Upcoming Product Features

• Automatic External Link Icon Appending in Menus. Expected in 4.17.0
• Block Feature Packs. Likely in 4.17.0
• Support for Smart Search in Unbranded. Expected in 4.17.0
• Adding the ability to choose the heading tag level for accordions to improve accessibility. (Styles will stay the same) Expected 4.17.0
• Add the ability to turn off Issues functionality within the theme. Likely in 4.17.0
• Adding a transform to allow users to swap paragraphs to Fancy Paragraphs. Expected 4.17.0
• Custom SVG Icon Functionality (Waiting till after SVG Library intake process is rewritten. Custom SVG icons will require UCOMM review.) Likely 4.17.0
• SVG Icon Selector Categories (Waiting till after SVG Library intake process is rewritten) Likely 4.18.0

Upcoming QoL Enhancements

• Due to accessibility we will be making the Table block’s heading section toggled on by default. Expected 4.16.1
• Removal of the label tag in CPT Filters due to accessibility warnings. Expected 4.16.1
• Change the default behavior for Attachment singles to redirect to the actual file. Expected 4.16.1
• Adding a role to indicate that the table of contents is a navigation element for accessibility. Expected 4.16.1
• Updating the Heading blocks from H2 through H4 to be black in order to use red more strategically. Likely 4.17.0
• Rewriting the SVG library intake process. Likely in 4.17.0
• Updating the Table of Contents Block to use a h2 tag for its title (Accessibility) Likely 4.16.1
• Updating Smart Search to work with Unbranded theme variants. Likely 4.17.0
• Adding a Faux Utility Bar to Smart Search Results pages to keep consistency. Likely 4.17.0
• Moving Smart Search Results from /search-beta to /search. Likely in 4.16.1
• Adding Spotlight tool to the Section Labels. Likely in 4.16.1
• Updating NPM Packages Expected in 4.16.1
• Design System Cleanup – Several minor tweaks to style to match the design system. Likely in 4.16.1 and 4.17.0
• Adding grid styling for Events Calendar Series. Likely in 4.16.1

Upcoming Bug Fixes

• Fix for Scrolling Spotlight images focal points. Expected 4.16.1
• The breakpoint at which the number of News Pre-footer items decreased was happening to early. Expected 4.16.1
• The captions of elements shown when the Load More is clicked in the Thumbnail Gallery are not showing. Expected 4.16.1
• Some animations such as image fade in are not working correctly. Expected 4.16.1
• Remove hard character limits from metadata. Expected 4.16.1
• Ordered Lists in Fancy Paragraph are not showing numbering on the editor. Expected in 4.16.1

Known Bugs

Tentative Release Plan