Sixty-six versions on from 2.0.243. The workspace is now available in Japanese, a channel can choose the shape of its article URLs, articles, pages, layouts and channel CSS/JS keep a restorable version history, and channels on custom layouts can render listings, 404s and scripts in their own design. Plus search synonym groups, channel time zones, Excel export and tighter access checks.

OmniCon 2.0.309 — OmniCon in Japanese, URLs on your terms, version history you can restore, and custom layouts you can build end to end

October 15, 2026

Sixty-six versions on from 2.0.243, and the biggest release since we started writing these notes. The workspace now speaks Japanese; a channel can choose the shape of its article URLs; every article, page, layout and stylesheet keeps a restorable history; and channels built on custom layouts can now do everything — listings, 404s, scripts — in their own design.

Five themes stand out: a Japanese interface, URLs on your terms, restorable version history, custom layouts end to end, and search that understands your words.

OmniCon in Japanese

The whole workspace is now available in Japanese, not just the public pages.

Your language follows you. The interface language is now a setting on your account rather than something the URL decides, so it stays put as you move around. New accounts start in Japanese however they sign up; existing accounts stay in English until you switch.
Everything is translated. The channel dashboard, the editors, the admin screens, the save-and-delete messages, form errors, and the sign-in and account screens.
Visitors can choose too. People who haven’t signed up yet get a language picker on the sign-in and sign-up pages.
Landing where you work. Signing in now takes you straight to your channels instead of the marketing page.

URLs on your terms

Articles no longer have to live under /d/.

Choose the shape of your article URLs. Each channel can pick a structure from tokens — {slug}, {folder}/{slug}, {year}/{month}/{slug} — the way WordPress does. d/{slug} stays the default, so nothing changes until you ask it to.
Safe to change on a live site. An article is always found by its slug, so moving it between folders or changing the structure never breaks a link that is already out in the world. Old /d/ addresses keep working.
One address per article. Any other path that ends in an article’s slug now redirects, once and permanently, to its real address — no more duplicate-content variants — and the sitemap lists exactly the addresses the pages answer to.
See the URL while you write. The editor shows an article’s public address as you type, with a field for the path in front of the permalink. The MCP tools can set it too.
Folders organize; they no longer decide URLs. The folder list shows the folders your channel actually has.

Version history you can restore

No more losing work to an accidental overwrite.

Articles and pages keep up to 20 versions. Each version holds everything — body, title, description, tags, permalink, main image, layout and publish window — so restoring brings the item back exactly as it was. That includes block-built pages.
Layouts, partials and channel CSS/JS too. The theme’s layout and partial editors and your channel assets share the same history panel.
Preview before you save. The article and page editors have a pre-save preview, and the Theme screen now makes it obvious which side is actually live.

Custom layouts, end to end

If your channel runs on its own Handlebars design, the last places that had to look like OmniCon now look like you.

Listings in your design. A Search Results block can render through one of your own partials, so archive and category pages match the rest of the site. Listings can now page, show up to 200 items, and a single listing page can serve every category.
404s in your theme. Not-found pages render in the channel’s own design, with no OmniCon branding on custom domains.
Your own JavaScript. Channels on a paid plan with a verified custom domain can add custom JS assets alongside CSS.
Build it all from MCP and the API. Layouts and partials can be created, updated and deleted over MCP and the API, and every write can be read back to confirm it landed. The MCP page lists the current tool catalog.
A tidier Theme editor, now split into sub-tabs.

Search that understands your words

Synonym groups. Tell OmniCon that ナス, なす and 茄子 mean the same thing, and a search for any one of them finds articles written with the others. Groups are per channel, take effect immediately, and need no re-indexing. Search history now sits beside them under Search.
Dates in your time zone. A channel can say which time zone its dates are in; the editor and the public site both show publish times in it.

Also in this release

Excel export. Export the articles or pages you have filtered on screen to an .xlsx, choosing the columns.
Publish windows for pages, and archived articles and pages are reachable again.
The article list remembers your filters per channel, and the quick-access bar is now tied to your account and reorderable.
Storage shows thumbnails past the first 200 files, finds files by name in large folders, and keeps OmniCon’s own working files out of your way.
Analytics is scoped to a channel instead of the whole organization, and no longer times out on busy channels.
Billing. You now get an email when an invoice is paid, and an organization can name a separate billing contact.
Help when you need it. A support chat is now available on the OmniCon site and in your dashboard (never on your own channel’s pages).
Product news, with an off switch. We will occasionally email product news like this note to account holders. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe, and you can turn it off any time in Settings.
Tighter access checks. We reviewed how press contacts, press lists and channel creation are authorized across the dashboard, the API and MCP, and closed the gaps we found. Channel creation through the API and MCP now also respects your plan’s channel limit and refuses a URL name that is already taken.
Bug fix: the editor no longer stutters while you type on a long page.
Bug fix: custom HTML and sprite icons survive saving. The editor had been stripping some custom page markup and SVG sprite icons on save.
Bug fix: password reset emails are sent again, and invitation errors are reported instead of swallowed.

If you only try one thing, try the URL structure setting — it is the change most people have asked for, and it is safe to switch on a live site. Want a hand choosing a URL shape, moving a design onto custom layouts, or setting up synonym groups for your search? Drop us a note.