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18.4 - Lincoln Release

Release Date: 6/25/2025

Just like its namesake, our latest release, "Lincoln," is all about building a more solid and accessible foundation for everyone. Get ready for a wave of thoughtful improvements designed to make your interactions smoother, the platform more accessible, and your experience far more customizable. We've been hard at work squashing pesky bugs and fine-tuning existing features, alongside introducing some exciting new capabilities, all aimed at making your journey even more powerful and user-friendly. Your feedback fuels our continuous efforts to elevate your experience, so keep it coming! Stay tuned for more exciting developments on the horizon.

Enhancements

  • A11Y
    • Title: Removed font weight from style menu (GH #1675)
    • Content Fragment Data Table: Set headings in filter section to H3 (GH #1674)
  • Weglot
    • Updated location of translations drop down within mobile header (GH #645)
    • Added Weglot translation option on Illinois.gov homepage (GH #655)
  • CSV Data Table
    • Added tool tip to "Export to CSV" button for end users of the website (GH #2014)
  • List v2
    • Disable pagination when "Display Header" is enabled for component (GH #699)
  • Event Page Template
    • Updated configuration field labels from "Start Time" and "End Time" to "Start Date/Time" and "End Date/Time" respectively (GH #1771)
  • Elasticsearch Data Table
    • Ability to hide a column from published view, but still use the data to filter and/or sort the table

Bug Fixes

  • A11Y
    • Service Listing: Image set as decorative by default to avoid providing incorrect information to a screen reader (GH #1442)
    • DialogFlow CX Chatbot: Minimized close button missing aria label (GH #1880)
    • External Audio: Download buttons are NOT keyboard focusable (GH #2219)
    • Corrective action: Removed bold from all hyperlinks across site pages and various components (GH #1764)
    • Event Calendar Modal: Documents list is not accessible (GH #2013)
    • Header and Footer: Custom social media graphic(s) should include a null "ALT" tag meaning the image is purely decorative since the "a href" tag has an existing aria-label on it (GH #2277)
  • Event Page Template 
    • Second section components display at the top of the page when in mobile view (GH #2039)
  • List v2
    • Header alignment "left" option does not work (GH #1429)
  • Content Fragment Display
    • Content Reference field type displays heading twice when set to "image" (GH #1188)
    • Linked titles/text is not tagged with proper tag in html (GH #1756)
  • Location Finder
    • Column names from CSV not loading in configuration window immediately once the CSV to be utilized is set (GH #1350)
  • Event Calendar
    • Display does not respect event type tag that is selected when configuring the component (GH #824)
  • Photo Gallery
    • Image on bottom with grid layout has overlap issue with text (GH #1193)
  • Homepage Properties
    • Elasticsearch: When only a SINGLE index is set for a site, in the properties of the site homepage, the checkmark to "Set as Default Index" is automatically removed any time a user accesses, changes, and saves the properties of the homepage, after initial configuration (GH #1787)
  • Manual Data Table
    • The width of the editing space does not match the rendered space of the component, making editing cumbersome (GH #640)
  • Elastic Data Table
    • When you choose a "date" field as a header row in the Elastic DataTable it includes the field in the column result AND in group header row (GH #1798) 
    • When selecting a "date" as a header it does not give options as to how the format should be presented (GH #1798)