Fresco Platform Update – Version 1.5.2 (4 June 2026)

This release adds more flexible listing options, updates icon selection, improves content management information, and fixes issues affecting footers, quotations, videos, slideshows, tables and editing.

• More flexible listing sort options
  • Editors can now choose to enable or disable sorting options for end-users. 
    • When enabled, visitors can sort listed content using options that reflect the type of content, such as publication date, event date or alphabetical order.
• Updated icon selection
  • Editors can only select Material UI icons to add a new icon in components that support icons, including Icon, Metadata, Button, Hero, and Banner and Card button settings.

  • The icon selector shows icon thumbnails, supports searching by icon name, and allows editors to clear a selected icon.

  • When editors open settings for a legacy Font Awesome icon, they are prompted to switch to a Material UI icon. They can still save the page without changing the icon.

• Smaller “Powered by Fresco” wording
  • The “Powered by Fresco” branding now appears as smaller text beneath the footer, rather than as a larger visual element above it. This gives pages a cleaner footer area while retaining a link to the main Fresco website.
• More consistent navigation and header behaviour
  • Navigation dropdowns in Standard and Microsite headers now keep the expected header colour when dark theme colours are used, rather than applying a different theme background unexpectedly.
  • Standard Headers now show the site title on mobile, helping visitors understand where they are when viewing a site on smaller screens.
• Clearer content management information
  • The page details Edit Pane has been re-ordered so key information and actions are easier to find. 
    • 'Current state' is more prominent, less frequently used sections are less intrusive, and revision information is placed last.
  • Pages listed in the Content area now show the last editor of a page in the Author column, rather than the original creator, making it easier to keep track of responsibility for content.
• Improved video privacy handling
  • Embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos now use privacy-enhanced configuration by default.
    • This applies to new and existing video embeds, while preserving normal video playback.
• Slideshow and Banner refinements
  • Slideshow and Banner behaviour has been improved so linked banners open the configured destination, title is underlined on hover, and slideshow navigation controls use the selected dark theme colour.
• Smoother movement to anchor links
  • Pages now scroll smoothly when a visitor follows an anchor link, rather than jumping abruptly to the target section.
• Site ownership safeguards

  • Site Owners are now prevented from cancelling their own account where this would leave a site without a Site Owner.

  • A University Card status verification check has also been added to the Change Site Owner process. This is the first step in a broader process which is still in development.

• Footer styling
  • Bullet and numbered-list in Footers now use the intended colours across standard, light and dark themes
  • Footer links, bullets and numbers now use the intended accessible footer colour.
• Quotations
  • Quote styles that require an image now make this clearer to editors and prevent the quote being saved without the required image.
  • Quote styles without an author no longer show an unnecessary hyphen where the author name would otherwise appear.
• Video previews on pre-live sites
  • Logged-in editors can now accept video cookies from the video overlay on pre-live sites, so they can preview video content before a site goes live.
• Listings and filters
  • Button text no longer wraps awkwardly at narrower screen widths.
  • Taxonomy-style filter dropdowns initialise more reliably.
  • Bulleted and numbered lists respect the standard, light and dark colour themes when used in a Text component.
• Redirect and alias messages
  • When adding a new URL redirect, the error message has been improved to indicate when the path already exists.
  • The 'URL aliases' menu item description in Settings has been updated to align with the Site Administrator's role.
• Slideshow page preview
  • Saving a Slideshow no longer causes the Page Preview to show split slides or lose the expected previous and next controls.
• Editing reliability
  • Editors can once again select components directly in the Page Preview without the page unexpectedly scrolling to the centre of the Section.
  • Card image link fields no longer lose focus while an editor is typing a link.
• Tables in text components
  • Tables placed inside Text components now respect the width of their parent column and scroll within that space where needed, rather than overflowing the layout.

• Card and Banner images in Page Preview
  • Adding an image to a Card or Banner may not display the image immediately in Page Preview.
    • Workaround: save the page after adding Media. The image should then display as expected.
• Text component edits are not showing in Page Preview
  • Edits may not immediately show in Page Preview
    • Workaround: click on the component in the preview pane, or save the page twice.

• Platform reliability and supporting work
  • This release also includes supporting technical and testing work. Details that are not relevant to day-to-day editing are listed in the Small print only.

Sprint: W4 - Sprint 2

Product Backlog Items: 94122, 94985, 112693, 112634, 116229, 90391, 108549, 92366, 92921, 114635, 112903, 115446

Bugs: 112905, 95709, 121985, 110755, 115585, 113727, 124494, 118166, 113898, 116822, 116938, 116671