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XM Cloud

Oct. 22, 2025 | Read time 3 min

XM Cloud Release Notes: October 21, 2025

By: Bobbie Roberts

Summary

This release focuses on improving performance, accessibility and publishing reliability across the platform and MSUToday. Updates include enhancements to contextual navigation, component styling and publishing stability, along with multiple fixes addressing mobile navigation, formatting and content display.

New Features

No new features introduced in this release.

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  • CTA Button Component
    • Updated to use the default background color of green for visual consistency.
  • Mobile Unit Site Name
    • Added functionality to make the unit site name clickable in the mobile header.
  • Contextual Navigation Component
    • Improved performance and publishing reliability of the Contextual Navigation component.
    • Resolved issues related to loading accuracy and start-level behavior.
    • Introduced a limit of 50 child items to optimize rendering and performance.
  • All Links and Media Paths
    • Improved system reliability by defaulting all URLs and media paths to lowercase.
  • Publishing Improvements
    • Implemented various updates to enhance publishing reliability and stability.

Bug Fixes (Platform)

  • Featured News & Events Titles
    • Fixed an issue where the event title displayed incorrectly for upcoming events.
  • Dropdown Menu Overlap on Mobile
    • Fixed an issue where text from the Brand Bar could overlap mobile navigation menu items.
  • Browser Font Size Changes
    • Fixed an accessibility issue that prevented browser font size settings from changing text size on the website.
  • Header Branding
    • Corrected an issue where the MSU helmet and wordmark could be missing from the header.

Bug Fixes (MSUToday)

  • Story Cards
    • Fixed an issue where Story Card eyebrow tags could link to the wrong story on the MSUToday homepage.
  • Media Contacts Display
    • Fixed an issue where media and author contacts displayed with incorrect formatting and spacing.

Configuration Changes

No configuration changes introduced in this release.

Impact for Content Authors and Administrators

  • Publishing reliability and performance have been improved.
  • Contextual Navigation now loads faster and more accurately.
  • Mobile usability enhanced with clickable headers and corrected navigation overlap.
  • Accessibility improved through browser font scaling support.
  • Branding and media consistency reinforced through lowercase URL handling and corrected header visuals.

Executive Summary

This release strengthens platform performance and reliability through updates to publishing, contextual navigation and component behavior. It also improves accessibility, mobile usability and branding consistency while resolving multiple display and formatting issues across the platform and MSUToday.

What’s New for Content Authors

The following updates will have the greatest impact on the day-to-day work for communicators:

  • Contextual Navigation performance and reliability improved.
  • Unit site names are clickable in mobile headers.
  • Browser font size settings now properly affect text on the site.
  • MSUToday story cards and media contacts display correctly.
  • All links and media paths now default to lowercase for consistency.
  • Publishing stability and performance improved.