WCMS 3.2.39 release

Thursday, March 5, 2026

All WCMS 3 sites will soon be upgraded to WCMS 3.2.39.

These release notes are subject to change without notice.

Release notes

Fixes/updates

  • ensured reference items title is required when creating/editing content
  • ensured image blocks properly validate the size entry
  • added a signal to crawlers (e.g. Google, Siteimprove) to not follow the previous/next month links in the multi-type calendar
  • fixed an accessibility issue with listing page text input fields, to ensure they have proper labels
  • made validation messages in the layout sidebar have accessible contrast
  • ensured links to RSS feeds for publications have the proper path
  • standardized date formats in administrative tables on ISO 8601 (yyyy-mm-dd)
  • updated 300, 304 and 305 redirects to use 302, and removed those original options from the available types
  • changed the help text for "items per block" in automatic listing blocks to avoid issues with automatic pluralization
  • ensured that publication issues set to be excluded from the listing page are in fact excluded from the listing page and RSS feed
  • made it so the publication-related options in the automatic list block require a publication to be selected
  • ensured OPB profiles do not show the "Graduate studies" header when there is no content for that section
  • fixed the link to the user when attempting to add a user that already exists
  • fixed an issue preventing generation of resized images on authentication-required sites
  • ensured that the contact information header for contacts does not show when there is no information

Theming changes

  • fixed multiple issues where content in a section with an image section using shadowed text was incorrectly shadowed
  • added final theming for the content navigation block
  • changed the text for publication issue download to remove reference to PDFs, since the file could be in other formats