| title | What's new |
|---|---|
| description | What's new in the Design System over the past year. |
| section | Community |
| theme | What we’re working on |
| layout | layout-pane.njk |
| order | 10 |
See our latest releases and updates.
This release adds the Generic header component for services that are not part of the GOV.UK proposition but would still benefit from using GOV.UK Frontend to build their service.
Read the full release notes to see what’s changed.
This release helps teams prepare for upcoming changes to Sass, the CSS extension language, by adding support for including GOV.UK Frontend CSS as a Sass module with @use or @forward. We’ve also improved the enhanced File upload component and made several fixes.
Read the full release notes for v6.2.0 to see what’s changed.
If you have any questions or feedback, contact the team.
This release improves how the text colour switches to pure black when printing, adds support for configuring custom assets URL functions as Sass functions, and fixes a number of Sass deprecation warnings along with other small fixes.
Read the full release notes for v6.1.0 to see what’s changed.
Some of the breaking changes in this release include:
- improving our Sass architecture
- using an updated type scale to improve accessibility for small screens
- updating colours to use the web palette in the GOV.UK brand guidelines
- improving flexibility in our page template layout
We’ve also removed a number of deprecated APIs, Sass variables and component options.
By updating to v6.0.0 you’ll:
- stay aligned with the GOV.UK look and feel
- benefit from a more consistent colour system
- get the latest accessibility improvements
- benefit from a smaller CSS payload
- be able to customise the page template further than before
Read the full release notes for v6.0.0 to see what’s changed.
This release allows you to remove content licence information from the GOV.UK footer if your service does not provide information under the Open Government Licence (OGL).
It also provides a fix for a bug in the VoiceOver screen reader software that affects the menu toggle in the Service navigation component.
Read the release notes for v5.14.0 to see what’s changed.
This release introduces new Sass functions to help write @media and @container queries, mixins and functions whilst still using custom breakpoints or GOV.UK Frontend’s $govuk-breakpoints setting.
You can continue using the govuk-media-query mixin exactly as before - we changed how it works under the hood, but the mixin should behave the same way.
Read the release notes for v5.13.0 to see what’s changed.
It introduces a new mixin you can use to style the focus state if you’re building your own form input components.
Read the release notes for v5.12.0 to see what’s changed.
This release includes some JavaScript bug fixes, as well as a fix for thickness of underlines on the Pagination component in Safari.
Read the release notes for v5.11.2 to see what changed.
It fixes link styles in the Service navigation on inverted backgrounds and makes govuk-shade and govuk-tint more reliable.
Read the release notes for v5.11.1 to see what's changed.
This release includes improvements to the Service navigation component, making it easier to use on mobile devices and offering an inverse colour option. We also added deprecation warnings for code built with the LibSass library.
Read the release notes for v5.11.0 to see what's changed.
This is the first step towards refreshing the GOV.UK brand for users of earlier versions of GOV.UK Frontend.
Read the release notes for v4.10.0 to see what's changed.
This release fixes an issue with the way product names are shown in the header.
Read the release notes for v5.10.2 to see what's changed.
It makes some fixes to the implementation of the GOV.UK brand refresh introduced in v5.10.0.
Read the release notes for v5.10.1 to see what's changed.
This release is first step towards refreshing the GOV.UK brand.
It includes updates to the:
- GOV.UK header component
- GOV.UK footer component
- Service navigation component
- Cookie banner component
Read the release notes for v5.10.0 to see what's changed.
This release includes a JavaScript enhancement to the File upload component, which makes dragging and dropping files easier for users.
We also deprecated the options to show a service name, as well as navigation links, in the GOV.UK header component. Both options will be removed from the GOV.UK header in the next breaking release of GOV.UK Frontend.
Read the full release notes to see what’s changed.
This release includes a new ConfigurableComponent class to help you build your own configurable components.
Read the full release notes to see what’s changed.