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Why these changes matter

These fortnightly updates are all about making your day-to-day work easier, your sites more attractive, and your visitors’ experience smoother. Whether you’re building new pages, migrating content, or just keeping things running, you’ll find Fresco more reliable and flexible than ever.

Most recent releases

Release 1.5.7

11 August 2026
This release extends the Embed component with Spotify, Facebook and X, and adds new filtering options for Symplectic publications. It also makes site ownership and cookie information easier to find, improves editing performance on content-heavy pages, and resolves display issues.

Release 1.5.6

29 July 2026
This release extends the Embed component with Microsoft Forms and Figshare embeds. It also makes Local Navigation, Media Gallery and rich-text editing clearer, speeds up editing on pages containing many Cards, and improves migration and content-management reliability.

Release 1.5.5

15 July 2026
This release introduces Local Navigation, expands the Embed component with additional approved services including Figshare, Oxford status information and audio/podcast services, and adds further styling options. It also improves image handling, listings, Symplectic displays, migration reliability and editing stability.

Release 1.5.4

29 June 2026
This release gives editors more options for managing content, design and measurement. It introduces the Embed component for approved third-party content, adds Google Analytics functionality where enabled for a site, and brings in Fresco’s new design system, including new site categories.

Release 1.5.3

24 June 2026
This release features the first delivery of the new Symplectic component, enabling editors to display publication information from Symplectic on Fresco pages.

Release 1.5.2

05 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.

Release 1.5.1

27 May 2026
This release brings new functionality including Reusable Content, header subtitles, and new theme colours. It also makes editing choices clearer, including display-style selection and cookie preferences, and includes fixes for image display, responsive layouts, and migrated content.

Release 1.4.11

19 May 2026
This firebreak sprint focused on stabilisation, reliability improvements and platform maintenance work, alongside a smaller set of targeted enhancements to migration, layout behaviour and content management tools.

Release 1.4.10

24 April 2026
More control over buttons and listings, further migration improvements, and a broad set of fixes to make editing, layouts and accessibility more reliable.

Release 1.4.8

16 March 2026
New Cookie banner, Video component, WebP image upload, new metadata styles, bug fixes, and release process improvements

Release 1.4.6

23 February 2026
Enhancements to styling and ease of editing with reliability improvements for listings and Mosaic migration.

Release 1.4.5

09 February 2026
Introduces new theme options, smarter listings, migration improvements and a wide range of visual and usability fixes.

Release 1.4.4

26 January 2026
A wide range of bug fixes and new features to improve consistency, accessibility and reliability across Fresco.

Release 1.4.3

13 January 2026
Accessibility improvements, design enhancements, image controls, slideshow component and bug fixes.

Release 1.4.2

15 December 2025
UX enhancements, new Card component, and performance improvements

Release 1.4.1

28 November 2025
Introducing Tile Grid and Media Gallery, improved Quotations, migration enhancements, and bug fixes

Release 1.4.0

17 November 2025
Listings and Selected Content components, updates to display, bug fixes.

Release 1.2.11

12 June 2025
Improvements to accordions, search and listings, plus bug fixes.

Release 1.2.12

12 June 2025
Bug fixes and improved UI labels.

Release 1.2.7

16 April 2025
Styling changes, migration updates and preliminary SSO configuration.

Release 1.2.8

16 April 2025
Styling changes, migration updates. Content now locked for editing!

Release 1.2.9

16 April 2025
Styling changes, migration updates. SSO login!

Release 1.2.10

16 April 2025
Editing interface updated, footer component, and styling changes

Release 1.2.6

02 April 2025
New components, migration, styling and search updates

Release 1.2.5

19 March 2025
New features and lots of fixed bugs

Release 1.3.9

21 October 2025
Site launch controls enabled, improved width management to aid readability

Release 1.3.8

15 October 2025
Updates to site colour theme, fonts, Listing/Grid components, plus bug fixes.

Release 1.3.7

01 October 2025
New research site header, go-live features, and bug fixes.

Release 1.3.6

16 September 2025
New component outline view for editing, Site Viewer role, department site header and bug fixes.

Release 1.3.5

04 September 2025
Styling adjustments, new breadcrumb component, changes to SSO logins.

Release 1.3.4

21 August 2025
Content width adjustments and bug fixes.

Release 1.3.3

07 August 2025
Editing interface changes, improved handling of invalid external URLs, bug fixes.

Release 1.3.2

24 July 2025
Improvements to the editing interface and bug fixes.

Release 1.3.1

10 July 2025
Usability and accessibility improvements, plus bug fixes.