February 2025 Release

Release Schedule

To ensure a smooth transition and thorough testing, we are implementing the following release schedules for each platform:

Agency Platform I & II

Agency Platform II Distribution - 2.0.7.8 (Drupal 9)
Agency Platform Distribution - 7.103-M1 (Drupal 7)

  • Development Environment (DEV): Monday, February 10th, 2025 by 3PM
  • Test Environment (TEST): Monday, February 17th, 2025 by 3PM
  • Live Environment (LIVE): Thursday, February 27th, 2025 after 5PM
Release Information

We are excited to announce our upcoming releases for Agency Platform I and Agency Platform II, both scheduled to go live on Thursday, February 27th, 2025.

 

Service interruption is not expected.

 

To determine which platform your website is running on, please contact the service desk.

 

Schedule 

To ensure a smooth transition and thorough testing, we are implementing the following release schedules for each platform:

Agency Platform I & II

  • Development Environment (DEV): Monday, February 10th, 2025 by 3PM
  • Test Environment (TEST): Monday, February 17th, 2025 by 3PM
  • Live Environment (LIVE): Thursday, February 27th, 2025 after 5PM

 

Important Note for Agency Platform II Beta Program Customers: If you are part of the Agency Platform II Beta Program, your sites will enter the TEST environment early on Thursday, February 13th, 2025, to allow for extended testing. This adjustment ensures sufficient time to validate updates and address any issues ahead of the final release.

 

Agency Platform I Updates

Summary

Developer Notes

Site Owner Testing Notes

Update `workbench_email` from 7.x-3.9 to 7.x-3.12 (critical)

Security update and minor module fixes with token use. Please verify that expectations of this module’s use performs as necessary.

For sites that use content approval workflows, validate that email notifications still send appropriately.

Update `views_slideshow` from 7.x-3.1 to 7.x-3.10 (critical)

Security update; update to libraries; bug fixes.

Verify that Views Slideshow continues to work as expect if the site has intricate uses of image slideshows, this is a very large version hop.

Update `tag1_d7es` from 7.x-1.1 to 7.x-1.2

Minor updates and fixes.

No testing required.

Update `bootstrap` (theme) from 7.x-3.25 to 7.x-3.27

Fixes php bugs; library and other minor updates.

No testing required.

Update `wysiwyg` from 7.x-2.9 to 7.x-2.10

Bug fixes and minor updates.

Verify the text editor continues to work properly on content edit screens.

Update `context` from 7.x-3.11 to 7.x-3.12

Minor fixes and updates; adds compatibility with PHP 8.

No testing required.

Update `colorbox` from 7.x-2.16 to 7.x-2.19

Minor fixes and updates; adds DOMPurify library.

No testing required.

Update `ckeditor_link` from 7.x-2.3 to 7.x-2.4

Minor updates.

Verify the text editor continues to work properly on content edit screens with hyperlinks.

Update `admin_views` from 7.x-1.7 to 7.x-1.8

Bug fix release; splits Views Display to a sub module. Check and enable “Admin Views System Display” if it is not automatically enabled. Views that use AJAX may requires the "Use ajax pages on Administration Views System Display" permission to be given to roles that can access the view.

Administrative and developer function only, no testing required.

Update `admin_menu` from 7.x-3.0-rc6+21-dev to 7.x-3.0-rc7

Minor change updates from rc6+21-dev to rc7.

As a signed in user, verify the top administration menu bar appears above the site content.

 

Agency Platform II Updates

Summary

Description/Developer Notes

Site Owner Testing Notes

Update library caxy/php-htmldiff (v0.1.15) to (v0.1.16)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update library enshrined/svg-sanitize (0.20.0) to (0.21.0)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update library ezimuel/ringphp (1.2.2) to (1.2.3)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update library giggsey/libphonenumber-for-php (8.13.52) to (8.13.54)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update library phpoffice/phpspreadsheet (2.3.5) to (2.3.7)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update library setasign/fpdi (v2.6.2) to (v2.6.3)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update library composer/pcre (3.3.2)

Required library maintenance update

No testing required.

Update `clamav` (2.0.2) to (2.0.3)

Provides administrators with command line tool for re-scanning existing files. API bug fix for developers. Updated documentation.

Administrative function, no testing required.

Update `google_tag` (1.7.0) to (1.8.0)

Resolves two security vulnerabilities:

Google Tag - Moderately critical - Cross Site Scripting - SA-CONTRIB-2025-011

Google Tag - Moderately critical - Cross Site Request Forgery - SA-CONTRIB-2025-012

Verify Google Analytics continue to be collected as expected.

Update `redirect` (1.10.0) to (1.11.0)

Performance fix to allow core path alias caching to work.

Verify clean URLs are correctly applied when viewing published content.

Correct: az.gov/about

Incorrect: az.gov/node/2

Update `xls_serialization` (1.7.0) to (1.9.0)

Library update for phpoffice/phpspreadsheet

Export to .xls files occur without errors, if function used.

Alert node displays for `az_bootstrap` do not appear on mobile

Solves SN INC0566067 - Updated alert node styling for better mobile visibility.

If using “Alert” for publishing content, verify that they properly display on mobile devices.

Height of Homepage Cards in`az_bootstrap` theme causing height bugs with one column layouts

Solves SN INC0528482 - Update Homepage card styling to remove large, unnecessary gaps.

If using “Homepage Card” on layout builder or as a block, verify that having multiple homepage cards do not cause disruption to the page.

Review `az_antispam` module for misspellings

Various spelling correction updates.

Administrative function, no testing required.

Update header and footer image alt text for `az_bootsrap` theme for better accessibility

Solves SN INC0528482 - Updated header templating to update image alt text defaults.

Verify that logo alternative text reflects the department’s site name (such as Department of Administration), instead of “Home”.

Theme - Update default anchor/link texts to have contrast

Updated styling to Agency Platform default theme to solve anchor and body link text accessibility issue. In some cases, anchor text is generated in light blue which fails contrast checks, in other locations the anchor text is generated with a dark grey/blue.

Verify the thickness of hyperlinks in standard content text is more bold.

Theme - Update Navigation Menu children links to bold for contrast

Improved contrast of third level menu items to fix accessibility issues.

Verify menu items look correct with appropriate contrast.

 

Important Reminder for All Customers:

When the releases are moved to TEST, the databases and files in the TEST environments for both platforms will be overwritten with the LIVE environments’ databases and files. This will ensure you are able to test all critical features and functions of your website before they are deployed to LIVE.

 

Thank you for your cooperation and support as we implement these updates. If you have any questions or need assistance, please don’t hesitate to reach out to the ADOA-ASET Agency Platform team (ADOA-Service Desk) no later than 12PM Tuesday, prior to deployment to LIVE if you do NOT approve this change to be applied to your website.

 

Thank you for trusting us to serve you. Please feel free to reach out to the ADOA-Service Desk with any questions.