Add weekly updates for July 27-Aug 2, including authentication improvements, API playground enhancements, assistant updates, performance and reliability fixes, and technical improvements (#980)

* Add weekly updates for July 27-Aug 2, including authentication improvements, API playground enhancements, assistant updates, performance and reliability fixes, and technical improvements

* remove redundancies

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Co-authored-by: Ethan Palm <[email protected]>

Author: skeptrunedev

changelog.mdx

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+<Update label="July 27-Aug 2" rss={{ title: "Weekly Updates", description: "Authentication improvements, search enhancements, and assistant API" }}>
+  ## Authentication improvements
+
+  - Local development improvements to auth, enabling faster development of auth features and bug fixes in this product area
+  - Preview deployments now available for auth-protected sites
+  - Fixed redirect behavior to properly return users to their original page after authentication
+  - Fixed logout button display for full authentication (previously only worked for partial authentication)
+
+  ## API playground enhancements
+
+  - Fixed `multipart/form-data` file upload functionality in the API playground
+  - Fixed anchor link behavior so clicking them updates the URL without scrolling to top of page
+  - Fixed anchor link issues in nested tabs
+
+  ## Assistant updates
+  - New Assistant API so you can build it into your own products, compatible with AI SDK
+  - Added copy button to chat responses
+  - Fixed issue with retrying messages in the assistant
+  - Improvements to default assistant prompt to make it less verbose by default
+
+  ## Performance and reliability
+
+  - Made search feel more crisp and accurate by aborting debounced requests as you type
+  - Resource provisions for a new CDN - expect image asset and page load times to improve soon
+  - Fixed bugs for rendering complex Mermaid diagrams like GANTT charts
+  - Fixed CLI bugs on Windows to improve stability and added tests to prevent regression
+
+  ## Technical improvements
+
+  - Added OpenTelemetry for traces in NextJS application to improve time to first byte for customers
+  - Migrated from Octokit to GitHub API Client to improve latency in the web editor experience
+  - Fixed duplicate meta tags for OpenGraph
+  - Upgraded MongoDB from version 6 to 7 for improved performance and new features
+</Update>
+
 <Update label="July 2025" rss={{ title: "July Product Updates", description: "Slack app integration, hosted MCP servers, Cursor integration, and performance improvements" }}>
   ## Slack app
 
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   Help users quickly connect your MCP server to Cursor or VS Code from any page in your docs via the contextual menu. See [Contextual menu](/ai/contextual-menu) for more information.
 
-  ## Authentication improvements
-
-  - Enhanced local development environment for auth features
-  - Preview deployments now available for auth-protected sites
-  - Fixed redirect behavior to properly return users to their original page
-  - Added logout button display for authenticated users
-
-  ## API playground enhancements
-
-  - Fixed `multipart/form-data` file upload functionality
-  - Improved anchor link behavior
-    - Clicking links updates URL without scrolling to top
-    - Resolved anchor link issues in nested tabs
-
-  ## Assistant updates
-  - Unified Assistant API that's compatible with the AI SDK
-  - Copy button added to chat responses
-  - Improved message retry functionality
-  - Less verbose default responses for better user experience
-
   ## Code block improvements
 
   - Improved syntax highlighting
   - Added more customization options including focus mode, expandable code blocks, dark and light mode responsiveness, language dropdown menu, line numbering, and icons
-
-  ## Performance and reliability
-
-  - Faster, more accurate search with debounced request cancellation
-  - Page, image, and asset load time optimizations
-  - Enhanced Mermaid diagram rendering, including GANTT chart support
-  - Improved CLI stability on Windows
 </Update>
 
 <Update label="June 2025" rss={{ title: "June Product Updates", description: "AI assistant updates and subscribable changelogs" }}>