v1.29.0

Under the hood:

• #977 Moved server middleware to own directory, to reduce client-side bundle size
• #978 Disabled compressor, leaving responsibility for that to a downstream reverse proxy or gateway like NGINX or Cloudflare

v1.28.0

New in this release

• Static pages. These are a new page type intended to display mainly static text such as that found in the help and about-us sections.
• Allow youtube embedding via oEmbed on item pages.
• Hover states on the links in the top navigation have been added.
• A close button has been added to the menu on mobile devices.

Changed in this release

• The sidebar in the Mirador viewer will be open by default when transcriptions are present.

Under the hood

• Added support for google optimize A/B testing.
• Moved header link texts into the code base as opposed to having them retrieved from the CMS.

v1.27.0

New in this release

• Provision to return a user to the page from which they were prompted for a login. Previously after logging in, users ended up on the homepage only.

Fixed in this release

• Analytics tracking of custom dimensions for data providers on item pages has been restored.
• Fixed browse card images for people entities.

Under the hood

• Capabilities of the Mirador viewer to handle europeana specific fulltext search implementation.
• Cleanup for old homepage hero header model.
• Move Hotjar code out of GTM into its own plugin.

v1.26.0

New in this release:

• Vimeo http:// URLs are supported for videos embedded via oEmbed (which will then be served over https://)
• Collections pages extended to support timespans

v1.25.0

Under the hood:

• Refactored to use Nuxt runtime config instead of dotenv files

v1.24.0

Launched with this release:

• When sharing item pages, for those having rights statements permitting it, an HTML embed code will be displayed which may be copied and used elsewhere to embed the item's media therein.

New in this release:

• A new content type named "hero header" is available in Contentful, intended to be used on the homepage only, and featuring a call to action

Changed in this release:

• Updated design of the hero header on the homepage with rounded corners and the same width as the main content column
• The topics listing page is ordered alphabetically, using the prefLabel of the topic in your chosen UI language, and filtered to those having such a label in your language

Fixed in this release:

• Images in content cards, such as on the blog post listing page, would sometimes not show up on initial page load, but then show on a page reload
• When creating blog posts in Contentful, related entity suggestions are now limited to topics, excluding people

Under the hood:

• Restoration of missing Elastic APM logs for SSRs

v1.23.0

New in this release:

• Announcements on route/page change for screen readers for improved accessibility.
• SEO/metadata for thumbnail & description on blog posts.

Changed in this release:

• Image widths for exhibitions and blog pages to fit content area better.

Under the hood:

• Redirects put in place for blog posts which don't exist or are not published. These will redirect to /blog.
• Forward compatibility update for upcoming changes to the browse page hero image. This will facilitate being able to add calls to action on the home page header in an upcoming release.

v1.21.0

New in this release:

• A location tab has been added to the item pages for items having dcterms:spatial with co-ordinates, showing the first such location with a zoomable map, courtesy of OpenStreetMap.

Fixed in this release:

• Inadequate escaping of certain characters appearing in facet field values would result in error messages on some searches, e.g. when filtering for institutions having " in their name.

v1.20.0

New in this release:

• When sharing item pages, for those having rights statements permitting it, an HTML embed code will be displayed which may be copied and used elsewhere to embed the item's media elsewhere.
  NB: this feature has not yet been launched on the Europeana website.

Changed in this release:

• All page titles (as displayed in browser tabs) are now suffixed with "Europeana"

Fixed in this release:

• Sharing item pages, for instance on social media, would not show a preview image when it should use the item's main thumbnail

v1.19.0

Changed in this release

• Use of larger thumbnails in search results. Thumbnails for item preview cards are now requested at a max dimension of 400px instead of 200px.
• Reduced the use of aria labels on search facet elements. These were over labeling, resulting in bad accessibility when using screen readers.

Fixed in this release

• Styling for exhibitions and blog page images. These could previously expand past the 'content' area, which would result in attributions not being accessible. They're now confined to the content section in which they're displayed.