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2026Q4

Explore the latest platform updates, featuring new Publication content types, sequence blocks, enhanced accessibility, and UI contrast improvements.

Functionality

  • Publications feature: Introduced a comprehensive new way to browse, read, and search publications. This includes dedicated search pages, structured content trees, and whole-publication print views.
  • Sequence blocks: Editors can now add step-by-step sequence blocks to pages, making it easier to guide users through numbered instructions or processes.
  • Homepage publications: The homepage article feed has been expanded to show relevant publications alongside standard news and articles.
  • Heading anchors: Users can now easily share links that jump directly to specific sections or headings within a page.

Presentation

  • Component info labels: Added small, contextual information labels above specific component headings to give users better context at a glance.
  • Improved form visibility: Text inputs, text areas, and dropdown menus now feature darker borders, making forms easier to read and interact with.
  • Clearer statistics: Statistic titles and descriptions now use full-strength text and larger font sizes to improve general readability.
  • Cleaner breadcrumbs: The active page in the breadcrumb trail has been visually simplified for a cleaner navigation experience.

Accessibility

  • Keyboard navigation: Interactive elements like pop-up dialogs have been updated to ensure they can be reliably opened using the Spacebar and keyboard navigation.
  • Screen reader context: Added hidden structural headings and updated page tags to help screen readers seamlessly navigate dynamic content like event listings and breadcrumbs.
  • Visible focus states: Radio buttons now display a clear, dark outline when navigated via keyboard, ensuring users always know where they are on the page.

Fixes

  • Table of contents navigation: Fixed an issue where table of contents links wouldn't scroll to the correct section if a heading contained punctuation or repeated words.
  • Search loading: The AI search button now only appears after it has fully loaded in the background, preventing users from interacting with a broken button.
  • Print button visibility: The print button is no longer incorrectly displayed on pages where the header region is intentionally hidden.

2026Q3

Incremental improvements and quality uplifts across the whole platform, polishing it into a completely production-ready accelerator.

Functionality

  • Custom SVG icons: Custom SVG icons can now be added as media.
  • Font management: Fonts can now be uploaded as media. This allows for improved privacy, no longer requiring the use of Google Fonts CDN.
  • Translations: Improved resources by introducing translated documents, complete with language-specific headings and summary text.
  • Translation content type: A simple listing page, displaying all translated documents for a specific language. Each document listed has been linked back to the resource the document is assigned to.
  • Audience filter: A simple select list allowing users to select an audience.
  • Footnotes: Footnotes can easily be added to content now by using 1
  • No code favicons: Favicons now configured with metatags. No theming needed.
  • FOI listing: New collection with facets and search. FOI items are displayed as a summary.
  • Datatable: A new component allows CSVs to be displayed as interactive tables.
  • Universal item dates: A Date field is now included across all eleven view modes for the item paragraph.
  • Search result: URLs now read ?keyword= instead of ?keywords=.

Presentation

  • Hero: The Hero component lets you pair content with an image. Its flexible content area supports multiple nested components.
  • Patterns: Colour palette-aware, lightweight SVG pattern backgrounds. Patterns are defined as taxonomy terms, allowing site editors to expand their pattern library.
  • Footer redesign: The footer is now more coherent.
  • Teaser icon: New view mode added to support compact lists with icons. Works for downloads, Nodes and Items.
  • CTA design: Personalised CTA tweaked to have better button placement for more obvious interactions.
  • Provide feedback: Button moved from a section (costly in space) to the footer.
  • Banner functionality: Support for background images and a variety of masks on the image.
  • Related region: Page template updated to support a standardised related region for content.
  • Image card Background is transparent: Better-looking cards allow background imagery to partly shine through.
  • Sidebar nav parent: Stronger navigation with the parent link included in the menu.
  • Background Image Modifier: The famous Ken Burns effect comes to images, allowing better storytelling with hero images.
  • TOC Smooth scrolling: Page now scrolls smoothly.
  • Content column gaps: Increased spacing between columns to clearly delineate main content from the sidebar.
  • New card date component: Dates display as a full-width band on narrow cards and a calendar tab on wider cards.
  • Enhanced file links: File links consistently show a download icon, filename, type, and size, with a new "Download" heading on basic pages.
  • User profile updates: A dedicated intro block has been added to the top of user profile pages.
  • Visual / UX changes: A visible outline marks the decision flow step that receives focus; map markers no longer show the two-tone focus ring.
  • Lists: Second-level list items show dashes (bulleted) or lowercase letters (numbered), on the page and in the editor.

Accessibility

  • Banner Print and Listen: New functionality has been brought into the banner in line with common government patterns.
  • Slider refactor: Navigation overhauled with Next/Previous in the bottom-right, pagination in the bottom-left (hidden on mobile), and improved Swiper accessibility.
  • Accessible video backgrounds: Videos now feature a visible pause/play button and automatically display a fallback image if a user requests reduced motion.
  • Clickable image comparisons: The comparison slider divider now responds to clicks, taps, and keyboard arrows, removing the restriction of drag-only interactions.
  • WYSIWYG Semantic HTML: Wider range of tags supported for abbr, time, address, dl, dt, dd, cite.
  • Asynchronous audience filters: Filtering updates the page immediately without a reload and triggers an accessible toast notification.
  • Combobox search suggestions: Search acts as an accessible combobox, announcing suggestion counts and highlighting hints to screen readers.
  • Zoom & short viewport support: Sticky elements (headers, footers, sidebars) release and scroll normally on zoomed screens or short viewports to preserve reading space.
  • Distinct navigation landmarks: Menus now have specific accessible names (e.g., "In this section") instead of sharing generic titles.
  • Focus: Move focus into the lightbox on open and back to its link on close.
  • Transcripts: Add a transcript field to the GeoChart paragraph; also drop the redundant render filter from the Chart transcript.
  • Decision flow focus: Move focus to the new step on decision flow answers, Back, Restart and form submit, and outline the focused step; also attach its libraries from the paragraph preprocess instead of globally and move its styles out of legacy/.
  • Add keyboard and screen reader support to the map and remove the markers from the two-tone focus ring; also fix the settings loop that stopped at the first missing map and re-initialised maps on re-attach.
  • Wrap the search result count in a paragraph and move focus to it after an exposed form is submitted.

Fixes

  • Theme Import libraries dynamically: More efficient management of theme libraries.
  • Immediate logo updates: Logos use Drupal's image field pipeline for automatic cache-busting, updating instantly upon replacement.
  • Uncropped media defaults: Default media images are no longer forced into a 16:9 crop and display at a medium responsive size.
  • Clearer help text: Editor instructions on roughly two dozen fields have been reworded for better clarity.
  • Favicon: Remove the hardcoded favicon, manifest and theme colour tags from html.html.twig and the theme's favicons/ directory, which duplicated and shadowed the Metatag output.
  • ReadSpeaker: Fix ReadSpeaker not loading by calling ReadSpeaker.loadCore() once its script arrives.
  • Webform alignement: Fix the misaligned side-by-side webform checkbox in the admin theme and the doubled webform info alert, by dropping webform's message info CSS.
  • Meta tags: Correct broken, empty and wrong meta tags in the metatag defaults (og:type, updated time, thumbnail style, site name, media description, DC identifier, audience/intent/topic keys); remove the Goal field, vocabulary, custom tag and role permissions; hide the banner background fields on the article type and audience displays.
  • Webform: side-by-side checkboxes line up in the admin form, and info messages show one alert instead of two.
  • Goal field: The Goal field has been removed from every content edit form.

Footnotes

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2026Q2

Conversion to DaisyUI and Tailwind, based on the work done on Convivial Gov. Complete reworking of the underpinnings of all components, making Convivial for GovCMS the preferred starting point for site builds at Morpht. 

Functionality

  • Theme settings: No-code theme configuration
  • Enhanced GEO for AI results: Improved location-based data for AI queries
  • FAQ Pages for AI optimisation: Structured content to improve AI parsing and search visibility
  • Search improvement: Autocomplete functionality added to search
  • Flexible menus: Enhanced menu configuration and adaptability
  • New components: Diff and Slider components introduced for better content comparison and display
  • Audience visibility switcher: Toggle content visibility based on specific audience types
  • User dashboard: A dedicated dashboard space for users

Presentation

  • Skins: Different look and feel per site section
  • Colour palettes and textures: Expanded design options for visual variety
  • Dark mode: Fully integrated colour switcher
  • Webform styling: First-class design applied to complex forms
  • Phosphor icons: Integration of the Phosphor icon library
  • Updated layouts for better navigation: Structural design changes to improve user flow
  • Updated admin theme: Gin theme implemented for the backend interface
  • Prettier login screen: Visual overhaul of the authentication page

Accessibility

  • Overlays: Accessible background images
  • Internationalisation: Right-to-Left (RTL) text support for broader language accessibility
  • Web vitals: Top scores achieved for Accessibility, SEO, and Best Practices

Fixes

  • Modern framework: Tailwind and DaisyUI replace Bootstrap 5 for a modernized, lighter frontend architecture
  • Single Directory Components (SDCs): Future-proofed components for better maintainability
  • Content quality: Refined content model to clean up and structure data more effectively

2025Q4

Theme engine rewrite with better encapsulation and colour support across palettes and schemes (dark mode).

Functionality

  • Main menu display options
  • New components: Gallery, Lightbox, Model Viewer media and Content tabs
  • New features: Information icons, Quick exit, External links, Privacy control centre

Presentation

  • Colour UI
  • Updated colour palettes
  • Colour palette swap modifier
  • Dark mode
  • Design refinements

Accessibility

  • Back to top button: Now includes visible text ("Back to top"), not just an arrow icon, clarifying its purpose for all users.
  • Quick exit: Now sits in a dedicated region near the top of the tab order

Fixes

  • Theme: Refactor and CSS Variables implemented for cleaner, more maintainable stylesheets.
  • Feedback form caching: Resolved caching issues to ensure the feedback form submits and loads reliably.

2025Q1

This release adds personalisation, recommendations, analytics, quick exit and new components, and improves search, theming, permissions and accessibility.

Functionality

  • Personalisation with Convivial Profiler
  • Content recommendations with Recombee
  • Matomo analytics
  • Search improvements
  • Resource (content type)
  • Decision Flow (component)
  • iFrame (component)
  • Privacy settings

Presentation

  • Frontend theme improvements
  • Backend theme improvements

Accessibility

  • Quick exit
  • Fixes: Accessibility

Fixes

  • Fixes: Permissions and access control

2022Q1

Rebuilt on GovCMS9 with the Gold design system, new content types, a flexible hero banner and lightweight personalisation driven by local storage.

Functionality

  • New lightweight personalisation based on a single "intent" variable, driven by client-side JS and local storage (no third-party integration needed)
  • Personalised homepage content: banner, promotion block, filtered articles and news, based on audience/intent
  • Replaced starter content types with a new, purpose-built set: Section, Page, Topic, Audience, Article, Event, Person, FOI Disclosure
  • Introduced a "listing" marker so any content (e.g. a Page) can act as a listing page for articles/events, avoiding over-engineered taxonomy
  • Retained: GovCMS SaaS compatibility, Layout Builder–based layouts, Paragraphs-based components, AuDS-conformant editorial controls
  • Roadmap: upcoming Bootstrap 5 version of the platform; more advanced personalisation (geolocation, topic affinity, campaign integration) planned outside GovCMS, adaptable back into SaaS

Presentation

  • Switched underlying design system from AuDS to Gold (the community fork, following DTA's withdrawal of AuDS support)
  • New flexible header/hero banner (breadcrumb, H1, intro, optional background image, colour palette, callout links), inspired by the NSW Digital Design System
  • Added Slick carousel as a new layout option for Node List and Item List components (alongside halves/thirds/quarters)

Accessibility

  • Continued focus on accessibility, responsiveness, SEO, and performance (Lighthouse-driven)

Fixes

  • Rebuilt on GovCMS9 / Drupal 9 (previously targeted GovCMS8)
  • Cleaner, decoupled core architecture separating components/patterns from the design system/theme layer