Summary
Maintenance Release
The latest version of The Events Calendar focuses on enhancing accessibility.
As always, we recommend testing updates on a staging site first, but it should all be smooth sailing.
✅ Fixed
Bugs that were squashed in this release:
- Adjust the logic so Telemetry opt-in option is not set prematurely.
⚙️ Tweaks
Tweaks in this release:
- Changed views: `blocks/event-datetime`, `v2/components/backlink`, `v2/components/breadcrumbs`, `v2/components/breadcrumbs/breadcrumb`, `v2/components/breadcrumbs/linked-breadcrumb`, `v2/components/header`, `v2/list/nav`, `v2/list/top-bar/nav`
- Added `aria-label` to nav tags to make page landmarks unique.
- Event Date time block structure updated to improve accessibility.
- Add ARIA landmark roles and `aria-current` attributes to breadcrumbs to improve screen reader support.
- Replace breadcrumbs with a “Back to Events” link on Venue and Organizer single pages for clearer navigation and improved accessibility.
- Change default opt-in status to prevent false positives in checks when the value is not set.
🗣 Translations
Updated language files and strings:
- 4 new strings added
- 6 updated
- 1 fuzzied
- 0 obsoleted