Event Notices
Release Notes
Nov 06, 2025
Release 25.21.0
Content and User Experience Enhancements:
- HCI Logo: Remove green background on HCI logos on academic profile pages.
- Accessibility: Update alt attributes to align to standards.
- Layout: Remove gls-margin from field.html.twig to eliminate gap between content and footer.
- UNID Profile Blocks: Add email, phone number, and research interests as displayable options.
Structural and Data Enhancements:
- File Uploads: Remove txt, doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx as file upload options.
System and Infrastructure Updates:
- Acquia CDP: Add config page and improve script handling.
- Errors: Fixed 'Invalid Kaltura stats event type: complete' error.
Release Notes
Oct 20, 2025
Release 25.20.0
Content and User Experience Enhancements:
- Media Alt Text Support: Added a Site Studio patch to output the alt text of referenced media entities, improving accessibility and SEO.
- Person Billboard Template: Updated the Person Billboard layout with improved header spacing, logo placement, and new location card styling in the Clinical theme. Enhanced Searchstax functionality by adjusting the “clear” icon position on search inputs and filtering out 403 pages from search results.
- Person Profile Bios: Implemented smart trim functionality for cleaner and more consistent bio display.
- Values and Identity Content: Added missing values-identity file and renamed “diversity” to “values” for improved content organization.
Structural and Data Enhancements:
- CBA Locations Taxonomy: Introduced a new CBA Locations taxonomy within the
uou_cbamodule to better categorize and manage location data. - Corresponding Entity Reference: Added new entity reference functionality to improve data relationships and cross-referencing.
- Person Import: Restored prior improvements to the person import process to ensure accurate and complete data imports.
- CDP Payload: Added node-based CDP payload generation for enhanced content data processing.
System and Infrastructure Updates:
- Content Hub Dashboard: Enabled the Content Hub Dashboard module to improve content governance and management visibility.
- Gloss-Source Update: Updated the gloss-source module to version 2.8.26 for improved stability and compatibility.
- Video-JS Path Update: Updated the path configuration for video-js to ensure correct asset loading and performance.
- Swiftype Removal: Removed remaining Swiftype references and dependencies to streamline the system.
- Drupal Core and Module Upgrades: Updated Drupal core, contributed modules, and infrastructure components to enhance security, performance, and maintainability.
Release Notes
Oct 09, 2025
Release 25.19.2
Search upgrades
- Search interface for all sites is now displayed by a custom front-end giving us full control over the look, feel, and interactivity of search pages.
- Add auto-suggest for searches. Search now connects to the SearchStax Auto-Suggest system for search term suggestions.
- Add spell checking for search input.
- Begin implementation of keyword searches.
- Migrate existing synonyms from previous search system.
- Integrate Auto-Suggest API in Searchstax controller.
- Decommission old search platform. Remove all supporting modules, configurations, and code from deprecated clinical search.
Physician profiles system improvements
- Improve profile update tracking. Editing profiles should no longer be ‘missed’ during the import process.
- Complete rewrite of Physician Referral app.
- Revert display of UFIS profile images. This should help with the ‘pixilated’ images, but reverts profiles back to not using responsive image workflow and returns profile pages to ‘uncached’ status. The reason for this issue is that many profile photos in UFIS are many years old and are too small for display.
- Ensure specialties, locations, and licenses always return arrays in ApiFst.
Care Based Access (CBA) search implementation
- Create a module to support the Condition Based Search system from CareNavigation.
- Create module framework for admin tools required to support the CBA search tools.
- Create import process for Specialties and Locations from the CBA system.
Locations page improvements
- Add link in emergency department wait times banner to point between the University Hospital and South Jordan.
- Removed duplicate UofU Hospital card from Locations Directory.
- Implement ordering settings for locations on the Locations page.
- On Service Line pages, we removed alphabetical ordering and set results to sort by weight in locations module.
- Add ordering display for Locations content administration page.
General fixes
- Improve HTML structure for Medical Services pages on Healthcare and HCI.
- Improve JSON and PHPCS handling for developers in VSCode.
- Add SSH key testing to Travis build cycles.
Release Notes
Sep 23, 2025
Release 25.18.1
Content and User Experience Improvements:
- Switched the Clinical Trials component from cards to accordions for improved readability and user experience.
- Fixed the display of “Closed” text in Hours display when locations reopen later in the day to avoid confusion.
- Added
aria-labelattributes to anchor links around images in news story cards to improve accessibility. - Improved pager accessibility and internationalization (i18n) within Twig templates.
- Enhanced the Table of Contents component for better accessibility and navigation support.
- Corrected Avaya Call Back Assist tool text color on dark Image Billboards to meet accessibility contrast guidelines.
Search and Navigation:
- Completed the implementation of the new SearchStax-powered site search interface across academic and clinical sites, delivering site-specific filters, environment-specific Solr servers, and consistent theming for an improved search experience.
- Disabled the legacy Google Site Search (GSE) and Swiftype Search modules across all sites.
Infrastructure and Performance Improvements:
- Added a Composer command to automate bulk Site Studio update tasks across environments.
- Restored the
localconfiguration split to align with development best practices.
Code and Security Updates:
- Upgraded Drupal core to version 10.5.3 and contributed modules to the latest supported versions.
- Updated custom code to be compatible with PHP 8.3.
- Fixed issues with the Kaltura Client integration to ensure media playback stability.
Release Notes
Sep 11, 2025
Release 25.17.0
Accessibility Improvements:
- Remove aria-label from rating containers
- Add <span class="gls-hidden-visually">Rating: {{…}} of 5</span>.
- Updated the Google Maps <iframe> in the location address block template to include a descriptive title attribute. The title is dynamically generated from the location name and address fields, ensuring each map embed has a meaningful accessible name. This change resolves accessibility scan errors and improves screen reader support across location pages.
Gloss:
- Update to 2.8.25
- Mirror CKEditor list bullets/numbering on the front end, so WYSIWYG matches live output while remaining easy to override.
Search:
- Enable and configure the following modules as prep work for future search related upgrades:
- Language
- Search API
- Search API SOLR
Site Studio:
- Add default setting for Icon Card update.
- Fix for Image Billboard alignment.
- Fix Slider component.
- General fixes for preprocessor.
CDP:
- Add webtag CDP configuration.
- Add new CDP taxonomy field to all relevant content types.
- Add CDP Assign Category bulk operation.
- Remove 'Chosen' module functionality from Hierarchical select fields.
- New CDP Category Assignment page is located here: /admin/content/cdp-category
- Add CDP content category taxonomy vocabulary.
New Menus:
- Anesthesiology: Center for Patient Simulation
- School of Medicine: IMPACT
Infrastructure:
- Speed improvements to local development environments
- Add OpenAI Connector service to uou_config module.
- Add custom taxonomy import module.
Release Notes
Aug 24, 2025
Release 25.16.0
Content and User Experience Improvements:
- Hid the “Play Video” text overlay for the videojs player to reduce visual noise.
- Corrected Spacer component behavior so the divider renders when the relevant settings are selected.
- Adjusted Slider Container pagination styling to prevent spillover into adjacent components.
- Applied minor visual refinements to the Text and Video Panel component for improved readability and spacing.
Design and Component Enhancements:
- Rebuilt the Image Billboard component to align with the latest design specifications.
- Added four new Site Studio helpers on the HCI site to streamline authoring workflows.
- Removed deprecated Site Studio Kaltura player components to simplify the component library.
Infrastructure and Configuration Updates:
- Updated the
Person Importmodule to support EDW data sources. - Implemented targeted debugging for Epic API responses to improve data reliability and error handling.
Code and Security Fixes:
- Stopped escaping HTML in video caption fields to allow intended markup display.
Release Notes
Jul 29, 2025
Release 25.14.1
Content and User Experience Improvements:
- Updated provider profile display to sort alphabetically by last name and added fallback image styling for profiles without photos, including centered layout and drop shadow.
- Added Spotify and Apple Podcast buttons to HCI individual podcast episodes for improved accessibility to external platforms.
- Enhanced Foreground image/video billboard component by fixing layout spacing and adding bold styling to titles.
- Fixed X (formerly Twitter) sharing URL when using the icon-only style in the Social Sharing component.
Design and Component Enhancements:
- Applied
display: inline-blockstyling to image icons in the Icon Card component to support proper alignment. - Updated
gloss-sourceto version 2.8.22, introducing 8 new anatomical icons: back, bones, foot, foot-ext, hip, knee, shoulder, and stomach-alt.
Infrastructure and Configuration Updates:
- Finalized WebTag 2.0 global tag configuration for the Healthcare site by enabling the required module and applying necessary configuration fields.
Code and Security Fixes:
- Resolved a PHP warning in
theme_uou_preprocess_node()by adding a safeguard when accessing$video['media_content']to avoid errors from non-array values.
Release Notes
Jul 16, 2025
Release 25.13.1
Content and User Experience Enhancements:
- Kaltura Video Player: Replaced the video player on profile pages to the new Kaltura player.
Infrastructure and Functional Improvements:
- Module Update Status: The Gloss website now reports on the status of Drupal core and contributed modules from the Drupal community. This automation allows us to keep on top of module releases and incorporate them into future work.
- Permissions for Advanced Publishers: Advanced Publishers can now access this page: https://admin.healthcare.utah.edu/admin/config/branding-paths.
Release Notes
Jun 29, 2025
Release 25.12.0
Content and User Experience Enhancements:
- Emergency Department Wait Time Accuracy: Updated wait time display in the Emergency Department banner to reflect a 2-hour lookback (previously 6 hours), improving accuracy.
- Locations Directory Improvement: Added real-time wait times to the locations directory.
- Kaltura Video Component Update: Simplified video embedding with enhanced display options, including toggles for download buttons, titles, and descriptions.
- New "Spacer" Component: Introduced flexible spacer component featuring customizable vertical spacing, divider visibility, styles, and alignments.
- Provider Display Cards: Streamlined provider card component for clinicians. Faculty will be added at a later date. This will replace the Find Something Tool's 'by name' tab.
- Location Display Cards: Dynamic location card component displaying details by clinic ID or specialty, optionally including images. This wil replace the Find Something Tool's 'by location' tab.
Infrastructure and Functional Improvements:
- Department Menu Cache Issue Fixed: Corrected caching behavior in department menu blocks, resolving conflicts and Drupal cache warnings about context mismatches. Added fallback to main menu when necessary.
- Clinical Locations Data Import: Enabled automated imports for Clinical Locations. A new content type called Clinical Locations is now populated by content from the user profiles, rather than having locations duplicated individually in every profile. The front end display for this new content has not been implemented, but will be in a future release. Once the new front-end display is enabled we'll remove the locations_paragraph paragraph type.
- RSS Feed Validation: Addressed minor RSS feed validation warnings for improved reliability.
General Enhancements:
- New Relic Monitoring: Fully implemented site health monitoring via New Relic, with error tracking and performance insights.
- Clinical Trials Content Cleanup: Removed unused Clinical Trials content type and legacy features.
- Content Hub Optimization: Disabled user syndication from Content Hub on the Newsroom site, reducing unnecessary data load.
Release Notes
Jun 16, 2025
Release 25.11.0
Content and User Experience Improvements:
- Fix Twitter (X) content sharing URL.
Infrastructure and Performance Improvements:
- Added Urgent Care and Emergency Department wait times information to internal APIs in preparation to display this information in our "finding" apps.
- Updated logic for digesting the link for the specialty import process.
- Created a podcasts module.