Port product updates - January 2025!

This month’s updates focus on giving you more control over your data, streamlining your workflows, and making it easier to integrate with the tools you rely on. From treating users and teams as first-class citizens in your catalog to improving API queries and making internal linking simpler, these enhancements are all about making Port work better for you. Check out what’s new and how you can take advantage of these updates!

Users and teams are an essential part of your data model—so we’re giving them them the first-class treatment they deserve. Going forward, users and teams are now blueprints 🎉

Extend users and teams with custom properties and relations to make sense of the relationship between your people and your software catalog. Use the new "Owning Team" property to define ownership and use it with dynamic RBAC. Learn more in the docs.

Was your account created before January 14, 2025? To get all this goodness, you’ll need to migrate. Just follow this migration guide.

This change introduces some potential breaking updates, so we’re offering a three-month migration period before applying it to all organizations in May 2025.

Building queries just got more powerful. Our new entities search route now lets you search our Entities AP with built-in pagination, ensuring reliable performance as your data scales.

You can also refine your search results even further by applying filters for:

Try it out here.

With the new users and teams as blueprints, you can create users in Port without giving them access to the portal just yet. This is especially useful when designing experiences or structuring data before making them live. Learn more in the docs.

Customize how you see entity properties! For specific entities in Port, properties are now re-orderable—just drag and drop the properties into whatever order you choose. Choose to keep the new order for yourself or apply it for all users.

Need quick help? From the bottom right corner of any screen, you can now quickly open Kapa.ai to interact with Port docs and get the answers you need.

Save time and reduce errors with pre-filled action URLs. Instead of sending a plain action link, you can now send one that pre-fills that action’s inputs. This means less time filling out actions and more accurate inputs for commonly used actions.

We even created a handy action URL generator in our docs. Try it out now!

Instead of writing full URLs in markdown widgets in Port, you can now link to other places in the portal with just “/”. For example, instead of

Avoid errors on your main branch with the new dry-run mode for GitHub file kind. You can now Validate changes before applying them to production and ensure everything is correct before making updates. Read about how to do this here.

From version 2.1.6, you can now apply scorecard filters directly in your configurations.

Read more about the specifics here.