2017 Release Notes

Vanilla Forums
Vanilla Forums
edited January 2017 in Product

2017-Q1-1

VANILLA

  • Better sync modern category view to be the same as the table view. This insures "Display As" settings are used consistently between different layout options.
  • Prevent user's visit information from being updated if banned. This is an enhancement to banned behavior.
  • Add logged events for failed logins, password requests, and password reset failures. This is for advanced logging only.
  • Fix the Quote button not appearing in some cases. This was a user-facing bug.
  • Give themes ability to set their layout options in their "about" info. This is for theme developers.
  • Fix "Incorrect integer value" error on draft save when no category selected. This was a regression bug in drafts.
  • Fix search not returning results from categories with "Hide from recent discussions" selected.
  • Dozens of low-level bug fixes.

ADDONS

  • JWT SSO: Improve support and fix minor issues in some connections.
  • Reactions: Fix inaccuracies in voting UI when user exceeds 1000 votes.
  • Facebook: Add support for Facebook's "state" token during SSO. This is a security enhancement.
  • Groups: Add groups and events support to Keyword Blocker. The plugin can now send these items to the Moderation Queue for approval.
  • Badges: Fix issue where recently manually created badges could not be requested.
  • Ideation: Make notifications clearer.

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  • Vanilla Forums
    Vanilla Forums
    edited January 2017

    2017-Q1-2

    • Civil Tongue: Censor discussion titles in Recent Discussions list.
    • Conversations: Tighten maximum recipients allowed: 5 for new users, 50 for verified users, and unlimited for moderators.
    • Dashboard: Add settings and improve help text on the "Avatars" dashboard settings page.
    • Avatar Pool: Settings are now on the "Avatars" page.
    • Online: Fix issue where Online module could cache and display in the wrong language.
    • Editor: Close editor dropdowns when the user clicks outside of a dropdown.
    • Editor: Add spoiler and code styles to WYSIWYG preview.
    • Editor: Mentions auto-complete now quotes all usernames that need it automatically.
    • Editor: Fix Markdown list parsing that caused a minor styling glitch.
    • Q&A: Fix point-awarding interactions with Reactions. Accepting and declining answers could previously have unexpected results.
    • API: Allow JSON access to profile when Profile.ShowActivity is disabled.
    • Categories: Add a CanDelete flag to categories (prevents Social Group category deletion which breaks Groups).
    • Categories: Fix issue where subcategories could be orphaned when their parent was deleted.
    • Categories: Make the category deletion process clearer about what content will be removed and how.
    • Login: Improve password requirements message.
    • Logs: Add week day, time, and timezone to the moderation logs.
    • Logs: Do not spam-check owner account.
    • Addons: Add "Configured" messages to addons media view to denote whether an addon was been fully configured on their settings page.
    • Addons: Added icons for 3 addons.
    • Addons: Fix issue where an addon incorrectly registering permissions could break other permissions.
    • Mobile: Fix too-large images in mobile theme settings page.
    • Analytics: Hide the category dropdown where not relevant.
    • SAML: Allow admins to create a data map for SAML responses.
    • Subcommunities: Fix canonical URLs on discussion and category pages.
    • Maintenance: Improve maintenance mode so it can be automatically used during future database updates.
    • Maintenance: Moved media handling and tagging from addons into core.
    • Maintenance: Moved several library dependencies out of core (deleted 35,000 lines of code).

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