Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2022.009

Schedule

Release 2022.009 will be deployed:

To staging sites: Tuesday, May 3rd
To production sites: Monday, May 9th
To Enterprise client sites: Monday, May 16th

Salesforce Configuration UI

We have released the configuration UI to setup your Salesforce User Activity Sync. You can set this up with the help of your Salesforce Admin by going to your Salesforce addon in Vanilla and clicking to Configure Activity Sync as shown below.

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Learn more about our Salesforce User Activity Sync below.

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/23-integrating-with-salesforce#sync-user-activity-data-into-salesforce

Improved Password Security

This sprint we made the following updates to improve our password security;

Increased default minimum password length to 12
Added configurable minimum password length & session timeout settings
Added reCAPTCHA support to Password Reset form
Sessions are now cleared when passwords are reset

You can update the Session Timeout and Password Minimum Length in under Security in your Vanilla Dashboard Settings.

New filtering options for /discussions API endpoints

New parameters allowing you to filter discussions by:

tagID: to get list of discussions using a specific tag or set of tags
bookmarkUserID: to get a list of a user’s bookmarked discussions
participatedUserID: to get a list of discussions a user has participated in

Improvements

Added option to delete file from the CDN for media DELETE endpoints.- vanilla-cloud#4602
Correcting error, adding delete, when replacing layoutView with different layoutID.- vanilla-cloud#4601
Fix recursive DI cycle causing segfault- vanilla-cloud#4598
Added Vanilla to Vanilla redirection plugin- vanilla-cloud#4592
Tweaks to Hamburger Menu for Layout Views- vanilla-cloud#4591
Fix 2 column layout not collapsing properly- vanilla-cloud#4587
Fix our PHP 7.4 build- vanilla-cloud#4585
Fix widget settings preview demo feedback- vanilla-cloud#4582
Apply prettier to the whole codebase- vanilla-cloud#4578
Update PUT layout/:layoutID/view endpoint to accept array of records- vanilla-cloud#4577
Reducing elastic_test parallelism, to hopefully help test pass more consistently- vanilla-cloud#4576
Demo Feedback: Fix quick links not appearing in mobile menu- vanilla-cloud#4575
Disabled captcha validation on various relevant endpoint - vanilla-cloud#4574
Add layout page update- vanilla-cloud#4573
Confirmation modal for deleting layout- vanilla-cloud#4571
Tweak wording of session timeout- vanilla-cloud#4568
Added get user mentions API endpoint- vanilla-cloud#4567
Added OpenAPI spec for new filter- vanilla-cloud#4566
HTML Widget Editor- vanilla-cloud#4565
Add widget preview to widget settings modal- vanilla-cloud#4563
Add dropdown for configuration session duration- vanilla-cloud#4561
Fix invalid API call and display proper errors- vanilla-cloud#4559
Updating Rss Feed Link to accept null.- vanilla-cloud#4558
Fix widget configuration demo feedback - vanilla-cloud#4555
Add quick links to mobile nav- vanilla-cloud#4553
Limit which role types are returned from keen- vanilla-cloud#4550
Add ReCaptcha on the password recovery form- vanilla-cloud#4548
Move the ReCaptcha plugin's functionality into Vanilla's core- vanilla-cloud#4547
Add new discussion list page- vanilla-cloud#4546
Adds additional properties to search catalog- vanilla-cloud#4545
Implemented UserMention tracking- vanilla-cloud#4544
Delete Layouts- vanilla-cloud#4542
Layout Editor bugs- vanilla-cloud#4540
Fixing potential database IO issue by enable session caching- vanilla-cloud#4539
Add user sessions clearing upon password reset- vanilla-cloud#4538
Changes to configure and increase default password length- vanilla-cloud#4537
Fix dashboard build process- vanilla-cloud#4535
Adding JSON-LD metadata values to article widget data- vanilla-cloud#4534
Fix/IPBFormatter Warnings by remove reference from function signatures- addons#869
Events Widget preview- vanilla-cloud#4528
Add support to Discussion Api to filter by TagID- vanilla-cloud#4523
Discussion list filter by userID bookmarked or commented- vanilla-cloud#4506
Implementing hub/node server side session record in the cookie- vanilla-cloud#4493

Bug Fixes

Remove leaderboard type from pocket widgets- vanilla-cloud#4596
Replace link for status label with search page- vanilla-cloud#4600
Update KB general appearance variables to only apply in knowledge base (banner overwrite)- vanilla-cloud#4588
Fix `Source` field's length bug by increasing length from varchar(20) to varchar(255) // VNLA-1367- vanilla-cloud#4586
Replace Exception with Throwable in catch statement and fix function return type- vanilla-cloud#4583
Dba Counts endpoint to calculate/reiterate counts- vanilla-cloud#4580
Fix/Oauth2 using wrong client- vanilla-cloud#4579
Fix user Mention indexed date.- vanilla-cloud#4572
Correcting process to delete cookie on logout- vanilla-cloud#4549
Fix issue of roles changes not saving when Name is present, and blank.- vanilla-cloud#4543