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 here.

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Added visual indicator for links to unpublished pages.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