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 interested, the Verint release notes are here.
It's worth noting that due to a cookie format change members will need to re-authenticate after the update.
We have a tonne of improvements and bug fixes. Out of the ~240 deliverables there are plenty that are less obvious, won't impact you directly, or affect things behind the scenes. I'll list out the ones I believe you'll be most interested in.
- The tabbed content list that appears on your profile now shows your draft content (just to you, not other members).
- Quizzes now support multiple textboxes.
- You'll now receive more points for attending webinars.. who doesn't like more points!
- Content created for a Design Challenge now auto-inherits any tags from the Design Challenge itself, making it easier for us to show content for just that challenge in lists around the site, or for you to be able to find it.
- Members who have signed up for Design Challenge notifications will now receive them.
- Fixed RoadTest Reviews showing an incorrect avatar in the Activity list.
- Fixed widgets (including search results) showing invalid data for some RoadTest Reviews
- Bunch of UI improvements for RoadTests, including this change to the Enrollment box, which we think really helps with usability;
- The profile fields on RoadTest entry form have been disabled & pull directly from your main profile. We've improved the flow for this so you can get your information right before you start to enrol.
- Clicking the pagination links on the Leaderboard widget no longer does a full page reload, making it a lot faster to use.
- Multiple behind-the-scenes changes to stop Friend Requests being an avenue for spammers.
- Multiple improvements to help us with site administration, publishing, anti-spam, etc.
- Fix where you were unable to save an update to a blog post in a Private group that contained an embedded poll
- Fixed where the 'More' buttons weren't working properly when there were mutiple instances of the same widget type on a page, like in the Arduino Projects group.
We're hoping to get our 2025-2 release out in a few months, so if there's anything you'd like to see imporoved, or you spot any bugs, please let us know & we'll look into it.
Many thanks!
The element14 Development Team
