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All News

February 9, 2024

Google Consent Mode - no action required by Open Berkeley customers
Google recently sent a message with the subject line, “Important: Product changes are coming to existing implementations of consent mode in 2024” to all Google Analytics account holders, including many Open Berkeley site owners who use Google Analytics to measure site traffic. If you received this message, you do not need to do anything on your Open Berkeley site in response to this email.

January 18, 2024

Version 1.7.4
Release 1.7.4 of Open Berkeley contains security updates, bug fixes, and code updates. There are no new features in this release.

December 14, 2023

Version 1.7.3
Release 1.7.3 of Open Berkeley contains bug fixes and code updates. There are no new features in this release.

November 15, 2023

Version 1.7.2
Release 1.7.2 of Open Berkeley contains bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and minor code updates. There are no new features in this release.

October 11, 2023

Version 1.7.0
Release 1.7.0 of Open Berkeley deprecates the Twitter widget and improves the accessibility of the WYSIWYG editing toolbar.

September 21, 2023

Twitter widget will be deprecated

Due to ongoing issues with the Twitter/X product, we will be deprecating the Twitter widget in the next release of Open Berkeley, which is planned for mid-October.

August 2, 2023

Version 1.6.5
Release 1.6.5 of Open Berkeley contains bug fixes. There are no new features in this release.

July 27, 2023

Version 1.6.4
Release 1.6.4 of Open Berkeley contains bug fixes, accessibility improvements, and minor code updates. There are no new features in this release.

July 20, 2023

Open Berkeley site owners receiving unsolicited "website redesign" emails

Some Open Berkeley customers may have received unsolicited emails with incorrect information from third-party vendors. These messages may state that Drupal 7’s end of life is earlier than it actually is, or that your site may stop functioning, or that your site should use a different content management system.

July 6, 2023

Twitter platform issues affecting Open Berkeley widget

As you may have seen in various news reports, Twitter has been having issues since the weekend, and Down Detector is still showing ongoing issues reported by many.

Twitter has applied rate limits to logged-in users (limiting the number of tweets they can view per day), and has also prevented anyone not logged into a Twitter account from viewing any tweets.

Major Releases

Version 1.9.0

October 10, 2024
Release 1.9.0 of Open Berkeley updates the UC Berkeley wordmark and enables the Siteimprove priority script on all sites.Read more about Version 1.9.0

Version 1.8.0

March 21, 2024
Release 1.8.0 of Open Berkeley changes the markup of the Promo Block widget and adds other accessibility improvements.Read more about Version 1.8.0

Version 1.7.0

October 11, 2023
Release 1.7.0 of Open Berkeley deprecates the Twitter widget and improves the accessibility of the WYSIWYG editing toolbar.Read more about Version 1.7.0

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