- The following changes will be made to the WebPublish Academia and Comprehensive services on the evening of May 26, 2026.
- Site owners are encouraged to review the impact of these changes on their site in the Preview environment starting May 13.
- Review your site at https://wp3-prev.its.queensu.ca/[pubID] (without the square brackets).
Upgrade from Drupal 10 to Drupal 11
In the May 26 release, the underlying technology of WebPublish, Drupal, is being upgraded from version 10 to version 11. As this is a significant change, we strongly encourage site administrators to preview their sites. Issues encountered can be reported via the .
WebPublish users should not notice functional differences in WebPublish, but with the upgrade there will be some changes to the look and feel of the editing environment (live sites are unaffected by this). We appreciate your patience as we work to update our documentation over the coming weeks.
Updates
- In the "Course" content type:
- "Hours" field no longer required
- Placeholder text in fields has been removed
- Searching by course code is now available on course listing views
- Improved UI on floating submenu.
- Card Column (No Image) paragraph is now available on "Homepage" content type.
- Video/Audio Embed paragraph now allows for left-aligned body text and more space for captions.
- Slideshow captions are now italicized.
Fixes
- Mobile Mega Menu (not the default menu) now allows parent links to be clicked. The menu now expands when selected on mobile. This is the first step in iterative improvements to the mobile mega menu. In the October release, visual improvements to help better distinguish levels of the menu are planned.
- Adjusted font size of Upcoming Events paragraph event titles.
- Hero Image now defaults to displaying the desktop hero image across all breakpoints when no mobile version is uploaded.