All notable changes to the website will be documented here.
Use the links below to jump to a specific month.
August
8/21/2026 - Release 8.1.0
- Default sort changed to most recent first on latest news.
- Remove all CMU Health MVC assets.
- Add multisite support on redirect module.
- In the people directory, emeriti checkbox is not unchecked when filters are cleared.
- The list of colleges on transfer credit guides in .NET Core is not showing all colleges.
- CMU Health search pagination doesn't look right for a certain number of results.
- Remove excessive padding on event details page in .NET Core.
8/11/2026 - Release 8.0.1
- Sitefinity Patch 15.4.8634.
8/03/2026 - Release 7.16.0
- Converted blog detail page to .NET Core.
- Convert latest news page to .NET Core.
July
7/31/2026 - Release 7.15.0
- New .NET Core program finder filter button and filter sidebar changed to white prior to go-live.
- URL of "Apply" buttons in scholarship quizzes updated to undergrad specific "ApplyUG" page.
- Accelerated option badge on program list widget allowed text overflow on shorter program names.
- Paragraphs had no bottom margins in accordions.
7/23/2026 - Release 7.14.0
Added
- Added the ability to add thumbnail images to Program Finder tiles
- TikTok social media links in College contact banner widget
Changed
- Changed the sort order for the membership and education section for faculty profile and doctors
- Accelerated Program info on program pages moved down the page, just above Careers and Outcomes section
- Concentrations and career outcomes sections on CMU Online program pages are now optional
Fixed
- MVC form submit messages had no margin under them
- No margin between card widgets in some circumstances when stacked on mobile devices
- People directory widgets didn't quite fit in the content container element, causing overflow/alignment issues
- Links in the Careers and Outcomes section of program pages were the maroon on a maroon background (invisible)
7/9/2026 - Release 7.13.0
Added
- Added print styles so news articles can be printed or saved as PDFs for the digital archive.
Updated
- Updated the Transfer Scholarship Quiz widget to better align its visual design with the Merit Award Scholarship Quiz, more closely with web brand standards.
Fixed
- Fixed the Program List widget so programs display in the same manual order they were set when "As set manually" is selected.
7/6/2026 - Release 7.12.1
Fixed
- CMU Health locations map having JavaScript after thumbnail image field-name change
June
6/25/2026 - Release 7.12.0
- Updated .NET Core Policy Navigation to match MVC behavior by keeping dropdowns closed on load except the active section.
- Fixed Default Card layout in .NET Core to maintain consistent card heights when displaying different amounts of content.
- Fixed Program List issue where draft programs were appearing on the page, making sure only the correct published program content is displayed to users.
6/21/2026 - Release 7.11.4
Changed
6/11/2026 - Release 7.11.3
- Created CMU Today content list widget view to display items as cards and group entries by day
- Added Accelerated Program checkbox and Fields to add a tabbed content section to the program backend module.
- Added Accelerated Program callout to the program list widget.
- Added Accelerated Program fields to program pages including title, description, and tab content fields
- Added Accelerated Program section link to the program page At A Glance area
- Added CentralLink login message content for users when not signed in
- Moved Program Finder desktop filters into a sidebar layout while keeping the mobile filter bar unchanged
- Fixed news list widget error when displaying individually selected news stories
- Fixed Share on Social widget links so Twitter/X and LinkedIn icons point to the correct platform URLs
May
5/28/2026 - Release 7.10.0
5/14/2026 - Release 7.9.1
Added
- Created a CentralLink login widget shows only the SSO login button.
- To prevent unnecessary search engine crawling, added rel="nofollow" attribute to news article links in listing and detail views.
- Migrated thumbnail images to the new "ThumbnailImage" field.
- Fixed incorrect URLS on news detail page for related stories and improved page load performance with server-side caching.
- Fixed links on news detail page to correctly point to individual story detail pages and prevent crawl issues.
- Fixed GPA calculator to display fields and automatically calculate totals correctly.
Removed
- Removed unused template selection for card widget.
5/1/2026 - Release 7.8.4
- Antarctican (headings) and Tablet Gothic Condensed fonts replace with Barlow Condensed, and heading font sizes significantly reduced, and slightly resized dynamically depending on screen width.
- Tablet Gothic font replaced with Roboto.
- Program finder filter drop down layout changed from two to one column on mobile.
- Reduced padding on .NET Core landing page heroes.
- Document list widget hidden from Sitefinity page editor toolbox and replaced with a pre-configured Document list "section preset" to prevent the use of problematic default settings.
- Button colors blended in with certain background colors available in styled wrappers.
- Program list widget not showing correctly when only a single program was selected.
- Error in Merritt Scholarship Calculator when entering a GPA between 3.3 and 3.5 with no ACT/SAT score.
- Default thumbnail image for News and Event listings was missing.
- Deprecated Twitter related settings in the site.config file in Sitefinity.
April
4/23/2026 - Release 7.7.1
Changed
- "Scroll to top" button made visible to screen readers for better accessibility. Keyboard handler added to place focus on the first focusable link on keypress, but clicks don't change focus.
4/15/2026 - Release 7.7.0
Changed
- Deployed Sitefinity patch version 15.4.8628 and performed regression testing
4/7/2026 - Release 7.6.2
- Program finder Ajax calls no longer return unused data that belongs in individual program pages.
4/2/2026 - Release 7.6.1
- Unified tab layout and tab widget into an integrated tab widget where we can add all tab content in one dialog box.
- Created new header for CMU Online.
- Updated CTA Button links to work with combination of page selector and query parameter.
- Updated colors of Accordions to maroon headings and light blue borders.
- Adjusted padding and alignment for Z-pattern in .NET core.
- Document list widget - pagination bar now wraps on small displays.
- Redirects that were set to temporary were permanent instead.
March
3/19/2026 - Release 7.5.1
- Descriptive aria-labels for links to improve accessibility.
- Improved keyboard navigation behavior for mobile menu flyouts.
- Migrated News Detail page to .NET core.
- Latest News link now correctly retains search parameters.
- Blog pagination navigation issue resolved.
3/5/2026 - Release 7.4.4
- Updated Google Search styling to adapt to recent changes in Google's HTML and CSS structure, ensuring the search box and results display with proper alignment.
- Adjusted heading sizes in the .NET Core main template so the H1 displays larger than H2 on mobile devices.
- Fixed spacing for floated images in the editor.
- Fixed modal overlay functionality in the .NET Core navigation menu to match MVC behavior, preventing page scrolling when the menu is open.
- Added scope attribute to table header to improve accessibility.
- Increased height of text links to ensure interactive elements are at least 24px tall for accessibility.
- Fixed story card overflow issue which caused slight horizontal scrolling of the page.
February
2/19/2026 - Release 7.3.0
- CMU Health location search for .NET Core pages.
- Bright Edge Autopilot link bar above the footer.
- Automated JavaScript function to add screen reader labels for links that open in new tabs (for accessibility).
- Program list widget "Learn More" links changed to "View Program" for clarity.
- Heading for people list widget in .NET Core pages wasn't showing.
- Aria and role attributes were being stripped out of content blocks by HTML sanitizer in .NET Core pages.
2/5/2026 - Release 7.2.0
Changed
- .NET Core version of maroon link card widget heights could vary if the labels wrapped to 2 or more lines
Fixed
- People pages (faculty/staff profiles) not showing building/room number when city and street were not filled out
- Styling of form multi file upload field was still Sitefinity default
January
1/23/2026 - Release 7.1.2
Added
- Temporary web API to migrate thumbnail images to a new field
- Image counter to custom widgets to track images within the site
Changed
- UComm content editors can access image and image gallery widgets
Fixed
- Values not showing on event detail page
- Tabbed callout slider scrolling page to focus itself on window resize
- SAPA escape button malfunctioning (leaving the page automatically)
- Event editor config files aligned between all tiers
1/8/2026 - Release 7.0.0
Added
- Program search widget for .NET Core homepage
- Styling and layout for .NET Core Hero widgets
Fixed
- Alert formatting and layout issues in .NET Core pages
- Loading of Vue.js scripts in the program list widget
Changed
- Upgraded Sitefinity from Version 15.3.8522 to 15.4.8622
- Switched core featured alerts widget to use the built-in model instead of a rest API call to use filtering abilities in SF 15.4.
- Shrunk the font size of .NET Core Image Callout cards
- Image Pull Quote widget Title changed from HTML field to text field to prevent HTML markup from being used inside heading
1/6/2026 - Release 6.12.4
Fixed
- Main Nav search box on .NET Core pages on Android devices using Chrome were having the onscreen keyboard dispensary.
1/5/2026 - Release 6.12.2
Fixed
- Main Nav search box not showing on .NET Core pages on mobile devices
December
12/8/2022 - Release 3.08
Added
- Added VWO code to page templates so our marketing partner can run A/B testing on pages within the site.
- Added "robots noindex" meta tag to non-production environments.
- Added the ability to create colored content blocks.
- Added the ability to create a speedbump for the sidebar links in people profiles.
Changed
- Redesigned the search and filter options for Program Finder.
- Updated the font colors of filter drop downs in Program Finder.
Fixed
- Data importers were re-developed. The following importers have been turned back on in the production environment: People, Programs, Program Authorizations and Doctors. The Location, Department, Program Concentration and Faculty Profile importers will remain offline for this release as we continue to test.
- Corrected curly apostrophes in the search box on iPads/iPhones, which caused unwanted results.
- Random image selector for hero images was ignoring the first image within the collection.
- Added the ability for line breaks to occur on hyphens such as those in the names of people in the people widget. Without this, the layout grid's columns could be stretched.
- Corrected search so that people with hyphenated names appear in search results.
- Corrected spacing and padding issues for links that were crowded after the addition of the sitemap link in the footer.
- Alumni Association Board of Directors widget was showing exception error.
November
11/10/2022 - Release 2.05
Added
- New CMU News template.
- Interior navigation cards now have a two-column view available to be used in layouts with sidebar navigation.
Changed
- Redesigned the accordions to have dark blue look when opened.
- Changed Azure search query type from "Full" back to "Simple" to provide more relevant results.
- On the external redirect notice page, we changed label of "Return to Site" button to instead say "Go Back".
- Captchas are now required on forms before they can be published.
Fixed
- On the GPA calculator, we added a two-character limit to the number of courses to calculate, which prevents the page from freezing.
- "View Profile" button was missing from Faculty/Doctor profile widgets' cards.
- Program pages' concentration locations filters were not functioning correctly.
- Added padding under the button widget.
- Sitemap page links' clickable areas were the entire width of the page.
- Some blog posts were not sorted by publish date.
- Find a Doctor search on CMU Health was missing filters from dropdown menus and images.
October
10/27/2022 - Release 2.04
- Predict semester or major/minor GPA calculator tool, where students can add in multiple GPAs from multiple institutions to predict GPA at CMU.
- Comment option* that can be added to pages. *This is intended for Playbook pages only.
- Sitemap in page form, located in the footer across the site.
- Fixed heading level and text colors for accessibility and updated the "Apply" button hyperlink target on the Scholarship Quiz widget.
- Form responses exported to Excel sheets also included internal Sitefinity metadata fields, now removed.
- Quick links callout widget was not opening hyperlinks in new tab/window when the box was checked.
- Randomized hero images were showing mobile images on desktop/tablet.
Changed
- Tablet hero image field was removed. Tablets now use Desktop images.
- Featured news listing widget now uses SEO description field instead of a Summary field. Web-Config transforms were added for IIS redirect module to work correctly with CI/CD pipelines (these were manually edited for the last two releases).
- Left navigation child pages of the selected page are now open on page load.
10/10/2022 - Release 2.03
Changed
- Added ability to bypass the existing URL redirect module. As a temporary measure, the redirects have been replaced with IIS rewrite rules and an IIS URL map file.
September
9/29/2022 - Release 2.01
Added
- Breadcrumb navigation added to most pages. Excluded were top level and dynamic pages like news, events, and blogs.
- Create "Doctors" version of People widget to be used for CMED faculty and staff directory pages.
- Added "No academic departments were found for_____" message to A-Z index for instances when there's no academic department found for the selected letter.
- Broken images in Maroon Background Callout widget when no image selected (Accessibility issue).
- YouTube videos unresponsiveness to screen size; they now adjust to screen size correctly.
- Removed duplicate heading matching tab name inside each tab in Tabbed Content widget.
- Made Story Hover Card widget titles have darkened background to improve readability.
- Fired Up and Focused profiles now show hyperlinks entered in backend fields.
9/16/2022 - Release 1.71.0
- TikTok social icon in site footer.
- Ability to select and display Related Events in the sidebar of Event detail pages.
- New "Title" field on embedded YouTube videos, and activated default closed captioning (when captions are available) for improved accessibility.
- Added components necessary to build a data driven Departments A-Z index page.
Fixed
- Hero text block, including the page title, was missing on tablets.
- CSS for Department-directory widget was left out of project.
9/2/2022 - Release 1.70.7
Added
- API for SF admins to unlock shared content blocks (due to bug in Sitefinity)
- Added "Subtitle" and "Media Contact name/email" to news pages.
Changed
- Modified the appearance of search input boxes to have 2px thick border, and search button no longer has white border.
Fixed
- Events Widget showing date twice for same day event
- "CMU Health" in left navigation (of top level pages) does not go back to homepage.
August
8/19/2022 - Release 1.70.6
Added
- Directory view in Faculty Profiles
- Transfer Scholarship Quiz Widget
Changed
- Updated Primo (Library) Search widget configuration to match a recent change
- Locations missing from SAP source are no longer unpublished
- Display Faculty Profiles (as People) in Site Search results
- All redirects to ASPX (Old SharePoint) pages are now permanent redirects so they’ll be cached by browsers/search engines.
- Update Views for Faculty profiles (cosmetic)
- Display academic and professional title from Mountain Pass for people who have a "Faculty" profile
Fixed
- Same date showing twice in some events’ detail views
- College contact banner rendering lower case i's to look like l's
8/5/2022 - Release 1.7.5
Changed
- Updated the code for Covid dashboard since it was changed in the CMS and not tracked here.
- Changed importers to use instance methods instead of static methods to free up RAM on servers.
- Refactored code to unpublish items.
Fixed
- Program finder filters altered to fit in container on UHD displays.
- Fixed bug with 10 within 10 recipients.
Removed
- Removed website vendor folder.
- Removed forced sort type changes in search (exact match was being overridden by alphabetical).
July
7/21/2022- Release 1.7.4
Added
- Enabled geolocation functionality in Sitefinity Analytics.
- Added loading animation to main menu search.
- Added loading animation to program finder.
- Search results for news and blogs now include description.
Changed
- Program Finder no longer reloads page on pagination by using Ajax. (Ajax keyword search coming soon).
- Code cleanup: Moved CSS/JS code from "ST" folder to "lib" folder.
- Updated copy for scholarship quiz.
- Programs are now sorted by alphabetical order in Program Finder except when there is a an exact keyword match.
Fixed
- Various search result images now display properly (some types are taller while others are wider, so the search results now take this into consideration).
- Made inline alert banner look right by giving padding on sides to match the rest of the page layouts (cmuhealth.org).
- Program Finder titles wrong size with some filters and pagination was also breaking when certain filters were present.
- Image caption carousels' play button on mobile wasn't working properly.
- Maroon/gold carousel accent graphic was appearing under text, affecting readability.
7/7/2022- Release 1.7.3
Added
- Updated people detail page frontend code to read published flag.
Changed
- Upgrade Sitefinity from v14.1.7823 to v14.1.7825 to fix the Sitemap generator.
- Scholarship Quiz copy update.
Fixed
- Social Share widget title wrong heading level.
- College hero backend was showing all 3 sizes (desktop/tablet/mobile) at once.
- Multiple Alumni widgets using wrong heading levels.
- Mobile Accordion not showing on person bio pages.
- Mobile Accordions from "Fired Up and Focused" bio pages were missing on phones.
- Refactored program authorization importer.
- Fixed crash on searches with special characters
- Fixed vue pager on Fired up and focused listing.
- Fixed program page title area and text size on odd-shaped devices (since some program names were too long).
- Fixed blog post listing's image sizes so they're consistent.
- Search results descriptions weren't showing on mobile.
Removed
- Kraken image processor removed.
June
6/30/2022- Release 1.7.2
Added
- Added college filter to Program Finder and tweaked layout to make it fit.
- Added thumbnail for events.
Changed
- Updated max size for images/documents. (1MB limit for images and 5MB limit for documents.)
- Added the word "optional" to label in merit scholarship widget, and modified widget layout.
- "Courses" and "What will transfer" open in a new tab from the program page.
- Mobile carousel of events widget set to infinite scrolling.
- Added 30px of padding under tables.
Fixed
- Health search box button event handler.
- Mobile hover state showing when using event widget pager buttons.
- College contact banner layout on mobile.
- Mobile main nav height.
6/23/2022 - Release 1.7.1
Added
- Display Faculty profile info when available
- Keep workflow status when updating programs
- Keep published flag when updating existing entities in importers
- Minified some CSS/JS files and commented out a call to an unnecessary one
- Switched the rest of our base templates to SF OOTB bootstrap (to match cmich base)
- Removed lazy load from hero images, and add lazy load to other widgets to speed up first contentful paint
- Implement Silvertech's site search optimizations
- CSS fix for grandchild nav items on mobile being open all the time
- CSS fix for program concentration filter text showing up as blue
- URL encode program search strings to prevent errors
- CMU Health search button on search page was disregarding search box input in favor of last search string
May
5/25/2022 - Release v1.7
- Upgraded Sitefinity to version 14.1
April
4/22/2022 - Release v1.66.00
- Redirect for autodiscover.xml
- Default image for featured news, set in site config
- Better handling of program location removals
- Better handling of special characters with Azure Search
- Moved alumni search out of Gitlab and into Sitefinity/DevOps. Also refactored code.
- Update SCSS build process to no longer require committing .min files and style.css
- Changed event location display logic to show both online URL and physical locations.
- CMich Top Level Template Bug (View more/less button)
4/13/2022 - Release v1.65.03
- Left Nav not showing on mobile devices
- ToList() Optimizations in C# methods.
4/08/2022 - Release v1.65.02
- SEO and Social Media sections need to be added to Alumni content items
- Re-implemented automated tasks so we can run them on demand in all tiers
- Monsido reports finding 404 errors for list items (patch to catch trailing slash)
- Video player too large on mobile devices
- Gold Carousel Program Special Features missing next/prev buttons
- Update name in staff directory
- Made top searches in main nav editable by shared content block
- SAPA links giving 404s (hotfix)
- Pasting copy from one content block to a second content block triggers the "Pasting images warning"
Removed
- Remove search capability on dropdown lists on program finder
4/1/2022 - Release v1.65.01
Added
- Blog URL to trusted sites and speedbump
- Fixed mobile left nav
- Escape button on SAPA pages
- Find a Doctor filter box empty
- Monsido reports finding 404 errors for list items
- External link disclaimer for some internal links
- Spacing added below left nav
- Use thumbnail for programs in site search
- No result when trailing space in keyword
- "Find a Doctor" Function Not Working as Intended
- Hide unpublished locations from dropdown list in program finder
- Search results show unexpected text display
March
3/25/2022 - Release v1.65.00
- Updated News, events, blogs and people pages to gracefully fail when accessed without proper parameters
- Fixed issue with menu items not showing correctly
- Fix caching issue
- Empty program copied to Sitefinity
- Wrong title of pages on CMU Health
- Related News widget not sorting by date
- CMU Events widget on pages using college templates
- Anchor tag issues on Library pages (JS error in Datatables plugin is root cause)
- Missing Regulatory Program Data
- Tables not wrapping on mobile
- Update Speedbump whitelist to include cmuhistory.cmich.edu address
- Update Speedbump whitelist to include libguides.cmich.edu address
- Update Speedbump whitelist to include blogs.cmich.edu address
- Added redirects for nonexistent pages
- Replace JavaScript build process with native Microsoft (MSBuild) compatible process
- Use Published flag on regulatory items
- Update build process for maintainability
- Remove Enabled flag on location programs
- Remove Find a Doctor page
3/11/2022 - Release v1.64.02
- Fixed hyperlink animation under certain circumstances
- Fixed issue with compare programs at different mobile widths
- Fixed issue with sitemap on CMU Health
- Fixed issue with H1 tags on Fired Up and Focused Pages
- Fixed issue with program title not showing correctly on site search
- Fixed minor UI bug impacting hyperlinks on certain pages
- Fixed issue with news articles showing on both CMUHealth.ORG and CMICH.EDU
- Fixed issue with Compare Programs Button Disappearing Mobile
- Fixed issue with On the Global Campus Academic Calendar page when using Chrome
- Fixed issue with Event info not rending correctly on mobile devices
- Changing html tags to be SEO friendly (h1 to h3)
- Show CMEP doctors in find a doctor
- Updated Employee directory data
- Remove code and configuration keys for Find a Doctor (moved to health search), Burning Glass, Explore Careers modal
- Removed www-new from code base
- Decommission Static HTML Site's azure resources
- Decommission Form API web server's Azure resources
- Remove Enabled flag and use Published flag instead
3/4/2022 - Release v1.64.00
- Fixed issue with People not having the correct department in the directory
- Fixed issue with pool hours on UREC page
- Removed Static Widget site as it is no longer needed
- Removed unimplemented Forms API/Web Server now that Slate performs this function.
- Removed speedbump for links on Explore the Collection page in the Clarke Historical Library
- Re-architect data import API so that it is more maintainable and can be run on demand
- Updated server defaults to 1 day cache from 365-day cache
- Removed PDF version of Centralight and instead link to the website interactive version
February
2/25/2022 - Release v1.63.27
- Implement basic authentication header for users and roles API
- Add multiple delete in users API
- Use published flag on search for built-in content
- Add cmuhealth.org/404 page
- Show search results on cmuhealth.org/404 - AFTER DEPLOYMENT 2/25
- Added missing apple icons
- The filter by date on the search page doesn't work as expected
- Multiple H1 tags on all program pages TDX 4127798
- Left nav issues (Activate "View All" when expanding parent link)
- Too many redirect exceptions in server logs and wrong search index for cmu health
- Refactor code for concentrations on program pages
- CMU News Images fixed to load properly on mobile
- Removed search suggestions from search input boxes
2/18/2022 - Release v1.63.23
- Removed scripts that cache bust pdfs
- Removed standalone widgets that were merged into search and other pages
- Removed widgets that used Burning Glass since we no longer use the product
- Removed find a doctor stand-alone search and replace it with CMU Health search
2/14/2022 - Release v1.63.22
- Programs are updated if credit hours have changed
- Updated redirect code to avoid race conditions and release threads more reliably
2/11/2022 - Release v1.63.21
- Removed Book Appointment Button on CMU Health location pages if no URL set in backend
- Fixed Alert Hyperlink Formatting (CSS - No ticket or DevOps card)
- Doctor profile no longer showing HTML code
- Proof points widget no longer requests random stats when override values are present (No ticket or DevOps card)
- Heading level tags for program finder/search made ADA compliant (No ticket or DevOps card)
- Program authorization importer now copies concentrations
- Program authorization importer uses the override program name instead of title
- Fixed issue where redirects were resolving as 200 OK instead of 404 Not Found.
- Fixed Book Appointment Button on CMU Health location pages
- Add padding around figure captions tooling within content block editor
2/7/2022 - Release v1.63.17
- Cookie message Privacy Policy link URL
- Covid Charts weekly cases sort order
- Removed Value attribute from main nav search so it doesn't pre populate.
- Fixes for "Find a Doctor" search
- Made Doctor search more generic and rolled into site search
- Site Search for CMU Health
2/1/2022 - Release v1.63.14
Fixed
- Added HTTPCLIENT singleton to global.asax file then use it in url redirect module to fix socket exhaustion issue
January
1/28/2022 - Release v1.63.13
Added
- Added weighting functions to search index fields
- Changed Radio buttons for Site Search content types to check-boxes for better UX
- Changed Covid Dashboard weekly cases Y-axis from hard upper limit to be more dynamic
- Changed 404 page to use Azure Site Search results.
- Filter by Date for News and Blogs
- Search by categories, tags, departments and concentrations (keyword)
- Fix a bug with the event count
- Wrap HttpClient for WebDirector and Feedback Form in using(){...}
- Fixed news listing widgets showing title in place of summary.
- Removed unnecessary properties from search index
- Removed search flag from properties which didn't need to be searchable