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Stanford Sites v5.3.0 Released – 9/26/2024

5.x

Release Notes

Version 5.3.0 was a minor release and included the following:

Opportunities

  • Alpha version of Opportunities content type 
  • Build a new taxonomy hierarchy widget with parent terms as field labels

Accessibility

  • Remove alt attribute on news card images
  • Ability to add aria-label or aria-labelledby to links
  • Basic page card grid titles get proper focus state
  • Dek and date added to the News card display
  • Event subheadline text changed from H2 to bold
  • Restored outline focus state for card links

Intranet

  • Caching for responses from Workgroup API to avoid timeouts affecting Stanford Sites Intranet
  • Ability to circumvent calls to Workgroup API for a single site, if needed, to mitigate timeouts

Lists Paragraph

  • Lists Paragraph now has an option to display Basic Pages alphabetically by title

Search

  • Fixes for presentation of HTML lists in search results when using Algolia search
  • Enabled search api processor to add spaces between html tags
  • Delete algolia records immediately upon entity deletion

Administrative use

  • Tag to identify Stanford Sites as SWS-Managed for SiteImprove
  • Ability to tag sites by Site Type for reporting

Other

  • Added relative internal link validation option for link fields
  • Improved usage information for media in the Media Library
  • Additional HTML attributes to the WSYIWYG allowed list
  • Updates to decoupled menu
  • Require course link url field
  • Adjust xmlsitemap to submit with the canonical domain
  • Refactor event mini-calendar to use table structure