Add a 'what's new' or changelog type page

[frankieroberto]

Currently the NHS Prototype kit website doesn’t mention what the current version number is, or what any of the recent changes are.

There is a CHANGELOG in the kit itself, but it might be more usable and accessible to surface some of this within the Prototype kit website.

We could use the What’s new page from the Service Manual as an inspiration?

Possibly also the current version number should be listed on the homepage somewhere?

[vickytnz]

The GOV.UK prototype kit has this in its header and also as a way to manage versioning should we make a breaking version https://prototype-kit.service.gov.uk/docs/

Even if we're not that prominent, another way would be to put it in the footer?

[frankieroberto]

The way that the GOV.UK team put "version 13" in the title seems a bit extreme to me - I guess that release wasn't just a breaking change but a completely new structure and way of installing it etc, and maybe there was a need to keep the old docs available for a while? They’re still online here: https://prototype-kit.service.gov.uk/v12/docs/

[vickytnz]

Also a bit of whimsy but I wonder about having some form of banner or ticker element to the home page or site to give that sense of things changing, for example as per the GOV.UK non-emergency global banner. https://docs.publishing.service.gov.uk/manual/global-banner.html

My hunch has always been that the govuk design system one is a bit buried when really it's about giving a sense of something changing and then linking off to the more detailed page.

One possible example:

[vickytnz]

This could actually be a nice way to both make the home page feel less static and be as a cue to go look at changes (I haven't added a link just as that would need some extra css to make it work on a hero image

[frankieroberto]

Both options look good to me. I think I marginally prefer having it below the hero as maybe we might want to put an inverted “Get started” button in the hero?