Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2025.006

Schedule

Release 2025.006 will be released:

To staging sites the week of April 7th
To production sites the week of April 14th
To Enterprise sites the week of April 21st

Layout Editor Improvements

We have made a series of improvements to the Layout Editor to make customizing you community pages easier and more intuitive.

🎨 Style-Guide Preview

You can now preview and edit your layouts with a theme (Style Guide) applied. This means you'll get a more accurate view of what your layout will look like when it is applied - styles and all.

👀 Role Preview

You can now also preview your layout as a specific user role or combination roles. Since widgets can be shown or hidden based on roles, this feature lets you see exactly what your layout looks like to Guests, Members, Staff or any other role you have configured.

🖱️ Drag & Drop Widgets

Moving widgets has just become smoother. Instead of using button-based reordering, you can now drag & drop widgets where you would like to see them.

🧰 Updated Widget & Section Menus

Menus have been refreshed so they are easier to access as your scroll, making it simpler to find actions like move, drag or delete wherever you are on the page.

Rich Editor: Inline Images

You can now resize images to display inline with your text. This is especially useful when writing instructions or documentation, letting you place smaller images right where they’re most helpful—without breaking the flow of your content.

Bug Fixes & Improvements

Style Guide, Custom Layouts & Widgets

VNLA-8372: Added styleguide previews to layout & fragment editor.
VNLA-8374: Added role previewing to fragment editor and layout editor.
VNLA-8269: Fixed error when attempting to view Style Guide history (unbuffered queries).
VNLA-8425: Fixed issue where recommended/featured articles weren’t displaying in the Category Articles widget (on Help Center Category layout).

Rich Editor & Post Management

VNLA-7154: Added inline format to image upload menu in Rich editor.
VNLA-8226: Enabled the ability to disable @mentions globally
VNLA-8085: Enabled filtering posts by custom fields in Search API.
VNLA-8150: Added post move actions to the audit log.
VNLA-7994: Fixed error when creating a new event in custom layouts (event still created).
VNLA-8220: Fixed issue where custom post pages didn’t show migrated post's attachments.
VNLA-8242: Fixed issues with categories & post types.
VNLA-8270: Fixed issue where permitted users could not comment on closed posts
VNLA-8271: Fixed issue where subcommunity post was given all post type options, even though most were blank.
VNLA-8287: Fixed issue where images in articles were not hosted correctly.
VNLA-8324: Fixed issue where posts were duplicating themselves upon creation/edit.
VNLA-8328: Fixed issue where announcement setting was not correctly set when posting.
VNLA-8345: Fixed issue where creating a new idea post using custom fields removed inputted information.
VNLA-8395: Fixed issue where "Are you sure you want to delete this comment" appeared when deleting a comment (legacy layouts).
VNLA-8415: Fixed moderation queue showing incorrect post count.

Drafts Management

VNLA-8336: Fixed issue where drafts loaded blank in edit state in custom create post layouts.
VNLA-7918: Fixed My Drafts quick link number not updating.
VNLA-8340: Fixed issue where editing KB draft didn’t work on hub/node site.

User Management & Permissions

VNLA-8084: Fixed profile field (tokens) throwing errors for some users.

SSO & Sign In

VNLA-8293: Fixed issue where default subcommunity URL was added to Oauth2 login endpoint.
VNLA-8525: Fixed issue where subcommunity slug was introduced to /signin/ URL.
VNLA-8147: Fixed issue where HubSSO caused user exists/updates on node but not on the hub.

Work in progress

Content Scheduling 🚧

VNLA-8182: Added article support to the drafts endpoint.
VNLA-8365: Fixed issue where scheduled items didn’t post and didn’t error out.
VNLA-8439: Fixed issue with a bar appearing under notifications on Drafts page.
VNLA-8429: Fixed issue where a scheduled post in a group failed.
VNLA-8203: Implemented publishing of scheduled drafts for events and articles (backend functionality).

Knowledge Base Following 🚧

VNLA-8177: Added "Manage Knowledge Bases" tab in the Followed Content page.
VNLA-8179: Made "Knowledge Bases List" widget configurable to include the "follow" button.
VNLA-8180: Added "Knowledge Bases" section to the (admin-facing) "Edit Default Notification Preferences" form.
VNLA-8050: Implemented sending KB notifications.
VNLA-8339: Added following parameter and preferences expand to KB index endpoint.

Rich Editor Improvements 🚧

VNLA-8033: Added new toolbar for editing a table in the Rich Editor Table.
VNLA-8432: Fixed issue where columns weren’t appearing.

Advanced Customization Tools 🚧

VNLA-8160: Added fragment for original post.
VNLA-8161: Added fragment for custom fragment (like HTML widget).
VNLA-8164: Added fragment for search box.
VNLA-8165: Added subcommunity/locale picker in titlebar fragment.
VNLA-8171: Added documentation to the fragment editor.
VNLA-8372: Added styleguide previews to fragment editor.
VNLA-8374: Added role previewing to fragment editor and layout editor.
VNLA-8440: Added error reporting to fragment editor.
VNLA-8499: Added warning disclosure to the fragment editor.

AI Search Assistant 🚧

VNLA-8086: Allowed posts to be filterable by custom post fields via the API.
VNLA-8059: Generated document vectors for content.
VNLA-8302: Normalized response for Nexus API endpoint.
VNLA-8313: Hooked up local vector with Search.
VNLA-8276: Generated approved control responses for AI Chat Integration Tests.