Products we support
Current products
Legacy products
We support a number of ‘legacy’ products which GOV.UK Frontend and GOV.UK Design System replaced, which we still need to provide some support for:
The websites and repositories for these projects should state something along the lines of:
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is retiring [Product Name] following the launch of the GOV.UK Design System. [Product Name] will remain available to you if you are currently using it but will no longer be maintained. GDS will only roll out major bug fixes and security patches.
What we mean by ‘major bug fixes and security patches’ is loosely defined, which allows us some flexibility, but broadly speaking we expect to fix issues which affect the accessibility or usability of a service using our legacy products. We would only fix ‘cosmetic’ bugs if they were severe enough that they would otherwise reduce the trust the user has in the service.
Security issues should be addressed, but only if they impact the services that use them.
No longer supported
GOV.UK Prototype Kit
As of May 2023, the Prototype team will handle any queries regarding the Kit. The Design System team can redirect Kit queries to the cross-gov slack channel #prototype-kit, or hand over queries either via the Prototype team Slack channel or via email
Accessible Autocomplete
We’re not currently supporting the autocomplete repo