Release 2021.005 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2021.005 will be deployed:</p><ul><li>To staging sites, Tuesday, March 9th</li><li>To production sites, Monday, March 15th</li><li>To Enterprise client sites, Monday, March 22nd</li></ul><h2 data-id="new-theming-widgets">New Theming Widgets</h2><p>We continue to build out our widget catalogue to make it easier to build and customize common theme components. </p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Pockets can be used to enhance your site in two ways: Adding Vanilla Widgets (formerly known as Modules) Adding areas to your forum where you can inject custom HTML or Javascript into your theme Pockets are available on all plan levels. To activate it, simply locate it in your addon list (\/dashboard\/settings\/addons) and…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/947\/TM5DAO1BWY5V.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/366-using-pockets-widgets-to-enhance-your-theme","embedType":"link","name":"Using Pockets & Widgets to Enhance your Theme - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/366-using-pockets-widgets-to-enhance-your-theme" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/366-using-pockets-widgets-to-enhance-your-theme </a> </div><h3 data-id="rss-feed">RSS Feed</h3><p>With this release we've added an RSS feed widget to allow you to easily pull blog posts or news feeds into your community pages. </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/67A7R0U3658B/screen-shot-2021-03-03-at-6-35-58-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/67A7R0U3658B/screen-shot-2021-03-03-at-6-35-58-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-03-03 at 6.35.58 PM.png" height="1208" width="2656" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h3 data-id="user-spotlight">User Spotlight</h3><p>Add a user-spotlight to your community pages to introduce your community team members, or recognize thought leaders and super users. </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/TC75UKAAVIDW/screen-shot-2021-03-03-at-6-43-26-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/TC75UKAAVIDW/screen-shot-2021-03-03-at-6-43-26-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-03-03 at 6.43.26 PM.png" height="370" width="1908" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="theme-template-updates">Theme Template Updates</h2><p>In previous releases when you copied a theme template, it would be separated completely from the template. All assets would be <strong><em>copied</em></strong>. This made updates to custom templates by Vanilla for new features of fixes particularly complicated. A template would need to be re-copied and modified to get the updates.</p><p>Starting with this release templates only the changed portion of a template are copied, allowing updates to be made to the parent template after the fact.</p><h2 data-id="new-variables">New Variables</h2><ul><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">banner.options.hideIcon</code> - Defaults to true. Set this to false to display the category icon in the banner.</li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">banner.icon.*</code> - Apply various options to the icon in the banner.</li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">homeWidgetItem.options.*</code> - Various new options have been added.</li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">tags.tagItem.showCount</code> - Set to false to hide tag counts in the tag cloud.</li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">userSpotlight.*</code> - Variables for a new widget. Please note that these variables may change slightly as this is only the first release of this component.</li></ul><h2 data-id="general-theming-improvements">General Theming Improvements</h2><ul><li>Improved alignment and spacing of the group page.</li><li>When a banner or content banner is used with a title or description the title and/or description will no longer be duplicated in the main content of the page.</li><li>The pages the content banner and banner display on can now be configured by setting an array of sections for this configuration key. Here are the defaults:<ul><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">Theme.Banner.VisibleSections</code> - <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">["DiscussionList", "CategoryDiscussionList", "CategoryList", "NewEventList"]</code> </li><li><code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">Theme.ContentBanner.VisibleSections</code> - <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">["Discussion", 'Drafts', 'Profile', 'PostDiscussion'] </code></li></ul></li></ul><h2 data-id="new-zapier-templates-available">New Zapier Templates Available</h2><p>Over the last few weeks we've released a few more Zapier templates to help get you started with our integration. Check them out!</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Instantly connect Vanilla Forums with the apps you use everyday. Vanilla Forums integrates with 3,000 other apps on Zapier - it's the easiest way to automate your work.","photoUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.zapier.com\/explore\/06f3d3e8a65dcf409c48a87b57312e2bd4375ba1\/_next\/static\/images\/social.png","url":"https:\/\/zapier.com\/apps\/vanilla\/integrations","embedType":"link","name":"Vanilla Forums Integrations | Connect Your Apps with Zapier"}"> <a href="https://zapier.com/apps/vanilla/integrations" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://zapier.com/apps/vanilla/integrations </a> </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/H4XWJAT7B2IJ/screen-shot-2021-03-09-at-9-06-29-am.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/H4XWJAT7B2IJ/screen-shot-2021-03-09-at-9-06-29-am.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-03-09 at 9.06.29 AM.png" height="1158" width="1824" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="bug-fixes-improvements">Bug Fixes & Improvements</h2><ul><li>Fix unauthorized users being able to delete own discussions via API <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2373" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2373</a></li><li>Fix invalid permission check in AuthenticatorsApiController <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2330" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2330</a></li><li>Fix Online Module display in legacy themes <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2323" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2323</a></li><li>Fix font weight on read discussion titles in Foundation theme <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2308" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2308</a></li><li>Fix OAuth2 API reporting errors on empty authentication providers <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2290" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2290</a></li><li>Fix inability to delete discussion tags <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2251" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2251</a></li><li>Fix accepting empty emails from authentication providers when autoconnect enabled <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2186" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">vanilla/vanilla-cloud#2186</a></li></ul><p><br></p> </article> </main>