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Pelican Changelog

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We’re continually improving Pelican. The following changes are listed by the date we completed each change.

1.1.3 - 21 September 2023

Currently our styles rely on subtle color changes to indicate hover status, this change adds additional indicators to make them more prominent.

  • Adds underlines upon hover to many buttons to indicate hover status.
  • Adds double underline style upon hover to links in text to indicate hover status.

1.1.2 - 01 July 2022

  • Removes underlines from links in a list. 69970834
  • Dependency updates.

1.1.1 - 10 May 2022

Addresses a breaking change that was introduced in v1.1.0.

1.1.0 - 05 May 2022

A number of changes to clean up issues found since the last release. A lot of work on the documentation, to address typos, tone and add clarity. Fixed a few style issues that were noticed once it started being used that are being addressed here.

  • Fixes margin and padding across the design system, reducing package size. 92b1c11
  • Add styles from Design System Site back into Pelican 7ce681c
  • Fixes an issue with disabled toggles f57d2e8
  • Fixed a padding issue with previous/next buttons 3d594f7
  • Renamed previous/forward buttons to previous/next 789ead8
  • Adds disabled state for toggle-tokens d200ae7
  • Overriding hover state on sidebar buttons 0cf784d
  • Documentation fixes and cleanup.
  • Dependency updates.

1.0.0 — 15 February 2022

  • Version 1.0 released! See Get Started to begin using Pelican Design System.
  • Content has been simplified and the guidance is easier to follow.

Pelican Design System is Louisiana’s design system.

Pelican’s purpose is to bring consistency, user friendliness, and to modernize Louisiana’s websites. It’s built on Bootstrap 4 (we’re working on a Bootstrap 5 version of Pelican) to allow our developers to start quickly. Created with accessibility in mind, we’re always doing our best to improve Pelican for our developers, designers, and most importantly, our users.

0.1.09 – 22 July 2021

  • Edits made to all sections, adding more developer-focused language and information
  • Changes Boxes section to Content Container

0.1.08 – 1 June 2021

0.1.07 — 19 April 2021

0.1.06 — 8 March 2021

  • Moved on-page table of contents to a Details Summary HTML element.
  • Moved to top of page content, giving more width room to markup and preview.

0.1.05 — 2 March 2021

  • Adds guidance on using Dividers, specifically for when they should be edge-to-edge.
  • Begins a new numbering system for this page.

0.1.04 — 19 February 2021

  • Adds a new guidance page, Label Guidelines, for guidance on using labels in forms.

0.1.03 — 11 February 2021

  • Changes some container-fluid classes to container to constrain the line lengths for easier reading.

0.1.02 — 5 February 2021

  • Darkens most content backgrounds by a tiny bit. This makes the reading experience easier for dyslexic readers. Read Dyslexia Friendly for more information.

0.1.01 — 28 December 2020

  • There’s too much to cover in here as it’s the first release of Pelican. We aren’t going to stop, but we’re going to continually improve Pelican and fix bugs.