The Mail Designer 365 2.5 update introduced summer and back-to-school templates, seasonal graphics, a new design tutorial, and product improvements. This historical guide summarizes the release and upgrade steps.
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What's New in Mail Designer 365 2.5?
NEW Design Ideas for Back to School
With the peak of summer approaching, the start of the back to school marketing period is also drawing closer. To help you get prepared for your back to school email campaigns, we've added two new email templates to the Design Chooser - perfect for a seasonal promotion or special offer.
NEW Summer Email Templates
Under the "Seasonal" category in the Design Chooser, you'll also find a fresh new collection of vibrant summer email templates.
Use these designs to launch a summer sale, celebrate the reopening of your business, share local travel tips or adapt the templates for your own individual use case.
NEW Happy Hour
HTML Email Template*
Historical note: Happy Hour was presented as a Business Premium template when version 2.5 launched. Current template and plan availability may differ.
NEW Seasonal graphics
Want to liven up your summer newsletters? We've freshened up the Mail Designer 365 content library with new colorful and vibrant badges, call-to-action buttons, eye-catchers, layout elements, and more!
Drag and drop the new summer graphics into your designs for an instant splash of color.
NEW Design tutorial
We love sharing our insider tips with you to show you just how much you can create in Mail Designer 365.
In version 2.5, the educational Design Tips template included a new shape-art tutorial. This describes the 2021 release; current template and plan availability may differ:
Use this template to explore the more advanced Mail Designer 365 design features. Click on a style to learn the method behind it and recreate the creative techniques loved by our team in your own designs.
Further Fixes & Improvements
The Mail Designer 365 team has also carried out the following fixes and improvements for you:
- The ready-made layouts category has been updated with 2 new layout elements for social media and travel
- General stability and performance updates
How the Mail Designer 365 2.5 update was installed
When version 2.5 was released in 2021, existing customers could install it from the Mail Designer 365 menu by choosing “Check for updates.” This section is retained as historical release documentation. For a current installation, use the latest official download and follow the instructions shown in the app.
Update tip: Automatic updates can help supported installations receive newer releases. Confirm the available setting in your current app version:
The automatic-update setting shown in the version 2.5 release documentation.