Release 2023.002 - HL Vanilla Community
<main> <article class="userContent"> <h2 data-id="schedule">Schedule</h2><p>Release 2023.002 will be deployed:</p><ul><li><strong>Staging </strong>sites: Tuesday, January 24th</li><li><strong>Production </strong>sites: Week of January 30th</li><li><strong>Enterprise </strong>client sites: Week of February 6th</li></ul><h2 data-id="updates">Updates </h2><h3 data-id="option-to-disable-automatic-draft-saving">Option to disable automatic draft saving</h3><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/2PP65X925HV3/image.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/2PP65X925HV3/image.png" alt="image.png" height="75" width="1028" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>By default, your community is configured to automatically save drafts of unpublished discussions and comments (to prevent a potential loss of work). </p><ul><li>Previously, you could disable this feature via the <strong>Stop Auto Drafts</strong> plugin. </li><li>With this release, that plugin has been <em>deprecated </em>and <em>replaced </em>with a configurable <strong>Rule</strong> on the <strong>Dashboard > Settings > Forum > Posting</strong> page. Toggle this Rule ON/OFF to control whether drafts are auto-saved in your community. </li><li>As before, drafts will be automatically saved, by default; however, if you're already using the Stop Auto Draft plugin, this setting will be disabled to align with your current configuration. </li></ul><h3 data-id="updated-expandall-parameter-on-users-endpoints">Updated expand=all parameter on /users endpoints</h3><p>The <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">expand=all</code> parameter for API V2's <code class="code codeInline" spellcheck="false" tabindex="0">/user endpoint</code> has been updated to expand all related user fields, including SSO information and profile fields that the calling user has access to.</p><h3 data-id="hide-discussions-from-recent-discussions-page-and-widgets">Hide discussions from Recent Discussions page and Widgets</h3><div class="embedExternal embedImage display-large float-none"> <div class="embedExternal-content"> <a class="embedImage-link" href="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/64T391MWU0MS/screen-shot-2023-01-24-at-12-43-26.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener ugc" target="_blank"> <img class="embedImage-img" src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6030677/uploads/64T391MWU0MS/screen-shot-2023-01-24-at-12-43-26.png" alt="Screen Shot 2023-01-24 at 12.43.26.png" height="93" width="1051" loading="lazy" data-display-size="large" data-float="none"></img></a> </div> </div> <p>The <strong>Hide from Recent Discussions page</strong> setting for Categories has been enhanced to include widgets. When enabled, it will now hide specific Category content from your:</p><ul><li>Recent Discussions page</li><li><em>and </em>widgets.</li></ul><h2 data-id="fixes-improvements"><strong>Fixes & Improvements</strong></h2><h3 data-id="ui">UI</h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-135" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-135</a> Fixed Badges “View More” link opening Reactions modal on user profiles</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1445" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1445</a> Fixed Search Autocomplete on KB Pages</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1517" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1517</a> Updated Vanilla Support link in Dashboard Settings</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1519" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1519</a> Updated documentation links for Ideation plugin</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1528" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1528</a> Updated Higher Logic Terms of Service and Refund Policy links in footer</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1558" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1558</a> Fixed Broken Images in Branding Settings page</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2036" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2036</a> Updated documentation links on the API V2 Dashboard Page</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2057" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2057</a> Fixed position of Event RSVPs Modal</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3319" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3319</a> Fixed user icons not opening user cards in Who’s Online Widgets, Leaderboard Widgets and Member Search. </li></ul><h3 data-id="search"><strong>Search</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-453" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-453</a> Fixed infinite loading on Community Hub Member Search</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1188" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1188</a> Fixed errors when sorting Places by Name</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2013" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2013</a> Fixed inability to search for content created by the Stub Content add-on</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2212" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2212</a> Fixed search reindex failures by optimizing discussions endpoint to allowing parsing of formatted content </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2215" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2215</a> Fixed API & Search reindex failures caused by Article Revisions with an empty body.</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2985" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2985</a> Fixed search errors when searching numerical/integer search terms</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3220" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3220</a> - Fixed 'Invalid Date' Error appearing in Event Date filters on Firefox</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-590" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-590</a> - Updated Category and Tag filters to force Search Scope to current node when using Hub Search</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2597" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2597</a> Fixed subcommunity filtering for Search Autocomplete</li></ul><h3 data-id="analytics"><strong>Analytics</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1663" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1663</a> Fixed content cell tooltips in Analytics showing 'This Content has been deleted' </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1746" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1746</a> Fixed date-range picker</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1943" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1943</a> Fixed discussion dates in CSV Exports</li></ul><h3 data-id="style-guide-layout-editor-widgets"><strong>Style Guide, Layout Editor & Widgets</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1766" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1766</a> Fixed Pockets and Rank Messages rendering on deleted content pages</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1835" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1835</a> Fixed Group Events not appearing in the Events widget</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1926" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1926</a> Fixed duplicate "Unanswered" links in Quick Links Widget</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1970" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1970</a> Fixed padding issues when applying Background Colour to Leaderboard widget</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2107" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2107</a> Updated banner search button hover state to use colors set in the Style Guide</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2670" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2670</a> Fixed errors in Discussions Widgets for Custom Layouts</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2911" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2911</a> Fixed repeated Banner Titles in Custom Layouts</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2935" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2935</a> Improved success messaging for adding and removing posts from Collections</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2938" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2938</a> Fixed Subtitle in Featured Collections Widget </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2941" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2941</a> Added validation for required Widget settings</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3132" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3132</a> Fixed Feature Image setting not applying to Style Guides</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3189" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3189</a> Fixed subcommunity filtering for Custom Recent Discussion Pages</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3206" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3206</a> Fixed knowledge base filtering for Articles Widget</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1927" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1927</a> Fixed Who’s Online widget settings causing Leaderboard and other widgets to be hidden from Guests.</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2717" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2717</a> Improved Discussions List Asset to Support showing a count of up to a 10k discussions </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2045" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2045</a> Fixed 500 errors caused when uploading images that cannot be resized</li></ul><h3 data-id="api-data"><strong>API & Data</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1909" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1909</a> Added Column Headers for Ranks and Custom Profile Fields in CSV Exports </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3250" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3250</a> Fixed Users API endpoint not returning rel="last" link in header</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2884" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2884</a> Updated /media endpoint to delete images from Cloudflare cache</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3307" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3307</a> Fixed Profile edits not saving</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3238" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3238</a> Fixed /unresolved endpoint causing 520 errors on the Unresolved page</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3233" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3233</a> Updated POST /api/v2/draft endpoint and set default format to text </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3157" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3157</a> Added IdeationType setting to POST & PATCH /categories endpoint to support configuring Idea category</li></ul><h3 data-id="sso"><strong>SSO</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1930" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1930</a> Fixed "Data Too Long For Column 'Photo'" errors served when signing in via SSO</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3051" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3051</a> Fixed SSO configuration allowing setting multiple SSO connections as the default</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2912" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2912</a> Fixed inability to disable jsConnect "default signin method" option</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3071" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3071</a> Fixed SSO Sign Out URL fields marked as required</li></ul><h3 data-id="posting"><strong>Posting</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3379" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3379</a> Fixed CSRF errors occurring when adding links to discussions </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-1121" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-1121</a> Added “Automatically Save Drafts” to Posting settings to allow Admins to disable automatic saving of drafts </li></ul><h3 data-id="roles-permissions"><strong>Roles & Permissions</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2237" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2237</a> Fixed permission checks on Subcommunity dropdown options</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2720" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2720</a> Fixed redirection of Guest users to sign-in page when accessing /profile pages</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2890" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2890</a> Added invalidation of Applicant user sessions when their requests to join are rejected </li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3216" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3216</a> Fixed session timeouts occurring even when users are active on site</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3356" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3356</a> Fixed inability to spoof users</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3363" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3363</a> Fixed 500 errors in Role request workflows</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3157" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3157</a> Fixed New Post button to reflect correct discussion types based on category settings</li></ul><h3 data-id="performance"><strong>Performance</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2896" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2896</a> Fixed performance issues on discussions with numerous code blocks</li><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3278" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3278</a> Fixed performance issues on Group requests</li></ul><h3 data-id="knowledge-base"><strong>Knowledge Base</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3353" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3353</a> Increased KB limit to 500 for Knowledge Base Settings Page</li></ul><h3 data-id="notifications"><strong>Notifications</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-3146" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-3146</a> Added logging for notification failures.</li></ul><h3 data-id="qa"> <strong>Q&A</strong></h3><ul><li><a href="https://higherlogic.atlassian.net/browse/VNLA-2744" rel="nofollow noreferrer ugc">VNLA-2744</a> Fixed incorrect Q&A status on Questions where all answers have been rejected</li></ul><h3></h3> </article> </main>