What's new in version 16.2?
Version 16.2 of Lawmaker is a minor release containing a number of security and bug fixes.
It was released on 6 June 2024.
Document check updates
A number of changes to the document checks have been included in v.16.2:
New rules
Regulation and article numbers in SIs and SSIs should end with a full stop.
Unnumbered paragraphs shouldn’t start with a quote mark - this suggests that the unnumbered paragraph has incorrectly been used to create a definition or a textual amendment.
Highlight cases where the "Other Date" option has been used when setting the dates in an SI/SSI to ensure the user double-checks that the correct option has been selected.
Highlight cases where a quoted structure containing a partial element has been imported from http://legislation.gov.uk (e.g. a quoted structure containing only a heading) so it can be altered to work correctly with Lawmaker.
Step elements should have a number in the form “Step x”.
Identify nested <mod> elements and provide a quick option to delete them.
Chapter numbers in citations in footnotes should have a space between “c.” and the number, e.g. “c. 13”
SI and SSI citations in footnotes should be formatted correctly, e.g. “S.I. 2024/34” or “S.S.I. 2023/1234”.
Updates to existing rules
The rule that identifies missing quotation marks at end of quoted structure is now mandatory rather than advisory.
The rule that identifies leading and trailing spaces has been extended to include “figure spaces” which are created by the autocorrect feature when a user types in two spaces in a row.
List of issues
SI/SSIs
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
|---|---|---|
SPT-1684 | Fixed a bug where the date picker on the Update Document Information modal for Acts appeared below rather than above the date field | |
SPT-1669 | Fixed a bug where adding too many subjects to an SI/SSI caused the save/cancel buttons to disappear | |
SPT-1583 | Fixed a bug where the ‘Copy to another Project’ action always stripped out the Procedural rubric in SIs | |
SPT-1601 | Fixed a bug which caused the ‘Copy to Another Project’ action to fail when copying SIs where the procedure had been changed |
Amendments
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
|---|---|---|
SPT-1681 | Fixed a bug which caused draft amendments to be pulled into Groupings lists | |
SPT-1630 | Fixed a bug where Auto-apply appears to succeed for a simple "leave out" amendment but the amendment is not applied and disappears in the editor | |
SPT-1625 | Fixed a bug where auto-applying a "leave out and insert" amendment which leaves out the end of the last line in a Quoted Structure caused the new text to be inserted in the "following text" after the Quoted Structure | |
SPT-1622 | Fixed a bug which caused new amendments in a LoDA to become locked for editing after 5 minutes | |
SPT-1613 | Fixed a bug which caused amendment text inside Quoted Structures to overlap or render incorrectly in the Amendment Preview window | |
SPT-1610 | Fixed a bug which caused duplicate IDs to be generated for the date block in a Lords Running list when using the Document Information panel to update the list date | |
SPT-1342 | Fixed a bug which caused a ‘null values’ error message to appear when creating an Official List | |
SPT-1306 | Fixed a bug which prevented Dnums being assigned to Inline amendments |
Editor
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
|---|---|---|
SPT-1675 | Fixed an issue which made it difficult to select a Quoted Structure’s Following Text with the mouse after cutting a provision in the document | |
SPT-1666 | Fixed a bug which caused the document to become locked when Saving if there were ‘Surround’ tracked changes | |
SPT-1643 | Improved importing from http://legislation.gov.uk so that imported formulae no longer contain unexpected XML attributes (“altimg”) | |
SPT-1652 | Improved importing from http://legislation.gov.uk so that imported formulae no longer contain unexpected XML attributes (“overflow”) | |
SPT-1636 | Fixed a bug where restoring from an auto-save does not restore changes made to the Preface or Preamble of an SI | |
SPT-1607 | Improved renumbering to take account of tracked changes: deleting sections in the main Body of a document with change tracking enabled and then renumbering no longer deletes the content of all subsequent <Num> elements and instead renumbers correctly | |
SPT-1606 | Improved renumbering to take account of tracked changes: deleting paragraphs in Schedules with change tracking enabled and then renumbering no longer causes numbering to restart from 1 after the next Schedule Part following the deleted paragraph | |
SPT-1599 | Fixed a bug where using the undo function in the Editor sometimes resulted in auto-save versions not being restored correctly | |
SPT-1443 | Fixed a bug which caused comments to be lost when splitting a provision | |
SPT-1318 | Fixed a minor bug which caused extra XML tag indicators to appear in unexpected locations in the Editor (visible with ‘partial tag’ mode enabled) | |
SPT-388 | Fixed several recurring exceptions/log messages which were related to the functioning of the Editor | |
SPT-1574 | Fixed an issue with the handling of single and double spaces in tracked changes mode. | |
SPT-1620 | Fixed an issue where the Copy Provisions dialog box wouldn’t list provisions if there were unexpected newline characters in the XML |
Accessibility and misc
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
|---|---|---|
SPT-1621 | Accessibility improvements: made it possible to use the keyboard to select and navigate between radio buttons in several menus using the arrow keys | |
SPT-1550 | Fixed an issue which prevented extraction of ZIP files downloaded from Lawmaker where the version name contained a special character | |
SPT-1537 | Increased the character limit for drop-down menus throughout Lawmaker |
PDFs
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
|---|---|---|
SPT-1594 | Fixed a bug where the presence of some forms of tracked changes caused PDF generation to fail | |
SPT-1639 | Corrected the margins on first page of the House Bill PDF of a UK Private Bill | |
SPT-1549 | Fixed a bug which caused incorrect rendering of tables and footnotes when footnotes appeared on text inside long table cells | |
SPT-571 | Corrected minor formatting errors in Lords Amendment List PDFs | |
SPT-1655 | Fixed a bug where the Explanatory Notes statement at the start of a UK Public Act was pushed onto the second page of the PDF if the Act title is long | |
SPT-1626 | Fixed a bug which caused line numbering to stop when generating a 'changes applied' PDF of an amended version of a bill |
Security
Issue key | Summary | User support ticket |
|---|---|---|
SPT-1659 | ITHC 16 - Session Token in URL | |
SPT-1661 | ITHC 21 - Vulnerability Within Third-Party Library | |
SPT-1660 | ITHC 19 - Deprecated HTTP Security Header | |
SPT-1658 | ITHC 15 - Raw Database Query |