Release notes for the Welcome app by Accelerator 365
These release notes provide information relating to updates and new features for the Welcome app.
November 5, 2024 (version 1.18.0.33)
- Subtitle field: This release introduces the ability to add subtitles to slides.
- Personalized greeting: This release supports alternate tokens from Microsoft Entra ID, allowing you to select the profile information presented in greeting messages. For more information, refer to the guidance here.
- Custom layout styles: This update contains styles applied in custom layouts to only the Welcome web part.
- Language support for Swedish.
September 12, 2024 (version 1.18.0.23)
- Time and weather: This release introduces support for displaying time and weather in the user's UI language.
- Brand fonts: This release introduces the support to use brand fonts from the SharePoint brand centre with the web part.
- Custom layout: Resolved an issue where the web part failed to display properly for custom layouts if the script tag file was missing a trailing space.
- Language support for Polish, Czech and Japanese.
May 13, 2024 (version 1.18.0.16)
- UI updates: Resolved issues relating to the display of Welcome content on smaller screen devices, including mobile devices.
- Profile image: Updates to the error handling of the profile image. The profile image is also now a decorative image per accessibility guidance.
February 5, 2024 (version 1.18.0.12)
Recommended update
- Time zones: Squished a style bug for the time zones drop-down in the classic Teams application when using Microsoft Viva Connections.
- Background image: Squished a bug related to rendering background images on the Welcome web part.
- Layouts: Squished a bug related to displaying the Welcome layout on SharePoint sites with an apostrophe in the site name.
- Operational improvements: Various updates to the error handling utilised by the Welcome web part.
January 18, 2024 (version 1.18.0.7)
- Core update: This release updates the core Microsoft library from SPFx 1.14 to 1.18.
- Product information: Added links to the Accelerator 365 knowledge base and app version information into the web part properties.
- Stability and performance improvements: Numerous updates and improvements to the core functionality to improve the performance and reliability of the Welcome app.
- Layouts: Squished a bug related to correctly displaying the Welcome layout in the classic Teams application when using Microsoft Viva Connections.
- Personalised content: Squished a bug related to the schedule for updating personalised content, such as the greeting message and local weather, on Welcome after an overnight period.
- UI updates: Various UI updates to align with the new style guidelines from SharePoint.
- Language support for French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish.
November 16, 2023 (version 1.14.0.27)
Recommended update
- Time zone fix: Resolved an issue with the time zone feature not respecting the change from daylight savings time.
October 18, 2023 (version 1.14.0.26)
- Scheduling improvements: This feature includes updates to the scheduling mechanism of slides and minor UI updates.
August 23, 2023 (version 1.14.0.20)
- Bug fixes: Resolved issues relating to the display of the web part in the SharePoint mobile app, and the display of the location name.
August 02, 2023 (version 1.14.0.17)
- Accessibility improvements: This feature enhances the accessibility of the Welcome web part, particularly with keyboard navigation.
- UI updates: Minor updates to the display of slides across all layouts.
- Language support for Italian
June 20, 2023 (version 1.14.0.13)
- Licensing screens: This update addresses minor labelling and styling updates to the licensing screens and dialogs.
- Bug fixes: Resolved issues relating the scheduling of slides and the ability to edit the display order of slides.
April 20, 2023 (version 1.14.0.8)
- Site sharing fix: Squished a bug related to a conflict with the Microsoft site sharing functionality.
April 07, 2023 (version 1.14.0.7)
- Product branding: Updates to labels and product titles to reflect the refreshed Accelerator 365 branding.
- Responsive design: Squished a bug relating to the display on small screens.
March 22, 2023 (version 1.14.0.5)
- Performance improvement: Introduction of an optimised caching mechanism
- UI updates: Minor updates to the display of slides across all layouts.
February 21, 2023 (version 1.14.0.4)
- Audience targeting: Squished a bug for displaying slides with audience targeting.
February 16, 2023 (version 1.14.0.3)
- Image picker dependency: This feature introduces a replacement for the image picker functionality to improve stability / remove a dependency on a control Microsoft are prone to update.
- Licensing screens: Integration with an updated licensing engine to support a smoother trial sign-up experience.
- Weather API key: Introduced an easier mechanism to edit the necessary OpenWeather API key for the web part.
- Required graph permissions message: Resolved an issue regarding the display of an error message if the necessary Microsoft Graph API permissions have not been approved.
November 21, 2022 (version 1.14.0.0)
- Initial release: The initial release of the Welcome app into the SharePoint Store.
Release notes from versions of the app prior to publication in the SharePoint Store are not listed.