Release Notes 1.19.24

Friday, January 19, 2024

What’s changed? 

A variety of new features have been implemented, as well as fixes and improvements impacting the display, authoring, and editing experiences:  

New Features 

  • The Content Spotlight is now available in two versions. Spotlight - Landscape behaves like the original Content Spotlight, while the Spotlight - Portrait is suited for vertical, portrait-style images.
  • Spotlight Blocks include a new dial, allowing you to select a background color based on your site’s Theme.
  • YaleSites Starter Kit allows new sites to launch with a collection of demo content, which includes pages, menus, metadata, and site settings designed to empower users and speed up the creation process. A helpful head start for creating your new site.
  • A new text style variation, Emphasized, offers a larger, stronger text treatment to provide a visual boost to introductory text.
  • A new header variation, Focus Header, combines a full image landing page with a single level of navigation.
  • Header Settings now appear in the Settings dropdown.
     

Fixes and Improvements 

Display   

  • Disabled links in Quick Links content field (resolves link display issue).
  • Added ability to choose between center or left alignment for Callouts.

Authoring Experience   

  • Set all dials in blocks as required.
  • Added clarity to soft limit field maxlength text.
  • Updated dashboard to have links to resources and help email. 
  • Installed and enabled anchor_link module to create anchor links in the WYSIWYG.
  • Default content section deletion bug fix.
  • Fixed WYSIWYG growing indefinitely.
  • Manage Settings access bug fixed.

Profile

  • Added permissions for Site admins and Platform admins to add/edit/delete affiliation terms.
  • Updated Profile image and text displays in mobile. 

Media

  • Image generation failures resolved: images uploaded greater than 3840x2160 (4k resolution) will be resized to that resolution to prevent failure.
  • Fixed an image resolution issue in Profile banner and Views block.
  • Ability to upload RTF documents. 

Events

  • Condensed Events now show the date of the event, not the event creation date. 

Views

  • Pagination now shows for Views blocks on sites.

Search

  • Added full pager to search view instead of mini.
  • Added correct display mode for Profile content type in search results.

Documentation Updates 

  • Updated custom module README files.
  • Included data model best practices in the developer README file.

Performance Improvements

  • Set Google Analytics to be scoped to subdomains: resolves the 400 Bad Request – Request Header Or Cookie Too Large issues that some users were experiencing.
  • Theme settings (Levers) errors cleaned up.