ResourceSpace Labs is our innovation programme, giving customers early access to the latest features and improvements before they're officially released, on a dedicated test system completely separate from their production system.

All our customers have access to their own dedicated Labs testing installation, available via their extranet - just click the "labs" tab. Your labs installation tracks our development trunk, enabling customers to:

The latest features from our development team

r29599 2026-08-21 rcarpenter Additional font for headings and remove font dropdown
Development q13596: UX - Additional font for headings, remove font dropdown
  • Improved UI design allowing multiple fonts to be displayed in ResourceSpace.
r29591 2026-08-21 acota Ignore .map files under lib/ (these are useful only to developers for debug purposes)
Development q13704: [SPRINT] Automated web testing via Playwright
  • Cutting down size of very large regression testing sheet.
  • Allowing front-end tests to be constantly executed to immediately flag issues.
  • Improving overall test coverage of ResourceSpace.
r29359 2026-07-16 jbrooke Changing API_ISSUE_VALID_DESTINATIONS to a config option
Development q13788: Canva SSO support
  • Enabling SSO support for the Canva integration with ResourceSpace, developed by SpotDev.
r29355 2026-07-15 jbrooke Adding Canva to API_ISSUE_VALID_DESTINATIONS to enable support for SSO
Development q13788: Canva SSO support
  • Enabling SSO support for the Canva integration with ResourceSpace, developed by SpotDev.
r29027 2026-06-09 acota Partially reverting r28943 and ensuring style applies as originally intended for all UI redesign changes
r28929 2026-06-02 cevans Change $thumbs_default to hide by default, improve comment
Development q13661: New collection bar layout
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28928 2026-06-02 cevans Change $thumbs_default to hide by default, improve comment
Development q13661: New collection bar layout
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28905 2026-06-01 jnorman Update FC page to use new dash type styling
Development q13760: Featured Collection tiles to gain new styling as per dash tiles
Refreshed Featured Collection tiles for consistency with the new dash.
r28882 2026-05-29 acota Field input dark mode following design updates
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28881 2026-05-29 acota Resource type selector design for dark mode
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28875 2026-05-29 acota Drop the show_powered_by_logo config
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28867 2026-05-28 cevans New collection bar layout
Development q13661: New collection bar layout
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28849 2026-05-28 acota Header and search redesign
Development q13511: Header and search redesign
Greatly simplified and modernised design.
r28843 2026-05-27 jnorman Merging dash tile changes to trunk
Development q13489: Improved styling for Dash tiles
  • Highlighted as an issue to address in the usability report.
r28779 2026-05-19 abaxter Ability to update location from csv
Development q12907: Ability to add geo location from resource metadata
  • Easier populating of resource location metadata.
r28777 2026-05-19 jbrooke Adding colour theme selector
Development q13564: Theme colour config option
  • Modernising the user interface, cutting down on over-customisation.
r28734 2026-05-14 dhuby Typesense readme points to KB instead
Development q13660: [SPRINT] Typesense support for ultra fast search
Improve search performance. Easier scaling. Additional search features.
r28732 2026-05-14 tpiechowicz Hero banner replacing large slideshow.
Development q13488: Hero banner replacing large slideshow
  • Improved layout as part of RS 11.0 redesign.
r28730 2026-05-14 dhuby Typesense search plugin and hooks to support it
Development q13660: [SPRINT] Typesense support for ultra fast search
Improve search performance. Easier scaling. Additional search features.
r28675 2026-05-08 jbrooke Removing antivirus, feedback, flickr_theme_publish, image_text, meta_append and wordpress_sso plugins
Development q13641: Remove deprecated plugins
  • Removing unused plugins which can get in the way of new UI developments and may be broken/untested.