Updates

• WordPress 4.9.8
• WordPress Jetpack 6.3.3
• WordPress No Right Click Images 3.3
• WordPress Resize Image After Upload 1.8.5
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.6.21
• WordPress Hueman 3.4.1
• Drupal 8.5.6

Fixes and Tweaks

• Telephone numbers on profile listings in the Institute site are now displayed in their local country format, rather than the E194 format they are stored in.
• Added a tag field to the Image media type in the Institute site and created custom form components for the image browser which allow for filtering by these tags.
• Fixed issues with the confirmation email created during the Drupal 8 user account creation process, which included incorrect URLs.
• Fixed an issue with events on the Institute site being imported in draft state instead of “published”.
• A number of usability and theming improvements to the Service Catalog, improving the display on mobile, allowing references to multiple WHD request types, and allowing free-form tagging in order to pilot new data-types.

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

Thank you for your patience as we applied this critical security update. Technical details are available on the Drupal project website. All sites now have this update applied and should be considered stable.

The issue only affected Drupal 8, which is currently used for:

• https://www.middlebury.edu/institute
• https://servicecatalog.middlebury.edu

Other sites were not affected by this issue.

A new Service Catalog is live to list technology services provided at Middlebury. The information in the site is still being updated.

Updates

• Drupal select_or_other 7.x-2.24
• Drupal twig_tweak 8.x-2.1
• Drupal varnish 7.x-1.9
• WordPress MailPoet 2.9
• WordPress NextGEN Gallery 3.0.6
• WordPress Redirection 3.4
• WordPress Sydney 1.5

Fixes and Tweaks

• Overhauled the events system on the Institute website with a new design and functionality to allow editors to pick the maximum events to show in a list with different displays depending on how many events are shown.
• Profile lists on the Institute site can be configured to show certain fields, making them easier to use for lists of invited speakers and other non-faculty listings.
• Program newsrooms on the Institute site can now have their own tag-based category navigation.
• Editors can now decide on the position of the title for the featured news story on the Institute site homepage.
• Fixed an issue where our WordPress sites were unable to syndicate RSS from our Drupal sites due to a new caching system.
• Always include the designation key when looking up past gift years on MiddSTART to ensure we can show these reports.
• Reduced the number of related stories shown on a news story in the Institute site from four to three to bring this in line with other grid presentations on the site.

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Creating an online Services Catalog for ITS.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

Updates

• WordPress No Right Click Images Plugin 3.1
• WordPress Post Types Order 1.9.3.9
• WordPress Sydney Toolbox 1.05
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.6.20.1
• WordPress Sydney 1.48
• WordPress Tweeple 0.9.5
• Drupal Mail System 7.x-2.35

Fixes and Tweaks

• Fixed issue preventing MIIS Course Hub from creating new WordPress sites.
• Profile lists on the Institute website can now choose which fields from the profiles to show and may also include an optional, custom blurb to display below the job title, allowing them to be used for event speaker lists and other purposes.
• The Communique newsroom on the Institute site now has a category-based tagging system which appears for the editor after they assign a story to that newsroom.
• Image with Text components on the Institute website will now also display the image caption and photo credit, if present.

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Creating an online Services Catalog for ITS.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

Updates

• Drupal 8.5.5
• Drupal varnish_purge 8.x-1.11
• Drupal yaml_content 8.x-1.0-alpha4
• WordPress 4.9.7
• WordPress Appointments 2.4.0
• WordPress Instagram Feed 1.9.1
• WordPress Jetpack 6.3.2
• WordPress Parabola theme 2.3.0

Fixes and Tweaks

• Fixed an issue with the FetchProxy service that was preventing refreshes of feeds from our Drupal sites.
• Dates in meta tags on the Institute website are now in the correct ISO 8601 format.

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Creating an online Services Catalog for ITS.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference.

Updates

• Drupal – Diff 8.x-1.0-rc2
• Drupal – Modernizr 7.x-3.11
• WordPress – Enable Media Replace 3.2.5
• WordPress – Instagram Feed 1.9
• WordPress – Redirection 3.3.1
• WordPress – Seriously Simple Podcasting 1.19.11
• WordPress – Social Icons Widget 3.0.9
• WordPress – Sydney Toolbox 1.0.3
• WordPress – Hueman theme 3.4.0
• WordPress – Sydney theme 1.47

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Creating an online Services Catalog for ITS.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference

Updates

• WordPress Akismet Anti-Spam 4.0.8
• WordPress Appointments 2.3.2
• WordPress MCE Table Buttons 3.3
• WordPress The Events Calendar 4.6.19
• WordPress Editorial Calendar 3.6.8
• Drupal File Entity 7.x-2.22

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Creating an online Services Catalog for ITS.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference

WordPress Update

We have updated the servers hosting sites.middlebury.edu and sites.miis.edu to use PHP 7.1. In addition, we have added a caching server in front of these WordPress sites, like we have for the Drupal sites and the Course Catalog. This should dramatically improve page load time for unauthenticated users and will also speed things up for people who are logged in, since the cache server, rather than WordPress, will now be responsible for handling most unauthenticated traffic.

As with our Drupal sites, there may be a slight delay of a few minutes before a change you make to your WordPress site is reflected in the cached copy. This delay will not exceed five minutes.

CAS Upgrade

On Thursday June 14th we upgraded the CAS Central Authentication Service to version 5.29 and moved it to a new high-availability (HA) pair of virtual machines. This new structure is anticipated to enhance the stability of the CAS system and remove a database dependency that has made it unavailable several times over the past few years. This version also supports the new CAS 3.0 protocol with enhanced attribute release, providing the potential for easier integrations with 3rd-party applications.

Updates

• Drupal views_field_formatter 8.x-1.8
• WordPress Jetpack 6.2.1

Fixes and Tweaks

• We’ve continued the consolidation of components on the Institute site by merging the Campus Spotlight, Center Spotlight, and Program Spotlight components into a single component named Spotlight with all the features of the three different options.
• The Institute site’s Profile List component has been renamed Profile to indicate that it is for adding a single profile to the list of profiles in the Profile List content type.
• Profile List headings in the institute site are now always an h2.

Ongoing Work

• Fixes and tweaks for the new Institute site https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/
• Upgrading applications to run on PHP 7.1.
• Creating an online Services Catalog for ITS.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Creating a photo sharing platform for the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference