Release 2019.014 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p><em>Release 2019.014 was first deployed to Vanilla Cloud on Friday, October 4th 2019</em></p><h2 data-id="reported-posts">Reported Posts</h2><p>The <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/103-2019-012#improved-reporting-plugin" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">2019.012 release</a> contained various improvements to reported posts. Following that release many moderators and site administrators reached out and left feedback about various shortcomings in the feature.</p><p>In this release we have iterated again on reported posts with numerous UI improvements.</p><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/048/JJ0E98TKX3V1.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/048/JJ0E98TKX3V1.png" alt="image.png" height="552" width="1158" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>We've overhauled the design with more information and better usability.</p><ul><li>More information about the user is now displayed<ul><li>User profile image is displayed.</li><li>User title is now displayed (if ranks or other user title plugin is enabled).</li></ul></li><li> Post title is always displayed.<ul><li>Comments use the discussion title prefixed with "Re:"</li><li>Title links to the post.</li><li>Expand/collapse indicator does not appear for short content.</li><li>Videos</li></ul></li><li>Category title & link now appear in the metadata.<ul><li><strong>Reported posts are expanded by default.</strong></li></ul></li><li>The expand/collapse indicator now gives a better indication of if there is collapsed content.<ul><li>Improved content height detection.</li><li>Quotes</li><li>All Rich Embeds</li><li>A view discussion link. This is the discussion icon on the bottom left.</li></ul></li><li>The bottom bar of a report now contains:<ul><li>A link directory to the post (comment, discussion, activity, etc). This is the "View Post" link, and will be the same as the title link.</li></ul></li><li>Embedded content now appears inside of reported posts. This includes:<ul><li>Images</li></ul></li></ul><p>These changes can be found for all new reported posts. Existing reported posts since the 2019.012 release will still appear as they did before, but with the improved expand/collapse behaviour.</p><p>Additionally the following bug fixes have been implemented in the reported posts workflow:</p><ul><li>The post reporting popup can no longer overflow the edges of the screen on mobile devices.</li><li>All links now work properly in hub/node setups.</li><li>Reported activity now has the correct URL.</li><li>Mentions now work inside of the "reasons" for a report.</li></ul><h2 data-id="advanced-search">Advanced Search</h2><p>Starting in this release much of Advanced Search is now covered by automated tests. This was done to enable a new feature, but during the process multiple bugs were fixed.</p><ul><li><strong><em>Articles can now be searched from advanced search. </em></strong></li><li>The <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">/api/v2/search</code> now supports more combinations of filtering including Filtering by subtypes (poll, question, answer, etc) with <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">types=answer,question</code></li><li>The <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">/api/v2/search</code> endpoint now supports expanding user records with <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">expand=insertUser</code>.</li></ul><h2 data-id="rich-editor">Rich Editor</h2><ul><li>Rich quotes of Discussions now display the user profile image.</li><li>All rich quotes now use the improved expand/collapse UI from reported posts.</li><li>Multiple images can now be uploaded at the same time.</li></ul><h2 data-id="notifications">Notifications</h2><p>Users on sites with Vanilla POP or advanced notifications were sometimes experiencing slowdown or timeout while posting comments or discussions in the parts of the forum with many active users.</p><p>Starting in this release, sending of notifications will take place in a separate process <strong><em>after</em></strong><em> </em>the post has been made. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9333" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9333</a>, <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9329" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9323</a></p><h2 data-id="other-fixes">Other fixes</h2><ul><li>The time formats for some locales have been changed to the 24-hour format in accordance to their locale standards.</li><li>Fix checking for unicode characters on leaving page links.</li><li>Fix photo IDs not being encoded in Getty Images embeds.</li><li>Fix ability to preemptively join conversations.</li><li>Knowledge base now works properly w/ Hub & Node configurations, including the discussion -> Article conversion menus. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9325" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9325</a></li><li>Fix some knowledge base error page returning an improper content type. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9331" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9331</a></li><li>Fix a bug where nested lists in Rich Editor would render improperly after being posted. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9332" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9332</a></li><li>Fixed a bug causing javascript not to execute in older browsers. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9350" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9350</a></li></ul><h2 data-id="registration">Registration</h2><ul><li>Add invitation target placeholder & description. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9349" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9349</a></li></ul><h2 data-id="developer-notes">Developer Notes</h2><ul><li>Move the private community middleware to the /api/v2. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9321" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9321</a></li><li>Fix header link in <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">JsonView</code>. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9269" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9269</a></li><li>Fix loop when dispatching exception page. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9359" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9359</a></li><li>Fix Attributes JSON encoding for special data types. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9326" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9326</a></li><li>Vanilla's CircleCI orbs are now automatically published when merged to master in the <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">ci-scripts</code> repo.</li><li>Various sphinx search refactoring have occurred in this release. See <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/9327" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#9327</a>, <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/internal/pull/1986" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">internal#1986</a>, <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/knowledge/pull/1215" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">knowledge#1215</a>, <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/addons/pull/743" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">addons#743</a></li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">vanilla-docker</code> can now be configured to run in a subdirectory. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-docker/pull/60" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla-docker#60</a></li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">vanilla-cli</code> has an update to improve browser compatibility. It is highly recommended to update your version to version <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cli/releases/tag/v1.7.1" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">1.7.1+</a>.</li></ul> </article> </main>