Site Update Blog

  • Upcoming Site Maintenance 17th September :: Release 2025-2

    Matt
    Our second site update of 2025 is due for deployment on the 17th September 08:00 BST, and will take approximately 2-3 hours to complete. There are around 100 deliverables in this release, with the ones we believe you'll be most interested in listed b...

  • Keeping your Profile Up to Date: Changes to How You Enrol for a RoadTest

    Dudley
    We have made a change to the way that you can apply to a RoadTest. When applying, you will no longer be able to freely enter your: Name Address and Contact details And instead will need to update your user profile to apply this information. As...

  • Upcoming Site Maintenance 3rd June :: Release 2025-1

    Matt
    Our first site update of 2025 is due for deployment on the 3rd June 09:00 UTC, and will take approximately 2-3 hours to complete. It's a big release since we're also upgrading platform versions from v12.1.5 to 12.1.8. For those of you who are...

  • Upcoming Site Maintenance 12th November :: Release 2024-4

    Matt
    Our fourth (and final) site update of 2024 is due for deployment on the 12th November 09:00 UTC, we have a number of improvements and bug fixes which you may be interested to know about. There are plenty of others that are less obvious, won't imp...

  • Customising Website Fonts with CSS Overrides using TamperMonkey

    Matt
    I've been a long-time user of a browser extension called TamperMonkey (and before that used GreaseMonkey on Firefox).  If you haven't heard of it before, TamperMonkey is a powerful browser extension that allows users to customise and enh...

  • Site Update - April and May 2022

    jdumais
    Below are some of the changes you may notice from our April and May releases - May was just deployed last week. RoadTest Review scores will now be displayed in product popups.   In a previous release, we added an "Engagement" widget to mo...

  • Post Release Update - March 2022

    jdumais
    Now that migration is over, we're back to our monthly releases, and sharing some information about what we've updated. Here are some of the fixes we've made in the first few releases since the start of the year. We've updated the logi...

  • January 2020 Site Update

    Matt
    In our first site update of the year, we introduce to you, a new version of Design Center! If you didn't already know, Design Center is an area of our site where you can explore our huge selection of hardware development tools and software p...

  • November 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    In our penultimate site update of the year, we've got some new functionality we're hoping you'll find useful.  First up are upcoming webinar reminders. These are configured to show up when there's a webinar starting in the next 24 hours.. they'r...

  • October 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    Last night we deployed our 7th site update of 2019.. just a couple to go before Christmas Noooooo. Highlights Lazy Loading Images - Part 2 In our August site update, the feature that was supposed to lazy-load images had a few issues (...

  • August 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    It's been a while since we rolled out any new features. There was a bug-fix and minor platform update earlier this month, but it didn't contain anything noteworthy that warranted a blog post from me  Last night we deployed a fairly large update ...

  • May 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    Highlights Avnet will appear as an additional purchase option for some products. For more information on Avnet click here.Support added for Twitter Cards - this should give Twitter a better indication of what to put into a Tweet when you share c...

  • March 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    Highlights Loads of improvements to support Dreamboard v2, which is coming soon!  Easily paste a Parts List / Bill of Materials (BOM) into content. Adding product links where other Community members can easily buy the parts used in a p...

  • February 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    Ooops, whilst preparing the March site update (due on 26th March) blog post, I realised I'd not published one for our February update. So here it is! Highlights Important fix: Images sometimes do not render for anyone but the author. We've ...

  • January 2019 Site Update

    Matt
    This week we deployed our first update of the year! Woo hoo!  Highlights There's a new 'hero' widget on the site homepage and other areas. It's a more modern sliding panel which shows highlights from area of the site. Works on mobile nicely...

  • November 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    Yes yes, I know it's not November.. I forgot to do the site update blog post after our November site update Stay tuned for the January 2019 blog post which is coming soon. Highlights You can now embed podcasts from Podbean into your conten...

  • October 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    Last night our team deployed the latest updates to element14 Community.  Highlights New theme! The update included a revamped theme to give us a fresh new look. Just be aware that we're ironing out a few UI bugs, and each landing page will ...

  • September 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    Looks like I forgot to post release notes for a couple of our site updates, so here's the one that went live in September. Highlights We added a new Tabbed widget, which our content team will start using with the new theme, which is due for...

  • August 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    Looks like I forgot to post release notes for a couple of our site updates, so here's the first which went live in August. Highlights Chrome bug; Pasting or typing certain characters into the RTE makes it jump to the top of the page. We wer...

  • July 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    In this month's update, as well as adding a number of improvements, we've squashed a number of bugs that were introduced in the May 2018 platform upgrade.  Highlights Problem displaying formatted code in IE11. As reported here.New a...

  • Dark Mode

    Matt
    I've been toying with the idea of a Dark Mode/theme for Community.. but then stumbled across this Chrome Extension which does a pretty good job on any site, without the need for any coding  https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-reader/e...

  • Video quality improvement for webinars / screencasts

    Matt
    In the release last month, we fixed video uploads so that webinars/screencasts get encoded with a higher resolution. This is especially useful when they show code snippets or IDEs.  However, what we also needed to do is go back and re-encode all...

  • May 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    (I've been so busy lately I'd forgotten to post these updates.. ) Our next site update is due in early July and will fix a number of issues we've found after the platform upgrade we performed in May. Many of the issues were due to changes by the...

  • March 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    (I've been so busy lately I'd forgotten to post these updates.. ) Highlights Our content team now has the ability to enter custom meta descriptions for pieces of content, which really helps for social sharingImprovement to quizzes to includ...

  • February 2018 Site Update

    Matt
    (I've been so busy lately I'd forgotten to post these updates.. ) Highlights You can now embed Twitter posts in your content; How to embed a tweet Improvements UX/UI: Adjust the UI for Embed Social media posts in contentAd...