News
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