The next release of Public Platform has arrived. In line with our new release plan, this is smaller in size and hence quicker in time to deliver.

Key feature:

• Implementing the “Chevron Card” styling of www.gov.uk on task lists in the site (i.e. the home page, services page and any Task List WYSIWYG components used in the site). This makes the lists look more visually appealing, increases the click area for mobile users, and also adds a chevron making it clearer that the whole thing is a clickable action.

Minor improvements:

• “Search Exclude” functionality - Now any content item can be removed from the site's internal search results.
• “Password Policy” functionality - New user account passwords will be required to have a minimum of 8 characters and make use of 3 character types from lowercase, uppercase, numbers and symbols. We can optionally also setup password expiry periods for sites upon request (i.e. passwords require resetting every X months).
• “Media Revisions” functionality - This introduces a 'revisions' tab to Media items, so that changes can be tracked and reverted, just like normal content items.

Housekeeping:

• Correcting a typo in the Expiry notification emails.
• Changing the default distribution list of Expiry emails to be the author of the content, plus ad hoc emails, rather than all users with the Content Editor role.
• Fix a styling bug where images that are aligned right in Directory pages are adjacent to the map.

As always, this functionality is made available to all existing customers, meaning their sites keep on improving over time.