CHANGELOG.md

NHS digital service manual Changelog

7.3.0 - 17 December 2024

🔧 Maintenance

• Update image, caption and alt text in image component

7.2.0 - 6 November 2024

🆕 New features

• Add new Task list component
• Add new Complete multiple tasks pattern
• Add a resources page to the community and contribution section

🔧 Maintenance

• Rename and reorganise pattern subsection headings in the design system

7.1.0 - 15 October 2024

🆕 New features

• Update accessibility guidance to say that WCAG 2.2 includes WCAG 2.1 and teams are now monitored to WCAG 2.2

7.0.0 - 19 September 2024

🆕 New features

• Add entries on Down's syndrome, fit note and period products to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add guidance for heading classes – Add classes to style table captions similar to headings, detailed in Nunjucks macro option captionClasses

🔧 Maintenance

• Update page template examples to make the default example size l and inside the grid system
• Update page template Nunjucks options, to remove outerContent block
• Make our guidance on age clearer
• Update entries on fetus, microgram and NHS in the A to Z
• Update links guidance to recommend avoiding "see"
• Update content section on capitalisation to mention geographical names
• Update service manual team page and email address
• Update page about the NHS service standard
• Delete outdated references to NHSX
• Update Nunjucks macro options for date input component, adding values for day, month and year
• Update type scale to increase font size of m and l headings, updates font size overrides to align with new sizes
• Improve spacing around the back links and breadcrumbs components
• Update guidance on back links to recommend putting them top of page

6.5.0 - 31 July 2024

🆕 New features

• Add new warning button to buttons component

🔧 Maintenance

• Update table component guidance with information about responsive tables
• Fix alignment between header, footer and main content in page template examples
• Update Nunjucks macro options for primaryLinks in header component
• Improve fieldset component guidance to better explain their use and importance for accessibility
• Improve tabs component guidance to explain how they should work for accessibility
• Improve guidance on contrast and accessibility on colour page
• Fix missing black colour, added to colour palette on colour page
• Fix display and layout of some tables
• Remove 'experimental' tag from tabs and character count components
• Reformat links section in accessibility guidance to make content clearer

6.4.0 – 19 June 2024

🆕 New features

• Add guidance for using headings with captions

🔧 Maintenance

• Update guidance on links from "opens in new window" to "opens in new tab"
• Update colours used in code examples to improve contrast
• Update breadcrumb Nunjucks macro options descriptions
• Update radio with hint example Nunjucks code
• Replace links used in examples with hash (#)
• Add guidance for error summary focus on page load
• Remove duplicate links in design system side navigation
• Fix API catalogue link in service standard point 17

6.3.0 – 17 April 2024

🆕 New features

• Add page on new accessibility requirements: WCAG 2.2
• Add sections on making sure your service meets WCAG 2.2 for: Product and delivery and Design, Development and Testing
• Add list of changes to meet new accessibility requirements to design system index page
• Update components and styles for WCAG 2.2:
  • Back link: guidance on positioning and keeping data the user has entered
  • Breadcrumbs: guidance on positioning
  • Buttons: guidance on minimum target size
  • Error message: guidance on not clearing data the user has entered
  • Footer: guidance on placing help links
  • Header: guidance on placing help links and not hiding content that has a focus applied
  • Select: guidance on avoiding click and drag
  • Summary list: guidance on action link target size and keeping data the user has entered
  • Tag: guidance on avoiding click and drag
  • Focus state: guidance on not hiding content that has a focus applied
  • Icons: guidance on minimum target size

🔧 Maintenance

• Update site map

6.2.2 - 27 March 2024

🔧 Maintenance

• Re add side nav to "How to write good questions for forms"

6.2.1 - 27 March 2024

🔧 Maintenance

• Remove "Messaging patients" section in Content guide

6.2.0 - 26 March 2024

🆕 New features

• Add new page "Feedback or share insights" in Community and contribution section
• Update "Help us improve this guidance" section at bottom of pages across site

🔧 Maintenance

• Update COVID-19 entries in the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Delete entry for NHS COVID Pass
• Fix styling of numbered headings in Content guide
• Rename "Content style guide" asset file to "Content guide"
• Add side nav link for "Standard for creating health content" to "Numbers, measurements, dates and time" page
• Right align copyright statement in footer component
• Fix target size issue on A to Z navigation page
• Comment out outdated table of components on Backlog of components page
• Update site map
• Remove redundant back link in content guide
• Remove embedded link from contents list design example
• Fix link in section on link text in accessibility guidance

6.1.0 - 18 January 2024

🆕 New features

• Introduce WCAG 2.2 in accessibility guidance and on design system home page
• Update NHS accessibility checklist to WCAG 2.2
• Add new British Sign Language (BSL) quality assurance standard
• Add section on AI and digital healthcare technologies to standard 8 in the NHS service standard
• Add section about the AI and Digital Regulations Service (AIDRS) to section 16 of the NHS service standard
• Add links to the AIDRS from section 11 of the NHS service standard
• Add mention of convulsions to entry on "seizure or fit" in A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add section on copyright to footer component in design system

🔧 Maintenance

• Rename "Content style guide" "Content guide"
• Clarify content about font on typography page in the design system
• Explain about headings below Do and Don't list and warning callout components in design system
• Amend entry for "NHS 111 online" in the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Update the standard for creating health content to refer to WCAG 2.2
• Update service standard 5 to refer to WCAG 2.2
• Change example of radio items with hints
• Remove link on start page pattern
• Reword care card component
• Update site map
• Update service manual footer

6.0.0 - 24 October 2023

🆕 New features

• Update header and footer components
• Add prefix and suffix options to text input components

🔧 Maintenance

• Update link in health literacy toolkit in content style guide
• Change "heritage" to "background" in guidance on ethnicity, religion and nationality in content style guide

5.10.0 - 30 August 2023

🆕 New features

• Add new card components variants, replacing older cards
• Add updated design principles PDF
• Add and amend entries in content style guide after June Style Council meeting - see What's new for detail

🔧 Maintenance

• Fix typos in previous release
• Add "Next" to bottom of first page in How to write good questions for froms
• Update spacing around design principle 10
• Update site map with Character count and Tabs

5.9.2 - 22 May 2023

🔧 Fixes

• Import and initialise the Error Summary JavaScript, and set focusOnPageLoad to false, so the component example works as expected NHS.UK frontend issue #766

5.9.1 - 3 May 2023

🔧 Maintenance

• Fix design principle 10 in mobile view

5.9.0 - 27 April 2023

🆕 New features

• Add 2 new experimental components to design system: character count and tabs
• Add new sustainability principle to design principles
• Add new section on widgets and overlays to accessibility guidance
• Add new section to accessibility guidance for teams working to short deadlines

🔧 Maintenance

• Update breadcrumbs styling
• Add links to accessibility checklist from accessibility guidance
• Add links to NHS Constitution from information about the NHS service standard and service standard 5
• Add links to NHS Digital's API policies and best practice from service standard 17
• Remove mention of GDS empathy lab - now closed
• Make minor updates to guidance on meeting accessibility requirements
• Duplicate accessibility guidance for testers on giving users time to act on devs and designers pages
• Change "NHS Digital" to "NHS England"

5.8.0 - 17 January 2023

🆕 New features

• Add example for back links rendered as buttons
• Add double click prevention example to buttons component
• Add entries to content style guide A to Z after October Style Council meeting
• Link to NHS data standards directory from point 17 of NHS service standard

🔧 Maintenance

• Update service manual team page
• Update info on future guidance in images component
• Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (6.2.0)

5.7.12 - 21 October 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Update example phone number to standard

5.7.11 - 19 October 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Adding IDs to A-Z cards to fix the link reference
• Phrasing change on Expander - When not to use

5.7.10 - 7 September 2022

🆕 New features

• Add new entries for negative, specialty and opticians to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add maximum length to section on alt text in skin symptoms guidance

🔧 Maintenance

• Amend entry for positive in the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Fix link in coronavirus entry in the A to Z
• Update and fix links in point 17 of the NHS service standard
• Update timescales on service manual team page

5.7.9 - 1 August 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Remove two resources from "Read more about this" section on point 17 of the NHS service standard page

5.7.8 - 1 August 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Fixed a broken link in the mobile nav on the inclusive content page

5.7.7 - 15 July 2022

🆕 New features

• Add a new entry for integrated care boards (ICBs), in the A to Z of NHS health content
• Add 2 new blog posts to What's new

🔧 Maintenance

• Remove link from the standard for creating health content and add a sentence
• Remove a date from the design principles
• Replace a link on review date pattern (Reassure users that a page is up to date)
• Remove a link and fix another in skin symptoms guidance

5.7.6 - 16 May 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Make minor tweaks to new standard for creating health content based on feedback
• Remove old blog posts from point 1 in NHS service standard and add recent posts

5.7.5 - 9 May 2022

🆕 New features

• Add a new standard for creating health content

🔧 Maintenance

• Add a link to Hemingway Editor from the How we write page
• Remove a broken link from the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
• Update service manual team page and site map
• Remove feedback survey from home page, footer and several other pages

5.7.4 - 4 April 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Add 301 redirects from old to new service standards content location (Fixes #1749)

5.7.3 - 30 March 2022

🆕 New features

• Expand the NHS service standard section to include a new technology section
• Add 2 new pages about NHS login and the Personal Demographics Service (PDS)
• Add links from NHS service standard 11 to the NHS login and PDS pages
• Add new posts by Tero Väänänen and Kathryn Grace to the blog posts page
• Link to Tero Väänänen's blog post from service standard points 1, 2 and 6

🔧 Maintenance

• Update site map

5.7.2 - 21 February 2022

🆕 New features

• Turn inclusive language page into inclusive content section
• Iterate skin symptoms guidance in inclusive content section, adding information about long descriptions
• Mention long descriptions in images component and accessibility guidance
• Update wording about Open Document Formats (with a link) in guidance on PDFs and other non-HTML documents
• Update A to Z of NHS health writing to reflect changes to inclusive content and skin symptoms pages

🔧 Maintenance

• Update entry for NHSX and fix inconsistencies in A to Z of NHS health writing
• Remove mentions of Behind the Headlines from the A to Z
• Update site map
• Added browserslist config to package.json for Webpack build to fully support Internet Explorer 11

5.7.1 - 3 February 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Remove beta banner from NHS service standard pages
• Small content tweaks on Formatting and punctuation page
• Update service manual team page

5.7.0 - 17 January 2022

🆕 New features

• Add new section on aligning text on formatting and punctuation page
• Add new section on text alignment on typography page

5.6.5 - 13 January 2022

🆕 New features

• Add new entry for "booster" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add word "only" to guidance on avoiding linking to PDFs on Links page

5.6.4 - 11 January 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Removed NHSUK ESLint config as a dependency and replaced with AirBnB base configuration
• Added Volta setting to the package.json file so anyone with Volta installed will automatically use a version of Node that is known to be compatible with the current version of the service manual

5.6.3 - 6 January 2022

🆕 New features

• Update closed captions section in accessibility guidance
• Add more detail about colour contrast and accessibility in design system
• Add sentence about not using "none of the above" to the checkboxes component "none" option
• Link to Involving people and communities in digital services (NHSX's website) from NHS service standards 1 and 5

🔧 Fixes

• Update link to WC3 WCAG2.1 on Links page
• Update link to modulus 11 algorithm information in the pattern for asking users for their NHS number
• Update service manual team page

5.6.2 - 16 December 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Update service manual team page. Remove old members and add new member.
• Bug fix on A to Z of NHS health writing page #1677

5.6.1 - 8 December 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Update service manual team page. Remove old members and add new member.
• Added "Would you like to contribute to this guidance?" section at the bottom of the accessibility posters page.

5.6.0 - 2 December 2021

🆕 New features

• Add new page for downloading accessibility posters

🔧 Fixes

• Fix arrow in A to Z of NHS health writing

5.5.0 - 29 November 2021

🆕 New features

• Rework care card component as a pattern to help users decide when and where to get care
• Update links to point to the new pattern from the colour page and from 5 components: action link, card, expander, inset text, warning callout
• Amend the care cards component page to direct people to the new pattern and add a review date component page to direct people to the pattern for reassuring users that a page is up to date
• Update links to point to the new pattern from 2 content style guide pages: the A to Z of NHS health writing and the Formatting and punctuation page
• Add the word "reuse" alongside "build" and "buy" in the guidance on NHS service standard 11

🔧 Fixes

• Update service manual team page. Remove old members.
• Update site map with new pattern
• Improve search so it no longer treats word after hyphen as a new search, e.g. x-ra now returns x-ray instead of Radios
• Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (6.0.1)

5.4.1 - 28 October 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Remove static aria-label attribute on header menu toggle. Replace with descriptive aria-expanded="false" on page load.
• Update to make alt-text more findable in the search field
• Update service manual team page. Remove old members and add new members
• Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (5.2.1)

5.4.0 — 19 October 2021

🆕 New features

• Add start page pattern and guidance

🔧 Fixes

• Change case of word "or" in "none" option for checkboxes

5.3.0 - 30 September 2021

🆕 New features

• Add to checkboxes component - an option for "none" example and guidance
• Add satisfaction survey to design system, style, components and content style guide hub pages
• Update layout of the service manual team page

5.2.0 - 22 September 2021

🆕 New features

• Update Inclusive language page section on ethnicity, religion and nationality
• Add entries for "BAME", "Black or black", "BME", "ethnic minorities", "ethnicity", "race" and "White or white" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add note about "Black or black" and "White or white" to the section on capitalisation on the Formatting and punctuation page
• Add entry for "positive" to the A to Z of NHS health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (5.2.0)
• Update dependencies to the latest versions
• Update team members

5.1.0 - 25 August 2021

🆕 New features

• Add link to week notes from the NHS additional language support discovery
• Add new entries on NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) and NHSX to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add 2 more bullet points to the guidance on image captions in the image component

🔧 Fixes

• Use the correct service header example on the Header components page
• Update team members
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

5.0.5 - 17 August 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Update links on the header component examples to match the current NHS website and NHS digital service manual website
• Update dependencies to the latest versions
• Update team members

5.0.4 - 30 July 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Updates to team members

5.0.3 - 22 July 2021

🆕 New features

• Add Qualtrics feedback survey to footer, home page and Get in touch

🔧 Fixes

• Fix typo in NHS service standard point 5
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

5.0.2 - 8 July 2021

🆕 New features

• Make minor changes to the NHS service standard, including explaining what we mean by inclusion and accessibility
• Bring all guidance on captions together in the images component and add more detail

🔧 Fixes

• Update dependencies to the latest versions

5.0.1 - 28 June 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Add real error message example to date input component
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

5.0.0 - 14 June 2021

🆕 New features

• Display Nunjucks macro options with the Nunjucks code examples

🔧 Fixes

• Update dependencies to the latest versions

4.2.0 - 10 June 2021

🆕 New content

• Update accessibility guidance - change length of alt-text for images
• Add new section on making content about skin symptoms more inclusive to content style guide
• Add new entries in the A to Z of NHS health writing for: black skin, brown skin, redness, skin colour changes, white skin, GP online services and ID
• Update entries for immunisation, jab, vaccination, and vaccine
• Add guidance on writing about skin colour on the Inclusive language page
• Add link to blog post on community and contribution in What's new

🔧 Fixes

• Fix broken health literacy link on the service standard pages Issue 1136

4.1.3 - 8 June 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Update content style guide example and research insight callout boxes
• Fix typo in video and other multimedia content accessibility guidance
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

4.1.2 - 15 May 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Fix incorrect example for Lead text typography
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

4.1.1 - 14 May 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Fix broken link in What's new updates

4.1.0 - 14 May 2021

🆕 New content

• Update guidance on making video and other multimedia content accessible

🔧 Fixes

• Use the latest version of NHS.UK frontend (v5.1.0)
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

4.0.0 - 05 May 2021

🆕 New features

• Restructure the design examples folder to allow for Nunjucks macro options

🆕 New content

• Replace Mini-hub pattern example image with full page code snippet

🔧 Fixes

• Update the error summary example to match the NHS.UK frontend example and only include 1 error
• Give the design examples HTML, Nunjucks and Copy functionality titles for Adobe analytics
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

3.15.1 - 27 April 2021

🆕 New features

• Add new entry to A to Z of NHS health writing for GP system supplier names and patient-facing services
• Update service manual team page with new members

🔧 Fixes

• Fix GitHub issue number for PDF page in content style guide

3.15.0 - 09 April 2021

🆕 New features

• Update A to Z of NHS health writing with a link to new GOV.UK coronavirus (COVID-19) A to Z
• Replace Google Analytics with Adobe Analytics and update the cookie policy to include the new cookies Issue 1101

🔧 Fixes

• Add contribution links to pages across the service manual Issue 1000
• Find and replace all non-closing <p> tags - Issue 1092
• Fix HTML validation issues with the code examples and OGL footer logo
• Remove duplicate IE11 polyfills
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

3.14.2 - 18 March 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Improve content about publishing an accessibility statement
• Make sure "Updated" date is correct on the product and delivery pages in accessibility guidance
• Update the NHS digital service manual team members

3.14.1 - 16 March 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Remove role and focusable attributes from the logo

3.14.0 - 16 March 2021

🆕 New features

• Remove the review date component and replace it with the "Reassure users that a page is up to date" pattern.

🔧 Fixes

• Use maincontent as the ID for the main element across the NHS digital service manual and examples for consistency and to match the Skip link anchor (nhsuk/nhsuk-frontend#716)
• Use the latest version of NHS.UK frontend (v5.0.0)
• Update dependencies to the latest versions

3.13.0 - 11 March 2021

🆕 New features

• Add service manual team page

🔧 Fixes

• Update site-map.njk 'community' to 'community and contribution'

3.12.1 - 08 March 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Update app.js redirect URL for /community

3.12.0 - 08 March 2021

🆕 New features

• Change name of the contribution section to community and contribution

🔧 Fixes

• Replace broken Chrome link for accessibility page web developer tool

3.11.0 - 25 February 2021

🆕 New features

• Add page template guidance to the design system
• Update guidance on PDFs and other non-HTML documents
• Add explanation and more examples to the section on hyphens and dashes

🔧 Fixes

• Remove readability tools page and explain that we do not recommend them on our health literacy page
• Remove 2 broken links from health literacy page
• Amend the site map page to bring it into line with the site map entry in the style guide
• Remove negative contraction (can't) on Page not found page
• Remove all code related to the readability tool page

3.10.1 - 28 January 2021

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Remove the pattern="[0-9]*" attribute from NHS number examples to allow for spaces
• Update code example for the font weight normal override class

3.10.0 - 21 January 2021

🆕 New features

• Install NHS.UK frontend v4.1.0
• Add guidance for asking for whole numbers using the text input component
• Update code examples with inputmode numeric for the ask users for their NHS number pattern and date input component

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.9.0 - 19 January 2021

🆕 New features

• Add more examples to the section on capitalisation in the content style guide
• Add a new entry for "site map" in the A to Z of NHS health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Update the guidance on dates in the content style guide
• Update the entry for the NHS App in the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add more links between the A to Z of NHS health writing and the rest of the content style guide

3.8.0 - 18 December 2020

🆕 New features

• Added new entries for GUM clinic and vial to the A to Z of NHS health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Add quotation marks to contractions section in style guide to make it clearer
• Update typography list to use real examples
• Remove readability tool page with broken link to SMOG calculator while we consider it further

3.7.0 - 9 December 2020

🆕 New features

• Add link to the new 10 ways the NHS digital service manual can help you blog post
• Add new and updated guidance on using bold, contractions in URLs and page titles, full stops and quotation marks to the content style guide
• Add new entry on vial to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

🔧 Fixes

• Remove full stops from the card component and other cards to align with content style guide

3.6.3 - 11 November 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Fix an issue with the CSP not executing inline scripts
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.6.2 - 9 November 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Use Helmet to help secure app by setting various HTTP headers
• Create a new route to act as a short URL for the contribution survey
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.6.1 - 6 November 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Amend typo in NHS service standard point 9
• Hide caption in table about time in content style guide
• Fix typo on the Skip links component page Issue 330
• Update contact panel to make it clearer which links are for code changes
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.6.0 - 27 October 2020

🆕 New features

• Add card component
• Add tag component
• Add responsive table component
• Add nhsuk-link--no-visited-state style for links in typography
• Update warning callout guidance with a section on making headings accessible

3.5.0 - 29 September 2020

🆕 New features

• Create new route to act short URL to join our public Slack instance
• Use the Slack link across the website

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.4.1 - 16 September 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Fix incorrect icon file name for chevron left on the Icons guidance page
• Replace "telephone" entry in A to Z with a "phone" entry and link from "telephone and telephone numbers" to "phone and phone numbers"
• Replace "telephone" with "phone" in forms and text input guidance
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.4.0 - 4 September 2020

🆕 New content

• Remove experimental tag from organisational header and summary list component
• Add prototype kit how to guides link to the prototyping page

🔧 Fixes

• Fix design example link focus style
• Fix duplicated content under service user on A to Z of NHS health writing
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.3.4 - 7 August 2020

🆕 New content

• Add accessibility posters
• Add new 'Get in touch' page
• Add entry for NHS Test and Trace to A to Z of NHS health writing
• Remove feedback survey

3.3.3 - 14 July 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Remove the splunk logging function code to prevent console errors within the cookie banner
• Use DOMContentLoaded event instead of load for performance benefits with the cookie banner
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Add building great digital services during a crisis blog post

3.3.2 - 30 June 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Prevent the autocomplete from being initialised twice
• Add role="main" to <main> container for consistency and accessibility fixes
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.3.1 - 23 June 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Updated first paragraph for "Organisational header"
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Use noopener and noreferrer on links that open in a new window
• Defer the cookie consent to stop the script render blocking the page

3.3.0 - 9 June 2020

🆕 New content

• Update guidance and add more examples for the error message component (Community backlog Issue 222)

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.2.1 - 18 May 2020

🆕 New content

• Update community backlog page
• Add guidance for the <main> wrapper vertical spacing modifier classes (Community backlog Issue 221)
• Update footer guidance

🔧 Fixes

• Fix A to Z page pattern example

3.2.0 - 27 April 2020

🆕 New features

• Add conditional reveal for radios and checkboxes (Community backlog Issue 173)

🆕 New content

• Update community backlog page

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.1.0 - 31 March 2020

🆕 New content

• Add new video of our public show and tell on YouTube
• Update home page What's new promo box to point to latest blog post
• Add new entries for calories, Deaf people, hearing loss, death and trimesters to A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add a reference from "disease" to "condition" in the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Add a new section on calories to the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
• Mention social model of disability in the section on disabilities and conditions on the Inclusive language page
• Change memorable number example under telephone numbers in the A to Z of NHS writing and explain that we use "call" or "phone"
• Remove "straight away" from our guidance on hyphens
• Standardise links in the A to Z of NHS health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Install latest version of NHS.UK frontend (3.0.4)
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Reword entry for coronavirus (COVID-19) in A to Z of NHS health writing to make it clearer

3.0.7 - 23 March 2020

🆕 New content

• Add recent Radio 4 interview to content style guide
• Update Patterns index page with new wording after testing
• Add feedback survey to help improve the service manual
• Update cookie policy with information about other organisations' cookies
• Update Your privacy page with information about other organisations' cookies and a section on social media
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

🔧 Fixes

• Add error summary to NHS number pattern with errors example
• Fix design example spacing
• Change "services" to "a service" for Google Analytics in the cookie-consent.js

3.0.6 - 19 February 2020

• Use the no cookie version of YouTube video embedding
• Remove unused cookie (ARRAffinity) from the cookie policy page as we no longer set this cookie

3.0.5 - 18 February 2020

🆕 New content

• Add new entry in A to Z of NHS health writing for "GP"
• Add explanation about using months up to 2 years on Inclusive language page
• Add new guidance on telephone numbers to A to Z of NHS health writing, based on GOV.UK guidance
• Add new guidance and examples of an error summary and an error message working together (Community backlog Issue 189)
• Add latest show and tell and recent Radio 4 interview to What's new section

🔧 Fixes

• Update entry in A to Z of NHS health writing for "doctor"
• Improve guidance on ordinal numbers on Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
• Remove reference to the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors on content style guide hub page and include contact details instead
• Use the latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (3.0.3)

3.0.4 - 12 February 2020

🆕 New content

• Update guidance on "sex" and "intersex" on the Inclusive language page.
• Update What's new section with latest changes.

🔧 Fixes

• Fix design example 'Open in new window' link accessibility issue (Issue 548)

3.0.3 - 4 February 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Remove old CSS/JS caching techniques as this is now covered on the server side
• Clarify guidance on temperature, and edit examples on numbers and measurements page
• Fix a typo on the Warning callout page
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.0.2 - 29 January 2020

🔧 Fixes

• Add temporary meta data to verify domain with Google
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

3.0.1 - 28 January 2020

🔧 Fixes

• use the new open graph images for each section

3.0.0 - 28 January 2020

🆕 New features

• The NHS digital service manual is now a live service (https://service-manual.nhs.uk)
• Add main navigation to the service manual
• Add side navigation to the different sections in the service manual
• Add in-page navigation to longer pages in the service manual

🆕 New content

• Add a hint text page to components after user research showed users did not look for it under text input or other components
• Add new page: Backlog of components and patterns
• Add new section: "What's new" with updates and blog pages
• Update the Inclusive language page with revised guidance on "sex, gender and sexuality", "race, ethnicity, religion and nationality" and "age"
• Add new entries for "chronic", "acute", "renal" and "kidney" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Update the A to Z of NHS health writing with entries on "pharmacy", "chemist" and "sex assigned or registered at birth"
• Make it easier for people to understand negative contractions. Add "can't or cannot" and "don't or do not" to the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Amend the guidance on using the number 1 on the Numbers, measurements, dates and time page
• Amend index page and side navigation of How to write good questions to improve search results
• Add 'Need help?' or 'Get in touch' details to pages across the site
• Update Cookies page to reflect current cookies practice and let people opt in
• Update Terms and conditions page to make it clear the service manual is covered by the Open Government Licence
• Amend Your privacy page to reflect service manual policy and practice

🔧 Fixes

• Remove the /service-manual prefix
• Use the new domain name in the sitemap and configuration files
• Add the cookie policy and declaration pages and logic
• Self host the cookie banner and change content to remove Hotjar/Adobe
• Update the XML sitemap
• Only use Google Analytics on the production environment
• Update the 404 page not found content and add a variable to disable search

2.2.0 - 13 January 2020

🆕 New features

• Display the parent page in search results

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

2.1.0 - 6 January 2020

🆕 New features

• Add entries for "pharmacy", "chemist" and "sex assigned or registered at birth" to the A to Z of NHS health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Add more detail about interoperability standards to section 17 of NHS service standard
• Amend guidance on using the number 1 in Numbers, measurements, dates and time after December Style Council meeting
• Update inclusive language page, especially the section on sex, gender and sexuality
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

2.0.1 - 17 December 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Correct formatting of full sentence list style on formatting and punctuation page
• Remove link and clarify direction to research in details page
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Update frontend library and prototyping tools breadcrumb

2.0.0 - 16 December 2019

🆕 New features

• Add search functionality to the service manual

🆕 New content

• NHS service standard

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.13.4 - 09 December 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Add missing Details component JavaScript polyfill
• Use https on all external links and fix broken link on the test your questions page
• Remove the unnecessary type attribute from JavaScript resources
• Fix broken link to the PDF page on sitemap page
• Update accessibility footer link to accessibility statement
• Make filter question image decorative using alt null

1.13.3 - 25 November 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Made it clear in PDF guidance that PDFs can be used for a permanent record
• Added an additional bullet point on PDFs being used as a permanent record.
• Refactor CSS and HTML to clean up the code base and make the spacing more consistent

1.13.2 - 18 November 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Update PDF and links pages and related content

1.13.1 - 12 November 2019

🔧 Fixes

• clarify start of project questions for product and delivery in Accessibility guidance
• fix incorrect url on summary list component to github issue
• use latest version of the nhsuk-frontend (3.0.2)
• Consistent HTML spacing and indenting to make the code easier to read
• Remove unnecessary spacing override classes
• Create 2 new page layouts (full width and two thirds) to reduce code duplication
• Add Sass styles to constrain widths of elements when using the full width layout
• cache bust CSS and JavaScript assets
• remove duplicate import for the radios nunjucks macro

1.13.0 - 7 November 2019

🆕 New content

• Guidance on how to write good questions in forms
• Improvements to the Header component page with guidance on the new organisational header
• New page: Understanding focus state styles
• Summary list component
• Asking users for their NHS number pattern
• NHS number entry in A to Z of NHS health writing
• Improved guidance for colour and typography

🔧 Fixes

• Capitalise GOV.UK 'Design System'
• Tidy up the colours and typography pages with more examples and improve page design
• Improve the guidance around use of the Frutiger font
• Remove the hint text page and include guidance for hint text on individual component pages
• Use the latest version of NHS.UK frontend (3.0.0) including new focus styles
• Fix the Nunjucks snippets for the A to Z and Mini-hub patterns

1.12.0 - 21 October 2019

🆕 New content

• Add contribution criteria for community contribution

🔧 Fixes

• Update the guidance around usage of Do & Don't lists on their own
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.11.0 - 2 October 2019

🆕 New content

• Add new entry to A to Z of NHS health writing for "PMS (premenstrual syndrome)"

🔧 Fixes

• Amend entries for GP surgery and seizure or fit in the A to Z of NHS health writing
• Delete mention of wizard behind the curtain from accessibility guidance
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Update the Slack workspace URL

1.10.4 - 24 September 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Remove the old basic cookie consent solution
• Implement the new cookie consent solution
• Remove feedback survey from the sitemap

1.10.3 - 19 September 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Remove redundant Adobe Analytics code
• Anonymize IP addresses in Google Analytics
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Remove feedback survey from the footer
• Use the correct class names for the typography size modifiers

1.10.2 - 16 September 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Remove the search JavaScript until the search functionality is complete

1.10.1 - 11 September 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Use the latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (v2.3.1)
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.10.0 - 4 September 2019

🆕 New content

• Add new entries to A to Z of NHS health writing, including: "baby", "foetus", "drowsy", "sleepy", "preconception care", "seizure or fit"

🔧 Fixes

• Add mini-hub at top of Inclusive language page and change "baby" in section on Age
• Update entry for summary care record in A to Z of NHS health writing
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.9.0 - 21 August 2019

🆕 New content

• Add more guidance for content designers to the care card page
• Add "red book" and inclusive language terms to A to Z of NHS health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Update inclusive language page in content style guide, especially guidance on sex, gender and sexuality
• Change "measurement" to "measurements" in Numbers, measurements, dates and time - and update links to this page
• Improve wording about ordinal numbers on Numbers, measurements, dates and time

1.8.0 - 9 August 2019

🆕 New content

• Add entries to A to Z of NHS health writing: health record and related terms

🔧 Fixes

• Remove duplicate entry from the XML sitemap
• Accessibility: Updated home link aria label, it now reads as "NHS digital service manual homepage"
• Fix a few minor content formatting issues, like apostrophes
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.7.0 - 6 August 2019

🆕 New content

• Add new page in content style guide with updated guidance on numbers, measurement, dates and time
• Add new numbers terms to A to Z of health writing

🔧 Fixes

• Update the guidance for how we use the microgram symbol
• Update the guidance for how we write concisely with example
• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.6.2 - 30 July 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Use the latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (v2.3.0)
• Use the latest NHS website Open Graph assets and metadata
• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Accessibility guidance pages grammar and content updates
• Add 'homeless' to the A-Z of NHS health writing
• Add external links to the links and PDF guidance pages

1.6.1 - 22 July 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Remove page section from the Open Graph meta title
• Fix broken link to the privacy policy on the sitemap page
• Update the link to the contribution criteria

1.6.0 - 8 July 2019

🆕 New content

• Accessibility guidance pages

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions

1.5.0 - 1 July 2019

🆕 New content

• New content in the A to Z of NHS health writing, including cervical screening, people, patients and service users
• Publish new patterns for A to Z and Mini-hub
• Accessibility statement

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies to latest versions
• Prevent the code snippets from escaping the container on mobile (Issue 190)
• Tidy up the core application structure and configuration (Issue 196)
• Swap the white background around on the homepage and tidy up the HTML markup
• Update to version 2.2.0 of the NHS.UK frontend library - with favicon changes in layout file

1.4.1 - 26 April 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Prevent the CSS and JavaScript files being cached for too long with cache busting
• Update package dependencies to the latest versions

1.4.0 - 26 April 2019

🆕 New content

• Example of a transactional header with service name on the header component page
• Publish new styles: Spacing

🔧 Fixes

• Update package dependencies including latest version (2.1.0) of the NHS.UK frontend
• Remove checked attribute from the radio button example
• Fix the page width of the radio component page
• Fix broken email anchor link
• Fixed hyphens in modifier class names on typography page

1.3.0 - 5 April 2019

🆕 New content

• Add more terms to the A to Z of NHS health writing after March Style Council meeting, plus other content updates

🔧 Fixes

• Rename Grid page - now Layout - and iterate content

1.2.0 - 12 March 2019

🆕 New features

• Publish new contribution pages for proposing and working on new features with contribution criteria

🔧 Fixes

• Use the correct paths in the component code snippets for importing Nunjucks macros
• Add links to discuss each of the component on the GitHub service manual backlog
• Use latest version of the NHS.UK frontend library (2.0.0)
• Amend typo on the inset text component page

1.1.1 - 4 March 2019

🔧 Fixes

• Add more terms to A to Z of NHS health writing after January Style Council meeting
• Update temperature info on Formatting and punctuation page and link to A to Z

1.1.0 - 26 February 2019

🆕 New features

• Publish new components; Back link, Contents list, Details, Expander, Images, Pagination, Review date, Skip link and Table
• Draft first release of the service standard pages

🔧 Fixes

• Updated the guidance on using icons and buttons user research
• Fix broken links across the manual such as breadcrumb
• Fix spelling mistakes across the manual such as sufar to sugar
• Change /content-style-guide/ page URL to /content/
• Report the correct http status code on 404 page not found pages
• Reduce the file size of the design principles PDF
• Use the corrext Sass colour variable names and colour hex codes
• Fix broken breadcrumb Home link on error message component page

1.0.0 - 5 February 2019

🎉 Official release of the NHS digital service manual