintain visual consistency across pages.

Content App

One-to-Many and One-to-One Field Upgrades: Smarter Relationships, Simplified Publishing

Managing related content is foundational to Zesty.io’s model-based CMS — but publishing workflows have historically involved too much clicking around, especially when linked items (like authors, categories, or related posts) are missing or unpublished.

This release introduces a host of UX improvements to make content relationships easier to manage in place:

Quickly Add and Create Items on the Go

You can now create a new item in a related model directly from a one-to-many field and instantly add it to the list of related items—without leaving the current content entry. This eliminates the need to navigate away from the main content item. 

Smart Search and Filtering

Locate related items faster with filters for status, last modified date, creator, and language—plus a live preview and publication status. You can now:

• Search and preview items more efficiently
• See publication status of each item before selection
• Filter results by status, creator, last saved date, and language

Quicker Actions: Publish, schedule, and preview your related items from within a content item

Access one-click actions like Publish, Schedule, or Preview directly from the related item list within a content item. This means you no longer have to navigate away from your current view or open each related item individually—saving you valuable time and making it easier to keep your content up-to-date and fully published. 

Bulk Publish Support: Ensure all linked content is published in one go

Users can now publish all related items directly from a content item, including those linked through one-to-many, one-to-one, and internal link fields. 

This ensures that any unpublished related content—like authors, categories, or referenced pages—is published along with the main item. For example, when publishing an article, you can now easily make sure that all related authors are also live, eliminating the need to manually publish each linked item separately. 

Faster Content Tables: Built for Scale

Content teams working with large datasets — think product catalogs, event directories, or multi-language publishing — often deal with laggy tables and UI slowdowns. That friction adds up. That’s why we reimagined the content item table with speed and stability in mind, optimized specifically for enterprise-scale needs:

1. Initial load times reduced by up to 80% through lazy data hydration. This means your content appears faster, even if it's part of a massive dataset.
2. Smoother vertical and horizontal scrolling: Layout calculations are now throttled and memoized to avoid redundant reflows
3. Faster sorting and filtering: Heavy computations have been fully optimized improving speed by 5–10x in benchmark.
4. Quicker media field column thumbnails loading by fetching images from CDN.

All of these updates mean large tables no longer freeze your browser. Rather than loading everything at once, we intelligently load only what you’re actively viewing. It’s smarter, faster, and keeps you focused on your work—not stuck waiting. This is especially powerful for editorial teams handling high-volume content pipelines, where saving just a few seconds per task can add up to hours reclaimed every week.

Code App

We’ve revamped the Code App with a fresh and modern visual design, making navigation within the Code App smoother than ever. 

All Files View: Instant Access to What Matters

We’re introducing an all new "All Files" page to the Code App, which will replace the existing "Getting Started" view. Previously, the Code App opened with a "Getting Started" screen—useful for new users, but inefficient for daily work. That’s changing.

The new All Files view turns the Code App into a true working environment for developers:

• Display all the files in order of most recently saved.
• Search/Filter: Include a prominent search bar to allow users to quickly filter the list of files by file name.
• Quick Create Button: Add a "Create New File" button (or similar) in the title bar or near the top of the page for easy access to file creation.
• Relocated help content: Introductory documentation is now housed in a collapsible sidebar—accessible when needed, but never in your way.
• Dedicated Sidebar Navigation: A dedicated icon in the main sidebar gives you one-click access to the All Files view from anywhere in the app.

This update eliminates unnecessary entry points and gives developers immediate access to what they need—especially valuable in time-sensitive production environments.

Improved Code File View: More Transparency, Less Guesswork

With more teams collaborating on custom components, version control and publishing clarity are critical. The new code file view addresses this by bringing essential status indicators to the forefront:

• Live version number now displayed in the title bar.
• Save and publish status shown at a glance—so you know if you're working in draft or live mode.
• Accelerated publishing with a new one-click save-and-publish action.

Combined with the new visual design system, this update ensures devs have the right context at all times—without digging through menus.

Flexible Sidebar: More Space When You Need It

A small but important UX win: the Code App sidebar is now both resizable and collapsible. Whether you're working on long-form code or just want a cleaner interface, the space adapts to you.

Settings App

Cleaner Design, Clearer Save States

The Settings App has long been a utility hub in the Zesty.io platform. We are introducing multiple updates to the Settings App aimed at improving user experience and visual consistency:

• Real-time save confirmation in the title bar, reducing confusion.
• Single-column field layout for easier scanning and editing—particularly useful for long-form settings like OAuth, webhooks, or multi-env variables.
• Unified visual design using our updated material design system for consistency across apps.

These changes make global configuration tasks less error-prone, especially when toggling between staging and production environments.

What’s Next

Every change in this release is built to reduce friction—for writers, developers, and editors alike. If you're publishing frequently, managing dozens of schema types, or collaborating across departments, the Summer 2025 update is designed to support the pace and precision you need.

These updates will roll out automatically across all Zesty.io instances over the coming weeks. For deeper dives, head to our documentation—or just log in to see what’s new.

Additionally you can schedule a free product discovery call here.