Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2020.012

Schedule

Release 2020.012 will be deployed:

To staging on Tuesday, June 16th
To production on Monday, June 22nd
To Enterprise clients on Monday, June 29th

Events

Our progress on Events continues. This release includes a new Events page that allows you to browse through all events in your community.

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You can access this page from the "More Events" link on any "Upcoming Events" module. On this page you will have 2 sections:

Community Events: Here users will see all community events they have permission to view.
Group Events: Here users will see all events in Groups they are members of.

You also have a filter on this page so you can more easily view:

Upcoming Events
Past Events
All Events
Events you are going to

Check out our Groups & Events docs here -

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/70-groups-and-events

Theme Editor

By default the logo in your theme's title bar links users back to your community's homepage. With this release we've added a new Logo URL theme setting to our editor to allow you the freedom to update this link as needed.

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Accessibility Improvements

Added missing alt text to search results when available internal#2654
Accessibility Improvements - labels, IDs, colours, heading order, tab indexes vanilla#10743
Fixed form elements with missing labels - internal#2563
Fixed invalid ARIA Controls - internal#2554
Fixed ID attributes that were not unique - internal#2556
Fixed buttons with indiscernible text - internal#2561
Fixed links with indiscernible text - internal#2558

Bugs

Fixed KB requests to failing with status code 400 - knowledge#1853
Fixed validation of content length on reported posts - vanilla#10804
Fixed Indexed arrays not rendering properly through the theme API vanilla#10725
Fixed inaccurate counts displayed on Event page - internal#2657
Fixed group enable and permission issues - internal#2598
Hide untranslated articles from the KB Categories - knowledge#1809
Fixed theme current crash - vanilla#10676
Fixed logical error while checking for subcommunity filter - multisite#374
Fixed styles for dashboard's token and category inputs - vanilla#10665
Fixed new pocket input styles multisite#375
Fixed full-bleed title bar failing when banner alignment was switched support#1968
Fixed sitemaps failing to render with a bad article - knowledge#1841
Fixed Breadcrumbs/Back button page failures in KB - support#1938
Improve performance of various models through additional caching. (Products, Knowledge Bases, Knowledge Categories, UserAuthenticationProviders, Community Categories). vanilla#10763, vanilla#10778, vanilla#10776, vanilla#10764, multisite#384, knowledge#1868.
Fix a bug causing keystone dark variables not applying. support#2077
Fix pocket parameter for "Page" not working with the new "After Banner" location. support#2110
Fix MeBox showing incorrect link for some user to edit profile preferences. knowledge#1846
Fix visual issue in the groups page using the foundation theme. support#1892
Fix knowledge base not displaying a proper error message when a request is blocked by cloudflare. Cloudflare errors will not be properly handled and display the message and a RayID. support#1926
Fix page title in unanswered page addons#810
Fix broken Facebook Social Connect button. vanilla#10687
Fix sorting category dropdown list alphabetically. vanilla#10698
Fix wysiwyg editor styles. internal#2625
Add visit count to the profile extender export. vanilla#10702
Fix the user avatar for banned users. vanilla#10707
Fix display LastComment meta data. vanilla#10710
Fix OpenAPI issues. multisite#380
Fix OpenAPI’s schema merging. vanilla#10713
Add Q&A’s expand parameters to the discussions endpoints. addons#813
Fix Spam queue count caching. internal#2664
Fix poll radio input alignment. internal#2667
Fix permission when getting fingerprint module data.addons#815
Fix bootstrap popup. internal#2678
Fix legacy themes mobile flyouts. vanilla#10752
Fix the URL for initiating a JSConnect Sign In when using V3. addons#808
Update the site maps addon to point to discussions directly. addons#731
Fix applicants email notification. vanilla#10659
Fix JSConnect v3 setting the target. addons#807

Developer Notes

Caching

Additional caching was added in quite a few places in this release. Some of them use a newer method of caching. If an issue is discovered in this and an immediate mitigation is required, the following configuration value will disable it.

{
    "Feature": {
        "DisableNewModelCaching": {
             "Enabled": true
        }
    }
}

Add primary key lookup support in various API v2 endpoints. vanilla#10712
Normalize unicode in URL paths before scraping. vanilla#10739