Release 2021.008 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2021.008 will be deployed:</p><ul><li>To staging sites: Tuesday, April 20th</li><li>To production sites: Monday, April 26th</li><li>To Enterprise client sites: Monday, May 3rd</li></ul><h2 data-id="new-category-selector-on-new-discussion-page">New Category Selector on New Discussion Page</h2><p>This release includes an update to our category picker on the New Post page. Now, when you select a category from the dropdown, the category name and description are loaded into the page to provide users with additional info about the category they are posting to. </p><p><em>N.B. This new category picker is enabled by default in Foundation themes and can be optionally integrated into custom or legacy themes. </em></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/F56A4AUVKDRS/screen-shot-2021-04-20-at-12-07-32-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/F56A4AUVKDRS/screen-shot-2021-04-20-at-12-07-32-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-04-20 at 12.07.32 PM.png" height="1578" width="2880" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <h2 data-id="labs">Labs</h2><p>This release comes with a new Labs page in your Dashboard settings. Here you can enable and test out new Vanilla features, pages, or components when they become available. </p><p>With this first release, this page will be useful for customers using custom or legacy themes who are looking to start integrating some of our newest components and pages into their existing themes. These are:</p><ul><li>Our new customizable Quick Links menu</li><li>Our new User Cards</li><li>Our new Search Page</li></ul><p>These pages and components are enabled by default in Foundation-based themes, and can optionally be integrated into custom or legacy theme templates. For more information check out our documentation</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"Our new theme editor is designed to allow you to easily configure and customize the look and feel of our Foundation themes, pages and components. 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These will include additional themeable components and pages, as well as previews of upcoming features. </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/8IERA99T3ZQH/screen-shot-2021-04-20-at-12-08-45-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/8IERA99T3ZQH/screen-shot-2021-04-20-at-12-08-45-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-04-20 at 12.08.45 PM.png" height="1572" width="2880" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><em>N.B. These features are enabled by default for Foundation themes, and cannot be disabled. </em></p><h2 data-id="bug-fixes-and-improvements">Bug Fixes and Improvements</h2><ul><li>Add "display=swap" to google font url<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2710" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2710</a></li><li>Add Symfony cache component<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2705" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2705</a></li><li>Add expand reactions on discussions in FoundationDiscussionsShim<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2679" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2679</a></li><li>Add extra components before the SearchBar<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2652" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2652</a></li><li>Add support for converting Rich embeds to translatable text fragments<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2651" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2651</a></li><li>Add Vanilla UI - AutoComplete<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2648" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2648</a></li><li>Add event to allow addons to extend the API output for crawlable resources<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2268" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2268</a></li><li>Fix advanced search paging with new search service<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2731" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2731</a></li><li>Fix getSendScopeOnTokenRequest() returning null<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2726" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2726</a></li><li>Fix variable corruption issues<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2724" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2724</a></li><li>Fix leaderboard style adjustments for box style and ability to take own styles over layout<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2722" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2722</a></li><li>Fix broken checkbox input layouts by adjusting global theme styles<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2720" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2720</a></li><li>Fix commenting permission on a closed discussion over api<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2716" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2716</a></li><li>Fix leaderboard photo from shrinking when username is long<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2711" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2711</a></li><li>Fix: User Comment Counts not being updated<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2702" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2702</a></li><li>Fix CommentsApi dateInserted validation error<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2689" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2689</a></li><li>Fix user management filtering query causing User search page to break<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2687" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2687</a></li><li>Fix emoji's appearing as search result images in new search service<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2685" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2685</a></li><li>Fix tagging autocomplete<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2684" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2684</a></li><li>Fix search query updating in query faster than in actual search in new search service<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2683" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2683</a></li><li>Fix saving comment drafts not saving<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2673" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2673</a></li><li>Fix subcommunity chooser not appearing on mobile in some scenarios<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2669" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2669</a></li><li>Fix metaInfo not saved when posting comment via API<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2654" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2654</a></li><li>Fix missing recommended articles<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2647" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2647</a></li><li>Fix parent/child theme asset merging order<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2645" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2645</a></li><li>Fix Member search results in new search service, rendering empty fragment when userInfo is missing<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2637" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2637</a></li><li>Fix mark notifications read in MeBox<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2626" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2626</a></li><li>Fix conditionally enabling frontend search ui based on driver<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2623" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2623</a></li><li>Fix articles with multiple translations (revisions) not appearing in sitemap<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2617" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2617</a></li><li>Fix Ideation excessively querying statuses in lists<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2611" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2611</a></li><li>Fix QnA status when deleting comments<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2602" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2602</a></li><li>Fix broken radio input layouts by adjusting global theme styles<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2592" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2592</a></li><li>Fix "Who's online" module showing users that should be hidden<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2543" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2543</a></li></ul> </article> </main>