18 July: Rolling out MFA and the hidden pages beta

This release lets you make your account more secure, adds a beta option to hide pages from published sites, and includes a bunch of other, smaller improvements

✨ New

• We’ve added a new option to hide pages from the table of contents in your published sites — available right now in closed beta. Your users can still access hidden pages via direct link, find them through an on-site search or by asking GitBook AI — and they’re indexed by search engines. This is ideal for content such as FAQs that you don’t want taking up space in your TOC, but you still want people to access if needed. Members of our closed beta can enable hidden pages in the Experimental features section of their organization settings.

• We’re improving the security of your GitBook account by adding the option to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to sign in. We’ve started slowly rolling it to GitBook users, and we’re testing it carefully as we go. Right now, MFA in GitBook supports authenticator apps such as Google Authenticator and 1Password.

➕ Improved

• We’ve moved the social preview and page rating options out of the Customization menu and into the site settings, so they’re easier to find and change.

• You can now give your docs sites longer names, as we’ve incresed the site title length to 128 characters.

• Importing content from GitSync now infers the table of contents from files more effectively by removing common prefixes.

• We’ve tweaked the size, position and margins of some of our modals to make them fit better on smaller screens, tweaked the position of the search menu, and made a bunch of other small improvements to the look and feel of the app.

• You can now set Guest as the default role in your organization settings, to make adding guest users easier than ever.

🔧 Fixed

• Fixed a bug that prevented you from resetting the privacy policy URL in the customization settings of a published space or site.

• Fixed an issue where changing your trademark on a site wouldn’t show in the customization preview.

• Fixed a bug that was causing the custom domain modal to close unexpectedly after the second step.

• Fixed an issue that could prevent members with Editor permissions couldn’t merge a change request in a space.

• Fixed an issue where page ratings sometimes showed negatively-scoring pages in the ‘Good’ table.

• Fixed a bug that prevented you from typing anything in the text area when you added a link to a card block

• Fixed a bug that caused the organization switcher button to sometimes require more than one click to open.

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