3.9.11 (not yet released) ------------------------- * Update "cosmological" timelines so that relatively recent (-99,999 BCE or more recent) dates are formatted using the same formatting usually used, with `BigDate` formatting only used for dates >=100,000BCE (no current support for formatting far distant future dates, that is those too large for JS date) * #668 Directly support CSV configuration 3.9.10 (2026-03-04) ------------------------- * Fix mapping bug introduced with updated icon fonts. 3.9.9 (2026-03-03) ------------------------- * #895 Fixes for pt-BR locale * a11y: add empty alt attribute to thumbnail images * New embeds for TikTok and Bluesky 3.9.8 (2025-05-23) ------------------------- * #894 Fixes previous/next button positioning when a timeline is a child of an element with dir="rtl" 3.9.7 (2025-03-11) ------------------------- * #834 Improved timegroup-message element contrast * #890 Fixes to support modern Google Sheets publish-to-web URL format 3.9.6 (2025-01-10) ------------------------- * Change initial computation of component heights to address axis labels overflowing 3.9.5 (2024-12-13) ------------------------- * Recognize x.com in URL to trigger tweet embeds 3.9.4 (2024-12-04) ------------------------- * Fix bug in WikipediaImage when float width parameters are sent to WP APIs * Add support for 'Alt Text' column in Google Sheets configuration. 3.9.3 (2023-06-26) ------------------------- * Update for Google Analytics 4 (GA4) * #812 don't throw an error when attempting to report an error fetching config data * #799 Deprecate / remove DOMUtil (should be invisible but simplifies code) 3.9.2 (2023-02-07) ------------------------- * #796 support Wikipedia image page URLs * #808 Add support for en-GB locale (UK-style date formatting, eg 2 Dec 2022) * #814 Ensure that buttons are created with type="button" 3.9.1 (2022-11-29) ------------------------- * Adapted to a change in Google Drive sharing links which caused TimelineJS to no longer select the correct media type. * Fix rare date formatting issues * #803 support m.youtube.com URLs same as other YouTube URLs 3.9.0 (2022-10-07) ------------------------- * A bounty of accessibility improvements contributed by @OleksandrDanylchenko: #744, #747, #749, #750, #756, #758, #760, #764, #766, #768, #770, #783, #786, #787 and one from @madhaze #789 * #792 adds a "go to end" button to the menu bar. * #794 fixes a CSS problem with background colors and the dark theme 3.8.21 (2022-04-29) ------------------ * #704 honor "start_at_end" option when also using "hash_bookmark" option * #730 Improved Norwegian translations for both bøkmal and nynorsk. * #710 Improve tests by setting timezone (and adjusting the async handling in `Timeline.test.js`) 3.8.20 (2022-02-16) ------------------ * #719 - Support Dropbox URL rewriting for audio and video as well as images. Thanks @Simonkcaon ! 3.8.19 (2022-01-07) ------------------ * #724 - Alternate syntax for compatibility with Vite, probably other tooling. 3.8.18 (2021-06-08) ------------------ * #699 - remove duplicate definition of _onStorySliderLoaded in Timeline.js * #700 - remove duplicate definition of _onTimeNavLoaded in Timeline.js * #705 - Export Timeline class and include generated CSS in npm package 3.8.17 (2021-04-19) ------------------ * #696 - implement pause on audio/video media types * Add support for direct webm video URLs * Update several npm dependencies 3.8.16 (2021-04-02) ------------------ * Add hash change listener so that timelines with `hash_bookmark` option respond to hash changes after loading. (#692) 3.8.15 (2021-02-17) ------------------ * Fix straggling JSON syntax error in en.json example file. * Fix bug introduced with cosmological date formatting to do with inconsistencies between Language.js and en.json 3.8.14 (2021-02-14) ------------------ * Make en.json proper JSON (remove comments) now that new codepath is causing it to be DOMContentLoaded * Add better error handling to Net.js just in case. * Resolve not to release code on Friday afternoon 3.8.13 (2021-02-12) ------------------ * #682: adjust language loading to make sure its done before drawing timeline. 3.8.12 (2021-01-25) ------------------ * #363,670: remove synchronous XMLHttpRequests * #672: support Spotify podcasts * #649: better handling of a/href tags to open in new windows, or to follow specified target values 3.8.11 (2020-11-23) ------------------ * Improve error messaging re issues retrieving configuration data from Google. 3.8.10 (2020-11-03) ------------------ * Change Instagram handling to catch up to their API changes. (#664) 3.8.9 (2020-10-23) ------------------ * Fix pattern matching and URL parsing for using Google Drive documents. * Adjust rules for loading font to support relative/fragment URLs for `font` config option 3.8.8 (2020-10-20) ------------------ * fix error in TL.lookupMediaType 3.8.7 (2020-10-20) INVALID RELEASE DO NOT USE ------------------ * clearer error messaging if time is used without date * strip all whitespace from both ends of header cells * expose TL.lookupMediaType as a publicly accessible function (formerly TL.MediaType before 3.7.0) 3.8.6 (2020-09-29) ------------------ * #659: Prevent blank column headers from derailing Timeline load 3.8.5 (2020-09-28) ------------------ * check for null when validating date inputs from CSV 3.8.4 (2020-09-28) ------------------ * #655: treat all-whitespace Google Sheets values as blank and don't try to process them * #656: chomp excess whitespace around header values/object keys. * #658: clean integer values for dates -- strip whitespace and comma 3.8.3 (2020-09-25) ------------------ * Make CSV parser always return strings (fixes bug where V1 Sheets with year-only dates were assumed to be strings) * Log instead of throw error when trying to add an event in TimelineConfig that has no start date 3.8.2 (2020-09-25) ------------------ * Fix a bug in ConfigFactory date processing which was adding unintended "January 1, 0" end dates. 3.8.1 (2020-09-23) ------------------ * Change Timeline's Google Sheets access method in advance of the discontinuation of Google Sheets API v3. See https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/2020/09/16/timelinejs-update-2/index.html for more information. All self-hosted timeline users should update to this version before 2020-09-30. 3.8.0 (2020-09-23) ------------------ * Discarded release: failed to merge key changes into master branch. 3.7.9 (2020-09-17) ------------------ * #654: Attempt to avoid 'overlapping' slides. Mixed feedback on if this is a complete solution. 3.7.8 (2020-09-02) ------------------ * #651: Restore document loading check with proper binding 3.7.7 (2020-08-26) ------------------ * #651: rollback document loading check after error reports 3.7.6 (2020-08-25) ------------------ * Add a check of the document's loading status, and defer layout until DOMContentLoaded, in response to reports of timelines where all slide content overlaps. * Introduce a 'ready' event, which TimelineJS will fire after all other initialization is complete. * Support a Timeline option, `soundcite`, which triggers the loading of Knight Lab's SoundciteJS code, enabling the use of SoundCite markup in all HTML-capable Timeline fields. * Fix error messages in Imgur media type 3.7.5 (2020-07-22) ------------------ * More fixes to handling default font case * add missing import for Wistia media type 3.7.4 (2020-07-21) ------------------ * Fix #645: restore removeId to public API for a Timeline * Fix: only load font.default.css when no other font is specified; otherwise cascade rules are inconsistent with old behavior. 3.7.3 (2020-07-16) ------------------ * Fix stupid bugs introduced with incomplete testing. 3.7.2 (2020-07-16) ------------------ * Fix variable naming error when handling thrown exceptions in adding eras * Fix name of div in developer "embed" template to restore ability to switch data source for dev view * don't routinely sanitize media URLs; instead, place that responsibility on Media subclasses for which the 'url' is actually used with markup 3.7.1 (2020-07-10) ------------------ * Protect against undefined/null options in constructor * Pass a valid message container for 'swipe to navigate' #644 3.7.0 (2020-07-09) ------------------ * Internal rewrite to use modern JavaScript * Sanitize HTML inputs 3.6.6 (2020-03-11) ------------------ * Replace Flickr API key 3.6.5 (2019-05-01) ------------------ * Revert construction of Google feeds URL to pre-3.6.4 pattern which should be more universally correct. 3.6.4 (2019-04-30) ------------------ * Fall back to Google Sheets API v4 when 500 error found using v3 (Workaround for Google API failure) * Issue #598 - use 24-hr time for Portuguese * PR #599 allow text selection on all devices * PR #608 allow video start times (and end times for youtube) * PR #609 fixes #577 link hover on slides w/ background images 3.6.2 (2018-12-20) ------------------ * PR #592 adds missing woff2 font to fix nav arrows on MS Edge * PR #594 Updated Czech (Čeština) translations 3.6.1 (2018-10-10) ------------------ * Correct translation of "July" in Slovenian. 3.6.0 (2018-06-11) ------------------ * Configure Google Analytics tracking to anonymize_ip for GDPR compliance 3.5.4 (2017-12-15) ------------------ * PR #331 fixes bug that was causing duplications of groups * Fix to allow missing media in JSON #565 3.5.3 (2017-11-07) ------------------ * Remove 1px offset that causes white line along top of Timeline 3.5.2 (2017-10-26) ------------------ * PR #554 adds direction to .tl-rtl 3.5.1 (2017-05-03) ------------------ * PR #522 use https in wistia 3.5.0 (2017-05-03) ------------------ * PR #510 Twitter image support * PR #520, #515 Imgur image support * PR #514 Wistia video support (URL only) * PR #508 Fixes to local previews for development 3.4.9 (2017-04-10) ------------------ ------------------ * PR #468 support audio and video files (.mp4, .mp3, .wav, .m4a) * PR #460 improve spotify documentation and support album and artist pages * PR #454 use the `lang` attribute set in the embed url as the lang for the iframe * PR #453 add support for title and alt tags on images 3.4.8 (2017-03-31) ------------------ ------------------ * Fix missing accent in French translation * Add additional Thai translation 3.4.7 (2016-01-12) ------------------ * PR #447 Enable Vimeo fullscreen controls 3.4.6 (2016-12-12) ------------------ * Revert PR #387 which was causing slide cutoff on small screens 3.4.5 (2016-12-07) ------------------ * PR #428 - Reinstate table display for IE. #427 3.4.3 (2016-11-15) ------------------ * Revert PR #374, reopen #277. Fix left black bar across full screen timelines. 3.4.2 (2016-11-15) ------------------ * PR #374 - Adds margin-top for large screen disply. Fixes #277 * PR #401 - Adds Vietnamese translation * PR #419 - Removes year zero from the timeline. Fixes #328 * PR #387 - Fixes background image scrolling on long slide. #360 * PR #389 - Adds YouTube end-time feature. #388 3.4.1 (2016-10-04) ------------------ * PR #400 - pause Vine, DailyMotion, and Soundcloud media on slide exit (thanks @Hammman and @JustaBitDope) * PR #413 - French language support additions 3.4.0 (2016-08-30) ------------------- * Complete (?) RTL language support, removed Urdu Unicode translation bugs 3.3.17 (2016-08-22) ------------------- * #372 Italian translation for "Swipe to Navigate" * #376 Throw an error if URL is neither a Google Spreadsheet nor a source of parseable JSON * Chinese (traditional) (zh-cn) translation for "Swipe to Navigate" * Norwegian translation for "Swipe to Navigate" * added Burmese translation 3.3.16 (2016-05-31) ------------------- * #365 Scope vcard styles to avoid impacting pages which embed timelines without iframe * #366 Fix headline problem with

tag 3.3.15 (2016-05-11) ------------------- * Apply MediaType handling to thumbnails for the slider, so that people can use the same kinds of urls they use for regular media. * Establish correct indication of "BCE" in Swedish. * Establish correct indication of "BYA" abbreviations in Finnish and Hungarian. 3.3.14 (2016-03-22) ------------------- * Fix bug in handling imgur URLs which were to an imgur page and not directly to an image. 3.3.13 (2016-02-25) ------------------- * Fix API calls for Soundcloud, DailyMotion, Instagram, Spotify and Vine which used http and thus would fail in cross-protocol situations. * #342 test for 'start at end' to support boolean true as well as 'true' * #340 docfix: syntax highlighting for code snippets on GitHub Markdown * #323 more careful for loop in case people extend the Array prototype; fix build problem for Linux user-select 3.3.12 (2016-02-01) ------------------- * translate "swipe_to_navigate" for German (de) * add Urdu (ur) translation 3.3.11 (2015-12-03) ------------------- * back out header validation, interfered with too many random changes in the wild 3.3.10 (2015-12-02) ------------------- * improved validation/messaging during authoring: changes to headers, eras without end dates (#287) * Improved support for PDF files from Dropbox 3.3.9 (2015-10-26) ---------------------- * Make sure 'invalid_date_err' gets translated, esp so detail message gets displayed 3.3.8 (2015-10-20) ---------------------- * Fix Document Cloud URL bug 3.3.7 (2015-10-19) ---------------------- * Fix bug in Twitter embed (#282) (thanks @Newman101) * Support media-type image inference for background images (eg flickr, imgur, dropbox) (#268) 3.3.6 (2015-10-12) ------------------ * Have TimelineConfig validate date parts as integers (#269) * Support Twitter embed markup in media (in addition to a direct URL to a tweet) * support flic.kr URLs for Flickr images in addition fo flickr.com * add Imgur to supported media types * don't duplicate tl-storyslider class (#223) * Improved support for error message I18N 3.3.5 (2015-10-01) ------------------ * remove default target for links added by code. 3.3.4 (2015-09-30) ------------------ * implement PDF media type (#205) 3.3.3 (2015-09-30) ------------------ * Fix small offset in marker group alignment (#259) * Fix text-shadow appearing on slides with backgrounds (#260) * Added Bevan-PontanoSans font combo * Support for IE9 officially ruled out * Fixes to blockquote style * default TL.debug to false. 3.3.2 (2015-09-23) ------------------ This version of Timeline officially replaces the previous one.