Hub 6.82.1
LiveTiles Intranet Hub Version 6.82.1 has been released.
This release focuses on strengthening the overall Intranet Hub experience with a combination of reliability improvements, usability enhancements, governance refinements, and platform maintenance.
Across Governance Dashboard, Mega Menu, Reach webparts, Global Settings, and Hub administration, we've resolved a wide range of issues affecting navigation, content management, environment consistency, and user experience. These updates help reduce day-to-day friction for both content editors and site visitors while improving stability, visibility, and manageability across the platform.
In addition to numerous bug fixes, this release introduces several quality-of-life enhancements, improved branding consistency, better analytics and governance capabilities, and ongoing maintenance updates to keep the solution aligned with current platform and dependency requirements.
✨ New features
- #41 Hub now supports scheduled system messages, so administrators can display time-bound announcements to the right audience without manual updates.
- #40 Governance Publishing now shows the “Last modified by” information, making it easier to track who last changed content.
- #26 Hub analytics now routes users to Matomo when that analytics setup is in use, matching the intended reporting experience.
🚀 Improvements
- #91 External documentation pages have been refreshed with Omnia branding for a more consistent look and feel.
- #108 Third-party license handling has been expanded to better document the open-source components used across the Hub.
- #89 The Refresh action has clearer wording and a more helpful confirmation message, making its behavior easier to understand.
- #97 Preprod versioning has been clarified to keep the environment release state easier to track.
- #85 Reach has been updated to the latest package version, bringing the Hub in line with the newest Reach changes.
🐛 Fixes
- #46 Governance Dashboard now shows the missing filter icon in Site Pages for a more consistent table view.
- #98 Long page titles with underscores now display correctly instead of breaking the UI.
- #120 Newly created pages can now be deleted immediately from Manage Pages without needing a save or cancel first.
- #116 Known FossID security findings were addressed across core packages to reduce dependency risk.
- #217 Widget Picker checkboxes now appear correctly for user-configurable horizontal zones, so widgets can be selected again.
- #218 The Metadata Dashboard includes the missing incremental-mode change, restoring the Target URL dropdown behavior.
- #123 Mega Menu search items are now hidden when there are no submenu items to show.
- #104 Mega Menu now keeps page nodes visible even when they only have a link and no child items.
- #105 Direct links to list views no longer cause the Hub footer to overlap page content.
- #106 Clicking active Mega Menu links no longer shows the unwanted focus box.
- #107 Preprod Hub now points to the correct Reach environment instead of staging.
- #109 Reach webparts now call the correct test API endpoint in Preprod.
- #122 Canceling theme changes now properly discards unsaved updates in Global Settings.
- #118 The default logo behavior in Global Settings has been reviewed to better align branding expectations.
- #111 Reach webparts now show staging data in the staging environment instead of production data.
- #13 Mega Menu page titles and link icons now behave consistently when no submenus exist.
- #121 Export to Excel now includes all Governance Dashboard items, not just the first page of results.
- #119 Removing a language from Mega Menu now deletes the selected language instead of the last one in the list.
- #117 The Reach News webpart label typo has been corrected for a cleaner UI.
- #112 The Governance Dashboard now shows the Permissions tab again, with content aligned to the selected tab.
- #115 Intercom chat settings have been corrected so the feature no longer appears enabled when it is unavailable.
- #114 Hub Config JSON titles are now displayed more clearly, making the correct configuration easier to identify.
- #83 Breadcrumbs now remain visible on Hub subpages where they should appear.
- #110 Reach app updates now publish correctly to storage again.
- #42 Everywhere Panel icons now reset their color and background correctly when switching between panels.
- #43 The default Everywhere Panel scrollbar now matches the rest of the interface instead of showing the wrong color.
- #44 Corner Radius and Grid Spacing fields now respond more reliably when entering multi-digit values.
- #45 The Hub now renders the SharePoint People webpart correctly even when the LiveTiles People app is also installed.
- #84 Reach News now shows preview images for video banners as expected.
- #86 Deleting Mega Menu page nodes now keeps the remaining content in sync and avoids accidental loss.
- #87 Assigned Mega Menu editors can now access the edit menu option again.
- #88 Invalid numeric input is now handled more safely in theme settings, preventing NaN-related errors.
- #35 Reach News videos added by URL can now play correctly in the widget.
- #94 The Hub loading graphic now respects the configured theme color instead of using the default.
- #95 The page size controls now disable at their limits, preventing confusing wraparound behavior.
- #96 Reach Posts no longer grabs focus on load, so pages stay where users expect them.
- #90 Mega Menu audience targeting is now respected, so only the intended users see each node.
- #18 Hub analytics updates no longer open automatically for everyone, keeping the experience less disruptive.
- #216 Governance Dashboard tabs now load correctly without the certificate-store error.
- #93 Vertical widget zones now prevent users from selecting more widgets than will fit, avoiding missing content after save.
- #92 Dismissing the Refresh confirmation with “No” no longer blocks the Action Menu from reopening.
- #527 Reach News article detail views now handle gallery images without crashing in Preprod.
- #453 Revision unpublish job loops every minute on checked-out or draft pages, causing endless Metadata incremental jobs.