See exactly when each version of a record was live

The version history of a record now doubles as a publication timeline. Every version tells you not just when it was created, but the exact window it was actually published (and a green dot shows you which version is currently published).

Before this, the version history panel only showed when a version was saved and by whom. This change makes it simpler to understand when they were published.

What's new

Open any record's history, and each version now carries its publication info under the timestamp:

• Live since X — this version is published and currently live, with no end in sight.

• Live from X → Y — this version was public for a stretch, then superseded.

• Live on X, HH:MM → HH:MM — published and replaced the same day, down to the minute.

A redesigned visual indication ties it all together:

• A green "live" dot marks the version that's currently published.

• A muted dot marks versions that were live at some point in the past.

• Each entry now credits the editor who made the change with a "Edited by …" so the timeline reads as a full audit trail at a glance.

Under the hood

The publication ranges are backed by new metadata on item versions — published_from and published_until — exposed through the Content Management API. The dashboard reads them via @datocms/cma-client 5.5.1 or higher.

This is a forward-looking history: we don't retroactively reconstruct intervals for versions that were already live when the feature shipped.

If you publish a version, unpublish, then re-publish that same version with no edit in between, the new published_from overwrites the previous one and published_until is cleared. The version reflects its latest interval rather than a full multi-interval log. In practice most workflows save an intermediate version before re-publishing, which produces a fresh row and preserves the earlier one.