Release Notes
Welcome to the User Guide Release Notes section.
If you are interested in staying up to date with Stanford Web Services' releases, you can also find us @sws_releases on Twitter and view our release calendar.
Stanford Sites v1.4.1 Released — 10/08/2020
This is a minor release containing several bug fixes and small updates.
Bug Fixes
Jumpstart UI
- Resolved issue where autocomplete, <nolink>, and relative URLs were not working properly in primary or secondary local footer links.
React Paragraphs
- Adjusted link widget to resolve some minor autocomplete and linking issues.
Stanford Basic
- Added spacing below the secondary menu.
Stanford Person
- Adjusted the spacing and alignment in the right column for Person node pages.
- Added spacing between the Person Type filter and the footer.
- Adjusted the person edit button to be consistent with news.
Stanford Profile Helper
- Resolved issue where moving a top level person/news/event taxonomy term into a nested value did not remove it from the menu/filter.
Stanford Sites v1.4.0 Released — 09/14/2020
New Features
Jumpstart UI
- Added functionality for customizing the local footer lockup.
- See Managing Department Branding and Logo Lockup Options for more information.
- Added ability to add text within content blocks in the local footer.
- See Local Footer Sections for more information.
Stanford Media
- Added functionality for embeddable media.
- See Adding Embeddable Media for more information.
Stanford Profile
- Added Global Messages.
- See Managing the Global Message for more information.
- Added Super Footer.
- See Modifying the Super Footer for more information.
- Added Option M (Lines 1, 2 Large) to lockup options.
- Added functionality which automatically adds an external icon to links that are external.
Bug Fixes
Jumpstart UI
- Resolved issue where URL links within a card wouldn’t work if a special character was used.
Stanford Person
- Adjusted sort on interior pages to sort by last name then first name.
Stanford Events
- Adjusted the column width to resolve alignment issues.
- Adjusted the styling for multi-day events to resolve alignment issues.
Stanford Profile Helper
- Resolved issue where nested taxonomy terms were appearing within the Person Types filter.
- Adjusted the margins on full width pages.
Stanford Basic
- Resolved lockup issue where department names were overlapping when on multiple lines.
Stanford Sites v1.3.2 Released — 08/13/2020
This is a minor release containing several bug fixes and small updates.
New Features
Stanford Profile
- Added configuration page for lockup settings.
- See Managing Department Branding and Logo Lockup Options for more information.
- Added ability for site managers to use colspan and rowspan within WYSIWYG tables.
Bug Fixes
React Paragraphs
- Resolved issue where exceeding the character limit on a text field would result in an error when saving the page.
Stanford Events
- Adjusted the date alignment styling.
Stanford News
- Adjusted the font size of the load more button for increased consistency.
Stanford Person
- Adjusted the spacing on the person node page.
Stanford Sites v1.3.1 Released — 07/16/2020
This is a minor release containing several bug fixes and small updates.
New Features
Stanford Person
- Added a default image for Person profiles.
Bug Fixes
React Paragraphs
- Resolved issue where users were unable to delete descriptions within the Card Paragraph after content had previously been added.
Stanford Events
- Resolved issue where the event location info was not displaying correctly on the Event List Page.
- Resolved issue where all day events displayed an empty () for anonymous users.
- Adjusted the CTA button in the events node page to be included in the details box.
- Adjusted the header spacing for h1’s to be consistent across News, People, and Events.
- Resolved issue where “Load more” button was missing styling on the past events list page.
Stanford News
- Adjusted the news view to sort by published date rather than authored date, and set the default value for publishing date to today.
- Adjusted the header spacing for h1’s to be consistent across News, People, and Events.
- Resolved issue where the "See All News" button was missing from the "More News" section.
Stanford Person
- Adjusted the header spacing for h1’s to be consistent across News, People, and Events.
Stanford Profile
- Adjusted the full width page layout so that paragraphs better observe page margins and gutters.
- Resolved issue where Media settings and Local Footer settings were not accessible via the toolbar menu.
Stanford Sites v1.3.0 Released — 06/18/2020
New Features
Stanford Events
- See https://userguide.sites.stanford.edu/tour/events for more information.
Stanford Person Importer
- CAP Integration. See https://userguide.sites.stanford.edu/tour/person/person-importer for more information.
Stanford Profile
- Added Event, Event Importer, and Event Series.
- Added the ability for site managers to edit custom blocks.
- Added the Stanford Person Importer.
Bug Fixes
Stanford Profile
- Updated button stacking functionality to allow for easier horizontal alignment
- See https://userguide.sites.stanford.edu/tour/paragraphs/text-area/working-with-buttons for more information.
Stanford Sites v1.2.0 Released — 05/21/2020
New Features
Stanford News
- See https://userguide.sites.stanford.edu/tour/news for more information.
Stanford Person
- See https://userguide.sites.stanford.edu/tour/person for more information.
Stanford Notifications
- The Notifications module will inform site managers and contributors of new releases within the site.
Bug Fixes
React Paragraphs
- Resolved the edit alert for when the user is leaving the page and hasn’t made any changes.
- Improved React Paragraph authoring experience for multiple-per-rows.
- Resolved error that would occur when a media item that is in use is deleted. A message within the media modal if the media entity is no longer around.
- Resolved <front> link issue.
- Resolved hyperlinking issue for when site managers and contributors inputs an absolute URL.
- Adjusted the multiple-paragraphs-per-row to display up to 3 per row.
Stanford Basic
- Updated site manager and contributor editing experience.
Stanford Profile
- Resolved a wrapping issue for the multi-row
- Updated field labels on the card and banner paragraphs
Stanford Sites v1.1.0 Released — 04.23.2020
This is a minor release containing several bug fixes and small updates. If any of these changes fail to display or work for you, please clear both your browser's cache.
New Features
Stanford Basic
- Added visual indicator for links to unpublished pages.
- Users can add external links to the main navigation.
Stanford Media
- Users can add captions directly into the edit media modal.
- Users can add Google Forms to their site by using the Google Form media type.
Stanford Profile
- New feature: Multiples-per-row. Users can add up to 4 paragraph types per row on their Basic pages.
- Updated WYSIWYG Headings and Styles
- Added and enabled ckeditor_a11ychecker module.
- Horizontal spacing has been added to the bullet list style for the WYSIWYG.
- Users can add the spacer paragraph types to their Basic pages.
- Added support for Google Form media type
Stanford Text Editor
- Add a11y_checker plugin to editor
Bug Fixes
ACSF-Cardinalsites
- Patched CKEditor for anchor link id parsing
- Removed focal_point patches to be managed by stanford_media
- Removed nobots dependency from stack
Jumpstart UI
- Resolved 502 errors which occurred when layout regions were empty.
- Users should now be able to use symbols within Cards’ call to action links without having them be converted into html entities.
- Corrected a bug in preprocess hook logic
React Paragraphs
- Adjusted the “Leave site? Changes you made may not be saved” alert to only appear when changes have been made within the authoring environment
- Added additional validation
- Added additional error handling
- Made small styling adjustments to the authoring experience.
Stanford Basic
- Resolved duplicate ID issue for media paragraph types.
- Resolved Internet Explorer footer display bug.
Stanford Media
- Resolved media upload modal bugs.
- Removed entity usage plugin
Stanford Profile
- Resolved 404 error for xml sitemaps
- Patched a multiple-per-row wrapping bug
- Disabled menu items and delete-orphans from the admin toolbar.
Stanford Sites v1.0.1 Released — 03.27.2020
This is a minor release containing several bug fixes and small updates. If any of these changes fail to display or work for you, please clear both your browser's cache.
New Features
Modules
- New module: drupal/paranoia
- Updated versions on many Drupal modules.
React Paragraphs
- Users can alternative text to media through the media browser.
Stanford Media
- Users can now use videos in Card paragraph types.
- Users cannot delete media if the media is in use.
Stanford Profile
- Site managers can now assign the site manager role to other users.
- Site managers should now be able to access the all Media page.
- Additional styles have been added to the Text Area.
- Various layout and UI updates.
- Image metatags now use higher resolution images.
- Image styles for media library:
- New image styles include large square, medium square, thumbnail square
- Now, for large, medium, and thumbnail image styles, the width is fixed, the height is not, and labels were updated to reflect the change in dimensions.
- We adopted a convention for spacing in the WYSIWYG: We use one direction for margins, that is we only use margin-bottom and margin-left. If we need additional spacing on the top, we use padding-top, never margin-top.
- Added Drupal security module Paranoia.
- Added “alt” text to our default content.
Stanford SPP
- Stanford Web Services’ internal role mapping has been updated to the web team only.
- The login screen has been improved for user experience.
- Added a redirection route from /sso/login to /saml_login
Bug Fixes
React Paragraphs
- The CKEditor should no longer lag when the user begins to add text.
Stanford Profile
- Various layout and UI updates.