Merge pull request #5330 from alphagov/file-upload-deprecate-value-param

Deprecate File upload component's `value` parameter

Author: querkmachine

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ For advice on how to use these release notes see [our guidance on staying up to
 
 ## Unreleased
 
+### Recommended changes
+
+#### Stop setting a `value` for File upload components
+
+The File upload component currently supports a `value` parameter, which populates the `value` HTML attribute of the input.
+
+However, since no modern browser supports passing a `value` to a file input, we've made the decision to remove this parameter. It has been deprecated and will be removed in a future version of GOV.UK Frontend.
+
+We introduced this change in [pull request #5330: Deprecate File upload component's `value` parameter](https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/pull/5330).
+
 ### Fixes
 
 We've made fixes to GOV.UK Frontend in the following pull requests:

packages/govuk-frontend/src/govuk/components/file-upload/file-upload.yaml

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ params:
   - name: value
     type: string
     required: false
-    description: Optional initial value of the input.
+    description: Deprecated. Optional initial value of the input.
   - name: disabled
     type: boolean
     required: false