CARDINAL CORE Release Notes
A transparent ledger of updates, features, and fixes deployed to the Ohio Citizen's Audit platform.
v1.2.0
- New Quick-access buttons on the home page for finding your representatives, searching bills, and viewing member scoring.
- New The navigation bar and "Page Contents" sidebar now stay visible as you scroll.
- New Committee pages now show each committee's party makeup and bill count, a link to its official page, and a short explanation of what committees do.
- New Added a "Skip to main content" link and visible focus outlines for keyboard navigation.
- Update Refreshed the site's design with consistent colors, typography, and card styles across every page.
- Update Fonts are now served from our own servers, so pages load faster and visitor information is no longer sent to a third-party font service.
- Update Improved mobile layouts throughout. Bill search results, member pages, and the How a Bill Becomes Law flowchart no longer require side-scrolling.
- Update Bill text documents display more cleanly, while preserving the strikethrough and underline formatting that shows proposed changes to the law.
- Update Committee pages can now show bills from previous General Assemblies.
- Update Improved accessibility with image descriptions, labeled form fields, stronger text contrast, and support for reduced-motion settings.
- Update Member, bill, and committee pages now appear more accurately in search results and show proper previews when shared on social media.
- Update The district map on the General Assembly Members page loads faster.
- Update The Legal page has corrected links and a print-friendly layout.
- Fix Fixed an issue where, when several people were using the site at the same time, paging through a list of bills could show results belonging to a different member, bill, or committee. This affected only what was displayed; no underlying data was changed.
- Fix The district selection menus and map toggle on the General Assembly Members page work again.
- Fix Representatives are now always grouped with the correct senator's district.
- Fix Document tabs, vote breakdowns, and page buttons on bill pages no longer send visitors back to the home page.
- Fix Filters now work with names containing apostrophes, and stay applied when moving between pages.
- Fix Outdated or mistyped links to member, bill, and committee pages now return to the home page instead of showing an error.
- Fix Corrected the spelling of "Committee" in committee page titles, plus several typos on the How a Bill Becomes Law page.
- Security Security and data-handling improvements across the platform.
v1.1.0
May 7, 2026
- New Implemented better meta tagging so that sharing urls is a better experience
- Update Added more filters to the bill search
- Update Removed "Recently Changed Bills" from home page
- Fix Corrected issue where paging through data would cause the political party image to disappear
v1.0.2
April 5, 2026
- New Implemented a tag system for bill topics.
- Update Small changes to overall desktop layout.
- Update Under bill details, standardized the related committee data to match the rest of the platform.
- Fix Corrected spelling errors and data duplication issues
v1.0.1
March 10, 2026
- New Implemented a better mobile design.
- Update Redesigned the legislative search bar to a central "Hero" layout.
v1.0.0
February 19, 2026
- New Deployed the initial version of the Ohio Citizen's Audit.
