News

1.43.0 - April 24, 2025

Changed

• Improved UI for small news tiles in the Tiles (Hero) layout

1.42.0 - March 05, 2025

Added

• Color slot support
• New color fields for Text and Subtext in the Tiles layout

Changed

• UI improvements for site labels and news preview

1.41.0 - February 19, 2025

Added

• Polish 🇵🇱 translations added, allowing Polish-speaking users to navigate and use the software in their native language
• Person detail cards added to user picker controls used in widget settings

Changed

• Various under-the-hood performance updates

Fixed

• An issue where external users with capital '#EXT#' in their username weren't correctly recognized as external

1.40.0 - September 24, 2024

Fixed

• An issue where news articles that use SharePoint stock images, didn't render acceptable thumbnails

1.39.0 - September 18, 2024

Changed

• Improved refreshing news articles in background
• Improved logging

1.38.0 - September 13, 2024

Changed

• Improved German translations
• Improved admin panel readability
• Improved image quality of news article thumbnails

1.37.0 - May 23, 2024

Changed

• Followed sites are now cached for 15 minutes (instead of 24 hours)

1.36.0 - May 06, 2024

Added

• CSS classes to style the site button and author label

Changed

• Minor UI improvements

1.35.0 - April 26, 2024

Changed

• Improved UI for dialogs and news items

1.34.0 - April 05, 2024

Added

• A Show More button in the header, giving access to an archive of news articles

1.33.0 - April 05, 2024

Added

• Automatically including news articles from all sites that are associated to a SharePoint hub site
• Filtering news articles on certain managed properties, both globally across the entire widget, or specifically for news coming from certain sites
• Possibility to render a "Show all" link in the widget header
• Showing more details of a news article like the author and a snippet of the article

Changed

• Rendering of the Side-by-side view is updated, with the option to render one item as a 'top story'

1.32.0 - March 27, 2024

Changed

• Upgraded Fluent UI 8 dependency to match version used by Boards Core

Fixed

• An issue where failing to store news articles in browser cache causes the widget to render an error

1.31.0 - February 08, 2024

Changed

• Improved translations (FR)

1.30.0 - January 09, 2024

Fixed

• An issue where an embedded new article would disappear when scrolling
• Potential vulnerable dependencies in package.json

1.29.0 - December 22, 2023

Fixed

• An issue where duplicate diagnostics were logged

1.28.0 - December 13, 2023

Changed

• Internal refactoring of logging logic

1.27.0 - December 11, 2023

Changed

• The widget now uses higher resolution images for news articles

1.26.0 - November 30, 2023

Changed

• Optimization of widget script bundle size

1.25.0 - November 23, 2023

Fixed

• Slow initial loading time
• Removed icon thumbnail image

1.24.0 - November 13, 2023

Changed

• Implemented retrying fetching news articles on sporadic API errors

Added

• Auto refreshing is now available, making sure items keep updating in the background when window is open for a longer period of time

1.23.0 - November 08, 2023

Fixed

• An issue where once boosted news articles were no longer visible in certain configurations

1.22.0 - November 02, 2023

Changed

• Sites now display the Site logo thumbnail instead of the Site logo
• News posts now use a different thumbnail url, resulting in higher resolution images in most cases

1.21.0 - October 11, 2023

Added

• News preview in admin config
• Option to change the overlay color and opacity

Changed

• Improved UX of user picker fields
• Empty widget now shows thumbnail icon

1.20.0 - October 02, 2023

Added

• Autoplay on slides
• Audience mechanism on selected sites
• Expanded push mechanism on selected sites
• Ability for users to manage their own sites

Changed

• Improved news post rendering
• Improved overall UI and UX
• Improved site selection functionality
• Sites now display their own icon
• Simplified followed sites feature

1.19.0 - September 01, 2023

Changed

• Site titles in news items are now clickable and navigate to appropriate site

Fixed

• An issue where searching for sites in the followed sites picker resulted in endless refreshes
• An issue where in a specific scenario, news items could show up twice in the widget

1.18.0 - August 22, 2023

Fixed

• An issue with error handling for News article thumbnails
• Unnecessary use of the date-fns package

1.17.0 - August 14, 2023

Added

• Number of views per article
• A new 'Open in new window' button from within a dialog
• An animation when hovering over an article

Changed

• The number of articles placed on a grid row, offering more space for articles
• Small visual improvements

Fixed

• A bug where sometimes the recent sites can't be loaded in the Create News Post dialog

1.16.0 - July 11, 2023

Added

• Support for SharePoint audience targeting
• Possibility to create new news articles straight from the widget header
• Support for the Repost Page content type (news from external sources)

Changed

• Carrousel is updated to reflect new style

1.15.0 - December 15, 2022

Changed

• Allow Shared Board owners to specify the sites that serve as news source for the widget

1.14.0 - November 11, 2022

Changed

• Greatly improved the loading speed of the widget

1.13.0 - September 02, 2022

Added

• [#239] Support for boosted news articles
• Optional click event tracking for Boards Analytics feature

1.12.0 - June 17, 2022

Fixed

• An issue where (hub) site navigation was visible when viewing a news article in the lightbox
• An issue where filtering for items coming from the root site also included news articles from other sites
• An issue where adding sites to followed sites didn't clear local cache of followed sites immediately

1.11.0 - May 17, 2022

Changed

• Reverted API permissions again to Sites.Read.All since we no longer use Graph API to follow/unfollow but use SharePoint Social API instead

Fixed

• An issue caused by the SharePoint API and the Graph API returning inconsistent lists of followed sites

1.10.0 - May 11, 2022

Fixed

• Revert required API permission level to Sites.ReadWrite.All because (un)following sites requires these permissions

1.9.0 - April 24, 2022

Added

• All new design for this widget that goes along nicely with the new design for Ichicraft Boards

1.8.0 - November 10, 2021

Added

• Full support for  dark  themes in MS Teams and SharePoint

1.7.0 - October 25, 2021

Fixed

• An issue where clearing the search box in the configuration panel resulted in an error

1.6.0 - October 07, 2021

Changed

• 72% optimization in bundle size due to use of external modules
• Upgraded underlying Fluent UI component library from version 7 to 8

1.5.0 - August 25, 2021

Updated

• Improved search experience when adding sites to configured source sites

1.4.0 - April 19, 2021

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where news articles wouldn't open in a dialog in MS Viva Connections

1.3.0 - March 12, 2021

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where opening items from other domains (in multi-geo setup) in a dialog resulted in an error

1.2.0 - March 12, 2021

Added

• Support for Multi-Geo tenants
• Support for mult-language content

Changed

• Improved error handling and exception logging
• Updates in Portuguese resources after review

Fixed

• Minor bug where essential/pushed sites were in some scenarios also rendered as followed sites in user config

1.0.0 - March 16, 2020

Initial release 🚀