Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2022.003

Schedule

Release 2022.003 will be deployed:

To staging sites, Tuesday, February 8th
To production sites, Monday, February 14th
To Enterprise client sites, Monday, February 21st

Zapier Trigger - Points Earned

You can now log user points in 3rd party tools such as Rybbon, Pointagram and more, to allow users to monetize points and earn rewards for their community contributions. This new trigger allows you to create your own workflows with Zapier as shown below.

API Improvements

Updates to /categories endpoint

Added outputFormat parameter to enforce the format.
Added siteSectionID parameter to filter out by subcommunity.
Added restriction based on the format. i.e prevent conflicting output format parameters from being used simultaneously.
Removed most default values.
Fix the response schema of [GET] /categories.

Improvements

Upgrade to new yarn version- vanilla-cloud#4197
Fix syslogger issue in production environment- vanilla-cloud#4192
Revert "Appearance sidebar navigation with legacy layouts"- vanilla-cloud#4188
Fix moderation messages api bugs- vanilla-cloud#4187
Add tests for new widgets - vanilla-cloud#4186
SiteTotalsApi Improvements- vanilla-cloud#4184
Add QnA site total counts- vanilla-cloud#4183
Fix request corruption when setting IP address and METHOD- vanilla-cloud#4178
Overhaul logging handling in Vanilla - vanilla-cloud#4176
Fix site-totals swagger functionality- vanilla-cloud#4175
Add/site-totals api users- vanilla-cloud#4173
Add/site totals api articles- vanilla-cloud#4172
Add site total count for posts- vanilla-cloud#4171
Add RSS Widget - vanilla-cloud#4169
Support metadata tags- vanilla-cloud#4166
Appearance sidebar navigation with legacy layouts & Configure appearance page routing- vanilla-cloud#4165
Fix invalid webpack CSP- vanilla-cloud#4163
Fix logBadInput format- vanilla-cloud#4162
Fix leaderboard build- vanilla-cloud#4160
Add SiteTotalsApiController- vanilla-cloud#4158
VNLA-974: Fix/discussions api endpoint no username error- vanilla-cloud#4157
Make table index names case-insensitive- vanilla-cloud#4156
Add dynamic look up view- vanilla-cloud#4142
Rebuild Branding & SEO Page in React- vanilla-cloud#4141
Improve/category apiv2 sort- vanilla-cloud#4140
Add layout visibility middleware - vanilla-cloud#4139
Fix VNLA cli bash profile map- vanilla-cloud#4127
Add support for string layoutID in LayoutView table, adding layout…- vanilla-cloud#4121
Add a test for the layout hydrator role-filter middleware- vanilla-cloud#4120
Fix containerOptions for widget displayType list and link(QuickLinks)- vanilla-cloud#4119
Fix the DiscussionIdeasWidget apiParams - vanilla-cloud#4118
Rename `signIn.allow` permission to `session.valid`- vanilla-cloud#4116
Fix/userpoints webhook schema- vanilla-cloud#4115
Remove cache header from $me endpoints - vanilla-cloud#4111
Add subcommunity filter middleware for layout builder- vanilla-cloud#4109
Add category filter middleware for layout builder- vanilla-cloud#4108
Modernize EKM addon to new addon classes- vanilla-cloud#4106
Add `category` as a `recordType` for layoutView - vanilla-cloud#4105
Add Moderation Messages API- vanilla-cloud#4101
Update the Tags Widget Component - VNLA-40- vanilla-cloud#4096

Bug Fixes

Fix article editor bugs - VNLA-953- vanilla-cloud#4182
Fix CountCategories when count is off- vanilla-cloud#4180
Fix spam-queue (Argument 6 Error) - vanilla-cloud#4145
Fix nested analytics category data- vanilla-cloud#4143
Fix Keen error messages for charts VNLA-898- vanilla-cloud#4136
Fix Keyword Blocker to include capitalized keywords- vanilla-cloud#4135
Fix Beta Analytics dashboard inconsistency- vanilla-cloud#4125
Fix Analytics data view permission naming for user/discussion drill-downs- vanilla-cloud#4122
Fix conversations messages being sent by autosave- vanilla-cloud#4114
Fix analytics discussion type tracking- vanilla-cloud#4099

Deprecation

Add deprecation notice to ShareThis Plugin- addons#866