Partial 2.8 Release Notes

Deployed Thursday, October 11 to 5XX clusters.

Zenimax was excluded.

Client Notes:

* Fix caching that was causing the API to return unpredictable URL formats

* Fix issue that prevented discussions from being created in categories made by APIv2

* Fix link in accepted answer notification emails resulting in an external link warning

* Fix User table not completely deleting roles when a replacement role is selected, causing orphaned records.

Github:

Revert static cache for url() of Gdn_Request

(this broke multiple things)

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/7845

userRole table not getting updated after role is deleted, leaving orphaned records

https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/7756

Deploy Notes

• Zenimax was excluded and should be deployed on Wednesday
• Qualtrics had an incident, they were on release/2.6 for addons causing this error. It was resolved
• These clusters were found to need OPS for updating. Ops will fix this in the future, but it requires downtime for those clients:

(Draft for Whatever this number is)

• Show newest group applicants & invites first so they can still be seen when the list exceeds the current limit (20).
• Fix permission for accessing the Event Log for Administrators
• Security Fixes for Q&A

• Add category following to categories page in Lithe Mobile theme
• Fix users not appearing logged-in when using embedded comments
• Zendesk: Fix ticket comment URLs being posted as plain text
• Hub Sync: Allow badges to opt out of syncing to allow for site specific changes
• Bootstrap 3: Fix Flag flyout menu being cut off in activity
• Fix accessibility issues with modals regarding aria-hidden element and body scroll
• Fix APIv2 ignoring Rank based permissions on user accounts
• Remove Garden.AllowJSONP from config
• Fix limit parameter not being properly validated on APIv2 endpoints
• Add error when setting maximum post length higher than database-enforced limit
• Fix IP ban rules not getting properly applied on user login

• Fix the display of IPv6 when viewing the Event Log.
• Fix search count on the User page in the dashboard when searching by IPv6.
• Fix post counters on profile pages exceeding allotted area.
• Fix duplicated language element in multiple RSS feeds.
• Zendesk: Fix cases where content post could be processed incorrectly when being formatted for ZenDesk.
• Category Following: Display 'Unfollow' option when filtering by followed categories.
• Fix Twitter callback URL for profile connections.
• Add user option to disable/enable Q&A notifications.
• Advanced editor: Fix error message handling when uploading a duplicated file

• Add ability to get info for the current user to Users API v2 endpoint.
• Refresh page after adding/deleting bans.
• Refresh page after adding/deleting messages.
• Start new messages auto-enabled.
• Change announcement dismiss animation to Highlight.
• RSS: Fix double filtering and invalid characters in titles.
• Akismet: Fix potentially overwriting another plugin's spam detection results.
• Whitelist: Update support for IPv6.
• Various performance improvements.
• Fix ban rules fatal error on search.

You're correct about that reactions issue, Hopefully there aren't any others in there like that. Replaced the other two.