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Telligent Community includes everything you need to create incredible social communities.
A few highlights for what you'll find in version 9.0:
- Updateded user experience
- New contextual community management panels
- New support for staging/draft changes
- More widget rendering options for responsive/adaptive
- Enhanced forums functionality: I have this question too, community answer verification and more
- Enhancements to SEO
- New leader boards
- New Administration user experience (formerly Control Panel)
- New moderation workflow
- Developer enhancements such as: webhooks, application monitoring, application tracing
Check out our 9.0 preview video to learn more.
If you don't want to bother with downloading and installing the software you can also start a 9.0 trial with our limited SaaS trial option.
What we updated between Preview 1 and Preview 2 - thanks for all the great feedback!
New
- Added view members link to roles list.
- Added moderation support to ideation
- Added basic editing support for LESS and CSS files in theme configuration (not yet supplementary files).
- Added 'Delete User' option with content review to moderation queue
- Added support for using ACE in theme configuration with the dark theme.
- Added new ContextToken to RuleExecutionRuntime then checked for token when awarding or removing points in a rule to prevent re-rerunning.
- Added orienting preview page to ensure that all changes are linked directly to the front UI.
- Added .log file support and updated max file size for file viewer to 64 kB
- Adding several try catches around extensible code sections and other tricky areas of rule engine and token parsing to clarify errors coming out of that code.
- Added Code File Viewer
- Added rel="tag" links to tag links
- Added query string to point history link to allow linking from leaderboards with appropriate filters
- Added Users.RenameUser if username lookup fails and email lookup succeeds in AuthenticationModule.
- Added fully qualified urls to LeaderboardMapper
- Added brief delay and animation to contextual panel link, and prevented hover after explicitly closing a minimized panel from re-opening.
- Added support for embeddables with no configuration.
- Added support for tips in TinyMCE and added tips to help upload files (via drag/drop) and convert links to previews and back.
- Added AllowReplies to $core_v2_forumThread.
- Added mark user as abusive button to moderation queue
- Added AllowComments to core_v2_comments and updated logic to check for content with disabled comments.
- Added published/unpublished filter to Manage Pages contextual panel
- Added sample generation for webhook data objects and styled them into the webhook management widget. Adjusted serialization to always include the event type id and the action occurred date.
- Added a patch to ensure that users in the content tables have authorId set.
- Added exception catching around BeforeInitialization handlers to prevent badly-behaved plugins from bringing down the app pool, as exceptions here could otherwise prevent the plugin manager from ever initiating. I cannot recreate the actual error at hand though.
- Added Entity and Contentids to management panels
- Added permission checks for PinPost/PinPostForever in the API; changed default sticky duration from 25 years to 7 days
- Added ability to flag reply as answer when creating via API
- Added support for text repetition abuse rules and regular expression patterns in forbidden word counts.
- Added view and comment count attributes to blog posts management panel
- Added separated AuthorId parameter to the query (BlogPosts.List)
- Added new notification types for blog and thread authors. User can chose to recieve (or not) notifications for thier own content.
- Added handling for content returned with errors in the group banner.
Improved / Changed
- Made page editing and theme option editing consistent with other preview/publish theme UIs. Updated page saving to prevent publishing if there are any potential related staged changes.
- Enhanced theme preview UI (feature stil being worked on)
- Updated theme management to use theme preview when importing new versions of a theme or reverting themes (feature still being worked on)
- If the accessing user has permission to view member management, the user link in moderation now navigates to the user in member management, otherwise, it continues to link to the public profile.
- Simplified uploading of theme files. All text files are now editable. Other files show previews.
- Spam plugins are now enabled OOTB.
- Now using ACE for all HTML and CSS fields in theme configuration, Raw HTML widget, site SEO options.
- Now using ACE for source editing in TinyMCE.
- Cleaning up wording of rule errors and making it user-friendly. Added system notification for rule errors.
- Implemented ACE-based property control and embedded content type with optional support for the legacy syntax highlighter HTML.
- Calendar IsIndexed flag for events always reset
- Desired Username text box has No Char Limitation
- Updated calendar download text
- Featured Content widget loads featured content, even if set to Custom only
- Platform-wide ACE support
- Introduced version 2 of IAuthenticationPlugin to better support SSO plugins
- Wiki page update on user delete fixed
- Updating the text repetition frequency plugin to ensure that text is HTML decoded before being evaluated.
- Changed to user.points to update immediately and no longer depned on job running to set current points.
- Aggregated total point transaction values and checked if sum of new points is greater than Int.MaxValue. If so, an error message is displayed.
- Add points total to user hover widget
- Updated user points log widget and added user points total widget.
- IsAbusive flag has been moved to new column in DB
- Adjusted context shell to still remove the background shade when leaving the shell, even if the window is wide enough such that the shell itself does not minimize
- Changes notification verbiage to be consistent.
- Updated TinyMCE serialization to update manually resized uploaded images to use physical image resizing. The editor will not resize as you resize, instead, it occurs on serialization (so it will show in preview and when saved).
- Adjusted context shell to only minimize if it hasn't been interacted with and isn't pre-loaded to a non-root location, and to otherwise fully close. Also adjusted it to never minimize when it doesn't visually cover widgets.
- Changed all content review abuse rules to identify their reason as "The {0} was determined to be SPAM." -- user frequency and moderation rules still provide their original descriptions.
- Updated frequency checks to disallow posting (via exception) instead of flagging as abuse. Prevented posting completely when there are more than X (configurable) unresolved abuse appeals in the abuse queue. Built into the API support for excluding review board members and added a reputation cut off to abuse configuration to prevent automated detection. Corrected rule processing on plugin configuration saved from widgets.
- Adjusted query builder for performance and added TagNameFilter.
- Adjusted desktop notifications to be enabled by default, but cannot recreate non-disappearing notifications
- Extracted management needs to the IConfigurableThemeableApplicationType interface. Added support for updating defaults.
- Changed challenge verbiage to Ideation and Ideas
- Now hiding attachment in related content slider.
- Ensured that announcements are fully visible in the About page
- Implemented embeddable plugin for leaderboards.
- Preprocess images in email to try and ensure width requirements.
- Implemented support for honoring file finders when processing CFS URLs in content and optimized file uploading to only delete competed versions of the current file being uploaded (don't delete other files that have been completed).
- Renamed "verify answer" to "this helped me", added tour tip and ui tip to up/down vote in thread details widget, and corrected clipped styling of thread vote icon
- Tweaked new styling of 'click to join' link
- Group leaderboard and single leaderboard plugins now only display enabled leaderboards.
- When deleting a wiki page, the user is returned to the Wiki Options panel
- Sidebar rendering improvements for leaderboard widget.
- Widget no longer visible if user does not have access to leaderboard
- Reworked so that if rescheduling a delayed job is unsuccessful, a new job is created. This way the job server does not need to be aware of a delay period.
- When clicking advanced search, if an application/group is selected, the contextual group will be passed to advanced search. When searching people, advanced search now directs the user to the people search page.
- Updated abuse service to only confirm abuse when content is expunged. Previously, denied appeals would confirm abuse which would often result in physical deletes (which prevented undoing mistakes). Content is only "confirmed abusive" when expunged now.
- Loosened infinite loop detection to allow limited recursion when loading site settings.
- ForumThread date now correctly exposes Date as User Time
- Updated limited license text and links.
- Renamed "Features" to "Featured content".
- Migrate integration forms authentication plugin to administration panel
Removed
- Removed assigned to anonymous user and added "former member" as the default. Former member account doesnt not partipate in scoring, leaderboard, etc.
- Removed the New Calendar link from the New Posts button
- Removed gallery data api for Open Graph
- Removed Stream/Byte API From Open Graph In Favor of Upload Context
- Removed option to show IP addresses publicly
- Removed permission checks on UserInvitation Get.
- Removed related/recommended from wiki page list page, removed duplicate instances of related and recommended from thread page, moved default instances on media to content region
Bug Fixes
- Fixed missing Button when adding MultiSelect Profile field
- Fixed issue with blog owner permissions removed after editing blog options
- Fixed an error returned when Admin edits Display date on an active leaderboard
- Fixed issues in RSS links. Prevented adding empty tags to DefaultAggregateTags property
- Fixed issue with extra ' in system notification when adding/removing points manually.
- Fixed comment serialization issue when remoting.
- Fixed Administration Manage Ads panel bad permission check
- Fixed issue with application key field on Group Options Panel not saving
- Fixed redirecting legacy control panel pages to HTTP protocolFixed data type for Url parameter in comment sql data provider.
- Fixed bug to honor email encoding settings in SendEmail api.
- Fixed regression with rendering explicitly-sized non-textarea code editors, corrected issues around updating options and values on existing editor instances
- Fixed duplicate match for full-name group searches on site-root groups.
- Fixed duplicate binding of the import button that could cause import errors.
- Fixed incorrect calculation of metrics and add system account status to former user
- Fixed webhook documentation and error handling for incorrectly formatted REST parameters.
- Fixed double-binding of rule conditions and adjusted width of drop down boxes.
- Fixed issue with mailing list email address is not validated when new mailing list created
- Fixed validation issue when updating the implementation of a factory default theme.
- Fixed issue with deleting a blog post via the manage posts panel while viewing the post
- Fixed spelling on Forum Autocreation Plugin
- Fixed typos in Permissions' descriptions
- Fixed issue with hashtags are not supported not rendering correctly in Idea title
- Fixed avatar and other whitelisted file stores to cause zoom and crop image resizing; default method is still scale.
- Fixed incorrect calculations in user reputation score
- Fixed issue with rendering non-SSL canonical urls wheb using offloaded SSL
- Fixed doc preview javascript to convert to absolute Url
- Fixed time issues in forum and thread list widgets
- Fixed issue when points would be added/deleted for a user and user points total would not be recalculated.
- Fixed potential iterator issues in tracing panel.
- Fixed edge case where admin link occasionally wouldn't show
- Fixed issue where user is not deleted when "do not reassign content" is selected
- Fixed header styling on Manage Posts panel
- Fixed nested table sanitization.
- Fixed user delete now works with blog drafts, scheduled and moderated posts.
- Fixed issue with users not being removed from leaderboards when deleted
- Fixed only open context shell on swipe if not the result of a mouse-based swipe, was a right swipe, not currently open, has any categories to open, and page did not scroll very much during the swipe
- Fixed wiki table of contents to only scroll when wouldn't otherwise be visible and to not animate noticeably
- Fixed forbidden word counts abuse rule to check words on word-boundaries. Patterns are still unbounded.
- Fixed issues preventing temp files from being moved to the correct location.
- Fixed delete user error by updating calendar user delete sproc and removing references to the old calendar subscription table.
- Fixed issue that when indexing users the User.GetUsers call is cached, causing the same users to be reindexed over and over again until limit is reached
- Fixed recommended users slider.
- Fixed issue with not redirected to History page after deleting wiki revision
- Fixed issue with profile Questions tab is showing accessing user's data instead of contextual user's data
- Fixed file upload manager to correctly implement the CFS file finder interface.
- Fixed default sort order for REST thread listing
- Fixed type-ahead search supporting IDs in join, merge, split to start searching with one character to support single-character IDs.
- Fixed padding around role management buttons.