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+title: "Quix Release: Scratchpads"
+date: 2024-10-28
+authors: [steve-rosam]
+slug: quix-release-scratchpads
+description: >
+  Learn about the latest Quix release. 
+categories:
+  - releases
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+  - navigation  
+---
+
+New features, bug fixes and performance upgrades!
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+## New features
+
+- **Scratchpads:** Enables shared topics between environments, setting resources only in focused steps of the pipeline and allowing code modifications to be easily merged back into Production.
+- **Data tiers:** this feature allows users to assign a **Bronze, Silver, or Gold** classification to their data - or define their own tiers for each topic, reflecting its data quality and level of pre-processing.
+
+## Enhancements
+
+- We have enabled replicas configuration for Jobs. Users can now set the replica count for deployments of type "Job", enhancing job concurrency control.
+- Added Support for separate private and public Library repositories. This feature allows dedicated clusters to configure separate repositories for private and public template items in the Library.
+- Improved error descriptions when dealing with YAML and missing secret keys.
+- Improved network configuration validation.
+- Enhanced the readability of error messages in historical logs to make them more user-friendly.
+- Optimized the 'Live Logs' download for improved performance.
+
+## Bug Fixes
+
+- Fixed a bug that prevented applications being run in the online IDE from stopping in some conditions.
+- Fixed a bug that caused deployment statuses to refresh incorrectly after a runtime error occurred.
+- Vulnerability fixes and patches.
+
+## Find Out More
+If you want to find out more or have any questions at all please get in touch.
+
+<div class="" markdown>
+<span>You can join our Slack community <a href="https://quix.io/slack-invite?_ga=join-from-docs-release-blog">here</a> or<a href="mailto:support@quix.io"> send us an email</a>.</span>
+</div>