# Slugs now auto-generated on existing records

[date: 2019-02-25T16:30:00.000+01:00]

A small but handy change just landed: when you add a [slug field](https://www.datocms.com/docs/content-modelling/slug-permalinks.md) to a model, if the model already contained some records, they will get a proper slug generated!

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