Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2022.004

Schedule

Release 2022.004 will be deployed:

To staging sites, Thursday, February 22nd
To production sites, Monday, February 28th
To Enterprise client sites, Monday, March 7th

Appearance Tab

We have added a new tab in the Dashboard header which consolidates all settings related to a community’s branding. This will help unify the Vanilla branding experience into one place.

In the Appearance tab you will now find:

Branding & SEO
Style Guides - a list of all Style Guides (fka Themes) that you have created
Layouts – configuration for layout settings

API Improvements

Removed hardcoded limits on /tags endpoint - Our Tags API endpoint has been updated to remove the previously hardcoded limit of 20 tags. You can now specify the number of tags you would like to fetch when using the API, or remove the limit altogether to get the full list of your community tags.
Added /moderation-message endpoints - API support has beed added to our Moderation Messages. You can now add, edit, enable/disable, delete or dismiss moderation messages via API.
Updated the /articles API endpoints - New knoweldgebase and sitesection filters have been added to our Articles API endpoints.

Improvements

Add middleware to specify widget as advertisement - vanilla-cloud#4267
Fix article widget sorting in storybook- vanilla-cloud#4265
Add /users/leaders API endpoint - vanilla-cloud#4259
Fix themingapi dependency with new section- vanilla-cloud#4251
Layout overview page demo feedback - vanilla-cloud#4250
Fix category picker for drafts- vanilla-cloud#4249
Fix HomeLayoutView not registered to the container- vanilla-cloud#4248
Enhance API Expand Middleware and add User expander- vanilla-cloud#4247
Fix layoutViewType enum in api documentation- vanilla-cloud#4246
Fix: restore layouts playground- vanilla-cloud#4245
Fix: fall back to empty array- vanilla-cloud#4244
Update /api/v2/articles index endpoint to allow more sorting and filtering options - vanilla-cloud#4242
Fix ul bottom margin affecting drop-downs in new admin section- vanilla-cloud#4241
Make sure error logs can be suppressed in our error handler- vanilla-cloud#4239
Fix dashboard_footerNav_handler params error- vanilla-cloud#4237
Fix conflicting package.json that aren't actively used- addons#867
Product-board-idea-category- vanilla-cloud#4236
Add extract widget static assets endpoint- vanilla-cloud#4235
Add, edit, and save a new custom layout with JSON editor- vanilla-cloud#4233
Add custom layouts navigation items- vanilla-cloud#4232
ContentGeneratorPlugin- vanilla-cloud#4231
Apply layout to homepage (global) - vanilla-cloud#4229
Add User Spotlight widget to custom layouts - vanilla-cloud#4227
Refactor static from dispatcher blocking- vanilla-cloud#4225
Add appearance section & new dashboard navigation- vanilla-cloud#4221
Add /api/v2/layouts/catalogue endpoint - vanilla-cloud#4216
Pass hydrater params to react resolvers getProps- vanilla-cloud#4213
Add banner widgets for custom layouts- vanilla-cloud#4212
Add articles widget to custom layouts - vanilla-cloud#4211
Productboard-integration- vanilla-cloud#4210
Add JSON-LD support to LayoutHydrator- vanilla-cloud#4203
Add caching for database schemas- vanilla-cloud#4198
Add site section filtering for all relevant site total providers- vanilla-cloud#4196
Add layout language translation resolver- vanilla-cloud#4159

Bug Fixes

Fix performance and functional regressions in the /api/v2/categories endpoint- vanilla-cloud#4264
Fix RSS feed parser schema for some fields not to be required - vanilla-cloud#4260
Refactor filter kludge & add additonal filters for discussion|type- vanilla-cloud#4255
Fix console error from autosave- vanilla-cloud#4253
Fix subcommunities plugin filtering dashboard dropdowns - vanilla-cloud#4243
Fix missing target property for drilldown-user - vanilla-cloud#4234
Fix old plugin and addon manager not running addon structure - vanilla-cloud#4223
Stop editing discussion from creating new drafts- vanilla-cloud#4215
Fix regression breaking the Private Discussion Plugin & Private Community Setting's synergy - vanilla-cloud#4208
Fix incorrect comment counts- vanilla-cloud#4205
Fix event page attendance buttons behaviour - vanilla-cloud#4199