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This PR mostly attempts to tweak the main page so that there is less dead space and makes new versions cleaner. Added some text about the major new features + some links.

Performance got dropped down to one of the lower tiles.

The blog cards lost their thumbnail. Every featured image is 1920x1080 and the 230px slot cropped them to roughly square, so each card showed an arbitrary slice of a gradient. Restoring the full 16:9 image is not an option either: at the column's ~620px width that is a 350px banner per card. The cards are text now, matching the release cards opposite, and a fourth post fills the height the images used to take. The blog index link moved up beside the heading.

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Details image Valkey homepage after the rework

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The site now adds release-line pages for Valkey versions, updates download and homepage release displays, configures blog content, removes performance dashboard content, adds release styling, and provides copyable Docker commands.

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Release site refresh

Layer / File(s) Summary
Release-line pages and rendering
content/download/versions/*, templates/release-line.html, templates/macros/release.html, templates/release-page.html, templates/release-section.html, sass/_valkey.scss
Adds version pages for Valkey 7.2 through 9.1. Release templates select and sort stable releases, render highlights, and display release details.
Supported-version download navigation
content/download/index.md, templates/download.html
Adds installation and archive links. The download page lists the newest stable release for each major.minor line.
Homepage release and blog sections
_data/perf.toml, content/_index.md, templates/index.html, sass/_valkey.scss
Updates homepage release and blog sections, adds the Performance card, removes dashboard content, and changes documentation card rendering and styling.
Copy-code interaction and template wiring
templates/macros/release.html, static/assets/js/copy-code.js, templates/includes/head.html
Adds copyable Docker commands and globally loads the delegated clipboard handler. Successful copies apply the copied state for two seconds.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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The refreshed pages are functionally ready, but the new copy control should provide accessible completion feedback and the remaining stylesheet lint violations should be corrected before routine merge.


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In `@sass/_valkey.scss`:
- Line 1764: Update the SCSS whitespace in sass/_valkey.scss: add a blank line
before the comments associated with .whats-new-section and the corresponding
comment at line 1866, and remove the blank line immediately before the border
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- Line 53: Guard the release blog anchor in the homepage template with the same
optional blog_url conditional used by release-line.html, so no link is rendered
when blog_url is omitted while preserving the existing link output when it is
present.

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- Line 20: Update the copy-code-button handler to expose both successful and
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Comment thread sass/_valkey.scss
.documentation-section {
padding: 4rem 2rem;
background: #6983FF;
// Continues the .whats-new-section gradient, finishing on the #6983ff that

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the reported Stylelint whitespace violations.

Add an empty line before the comments at lines 1764 and 1866. Remove the empty line before border at line 1956. These changes satisfy the reported SCSS rules.

Also applies to: 1866-1866, 1956-1956

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[error] 1764-1764: Expected empty line before comment (scss/double-slash-comment-empty-line-before)

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In `@sass/_valkey.scss` at line 1764, Update the SCSS whitespace in
sass/_valkey.scss: add a blank line before the comments associated with
.whats-new-section and the corresponding comment at line 1866, and remove the
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<p>Example:</p>
<div class="copy-code">
<pre><code>docker run --rm {{first_tag}}</code></pre>
<button type="button" class="copy-code-button" aria-label="Copy command to clipboard" title="Copy">

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Expose the copy result to assistive technology.

The handler only toggles .copied. The visible change swaps two aria-hidden SVG elements, and the button name remains unchanged. A screen-reader user receives no success or failure result. Add a polite status message, or update an exposed button label, for both outcomes.

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In `@templates/macros/release.html` at line 20, Update the copy-code-button
handler to expose both successful and failed copy outcomes to assistive
technology, using a polite status message or dynamically updated accessible
button label alongside the existing visual .copied state. Preserve the current
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@madolson madolson changed the title Rework the homepage and download pages around release lines Rework the homepage and download pages around release versions Sep 5, 2026
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madolson force-pushed the homepage-refresh branch 3 times, most recently from 87ebf31 to 0779cf6 Compare September 5, 2026 05:53
The homepage led with "Version 9.x.x" and, under it, two full dumps of
container tags, binary artifact links, and sha256 links: about four
screens of near-identical text for something a visitor reads once. It
said nothing about what is actually in the release. Meanwhile
`/download/` listed only majors, so 9.0 and 8.0 had no presence anywhere
on the site, and there was no stable URL for "the newest 9.0".

That last point is the request from valkey-io#446: a fixed link per major.minor
that carries the context of the latest release on that line.

Adds `/download/<line>/` pages (9.1, 9.0, 8.1, 8.0, 7.2). Each leads
with the line's major features, links to its release blog, then gives the
containers and binaries for the newest release on the line, then every
release on the line. The highlights are the page body, so adding a line
is one markdown file:

    +++
    title = "Valkey 9.1"
    path = "download/9.1"
    [extra]
    version = "9.1"
    blog_url = "/blog/valkey-9-1-delivers-improvements-in-security-performance-and-more/"
    blog_text = "What's new in Valkey 9.1"
    +++

    - **Per-database ACLs** scope a user's permissions to specific numbered databases.

The homepage renders the same body for the newest line, so highlights are
written once.

The homepage now shows those highlights instead of artifacts, past
releases as a flat list of links to the line pages, blog posts at the
same width as the versions with their featured images, and the
performance dashboards down in the documentation grid where the install
card used to be. `/download/` becomes a table of every supported line
plus the newest release.

Carried over from valkey-io#446, which this supersedes:

- `includes/release.html` becomes the `macros/release.html` macro taking
  `(date, release)`. The include relied on callers setting `release` and
  `release_date`; callers set `release` in a loop and forgot
  `release_date`, so `/download/` reported the newest release's date for
  every past version. 7.2.14 claimed 2026-09-01 instead of 2026-07-21.
  Macro arguments make that class of bug unrepresentable.
- Release walks sort on `date` rather than leaning on the section's
  natural title order, which puts 10.0.0 in the wrong place.

Not carried over: the `#latest_patch` / `#latest_minor` / `#latest_major`
hash forwards and the "Available updates" block on per-patch release
pages. The line pages are the evergreen link those worked around, so
release blogs can point at `/download/9.0/` directly. The update hint on
a stale per-patch page is still worth having and is easy to add on top.

Also adds a copy button to the `docker run` example, and moves strings
that were baked into templates into data: the dashboard button text into
`_data/perf.toml`, the homepage blog post count into the homepage front
matter, and the `/download/` intro prose into the page body.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>

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Generally, I like it. I have a few tweaks/modifications I'd like to see:

  1. Documentation seems like a super odd fit for perf dashboards.
  2. I'm worried a little bit about the release sequence and how this might create a content race condition. Generally, we make sure the version is live on the page (done by the release manager) then push the release blog. Adding the release line bit complicates it, especially considering it needs to link the blog. We should think this through and see if there is ways to make it easily sequential and document who does what.
  3. While I like the release lines summaries, how would we handle a condition where there is a super critical update required on a patch? OpenSearch had this a couple of times and they used a similar content box to communicate this - but here we're tying that info to a release line, not a specific patch (each patch version had a description for this reason). Any thoughts on this?

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</div>
{% endfor %}
{% endif %}
{% set perf = load_data(path="_data/perf.toml") %}

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I don't think this makes a lot of sense under documentation. I recall quite a bit of consternation about getting performance numbers at the top of the page when we implemented it originally, so someone cares where it goes and I doubt this is satisfactory.

The homepage and /download/ built line URLs by string-joining the release
tag: `/download/{{ line }}/`. Nothing checked that the target existed.
Zola does not validate hrefs that templates construct, so deleting
`versions/9-0.md` still built clean and shipped a 404:

    $ mv content/download/versions/9-0.md /tmp/
    $ zola build
    > Successfully checked 0 internal link(s) with anchors.
    -> Creating 719 pages (0 orphan) and 12 sections
    Done in 1.3s.
    $ grep -o 'href="/download/9.0/"' public/index.html
    href="/download/9.0/"
    $ ls public/download/9.0/index.html
    ls: No such file or directory

That is the failure mode when a release ships before its line page: the
homepage links a version that is not there, and nothing complains.

Look the page up with `get_page` and use its `permalink`. A missing line
page is now a build error:

    Error: Reason: Function call 'get_page' failed
    Error: Reason: Page `download/versions/9-0.md` not found.

CI runs `zola build`, so this surfaces on the release PR rather than in
production. Verified for 9-1, 9-0 and 7-2 individually.

The lookup also replaces the scan over `versions/_index.md` that searched
for a page whose `extra.version` matched the line, so highlights and the
line URL now come from one page reference instead of two mechanisms that
could disagree.

Tera will not accept a filtered expression as a function argument, so the
slug needs its own `set`.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
Removing the Install card left a hole in the four-card grid and the
performance dashboard filled it, so perf ended up under a "Documentation"
heading it does not belong to. Review feedback, and fair: only two of the
four cards are documentation, Clients is a resource list.

Rename the heading to "Learn more", which is honest about what the grid
holds, and make Performance an ordinary `documentation_cards` entry.

That drops the `load_data` special case. `_data/perf.toml` had a single
`[[dashboards]]` entry pointing at `/performance/`, indistinguishable from
a plain card, so the indirection bought nothing. `performance.html` only
reads `perf.sections`, which stays.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
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Documentation seems like a super odd fit for perf dashboards.

Yeah. Honestly, do we just drop it from there? I really don't know where to put it but it's current position makes no sense. I ended up moving it down and changing the header section.

I'm worried a little bit about the release sequence and how this might create a content race condition. Generally, we make sure the version is live on the page (done by the release manager) then push the release blog. Adding the release line bit complicates it, especially considering it needs to link the blog. We should think this through and see if there is ways to make it easily sequential and document who does what.

This will now throw an error during the build, so we still have a sequence, which is we need to generate the new markdown for the release line before the release happens.

While I like the release lines summaries, how would we handle a condition where there is a super critical update required on a patch? OpenSearch had this a couple of times and they used a similar content box to communicate this - but here we're tying that info to a release line, not a specific patch (each patch version had a description for this reason). Any thoughts on this?

I think it would make sense to do Low, Medium, high, Security as text next to each release. Follow up PR?

The tiles ran the title, description and button together at a 0.5rem gap.
Raising it to 1.5rem separates the title from the description and keeps the
button clear of the text on the tallest tile, where `margin-top: auto` has
no slack left to push it down.

Also makes the Performance description an action rather than a label, to
match the "View the full list of Valkey commands" card next to it.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
The 230px-wide thumbnail slot cropped 16:9 featured images to roughly
square, so each card showed an arbitrary slice of a decorative gradient.
Nothing is lost by dropping them: the images carry no information the
title and description do not. The cards now match the release cards in
the other column, and a fourth post fills the height the images used to.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
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Greptile Summary

This update refreshes the homepage and download experience around supported release lines, including dedicated version pages, reusable release information, redesigned homepage sections, and container-command copy controls.

The existing release-line ordering concern remains outstanding but is non-blocking.

Confidence Score: 5/5

Safe to merge with respect to blocking issues; the remaining release ordering concern is non-blocking.

The existing unlinked P2 finding remains outstanding: templates/download.html sorts releases by date before selecting one release per major.minor line. If a maintenance release for an older supported line is published after a newer line, that older line can be presented as the latest release.

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Comment thread templates/download.html
Puts it beside "Latest Blog Posts" in a light weight rather than
trailing the cards, so the column ends on a card edge.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
Right-aligning it across the column put it far enough from "Latest Blog
Posts" to be easy to miss.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
The global "a:visited" rule is more specific than a bare class, so the
link reverted to the blue link colour against the purple panel.

Signed-off-by: Madelyn Olson <madelyneolson@gmail.com>
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