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The AMO team has been working on a complete rewrite of our Developer Tools area for several months, and we hope to launch them this Thursday at the earliest.<\/p>\n

Developer Tools<\/a> is the area of the site that deals with submission and management of hosted add-ons, and is among the most complicated parts of AMO. Our rewrite brings these tools into our new codebase<\/a>, which should result in faster performance and better cache invalidation, a common annoyance over the years.<\/p>\n

The new tools also sport a brand new interface that aims to make common tasks very easy. For example, it’s now possible to update your add-on’s compatibility without ever leaving the dashboard view.<\/p>\n

Also launching as part of this rewrite will be the new add-on review system discussed<\/a> in mid-2010. Developers of add-ons currently in the sandbox will be affected by this, and will receive an email shortly after launch with instructions on what to do to stay on AMO.<\/p>\n

One feature of the new Developer Tools that will likely be noticed by more than just developers is the introduction of add-on slugs. Add-on URLs will now have slugs, such as “adblock-plus” instead of an ID, though IDs will still work.<\/p>\n

We invite any developers to help us test these new tools on our staging server and report bugs<\/a> and give us feedback<\/a>. Any modifications made to your add-ons on the staging server will not affect your real add-ons in production. Try the new tools.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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