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This release focused on cleaning up the editing experience, improving platform reliability, and making fixes to the system.

Recent updates focused on expanding icon options, improving Baylor-branded styling, and simplifying the platform’s icon support for better long-term stability.

This release focused on accessibility improvements across page layouts, search, calendars, media, and shared content components.

Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (11.2.11), a security-focused update.

Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (11.2). This update ensures that the platform remains secure and stable while improving the tools our content editors use every day.

This release focused on improving platform stability, preparing for future Drupal upgrades, and resolving content editing issues to ensure a smoother experience for site editors and visitors.

This release emphasized platform stability, visual consistency, and a smoother editing experience. Updates addressed reliability issues, improved mobile and layout behavior, and clean up of unused elements. Refinements also expanded design flexibility for editors while preparing the platform for future enhancements.

This sprint focused on improving visual consistency, improving content controls, and enhancing overall platform stability.

Content managers can now upload and manage videos directly from Drupal. This new tool works with Baylor's online video provider, Kaltura. Videos are a great way to increase engagement with a more immersive way to demonstrate campus life at Baylor.

This release improved platform stability, refined user-facing components, and improved administrative tools. Several behind-the-scenes cleanups also contribute to long-term maintainability and performance.

This release focused improving platform reliability, broadening content management tools, and removing outdated functionality.

Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (10.5).

As part of ongoing Drupal improvements, the latest updates introduce improvements to content editing and presentation, including cleaner profile lists, better news, reliable page cloning, corrected lightbox captions, and standardized menu fields.

As part of ongoing Drupal improvements, the latest updates deliver improved styles and information for webforms, changes to support media rich new stories and fixes related to media.

As part of ongoing Drupal improvements, the latest updates deliver new ways to display videos, include groundwork for improved content syndication, and a better way to display hours of operation.

Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (10.4).

On Dec. 13, 2024, the Drupal development team released the new Asides tool that will enable content managers to create callout boxes on pages, stories and events.

Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (10.3).

As part of ongoing Drupal improvements, tools for managing people (the Person content type) will be upgraded in the coming days.

Baylor's Drupal environment was upgraded to most recent release of Drupal (10.2.7) on July 11, 2024.

As part of regular Drupal updates, tools for uploading and placing multimedia (images, documents) was upgraded today.

We’re in the process of transitioning mass email support from Baylor’s legacy BUCMS to our new mass email system, Emma, in advance of the retirement of the BUCMS mass email system at the end of September 2024.

As part of regular updates to the Drupal environment, CKEditor 4 will be upgraded to version 5 on January 23, 2024.

Migration of event and calendar information from the old BUCMS to Drupal was successfully completed this afternoon, November 7. Thank you for your patience as we’ve implemented this key element of our new systems.

Baylor’s long-term web CMS (BUCMS) will be retired at the end of the fall 2023 semester. All websites managed through BUCMS must be moved to Drupal or archived before this deadline. To facilitate our many campus partners, migrations must begin by early summer 2022.
 

Are you off campus and managing pages in the Baylor CMS? You may encounter security messages from CloudFlare from time to time as you use the system. To continue working, please use the GlobalProtect VPN to securely connect to Baylor's network.

The core development team has made good progress over the past few weeks as the team crafted a new digital theme and started building the foundation for Baylor's digital/web marketing platform.

I am pleased to introduce you to the CMS Migration Project—a project to move the Baylor website from the home-grown Baylor Content Management System to a cloud-hosted version of Drupal. You’re receiving this message because you have a role in managing web content (you are designated as a user of Baylor’s current CMS) for the University.