blog/answer-recap-august/index.mdx

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date: 2024-09-02
title: "Recap of August | Apache Answer"
authors: [Anne]
category: Newsletter
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description: "August adds new contribution."

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As the days grow shorter and the nights cooler, here comes the newsletter of August. Time to recap the new release, fresh features, and give big hugs to the contributors.

Let's go!

## 🌟 What’s New

We brought the heart of bringing smoother Q&A experience in every release for more people. In the latest 1.3.6, we introduced two CDN plugins for fast loading speed and pre-filled forms for helping users to stay concentrated on editing the content.
Learn more about the details and how-to tutorials in the blog as well as optimizations carried in the release.

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### New Tutorial: Setup and Plugin

Besides new features, we also received three new blogs from the community, covering configuration and plugin tutorial.

We understand that it can be challenging for developers to set up the environment with [Developer Guides](https://answer.apache.org/docs/development). Now, it gets easier, simply following the blogs with step-to-step configuration and installation guide for both frontend and backend.

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That’s not it. You can also follow another guide on adding plugins to make Answer powerful for your community.

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### New Translation
The new tutorial above supports both Chinese and English. Besides, there're updates for localization. Now, you can explore the Chinese version for [Introduction](https://answer.apache.org/zh-CN/docs) and [Getting Started](https://answer.apache.org/zh-CN/docs/installation).

If you are willing to join the localization family, don't hesitate to join us. Find out how to get started [here](https://answer.apache.org/community/translation/).

## 🫶 Community
We put together our preparation and observation from the events we joined in the blog. Feel free to refer to it and get ready for your next big event.

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## 🙌 Cheers to Contributors
Thank you for making the features, shining the tweaks, and fixing the bugs.
[kevin](https://github.com/kevingil), [kumfo](https://github.com/kumfo), [hgaol](https://github.com/hgaol), [robin](https://github.com/robinv8), [LinkinStars](https://github.com/LinkinStars), [dashuai](https://github.com/shuashuai), and [Luffy](https://github.com/sy-records).

We would also love to extend sincere gratitude to the hero behind the new tutorial and localization [IamMelody233](https://github.com/IamMelody233).

## 🤲 We Want You
In Answer community, we sing for the good deeds. Besides coding and localization, your feedback also matters. Feel free to connect with us via [X](https://x.com/AnswerDev), [email](mailto:dev@answer.apache.org), or in the [community](https://meta.answer.dev/).