v6.0.0

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

v5.10.0

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

v5.9.1

• Fix design principle 10 in mobile view

v5.9.0

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"

v5.8.0

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)

v5.7.12

5.7.12 - 21 October 2022

🔧 Maintenance

• Update example phone number to standard

v5.7.11

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

v5.7.10

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

v5.7.9

5.7.9 - 22 August 2022

🔧 Maintenance

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

v5.7.8

5.7.8 - 1 August 2022

🔧 Maintenance

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