This release is scheduled for Thursday, August 27, between 22:00 and 23:59 CEST.

The release focuses on platform maintenance, performance optimizations, and quality improvements to ensure a more reliable user experience.

Enhancements

• A new version of user provisioning is now available.

• Bulk news removal is now also available for Group news.

• Introduced a News trash bin for easier and more intuitive bulk news removal.

• Added a platform-wide setting to configure the default state of the "Show in Timeline" option when userss are adding content, allowing webmasters to choose whether it is enabled or disabled by default.

• Surveys can now email respondents a copy of their questions and answers.

• Added an extra information section to surveys for important messages.

• Added a Move all volunteers option within the Volunteer Database (available on supported platforms only).

Fixes

• Fixed an issue in the Item filter that caused webmasters to receive content from groups they do not follow.

• Improved hyperlink visibility in PDF exports of news articles.

• Various minor enhancements and bug fixes.

News widget
The Carousel layout of the news widget now includes an option to disable automatic refreshing, allowing users to manually navigate through relevant news articles using back and forward buttons.

This release enhances news management, making it easier to create and manage high quality news content.

📰 New features

• Adaptive Focus: Set a custom focal point when uploading news cover images to ensure optimal display across all sizes.

• News cover image: Option to change the default news article image for better visual appeal.

• Management news: Remove old news articles in bulk for easier content management.

🔄 Additional Updates and Bug Fixes

• Improved file preview performance.

• Added an option to save forms while you are working on it.

• Added OpenOffice file preview support.

• Improved usability for setting ‘From the Editors’ sections.

• Participants with birthdays on February 29 now see their birthday on March 1 in non-leap years.

• Fixed a bug where user IDs were displayed instead of usernames in system logs.

• Fixed a bug where members were not loading in the news sharing module for some users.

• Corrected an issue where dates and times in 1979 were not saved properly in forms.

This release enhances event management, making it easier to organize, promote, and handle events.

📆 Custom fields for event registration

You can now add up to 10 custom fields to your event registration forms. This allows you to collect additional information from registrants, such as dietary preferences, special requests, or other relevant details.

When updating an event, you can now add a note to inform registrants about what has changed, keeping everyone in the loop.

🛠️ Event widget improvements

We have added extra options to improve management of events.

• Option to prevent displaying events that have reached capacity.

• You can now show events from groups users are not a member of.

• Added the ability to select specific groups for the event widget.

🔄 Additional updates and bugfixes

• Document Versions: Added a feature to remove all document versions before a specific date

• Small screens: Improved UI on small screens

• Aspirant register form: Categories are now correctly displayed.

• Registration Form: Extended the length of input fields for better usability.

• Event Registration: Fixed a bug that prevented users from registering multiple participants for an event.

• Name Day: Restored the ability to change or remove your name day.

• Chat Groups: Addressed an issue with chat groups lacking admins.

• Folder permissions: Fixed a bug inheriting permissions for subfolders in case any subfolder had adjusted permissions.

💡 New: Fellow Digitals Trust Center now available on our website

⭐️ Video

You can now upload and publish your own videos (MP4) directly in News Articles and Pages. Just use the Video button in the toolbar when editing your content.

Enhancements

• Native color picker: All color picker fields have been updated to use your browser’s built-in version, improving ease of use and accessibility.

• Email domain exclusions: You can now exclude specific email domains from receiving platform emails (contact your Product Consultant).

Bug Fixes

• An issue with ‘Read More’ links not working in the timeline has been fixed.

• Repeating appointments are now displayed correctly in the Events widget.

• Group Icon resizing issue in some cases has been resolved.

• Fixed problems with filtering Forms by user.

• The ‘Join This Group’ button for open groups now disappears correctly after clicking.

Maintenance & Future Development
We made general performance improvements to keep the platform running smoothly and prepared the system for upcoming features in future updates.

What’s New

🎨 Custom Group Banners

Add a fully custom banner to your groups for a unique and recognizable look.

⭐️ Enhanced Multi-File Uploads

When uploading multiple files via drag-and-drop, you can now include properties such as timeline visibility, author, description and tags, for all files at once.

⭐️ Copy complete folder structure

You can now copy complete folder structures — including all their contents — to other groups.

🔧 Maintenance Mode

Webmasters can now temporarily disable the login option for all users while performing platform maintenance. This ensures a stable and uninterrupted update process.

More enhancements and fixes

• Members are now able to edit their profile info (if granted permission) on mobile devices and in the responsive web view.

• The preview window can now display DOTX, XLSX and POTX files.

• Fixed a rare problem with the automatic deactivation of members

• Resolved an issue where items continued to appear in tag-based search results even after their associated tags had been removed.

• Performance improvements for Chat

• Several smaller bug fixes and accessibility improvements.

• A new option to create an IP address whitelist for 2FA authentication

• Various bug fixes and performance improvements

What’s New

🎨 Personalise Start Pages with Color

You can now bring more personality to personal and group start pages by adding custom background colors to widgets. This feature is available for: Birthdays, Events, iFrame, Photo Album, Itemfilter, Search, RSS News Feed, News Articles, and Text widgets. 
Tip: Use a dark background color with sufficient contrast to ensure white text remains clearly readable.

🔎 Smarter Search Experience

The Search screen now offers: Advanced sorting options, the ability to display Tags and Likes directly in search results and a new filter for favourite items. When you change the sorting order, your selection will be retained until you choose a different one.

 🔒 Targeted 2FA Control

Webmasters can now enable Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) for specific members (when 2FA is enabled on the domain). This can be used, for example, to provide an extra layer of security when granting access to external members.

🌍 Expanded Language Support

The platform now supports Swedish and Norwegian.

Improvements and Fixes

• Disabled profile fields are now correctly hidden in Search.

• Fixed an issue where group menu labels would not always return the correct results.

• Event name is now included in organiser notification emails.

• Fixed a bug where tables in the body text of appointments/events were not displayed in invitation emails.

• Logs are now hidden when a News article is published as From the news editors.

• Fixed an issue preventing reactivation of the calendar in certain groups.

• Resolved an issue with images on the Contact Page being hidden for some users.

• Form XLS exports no longer includes help text from the form.

• Accessibility: Improved keyboard navigation for date and time inputs when creating an appointment.

• Security and performance fixes

⭐️ What’s New

• A new Search Statistics feature is now available under Setup > General, providing a comprehensive overview of total searches, top search queries, and other key metrics—offering insights to improve content findability across the platform.

• The storage size of a group is now displayed on the group management page.

• Members can now add their Teams ID and Teams chat button to their profile. (Activate via Setup > Members > Profile Fields). The Skype chat buttons have been removed, and the Skype field is now marked as Deprecated. Please note that the Skype field will be removed entirely this summer.

💁‍♂️ Improvements and Fixes

• Increased the ZIP export download limit from 2GB to 5GB.

• Certain information related to deactivated members is now hidden to better protect user privacy.

• Fixed time zone issues that could affect appointments and events in specific cases.

• Resolved a problem that occasionally occurred when deleting items in a folder.

• Corrected an issue where the Duplicate option for forms was incorrectly available to non-webmasters.

• Fixed a bug where headers in exported forms displayed HTML code instead of properly formatted rich text.

• Addressed an issue where an incorrect error message could appear when editing the dates of an existing appointment.

• Corrected a bug causing group category names to appear in all lowercase, even when capital letters were used.

• Resolved an issue where the Active Members number was sometimes displayed incorrectly in Statistics.

• Fixed a problem with the Send a push notification option in News articles.

• Changed the name of the Coursepath integration to Fellow LMS. More information →

• The Statistics section in Setup moved from Groups to General

• Accessibility improvements and fixes.

• Security enhancements.