Available for testing on pre-live sites in the UK and Ireland on October 1, then going live on October 7. Released in the US on October 12.
Generally the release is timed to commence at 21:00 UK/Ireland Release and 10:00 US release (UK times) and usually there is no loss in service as part of this Scheduled Engineering work. If we expect a transient loss in Service to occur this will be be within the opening 1 hour window of the release, and we would advise in the release notes.
govService Platform
Improvements
Compliance Console: All unconfirmed user accounts will now be removed based on a default 365-day retention period. An unconfirmed user account is an account where the user registered an email/password but never completed their user profile, so is unable to access their account. Additionally, for some customers, the user database may have been partially populated when the site was created and these accounts will have not been confirmed. These unconfirmed user accounts are not visible in the UI or Permissions Manager. We suggest customers reduce the default value from 365 days to a more appropriate value, for example 30 days. See GDPR: Compliance Console for further information.
Added 2 new fields to our mappings/submission table, custom_longtext_field_1 and custom_longtext_field_2 (varchar 64k length). This allows you to map any large text fields to redshift for performing sentiment/word pattern analysis, for example on comment/feedback fields.
The HTML of buttons on submission pages, as well as the Continue and Cancel buttons found on consent messages, has been updated to be more intuitive to users of screenreaders.
Bug Fixes
We have fixed a bug with the datepicker form component that caused dates past March 2022 to match up with the wrong days of the week. For example, March 1st was displaying as a Wednesday when it should be a Tuesday.
The Next and Submit buttons on a form are now inactive whilst file uploads are in progress. This prevents uploaded files becoming corrupted by a user changing section whilst the upload is not complete.
