> From the BotGhost docs: https://botghost.com/docs/botpanel/community/updates
> Every page: https://botghost.com/docs/llms.txt

# Updates

Write what's new in your bot once. It goes on your website's Updates page and into the servers that follow your updates.

**BotPanel > Updates** is your bot's changelog. You write a post once, and it shows on your website's **Updates** page with a page of its own. You can also send it to every server that follows your updates, where your bot posts it in the channel they picked.

Updates come with BotPanel Plus. See [Plans](https://botghost.com/docs/botpanel/plans). Visitors read your posts without signing in.

The owner and collaborators can read your posts. Writing, publishing, sending and deleting need the **Manage BotPanel** permission.

## Write an update

Press **Write an update**. The editor opens in a window.

![The Write an update window with the title, short summary, tags, the post itself, the picture link, the preview and Also send it to servers](https://botghost.com/docs/content/assets/workspace/botpanel-com-updates-editor.png)

*Writing an update*

- **A** **Title** and **Short summary**.
- **B** **Tags**: **New**, **Fixed** and **Changed**. Pick any of them.
- **C** **The update**: the post itself, with headings, lists, bold, italic, code and links.
- **D** **Preview**: **On your website** or **In Discord**, the way a server's channel shows it.
- **E** **Also send it to servers**.
- **F** **Save draft** or **Publish and send**.

| Field | Limit |
| --- | --- |
| Title | Up to 100 characters |
| Short summary | Up to 300 characters. It shows in the list, in Discord and when someone shares the link. |
| The update | Up to 8,000 characters. Paste or drop a picture into it to upload it into the post. |
| Picture (optional) | A link that starts with `https://`. It shows at the top of the post and in Discord. |

**Save draft** keeps it in **Drafts** until it's ready. **Publish** puts it on your website. With **Also send it to servers** on, the button reads **Publish and send**, and the post goes to your following servers too.

The switch is greyed out when no server follows your updates yet, or when you've sent 3 updates in the last hour. Publish now and send it later from the list.

To change a published post, open it and press **Save changes**. Changes show on your website. Servers keep the copy they got.

**Close** asks you to press again if you have changes you haven't saved.

## Your posts

![BotPanel Updates with the numbers strip, a published post with its sending status, Send to servers, Open on your website and Delete, and the Servers that follow your updates card](https://botghost.com/docs/content/assets/workspace/botpanel-com-updates-list.png)

*BotPanel > Updates*

- **A** **Published**, **Drafts**, **Servers following** and **Last sent**.
- **B** A published post with its tags and where sending is, like "Not sent to servers", "Sending: 50 of 120 servers" or "Sent to 120 servers".
- **C** **Send to servers** sends a published post that hasn't gone out yet.
- **D** The icons at the end of the row: **Open on your website**, **Edit**, and **Delete**, which asks you to press again.
- **E** **Servers that follow your updates**: how many follow, and how they start.

Collaborators without Manage BotPanel see **Read** in place of Edit.

Each post goes to servers once. Sending can stop with a reason on its row:

- **Stopped: the bot was offline for a day**
- **Stopped: BotPanel Plus ended**
- **No servers followed it then**

|  | Limit |
| --- | --- |
| Publishing | 10 updates an hour |
| Sending to servers | 3 updates an hour |
| Sending speed | About 150 servers a minute, while your bot is online |
| Posts | 200. Delete an old one to write another. |

If your website isn't live, uses a one page layout, or has the Updates page off, a yellow note at the top says so, with **Open Website**.

## Servers that follow your updates

A server follows your updates when someone with **Manage Server** opens **Bot updates** in its server dashboard on your website and picks a text or announcement channel. **Do not post updates here** stops them. The Bot updates page shows in server dashboards once you turn it on in **Website > Dashboard**.

Your bot posts each update in that channel once, with its title, summary, picture and a link to read it on your website. It never pings anyone.

## The Updates page on your website

The Updates page lists your published posts, newest first, under "What's new in" and your bot's name. Each post has its own page that people can share, with a **Copy link** button. The page loads 20 posts at a time, and **Older updates** loads more.

The page shows once you have a published post and **Updates** is on in **Website > Pages**.

![The Updates page on a bot's website with the page title and intro, and the posts newest first with their dates, tags and Read the update links](https://botghost.com/docs/content/assets/workspace/botpanel-com-updates-site.png)

*The Updates page on your website*

- **A** The page title and intro. Change them in **Website > Pages > Updates**.
- **B** A post with its date, tags and title, plus its summary and picture when it has them.
- **C** **Read the update** opens the post's own page.

On an [Ideas](https://botghost.com/docs/botpanel/community/ideas) board, a **Done** idea you link to a post shows **Shipped in** with the post's title.

## The event: When you publish an update

**When you publish an update** runs once for each update you publish. Use it to post the update in your own server or ping a role there. Press **Events and variables** on the **Do more when you publish** card, then **Build**. An update isn't in a server, so the builder asks which server the event runs in.

| Variable | What it holds |
| --- | --- |
| `{botpanel.update_title}` | The update's title |
| `{botpanel.update_summary}` | Its short summary |
| `{botpanel.update_link}` | The link to its page on your website |
| `{botpanel.update_tags}` | Its tags, like New, Fixed |
| `{botpanel.update_image}` | Its picture's link, or empty |
| `{botpanel.update_servers}` | How many servers it's being sent to |

Try this in a Send or Edit a Message block:

```
<code>**{botpanel.update_title}**
{botpanel.update_summary}
{botpanel.update_link}
</code>
```