5.0.2
#3786: Fix database error logging for uncaught exceptions
#3763: Catch the Exception when there's an assignment without an item
#3775: Ui polish: 5.0.2
- Issue #3771: The scrollbar in the side panel navigation column uses default styling
- Issue #3772: Some <select> menus use serif fonts in Safari
- Issue #3773: Mobile footer disappears when off-canvas menus are toggled
- Issue #3774: Fixed dialogs are vertically misaligned
- Issue #3778: Some edit forms have nested .ipsBox elements
#3720: Fix issues where advertisements did not display properly in the listing views
#3767: Fix inline code and codeblock in editor
#3765: Restore Builder interface to image widget
#3768: Add editor extension buttons to toolbars
#3769: Fix Upgrader Issue
#3675: Fix issues with cloud analytics
#3728: Fix invalid check for pagination in custom CMS database index templates
#3759: Mention "downloads" as sort option for the files REST endpoint
#3732: Fix issue where Pages does not use the global footer
#3755: Polished radio options with images
#3758: UI Polishing with improved CSS selector performance
- Issue #3749: Minor UI bugs
- Issue #3742: v5 minor UI bugs [Microsoft icon is outdated]
- Issue #3741: v5 minor UI bugs [Pagination and status badges different sizes]
- Issue #3740: v5 minor UI bugs [Extra 'li' in notification settings]
- Issue #3739: v5 minor UI bugs [Border radius not removed when full width]
- Issue #3738: v5 minor UI bugs [Custom field headers incorrect, and more]
#3761: Use default anti-aliasing for fonts
#3748: Fixes an issue where Downloads screenshots could go missing
#3730: Prevent old notifications (v4) to cause issues when notifications are loaded
#3719: Check if the content is reactable before processing it and showing it in the ACP - Points Log
#3725: Fix issue where Taggable required a containerNodeClass
#3731: Fixed screenshots in Downloads returning an error when getImageDimensions failed
#3736: Removed background color from external embeds
#3733: Updated colors of chart tooltips
#3734: Made <abbr> usable on mobiles
#3724: Review Item and Comment menus and add checks for traits where applicable
#3699: Prevent code language menus from being overlapped by other boxes
#3659: Restore ability for moderators to modify user profile photos
#3661: Fix issue where profile data was not displayed when reputation was hidden
#3697: Hide horizontal overflow
#3698: Added an underline to the link in the Background Tasks description
#3694: Fixed star/participated icon, and ensure topic titles use Link Color
- Issue #3693: Participated icons don't always display correct state
- Issue #3672: Typography > link colour
#3692: Fixed duplicated message name in <title>
#3691: Replaced "test" with correct title
#3688: Fix issue where new replies are not automatically loaded into the topic
#3687: Fix errors when adding someone to a PM
#3686: Fix issues with solved statistics charts
#3685: Fix errors when running the expertUsersNudge task
#3695: Fix upgrade error for sites with databases that downgraded to Creator
#3690: Adjust calls to loader extension for CSS/JS
#3668: Prevent scrollbar from flickering in certain conditions
#3663: Allow text align regardless of Heading and Embed Restrictions
#3669: Updated v4 CSS classes to v5
5.0.1 - Released 02/12/2025
#3681: Fix rebuild achievements task for the AnswerMarkedBest Extension
#3677: Fixes an issue where “Reward <user>” was missing on the post menu
#3683: Fix issue where user can downgrade expired subscription at no cost
#3547: Permissions for Downloads Custom Fields from v4
#3660: Fix issue where registration settings show raw HTML
#3573: Fix issue where adding a similar event did not call the UI extension
#3640: Fix an issue in the Block Manager when the Pages Application is not enabled
#3641: Associate the stream widget css file with the proper app
#3625: Always show scrollbars to prevent sporadic ACP nav menu widths
#3574: Use tab to select mention in editor
#3575: Fix Pages upgrade steps to remove manual queries adjusting the record tables
#3627: Add missing pruning ip address description
#3623: Fixed conflicts between floated content and lists in user content
#3626: Make customized icons match default icons in Download category list
#3572: Fix issue where some events with a location have null coordinates
#3624: Fixed colors of query log in light mode
#3609: Remove rich text styles from post wrapper after the editor loads
#3527: Preserve list indents around floated items
#3553: Fix issue where marking the site as read did not visually change some fields
#3455: Fix issues with Images builder widget
#3614: Fixes not found furls
#3587: Allow topic overview stats to wrap
#3588: Allow .ipsSelectTree to expand when long options are selected
#3602: Add the missing missing module name for the Assignments Module
#3589: Removed non-existent class name from Moderator's Control Panel table
#3590: Added padding to upgrade error page
#3592: Reduced the font-weight of unread stats/authors
#3593: Added padding around social login buttons
#3586: Fix incorrect column when importing themes
#3585: Remove unnecessary data from Badge API output
#3579: Fix wrapping on GraphQL credentials page
#3577: Remove editor attachments on upload error
#3440: Use configurable language strings in the Editor Block Type Selector
#3551: Adjust form toggles when adding/editing a forum
#3437: Uninstall out-of-date applications
#3513: Allow embeds to fill entire width of container
#3532: Code boxes inside collapsible boxes retain content
#3533: Various Editor Updates
- Issue #3281: Cannot move images into a quote (or wrap box) after they're already added
- Issue #3381: Emojis Suggestions
- Issue #3390: The URL from links which are turned to "no embeds" link still to embeds
#3557: Invision Community Cloud Bounce Bugfixes
#3508: Don’t use local search tree for remote Autocomplete results
#3539: Better iframe allow attribute handling
#3451: Automatically expand all parents of a selected record in the database navigation widget
#3470: Currency Changer CSRF Fix
#3548: Delete unused template
#3552: Remove more unused templates and language strings
#3531: Fix exception in viewupdates task
#3530: Fix exception thrown in pruneipaddresses task
#3441: Fix issue where ACP Linked accounts block loads endlessly
#3454: Fix TypeError in getCacheDataForPage
#3472: V4: Spam Improvements
#3485: Fixed Paypal icon in Customer tab
#3486: Fixed size of button and alignment of alternate contacts
#3491: Added featured color attribute to forum categories
#3490: Don't truncate forum descriptions
#3536: Copy custom templates when copying a theme
#3537: Use Dialog Style Config Form for Sidebar Widgets
#3538: Fix issue where theme editor enters an infinite loop after login
#3540: The PWA Refresh button no longer has invalid HTML
#3541: Ensure long strings of code don't break out of tiptaps code box
#3545: Fixed close icon of "Switch to Cloud" link in ACP
This is the latest version of Invision Community 5.
#3452: Fix issues with Search API
#3499: Remove the email block type
#3500: Fix issue where attempting to access security settings sends you in an endless loop
#3492: Fix TypeError in Streams
#3480: Fix issues with last_post returning an invalid timestamp
#3482: Fix issue where logos are disappearing after saving twice
4.7.20
January 13
This is our January maintenance release.
- Released 01/29/2025
Key changes include:
- Added Bluesky embedding and share links.
- Added Postmark integration.
- Downloads: Added permissions to custom fields.
- Backblaze B2 support.
Core
Events
- Added support for Bluesky post embedding.
- Added Bluesky & TikTok Social Profile theme links.
- Added Bluesky content sharer.
- Added support for Postmark email handling.
- Added a security protection to prevent malicious actors from exploiting the Service Worker.
- Fixed X sign-in button colors.
- Fixed a niche issue where template caching can throw an error.
- Fixed an issue with password fields where the advice popup may be duplicated.
- Fixed an issue where unread items can appear as read in the notifications list.
- Fixed the wrong string length check in the quick title edit feature.
- Fixed an issue where the report type field would appear even if there was only 1 report type.
- Fixed an issue where AdminCP search would search too often, now waits for you to stop typing.
- Fixed an issue where registrations could be broken if the geolocation check failed.
- Fixed an issue where editing the title via AJAX wouldn't update the search index.
- Fixed the missing language string in the confirmation dialog when a report was rejected or completed.
- Fixed an issue sending mail via SMTP.
- Fixed SMTP emails sending the wrong hostname for EHLO/HELO commands.
- Fixed an issue where Club Activity was displaying incorrect data.
- Fixed the v5 preparation check to take only QA forums into account, instead of QA forums and also the solved topics setting.
- Fixed an issue where Club Activity was displaying incorrect data.
- Fixed an issue where Club Activity was not including Pages Categories in Clubs.
- Fixed an exception with Content Widgets when using Items with no container class.
- Fixed an issue where the club members tab wasn't shown to club moderators.
- Fixed an issue where Moderators could see inaccessible content titles in the IP Tools.
- Renamed 'Facebook Pixel' to 'Meta Pixel'.
- Removed an unnecessary </li> tag in the editorAttachmentsPlaceholder template.
- Removed Guests must complete CAPTCHA setting - guests will always need to complete CAPTCHA if enabled.
- Deprecated Sendgrid API support.
Blogs
- Fixed an issue where the ACP permission to manage venues wouldn't work.
- Fixed an issue where the calendarEvent_rsvp webhook wasn't fired when somebody clicked on "Leave event" inside the RSVP box.
Converters
- Fixed a minor mistake in the REST API Records endpoint documentation.
Downloads
- Fixed an issue where the converters ACP page could time out when connecting to the source database fails.
- Changed the gallery image rebuild task to rebuild only 1 image per cycle.
Commerce
- Implemented support for permissions on Custom Fields.
- Added custom fields to the Downloads API responses.
Forums
- Fixed an issue where members trying to register would see a " Subscriptions are not available" error when subscriptions were disabled.
- Fixed an issue where users had a link to reactivate the purchase but could not actually reactivate.
- Fixed an issue where child purchases are marked as active when the parent purchase has expired.
- Fixed an issue where Stripe was not receiving customer information for new members.
Pages
- Fixed an issue where the unapproved posts icon is hard to see on hot topics in the topic listing.
- Fixed an issue where 'popular now' badges won't be instantly removed when disabling the feature.
Platform
- Fixed an issue where the ACP Overview Statistics showed the total comment count of all comments instead of for each database.
- Fixed an issue where RecordFeed widgets could not be embedded outside of Pages.
- Fixed a minor mistake in the REST API Records endpoint documentation.
- Fixed a broken link on the analytics page.
- Fixed an issue where unsupported image types would not be held/blocked according to Action to take if scan fails setting.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.18.0.
- Updated Whoops to 2.16.0.
Invision Community 4.7.19
Released 11/12/2024
This is a security release and we recommend all clients upgrade as soon as possible.
Key Changes
This is our November security and maintenance release.
Key changes include:
- Report Center updates.
- Email notification when dormant accounts sign in.
- SEO Improvements.
- Hot Topic updates for Cloud customers.
- Updated share link functionality (click to copy).
- Prepare for v5 - A new AdminCP page to ensure you will be able to use v5.
- Content Spam analysis enabled for all Cloud customers.
Additional Information
Security
Core
- Fixed a potential stored XSS issue, thanks to Colonel_mortis for reporting.
Events
- Added a default timeout for the SMTP connection.
- Added Message-ID generation for SMTP emails, for compatibility with SMTP servers that do not follow the RFCs.
- Added email notification for users signing in to dormant accounts.
- Added a requirement for CAPTCHA to be enabled for guests to use post before registering.
- Improved IndexNow error logging.
- Improved consistency with share links popups and added click to copy URL.
- Improved the Report Center, adding new functionality and improving the user experience.
- Optimised deleting member content.
- Fixed an issue where changing a primary or secondary group for a member wouldn't reset the cached value.
- Fixed an issue where permanently deleting content from the ModCP-Report Center would fail. . Fixed a wrong path in the robots.txt file.
- Fixed an issue where deleting nodes could throw an error.
- Fixed an issue where some club containers could throw an error.
- Fixed an issue where member profiles could be broken if a member had an invalid group.
- Fixed an issue where search can be slow on very large communities.
- Fixed an issue where the member history may show a wrong "by" name.
- Fixed an issue where the diagnostics statistics settings wouldn't save successful.
- Fixed an issue with the admin stream settings, where the "Active Members" Setting wouldn't be saved.
- Fixed an issue where the clubs widget could throw an error when a custom field filter for a deleted field is being used.
- Fixed an issue where creating a stream in the ACP wouldn't show all available nodes.
- Fixed an issue where streams could not always be sorted correctly.
- Fixed an issue with Firefox, where one couldn't break out of the quote box by pressing enter twice.
- Fixed an issue in the core-webhooks documentation.
- Fixed an issue where automatic moderation rules couldn't be created if there were no report types.
- Fixed an issue where the s3 deletion task wouldn't be enabled.
- Fixed an issue where promoted Comments could not be removed from Promoted Content.
- Removed the deprecated hive task.
- Removed the ping call to the deprecated Google Sitemap Service.
Commerce
- Replaced the h2 header on the landing page with an h1 element.
Gallery
- Added Canonical URLs for /store and /subscriptions.
- Added robots.txt rule to block ?currency= (currency changer links).
- Updated the code to support the new MaxMind API version.
- Fixed an issue where subscriptions with no expiration threw an error when calculating upgrade cost.
- Fixed an issue where multiple currencies could be set as the default.
- Fixed an issue with reactivating purchases.
Downloads
- Fixed an issue where moving images from an album wouldn't rebuild the total images count.
Forums
- Fixed an issue where editing the member restrictions would throw an exception when downloads app was enabled.
Pages
- Optimised topic summary for busy communities.
- Fixed issues with JSON-LD/Schema.org markup in Q&A mode.
- Fixed an issue where publishing a future topic manually wouldn't update the topics publish date & time.
- Fixed an issue where approving a topic may not immediately update the number of topics pending approval.
- Fixed an issue where archived posts were not included in the post counts.
- Fixed an issue where topics you have posted in are not always marked with a star.
Courses
- Fixed an issue where creating comments via REST wouldn't show the comment when comments were synced with forum posts.
- Fixed an issue where records from club categories were showing in feeds incorrectly.
- Added a description field to the Club Category form.
- Fixed an issue where the club name was not displaying in feeds for club records and comments.
- Fixed an issue where Map fields were showing on the form for non-Address fields.
Platform
- Fixed an issue where the quiz questions were missing the formatting while taking the quiz.
Converters
- Enabled content Spam Analysis, can be disabled via AdminCP > Smart Community > Spam Analysis.
- Improved hot/popular topics for Cloud customers; Added ability to disable.
- Added ability add Live Topics to Club Calendars and convert to Club Forums.
- Fixed an issue where Polls are not converted correctly during SMF conversions.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- Updated PHPUserAgent to 1.0.9.
- JSON-LD BreadcrumbList now includes the breadcrumb for the page being viewed.
- Redis now uses a reader for lRange.
- Optimised fetching online user list when using Redis.
Invision Community 4.7.18
Released 08/06/2024
Key Changes
This is our August maintenance release.
Additional Information
Core
Forums
- Added new prune setting for failed requests in API logs.
- Improved the efficiency of unread content streams when using MySQL 8.
- Improved performance when replying to a content item or create a content item.
- Fixed possible error when using the DataLayer with PII as well as Single Sign on.
- Fixed issue with deleting secondary group using the REST API.
- Fixed an issue where Censor Block may allow HTML tags to be used in the preview even though they are not stored in the database.
- Fixed an issue where group promotion may move the member back to the default group if MySQL is temporarily unavailable.
- Fixed an issue where the results count was always 0 for Hidden Content in the ModCP
- Fixed an issue where certain saved charts were not showing.
- Fixed an issue where broken modlog data could break the topic view page.
- Fixed an issue where it was possible to toggle online status without multi-factor authentication.
- Fixed an issue where OAuth PKCE values may not persist in some situations.
- Fixed an issue where some very old topics would not show the "I posted in this" star.
- Fixed an issue with notifications on comments that did not account for anonymous posting.
- Fixed an error on the Manage Promoted Items page when an application is disabled.
- Fixed an issue which happened while warning a member.
- Fixed an issue where the content widget was showing the tags option for all content types, even if they weren't implementing tags.
- Fixed an issue where a service worker may not work if your site is not accessible to guests.
- Fixed an issue where deleted an application wouldn't remove the data from the core_javascript db table.
- Fixed an issue on the moderators permission page.
- Fixed an issue where the REST API (with API key) would not return a last activity date for anonymous members.
- Fixed an issue on Cloud where large Member CSV imports would inadvertently trigger human verification.
- Removed CommunityHive integration.
- Removed ability for pending-validation registrations changing their email address to avoid a race condition.
Commerce
- Improved performance when rebuilding statistical data for forum topics.
Courses
- Added a new prune settings for Commerce related member history.
- Fixed an issue where upgrading subscriptions did not always update the expiration date.
- Fixed an issue where support request URLs would be sent to IndexNow.
- Fixed an issue where some support requests were not properly linked to a member account.
- Fixed an issue where some billing agreements were not properly linked to purchases.
- Fixed an issue where changing the club owner could fail for paid clubs.
Calendar
- Fixed an error that could occur when viewing badges that had been assigned for completing a course.
Pages
- Fixe dan issue in the upcoming events widget where club events would be shown even if they shouldn't.
Platform
- Fixed an issue with the RSS Feed widget, where the cache expiration time would be overwriten by the custom rss widget cache time.
- Removed the 'Popular Now' widget, use 'Trending Content' instead.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- Added new _setLastComment() method to nodes.
- Added new \IPS\Node\DelayedCount trait.
- Other performance improvements included related to search index and content statistics.
Invision Community 4.7.17
Released 05/29/2024
Key Changes
This is our May maintenance release.
This release also improves bruteforce detection for logins and updates to local Stripe payment methods (such as iDEAL, Sofort, Giropay, Bancontact).
Additional Information
Core
Blogs
- Added a maximum recommended PHP version warning.
- Removed the club join button from the clubs rules page.
- Improved the club overview and member page to include a page title.
- Improved the handling of the custom upgrade page to prevent errors.
- Improved bruteforce login protection across login attempts for multiple accounts.
- Fixed an issue on the profile where the solutions section would return an error if there's no class which utilizes solutions.
- Fixed alignment of club names in cover photos.
- Fixed an issue where embedding images could fail.
- Fixed an issue where the s3Delete task may not be enabled.
- Fixed alignment of club names in cover photos.
- Fixed an issue where unapproved content notifications did not use the item read status.
- Fixed an issue where the Device Usage block was displaying incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue where saved Points charts were not showing.
- Fixed an issue where announcements could be created with an end date in the past.
- Fixed an issuer where the timescale for saved charts would not change.
- Fixed an issue where the background task to move/delete content items could fail if the first comment was missing.
- Fixed the hardcoded content type name in the recognized content block.
- Fixed an issue where Moderator Activity charts were using the same date range.
- Fixed an issue where a not available item from the search index could break the daily stream subscriptions mail.
Commerce
- Fixed an issue where the blog seo name wasn't updated when the blog name was changed.
- Fixed an issue where the blog grid view could have a broken pagination.
Events
- Fixed an issue where hiding a subscription package in the ACP would throw an error.
- Fixed an issue where duplicate records could be generated for PayPal billing agreements.
- Fixed an issue where some stripe payments were processed twice.
- Fixed an issue where users could upgrade subscription plans at no charge if the expiration date had passed but the purchase was not marked as expired.
- Stripe non-card payments now use the updated version of the Stripe API.
Forums
- Fixed an issue where the offset wasn't casted to an integer which could have caused an error on the events overview page.
Pages
- Improved the efficiency when viewing very large archived topics.
- Fixed an issue where forum post counts may not be accurate.
- Fixed an issue where moving the file storage location would not update the file path in the database.
Platform
- Improved the php block code validation while saving the custom blocks content.
- Fixed an issue where club categories did not show in the list when club content is visible throughout the community.
- Fixed an issue where page template names could have a space in the title.
- Fixed an issue where creating new records via REST would fail when revision history is enabled.
- Fixed an issue where deleting a database wouldn't delete all it's categories.
- Fixed an issue where club category menu entries would be shown even if the visitor has no permissions to view the page.
- Fixed an issue where guests couldn't open the club categories page.
- Fixed an issue where live topic notifications would be shown to for hidden/deleted topics.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- Removed a MySQL 5.7 specific optimisation for loading content item with lots of comments.
Invision Community 4.7.16
Released 03/12/2024
This is a security release and we recommend all users upgrade as soon as possible.Key Changes
This is our March maintenance release. This release also includes an important security related fix for Commerce users.
New features:
Additional Information
Security
Core
- Resolves an issue in Commerce when tampering with filters could cause errors.
Blogs
- Improved the efficiency when getting attachments for topic statistics.
- Improved the efficiency of streams when "Content I posted in" is selected.
- Improved the Internal Embeds system to show better error messages for deleted comments & reviews.
- Improved performance of invalidating member sessions when using Redis.
- Added new Moderator actions by action statistics section.
- Fixed Checkbox Overview Statistics not working properly.
- Fixed Moderator Activity statistics table not displaying properly.
- Fixed Warnings over time statistics table not displaying properly.
- Fixed Suspended users over time statistics table not displaying properly.
- Fixed saved charts not displaying data correctly when custom form filters are used.
- Fixed Geographical Charts CSV download not generating properly.
- Fixed an issue where creating an activity stream in the ACP could be missing the clubs filter.
- Fixed an issue where the badge title would be shown as hash value in translated notification emails.
- Fixed an issue where the Posts Per Day Limit was also used for private messages.
- Fixed an issue in the members/warnings endpoint where the POST request could fail while giving a member a warning if warning actions were present.
- Fixed an issue where deleting content may send a delete request to Community Hive, even if it was not enabled.
- Fixed an issue where 3rd party applications with a broken/missing versions file would break the upgrader.
- Fixed an issue where members with a false validation flag would be unable to login.
- Fixed an issue where the Google Maps Autocomplete Integration could display an error message.
- Fixed an issue where not all clubs may be shown on the member profile clubs page.
- Replaced the hardcoded forum_id in the promotion achievement extension.
- Fixed an issue where the Signature Settings page couldn't be accessed to change the signature visibility, without permissions to edit signatures.
- Fixed an issue where new comment notifications posted in anonymous topics were showed as posted by an anonymous member.
- Fixed an issue with the post count value for the Mass Move /Mass Delete action.
- Fixed an issue where delayed deleted content from private clubs isn't shown in the ModCP - Deleted Content area.
- Fixed the default value for the Manifest related manifest_details setting.
- Fixed an issue where the guest group settings couldn't be edited.
- Fixed an issue where YouTube embeds may not lazy-load.
- Fixed an issue where the guest group settings couldn't be edited.
- Fixed an issue where admins with permission to manage stored replies could still not manage these.
- Fixed an issue where the club filters could cause an EX0 error when a not existing field was used.
- Fixed an issue where IP address pruning may not prune all IP addresses.
Forums
- Fixed an issue where moving a blog entry and sending a moderation alert may cause an error.
Courses
- Added new Solved Topics by Group statistics section.
- Added new Unsolved Topics statistics section.
- Added Top Solvers statistics section.
Pages
- Fixed Enrollments statistics table not displaying status correctly.
- Fixed an issue where sorting the enrollments in the ACP by name would throw an error.
- Fixed a missing language string.
- Fixed not translatable module titles.
Platform
- Added ability for database categories to be added to Clubs.
- Views are now tracked for Pages.
- Fixed an issue where pages were not reindexed after WYSIWYG blocks were added/edited.
- Fixed an issue where record thumbnails which were created via the REST API hadn't the proper thumbnail size.
Commerce
- Page views for pages will now be included in analytics reports.
- Fixed an issue with the post before registering flow when content was identified as spam.
Events
- Fixed an issue with the subscriptions member filter.
- Fixed a broken default value in the businessAddress.
- Fixed an issue in the commerce categorySidebar template.
Downloads
- Added organizer, eventAttendanceMode, and VirtualLocation to events JSON_LD.
- Fixed an issue where guests searching for events could see an error.
Gallery
- Fixed an issue in the Downloads File Embed Template where the comment count was shown for files in categories without comments.
Converters
- Fixed an issue where the vertical image widget wouldn't show the image in Chrome.
- Fixed missing alt texts for event cover images.
- Improved conversion of attachments in WordPress, Attachments will now be converted inside posts instead of converting to media files.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- Added new core/admin/global template userLinkWithPhoto.
- Added new tableLangPrefix property for Dynamic Charts.
- Fixed adding new warning reason throwing an error while IN_DEV.
- Fixed an issue where the radio form template would result in an error if no htmlID was set.
- Fixed an issue where clean IN_DEV installations have a broken serviceworker if no manifest details were set.
- Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.17.0.
- Replaced JShrink with JS-minify for better Javascript compatibility.
- Removed jQuery History, removing deprecated 'onunload' handler.
Invision Community 4.7.15
Released 01/23/2024
Key Changes
This is our January maintenance release.
Additional Information
Core
Blogs
- Added the embed.php controller to the robots.txt file and added a noindex tag so that search engines don't index the content.
- Added the referring URL to the content of the Contact Form.
- Changed PHP recommendation to 8.1.
- Changed MySQL recommendation to 8.0.13.
- Improved the contact us form UX for guests.
- Improved the queued comments count handling.
- Improved the description for the similar content widget to highlight the different flow when ES is used.
- Improved the thumbImage template to add an alt tag and optimize lazy loading.
- Fixed a design issue on the error page.
- Fixed an issue in the DELETE /core/members/{id}/secgroup/{groupId} REST endpoint, where members could lose a secondary member group.
- Fixed an issue where calling the GraphQL API without a query would throw an EX0 exception.
- Fixed an issue with the x hashtag not being set.
- Fixed an issue where members with a false validation flag would be unable to login.
- Fixed an issue with reliability of logging early in the boot process.
- Fixed an issue with invalid page URL parameters.
- Fixed an issue where profile fields weren't shown on content submissions.
- Fixed a typo in siteSocialLinks template.
- Fixed an issue on the registration form, where one could submit any coppaa/birthday combination.
- Fixed an issue where tags were not showing in alphabetical order (when enabled) for search results.
- Fixed an issue where the webhook payload from Status Posts wasn't properly formatted.
- Fixed Member List Exports not properly formatting Yes / No and Checkbox profile fields.
- Fixed an issue where disabled login handlers would still be accessible in the UCP.
- Fixed an issue where the member webhook payload contained a false value for the allowAdminEmails key.
- Fixed an issue parsing <video> elements with multiple <source> elements when lazy-load is enabled.
- Fixed an issue inthe follower template where we didn't cast the page as integer.
- Fixed an issue where giving cookie consent to the IPS cookies would result in an empty page.
- Fixed an issue where web app icons may be cached by a CDN and show older versions.
- Fixed a regression when copy & pasting files in an editor by reverting a previous fix.
- Deleting a webhook will now also delete the data from core_api_webhook_fires.
- Removed the deprecated twitter_hashtag` setting.
- Removed the profile blocking from the default robots.txt file.
- Fixed an issue where Status Feeds don't update after saving statuses and replies.
Courses
- Fixed an IN_DEV issue where the Blog Edit form would result in an error.
- Fixed protocol relative URL's showing in Blog RSS Feeds.
- Fixed an issue where the "Content Approval Hint" wasn't shown while creating blog entries.
Events
- Fixed an issue on the courses quiz form, where images wouldn't be shown.
Downloads
- Fixed protocol relative URL's showing in Blog RSS Feeds.
Forums
- Fixed protocol relative URL's showing in Blog RSS Feeds.
- Fixed an issue with the downloads/files/{id}/history endpoint where the update time wouldn't be changed.
- Fixed an issue where the search custom fields form showed a search related field.
- Fixed an issue where the file screenshots were not sorted correctly.
Commerce
- Improved the efficiency of the "Time to solved" chart.
- Improved the JSON-LD for Question Topics to show replies as suggested answers.
- Fixed an issue with the fluid view, where invalid forum ids would remain "forever" in the address bar.
- Fixed protocol relative URL's showing in Blog RSS Feeds.
- Fixed 2 faulty canHide permission checks.
- Fixed an issue where links to comments in archived topics would point to the wrong location.
Pages
- Improved the design on the ACP Support Form to improve the readability of the "GOTO" links.
- Fixed an issue where expired or canceled subscriptions did not always restore the appropriate member groups.
- Fixed an issue where Google/Apple Pay transactions may auto-capture when held by a fraud rule.
- Fixed an issue where the same PayPal transaction could be processed twice.
- Fixed an issue where 3D Secure status may not show correctly on some Stripe transactions.
Gallery
- Fixed an issue where the rss import feature skipped the title prefix value.
- Fixed an issue where records created via the REST API or RSS import wouldn't be linked correctly to other items.
- Fixed an issue where page record comments would create posts in archived topics when topic syncing is enabled.
- Fixed an issue with the database filter widget where the custom fields default value was set automatically.
- Fixed an issue where unsetting the "Remember filters" checkbox wouldn't remove the filter cookie.
- Fixed an issue where moving/deleting comments could stop the queue from processing.
Converters
- Fixed an issue where editing the gallery image details would remove the exif data.
- Fixed an issue where editing the gallery image or video details while the file is still uploading would not save the details.
- Fixed an issue where allowing a user to submit images to an album they do not own may not allow them to submit.
Platform
- Fixed tags not displaying properly when rebuild completes before permissions are set.
- Improved the un-archiving process for topics when archiving gets disabled.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- The POST /core/members/{id}/secgroup/{groupId} endpoint will log the changes to the member history.
- Fixed an IN_DEV issue in the checkout form, which was caused by an undefined variable.
- Fixed an INDEV issue where ignoring a member from his hovercard with INDEV mode would show a "CSRF KEY present in the url error".
- The Contact Form will now contain a "contact_referrer" value when the form is submitted. It is up to the calling extensions handleForm() method to determine how to handle this information.
- Performance improvements targeting MySQL 8.
- Changed the method signature for \IPS\Node\Model::setLastComment() and \IPS\Content\Item::resyncLastComment()