What's new - October 6, 2026

Drafts now check the weekdays they print against the calendar, and a thin news week no longer has to mean a skipped automation. A Friday printed as a Saturday is now ours to catch, ideally before your readers do. Help opens a support chat now, and a few beehiiv draft problems are fixed.

Wrong weekdays get flagged

Compose and Draft Automation now check dates printed with a weekday, like "Saturday, Aug 29", against the calendar, in English and Turkish. When the weekday is wrong, HeyNews tries one fix. It changes the date only when your selected Stories show which part is wrong. Otherwise it saves the Draft as written and shows Check these dates in Compose, with the day that date really falls on.

To avoid false alarms, it skips ranges like "Aug 29-30" and dates months away from your issue date.

Thin weeks still get a Draft

When there aren't enough complete Stories, Select Best and Draft Automation now add Stories marked Summary only until they reach the minimum: three, or your automation's Minimum stories. An automation that used to skip a thin week can now create its Draft. Your AI Writer mentions and links each Summary only Story without writing more than its short description, so read those Drafts closely before you publish.

If your AI Writer has sections, Select Best now leaves a section short when no Story fits it, instead of filling it with Stories that don't belong. Add one by hand if you want that section filled.

Help opens support chat

Help now opens our support chat, the same chat as the button in the corner of the app. Chat needs Functional cookies turned on in Cookie preferences. Without them, Help opens the new HeyNews Help Center at help.heynews.co in a new tab. You can still email support@heynews.co.

beehiiv drafts

  • Accented letters such as ñ, ş, and ü no longer make a beehiiv draft fail its check. beehiiv stores them in a different form, and HeyNews mistook that for an edit.
  • A Draft with no preview text no longer picks up the preview text from your last sent Issue in beehiiv. That leftover text also made the copy fail its check.
  • When HeyNews can't verify a beehiiv draft, review it in beehiiv, then choose I reviewed it, create a new beehiiv draft. HeyNews makes one new draft and leaves the reviewed one alone, so delete the reviewed one in beehiiv if you don't need it.

Other changes

  • If HeyNews can't find a feed for a site you add as a Source, our team adds the Source for you, so it won't appear right away. The confirmation tells you when this happens.
  • Signed up with Google, or recently with a magic link, and never set a password? Account settings > Security now opens on Set a password.
  • One plan now covers every Publication you own, and each Publication's Subscription tab shows it. If the plan ends, restart it to keep creating Drafts and AI revisions on any of them.
  • Not ready to add a card during setup? Not right now on the payment step turns off setup reminder emails and opens Account settings. Nothing else about your account changes.
  • You can now use the Automation editor from the keyboard, and Escape closes it. The cookie banner no longer covers its buttons.
  • Got a HeyNews bonus through InboxBid? Sign in with the email address you bid with, and HeyNews adds it to your default Publication without another checkout. If it doesn't appear, contact support.