Release 2020.007 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <p><strong>Release Schedule:</strong></p><p><em>Release 2020.007 will be deployed :</em></p><ul><li><em>To staging on </em><strong><em>Tuesday, April 7th 2020</em></strong></li><li><em>To production on </em><strong><em>Monday, April 13th, 2020</em></strong></li><li><em>To Enterprise clients on </em><strong><em>Monday, April 20th, 2020</em></strong></li></ul><h2 data-id="theme-editor-and-foundation-theme">Theme Editor and Foundation Theme</h2><p>In <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/200-release-2020-006#custom-theme-builder-(beta)" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">2020.006</a> our new Theme Editor was released in beta. 2020.007 sees the release of our new Theme Editor to our customer base. With this release, we've included new features for ease of onboarding, as well as some fixes and refinements. With this release:</p><ul><li>All new sites will have our Foundation Theme and Theme Editor enabled by default. </li><li>Existing customers will see a new theme page and the new theme editor in their dashboard.</li></ul><p>The new Theme Editor works best with our new Foundation Theme. This is a modern theme, that is fully mobile responsive out of the box. It's also the first Vanilla theme that can be applied to both Community and Knowledge Base pages.</p><p>Check out our Theming Guide for more information:</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"This article is documenting a feature that has not been released yet. Welcome to Vanilla's theming system! With this system you will be able to customize your site to give your knowledge bases a look and feel that matches and showcases your brand. Features At A Glance Here are some of the features you will be able to take…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/947\/TM5DAO1BWY5V.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/theme-guide","embedType":"link","name":"Theming Overview - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/theme-guide" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/theme-guide </a> </div><p>Although we've released the new theme and editor, we will continue to grow their feature sets. Do not hesitate to <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/categories/product-ideas" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">share your use cases in our community. </a></p><h3 data-id="new-features-implemented-with-this-release-include%3A">New features implemented with this release include:</h3><h2 data-id="content-banner-images">Content Banner Images</h2><p>Vanilla's Knowledge Base themes can now support images on Content Pages. Content pages include KB Articles, and Search pages. Here we can now include a Content Banner Background Image, and a Content Banner Image to add product specific branding to your Content KB content.</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/937/1NB66QRO92IS.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/937/1NB66QRO92IS.png" alt="image.png" height="1178" width="2880" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="article-table-styles">Article Table Styles </h2><p>Vanilla now supports table styles. When table data is migrated into Vanilla they can inherit styles from your custom theme. N.B. Our editor does not yet support table creation, this feature is still in the research and design phase. </p><p><strong>Examples</strong></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/027/EH41TAJQBU2G.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/027/EH41TAJQBU2G.png" alt="image.png" height="339" width="1383" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/701/RSBWXEOMTKCD.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/701/RSBWXEOMTKCD.png" alt="image.png" height="334" width="1380" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/777/0PE67I68YDD2.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/777/0PE67I68YDD2.png" alt="image.png" height="366" width="1374" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="per-subcommunity-theme-chooser">Per-Subcommunity Theme Chooser</h2><p>For those of your leveraging our Subcommunities feature, you will now be able to apply unique themes to individual subcommunities. This will allow your subcommunities to adopt a look and feel that is more specific to their product and/or user group. </p><h2 data-id="custom-links-for-title-bar-logos">Custom Links for Title Bar Logos</h2><p>Many of you have expressed the need to update the links used for your title bar logo. By default, this logo points to your forum or subcommunity's homepage. You are now able to configure a custom URL for the title bar logo in your theme file. </p><h2 data-id="bug-fixes">Bug Fixes</h2><p><strong>Fixes to jsconnect protocol to handle changes in third party cookie handling: </strong>Recently, Safari released an update that disables third party cookies by default. As it turns out, jsConnect's technology acts like a third party cookie and therefore it doesn't work when cookies are disabled. </p><p>In order to address this we have changed the protocol of jsConnect. We have developed a drop in replacement for the jsConnect library that should address the issue for most customers. This update will not disrupt your current Jsconnect integration, and users who have adjusted their settings will still be able to connect. </p><p>Here are the steps we are taking:</p><ol><li>We’ve updated our PHP library and jsConnect addon to use the new protocol.</li><li>We will also update the individual client libraries we provide for JSconnect.</li><li>We are preparing new KB content to guide you through these updates, this includes guidance for customers that have rolled out their own library. We will have this content available by Wednesday, April 8th. </li></ol><p><br></p><p><strong>Search Article Prioritization</strong>: We've received feedback from Knowledge Base customers about the way we prioritize search results when both Community and Knowledge Base are in use. With this release we've adjusted our search parameters to make Articles more discoverable when using search. </p><p><strong>Other fixes:</strong></p><ul><li>Fix canonical URL generation. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10370" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10370</a></li><li>Fix group null registration type error. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/internal/pull/2355" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">internal#2355</a></li><li>Fix Advanced Search not including subcategories when selected. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/internal/pull/2351" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">internal#2351</a></li><li>Fix badge names including numbers 1,000 or larger not translated. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/internal/pull/2341" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">internal#2341</a></li><li>Fix the record information in the change log. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10314" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10314</a></li><li>Fix analytics tick endpoint path reference. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10300" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10300</a></li><li>Fix filtering on site messages. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10298" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10298</a></li><li>Fix HTML encoding in robots.txt. <a href="unsafe:Fix HTML encoding in robots.txt #10294" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10294</a></li><li>Fix moderators able to warn admins. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/internal/pull/2324" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">internal#2324</a></li><li>Fix width in popups with the richEditor mounted. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10289" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10289</a></li><li>Fix Subcommunities polluting category cache. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/multisite/pull/352" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">multisite#352</a></li><li>Fix refreshing of page when deleting a route. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10241" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10241</a></li><li>Fix mass deletion of discussions causing response timeouts. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10235" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10235</a></li></ul><h2 data-id="developer-notes">Developer Notes</h2><ul><li>Fix analytics menu events. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/analytics/pull/252" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">analytics#252</a></li><li>Add JWT support to jsConnect. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/addons/pull/791" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">addons#791</a></li><li>Add jsConnect support to core. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10353" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10353</a></li><li>Add aboutList event to userinfo view.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10340" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> vanilla#10340</a></li><li>Add a Roles as translatable field to OAuth2 feature. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10336" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10336</a></li><li>Make automatic badges be given by the system user. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/internal/pull/2340" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">internal#2340</a></li><li>Add support for addons hooking in before user signin. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10309" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10309</a></li><li>Add read-only cache mode to CategoryCollection. <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/10276" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla#10276</a></li></ul><p><br></p> </article> </main>