Behavior adjustments
- Add the year to the start date of a calendar event’s date range when it differs from the year of the end date.
- Added month and year variables to the calendar’s month day template.
- SiteImprove crawler is now permitted to bypass normal bot/scanner rules to refresh the page cache on its own, to ensure more up-to-date reporting for SiteImprove users.
Bugs
- Added robots.txt overwrite protection for LiveWhale-managed robot rules.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent the group calendar url from appearing in the canonical URL for individual events.
- Fixed an issue that could cause an erroneous redirect on a tag details request.
- Fixed an issue, introduced in 2.16.0, that could unintentionally affect the default formatting of /live/rss/ API endpoints. This fix restores the normal RSS syntax unless you’ve specifically chosen to override it using _ingredients/templates/widgets/events.rss_default.xml.
- Upgraded the clean-css-cli npm module to version 5.6.3, fixing an issue where styles in :not() declarations could become malformed.
- Fixed an issue that prevented async curl requests from being able to bypass the load balancer.
- Removed defunct “Hide Details” toggle from image uploader modal.
Developer options
- The user setting “Disable minimization, concatenation, and client-side browser caching of all scripts and stylesheets” now applies to back-end resources as well as front-end styles/scripts.
- Custom fields that are configured without a unique name now appear as a dashboard configuration warning.
Behind-the-scenes
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Performance Improvements
- Removed hidden “summary” field from calendar month view to improve loading times.
- Custom fields are now only loaded on event listings if they are included in the event theme component.
- Variables that are commented out in calendar components are now skipped when pulling event listings to improve loading times.
- Improved search page performance by adjusting the handling of exact phrases and by improved segmentation of search index data by content type.
- Improved caching of calendar results in cases where multiple themes or timezones may be used.
- Improved performance by increasing caching of per-group timezone settings.
- Improved performance of front-end events requests by indexing certain hide_repeats information.
- LiveWhale CMS only: Added some security checks to prevent spam submissions in LiveWhale forms.
Release date: June 15, 2025