Added the core_api_logs database table to the support tools database checker.
Added a noindex metatag to the poll voters page.
Added the ability to reset 2fa security answers for all members.
Added the time to the date form validator message when the time is also used.
Changed the recommended MySQL version to 5.7.8, this will be the minimum version in future.
Changed the Author and Update Check URL fields when exporting a language to an URL field to enforce valid URLs.
Improved the error handling when a club node is missing.
Show "Success" message above the form after a user changes their password.
Achievement badges and rank icons are no longer squashed in the Recent Achievements widget.
Items in the "Our Picks" widget carousel no longer have a cropped border.
Upgraded Google Fonts API to v2 with improved performance using font-display:swap;
Imported font-weight:500 for Google fonts resulting in improved font rendering.
Redesigned the share/promote buttons so they sit on a single line on mobiles.
Updated the background-color of some social icons to match their actual brand color.
Sticky announcements will now always stick to the top of the window, instead of only being sticky within the header element.
Widgets have received a IU polish, with a few alignment bugs solved.
The alignment of topic prefix icons (pinned, featured, etc) has been improved.
Breadcrumbs no longer truncate long titles. They will now wrap to a new line if necessary.
Fixed a bug where members weren't able to opt in/out of custom PII data being shared with 3rd parties.
Fixed an issue where banning a member with a banned IP address could accidentally remove the IP ban.
Fixed an issue where content with no replies was being treated as solvable.
Fixed an issue where the Admin CP Login Logs did not show the proper value in the Display Name column.
Fixed an issue where the Admin CP Login Logs advanced search did not work properly.
Fixed an issue where club areas may link to the wrong location.
Fixed an issue where content being held for approval would show the wrong word as the reason.
Fixed PWA Notifications causing an error if the remote service cannot be reached.
Fixed an issue where the club_created Webhook wasn't fired when a club was approved.
Fixed a race condition which could cause an error when an invalid timezone on an account is used.
Fixed an issue where a group could have the maximum number of lines in a signature as 0, but the signature editor was still available.
Fixed an issue where banning a member could generate an unnecessary member changelog entry.
Fixed an issue where it was possible to enable security question mfa without any questions.
Fixed an issue where the theme templates list did not display properly in the ACP if an upgrade notice was visible.
Fixed an issue where mentions did not use the color specified in the theme settings.
Fixed an issue where managing the ACP - Share Handlers could cause an error.
Fixed an issue where recounting the reputation points in the ACP could cause an error.
Fixed an issue where stopping all email notifications excluded digests.
Fixed an issue where the widget cleanup task could fail when the tasks were run via CLI.
Fixed an issue where club pages would show members even if only set to show for Club Moderators.
Fixed an issue where share links were using http protocol instead of https.
Fixed an issue where hCaptcha challenges may not show on contact us dialog when another challenge exists on the page.
Fixed an issue where tooltips could become very long. They now wrap text onto multiple lines when necessary.
Fixed an issue that may occur when using search and MySQL read/write separation.
Fixed an issue where saving widgets could fail.
Fixed an issue where polls were not deleted when an application was uninstalled.
Fixed an issue where editing content may not preserve the correct file storage location and revert to the base URL.
Removed unused photos_url ACP search keyword.
Forums
Relocated the forum title in the forum grid UI for forums, resulting in better contrast.
Simplified the UI of the expanded view while viewing a topic list.
Post controls (Edit, Quote, etc.) are now always vertically aligned to the bottom of posts.
Fixed Solved Statistics throwing an error on some MySQL / MariaDB versions.
Fixed an issue where topic hover previews would display "Guest anonymous" instead of the anonymous placeholder text.
Fixed an issue where building search index permissions could fail.
Fixed an issue where re-engagement email notifications were sent for non-solvable topics.
Fixed an issue where changing the topic publish date to "immediately" did not publish the topic.
Fixed an issue where "Users can choose best answer" in Questions forums was not being saved correctly.
Downloads
Added the ability to allow the file submitter to delete pending new versions.
Added a new category grid view.
Fixed an issue where embedded free files were being displayed as not available for purchase.
Fixed an issue in the downloads-file REST API endpoint where purchasing a file could result in an error.
Fixed an issue where custom fields could not be marked to be included in topics.
Fixed a missing language string on the custom fields edit page.
Gallery
Improved performance of image view when categories/albums are ordered by recently updated.
Fixed an issue where promoted albums could break the achievements rebuild process.
Fixed an issue where albums not in a club could be set to allow submissions from anyone in a club.
Fixed an issue where users had the option to sort by reviews when reviews were not enabled.
Fixed an issue where sorting by date could duplicate images in the carousel.
Fixed a performance issue related to prefetching previous and next images.
Fixed an issue where hidden images may appear in profiles.
Fixed an issue where gallery video comment search results may show an error when no thumbnail is uploaded.
Removed the background on the landing page title to be more consistent with other areas of the suite.
Events
Fixed an issue where searching events on the overview page did not properly display a map.
Fixed an issue where a user who responded "Maybe" could attempt to RSVP to an event after the RSVP limit was reached.
Fixed an issue where searching events on the overview page did not properly display a map.
Fixed an issue where the featured event cover photo may not display if the filename contains special characters.
Fixed an issue where searching for events with a missing or invalid location wouldn't return any results.
Commerce
Fixed an issue where checking out as a guest would not pass guest email to Stripe.
Fixed an issue where the expiration date in custom product emails didn't work.
Fixed an issue with Stripe where device (Apple/Google) payments may not work if transaction has a shipping address.
Fixed an issue where PayPal Subscription task may throw an error if a customer doesn't have any subscriptions.
Pages
Added support for past dates in records.
Fixed an issue where stats in the record list would overflow on mobiles
Blog
Fixed an issue where attachments may not be properly cleared upon deletion.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
Added more properties to the Polls API output.
Added constant \IPS\SITEMAP_MAX_PER_FILE to define the maximum number of entries in a sitemap file.
If your application ships with a log database table which can get huge, you can register the table in
Fixed an issue during template compilation if a theme hook uses PHP mode and has a call to parent::.\IPS\core\modules\admin\support\_support::getLogTables to have it automatically checked in the support tools.
A new helper method \IPS\core\Followed\Follow::getClassToFollow was introduced which will return the class to follow for a given app and area.
GraphQL, REST, Webhooks and Zapier
Added a new Members GraphQL query which is able to return more than one member based on different criteria.
A new GraphQL Query to return a list of clubs was added.
A new webhook for the downloads app was added, which is fired when a new file version gets available.
Fixed an issue in the core/members/follow REST API endpoint, where trying to follow clubs failed.
The REST API Log allows one to use the advanced search without having to select a specific endpoint or response code.
/core/members REST API response for photoUrlIsDefault is now true for letter photos.
Webhook Payload for nodes which belong to clubs, will contain now also information about the club.
Added a new Members GraphQL query which is able to return more than one member based on different criteria.
Fixed the statistics GraphQL query.
Fixed several issues in the Calendar GraphQL query.
Deprecations and Removal Announcements
Our next (April) release sees the following items deprecated
Commerce physical product sales
Commerce support desk/support requests
Payment Gateways for Braintree, Authorize.net and 2Checkout
The hosting reselling tools have been removed following their deprecation in September 2020.
This is our February maintenance release.
Key changes include:
New Feature: Gallery refresh
GraphQL support has been expanded. Blog and Documentation are now available.
Additional Information
Core
Added the ability to allow non members to post in individual sections of closed clubs.
Added pagination to referrals page in the Account Settings.
Added Clubs and Club Pages to sitemap.
Added missing language strings for the Email Statistics report.
Updated CKEditor to 4.20.1.
Re-enabled Grammarly in CKEditor.
Fix changing Time Periods on streams not clearing previous values completely.
Fixed an issue where dropdown menus would be treated as a link if child items in the main navigation.
Fixed an issue where times may be in the wrong timezone due to a Chromium bug with Asia/Kolkata & Asia/Kathmandu.
Fixed an issue with AdminCP upgrading a self-hosted community if large table changes are required.
Fixed an issue where changing Time Periods on streams not clearing previous values completely.
Fixed an issue where dropdown menus would be treated as a link if child items in the main navigation.
Fixed an issue where auto-saved editor contents would not clear when the editor was on a tab.
Fixed an issue where custom date filters were not preserved on the search page.
Fixed an issue where moderating all links posted did not flag the content for moderation.
Fixed an issue where Administrators with permissions to view moderator statistics got a no-permission error.
Fixed an issue where club areas may link to the wrong location.
Reduced the scenarios where some uploaded files names may get prefixed with random numbers.
Gallery
Visual refresh.
Added support for converting videos to mp4 for consistent playback experience (cloud only).
Added gallery overview page to better highlight Gallery activity.
Added support for searching image contents using AI (cloud only).
Added not safe for work filter functionality.
Added support for prefetching next and previous images.
Added a member profile extension for Gallery images.
Set default album sort to match the default sort on a category.
Fixed an issue where images may not be sorted correctly.
Removed lightbox overlay.
Removed a lot of redundant javascript to optimize page loading times.
Pages
Added a way to disable indexing of pages.
Fixed an issue where sorting by the default sort did not use the correct sort direction.
Fixed an issue where anonymous records were displayed as Guest in record listings.
Fixed an issue where anonymous records created topics with an author name of Guest and a hash..
Fixed toggled fields when adding/editing a database field.
Automatically set a page as default when it's the only page in a folder
Removed the "Add comment" checkbox on the Update Record form in cases where it was not applicable.
Events
Fixed an issue where events in the by month block may display the wrong month.
Fixed an issue where events may show on the wrong time.
Forums
Fixed an issue where checkbox sets with large option lists in polls would condense into a scrollable list.
Fixed an issue where the first post in a scheduled topic had a different timestamp than the topic.
Fixed issue where publish date field was sometimes shown on the Poll tab of the Topic form instead of the Content tab.
Fixed an issue where changing the publish date of an already published topic to a future date wouldn't update the containers last post data.
Converters
Improved member conversion speed upto 50% in some scenarios.
Downloads
Fixed an issue where anonymous comments were not tracked correctly.
Commerce
Fixed VAT number verification failing.
Fixed an issue where invoices from guests may not be marked as paid after a successful transaction.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
Added new GraphQL endpoints for Blog & Events.
Added the ability to use OAuth access tokens or API keys with GraphQL requests.
Added a new optional parameter to the Events > front > events -> event template.
Added constant \IPS\SITEMAP_MAX_PER_FILE to define the maximum number of entries in a sitemap file.
Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.15.0.
Fixed an issue where hooks with USE statements were wrapped in a try/catch.
Fixed an issue creating Polls via the REST API that are not multichoice.
Fixed an issue where reordering ACP restrictions generated an error.
Fixed an issue with the autocomplete form field in third party resources.
Method signatures and return type have been changed for \IPS\File\Amazon::chunkFinish() & \IPS\File\FileSystem::chunkFinish().
Removed jsTimezoneDetect library, replaced with native browser functionality.
REST, Webhooks and Zapier
The member, blogs entries, download files, gallery images, events, pages records and forum topics GET endpoint supports now a new ìds parameter to return items by multiple ids. This change also applies to any third party application that extends \IPS\Content\Api\ItemController and uses $this->_list().
Released 11/02/2022 Key Changes
This is our November maintenance release.
Key changes include:
New Feature: Moderating with Personal Alerts
New Feature: Moderator approval queue now includes a reason why
Updated: Events update includes additional streaming platforms
Invision Community now requires a minimum of PHP 8.0
Additional Information
Core
Increased minimum PHP version to 8.0.
Added Moderation Alerts.
Adds the ability to see the number of replies to an alert, and view all replies to an alert in messenger.
Reduced the Cloudflare warning on the support page to note issues may arise from specific Cloudflare features only.
Fixed an issue where an alert reply button was shown to those without access to the messenger via module permissions.
Fixed an issue where viewing a theme's differences may not show all changes correctly.
Fixed an issue where some applications presented content for the 'Similar Content' ElasticSearch widget that wasn't suitable.
Fixed an issue where pre-upgrade resource check may ask you to check a default language pack for compatibility.
Fixed an issue that may cause slow AdminCP logins if there are a lot of email send failures.
Fixed an issue where attachments may download with an extra file extension when using Amazon S3 to store files.
Fixed an issue where some moderators may see template errors in the userbar at the top of the page.
Fixed an issue with PHP 8 and the UT8 converter used for legacy upgrades.
Fixed issue where reporting content on a site with restricted moderators generated an error.
Fixed issue where users could receive notifications for content that had been hidden.
Mobile navigation links are no longer duplicated when configured as a dropdown menu.
Removed any placed widgets from the login and register page.
Events
Added support for TikTok, Twitch, Vimeo and SpotMe online events.
Fixed a MySQL query error when using locales with a comma decimal separator.
Fixed RSVP stats report not working.
Fixed the broken event cover image on the overview page.
Fixed an issue where the timezone selector would only be correct if adjusted by an author in the same timezone.
Fixed an issue where the create event button may show to members with no permissions for any calendar.
Fixed an issue where searching for events may not work correctly.
Fixed some untranslated phrases.
Fixed an issue where markers may not show on Google Maps when using events near me.
Forums
Fixed a potential slow query when working with solved topics.
Fixed an issue where a future published topic has a different start date than the first post date.
Gallery
Improved image loading speed in albums or categories with a large amount of images.
Fixed an issue where Gallery Results could break Stream Subscriptions.
Fixed issue where switching between plain-text and rich editor on image upload lost text content.
Fixed an issue where users could not download attachments from Album Comments.
Pages
Fixed the missing record status icons in the record feed widget.
Fixed an error when viewing a record in a database that is not searchable.
Fixed an issue where the pages media center didn't support svg files while replacing an existing svg file.
Fixed an issue where hidden linked records were displayed to users with no permission to see them.
Blogs
Fixed merging members inadvertently re-assigning group blogs.
Fixed an issue when upgrading from legacy versions.
Fixed the wrong webhook documentation reference to the blog class.
Downloads
Changed the RebuildScreenshotWatermarks task to use the REBUILD_INTENSE constant for the rebuild cycle.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
Changed the order of the autogenerated hook method signature.
Added a new class parameter public $similarContent = TRUE|FALSE; to each /extension/core/ContentRouter class to control whether it should show in similar content.
Fixed saving the Blog add / edit form while IN_DEV.
Downgraded PHP 8 scanner logging to debug only.
Deprecations and Removal Announcements
Completed in this release
Facebook Promotional Tools removed (Facebook no longer allows API posting to groups and pages) - No action required
VigLink removed (VigLink API no longer working as intended) - No action required
Ability to choose which apps to upgrade removed (this is no longer a necessary option) - No action required
Guest Page Cache removed (this is a legacy way to cache pages that replicates how a CDN works) - No action required