Announcements Change Log

Archived

1.1.6 - 7th March 2022

  • Removed the All registered users from the target users field by default when creating a new announcement.

1.1.5 - 29th November 2021

  • Bugfix: Overlay bold abstract text not shown

1.1.4 - 9th November 2020

Bug Fixes

  • Component options could cause layout issues with Pages

1.1.3 - 2nd Novemeber 2020

Improvements

  • Changed PHP compatibility to allow PHP 7.3 and above.

1.1.2 - 21st August 2020

Bug fixes

  • Announcements are no longer shown on the forced password change page. This is to prevent a situation where the user cannot dismiss an announcement because they haven't changed their password, and cannot change their password because they have not dissmissed the announcement.

1.1.1 - 14th August 2020

Bug fixes

  • Notifications for announcements with future publish start dates are now sent on the start date/time and not on creation

1.1.0 - 4th August 2020

Features

  • Added announcement list pages component

1.0.1 - 17th March 2020 ☘️

Bug fixes

  • Fixed announcements not showing on the calendar page
  • Changed styling of frontend announcements module to allow links to be displayed
  • Hidden Acknowledgement progress bar those announcements which don't require it
  • Fixed error where lines break at the wrong place
  • Swapped localisation of 'Acceptance' in the list of announcements page to 'Acknowledged'.
  • Fixed issue where bullet points don't take on announcement colour correctly.
  • Users who are in both a group and its parent group will no longer cause the viewed/accepted percentage to be more than 100%
  • removed custom 'Dismiss' button opacity which caused it to be hard to read and changed link text in overlay banners to white so they're readable
  • Users will no longer be shown the same announcement twice when they are a member of two targeted groups
  • Removed custom 'Dismiss' button opacity which caused it to be hard to read and changed link text in overlay banners to white so they're readable
  • Announcements with a language now only count users of that language when calculating view and acceptance percentages

1.0.0 - 22/01/2020

New features

  • Administrators can now create and target system-wide announcements
  • Emails can be sent to an announcement's targeted users when it is created or updated
  • Announcements can require agreement to be dismissed
  • Announcements can be displayed in three ways: banner (does not prevent usage of the site), overlay (makes usage of the site awkward) and modal (completely prevents usage of the site until dismissed)
Last modified on 25 July 2025 by Michael Christian
Created on 20 March 2020 by Gili Dailes

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