Release 2021.015 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2021.015 will be deployed:</p><ul><li>To staging sites, Tuesday, July 27th</li><li>To production sites, Monday, August 2nd</li><li>To Enterprise clients, Monday, August 9th</li></ul><h2 data-id="category-following-notifications">Category Following & Notifications</h2><p>This release includes updates to our Advanced Notifications and Category Following features. These two legacy features have been combined to improve user experience and address key customer feedback. </p><p>Now, to follow and subscribe to category notifications, all you need to do is:</p><ol><li>Make sure Category Following is enabled in your Categories settings page </li><li>Visit the categories that interest you</li><li>Click the Notifications icon, and select your notification preferences. </li></ol><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/RZ07O9E7JBSW/screen-shot-2021-07-27-at-3-49-02-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/RZ07O9E7JBSW/screen-shot-2021-07-27-at-3-49-02-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-07-27 at 3.49.02 PM.png" height="1468" width="2880" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>You can select:</p><ul><li><strong>Follow:</strong> This option will allow you to follow the category without receive email notifications, and filter your Recent Discussions list.</li><li><strong>Discussions:</strong> This option will allow you to follow the category and receive notifications when new discussions are added</li><li><strong>Discussions and Comments:</strong> This option will allow you to follow the category and receive notifications when new discussions and comments are posted</li><li><strong>Unfollow: </strong>This option will appear once you choose to follow and subcribe to notifications, and will allow you to unfollow and disable notifications</li></ul><p>By default, you will not receive email notifications. To enable email notifications for a specific category visit your Notification Preferences page.</p><p>On the Notification Preferences page, you will see a list of all categories that you follow. Here you can enable email notifications and/or disable notifications. </p><p><br></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/K1IOY07R9KO5/screen-shot-2021-07-27-at-3-57-19-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/K1IOY07R9KO5/screen-shot-2021-07-27-at-3-57-19-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-07-27 at 3.57.19 PM.png" height="490" width="1768" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><br></p><p><strong>Key Updates: </strong></p><ul><li>Users no longer need special permissions to subscribe to category notifications.</li><li>Users can follow and subscribe to category notifications directly from the front-end Category pages.</li><li>Users can now subscribe to notifications for any category. </li><li>"Followed categories" now include any category you have chosen to follow or receive notifications for. </li><li>These preferences can now be managed via the API</li></ul><p>N.B. If you have already been using our Category Following and/or Advanced Notifications, your users' configured preferences will be saved. </p><h2 data-id="customizable-reaction-icons-for-user-profiles">Customizable Reaction Icons for User Profiles</h2><p>Profile pages include the Reactions component to give you an overview of how your community members are reacting to a user. Recently we modernized this component and added icons. With release 2021.015, you now have the ability to customize the icons used in this component on profile 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/00YHHTULO850/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-2-24-06-pm.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/00YHHTULO850/screen-shot-2021-07-29-at-2-24-06-pm.png" alt="Screen Shot 2021-07-29 at 2.24.06 PM.png" height="344" width="834" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>To customize these icons:</p><ul><li>Go to the Reactions page in your Dashboard settings</li><li>Edit your reactions</li><li>In the reactions modal we have added an Image setting. Here you can upload SVG icons to replace our defaults.</li></ul><p><strong>Notes:</strong></p><ul><li>Currently, only SVG files can be used</li><li>This will not update the reactions toolbar on comments and discussions</li></ul><h2 data-id="bug-fixes-improvements">Bug Fixes & Improvements</h2><p>Add additional options/variables (separator, label) for meBox <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3373" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3373</a></p><p>Fix improper permission validation when editing posts<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3368" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3368</a></p><p>Fix flagging discussions without proper permission<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3367" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3367</a></p><p>Fix slow discussion tag lookups<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3365" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3365</a></p><p>Fix viewing personal info profiles<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3361" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3361</a></p><p>Fix mods accessing config info<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3358" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3358</a></p><p>Fix posting discussions with invalid categoryID<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3354" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3354</a></p><p>Fix deleting reserved tags<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3353" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3353</a></p><p>Fix adding deleted users to groups<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3348" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3348</a></p><p>Fix adding deleted users to conversations<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3347" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3347</a></p><p>Add <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">"reactions.name.display","badges.name.display" & "badges.limit.maxItems"</code> theme variables to configure badges and reactions components on user profiles - <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3342" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> vanilla-cloud#3342</a></p><p>Add tests and fixes for the terms manager and SSO <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3341" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3341</a></p><p>Fix profile extender styles with checkboxes<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/2842" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#2842</a></p> </article> </main>