This release brings faster page loading and smoother performance across your site, alongside key enhancements designed to improve your overall experience. Highlights include seamless Single Sign-On (SSO) login redirection, support for rich images in email notifications, and more flexible calendar feed customization. We have also introduced important accessibility updates for assistive technologies and resolved layout and email link issues to deliver a more reliable experience for all users.
New Features & Enhancements
Secure pages and intranets that use SSO logins can now load your organization's SSO login page, bypassing the Govstack login page, by entering your organization's email domain in a new "SSO email domain" property on the login form. Can be combined with the "Activate SSO login automatically" property to automatically open your organizations SSO login page when attempting to access secured content.
Secure pages and intranets that use SSO logins can now automatically redirect to the SSO login page without clicking on the login form's "Log in with SSO" button via a new "Activate SSO login automatically" property on the login form.
Business Directory and Parks & Facilities maps are now localized to show your country's geographic naming conventions, unless otherwise requested. [CRN-152600]
The Calendar Feed component no longer has a limit on the number of categories that can be selected. [CRN-147135]
News post email notification messages can now include images added to the message content. [CRN-146602]
Website Performance Improvements
All pages now use targeted content-visibility styling to improve page rendering performance. Depending on the structure of page content, rendering time may be reduced by approximately 50% or more.
CMS stylesheets and script files now include fetch priority attributes to help web browsers understand the importance of certain website resources, improving page load performance.
Alerts CSS has been optimized with a revised load order, and rendering logic has been updated to only load alerts CSS when alerts are active for improved page load performance.
Certain CMS JavaScript has been optimized for improved page load performance.
Unused JavaScript has been removed from the CMS for improved page load performance.
Cludo site search scripting has been minified for improved page load performance when Cludo site search is enabled.
Alerts scripting has been minified for improved page load performance.
Unused CSS has been removed from the CMS for improved page load performance.
Bug Fixes & Accessibility Improvements
Fixed an issue with links added to the Subscription Messaging node's email template not resolving to their intended destination. [CRN-148726]
Fixed an issue with Text/Image components configured as overlays not adjusting in height to prevent overflow when a large amount of text is used. [CRN-153013]
Fixed an issue with Google Programmable Search Engine updates changing the presentation of site search bars. Site search bars now fill the full width of their component's container, and the button to activate the site search by click is now visible. [CRN-153014]
Fixed an issue with Banners components not displaying the selected image(s) alternative text. [CRN-153016]
A misplaced aria-labelledby attribute has been removed from Business Directory and Parks & Facilities listing pages.
A misplaced aria-label attribute has been removed from website links on Business Directory and Parks & Facilities details pages.
Pagination aria-label attribute values on Business Directory and Parks & Facilities listing pages now correctly reflect the state of the currently-selected page number.
If you were provided a Customer Reference Number (CRN) by the Govstack Support Team, review the list below to determine whether your reported request, enhancement, or issue is included in this release.
Requests addressed in this release
CRN-146602 – News post email notification image support
CRN-147135 – Calendar Feed component category selection limit removal
CRN-148726 – Subscription Messaging node email template link resolution fix
CRN-152600 – Business Directory and Parks & Facilities maps localization
CRN-153013 – Text/Image overlay component text overflow fix
CRN-153014 – Google Programmable Search Engine site search bar layout and button visibility fix
CRN-153016 – Banners component image alternative text display fix