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I hope that you all had a nice winter holiday (Christmas, etc.) or are still on holiday till the new year. Not a lot to report this week since I’ve been on holiday too, but we finally launched that site that’s been keeping me busy for the last few weeks, so I’ll hopefully be spending a lot more time in the core this coming week. I'll get the site posted to the sites directory once some more of the post-launch details are taken care of. One thing I learned in launching that site is that Markup File Regions work great during development, but not so great on a busy site (at least a site using Amazon’s EFS file system, which is very slow). I ran into all sorts of strange issues so ended up converting the file regions back to regular old static CSS and JS files, and then everything ran smoothly again. So as solid as the file regions are during development, they will need more work before I use or recommend them in production. That’s the way it goes with developing new stuff sometimes. There is however a pretty nice improvement to Markup Regions committed this week though. Prior there were some limitations as to what could populate what. Typically output before the <html> (i.e. from template files) populated into output that comes after the <html> (i.e. a _main.php file). But now it is possible for the population of content to go in either direction. Further, more nested elements can also populate less nested (or non-nested) elements. It’s a little hard to explain, but basically, you don’t have to think too much about when and where you can populate things as Markup Regions will figure it out in the final output. This makes it even easier to use and hopefully more foolproof than before. Thanks for reading and have a great weekend!1 point