FY25 SPS Web Release Notes

A monthly summary of improvements to our sites: SPS Main, Summer, and Pre-College.

FY25 Monthly Release Notes

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

All Sites

Deployed June 5, 2025 

  • UPGRADE PREP: Upgrade D11-Ready Modules #1120
  • ENHANCEMENT:  Bold on SPS Main body text no longer turquoise #1111

Deployed June 18, 2025

  • UPGRADE: Prep D11; Drupal Lenient Modules 1121
  • ENHANCEMENT: Mega Menu - FED 1100
  • UPGRADE: CAS module 1118

Deployed June 25, 2025

  • BUG: Add a WebP module patch to fix other errors 1166

 

SPS Main 

June 18, 2025

  • BUG: Page not working SPS Main 1169
  • BUG: Fix Program card overlay SPS Main 1168

 

Pre-College

Deployed June 5, 2025 

  • BUG: PREC & Summer Sidebar Icons Misaligned #1131

 

Summer

Deployed June 5, 2025 

  • BUG: PREC & Summer Sidebar Icons Misaligned #1131
  • ENHANCEMENT: Summer Content Spotlight Title Leading #1132

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

All Sites

Deployed May 8, 2025

  • BUG: Jump link titles hidden by "On this page" sticky header #1101
  • MAINTENANCE: Update WebP module for hash_equals error #1126

Deployed May 15, 2025

  • MAINTENANCE: (Internal) Warning when field not set in acco courses paragraph #1133

 

SPS Main 

Deployed May 8, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Improved Bullets for Program Links #1127
  • ENHANCEMENT: Event cards text contrast and other Homepage text contrasts #1013
  • ENHANCEMENT: Courses can have related Programs #1080
  • BUG: Odd behavior with link type-ahead suggestions #1124
  • BUG: Chatbot hates JumpLinks on Mobile #1136

 

Deployed May 15, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Remove "Experience" filter from /academics/masters on SPS Main #1138

 

Pre-College 

Deployed May 8, 2025

  • BUG: Banner hidden on mobile #1134

 

Deployed May 12, 2025

  • BUG: Course descriptions disappeared: #1140

 

Summer

Deployed May 8, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Update Summer Courses blurb #1139

 

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

All Sites

Deployed April 3, 2025

  • BUG: “Replace file” not working #1039
  • MAINTENANCE: Update VRT #1046
  • MAINTENANCE: Update VRT documentation to use the container instead of baremetal #934
  • MAINTENANCE: Config import showing config needs to be imported #1072

Summer

Deployed April 3, 2025

  • MAINTENANCE: Update course pages blurb for 2025 #1112

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

All Sites

Deployed March 6, 2025

  • SECURITY: Drupal Core Security Update #1078

Deployed March 24, 2025

  • SECURITY: Drupal Core update #1105

SPS Main

Deployed March 6, 2025

  • BUG: As a Publisher cannot search in /admin/content - WSOD #1041
  • BUG Reference to a deleted node is preventing a page from being saved #968

Pre-College

Deployed March 6, 2025

  • BUG: PREC Page with display issues #1079

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

All Sites

Deployed February 13, 2025

  • SECURITY: Update for Google Tag #1053
  • BUG: Remove “Other” tag from Event Description #1065

Deployed February 18, 2025

  • SECURITY: Security Update for config_split #1070
  • SECURITY: Security Update for spamspan #1071

Main

Deployed February 13, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Untying Menu and Program Relationships #951

Deployed February 18, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Adding Climate School Affiliated Programs to Program Cards #1073

 

Pre-College

Deployed February 13, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Archive/Draft Status for Course Sections #997
  • MAINTENANCE: Change Format Taxonomy for PREC only #1052

All Sites

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

Deployed on January 9, 2025

  • BUG: Unable to Save a Course while editing it in a Course accordion #1030
  • MAINTENANCE: Not found from bots #1010
  • MAINTENANCE: Fix prod subdirectory in config split #1038
  • ENHANCEMENT: From Library components should be addable in accordion #953

Deployed January 23, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Add internal announcement banner #964

Main

Deployed on January 14, 2025

  • BUG: Admin Nav and Nav weirdness #1043

Deployed January 15, 2025

  • Newly restructured ALP site

Summer

Deployed on January 9, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Better 404 page for Summer #1032

Pre-College

Deployed on January 9, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: New Chatbot requested by CUIT #1029 
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better 404 page for Pre-College #1011

Deployed on January 14, 2025

  • BUG: Admin Nav and Nav weirdness #1043

Deployed on January 23, 2025

  • ENHANCEMENT: Dedicated course page #995
  • ENHANCEMENT: Move Course sections and reformat #993
  • ENHANCEMENT: Associating courses with Instructors #999
  • ENHANCEMENT: Better 404 page #1011
  • ENHANCEMENT: (Internal) Clean up Accordion code duplications #1034
  • ENHANCEMENT: Add “View additional courses” at bottom of Course listing #1023
  • ENHANCEMENT: Separate Expandable lists per term on Course display #992
  • ENHANCEMENT: Flag course availability by Section #994
  • ENHANCEMENT: Adjustments to course code display #991
  • ENHANCEMENT: Return to Top button for course listings #1019
  • ENHANCEMENT: Reduce vertical space between filters #1018
  • ENHANCEMENT: Ability to manually reorder Term in the Taxonomy section #996

 

 

All Sites

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

Deployed December 5, 2024

  • MAINTENANCE: Drupal Core Security update #1007 
  • MAINTENANCE: Follow-up to #969, Change Hybrid to Online with Residence #1000

Deployed December 12, 2024

  • BUG: Extreme slowness on saving images #1001
  • MAINTENANCE: Adjust permissions for anonymous & authenticated users #1012
  • BUG: Fix for certain events throwing WSODs when referencing an unpublished Program #1009
  • BUG: Fix deprecated alert on SCOM page #949

Summer

Deployed December 18, 2024

  • Hotfix for decimal rounding up of Course points [no ticket #]

Planned for January

This list is subject to change.

Complete and up-to-date details can be found in Clickup’s Active Queue if you have access to ClickUp.

  • New chatbot and chatbot engine for Precollege
  • BUG: User belonging to a Program cannot see content 
  • Prep for D10.4/D11

 

All Sites

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

Deployed November 13th, 2024

  • MAINTENANCE: Upgrade to Drupal 10.3 #935

Deployed November 25th, 2024

  • ENHANCEMENT: Refinements to Photo Captioning #908
  • BUG: Announcements on HomePage is below the Carousel on certain versions of Firefox #971
  • BUG: Sitewide alert not displaying #1003
  • BUG: Latest Events Component not filtering appropriate events #990
  • BUG: Creating a new component on a new page fails #1002

Pre-College

Deployed November 20th, 2024

  • Launch Summer 2025 Precollege site #972

Summer

Deployed November 21st, 2024

  • Launch Summer 2025 Summer site #988

Deployed November 26th, 2024

  • MAINTENANCE: Edit hard coded copy for Courses #989

 

Planned in December

This list is subject to change.

Complete and up-to-date details can be found in Clickup’s Active Queue if you have access to ClickUp.

  • Associating Courses with Instructors (Precollege) #999
  • Untying menu and program relationships - Exposing on Edit #951
  • Drupal Core security Update #1007
  • Term manual reordering (Precollege) #996
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All Sites

Updates/Enhancements/Bugs

Deployed October 3rd, 2024

  • UPDATE: Taxonomy change #969
  • BUG: Table fix #958

Deployed October 24th, 2024

  • BUG: Table component fix for weird wrap-around #975
  • SECURITY UPDATE: Diff module (utility module used to compare revisions) #978

 

Pre-College

Deployed October 3rd, 2024

  • UPDATE: Change label for HBCU fellows #973

 

Planned in November

This list is subject to change.

Complete and up-to-date details can be found in Clickup’s Active Queue if you have access to ClickUp.

  • Refinements for Photo (Media Wide) captioning #908
  • Upgrade to Drupal 10.3 #935
  • Home pafe Announcements bug in certain FF browsers #971
  • Set PREC individual courses to Draft but still visible (no Clickup yet?)
  • Configure "ohdear" to send up/down notifications to #columbia-sps #984
  • Spin up new site for PREC/Summer launches #972

All Sites

Updates / Enhancements / Bugs

Deployed September 11, 2024

  • ENHANCEMENT: New RSS feed for /events 940

 

Pre-College

Deployed September 4, 2024

  • ENHANCEMENT: Reorder course filter list 825

Deployed September 11, 2024

  • BUG: Wrong Site-wide alert colors #960

 

Summer

Deployed September 11, 2024

  • BUG: Wrong Site-wide alert colors 960

 


Planned in October

This list is subject to change.

Complete and up-to-date details can be found in Clickup’s Active Queue if you have access to ClickUp.

  • TAXONOMY CHANGE request 969
  • Change the label for HBCU fellows 973
  • TABLE Component fix 975
  • Refinements for Photo (Media Wide) captioning 908

All Sites

Updates / Enhancements / Bugs

Deployed August 28, 2024

  • ENHANCEMENT: Update the pathalias pattern for pathauto for persons – Any person's URL defaults to "/person/lastname-firstname" 947
  • ENHANCEMENT: Article image suppression 942

Planned in September

This list is subject to change.

Complete and up-to-date details can be found in Clickup’s Active Queue if you have access to ClickUp.

  • Drupal 10.3 upgrade 935
  • Reorder course filter list 825 (Pre-College)
  • New RSS feed for /events 940 (Main Site)
  • Refinements for Photo (Media Wide) captioning 908

All Sites

Updates / Enhancements / Bugs

Deployed July 2, 2024

  • BUG: CSS errors 931
  • ENHANCEMENT: Remove collapsed site-wide header 779

Deployed July 17, 2024

  • BUG: Front-end styles not showing in WYSIWYG 778
  • BUG: Jump Link Help Text 897
  • BUG: WSOD | SPS Main: Attempting to access an event generates a WSOD (twig function failing when an image is missing) 786 

Deployed July 24, 2024

  • BUG: Image captions mechanism wonky 937
  • ENHANCEMENT: Make Program cards show as Unpublished 922
  • ENHANCEMENT: Add Accordion component to Article content type 938

Planned in August

This list is subject to change.

Complete and up-to-date details can be found in Clickup’s Active Queue if you have access to ClickUp.

  • Add a second site-wide banner 890
  • Refinements for Photo (Media Wide) captioning 908
  • Brainstorming Solutions for Person content type 925
  • Article Image Suppression 942
  • Drupal 10.3 upgrade 935