All WCMS 3 sites have been upgraded to WCMS 3.0.2. (A previous release, 3.0.1, only contained improvements to migration scripts and was only applied to new sites.)
Separate from this release, a fix has been deployed to allow Instagram embeds to display.
These release notes are subject to change without notice.
Information Systems & Technology’s Web Development team is excited to announce the launch of the new Waterloo Content Management System (WCMS) 3 platform.
All WCMS "FDSU", single page, conference and publication sites are being upgraded to WCMS 2.9.1, a maintenance release.
This upgrade is scheduled to be deployed to pilot sites overnight on Monday, January 18, and to production sites starting on Monday, January 25.
These release notes are subject to change without notice.
IST's Web Development team conducted a WCMS Kitchen sink survey to gather feedback from WCMS users on some general questions we have for the WCMS 3 rebuild project.
The survey was available to all WCMS content maintainers for a period of approximately two weeks and received submissions from 64 participants who were asked to comment on various content types, formatting processes, and functionality.
All WCMS "FDSU", single page, conference and publication sites are being upgraded to WCMS 2.9.0.
This upgrade is scheduled to be deployed to pilot sites overnight on Wednesday, September 23, and to production sites starting on Monday, September 28.
This is intended to be the final feature release for WCMS 2, with any future releases being maintenance-only (patches, security).
These release notes are subject to change without notice.
What is happening? Information Systems & Technology’s (IST) Web Development team has launched a survey to gather feedback from WCMS users on some general questions we have for the WCMS 3 rebuild project
Beginning April 2, a virtual Drop-in lab will be open every Thursday afternoon to provide WCMS content maintainers one-on-one website and training support.
What is happening? Information Systems & Technology’s (IST) Web Development team has launched a survey to gather feedback from WCMS users that will help inform change management processes for the WCMS 3 Rebuild project.
All WCMS "FDSU", single page, conference and publication sites are being upgraded to WCMS 2.8.1. At the same time, servers are being upgraded to newer versions of the infrastructure, including PHP 7.3. This release does not affect UWaterloo Scholar sites.
This upgrade is scheduled to be deployed to pilot sites overnight on Friday, March 27th, and to production sites starting on Tuesday, April 7th.
These release notes are subject to change without notice.
Note that this was originally published as the 2.8.0 release; a last minute change necessitated changing the tag to 2.8.1.
What is happening? Effective May 1, 2020, the WCMS will no longer be accepting new or changed features from external (non-WCMS team) developers for use with WCMS 2 (Drupal 7).
What is the impact? Custom development work affecting WCMS 2 sites will not be shipped to production as of this date. At that point, any future custom development will only be considered for WCMS 3 (Drupal 8 initially, then Drupal 9) and will be targeted to ship only when the affected sites have been moved to WCMS 3.