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If you're looking to see what's new in the API doc site/course, you can browse new content in several ways.

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<h2>Most recent updates</h2>

The following are the most recent updates to the API documentation course.

## May 2022

* [Blobr: An API portal that arranges your API's use cases as individual products](pubapis_blobr.html). With Blobr, you can create an API store to launch and grow an API business with different monetization models.

## January 2022

* Revised the content in the [Metrics and Measurements](docapis_metrics_and_measurement.html) section as follows:
  * Consolidated the first-level checkliist and second-level checklist into a [single checklist](docapis_quality_checklist.html).
  * Removed the approach for quantifying each criteria into a score and weighting that score with the criteria's importance. This approach was something I experimented with but ultimately found that it didn't work in practice.
  * Added a [lightweight version of the checklist](docapis_quality_checklist.html#short_version) that includes only two criteria from each category.

## December 2021
* [PDF and eBook formats](docapis_formats.html). Created PDF, Kindle, and EPUB versions of the course that you can download.
* [Broadcasting your meeting notes to influence a wider audience](docapis_meeting_notes.html). Explains how to broadcast your meeting notes as a tool for influencing other groups.

## November 2021

* [The writing process](writing_process.html). A new section that covers the process for researching, drafting, writing, editing, and publishing documentation. Includes these topics:
  * [Overview of the writing process](docapis_writing_process_overview.html)
  * [1. Planning](docapis_planning.html)
  * [2. Information gathering](docapis_information_gathering.html)
  * [3. Writing](docapis_writing.html)
  * [4. Reviewing](docapis_reviewing.html)
  * [5. Publishing](docapis_publishing.html)

## October 2021

[Using Oxygen XML with docs-as-code workflows](pubapis_oxygenxml.html). Added a new article in the publishing tools section using Oxygen XML.
* [Other resources section in course overview](index.html#other-resources). Updated the Course overview with a list of additional resources (books, courses, etc.).

## August 2021

* [Ensuring documentation coverage with each software release](docapis_release_process.html). Covers best practices for ensuring that each new feature in a release has adequate documentation coverage.


## Auto-generated list of updated pages

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This list is auto-generated based on the last-modified timestamp on pages, scoped to the last 60 days. How does the script work? Every page has a "Last updated" line below the title. This script looks for any pages with a timestamp that appears within the last 60 days.

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## Seeing what content has been updated

To see what's been updated on the page, click the GitHub button next to the timestamp on the page:

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This takes you to the file in GitHub. In GitHub, click the History link:

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Then click the commit IDs to browse file diffs for the commits that include the file:

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You can see the [stream of commits in GitHub here](https://github.com/tomjoht/learnapidoc/commits/main).

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## Recent blog posts about API doc site updates

On my blog, I often write announcement-style posts after adding new content on my API course. I tag these with "api-doc" &mdash; you can browse these [API doc site updates here](https://idratherbewriting.com/category-apidoc-site-updates/).

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