Release 2021.022 - Vanilla Success
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2021.022 will be deployed:</p><ul><li>To staging sites, Tuesday November 2nd</li><li>To production sites, Monday, November 8th</li><li>To Enterprise client sites, Tuesday, November 16th</li></ul><h2 data-id="analytics-beta"><strong> 🎉 🎉 </strong>Analytics BETA <strong>🎉 🎉</strong></h2><p>We have launched out new Analytic Experience in BETA as of today!! </p><p>We have launched a new UI as well as new chart options and analytics endpoints. Find more information on our new default charts, available custom dashboards and how to enable this new Analytics Experience from the Vanilla Labs page below.</p><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"N.B. The functionality described in this doc will be available with Release 2021.022 Overview With Vanilla’s updated Analytics experience you can run out of the box reports to measure the health and activity of your Vanilla communities build custom Analytics dashboards to create your own reporting and visualize the data…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/433-analytics-beta","embedType":"link","name":"Analytics BETA - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/433-analytics-beta" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/433-analytics-beta </a> </div><div class="js-embed embedResponsive" data-embedjson="{"body":"N.B. The functionality described in this doc will be available with Release 2021.022 Overview When building your own Analytics charts, you can pull data from various sources to look at different types of analytics events. The data sources can be filtered and broken down to get a better analysis of your community activity.…","photoUrl":"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6030677\/uploads\/VWGAXAF5OFCO\/microsoftteams-image.png","url":"https:\/\/success.vanillaforums.com\/kb\/articles\/434-chart-options-for-custom-dashboards","embedType":"link","name":"Chart Options for Custom Dashboards - Vanilla Success"}"> <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/434-chart-options-for-custom-dashboards" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc"> https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/434-chart-options-for-custom-dashboards </a> </div><h2></h2><h2 data-id="bulk-merge">Bulk Merge</h2><p>Bulk Merge has been restored to our Foundation theme discussion lists. Simply select the posts through the checkboxes which appear to the left of each post title, select the Merge action from the bottom left corner and choose the Discussion you would like to move your content to or confirm the Merge. You will have the option to <em>Leave a redirect link from the old discussions.</em> This will have the merged discussion threads remain in the discussion list and will redirect to the merged discussion when clicked on.</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/MA0IDZRS2ADA/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/MA0IDZRS2ADA/image.png" alt="image.png" height="323" width="1167" 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/8SAXSA76FWM8/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/8SAXSA76FWM8/image.png" alt="image.png" height="229" width="585" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p><br></p><h2 data-id="bulk-close-(api)">Bulk Close (API)</h2><p>You can now bulk close discussions through our API. We will be adding this to our UI in a coming release. You can find the Close API endpoint in our <a href="https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/202-api-v2-reference-endpoints#/" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">API v2 Reference & Endpoints</a>. </p><h2 data-id="improvements">Improvements</h2><h3 data-id="notifications-from-ignored-users">Notifications from Ignored Users</h3><p>We have made an update to prevent email and popup notifications from being triggered based on activity made by a user whom you have ignored. </p><h3 data-id="remove-the-replies-addon">Remove the “Replies” addon</h3><p>With our 2021.022 release we have removed our legacy <strong>Replies </strong>addon. This addon had been developed years ago as part of our original Q&A plugin however it has not been used or maintained for some time. We had already deprecated the addon as no sites were using it and we have now removed it from our code.</p><ul><li>Add new analytics feature flag in vanilla labs <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3739" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3739</a></li><li>Fix chart presets<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3802" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3802</a></li><li>Fix pieGraph legends to horizontal <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3801" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3801</a></li><li>Fix analytics lab item svg and add docs link into description <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3798" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3798</a></li><li>Fix permission error<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3796" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3796</a></li><li>Fix analytics edit mode layout <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3791" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3791</a></li><li>Simplify catalog options<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3790" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3790</a></li><li>Fix & Update Bar Graphs to Use Stacked Option<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3787" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3787</a></li><li>Expose new fields in `article_modifications` & `points` catalog<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3786" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3786</a></li><li>Fix analytics new chart and time frame drop-downs on smaller views <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3781" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3781</a></li><li>Fix pieGraph labels overlap <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3776" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3776</a></li><li>Adds "Preset" field to chart settings form<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3772" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3772</a></li><li>Improve chart settings performance through various optimizations<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3767" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3767</a></li><li>Polish OOTB Dashboard & Various bug fixes<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3766" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3766</a></li><li>Add analytics chart presets<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3746" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3746</a></li><li>Fix label field in chart editor for new analytics VNLA-489<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3745" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3745</a></li><li>Add richer table cells for various data types<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3743" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3743</a></li><li>Use `ChartsLegend` component in bar charts<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3740" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3740</a></li><li>Remove unneeded configurations from the rule model<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3782" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3782</a></li><li>Add bulk merge discussion UI <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3784" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3784</a></li><li>Add vanilla and dashboard to psalm<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3775" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3775</a></li><li>Add writing universal status when inserting and updating discussions for QnA and Resolved plugins<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3771" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3771</a></li><li>Add auth mechanism for requests containing only role-based auth token<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3762" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3762</a></li><li>Add subcommunity grouping and filtering for new analytics <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3748" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3748</a></li><li>Add bulk discussion's closing to the API <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3742" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3742</a></li><li>Add default statuses to recordStatus table <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3758" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3758</a></li><li>Add Badges to User Card<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3730" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3730</a></li><li>Remove the “Replies” addon<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3721" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3721</a></li><li>Make `/api/v2/discussions/merge` more robust by using the long runner <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3720" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3720</a></li><li>Added advanced redirector plugin<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3677" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3677</a></li><li>Eliminate Sphinx Addon, Tests, and reference to Sphinx <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3699" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3699</a></li></ul><h2 data-id="bug-fixes">Bug Fixes</h2><ul><li>Update PHP Mailer<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3797" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3797</a></li><li>Remove broken length validation from signatures<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3789" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3789</a></li><li>Update the /cloud/scripts/vanilla-cloud clear-caches definition…<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3788" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3788</a></li><li>Added substantial logging to the spam queue's restoring processes<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3783" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3783</a></li><li>Fix incorrect view permissions being returned for non-members of a group<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3779" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3779</a></li><li>Fix null argument exception in breadcrumb<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3778" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3778</a></li><li>Fix/custom rule description length<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3777" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3777</a></li><li>Fix category events list returned empty by updating query<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3763" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3763</a></li><li>Add database-based byte length validation to Gdn_Model <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3761" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3761</a></li><li>Fix GET /categories/preferences/:ID when categoryIDs are more than one character<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3760" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3760</a></li><li>Fix warnings events when RecordType is not all lowercase<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3759" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3759</a></li><li>Fix notice in the new discussion module<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3757" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3757</a></li><li>Try to fix constant chromatic changes<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3755" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3755</a></li><li>Fix move discussion not tracking the correct handled IDs<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3754" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3754</a></li><li>Fix moved discussions not appearing or being deleted <a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3747" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3747</a></li><li>Fix/Ignore plugin Updating ignore plugin to skip notification from ignored users.<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3744" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3744</a></li><li>Fix the OAUth /authenticators endpoint with empty string URLs<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3741" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3741</a></li><li>Updating to generate Groups breadcrumb with full URL, not relative<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3738" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3738</a></li><li>Fix QnA unanswered page error by updating query<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3736" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3736</a></li><li>Unhide user fields for reaction dataSource<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3735" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3735</a></li><li>Fix Moderation Queue invalid lastPost.DateInserted<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3732" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3732</a></li><li>Fix articles returned from search checking whether knowledge base status deleted<a href="https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla-cloud/pull/3723" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">- vanilla-cloud#3723</a></li></ul> </article> </main>