Updates

• Drupal 7.53
• Drupal media 7.x-2.0-beta14 (from beta2)
• WordPress Plugins
  • CM Tooltip Glossary 3.4.3
  • Duplicate Post 3.1.2
  • NextGen Gallery 2.1.62
  • Redirection 2.5
  • The Events Calendar 4.3.4.2
  • WPTouch 4.3.9
  • WP-PostViews 1.74
  • WP-PostRatings 1.84
  • Editorial Calendar 3.6.3
  • Widget Shortcode 0.3.0
  • FeedWordpress 2016-1213
  • Featured Video Plus 2.3.3

Fixes and Tweaks

• Improved the video shortcode processing in Drupal to handle additional forms of Vimeo URLs.
• We’ve added Varnish caching in front of the New Library Items site, which should cause it to load much faster if it’s been visited recently.
• There is a new “trainee” role in the Drupal Training website, which includes everyone with an account to better ensure that permission to use the site is limited to people signed in through CAS.
• We have limited the allowed file types for uploaded files in Drupal to include common image and document formats.
• Older versions of the Middlebury Student Life site should no longer get indexed by search engines. We are working on removing old copies of their content in a way that does not impact the live site.

Ongoing Work

• Creating a new website for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
• A small redesign of the Middlebury News Room to bring it more inline with the newsletter.
• Building out the configuration of our Omeka, CAS and Course Catalog servers in Chef, which is a configuration management system. We have already completed this work for our Drupal, WordPress, MediaWiki, and GO services.
• Upgrading the Drupal sites for the Davis programs, Dining Menus, and Museum of Art to Drupal 8.
• Providing Course Hub access for Schools Abroad courses.