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  1. Blog
  2. Bartek Szopka
Bartek Szopka

Bartek Szopka

3 posts

Staff Engineer

Bartek is a Staff Engineer in the Web Engineering team, and a Tech Lead of the Design System Tribe, developing the Vanilla framework.

Bartek Szopka
18 July 2023

Vanilla 4.0 release

Design Article

Last week we released a new major version of the Vanilla framework. Vanilla 4.0 introduces the elements of the new style used for a current rebranding of Canonical’s brochure websites, including typography changes of headings utilising new variable Ubuntu font, wider grid width, removed rounded corners, some updated colours, and updates t ...

Bartek Szopka
10 January 2022

Release of Vanilla framework v3.0

Ubuntu Article

We’ve just released Vanilla v3.0 – a new major update to our CSS framework. It includes a few significant updates and improvements around spacing variables, responsive breakpoints, a new expanding search box and various updates to existing components. Important aspects of the release include dropping a noticeable chunk of deprecated style ...

Bartek Szopka
31 March 2020

Automating our Vanilla releases with GitHub actions

Design Article

The Vanilla framework has a history of being released very infrequently. Sometimes it has been months between releases, which made the upgrade process often hard and time-consuming. One of the reasons for that was a manual and a quite time-consuming release process. Over several weeks earlier this year, we’ve been working on various impro ...