Release Notes from the Web Team
Discover the latest updates from the web team, including new features and improvements to enhance your online experience.
Table of Contents
Release Notes 3/11/2026
People Pages
- People Page - Edit data
- Profiles-per-page refresh behavior
- People sidebar design section
Move Pages
- page lock checks before moves
Usuablilty background improments
- settings modal programmatic navigation
- PhotoGrid state/error handling
UI Changes
- sidebar close on manual save
- page preview sizing
Release Notes 3/3/2026
Quick Menu
- Spell Check/Text edit mode now shows all the text boxes on the page, so you can quickly spell check all the boxes on the page
- Dynamic clipart colors now wrap so you can edit clipart with more then 5 colors
Layout Menu
- Info button fixed
Elements Menu
- Improved searching capabilities
Background Mode
- If you add elements to the page in background mode, when you exit background mode the items will be behind items in the content layer.
General
- ESC key - de-selects the item attached to your cursor
People Flow
- Updated the check for editor in insertSnippet function. When the editor is reloaded (for example, using multiflow on a page you're currently on) and you attempt to add a template (sidebar or people pages menu), there's an error that occurs. Appears to be caused by _editor being old (thinks the new objects added to the designer don't exist).
Release Notes 2/27/2026
Text Menu
- Apply style to selected frame is fixed
Layout Menu
- Now “All Layourts” defaults to being closed, so you can see the list of template categories
- If you click on the magify glass, the template preview is now larger in the pop up menu
Image Menu
- Fixed Uploaded by filter
PDF Flow
- No flows PDFs in the order starting with page 1
People Pages
- Alety of missing instead of saying “NAME_2 MISSING" It will say the students name

- “Text Style” now has option to change “only this person”
- Corrected display of style information when editing people page information
Footer and Header Improvemtns for smaller screen sizes
Ladder
- Has icons of who is on what pages

Saving and Exiting
- Prevents Exit before save is complete
Release Notes 2/24/2026
Partner Branding & Chat Support Enhancements
- Added new utility functions to detect private branded and partner domains, determine branding modes, and extract partner information
- Updated chat support logic to conditionally enable live chat based on partner branding and upgrade
Added logic to detect PDF uploaded to Photos
- creates a full-page image frame (including bleed bounds) keeps it in the CONTENT layer, applies fitMode = proportional_outside.
Changing mult text boxes at same time
- Multiselecting text boxes, now allows you to change the text settings for multiple frames at once.
Fixed If book is approved for production cant access left menu bar
New Fill Icon on the toolbar (Only when the object has a fill color)

New Color Picker Features
- Eyedropper Tool - Added eyedropper button to the color palette toolbar (between edit and refresh buttons)
- Auto-generates a descriptive color name based on the picked hex value (e.g. "Dark Blue", "Pale Pink")
- Edit Color Mode - Added edit button (pencil icon) to the color palette toolbar
- Auto Color Naming -New utility generates human-readable names from hex values
- Save Button UX - Button shows "Saving..." and is disabled during the save operation to prevent duplicate color creation
Release Notes 2/19/2026
Fixed Color Picker
- Colors no longer reverting to black
- Custom Color Picker updates
- Eye drop functionality

Added helpful Articles to AskEd

Image Search
- Can Sort by “liked” photos
Fixed Undo
- When using Text tools - editing fonts, color, etc.
Arrange Tools
- Will give alert if you dont have more then one item selected.
Quick Menu
- Info Button - updated UI


Release Notes 2/17/2026
Fixed Text Edit Mode
- will no longer remove numbers in text boxes
Searching in Elements
- Clicking Enter will automatically open the “All Elements” category
- Pixabay (royality free images) has been added back into the searches

Release Notes 2/12/2026
Caching - Introduce more caching in the App to improve load times
Under the Setting Menu, you can clear cache data in order to have a refreshed version of the menus

Background Tasks
Uploading a PDF, requested a proof, creating an Index file. This screen will show the status of these operations. And coming soon will have the option to Restart or report a stuck job to a team member

Page Details
If you hover over a page in the ladder menu, there is a small magify glass. This will bring up the page details menu, with a previw, and all the information in the ladder.

Other Fixes:
- Fixed duplicate layers in the Cover
- Fixed usability of Elements menu
- Fixed duplicate scroll bar in ladder and loading messages
On Main website:
- Manage Users
- If a user is ONLY associated with one yearbook account, when the admin clicks “Reset Password” the email will go to both the user and the Administrator of the account.
Release Notes 2/10/2026
Text Edit Mode & Spell Check
We have updated the Text Edit Mode pop up to now have an expand view option. Improved spacing and other formatting issues when copying and pasting text from an outside source.
Updated Spell Check to now give suggestions for the missed spelled words in the text box. If you click on the suggestion it will replace the word in the text box.

Automatically adding backgrounds into “Background Layer”
If you have a image or shape that is the full size of the page, in the content layer, when you now open the page it will move to the background layer. There will be an orange toaster message, that informs you the object has been moved to the background layer.

If you double click on the background to try to edit it and it is in background mode, a new notifcation will come up to access background mode easier.

Improved Layout menu

Release Notes 2/5/2026
Key highlight
- Updated the drop shadow feature to use a new settings modal.
People page and editing fixes
- Fixed issues when adding a student.
- Fixed problems on the People page when names appear in the side list.
- Resolved issues selecting photo categories on People pages.
- Fixed profiles per page resetting after reflow.
- Corrected delete failures in Edit Person.
- Fixed screen sizing issues after placing a template on People pages.
- Corrected Snap-to setting not reflecting the correct state on load.
- Adjusted multiflow menu behavior after placing the last page.
Template, Auto Grid, and layout fixes
- Fixed low-resolution photo behavior in Auto Grid.
- Fixed error when using “Save As Template” on the last page.
Workflow and interface improvements
- Simplified page details, ladder preview, and activity log interfaces.
- Simplified ladder spread preview and image refresh logic.
- Reduced complexity in the job dashboard modal.
- Adjusted properties modal defaults and custom text handling.
- Reduced height of the People page modal when not in full-screen mode.
- Added support for multi-object opacity changes.
- Added layer controls to the People sidebar.
- Improved toaster messages.
Platform, performance, and reliability
- Fixed active users on top tol bar.
- Added stronger logging and error handling for online user tracking.