WaaS Release Notes

January 25, 2024

Support for Dutch language

WaaS has been updated with support for Dutch, including spelling correction and readability tips.

January 17, 2024

Press releases with disclaimer

The disclaimer widget is used to hide the content on a page until the visitor has verified that she is not present in a country where the content should be restricted.

WaaS now applies this widget automatically for incoming press releases under certain circumstances. Please contact us to activate this.

December 4, 2023

Image bank sorting

We have added the functionality to sort images by date in the public image bank. Previously, the sorting was done manually by the editor.

November 23, 2023

Image meta data: Photographer

News items from Cision sometimes have stated photographer for images. This data field can now be included in WaaS as well.

October 24, 2023

Alternative upload procedure for Vimeo videos

WaaS uses Vimeo under the hood for video. You can upload videos directly in WaaS and include them in pages like normal. We have had problems with this for very large video files, so now you can upload them directly to Vimeo.

WaaS will later detect these videos and include them in you site library.

October 23, 2023

Press release images

Images that come from external news sources was previously stored in the WaaS file system. Now you can choose to save them in the WaaS Image bank instead.

Some benefits are:

• They will be fully responsive for different screen sizes
• They will use the more modern webp format
• If you have a public image bank, they will be accessible there as well, including their categorization from the press vendor

October 16, 2023

Newsroom updates: multiple vendors and Mynewsdesk

WaaS has had support for different vendors of newsrooms: Cision, Modular Finance, Nasdaq, and GlobalNewswire. We have now added Mynewsdesk to that list.

We have also added the feature to use multiple vendors, for example if you use Cision for corporate news and Mynewsdesk for marketing news.

We have also added the feature to set where a news item is placed in the site structure depending on its properties.

September 19, 2023

Form widget updates

The form widget has been updated with a couple of things:

• Pattern validations on input fields. This is used if you want the user to enter the information in a specific format, like phone numbers.
• Radiobuttons
• Make it mandatory to check something in a checkbox-list.

September 14, 2023

Clear cache button

All WaaS sites are cached for improved performance. The cache is refreshed every time you publish a page, but now you can also refresh it manually. Click “Settings”, then the tab “Global” and you will find this button.

September 11, 2023

New editor feature: copy section

Complex sections that are not part of the page template can be time consuming to create. The copy section functionality will save you a lot of time in those situations.

Click the “section” button in the top right corner of the section (on hover). Then click “Copy”. Now when you insert a new section, it will ask you to insert an empty section (default), or paste.

If the section type is used a lot, you can also choose to click “Save as template”. Then it will be available every time you log in.

September 5, 2023

New widget: Google maps

We have added a system widget based on Google maps. It is fully integrated with WaaS, which means it is possible to:

• Add markers and clickable areas based on other pages, including coordinates and preview content
• Adjust the graphical design to reflect the site
• Adding search/filter functionality and directly affect the map’s markers, position and/or zoom level

September 1, 2023

SEO feature: canonical URL override

A canonical URL tell search engines that a specific URL represents the master copy of a page. Using the canonical URLs prevents problems caused by identical or "duplicate" content appearing on multiple URLs.

Normally, you don’t have to do anything since this is automated in WaaS, but if you create two pages with identical content you can now choose to override the canonical URL.

September 1, 2023

Export pages in plain text

Now you can download the entire site in plain text. This could be useful for instance when creating other communication products like annual reports or company brochures.

August 29, 2023

Image bank clean-up: delete expired images

If an image has an expiration date, it will be hidden from public view after this date. Now you remove all those images with one button click.

Go to admin/image bank, click “Settings”, and then “Delete expired…”.

June 20, 2023

Alt-texts: first AI feature in WaaS

Images needs alternative texts to be accessible to screen readers. Unfortunately, we can see that this is often overlooked or forgotten.

WaaS now use AI to help you with this: When editing an image, just click the lightbulb icon in the alt-text field, and you will get a suggestion of a description of the image. This works for all 16 languages supported in WaaS.

June 20, 2023

Video background image

WaaS uses Vimeo under the hood for background videos, to boost performance. Before the video loads, a fallback image is shown. You can now override this image if you don’t want to use Vimeos suggested image.

June 19, 2023

“Best bets” in the search functionality

When defining “best bets” for the search engine you can now choose to use the page’s meta description as preview snippet in the search result list.

May 13, 2023

New filter features to the page-list widget

Page-lists are very common on a typical WaaS site for things like news lists or financial archives. Long lists needs filtering functionality, with different control types like dropdowns, checkboxes or search fields.

We have now added checkbox-lists as one of the control types, which is perfect for e.g. categories.

We have also added so called AJAX functionality, which means that the when the list reloads, it does so without having to reload the entire page. It’s faster, and the user is not scrolled to the top of the page.

April 7, 2023

Infrastructural changes to the image creation tool

The image creation logic is re-written and can handle much bigger batches of images.

March 29, 2023

Analytics click events

In the built in analytics tool you can now see how many users clicked a certain link or button. Just check the box “Show click events on the page”:

March 22, 2023

New language: Estonian

Estonian is now available in WaaS, including spell checking and readability tips.

We now support and have sites in 16 languages: English, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Norwegian, Spanish, German, French, Czech, Slovakian, Russian, Italian, Polish, Greek, Romanian and Estonian.

March 20, 2023

Search improvements

New functionality to the WaaS search engine! 

Now you can define "best bets": In other words, manual entries to specified keywords. You connect the phrases to a particular page in WaaS, or an external url. 

The entry will appear at the top of the list (should there be other hits for the search phrase). 

This is useful if you want to promote certain pages, or if a target page does not contain the keyword your users are using. 

Please reach out to help-me@comprend.com if you want to get started with this!

December 7, 2022

Mobile navigation

New feature: The new design system in WaaS includes an alternative way to drill deeper into the mobile navigation. Previously, the only option was the Toggle button, where you expand a menu item to reveal its child pages.

Now you also have the option to have “swipe” navigation, where the entire container swipes to the left as you explore the child pages.

December 7, 2022

Dedicated thank you page for form submits

Forms has been part of WaaS since the beginning. When visitors fill out forms, the page is reloaded with a thank you message. Now you also have the option to redirect the visitor to a dedicated thank you page. This is useful if you want to have custom tracking for form submits.

November 23, 2022

Hide language versions

When you add a new language version to a site, you want to be able to work with the site, but the new language should not be accessible until everthing is finished. 

Previously, you would have to work in the test environment, and then move everything to the production environment when everything is completed. This meant you would need to keep track of content changes during development time. 

Now you can work directly in the production environment and feel safe that the new language version will not public until you are done. 

November 7, 2022

Cookie banner

WaaS has a built-in cookie banner which makes your site fully GDPR compliant (unlike many other third-party plugins). The cookie banner is now even more customizable. Here are some example configurations:

November 3, 2022

Increased protection for database imports/exports

WaaS has the feature to import/export all pages from one environment to another, e.g. from test to production or the other way around. This is useful if you are building a new section with a lot of pages, for example a digital annual report, and you don’t want to work in production.

The import/export is only available for system administrators, and there is a warning before it is executed, to prevent unintended actions. It might be good to know that there are also hourly backups of the entire database.

We have now increased the protection even further by adding the possibility to lock down an environment completely from imports/exports.

November 2, 2022

Infrastructure update

Autoscalability upgrade

Improvements to our autoscalable mechanism have been made and we now monitor more parameters. This allows us to have a more consistent performance and faster scalability during higher loads.

Smart scalability

We make sure that during proven high traffic periods, we pre scale up the performance of the service in advance to mitigate any possible impact of high load.

Preloaded cache

We now make sure that any server added to the load-balancer have preloaded internal cache to increase the performance right of the bat.

CDN

Tweaking and improvements to our edge point cache. To improve performance of the live sites.

Backups

We increased the frequency of our data backups for the test environment.

October 25, 2022

New scheduling feature

Scheduling is useful when you want to make complex updates to a page (or many pages), and want them to be live at a certain moment in time. This feature has been around for a while, but now it are the underlying mechanisms completely re-built.

October 21, 2022

Access to settings buttons

You can set up different write access rights for different editor groups, for example if you have a geographical branch on the website, where the editors should only be allowed to edit those pages. Now this feature also includes access to the pages’ general settings (as apposed to only the content as before).

October 20, 2022

Skip cookies for the disclaimer widget

The disclaimer widget is used to hide the content on a page until the visitor has verified she is not present in a country where the content should be restricted. When verifying, a cookie is set so that the visitor doesn’t have to re-verify for each page load. Now this cookie can be disabled, meaning the visitor must verify each time the page is loaded.

October 19, 2022

AJAX-loaded page listings with paging buttons

Page lists (e.g. news lists), can be loaded using AJAX, which is must faster than regular server requests. Now this can be used in combination with paging-buttons (the “Load more” button) which is used for very long lists.

October 19, 2022

Upgraded node.js version

Node.js, the underlying technology of WaaS, has been upgraded for better security and performance.

October 7, 2022

Page footer settings

Which footer a page is using is usually set per template, but now you can override that by using the page regular settings. Contact us if you want to activate that.

October 7, 2022

Analytics update

WaaS is using Plausible, a cookie-less analytics engine that is fully GDPR compliant. The script was served from a separate domain which made some browsers reject it. Now it is served from the same domain as the site itself.

October 4, 2022

Bug fix: CMS login

An editor of WaaS could sometimes get stuck on the loading screen when logging in to the CMS. This is fixed now.

September 27, 2022

Centralized translation tool

For multilingual sites you will probably need translations for "system texts" in widgets. In most WaaS projects this is achieved by hard coding the translations in the widget. There is now a centralized translation tool in WaaS that has two major benefits.

• Translations are edited in the admin interface. No developers and no deploys for a simple typo correction.
• Translations are available throughout the system if you want to use them in more than one widget.

September 27, 2022

Parallax plugin upgrade

The plugin for parallax background images has been upgraded to the latest version for increased performance.

September 27, 2022

Language fallback

For multilingual sites, WaaS treated all languages as unique. For example, news lists only list the news that are translated into the current language. Now there is a language fallback feature, which can show pages on different languages than the current one.

This is very useful for sites with long lists of pages, whose content is language independent. For example, a contact’s e-mail address, phone number and picture.

September 24, 2022

Additions to the share ticker widget

The share ticker widget has been upgraded with support for more key values.

September 3, 2022

Support for new languages

WaaS has been updated with support for new languages: Italian, Greek, and Romanian. This includes spelling correction.

July 3, 2022

Updated orderbook widget

The built-in orderbook widget has been updated.

June 17, 2022

Analytics features

The right-hand side analytics panel in the CMS has a new feature: It now displays which page the visitor comes from, and which pages she clicked next. This is useful when analysing user-flow.

June 8, 2022

Upgraded AppInsights

WaaS is using AppInsights from Microsoft to diagnose the technical platform. This has been upgraded to the latest version.

May 15, 2022

Page creation UX update

When creating pages with a very complex template, and with an image selector setting, the settings panel would sometimes be so long that the “OK” button didn’t show on the screen. This is fixed now.

May 5, 2022

CDN updates

WaaS sites is served via a CDN for maximum performance and protection. The architecture for this has been re-built.

April 28, 2022

Sitemap tool

When starting a new WaaS project, there is now a new sitemap tool for prototyping and easier setup. When generating a site based on a sitemap, it will automatically include the correct widgets, languages, cookie disclaimer setup, and much more.

April 5, 2022

Login plugin upgrade

WaaS is using Auth0 as login system. This plugin has now been upgraded to the latest version.

March 10, 2022

Horizontal bar charts

WaaS has had support for basic charts for a long time: Column chart, pie chart, line chart, or combined charts.

The beloved feature has benefits for both editors and site visitors, compared to charts as PNG images:

• Vector images render much faster and are crystal clear on all devices
• The editor can edit the values themselves
• Charts can be animated
• WaaS charts are fully accessible for visually impaired visitors

We have now added support for bar charts (with horizontal columns instead of vertical). They are especially useful for charts with long or many labels.  

Please contact us if you want to start using them!

February 15, 2022

Increased security when logging in

We have enabled increased security when logging in to edit interface with two-factor authentication as an option. This makes it considerable harder for anyone gain access to your account and we encourage everyone to enable it. For now it is optional.
We have two ways to validate that you are you when logging in. You can either use a Authenticator app such as Google Authenticator (iOS, Android) or Microsoft Authenticator (iOS, Android) or you recieve an email with a temporary code that enables you to login.
We will enforce multifactor login for all users in the future, but for now it is an option.
If you want to enable two-factor authentication please give a shout out/email us at help-me@comprend.com and we'll help you get going!

September 23, 2021

Increased authentication security

We have improved upon our authentication, updating our:

• Bot protection
• Brute-force protection
• IP Throttling
• And increased requirements for new passwords

We have also implemented Breached password protection.
What this means is that if your email/password combination have been leaked in any other data breach, you will get a notification prompting you to change your password.

August 16, 2021

New format for release notes

Every other week we have posted release notes on comprend.com, but it has been up to you to follow them to see what is going on in the application. From now on, release notes will be posted in the CMS itself so that you can read them when you log in.

If you do not have time to read them directly, click “Read later”. They will popup the next time you reload the CMS. Note that you can always access all release notes by navigating to www.comprend.com/waas/release-notes/, or through the link at the bottom left in the CMS.

August 16, 2021

Page lists accessibility and SEO

The built-in page list widget has been updated with a few accessibility features:

• If a search filter is present, the search icon is made invisible to screen readers since it is decorative only
• added empty alt attribute to image output because they are decorative only: better for screen readers and improves html validation scores
• added page name in an aria-label to links when it is the 'whole area' so screen readers don't read out the whole content: better for the user as they only need to know where the link is going
• added the page name in an element hidden from view for 'Read more' links: better for screen readers and SEO.

August 16, 2021

Iframe accessibility and performance

The built-in Iframe widget now has the option to add a title. This provides a label for the frame so users can identify the content or purpose of the iframe. Screen reader users can pull up a list of frames and based on its title, determine if they want to enter and explore in detail.

The widget also has a new checkbox under settings, “Lazy loading”. Lazy loading defers offscreen iframes from being loaded until the user scrolls near them, helping with page performance.

July 18, 2021

July 18, 2021

• Updates to the built-in Cision subscription form:
  • The mandatory labels is now more flexible and can be changed through the admin interface.
  • It is now possible to add privacy notes in a more flexible manner.
  • The form now has spam protection (without the use of the accessibility unfriendly CAPTHCA technique).

July 4, 2021

July 4, 2021

• Upgrade: The underlying framework that minifies css files is now upgraded
• Bug fix: When importing press releases, the first embedded image could be transformed to a thumbnail of the news item. Now the system supports images with the .jpeg file ending.

June 20, 2021

June 20, 2021

• Updates related to cookies:
  • The built-in Vimeo tool now embed videos without setting cookies from Vimeo.
  • All built-in uses of “localStorage” is now changed to use cookies instead (to make the information stored able to expire)
  • The built-in cookie banner now has the option to include the button “Accept only necessary cookies”.
  • The session cookie related to the underlying technology express.js has been removed.
  • YouTube thumbnails are now embedded through a proxy (which otherwise would set a cookie from YouTube)
  • The built-in cookie banner now has more flexible settings, making it possible to categorise cookies per website.

June 6, 2021

June 6, 2021

• Updated admin feature: More detailed settings when importing press releases from Cision.
• New languages: Czech and Slovakian are now available as page languages.

May 23, 2021

May 23, 2021

• Update: Improved mechanism to align background images horizontally and vertically.
• CMS performance improvement: The pagetree in the CMS is now loaded as needed. This is especially noticeable for sites with large numbers of pages.
• Bug fix: The pagetree could sometimes be “off-sync” when switching languages on a site with a large number of pages. Moreover, the search function above the pagetree could not find pages deep down in the structure. These and more minor issues are solved with the above mentioned redesigned pagetree logic.

May 9, 2021

May 9, 2021

• New Cision module: Share ownership, see demo here.

April 27, 2021

April 27, 2021

• New feature: WaaS CMS notifications.
• Other improvements and stability fixes.

April 25, 2021

April 25, 2021

• New feature: A “share image” is defined per page and tells Facebook and other social media platforms which preview-images to pick when sharing the page. Previously, you could only pick images from the file system. Now you can pick images from the global image bank.
• New performance feature: It is now possible to add a feature to a site, which preloads all links that are hovered. Read more about the benefits here.

April 11, 2021

April 11, 2021

• Improved editor: For some websites, it could be difficult to add sections due to the graphical design. The hover area of the add-section-button is now bigger to solve this problem.
• Bug fix: You can now change an existing inline link in the editor directly, instead of first having to delete it, and then re-assign it.
• Added feature: For the built in pagelist widget it is now possible to change sort order from e.g. date to the present order in the page tree in the editor.

March 28, 2021

March 28, 2021

• New feature: When discarding page changes there is now a feature to undo the discard.
• New sharegraph feature for Cision feeds: Now it is possible to show total return.
• Developer productivity: It is now possible to import site data directly from production to the local development environment.
• Validation enhancement: When change page slugs manually, there is now a validation function that verifies that the slug does not contain invalid characters like space, ampersand, etc.

March 14, 2021

March 14, 2021

• Bug fix: When displaying peer data in the interactive sharegraph, the cache feature sometimes blocked the data.
• Enhancement: Language specific thousand delimiters and decimal signs are now applied also on chart axes.
• Bug fix: Animation of pie charts in Firefox are now fixed.

February 28, 2021

February 28, 2021

• New feature: Possible to add a Google site verification code directly in the admin interface instead of through code.
• New feature: In page list filters, it is now possible to add labels for increased accessibility

February 14, 2021

February 14, 2021

• Editor interface: Stylesheet changes so that individual projects will not affect the looks of the system specific elements when in edit mode.
• Bug fix: When uploading Excel workbooks, the system now applies the correct decimal format even on numbers with other than two decimal digits.

February 7, 2021

February 7, 2021

• New accessibility feature: Forms can be spam protected by using CAPTCHA. Now WaaS offers a new spam protection technology for those who do not want to use Captcha for accessibility reasons.
• New admin feature: Full page change history. Previously, page versions could only be viewed page by page. Now, there is a tool to see any page’s changes (and who did them) in chronological order.
• Improvement: Animated charts can now be animated even they are placed in an “interaction group”, e.g., a carousel slider, a tab-panel, or accordion
• New admin feature: Image categories can now be imported and exported between different environments (development, testing, production).

January 24, 2021

January 24, 2021

• Editor text editing: It is now much easier to activate blocks with tiny height
• Filename validation: When uploading SVG files to the image bank, the system now replaces illegal characters like space. It did so before for other formats (JPG, PNG).
• Editor interface update: When creating a new language version, the system now suggests the page slug from the already existing language as default (instead of blank).
• Downloading of a static version of the website is now named clientname-yyyy-mm-dd.zip

January 17, 2021

January 17, 2021

• Edit interface update: The datepicker control has been redesigned, with dedicated button to clear the date
• Preview function update:
  • Preview was not possible for pages with expired parents (because the page was not in the hierarchical page tree). That is now fixed, and the previewed page is considered to be located directly under the site’s root page.
  • Previewing results of changed page settings of custom properties is now possible.
• New feature: The already existing carousel widget can now be applied to blocks, not only whole sections
• Editor interface update: Developers can now use the new control type “Slider control”, which is very user friendly for numerical data.
• Mobile update: Block parallax effects can now be switched off on mobile screens

January 3, 2021

January 3, 2021

• Improvement: The built-in sharegraph is now better optimized for mobile.

December 1, 2020

December, 2020

• System update: Improvements to database performance
• New feature: Possiblity to follow up on cache purge status.

December 6, 2020

• New editor feature: It is now much easier to align blocks that are stacked horizontally. You just double click the resize-handle in the lower right-hand corner, and it will find “sibling blocks” and make sure they are aligned.
• New editor feature: To better understand how complex sections are lined-up there is now a new button that will display a grid and the block borders.
• SEO improvement: Placeholder pages are now excluded from the sitemap.xml file

December 20, 2020

• Update: Background images can now be center-aligned vertically.
• System update: When downloading sites for static HTML delivery, it now also includes images created with the new image system.
• Security update in the image bank system widget.

November 8, 2020

November, 2020

• Major update: The cookie-banner is now updated to reflect recent regulations. For example it now blocks Google analytics and YouTube videos until the visitor has accepted cookies. Note that this change is not automatic, if you have a site on WaaS it must be upgraded manually. Please contact us to activate it.
• New accessibility feature: Block-links (when you link a whole block to another page) has now a textfield where you type the label of the link. This is used by screenreaders to let visually impaired users know what they are clicking.
• Editor interface update: The Analytics panel has been updated to make it easier to use.

November 22, 2020

• Cookie update: The new cookie-banner now also blocks Google Tag Manager until the visitor has accepted cookies.
• New feature: Micro-animations are small animations that support the user by giving visual feedback and displaying changes more clearly. The most common tool to create them is Adobe After Effects, and WaaS now has an integration to make it much simpler to import them, find them, and insert them.
• Image bank update: The image bank now supports SVG images (vector images).
• Cision subscription module update: The required Google Recaptcha add-on is now included in the Cision subscription module.

November 23, 2020

• Major update: New and improved caching, supports more POP locations, more reliable speeds and increased posibility for client specific settings.

October 11, 2020

October, 2020

• New Cision widget: The Cision feature to list insider transactions is now available as a system widget in WaaS.
• System update: File system now uses a cache to increase performance

October 15, 2020

• Major update: Increased possibility to handle domains, custom urls and redirects
• Major update: Overall infrastructure update to increase security and achive A+ rating for SSL

October 25, 2020

• New feature: Page titles (the text you see on the tab in the browser) were previously set per page. Now they can change depending on state of the page (based on query strings). This is useful for search engine optimization and when you share a page in social media.
• System upgrade: The database server is upgraded to the latest stable release.

September 8, 2020

September, 2020

• System update: New internal warning system to increase reliability

September 13, 2020

• New feature: YouTube videos previously took their placeholder image from YouTube automatically. That still works, but if you want to you can now specify which placeholder image to use.
• Widget update: The built-in forms in WaaS has a new control type “Checkbox-list”.

September 27, 2020

• Sharegraph updates:
  • The volume labels are now using the system-wide thousand delimiters.
  • The initial zoom-level can be set (previously it defaulted to 3 months)
  • News items are plotted as dots in the chart. Now it is possible to exclude them when showing a large time scale, to prevent clutter.

August 2, 2020

August, 2020

• Update: The language flag feature in the release from July 19 is now included also for financial reports.

August 16, 2020

• New editor feature: You can now search for image occurrences on the entire site.
• Update: Background images can now be bottom-aligned vertically.

August 22, 2020

• Major update: New loadbalancing and internal networking to increase stability, performance and reliability.

• Major update: New and improved firewall for better security and increased posibility for client specific settings.

August 30, 2020

• New feature: Video as section background is now implemented with Vimeo. This increases quality and speed.
• New system feature: When batch-importing press-releases from Cision you can now specify what year to import. This is helpful especially for sites with very large amount of news.

July 5, 2020

July, 2020

• New editor feature: When searching the image-bank you can now filter by category directly in the search box.
• New feature: Widgets can already now be built as ”content widgets”, i.e., to turn a regular WaaS block into a widget to be used on many places on the site. Now we release ”unlinked content widgets”: If you add one it will only a new block with all styling and placeholder text included, which you then update with the new content without affecting other blocks.

July 19, 2020

• New system feature: Excel uploads. The existing Excel integrations in WaaS is to create financial reports, and to format simple Excel tables into nice web format. Now we add the feature to use Excel as a data-source for pages. This feature is used for certain kind of data that is suitable to manage with Excel.
• New feature: Language flag for press releases. This is used for sites who want to display e.g. the Swedish news items on an English site. Previously WaaS supported multi-lang news on single-lang sites, but now it also supports multi-lang sites.

June 7, 2020

June, 2020

• New editor feature: In edit mode there is a new panel that scans the page you are working with in real time to find three kinds of issues:
  • Broken links (internal and external links, images, etc)
  • Spelling and grammatical errors (multiple languages supported)
  • Accessibility issues (poor contrast ratio, wrong heading structure and more)
• New feature: For clients using Cision as press release vendor, attachments are now renamed to the label of the attachment. Previously, the filename was kept intact, typically a random number, like 123456.pdf. Now they are renamed to the label, in lower case, and with all non-alphanumeric characters replaced to dash, e.g. “Annual Report 2019” becomes “annual-report-2019.pdf”

June 21, 2020

• New feature: Meta description and meta images to be used for social media sharing is now automatically populated from the press release data.
• Updated redirect function: When moving a website to WaaS, there is a tool to manage redirects. This is used to keep legacy links working, for instance if someone has bookmarked a page. This function did not work for old addresses containing dots, for example “address.aspx” for security reasons: WaaS blocks all requests to “dot-files” which are not found in the file system since all websites are constantly scanned for files like “wp-admin.php” to find vulnerabilities. Now you can allow certain file endings to utilize the redirect function.
• Updated system widget: The built-in Disclaimer widget is used for information that should not be shown until the visitor has agreed on certain terms. This widget has now more flexible settings.
• Upgraded developer feature: The built-in import function is used when migrating a website to WaaS. This function can now handle sites with huge amount of content.

May 10, 2020

May, 2020

• New feature: Interactions. Blocks and sections can now be grouped and organised by common UX patterns. Today, these patterns are Carousel, Tab panel, and Accordion. Like all system widgets they are developed according to best practices when it comes to speed, usability, and accessibility.
• New admin feature: A search function to see which pages uses a particular widget.
• New system admin feature: A search function to see which clients are using a particular system widget.

May 24, 2020

• New feature: Parallax blocks. Parallax scrolling is a nice way to add depth to your website. Earlier, the only built-in parallax effects were on background graphics. Now it is possible to make any block fully parallax. A quick example can be found here. Notice how the graphical objects scroll with different speeds, adding depth to the website experience.
• Update: Financial reports created from press releases now inherit the regulatory information flag.
• Editor improvement: Widgets with a control field for entering urls now supports full urls, i.e. to external websites.

April 12, 2020

April, 2020

• New image bank feature: Paging is now built into the image bank widget.
• Update: Twitter has a new link sharing format, and it is now reflected in WaaS.
• New PDF feature: It is now possible to create hyperlinks directly in generated PDF documents, also for links to the internal website.

April 26, 2020

• Bug fix: For clients using AM/PM notation in lists with dates, the lists are now sorted correctly, even if some of the list items only have date, no time.
• New feature: In the built-in forms-widget, it is now possible for the visitor to upload attachments.
• Infrastructure: Updates to the built-in text editor tinyMCE

March 1, 2020

March, 2020

• Editor feature: Cross browser testing is now integrated in the editor environment. The administrator sets up which pages should be controlled, and the function fetches screen shots in various devices.
• Editor feature: Interactive checklist to be used prior to a website launch. It is integrated into the system and picks up some of the items automatically (such as whether analytics is set up). Today, the checklist consists of 50 items.
• Infrastructure: The integrated help system with articles is now centralised into one single database.

March 4, 2020

• Infrastructure: Improvements to more advanced security and WAF
• Infrastructure: Improvements in how we handle and performe cache purges

March 15, 2020

• Bug fix: All features in the image bank widget didn’t work in old versions of Internet Explorer
• Enhancement: For clients using Modular Finance as press release vendor, all attachments are now downloaded to be hosted by WaaS directly.
• Enhancement: For clients using Cision as press release vendor, the system now accepts png as image format when it comes to creating thumbnails.

March 29, 2020

• New chart feature: The built-in chart tool now supports animated charts (for bar, line, and pie charts).
• New PDF feature: When using WaaS to create PDF documents, it is now possible to have deviating headers/footers directly in the editor
• UX improvement: for clients using a top menu with hover expansion, there is now a new feature to simplify mouse navigation.

February 9, 2020

February, 2020

• New module: Interactive data and charts, see Demo
• Share-ticker improvements: It's now possible to fine-tune the date formats in more detail
• New feature: Public writeprotected folders which can host static assets.
• Accessibility feature, to specify language on blocks: This is helpful for screenreaders if you for instance have a block with Swedish text where the rest of the page is in English.
• Developer productivity: The Babel javascript transpiler is now integrated into the developer environment.

February 23, 2020

• Milestone: Accessibility features. Sites built with WaaS has always been accessible, but now we have taken it even further. New projects will be built this way, and existing projects can be upgraded. Please contact us to upgrade your project.
• Support for single language sites with multi language press releases.
• Infrastructure: New file management module (to server images, pdfs, etc).
• Image bank updates: Image categories has two new features: To translate them to other languages and to rearrange them in the admin interface.
• Editor feature: It's now easier to see whether you are in the test or the production environment, and also to switch between the two.

January 5, 2020

January, 2020

• New Modular Finance widget: Ownership concentration
• Admin tool: When working with complex widgets in multi-langague sites, you can now copy all settings between languages
• Press release imports can now be set to ignore releases before a certain date
• Developer productivity: If a widget breaks, an error message with stack-trace is now shown.

January 19, 2020

• New feature: RSS feeds. The administrator can set up different RSS-endpoints with advanced filter functions.
• Image bank updates: Increased accessibility and an admin search function.
• Cision press releases: Support for multiple accounts
• Developer feature: Object-fit polyfill (a tool to easier support legacy browsers)