1.9.11 Release Notes - ACTIVE - 10/24/2024

CORE

  1. BUG - CTA Banner Combo fix: CTA link displaying text when not populated
  2. CHANGE - CMSConnect: Add checkboxes to enable Alert Bars individually
  3. CHANGE - KB Articles: Allow Author to show/hide SM icons
  4. CHANGE - Header: Selecting Language option should auto-close the menu, Desktop and Mobile
  5. CHANGE - AG Data Breach Form: Add new screening page

1.8.1 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 1/4/2024

Core Items

  1. CHANGE - CTA Banner Combo: Remove CTA Banner box background when only CTA link populated
  2. BUG - Redirect Module: Code update to correct external URLs logic

CTPL Items

  1. TBD

1.8.0 Hotfix Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 12/28/2023

Core Items

  1. BUG - Collapsible component fix: Variant 1 drop-down not responding

CTPL Items

None

1.8.0 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 12/20/2023

Core Items

  1. BUG - Multiple Components: Allows single-line text fields to apply a 'no translate' option
  2. BUG - Story Group fix: CTA link title overlaying image
  3. CHANGE - Rich Text <p> tag spacing change: Adjust the spacing on the <p> tag element in the CSS
  4. CHANGE - Agency Scaffolding v2 site instance updates w/enterprise templates and enhanced search
  5. CHANGE - Rendering Dialog Box view update: Consolidate tabs into grouped components on the Exp Editor rendering box
  6. BUG - Enhanced Search fix: Documents filter displays Web pages in the results
  7. CHANGE - Portal homepage background image: Change to winter image

CTPL Items

  1. BUG - CTPL- Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #5 - Accessible name does not match or contain the visible label text
  2. BUG - CTPL- Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #7 - Hyperlink has no link text, label or image with a text alternative Toggle and Selection features
  3. BUG - CTPL- Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #18 - Component with "link" role has more than one tabbable element
  4. BUG - Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #19 - Element with role "button" contain descendants with implicit roles "button" which are ignored by browsers
  5. BUG - CTPL- Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #22 - Inform users when their input action will open a new window or otherwise change their context
  6. CHANGE - CTPL-Global: Thumbnail images missing icon to open modal
  7. NEW - CTPL-Meetings & Agendas Events Components: Enable in CTPL w/CTPL styling applied

1.7.1 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 12/7/2023

Core Items

  1. BUG - Multi-component fix: Font type not consistent in RTE
  2. BUG - Accordions Group fix: Font type not consistent in RTE
  3. BUG - Accordions Group fix: Accessibility fix for tabbing through component
  4. CHANGE - Story Group change: Update dropdown description to 'Number of Sub-Stories to Display'
  5. CHANGE - KB Pagination change: Add visited styling behavior on pagination numbers
  6. CHANGE - Accessibility change - "Skip to chat" CTA on Website header

CTPL Items

  1. BUG - CTPL-Color contracts of the 4 video boxes on the home page do not meet accessibility
  2. CHANGE - CTPL-Keyboard focus needed for new media component
  3. CHANGE - CTPL-Global: thumbnail images missing icon to indicate that they can be clicked to expand
  4. BUG - CTPL - How CT Paid Leave Works: Buttons cover text when page is in other languages
  5. BUG - CTPL-Group tile view yes no field
  6. CHANGE - CTPL SFTP - Reduce padding between step sections - Tablet
  7. BUG - CTPL-Navigation: Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #15 - Non-focusable element
  8. BUG - CTPL-Facebook: Accessibility: 9/11 Report Violation #16 - Keyboard trap




1.7.0 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 10/19/2023

Core Items

  1. CHANGE - Component styling updates: Change hyperlink color and treatment for active/on-hover
  2. BUG - CTPL Text CTA Banner fix: Address font issue with full width CTA
  3. CHANGE - Global footer SM update: Twitter icon updated to X icon
  4. CHANGE - SFTP - Reduce padding between step sections - Tablet


1.6.11 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 9/28/2023

Core Items

  1. NEW - Accordions Group Component: Creation of a new component that expands/collapses section items
  2. BUG - Tab component fix: Incorrect font with description content styling
  3. BUG - Feature Content Card fix: No spacing in-between Feature Cards on mobile
  4. BUG - Accessibility fix: Language tabbing not triggering after selecting a language
  5. CHANGE - CT.gov Homepage: Background image CSS update
  6. BUG - CTPL Navigation fix: Remove extra navigation spacing on-load of page

1.6.10 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 9/14/2023

Core Items

  1. BUG - HHS Mobile Nav: Dead link on 'Home' in hamburger menu
  2. BUG - Feedback button: Announcement made before window open
  3. BUG - HHS Logo: Alignment issue on smaller screens
  4. BUG - Feedback button: Color contrast accessibility fail
  5. BUG - Heading Tags: Multiple <H1> tags on same page
  6. BUG - HHS Salesforce Navigation: Eligibility Screener doesn't highlight the “Current Tab“
  7. BUG - Global Footer v2: Flag masts not keyboard accessible
  8. BUG - Feedback button: Text width changes per language option
  9. BUG - Header: Language tab issue
  10. BUG - Header: Navigation sub-menus not keyboard accessible
  11. BUG - Header: Language icon is not keyboard accessible
  12. BUG - Header: Language icon is not keyboard accessible here, but is visible
  13. BUG - Header: No translation when any language is selected
  14. BUG - HHS Authenticated Header: Language icon is not keyboard accessible here
  15. BUG - HHS Header: Account icon is not keyboard accessible
  16. BUG - Accessibility update: Skip to content addition
  17. CHANGE - Tab Component update: Border addition on drop down in mobile
  18. CHANGE - Tab Component update: Font change to Karla-Medium on text
  19. CHANGE - Feature Card Slider Component update: Move of CTA link title to display bottom left on mobile

1.6.9 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 8/17/2023

Core Items

  1. NEW - Tile Slider Component creation: Code copy of DMV Card Carousel Component with New Design styling updates
  2. NEW - Group Tile Component creation: Code copy of DMV Grouped Tile Component with New Design styling updates
  3. NEW - CTA Banner Component creation: Code copy of DMV Text CTA Banner Component with New Design styling updates
  4. CHANGE - Workflow update: Email Notifications are sent upon submit and approved/denied
 

Enterprise Items

  1. NEW - Press Release Results page: Creation of Press Release Results Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Press Release Results Page
  2. NEW - Press Release Page: Creation of Press Release Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Press Release Page
  3. NEW - Speeches Page Results page: Creation of Speeches Results Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Speeches Results Page
  4. NEW - Speeches Page: Creation of Speeches Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Speeches Page
  5. NEW - Bill Notifications Results Page: Creation of Bill Notifications Results Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Bill Notifications Results Page
  6. NEW - Executive Orders Results Page: Creation of Executive Orders Results Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Executive Orders Page
  7. NEW - Meeting/Agendas Page: Creation of Meeting/Agendas Results Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Meetings/Agendas Page
  8. NEW - Meeting/Agendas Additional Page: Creation of Meeting Additional Template page with New Design styling
       Old Design Meeting/Agendas Additional Page


1.6.4 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 6/8/2023

Core Items

  1. BUG - Header fix: Search x appears briefly as page loads in mobile screens on v2 sites
  2. CHANGE - Language dropdown update: The dropdown menu should disappear on-selection in mobile

Modernization Items

  • TBD

1.6.2 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 5/11/2023

Core Items
  1. CHANGE - Story Card update: Addition of two new variants
  2. CHANGE - Collapsible Component update: Addition of the Anchor field on a Collapse List
  3. CHANGE - Background field option update: Additional feature on 2nd phase of components
    • Featured Content Card
    • Rich Text
    • Multistep
    • Video
  4. CHANGE - Story Group update: Substories background should turn white when component or sublayout background is applied
  5. CHANGE - Story Group/Story Group List update: Align all story group subitems align evenly on btm margin for all variant options
  6. CHANGE - Language selector update: Display additional languages for DMV


Modernization Items

  1. CHANGE - Accessibility change: Display Heading tags in a logical order

1.6.1 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 5/11/2023

Core Items

  1. BUG - Tile Card list fix: Title not spanning container width on mobile
  2. BUG - Home Hero Banner change: Background images are not changing on refresh
  3. BUG - Tile Card/Tile Card List update: Have all tile cards align evenly on btm margin

Modernization Items

  1. CHANGE - Mobile menu icon: Increase icon font size to 32px

1.6.0 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 4/13/2023

Core Items
  1. CHANGE - Featured Content Card: Rework the code of the Featured Content Card   
  2. CHANGE - Right-Rail Child Page: Sublayout background to span the entire screen in the top placeholder
  3. CHANGE - Left-Rail Child Page: Sublayout background to span the entire screen in the top placeholder
Modernization Items
  1. CHANGE - Sublayout Accessibility fix: Remove 'Section' landmark from Sublayouts
  2. CHANGE - Language Accessibility change: Make Language drop-down tab-compatible
  3. CHANGE - Skip to content accessibility update: Addition of a 'Skip to content' link for screen readers

1.5.20 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 3/30/2023

Items

  1. CHANGE - Background field option update: Additional feature on highly used components
  2. NEW - Collapsible component: New component w/similar functionality to the Accordion component
    • Addition of a ‘x close’ feature
    • Reduction of spacing in between lists
    • Addition of margin padding around the component and background box
  3. CHANGE - SM Accessibility update: Addition of ARIA tag to the Social Media icons in header & footer
  4. CHANGE - Header/Footer Navigation update: Displays the anchor tag appended to the page URL

1.5.19 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 3/16/2023

Items
  1. BUG - Google Suggested search fix: Resolves issue with Google Search suggestions drop-down cutting off a part of the search bar text on v1 websites
  2. BUG - Dynamic Grid sublayout fix: Resolves issue with 5 containers not displaying in a row
  3. BUG - Multistep fix: Resolves issue with the CTA title abruptly displaying next to the description text

1.5.5 Release Notes - ACTIVE - 8/11/2022

Items

 


1.5.4 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 7/28/2022

Items


1.5.3 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 6/23/2022

Items

  • 1. CHANGE - Primary Navigation updates (mobile): An update of the navigation component for mobile to reflect New Design
  • 2. CHANGE - Story Group update: Allows all stories to be displayed as sub-stories
  • 3. BUG - Event Calendar List fix: Resolves the issue of the Calendar List component displaying improperly in Right-Rail, Mobile, Tablet displays
  • 4. BUG - Tile Card fix: Resolves the issue of the tile cards not displaying white background when applied
  • 5. BUG - Global Footer: Flag Status Text Update - Change the The Flag Status U.S. and Connecticut text
  • 6. BUG - Global Footer: Flag Status Overlap - Resolve the issue where the Flag Status text is overlapping in Desktop and Tablet views.
  • 7. BUG - Agency Footer: Link List Alignment Issue - Resolve the issue where there are misaligned link lists/titles in the Agency Footer.
  • 8. BUG - Story Group: Remove the "Top-right" CTA Link from Tablet and Mobile Views as it should only display in Desktop View.
  • 9. CHANGE - Agency Header: New User Icon Field - An update to the user icon on the agency header.

1.5.2 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 6/23/2022

Items
  • 1. CHANGE - Primary Navigation updates (desktop): An update of the navigation component to reflect New Design
  • 2. BUG - Knowledge Base - Article Tagging Issue with Related Articles: Resolves the Knowledge Base issue where articles are not displaying on the KB Related Articles.
  • 3. BUG - Knowledge Base - Article Tagging Issue with Category/Subcategory pages: Resolve the Knowledge Base issue where articles are not displaying on the KB Category/Subcategory pages
  • 4. CHANGE - Knowledge Base - Articles Default Workflow: Remove the Vendor Workflow on the existing Knowledge Base articles.
  • 5. CHANGE - Knowledge Base - Default Insert Option Updates: Default Insert Options include _resources folder, LeftRail Page, Child Page, and 2Column (RightRail) Page
  • 6. BUG - Knowledge Base - SiteCore is not rendering sub category tags properly: Resolve the issue with the sub category tags not rendering properly. 
  • 7. BUG - Event Calendar - The View All CTA is appearing at the top and should not be there: Resolve the issue where the View All CTA on the Event Calendar is appearing at the top
  • 8. BUG - Event Calendar List - Date Rendering: Resolve the issue where the copy is located to the right of the image.
  • 9. BUG - Event Calendar List - Image rendering on smaller sizes: Resolve the issue where the images don’t render on small sizes properly.
  • 10. CHANGE - Link List update - Column feature: Able to span link list items into columns (up to 4)
  • 11. CHANGE - Link List update - Display Title & Description: Able to display the Link List Title and description
  • 12. BUG - Link List Group/Collection - fix broken CTA link: Resolves the issue of the CTA link pointing back to itself
  • 13. BUG - Link List - back link: Resolves the issue of the chevron link displaying when no global link & title provided
  • 14. BUG - Link List - button alignment issue: Resolved the issue with the Link List Button alignment.
  • 15. BUG - Link List - Arrow Wrapping to New Line on Chrome - Resolves the issue with the Link List Arrow wrapping to the new line on Chrome.
  • 16. CHANGE - Link List - See More Link Wrapping Issue - Resolve the issue with the See More Link wrapping within the Link List component.
  • 17. BUG - Press Release - Fix Back Link: Back link addition and styling: Displays a Back link on Press Release pages
  • 18. BUG - Press Release - View All Link Alignment: Resolves the issue of the misaligned View All link on the Press Release.
  • 19. BUG - Press Release and Events Calendar - Right Rail Rendering: Resolves the issue with the right rail rendering incorrectly on the Press Release and Events Calendar components.
  • 20. BUG - Press Release List - Default View Not Displaying Correctly in Full-Width Sublayout: Resolves the List Default View issue of not displaying properly in full-width sublayout.
  • 21. NEW - Tile Card Group: Group tile cards together to display in a row and allow for a title and global link option
  • 22. BUG - Tile Card - Mobile Alignment: Removes Rich Text component padding and adds a bkgnd option.
  • 23. BUG - Left Navigation - Header not displaying: Header tile on the Left Navigation is not displaying on the page when the component is inserted.
  • 24. BUG - Left Navigation - Image Spacing and Mobile Banner Spacing: Resolve the Image does not line up with divisions and units listing in left nav (margin issue).
  • 25. BUG - Agency Banner - Title Wrapping Incorrectly: Displays a Back Link on Press Release pages
  • 26. BUG - Agency Banner - Logo moved around to right of agency title on staging: Resolves the realign the logo back to the left of agency title.
  • 27. BUG - Agency Header - Extra space in header when there is no logo to left of headline
  • 28. BUG - Agency Footer - Link List Alignment Issue: Resolve the issue with the link list alignment issue on the agency footer.
  • 29. BUG - Left Rail Page - Old Menu Showing: The old mobile menu is appearing in the Agency Footer on the LeftRailPage.
  • 30. BUG - LeftRail Template: Increase Left Rail and Right Content - Increase space between Left Rail and Right Content to match mockup
  • 31. BUG - Left Nav Fix: Title not displaying - Displays the Left Navigation component title
  • 32. CHANGE - Rich Text Component - Removes Rich Text component padding and adds a bkgnd option
  • 33. BUG - Social Media Icons: Footer Order - Resolves the social icons on mobile footer not appearing in correct area.
  • 34. BUG - Mobile Navigation 'X' appearance - Resolve the issue where the 'X' in mobile nav menu is not displaying properly.
  • 35. BUG - Multi-step Components: DPH Pages - Resolve the issue with the multi-step components on DPH pages.
  • 36. BUG - Search 404 error - Verify the search does not return 404 error everytime.
  • 37. BUG - Mobile: Remove Dark Overlay - When expanding outside of global navigation on mobile, dark overlay continues to exist on screen when it should not be there. 
  • 38. BUG - Mobile: CTAs go off screen & don't wrap correctly - Verify the issue with the CTAs going off screen and not wrapping correctly.
  • 39. BUG - Story Card: Arrow/Chevron Showing - On the Story Card, if no link is added, the Arrow (Chevron) is still showing.
  • 40. BUG - Second-level Navigation: stick/show when selecting first-level menu item - Resolve the issue where the second-level navigation should stick/show when selecting the First Level menu item.
  • 41. BUG - Mobile Menu: 3rd level back button - Resolve the issue where the 3rd level back button goes back to the 1st level. It should go to 2nd level.
  • 42. BUG - Mobile Menu: Cover Entire Screen Android - Resolve the issue where the menu does not cover entire screen in Android.
  • 43. BUG - Mobile Menu:'X' icon too small - Resolve the issue with the “X” icon used close out menu is too small. Icon should be 40px.
  • 44. BUG - Mobile Menu: Navigation Links - Resolve issue with navigation links occasionally not doing anything when tapped.
  • 45. BUG - Navigation/Menu: Top-level menu - A top-level Menu item should be highlighted/have white background on menu name at all times.
  • 46. BUG - Navigation/Menu: Old menu shows - Resolve issue with the Old Navigation Menu randomly appearing on certain pages.
  • 47. BUG - Mobile Navigation/Menu - The Mobile Menu back button disappears if you scroll down on the mobile menu.
  • 48. BUG - Mobile Navigation/Menu - On Mobile, the menu should reset (start from the beginning/top level) after closing out the menu.
  • 49. BUG - Mobile Menu: White Box Appearing Around Active Link
  • 50. BUG - Search Results Page - The Search Results Page needs to new Agency Scaffolding V2 Header, Footer, Agency Footer, and Navigation
  • 51. CHANGE - Knowledge Base Template: Update for New Design - The KB template needs to be moved to the new design with the new Header, Footer, and Navigation.
  • 52. CHANGE - Agency Footer - Modify the Footer without the Navigation
  • 53. BUG - Agency Header & Navigation/Menu: The Agency Header (logo or no logo) and Navigation/Menu (Top Level w/ white background and sub navigation) needs to align with CT.gov in Global Header and content.
  • 54. BUG - LeftRail Template: Search Bar - Resolve the issue where the Search Bar is not appearing in Global Header on LeftRail Template.
  • 55. BUG - Story Group: Arrow/Chevron Wrap - On Story Group links, the arrow/chevron are wrapping to a new line. They need to have the word wrap with them.
  • 56. CHANGE - Story Group Lists: Missing and Undefined CTA Links - Need to add ability to have an additional link underneath end of each story group list item on mobile.
  • 57. BUG - Tile Card: Backgrounds - Resolve the issue where backgrounds do not change to white when white background option is selected 
  • 58. BUG - Agency Footer - Remove Contact Info and following links
  • 59. STORY - Global Footer - Fix Rounded Corners at the Bottom. Should appear with square corners.
  • 60. STORY - Arrows/Chevrons - Check for space between last word and arrow/chevron
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    1.5.1 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 5/26/2022

    Components

    Templates

    Other

    • 8. NEW - Last Update Report: New Sitecore report that identifies last updated pages by template type

    1.5.0 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 5/12/2022

    Components

    1.4.21 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 4/13/2022

    Components

    • 1. CHANGE - Feature Story: Update Feature Story component to allow multiple views to select from.
    • 2. NEW - Story Group: A groups of stories displayed together in a single component; one lead story and the remaining displayed as sub-stories.
    • 3. NEW - Story Group List: A listing of grouped stories displayed together in a single component; one lead story and the remaining sub-stories
    • 4. NEW - Press Release List: A listing of Press Releases displayed together in a single component that allows multiple views to select from.

    Other

    • 5. CHANGE - Orphan File Report: Update content script to not pull duplicate items and other items that attribute to false positives (i.e. folders, navigation, etc).

    Accessibility


    1.4.18 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 3/10/2022

    Miscellaneous
    • 1. NEW - Agency-specific 404 Error page: Websites now have a 404 error page specific to the site
    • 2. NEW - CSP values set through Sitecore: Ability to set the content security policy (CSP) through Sitecore instead of manually via the web.config file

    Chatbot & Knowledge Base

    • 3. BUG - KB Data source issues in Old Design: Fixes a bug in the Knowledge Base set up within old design websites to pull local Content module data
    • 4. BUG - KB Search results pulling some articles from BOS in Old Design: Ensures only an Agency’s articles are being returned in Knowledge Base search results
    • 5. CHANGE - Update KB search to understand new KB fields: Knowledge Base Search/Browse update for Chatbot Only Articles
    • 9. BUG - Articles under an Article folder don't display in Subcategory Page Results: Resolves issue of articles not displaying in a sub-category page listing
    • 10. NEW - Add Associated Content filed to Old Design Knowledge Base: New ‘Associated Content’ section that allows Authors to connect KB Articles to content pages and vise versa.
    • 11. NEW - Knowledge Base Chatbot Content Section: Chatbot-related fields and functions are accessible on a Knowledge Base Article

    Right Rail Template

    DMV

    Portal.CT.gov Web Accessibility


    1.4.17 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 2/17/2022

    • 1.4.17 - Facebook Component
      • 1. Creation of a new Facebook component

    • 1.4.17 - Right Rail (2 Column) Template
      • 2. Ability to display long components in a right rail column that will extend the full page independently of the other components/rows

    • 1.4.17 - Pages not displaying changes in authoring.ct.gov
      • 3. Agency's Configuration file not pointing to local_web when viewing preview.ct.gov

    1.4.16 Release Notes - DEPLOYED - 2/3/2022

    • 1.4.16 - Old Design KB Item
      • 1. Allow KB article from new design system to exist in Old design system structure

    • 1.4.16 - Knowledge Base items
      • 2. Add a ‘Related content’ field under Chatbot section
      • 3. Add an Article folder insert option
      • 10. Knowledge Base title and search icon updates

    • 1.4.16 - Component Items
      • 4. Twitter title background configuration
      • 5. Twitter height configuration
      • 6. Spacing issue on mobile below website banner
      • 7. Language drop-down menu hover style fix
      • 8. Search box being hidden on mobile
      • 9. Rich Text component - title margin spacing
      • 11. Rich Text Component - hyperlink updates