Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2022.012

Schedule

Release 2022.012 will be deployed:

To staging sites: Tuesday, June 14th
To production sites: Tuesday, June 21st
To Enterprise client sites: Monday, June 27th

Layout Editor is LIVE! 🎉

We have just released a brand new layout editor and widget configuration experience providing the ability to create custom community and subcommunity homepages using sections and widgets to build out the page.

Layout Editor Resources

Check out our docs on how to starting using the new Layout Editor and OOTB widgets!

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/545-enable-the-layout-editor

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/544-create-a-custom-layout

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/546-apply-a-custom-layout

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/547-add-configure-custom-layout-widgets

https://success.vanillaforums.com/kb/articles/548-layout-editor-widgets

Also checkout our Move to Foundation Support category in the community where you can ask questions to our team.

https://success.vanillaforums.com/categories/move-to-foundation-support

You can also share your experience and give us feedback on Layout Editor in our Layout Editor BETA Feedback category.

https://success.vanillaforums.com/categories/layout-editor-beta-feedback

Improvements

Prevent XSS in User card title field- vanilla-cloud#4712
Update layout editor lab copy- vanilla-cloud#4709
Filter out tags that don't have a tagged discussion in Tags Cloud widget- vanilla-cloud#4707
Update homepage default layout in json- vanilla-cloud#4706
Discussion variants demo feedback- vanilla-cloud#4704
Prepare banner widget for release- vanilla-cloud#4702
Fix user mentions not tracked for rich posts- vanilla-cloud#4699
Add date inserted and date updated for article data source- vanilla-cloud#4696
Fix New Post widget not translating - vanilla-cloud#4695
Add/Allow Discussions to be filtered by statusID or StatusState- vanilla-cloud#4694
Recalculate logic for hot/trending- vanilla-cloud#4692
Add discussion widget variants - vanilla-cloud#4691
Implement User PII removal for rich format content- vanilla-cloud#4690
Tabs Widget for Layout Editor- vanilla-cloud#4689
Feature/Add endpoint to anonymize all of a user's mentions- vanilla-cloud#4688
Make custom layout widgets load asynchronously- vanilla-cloud#4686
Fix notifications with default Notified status not included when marking all read- vanilla-cloud#4685
Fix lab being disabled on initial toggle- vanilla-cloud#4684
Remove layoutType column from layout table- vanilla-cloud#4678
Add unified discussion status when user changes discussion…- vanilla-cloud#4677
Improve Cron Job Scheduling - vanilla-cloud#4675
Add custom layouts labs toggle- vanilla-cloud#4673
Add trackable search events- vanilla-cloud#4672
Upgrade dependencies for a clean npm audit - vanilla-cloud#4670
New post widget demo feedback - vanilla-cloud#4669
Fix serialization error with filtered subcommunities- vanilla-cloud#4668
Fix-disable-path-disclosure- vanilla-cloud#4667
Fix custom layout bugs - vanilla-cloud#4666
Feature/ adding expand "status" to discussions endpoints.- vanilla-cloud#4665
Hide inactive recordStatuses- vanilla-cloud#4658
Add pageview handler for keen- vanilla-cloud#4648

Bug Fixes

Fix scrolling to quotes for rich editor - VNLA-1029- vanilla-cloud#4703
When Rank addon enabled always pass rank label if they exist- vanilla-cloud#4701
Move user mention indexing to dba counts endpoint- vanilla-cloud#4700
Add some legacy permission names to permissions- vanilla-cloud#4697 (backported to 2022.011)
Fix site nodes not spawning- vanilla-cloud#4683
Analytics missing categoryAncestor data kludge- vanilla-cloud#4674