Vanilla Release Notes

Release 2019.007

Release 2019.007 was first deployed to Vanilla Cloud on Wednesday, June 5th 2019

Security Patch was deployed on Thursday, June 20th 2019

Features

Rich Editor Markdown Macros

Rich editor now has support for markdown based macros. Try out standard markdown input syntax and watch as it is transformed into your Rich Post.

Bug Fixes

Rich Editor

Fix a memory leak and improve performance of Rich Editor.
Fixed a bug where warnings and notes would not properly render rich posts. #7764

Reactions

Hide negative reaction's user for non-mods/admins. #1863
Fix api v2 delete reactions endpoint. #28

Badges

Fix API V2 delete badge. #1858

Sitemaps & Robots.txt

Robots.txt is now present on all sites, separately of the sitemaps plugin.
The Sitemaps setting page now displays a warning of private communities are enabled. addons#714

Embedded comments

Inherit dashboard post format type. #8767

Customize Theme

Increase the displayed customize theme revision limit from 25 to 300. internal#1850

Groups

Hide category-dropdown when creating a question. #1846
Remove idea option when inside a group. #1864

Proxy Request

Add PATCH support for API calls. #8735
Handle content-less responses from PATCH, PUT and DELETE API calls. #8732

Knowledge Base

Article Page

Fix Deep linking headings not scrolling to the correct place. vanilla/knowledge#908
Fix alignment of inline code. vanilla/vanilla#8635
Fix layout error when there was no article outline. vanilla/knowledge#866
Improve consistency of layout column width on desktop. vanilla/knowledge#906
Fix bug where article outlines could display the incorrect text. If you are experiencing this, republishing the article should fix it.

Editor Page

Individual form validation errors will now be displayed if there are errors publishing an article. vanilla/knowledge#795
Fix header drop-shadow not appearing properly. vanilla/knowledge#900
Fix styles of the "Publish" button on mobile. vanilla/knowledge#797
Improve general error handling on the editor form vanilla/knowledge#793

Location Picker

The UI of the location picker is now better aligned and more consistent. vanilla/knowledge#914
Fix inability to select an article’s position in the root of a guide. vanilla/knowledge#890

Navigation

Breadcrumbs are now shorter and more approachable. Breadcrumbs are now relative to to the root of the current knowledge base. knowledge#896
Fixed a bug where updating a categories title would not be immediately reflected in all of the UI. vanilla/knowledge#877
Fixed a bug when subcategory navigation would be displayed in the root of a Help Center type knowledge base vanilla/knowledge#934.

Titlebar / Vanilla Header

The layout and alignment of the titlebar has been improved in this release. #8773
The search bar now stays open while navigating around the rest of the document. vanilla/knowledge#895

Item Layouts

The layout of the category pages has been improved. We've tightened up the design on the search page & the category page.

Navigation Manager

Fix bug where it was possible to drag an article on top of another article. vanilla/knowledge#947

Localization

Starting in this release, localization strings have been collected and submitted for translations. Translated text will now be added through the same process as the forum. #8630

Dashboard Pages

Fix empty error message when uploading an invalid image for a knowledge base. vanilla/knowledge#888

API

This release adds a few new knowledge base APIv2 endpoints.

Article Aliases

These API endpoints are for creating redirects from particular paths to an article. Their primary use case is migration from other sites.

GET /articles/by-alias
GET /articles/{id}/aliases
PUT /articles/{id}/aliases

Other

Remove /kb/debug page vanilla/knowledge#918
Fix navigation to knowledge base homepages with uppercase letters. If you have an existing knowledge base with uppercase letters in the URL code, you will need to update it. The form should now guide you to inputting a valid URL code. vanilla/knowledge#846
Add update notice during deployments vanilla/knowledge#792

Developer Notes

Starting in this release all EntryController pages are now cacheable. Forms are submitted through AJAX. vanilla#8863
Some long deprecated Gdn_Factory related classes have been deleted in this release. vanilla#8258
Database tables related to routing aliases have been added in this release. DB update is required. knowledge#986

Security Patch

Deployed Thursday, June 20th 2019

Content security policy frame ancestors header #8970
Fix rate limiting on Authorization endpoints vanilla/vanilla-patches#573

Features

Security Improvements w/ HSTS

Note: This feature was also applied in a patch to 2019.007.

This Vanilla release improves security by allowing sites to enable stricter security on their domains.

This feature is now on by default and means that once a user has visited a site over https:// their browser will always use https:// for this domain in the future. This is a more secure mechanism for enforcing https:// than redirects, and prevents user from accidentally browsing the insecure version of a site.

Various configuration options and their descriptions can be found on the Security page in the Vanilla dashboard.