Release Notes v1.2.0

Thursday, April 4, 2024

What’s changed? 

Image cropping has become significantly simpler with our latest release. We’ve refined the process to make it more user-friendly and efficient. Plus, we’ve incorporated your feedback into several enhancements and bug fixes, ensuring a smoother user experience.

Image Cropping Update

We’ve transitioned to a new image cropping tool called Focal Point. With Focal Point, you can precisely define the subect of an image. This ensures that when cropping or scaling, essential details aren’t inadvertently lost, such as avoiding cropping out a subject’s head.

User interface showing the new cropping tool and varying aspect ratios available

Custom Cards without Images

We now offer the ability to display custom cards without images. The image field is no longer required and when you do not select an image, a decorative two-toned top border is displayed. 

screenshot of the new custom card display with two cards and the decorative top borders

Fixes and Improvements 

User Feedback Based Work   

  • Serif text in right column no longer gets cut off. 
  • Tweak to the Grand Hero banner overlay’s heading margins
  • Fontawesome icon issue in footer is resolved.
  • Realigned Breadcrumbs to display better when no page title is displayed.
  • Updated spacing between image, heading and teaser text in Cards. 

Authoring Experience   

  • Bug fix to min/max values and handling. 
  • Resolved errors when cloning a Profile content type.
  • Deleting used images:  
    • Deleting a focus header image no longer results in sitewide errors.
    • Deleting footer logo no longer results in sitewide errors. 
  • Add media text no longer spins when selected.  

Accessibility

  • Mobile menu no longer animates on resize. 

DevOps

  • Added ai-engine platform 
  • Enhanced release processes (add release number to yalesites_profile and backmerge it to ‘develop’ branch. 

Demo Video

Office Hours

Join our Office Hours to learn more about the new features and fixes in this release. Bring your questions to the session and work with a YaleSites expert to learn about the platform.  

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