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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 v2.1.4 Released — 09/16/2021

Release Notes

Stanford Events

  • Improved accessibility with event dates.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Fixed logo display for intranet sites.

Stanford Basic

  • Upgraded Font Awesome library to 5.15.4.
  • Added an underline to the action link.

Stanford Profile

  • Added Editoria11y module with permissions for contributors.
  • Enabled rabbit hole taxonomy support to redirect from taxonomy terms.
  • Updated fields Help text.
  • Allowed new Google Analytics account ID format `G-`.

Bug Fixes

Stanford SSP

  • Fixed the destination path after SAML login so users land on the home page.

Stanford Events

  • Reduced Load More button size.

Stanford News

  • Changed the Load More button size.

Stanford Profile

  • Updated the sort order on list of Publications to recognize year, month and date of a publication.

Stanford Sites v2.1.3 Release — 07/22/2021

Release Notes

Jumpstart UI

  • Removed empty <ul> tag in local footer template.
  • Used a regular link markup and stretched it over the image.
  • Removed the name attributes from the skip to main target.

Stanford Events

  • Added skip to main on the topic menu.
  • Fixed event date alignment on cards and lists of cards or default lists.
  • Fixed the person Call to Action template.
  • Added skip to secondary nav link.

Stanford News

  • Updated focus to meet accessibility criteria.
  • Added skip to main on the topic menu.
  • Added skip to secondary link.

Stanford Person

  • Added skip to main on the topic menu.
  • Fixed the filtered people list.
  • Added skip to secondary link. 

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Cleared the floats if used in the WYSIWYG for the medium and down breakpoints.

Stanford Profile

  • Allow menu placement under unpublished pages.
  • Replaced <h3> with <p> in views with no results text.
  • Require alt text on gallery images.
  • Added MathJax for TeX and LaTeX formula support.
  • Added URL text for link on Media with Caption paragraph.
  • Added and enabled the PDB module.
  • Added the skip to main content on list page layouts.
  • Corrected the events schedule display settings for pattern refactor.

 

Stanford Sites v2.1.2 Released — 06/24/2021

Stanford Events

  • Changed from padding to margin to fix the Event cards.
  • Changed text size for Event title in card and list display.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Fixed H2 styles that weren’t wrapping.
  • Changed "People" to "Users" in the admin toolbar.

Stanford SSP

  • Updated restriction to allow intranet websites to limit access by the user’s faculty, student, or staff affiliation.

Stanford Basic

  • Added "Back to Top" button.

Stanford Profile

  • Allowed restriction based on the person's affiliation to the university.
  • Enabled more paragraph components on News and People.
  • Disabled search module since search API is enabled and is more functional.
  • Removed the News headline field in favor of Title field.

Stanford Media

  • Edited embeddable retains its existing title.

Stanford News

  • Improved accessibility. 
  • Changed the text size for News and Events titles in lists and cards. 

Stanford Sites v2.1.1 Released — 05/20/2021

Release Notes

Jumpstart UI

  • Hero banner overlay allows for positioning on the right.

Stanford SSP

  • Updated the SAML Workgroup API to Version 2 that will allow faster workgroup mapping and the ability to map nested & private workgroups.

Bug Fixes

React Paragraphs

  • Updated to allow a limited cookie to temporarily save form data.

Stanford Events

  • Fixed grey color on Past Events to meet accessibility standards.
  • Added ability to display speaker image.
  • Fixed title spacing.

Stanford Person

  • Fixed CAP API parameter string for SunetID import.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Added teaser styles for Event series.
  • Fixed local footer color.

Stanford Publication

  • Added bottom margin to filtered list of Publications.
  • Added display of subtitle to book Citations.
  • Changing the node label will now change the Citation label.
  • Adjusted spacing for Publication Type.

Stanford Basic Page

  • Fixed A11Y for navigation menu.
  • Fixed word wrapping for long menu items.

Stanford Profile

  • Added bottom margin to intro content block above list of Events on Events page.
  • Added ability to filter user list.
  • Removed top margin from button on Lists.
  • Removed nested H2s.
  • Adjusted Citation author fields to prevent only first name data entry.
  • Updates to help text and forms.

Stanford Sites v2.1.0 Released — 04/22/2021

New Features

Stanford Basic Page

  • Added experimental Page Metadata: Page Image, Page Description, and Page Type.


Stanford Events 

  • Added past Events as a view under Events in the List paragraphs.

Stanford Profile Helper 

  • Added ability for site managers to assign custom roles.
  • Added and configured content_lock to prevent simultaneous edits. 
  • Added display of Publications in the teaser paragraph.
  • Added better required-field handling for the global message. 

Stanford Publication 

  • Added “Other” Citation Type.
  • Added “All” as a topic term in the Filter by Menu on List Page. 

Bug Fixes 

Stanford Events

  • Adjusted subhead on the list of Events.

Stanford Media

  • Provided a message on media edit form to display how many places media is used.
  • Locked default field media items.

Stanford Profile 

  • Fixed padding to be on left and right for List paragraph displaying News items in card style.
  • Adjusted display for Publication teasers. 
  • Removed drop cap pseudo content: so that drop cap displays on firefox browsers.
  • Prevent unpublishing home, 403, or 404 pages. 
  • Allowed users to change the taxonomy term description text.

Stanford Publication

  • Visual styling fixes for Publications. 
  • Allowed authors to only require the last name field.

Stanford Basic

  • Fixed word-wrapping on long menu titles.

Stanford Profile

  • Disabled "Preview" button on Publication node form.
  • Disallowed image gallery media in the wysiwyg.
  • Fixed double nested H2 tags. 
  • Removed display of unpublished profiles in lists. 
  • Improved resolution for news card image style.

Stanford Sites v2.0.1 Released — 03/18/2021

New Features

Stanford Events

  • Added a list page for past events.

Stanford Publication

Stanford Profile

  • Added ability to enable drop-down menus within the site settings config page.

Bug Fixes

Jumpstart UI

  • Fixed issue where embedded videos in the WYSIWYG wouldn’t display if aligned "right" or "left".
  • Fixed issue where embedded videos in the WYSIWYG wouldn’t display correctly if a caption was added.

React Paragraphs

  • Added ability to sort media library items.

Stanford Basic

  • Fixed issue where the underline focus indicator was missing on the down arrow in drop-down menus.
  • Fixed grid alignment issues for Event and People cards.
  • Added a margin-top to the title for pages that are generated (e.g. taxonomy term list pages).

Stanford Events

  • Adjusted the events list and card views to display all the same content in the same way.

Stanford News

  • Fixed spacing issues for news articles with external links and no image.

Stanford Person

  • Added spacing between the image and name on people lists.

Stanford Profile

  • Added improvements to the search functionality for more applicable search results
  • Adjusted the “More Publications” section on Publication node pages to display the three most recent items added.
  • Added missing "See All Publications” button on the “More Publications” section
  • Added a button allowing site managers the ability to edit a publication in the lists.
  • Adjusted the detailed publication page to display the publication type above the title instead of the topic term.
  • Removed the published checkbox on taxonomy terms forms that had no effect.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Adjusted settings to only allow for 3 items per row on basic pages.
  • Adjusted the caption styling on gallery images to align with the “Media with Caption” paragraph type.
  • Fixed issue where the caret icon wasn’t displayed for headers with links.

Stanford Publication

  • Adjusted spacing for the Publication node page.

 

 

Stanford Sites v2.0.0 Released — 02/18/2021

New Features

ACSF-Cardinalsites

Stanford Basic

  • Added support for main navigation drop-down menus.

Stanford Profile

  • Added support for image galleries.

Stanford Publications

  • Added support for publications listings.

Bug Fixes

Stanford Events

  • Fixed issue where deleted schedule items were still being displayed.
  • Adjusted the date alignment in events lists to display horizontally while in multiple paragraphs per row.
  • Adjusted the mailto and extlink icons to match text color.
  • Adjusted heading spacing to align with other dynamic list pages.

Stanford Media

  • Improved embeddable media handling.

Stanford News

  • Adjusted font-size and removed extra link icon for news article cards with no image.
  • Adjusted heading spacing to align with other dynamic list pages.

Stanford Person

  • Fixed extra spacing created on a person list.
  • Adjusted heading spacing to align with other dynamic list pages.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Added some spacing on lists in columns.
  • Fixed news list alignment issues.
  • Adjusted the margin bottom for the card list view for news and events when in a column.
  • Centered the title and button for teasers.
  • Added spacing to the bottom of the intro block on Events, News and People.
  • Fixed the styles for the navigation menu and footer action links.

 

Stanford Sites v1.5.0 Released — 11/18/2020

New Features

Stanford Profile

  • Added the Lists Paragraph for select pilot sites.
    • See Lists for more information.
  • Added the Teaser Paragraph for select pilot sites.
    • See Teaser for more information.
  • Added site manager access to contextual links so they can configure and delete blocks in the layout builder.
  • Added optional intro block on the News and Events list pages.

Stanford Basic

  • Added search box into the mobile menu.

Stanford Events

  • Added “Past Event” label on an Event Node page after the end date/time for the event has passed.

Bug Fixes

React Paragraphs

  • Resolved issue where special characters were not saving in text areas.
  • Resolved issue where editing an existing wysiwyg and only changing the link would result in the new link url not saving correctly.
  • Resolved link fields should retain uppercase characters.

Stanford Media

  • Resolved issue where the media library allowed you to choose more than the allowed number of items, causing the form to break.

Stanford Person

  • Adjusted imported Person profiles with no image to display the default SU logo image.
  • Fixed the importer to prevent the black circle for profile image if the users profile is not public.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Resolved issue where some WYSIWYG styling was missing in the end-user display.
  • Adjusted the styles and icons for mailto buttons.

 

Stanford Sites v1.5.1 Released — 12/10/2020

This is a minor release containing several bug fixes and small updates.

Bug Fixes

ACSF-Cardinalsites

  • Fixed issue where two modals would appear if you double clicked on a link while editing a text area.

Jumpstart UI

  • Adjusted styling for videos added in paragraph types.

React Paragraphs

  • Fixed issue that displayed the WYSIWYG toolbar when the content is long.

Stanford Basic

  • Increased the text area character line length to better align with other paragraph types.
  • Fixed the alignment of media that are files added to the WYSIWYG.

Stanford Events

  • Modified the event schedule date formatting to account for multiple days.
  • Added separator for date field on schedules.
  • Fixed the past event label to work for articles without an event type.

Stanford Media

  • Adjusted caption padding for images added into text areas.
  • Added the ability to adjust the iframe height for Google Forms.

Stanford Person

  • Fixed issue where the taxonomy term title was repeated when loading more people on list pages.
  • Adjusted the right column padding on individual person pages.

Stanford Profile

  • Fixed issue where animated GIFS were not animating properly in mobile.
  • Adjusted paragraph views to allow for displaying nested taxonomy content.
  • Fixed issue where hyphens and other special characters were not displayed for imported people.

Stanford Profile Helper

  • Removed the action link and adjusted the colors for mailto links.

 

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

Stanford Media

Stanford Profile

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

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

Stanford Person Importer

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

Stanford Sites v1.2.0 Released — 05/21/2020

New Features

Stanford News

Stanford Person

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