Changelog

7 May 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• Bug fixes.

1 April 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• A welcome message will now display for new users introducing them to Delta.
• Bug fixes.

10 March 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• Bug fixes.
• Performance improvements for submission report page.
• Improvements to Orbeon form display when wide screen forms and table of contents are enabled.

19 February 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• Bug fixes.
• Updated version of Orbeon to 2023.1.7

4 February 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• In the form summary page you can now view signed off collections that use the form.

23 January 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• Updated Collection Groups table to use new styling.
• Allow widescreen in Orbeon form runner.
• Fix issue where organisation collection requests are visible to multiorg users without correct access groups for that organisation.
• Capitalise XML in collection entity page.
• Enable interest rate payments button added for grants.
• Update notification banner style to match rest of Delta.

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Fix issue that may cause personal data collections not to appear in the datastore for internal users.
• Fix comments not being added when doing an access group bulk upload.

8 January 2025

Improvements that affect all users:

• Updated tables to use date style "4 June 2024" for better readability and consistency with other date displays.
• Added support for adding WBS code to ledger codes

4 December 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Updated Delta 2.0 journey live for data providers and certifiers
• Updated navigation bar
• Bug fixes

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Fix issue with data store not showing all records for certain collections when instance filter is applied
• Fix interim payments formatting

13 November 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Update styling to latest version of GOV.UK Frontend, including new coat of arms
• Delta 2.0 changes ready for soft launch
• Bug fix for "validate all cases"

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Bug fix for old issue with "delete overwritten reference data" functionality

29 October 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Updated help and guidance pages
• Session is properly extended/ended on form builder and form runner pages

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• New grant ledger code field for SAP update and added validation

10 September 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• New page at /collection-groups to view all of your collection groups
• Finish updating department name from DLUHC to MHCLG across the website and in emails

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• New header available to form writers - "current-username".

2 September 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Updated the department name from DLUHC to MHCLG across some of the site

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Added "current-username" header for form writers to make use of
• User bulk upload now takes values from the "comment" column of csv and adds it to the comment field on the relevant user's account

7 August 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Filters, pagination and sorting parameters are correctly saved to your URL on the Collection Requests and Data Store pages. Visiting this URL later will correctly apply all the saved options to the table, so you can reliably bookmark or share links for specific searches on these pages.

24 July 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Fix for downloading PDFs in Edge/Chrome

22 July 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Update help and guidance with a new page covering "Delta 2.0"

4 July 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Removed the organisation selection dropdown for users with multiple organisations.
  • There is now an organisation filter on the Collection requests page
  • There is a new organisation selection dropdown on the certify record page, which is displayed when a stats data certifier has multiple organisations they could certify a record as.
• Update to latest version of the Orbeon form builder, used by all collections in Delta. This adds some new options when building forms and also fixes some errors that users were facing. A full list of changes is available on the Orbeon website.
• Re-enabling a previously disabled account through an activation email will now automatically enable email notifications.
• Fixed a bug where users could occasionally be redirected straight to the logout page after signing in.
• New "collection group" page for displaying details about an individual collection group. More details will be added to this page over time.

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Fix for an encoding issue when updating an organisation name that has pending payment claims.

13 June 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Improvements made to search pages to prevent stale results being shown in some cases.

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Follow-up fix for large CSV downloads with repeat grids.
• Further changes to task priorities to avoid long-running tasks affecting payment review and approval.

6 June 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Page content has a higher maximum width across the site. Forms do not use the increased with yet.
• S151 officers and deputies no longer have their access groups removed when their certifier role is revoked.

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Improvements to auditing of user details and permission updates. User audit logs will remain visible after username changes.
• Error message improvements for file encoding errors in claim amounts upload.
• Performance improvement to confirming payment reviews and approving payments.

4 June 2023

• An upgrade to the form builder (Orbeon) was attempted, but rolled back due to an issue loading some forms.

28 May 2024

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Fix issue with "Update user access groups in bulk" CSV upload.
• The Test data store now defaults to only showing records submitted by the current user. There is a new filter to view records from other users.
• Changes to user update notification emails (sent to Lead testers and Dataset admins on MHCLG user access group changes) to improve reliability and avoid duplicates.
• Fix bug with form document permissions when multiple datasets use the same form.

16 May 2024

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Fix the Form summary page loading slowly for forms with many published versions.
• Make the Search analytics dashboard visible to all internal (MHCLG) Delta users.
• Change to the priority of some data import and export tasks in order to reduce their impact on other parts of the site.

14 May 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Small bugfixes and improvements to error messages.
• Content updates to several pages where you are waiting for a process to complete.

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Fix issue with csv download for certain configurations of repeat grids.
• Improve breadcrumb readability on dataset management pages.

30 April 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• This page was added so users can see changes and improvements to Delta.
• Other small copy changes, technical improvements, and bugfixes for Delta and the Delta API.

24 April 2024

Improvements that affect all users:

• Content updated to create consistency across Delta. Delta is now consistently cased as "Delta" rather than "DELTA".

Improvements that affect MHCLG staff:

• Section added to the form summary page under Setup > Forms which provides metadata about the form, for example the number of sections and controls.
• More content changes across the Setup, Admin, and Manage transactions areas of the site, improving descriptions and consistency.
• Filtering has been added to the Admin Search analytics dashboard.