Release 2020.003 - Vanilla Success

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Release 2020.003 was first deployed to Vanilla Cloud on Thursday, February 07 2020.

New hamburger menu

A hamburger menu that replaces our current site navigation when using a mobile device. This implements new panel navigation for easy navigation through the site.

Brand logo will now appear in mobile title

The title-bars logo will now display when viewing the site on a mobile device. I can be left-aligned or centered.

Added transitions for Modals and Side Panels

Some noteworthy transitions that have been applied.

A simple fade for most modals.
A fade-in and slide up for the content modals.
A slide down for the mobile navigation type modals.
A slide in from left or right for side panels.

Subcommunities & Knowledge-Base

Allow administrators to disable the forum pages

Administrators now have the ability to disable the forum site if they want a knowledge-base to be a stand alone site. If a user tries to navigate to the discussion and category they will be shown a not found page 404. Administrators can see the option in the "Branding & SEO" section in the dashboard.

Knowledge Base as a homepage option

Knowledge base can now be selected as the home page in through "Layouts" page in the dashboard.

Subcommunity homepage chooser

Administrators now have the ability to configure the default route for their subcommunity. Navigating to either a subcommunity root or a the absolute site root will bring you directly to the configured homepage. There is now an option to disable the forum or the knowledge-base per subcommunity. To disable a forum or knowledge-base the selected homepage must not be required for the site to work. For example the forum can't be disabled if the homepage has some relation to the forum (discussions, categories) and vice a versa. This allows for the subcommunity have a feel of an independent site.

The homepage options are as following

Discussions (default)
Categories
Knowledge-Base

Administrators will be able to set these options when editing a subcommunity in dashboard.

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Add additional navigation link options for custom themes

See the updated documentation here.

New banner image uploads for content image

Images for the knowledge-base banner and content can now be uploaded in the "General Appearance" section. (see New banner for style variations )

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Apply descriptions from KB and general appearance

A description can be set for the knowledge-base homepage in the "General Appearance" section.

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Theming Variations

New banner style variations

Theme-developers now have the ability to customize the knowledge-base banner, see below for some variations.

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Knowledge Base Chooser theme options

Individual tiles can be left-aligned.
Hover styles can adjusted.
Icon sizing can be adjusted.

Added option for center-aligned navigation menu

Allows for the title bars navigation menu to be centered.

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Bug Fixes

Fix knowledge-base chooser tile spacing issue knowledge#1493
Fix converting discussion to article functionality support#1354
Fix search failing when post format not defined support#1236
Fix search result Images displayed incorrectly support#1202
Fix organize category buttons being disabled support#1355
Fix combo breaker badge not being awarded. vanilla#9981
Fix terms of use not appearing during registration. internal#2187
Fix logic for determining if a discussion has been read by a user. vanilla#9944
Fix non nonce found in stash JSConnect. addons#771
Fix custom theme caching and template dir search. internal#2221
Fix adding required user fields when approving a post from moderation. vanilla#10035
Fix ideation error when users adds 5 tags. internal#2217
Fix SignIn and Register buttons when Google SignIn is default SignIn method. vanilla#10030
Fix spacing and reactions alignment in Keystone/Boilerplate. vanilla#10029
Fix SiteNode plugin breaking when running utility/structure under certain conditions. multisite#334
Fix unexpected HTML rendering in Advanced Search results. internal#2208
Fix subcommunity search with nested categories. multisite#332
Fix change log deleted record url. vanilla#10009
Fix HTML being unnecessarily encoded in form error messages. vanilla#10007
Fix adding active where clause on getBadges. internal#2205
Fix Online plugin not displaying who's online by category. internal#2159

Developer notes

Remove some compatibility functions that are no longer needed. vanilla#9907
Fix bug in addTimeoutEvent(). internal#2197
Add PSR-14 events for a discussion write operations. vanilla#9932
Add a sensible default Smarty template directory. vanilla#10039
Fix polluted SchemaFactory dependencies in test. vanilla#9996
Knowledge-base and Subcommunity table were updated (run a utility-update)