Version 4.1.0

• Upgrade to GOV.UK frontend 4.7.0 #438
• Switch branding to @x-govuk #434 - thank you @paulrobertlloyd
• Add support for inverse buttons #427
• Upgrade to latest versions of Ruby and Rails #439

Version 4.0.0

• Upgrade to govuk-frontend 4.6.0
• Remove classes argument from the few places it remained, custom classes can be set directly using class: thanks to html-attributes-utils' clever merging #409
• Add support for extra_letter_spacing to text inputs which is useful when asking for long complex codes or IDs #424

Upgrade guide

• Replace any classes: ... parameters with class: ...

Version 4.0.0rc1

v4.0.0rc1

Version 4.0.0rc1

Version 4.0.0a1

Preparing for the upcoming version 4.5.0 of GOV.UK frontend

Version 3.3.0

• Support GOV.UK Frontend 4.4.0 #398 - Note the markup for the error summary has changed to reflect the suggestions made in version 4.4.0 of the design system

Version 3.2.0

• Fix a bug where classes passed in via label/hint/legend/caption hashes replaced the defaults rather than appending to them #397 - thanks @cpjmcquillan
• Update supported Rails versions to 6.1.7 and 7.0.4 #387
• Update supported GOV.UK frontend version to 4.3.1 #387
• Stop using official assets in the guide #388
• Fix the exclusive checkboxes example in the guide #391 - thanks @c0nspiracy
• Improve the contrast in code snippets in the guide and fix a minor display bug #392, #393
• Add a CodeQL scanning workflow task f9379fb

Upgrade notes

When passing additional custom classes in via label, caption, hint or legend hashes they are added to the default class rather than overwriting it. This brings the behaviour in line with the rest of the library and considered a bug fix rather than a breaking change.

Given the input:

f.govuk_text_area :details, label: { text: "Some details", class: "special-class" }

Output before this release

<label for="model-details-field" class="special-class">Some details</label>

Output after this release

<label for="model-details-field" class="govuk-label special-class">Some details</label>

Version 3.1.2

• Upgrade to GOV.UK Frontend 4.3.0 #380
• Various small version updates including rouge, sass and rubocop-govuk #377 #378 #379

Version 3.1.1

• Ensure govuk_date_field works correctly when omit_day: true. Rails ignores the field when the day segment parameter is missing, this change follows the Rails convention and adds a hidden day field. Thank you @thomasleese for diagnosing and fixing this #376
• Add a configuration flag that disables the auto-bolding of radio button labels when hints are present. The form builder's default behaviour will remain the same (it matches an older version of the design system's guidance that suggested doing this which was removed in 2020) to avoid breakages but may be toggled at the next major release. Thanks @paulrobertlloyd for suggesting this #373
• Fix the copyright information in the LICENCE 45bf925

Version 3.1.0

• Support GOV.UK Design System 4.1.0 #371
• Switch the guide from libsass to dart-sass #367
• Upgrade to html-attributes-utils version 0.9.2 #370

Version 3.0.3

• Support GOV.UK Design System 4.1.0
• Increase supported Ruby version to 3.1.2
• Increase supported Rails version to 7.0.3
• Remove patterns and wildcards from the date inputs #363
• Switch to from deep_merge gem to html-attributes-utils to combining HTML attributes #357
• Remove aria-live attribute from the text area #364
• Various minor dependency updates