Release Notes for Community 12

1/24/2024: We are currently investigating a compatibility issue with version 12.1.5 and the Verint SAML and OpenID Connect marketplace plugins. If you are using either of these plugins, we recommend waiting to upgrade until we provide an update.

Version 12.1.6.28905

April 16, 2024

Security Update
Activity Stories
- TE-18181 - Fixed issue where Activity Stream may not list some sub-group stories when there are a large (50+) number of subgroups (Widget Updates Required)
Administration
- TE-18372 - Added audit log when users export member data from Administration -> Members -> Export
- TE-18460 - Fixed issue where attempting to delete all exceptions may fail
- TE-18514 - Role list in Membership is now sorted alphabetically by default (regression from 12.1.4)
Articles
- TE-18465 - Fixed issue where users with access to view article management can see publish/unpublish even if they cannot publish/unpublish
Blogs
- TE-18175 - Fixed an issue where members in a private group may be unable to create/edit blog post that contains a poll
Calendar
- TE-18334 - Removed stray quotation mark in 'Calendar Activity Story widget' and updated date encoding in 'Event' widget (Widget Updates Required)
Conversations
- TE-18518 - Reverted previous (12.1.4) editor size change within conversations (Widget Updates Required)
Forums
- TE-18189 - Update to ensure moving a forum thread triggers search re-indexing
- TE-18198 - Updated 'by' text in 'Forum - Thread List Widget' to use the existing, relevant language resource (Widget Updates Required)
Ideation
- TE-18391 - Fixed possible SQL deadlock scenario when releasing idea votes
Leaderboard
- TE-18022 - Updated 'Leaderboard' widget to use callback when paging (Widget Updates Required)
Moderation
- TE-18521 - Fixed issue with date filter not honoring selection when viewing 'Possibly Abusive' content in moderation
Reporting
- TE-18430 - Fixed issue where searching for groups or applications using special characters (eg. &) returns no matches
Widget Studio
- TE-18400 - Fixed issue where selecting 10 or more widgets in Widget Studio exports all instead of the amount selected)
Platform
- TE-15070 - Added release monitoring system status indicator
- TE-17369 - Performance improvements when retrieving members to send email digest notifications
- TE-17802 - Minor changes to information sent to Akismet
- TE-18120 - Exception logging improvements when an error occurs sending email
- TE-18151 - Removed unnecessary null reference exception logging when navigating to alt sitemap URL before being redirected
- TE-18172 - SSO audit improvements when using external service
- TE-18183 - Updated Instagram embed to support types other than posts (ex. reels, guides)
- TE-18213 - Performance improvements recalculating group permissions
- TE-18228 - RSS feed improvements based on validator.w3.org feedback
- TE-18379 - Fixed issue with View REST Endpoint is incorrectly encoding external media in galleries
- TE-18398 - Improved email Message-ID logic in notification-based emails
- TE-18399 - Fixed issue with content abuse changes not invalidating tag caches
- TE-18410 - Added path/file URL encoding/decoding methods to core_v2_encoding scripting API
- TE-18419 - Updated TemporaryStore anonymous signature generation to honor the forwarding configuration when determining the client IP address
- TE-18444 - Fixed compatibility issue in database installation/upgrade for environments running SQL Server 2017 (or less)
- TE-18455 - Corrected importing translations into plugins that dynamically define translations based on configuration
- TE-18463 - Including script to cleanup any orphaned calendar events
- TE-18509 - Updated script callbacks to verify View Web Site permission
- TE-18524 - Update to ensure AbuseCreatorEffectiveness metric calculation does not fail if member is missing
- TE-18528 - Update to include To: addressee when sending emails through Mail Gateway
Widgets Updated in this release:
- Activity Story Stream: TE-18181
- Calendar Event Activity Story: TE-18334
- Conversations: TE-18518
- Event Calendar - Event List: TE-18334
- Forum - Thread List: TE-18198
- Leaderboard: TE-18022

Version 12.1.5.28295

February 14, 2024

Authentication
- TE-18480 - Updated Cookies Authentication to optionally allow "seamless" login flow (like previous behavior)

Version 12.1.5.28131

Reporting
- TE-18507 - Fixed issue with reporting filters not being applied in exports.

Version 12.1.5.27371

November 29, 2023

Conversations
- TE-18194 - Added new "Leave" option to conversations. (Widget Updates Required) This change includes:
  - New "Start Conversations with Anyone" permission to enable members to bypass a member's conversation settings and contact anyone.
  - REST updates
    - New Restore API (conversations/{id}/participants/{userid}/restore) to allow a member, if permitted, to restore a member to a conversation.
    - New delete "Method" parameter in rest to identify if hiding (Hide) or leaving (Leave). The default is Hide, which was the previous default behavoir.
  - New 'AfterParticipantsUpdate' event in Conversation API to be notified of participant changes.
Platform
- TE-18419 - Updated temporary storage to honor forwarding headers when retrieving client IP
Widgets updated in this release
- Conversations: TE-18194

Version 12.1.5.27118

November 9, 2023

Administration
- TE-17981 - Improvements to user impersonation behavior
- TE-18033 - Update to allow exporting more than 100 results via Exceptions
- TE-18085 - Hiding a member's forum content will also have it removed from search
- TE-18097 - Added error details to the system notification that is sent when a user deletion fails
Authentication
- TE-15650 - Added Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Authentication.Version2.IExternalLinkedAuthenticationProvider that more closely aligns with external authentication workflows and ensures that state is persisted through URLs (vs local state). (Widget Updates Required)
Azure
- TE-18134 - Fixed issue with multiple instances of the AzureBlobUpdateJob being scheduled multiple times for the same filestore
Conversations
- TE-17946 - Fixed issue where conversation drafts could be saved against other conversations if clicking quickly between conversations
- TE-18024 - Fixed issue where unread badge count may include hidden (ex. abusive) message as part of the count
Editor
- TE-18095 - Update to ensure modal window stack is maintained across multiple modal windows plugin instances. This corrects a reported issue of an error occurring when changing table background color when editing.
Email
- TE-18052 - No longer logging an exception when attempting to send an email to a user with email explicitly disabled. Note: The validation error in the SendEmailResponse can be used to identify this situation if necessary.
- TE-18361 - Updated email server connection logic when using an insecure connection
Forums
- TE-18057 - Added indicator when adding/editing forum replies and nested replies and comment replies and nested replies (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-18087 - Corrected thread list filter to allow filtering by contextual user (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-18106 - Performance improvements when retrieving forum thread replies
- TE-18107 - Fixed issue when using 'flat' forum replies view where members were not being redirected to the newly created reply (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-18116 - Fixed an issue where moving a forum thread that contains attachment may throw an exception when re-indexing the content
Galleries
- TE-18090 - Removed unused, legacy 'File Count Quota' and 'Total Storage Quota' from Gallery Options panel
- TE-18135 - Fixed duplicate thumbnail listings when the total number of files is 1 more than the page size (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-18225 - Corrected download disclaimer agree for legacy and non-legacy UI compatibility (Widget Updates Required)
Ideation
- TE-18130 - Fixed issue with files embedded in ideas not being accessible to some members
Leaderboards
- TE-18086 - Fixed type-o ($leaderBoard -> $leaderboard) in Leaderboard widget which prevents showing the ‘No Leaders Found’ message from showing since the last calculated date will always be false (Widget Updates Required)
Platform
- TE-17837 - Corrected issue with rendering multiple 'More Content' widgets with differing modes (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17985 - Fixed issue with custom emoticons not rendering
- TE-17986 - Updated image resizing to always serve the original file if the file extension doesn't match the file contents
- TE-18021 - Distributed cache (Redis) performance improvements
- TE-18023 - Fixed issue with other group content being list in 'More Content' widget when 'Current Group' is configured (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-18031 - Fixed issue in GroupUserMember.ListEffectiveGroupMembers API not returning users who did not have a content score calculated yet
- TE-18050 - Performance improvements with Document Conversion and text extraction (for search) when using remote storage
- TE-18064 - Fixed issue where attempting deleting user who created comments within a deleted application can fail
- TE-18065 - Improved URL redirect create/update/delete logging to the Event Log
- TE-18066 - Improvements to forum application context parsing and validation that could cause not correctly raising ContentNotFoundExceptions, as required for proper detection and processing of redirected forum replies
- TE-18082 - Update to ensure TotalPosts count for members that existed pre version 12 and do not have authored content is set to 0 (vs negative)
- TE-18084 - Update to ensure IsImpersonated is set immediately (vs next request) at the time that the impersonated user is authenticated
- TE-18096 - Corrected URL returned from IAdministrationExplicitPanelController
- TE-18099 - Performance improvement when retrieving activity stories for environments running older versions of SQL Server
- TE-18110 - Caching and locking improvements
- TE-18111 - Updated NVelocity resolving potential concurrency condition
- TE-18119 - Improvement to non-refreshable, expired OAuth tokens cleanup process along with performance improvements retrieving available rest scopes
- TE-18124 - Distributed lock improvements
- TE-18129 - General updates to url redirect creation/deletion
- TE-18149 - 'Telligent.Evolution.Platform.Internal.ExternalServices.Model.MappedExternalUser' is now serializable allowing distributed cache usage
- TE-18152 - Improvements to content views persistence logic
- TE-18157 - Update properties on 'Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Version1.EmailEmailMessage' to be public
- TE-18160 - Fixed issue where deleting comments with child comments can leave orphaned core content data
- TE-18171 - Updated logging assemblies for SocketMessageBus
- TE-18176 - Corrected handling of legacy embeddable validation which can cause some embeddable content types to fail validating required fields
- TE-18206 - Corrected escaping site root URL to application root in virtual directories
- TE-18221 - Added audit log on username changes
- TE-18230 - When a user attempts to change their password using the incorrect current credentials, now returning "Invalid Credentials" message instead of generic message
- TE-18233 - Fixed potential database deadlock scenario when updating content details
- TE-18273 - Update to allow setting a self-referencing canonical URLs when the set value and original request URL match
- TE-18382 - Fixed potential duplicate image (regression from 12.1.4) issue when using Mail Gateway
Reporting
- TE-17984 - Fixed issue with reports not rendering when there is a large number of filters selected
- TE-18125 - Fixed issue where special characters in application type name language resource can break reporting links
- TE-18227 - Fixed Spelling issue on the word "Participation" in reporting panel
Wikis
- TE-18042 - Fixed issue where a member may not be able to enter page layout editing if the content includes an embeddable
Widgets Updated In This Release
- Forum - Thread: TE-18107
- Forum - Thread List: TE-18057, TE-18087
- Leaderboard: TE-18086
- Media Gallery - Download File: TE-18225
- Media Gallery - File List: TE-18135
- More Content: TE-17837, TE-18023
- User - Login and Create: TE-15650

Version 12.1.4.26902

October 20, 2023

Platform
- TE-18246: Removed deadlock detection timeouts that can trigger if a startup takes over 30 seconds which result in a node being flagged as non-responsive.

Version 12.1.4.26448

September 13, 2023

Platform
- TE-18224: Fixed issue where SQL Server deadlocks may occur when recalculating user reputation quality percentile
- TE-18158: Fixed high CPU usage in job service under certain conditions when checking abusive status messages

Version 12.1.4.25860

July 25, 2023

Platform
- TE-18128: Corrected logic that prevents rendering direct links to CFS providers that don't support download events (ex. Azure CFS) and an update to ensure that persistent CFS URLs are always fully qualified.

Version 12.1.4.25258

June 5, 2023

Forums
- TE-18116 - Fixed issue where moving a forum thread that has embedded/attached files fails

Version 12.1.4.25057

May 23, 2023

Platform
- TE-18110 - Resolved an issue where after a site expires the cache, restarts, or recycles, plugins under load can lead to high CPU and high memory consumption due to a race condition when repopulating the cache

Version 12.1.4.24841

May 2, 2023

Security Update
Activity Stories
- TE-17806 - Updated activity stories to use created/published date of content when setting LastUpdatedDate instead of current datetime
- TE-17861 - Fixed issue with StatusMessage activity stories not referencing new group after being moved
Administration
- TE-16456 - Added ability to mark a role as private. When a role is private, only members with 'Site - Manage Membership' will be able to see this role in listings. Note: Within a group, group managers can see the role if it's been added by a member with proper privileges.
- TE-17815 - Added configuration option on 'Search System Indicator' to monitor connection string or index count to support master/slave setups
- TE-17822 - Fixed issue with blank screen appearing when attempting to add new emoticon collection
- TE-17905 - Fixed issue where administration panel state can be lost when navigating in/out of administration
- TE-17955 - Fixed issue with password regular expression options not being saved in Authentication Options
- TE-18044 - Corrected double encoding in administration search results that results in <span> tag being displayed
Articles
- TE-17851 - Fixed issue with article activity story not being removed from group activity upon deletion
- TE-17983 - Fixed issue where moving an article can orphan it's article category
Blogs
- TE-17914 - Fixed issue with blog post Image, attachment, and alt text being lost during review workflow
Conversations
- TE-17901 - Corrected scrolling/keyboard handling in conversations on Android (Widget Updates Required)
Editor
- TE-17889 - Corrected mention suggestion position on iPhone (and other small screens)
- TE-17963 - Updated cache headers for editor-related (TinyMCE) source files
Forums
- TE-17858 - Fixed issue with Forum.TotalReplies calculation
- TE-18948 - Fixed issue with Forum.AllowedThreadTypes not being serialized/stored in distributed cache
- TE-17950 - Fixed issue with group field being empty in Forum Options for forums at the site root level
- TE-18041 - Fixed issue with legacy threads not redirecting
Galleries
- TE-17883 - Improved dependent data expiration for media, threads, and blog posts. Improved cache performance for media.
Ideas
- TE-17870 - Update to ensure Ideation-specific abuse permission grants access to moderation administration
Media
- TE-17953 - Performance improvement when reading Media.AvatarlUrl property
Moderation
- TE-17936 - Fixed "post to review" cache not being invalided when post is sent to moderation/abuse
- TE-17937 - Performance improvements in Moderation Appeals List query
- TE-17987 - Update to persists the moderation board response to abuse workflow and including it in the moderation UI and abuse notification
- TE-17991 - Fixed issue where attempting to cancel an 'Deny' action in moderation not effective
- TE-18055 - Updated formula when calculating AbuseCreatorEffectivenessMetric value
Search
- TE-17357 - Updated retrieval of un-indexed (searchable) comments
- TE-17836 - Updated local file identification logic when indexing content
- TE-17855 - Fixed issue with some article tags not being indexed
- TE-17954 - Added group name qualifier in group facet when searching within a subgroup (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-18053 - Improved error logging in cases when creating a new search document fails
- TE-18060 - Increase timeout when indexing content
Reporting
- TE-17970 - Fixed possible null reference issue in reporting ETL process
Platform
- TE-17358 - Added a 'scheduled date' on email digest jobs to improve the consistency of the "cut off" time
- TE-17808 - Updated SEO titles to apply to HTML page title but not the h1 title for blogs, media, articles, and wikis (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17823 - Fixed issue with FileStorage System Indicator reporting Critical when configured correctly
- TE-17827 - Fixed incorrect HTTP response code (403) with proper 401 code when providing invalid credentials on login
- TE-17832 - Restored case sensitivity in theme page names
- TE-17864 - Updated file validation to allow '#' in filenames
- TE-17909 - Updated obscured string properties to pre-populate with a placeholder and report undefined values if unchanged
- TE-17913 - Corrected validation of Recaptcha data with an invalid context ID
- TE-17918 - Added support for CFS providers that can't support download events by redirecting requests to more accurately detect downloads.
- TE-17919 - Improvements to error handling and messaging when deleting users
- TE-17921 - Fixed issue with caching comments
- TE-17928 - Added timeout when disposing service bus
- TE-17935 - Improvements to licensing system status monitor
- TE-17943 - Fixed possible race condition when loading user profile information for the same user under heavy load
- TE-17949 - Updated ApiEntity, AdditionalInfo, Warning, and Error entities to be serializable
- TE-17960 - Improvements to email, system indicators, and system notifications
- TE-17961 - Update to SMTP configuration change audit log format
- TE-17966 - Fixed issue where featuring content with 'site group and current group' causes duplicate entries in the Featured Content management panel
- TE-17977 - Added support for detecting resized-image URLs in CFS utilities. This also fixes an issue with members not being able to embed an image file in content when URL embedding is disabled.
- TE-17980 - Updates to ensure the JavaScript file/line/column/stack details are included in exceptions originating from server-side JavaScript. Also improved error reporting back to manually executed Automations.
- TE-17995 - Updated CommentVote entity to be serializable
- TE-18039 - Updated Velocity to ensure that all inner exceptions are logged
- TE-18040 - Fixed issue with 'View' UI component where the full size image may not be shown
- TE-18058 - Fixed issue with not being able to send email through the API when the accessing user is non-privileged
- TE-18059 - Adjusted error handling when attempting to find a file that doesn't already exist to prevent exceptions from causing additional failures
- TE-18068 - Restarting the job service will now register recurring jobs
- TE-18071 - Fixed issue with some emails not being sent to due process context being lost
- TE-18076 - Added exception category for 'Email Unable To Process'
- TE-18080 - Added support for forwarding a host
- TE-18088 - Removed no longer used, lower cache-hit tracking from distributed cache support
Wikis
- TE-18041 - Fixed issue with URLs of renamed wiki pages not redirecting
Widgets Updated In This Release
- Articles - Title: TE-17808
- Blog - Title: TE-17808
- Conversations: TE-17901
- Media Gallery - Title: TE-17808
- Site - Banner: TE-17954
- Wikis - Title: TE-17808

Version 12.1.3.23098

December 2, 2022

Activity Stories
- TE-17696 - Update to remove reply in activity story if it has no children after deletion instead of rendering 'Deleted' activity story (Widget Updates Required)
Articles
- TE-17599 - Improved clarity in audit description when adding/removing an article to a category
- TE-17600 - Added audit logging when making changes to article feedback recipients
- TE-17603 - Update to allow re-publishing any draft articles in a publish group are left in an unpublished state (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17675 - Added language resources for default widget headers on the article collection home page (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17726 - Added reporting links to Article Collection panel
Authentication
- TE-17478 - Added OpenID PKCE support
- TE-17644 - Updated reCAPTCHA domain to avoid being blocked in China
- TE-17887 - Fixed issue where a 404.15 response code may be encountered during login when using PKCE or OpenID SSO and email verification is enabled
Blogs
- TE-17677 - Fixed caching issue after deleting blog post that has comment that can result in "You do not have permission to read this comment" toast
Calendars
- TE-17669 - Fixed caching issue that caused hashtags to not be shown immediately on calendar events
Conversations
- TE-15924 - Updated behavoir within 1:1 conversations when attempting to responding to a deleted conversation
- TE-17618 - Updated styling of the conversation hide button to not appear disabled (Widget Updates Required)
Email
- TE-14108 - Fixed issue with sending email to users with non-standard email addresses (ex. chris@acme.engineering)
- TE-16842 - Updated email processing library and added new Api.Version2.ISendEmail API for sending email. Note: Email configuration is now a top-level category in administration.
Forums
- TE-17740 - Fixed issue with forum thread answer status not being reset if "answer" reply is deleted
Galleries
- TE-17657 - Corrected null check in return statement that can cause issues with custom file validation when uploaded media file is null (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17749 - Updated text wrapping in Media Gallery File Options panel
Ideas
- TE-17640 - Added content peek to idea activity stories (Widget Updates Required)
Moderation
- TE-17058 - Improvements when matching forbidden words that contain special characters
- TE-17145 - Update to allow members with Review Abuse permission at the group and application level to delete activity stories in those areas they can moderate
- TE-17606 - Update to ensure that message formatting will not fail if IP Posting Frequency abuse automation is triggered and updated IP exempt logic
- TE-17636 - Fixed issue with empty page when attempting to ban a user without entering a date
- TE-17747 - Updated user impersonation to persist after browser closes
- TE-17818 - Updated search query in moderation queue filter when searching for group or application
- TE-17821 - Added file count indicator in moderation for content types that allow attachments (ex. blog, status messages)
Platform
- TE-17094 - Updated HTML aware truncation to disable custom styles including height to prevent truncation spacing/presentation issues
- TE-17435 - No longer logging unnecessary exception in activity stream when determining if ActivityUrl and user cannot access the content
- TE-17612 - Scoring performance updates
- TE-17631, TE-17723- Added missing language resource for 'CustomizedDefaultDescription' in Theme Management
- TE-17643 - Corrected displaying option to vote in the poll UI when poll is expired.
- TE-17645 - Fixed possible deadlock scenario in caching service that can result in long plugin reload times, which eventually times out
- TE-17660 - Updated several classes to allow serialization when using distributed cache
- TE-17665 - No longer logging 'No text extractor ...' event logs for files that do not have a text extractor
- TE-17666 - Performance (cache) improvements when loading users
- TE-17671 - Updated validation logic to allow selectable avatars (when enabled) to be selected via the user avatar API
- TE-17678 - Fixed issue when a large fixed header forces scrolling to top of page on media page with document viewer
- TE-17679 - Updated canonical URL generation to support normalizing path URLs, handling default query string values (e.g. for page index), and disabling or ignoring query string key registrations. Additionally updated the Content Page SEO Meta Data widget to expose these options and added an SEO Meta Data widget for non-content pages to control some of these options. (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17689 - Sending emails directly via SendEmail API are no longer subject to ProcessDisableNotifications flag
- TE-17685 - Added support for translating the Support Forums and News and Announcements widget titles in the support community site setup preset.
- TE-17702 - Corrected language resource reference causing an exception in the Custom Navigation editor
- TE-17756 - Fixed issue with 'Monitoring - Moderation System Indicator' showing incorrect recent visitors
- TE-17757 - Update to ensure that users with access to *any* administration panels will see the pencil icon in the front UI
- TE-17758 - Fixed issue with full-screen mode for source editing not working in non-studio use cases
- TE-17760 - Updates to ensure comments are consistently editable by authors across applications along with consistent "Edit Comment Age Limit" configurations
- TE-17795 - Fixed issue error null reference that may occur when deleting user and all of their content
- TE-17796 - Updated print style sheet and print handling in several widgets/platform JavaScript (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17799 - URL redirect improvements when converting or moving content
- TE-17800 - Added logic to clear any orphaned jobs when the job server restarts
- TE-17814 - Update to ensure activity story extended attributes are applied after HTML events
- TE-17828 - Performance update in database retrieval of user profile fields
- TE-17839 - Added clean-up script that removes any orphaned comments from user deletes stemming from previous issue in 12.1.0
- TE-17840 - Fixed issue with emoji category text headers not being rendered to all members
- TE-17845 - Fixed issue where a member granted edit comments permission (ex. "Article edit Comments") may not be able to edit
- TE-17867 - General performance improvements
- TE-17879 - Corrected positioning of styled navigation widgets in the site header in responsive view (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17880 - Fixed issue where duplicate activity stories may occur
- TE-17885 - Removed unnecessary null reference exceptions logging in socket connections using long polling
- TE-17938 - Improvements to client socket connection behavior and performance
REST
- TE-17646 - Added REST scope group support for HTTP based automations
- TE-17816 - Unicode emoji characters are now returned in REST API when PostTarget=WebServices
- TE-17904 - Fixed issue with REST batch requests mishandling scopes
Reporting
- TE-17654 - Reporting ETL Performance improvements
- TE-17750 - Fixed issue where reporting ETL can fail when a large number of threads with a large duration between the first reply and the thread
- TE-17755 - Performance improvements in reporting ETL process
- TE-17892 - Fixed issue where content view counts may be inaccurate if original schema patch failed
Search
- TE-14457 - Add support for searching sub groups in site banner (Widget Updates Required)(Search update required (on premise))
Wikis
- TE-17072 - Updated wiki TOC editor to not create revisions of pages when reordering
- TE-17727 - Fixed casing issue in Wiki Migration panel causing "Migrate All Wikis" to not function correctly
Widgets Updated In This Release
- Activity Story Stream: TE-17605
- Articles - Article: TE-17796
- Articles - Article List: TE-17675
- Articles - Create/Edit Article: TE-17603
- Blog - Post List: TE-17685
- Calendar Activity Story: TE-17640
- Comment List: TE-17796
- Conversations: TE-17618
- Forum - Thread: TE-17796
- Forums - Browse Forums: TE-17685
- Media Gallery - Upload/Edit File Form: TE-17657
- Navigation: TE-17879
- Search Result List: TE-14457
- SEO Meta Data for Content Pages: TE-17679
- Set Up Your Community/Group: TE-17685
- Site - Banner: TE-14457
Themes Updated In This Release
- Social Site Theme: TE-17796
Other
- Search instance requires updating in this release

Version 12.1.2.21912

August 31, 2022

Authentication
- TE-17753 - Fixed issue where anti-forgery token may not be set for anonymous users when using SSO (v3)

Version 12.1.2.21600

August 3, 2022

Articles
- TE-17581 - Updated URL logic to allow custom pages in articles
Authentication
- TE-17567 - Fixed logic to determine success URL in the 'Change Password' widget (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17639 - Fixed issue that can occur when attempting to change password
Blogs
- TE-17054 - Fixed issue with blog attachment reference (if exists) not being deleted from source location when a blog post is moved
- TE-17584 - Fixed issue where (if set) the SEO title was being used instead of post title in the page's <h1> (Widget Updates Required)
Chat
- TE-17400 - Fixed issue with emoticons not rendering in chat messages
Comments
- TE-17586 - Fixed issue loading past the first page of flattened comments (depth = 1) when ordering by 'Best' (Widget Updates Required)
Document Preview
- TE-17570 - Fixed issue where typing quickly in doc preview search can override the search input value
Editor
- TE-17443 - Fixed UI regression (black boxes overlayed) when previewing polls in editor
- TE-17500 - Update logic in editor to ensure disabled embeddable types are not shown
- TE-17602 - Fixed z-index of the fullscreen editor and management shell handle
Forums
- TE-17641 - Fixed thread reply list cache issue when adding new replies and not listing by ThreadId
Ideations
- TE-17566 - Fixed 'Null reference' exceptions in Ideations when attempting to list ideation in a group for members that do not have access
Moderation
- TE-17421 - Updated abuse automation to only review string/html (i.e. non-data-type specific) profile fields on users
- TE-17608 - Fixed spelling issue in moderation content rejection and content expired email templates
Platform
- TE-14990 - Improvements to singleton plugin enablement rules
- TE-16974 - Added short-circuiting presence logic for system accounts
- TE-17122 - Fixed issue with intellisense not appearing when studio code windows or sandbox is fullscreen
- TE-17223 - Improved performance when flagging content for search reindexing
- TE-17342 - Improved support for comparing and reverting translations in all studios (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17429 - Performance improvements with Effective Group Members Job
- TE-17474 - Fixed ordering when sending friendship notification emails that rarely can result in sending duplicate notification if sent in rapid succession
- TE-17498 - Added warning health status monitor for the number of exempted members
- TE-17499 - Fixed issue with 'Load More' being show when editing a role with multiple pages of users when there are no more pages
- TE-17509 - Updated Apis.Get<> to block on plugin reloading to avoid rare cases (ex. background threads) when Api.GetApi.Get<> can return null
- TE-17512 - Update to ensure that jobs that are implemented as plugins are only run when they are enabled as plugins
- TE-17522 - Fixed several image references in administration panel LESS files to play nice with CDNs
- TE-17537 - Fixed issue where a 503 response code is returned instead of 404 when attempting to render an invalid content page URL
- TE-17540 - Performance improvements when calculating the average score of a group members content quality within a group
- TE-17578 - User.Signature is now set/available during BeforeUserUpdate event
- TE-17583 - Updated points automations for actions that can occur multiple times to ensure that points are subtracted for each removal and not removed for all occurrences
- TE-17589 - User caching logic improvements
- TE-17595 - Fixed group filtering logic in Featured Content widget than can cause featured items to be listed in other groups
- TE-17628 - Fixed message redirection when running Community in a virtual directory
- TE-17629 - Added AccountStatus as option to core_v2_user.List API
- TE-17681 - Fixed (slow) memory leak with SearchSystemIndicator
- TE-17683 - Reduced SignalR connection(s) memory usage
- TE-17694 - Performance improvements reloading users after edits
Reporting
- TE-17434 - Fixed issue with long ReturnURLs cause 404s within reporting
- TE-17577 - Updated trend logic in reporting to avoid overlaps
- TE-17647 - Fixed issue where some reporting control values may not be reset when resetting reporting data
Search
- TE-17192 - Fixed issue where a comment that errors during search indexing causes other to not be marked as indexed even though they are in the search index
- TE-17395 - Improved escape logic in search filter values
- TE-17423 - Fixed parsing of search query options to ensure that date filters do not affect date facets
- TE-17433 - Updated site banner and full search to show application facets (in place of content type facets in the site banner) along with ensuring that filtered options in the site banner persist to the full search UI (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17597 - Updated filter/render logic for search results in the Site Banner widget to avoid the appearance of results loading indefinitely (Widget Updates Required)
Widgets (General)
- TE-17422 - 'Application Types' filter is now applied for Site root group in 'Tagged Content List' widget (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17445 - Updated "Current Application" configuration behavior logic in Media File List, Forum Thread List and Blog Post List widgets in cases there are no applications (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17507 - Fixed embedded file reference support in LESS files for widgets (-evo-widgetfile-url)
- TE-17571 - Fixed issue with duplicate notification and message indicators after ignoring a recommended users (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17587 - Fixed issue when sharing content that may result in the content link not being pre-filled (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17605 - Fixed spelling of 'layout_wrap' resource name in widgets (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17630 - Wrapping style fix in 'Friendship - List'
Wikis
- TE-17705 - Fix issue where creating a wiki page in a wiki after a failed migration blocks subsequent migration attempts to succeed
Widgets Updated In This Release
- Articles - Category List: TE-17605
- Blog - Post List: TE-17445
- Blog - Title: TE-17584
- Change Password: TE-17567
- Comment List: TE-17586
- Conversations: TE-17587
- Forum - Thread List: TE-17445
- Friendship List: TE-17630
- Media Gallery - File List: TE-17445
- More Content: TE-17571
- Navigation List: TE-17605
- Offline Indicator: TE-17342
- Search Result List: TE-17433
- Site - Banner: TE-17433, TE-17597
- Tagged Content List: TE-17422

Version 12.1.1.20482

May 2, 2022

Upgrade note: In this release, the 'CommunityServer' cookie has been renamed to '.te.auth' and 'AuthorizationCookie' cookie has been renamed to '.te.csrf'. These changes have no impact to end users but cookie compliance documentation or tooling may need be updated.

Accessibility
- TE-15222 - Added missing alt attributes to images rendered by platform widgets (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16666 - Updated site banner to better support tabbing (in the visual order), added keyboard shortcuts for all top-level UI elements (menu, search, notifications, conversations, bookmarks, and account), corrected pop-up closure focus (specifically for search), updated left/right to move left/right through filters within open panels that have filters. (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16667 - Added screen reader labels (visible to screen readers but not in the visible UI) to the notification list's filters (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16709 - Updated tab ordering for user links in 'Site Banner' widget to match visual order
- TE-16665 - Improved contrast/visibility of focus indicator on text as well as images
Articles
- TE-16399 - Added allow file list configuration to articles
- TE-16515 - Added article (tree) listing option in 'Article - Category List' widget
- TE-16579 - Added default article points configuration
- TE-16607 - Added notifications for article feedback
- TE-16789 - Added article category names (fieldname = articlecategoryname) to the search index
- TE-16472 - Fixed issue with article type icons overlapping/cutoff in Windows Chrome (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17030 - Fixed possible timeout when deleting article collections that contain a large number of articles
- TE-17313 - Fixed spelling error in article collection saved message
- TE-17341 - Fixed issue where Wiki-to-Article Migration can result in inaccessible pages when wiki titles contain characters that need encoding (ex. &)
- TE-17367 - Moved option to suppress notification option next to the publish/draft buttons when editing articles (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17406 - Updated group validation on Article Collection Options Panel
- TE-17438 - Updated article expunge process to avoid possible foreign key issue
- TE-17449 - Fixed an issue with embedded files in articles stored in non-accessible location when published through a review workflow
Blogs
- TE-16483 - Updated blog post image widget to render the image at the theme's defined width (if in pixels) vs hardcoding 800 (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17164 - Ensure non-logged in users are redirected (vs 404) when unsubscribing from public group blog using email link
- TE-17288 - Fixed issue with multiple activity stories being created when a future dated blog post is edited
Calendar
- TE-15825 - Calendars now support being @mentioned
- TE-16468 - Improved experience when attempting to register for an expired event (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16471 - Calendar reminders now take into account the time until event starts and will not create reminders for times already under a range
- TE-16879 - Calendar application type configuration now reloads on save instead of waiting until web restarts
- TE-17020 - Corrected RegistrationDate and TokenExpirationDate on EventRegistration API entity
Conversations
- TE-9529 - Added conversation messages to automated abuse checking (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16944 - Conversation avatars now prefer non-accessing members (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17325 - Members that leave a conversation can no longer access any files embedded within the conversation via URL
Developers
- TE-16317 - Scoped properties now support file embedding (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16861 - Added created and modified dates to Idea Vote REST entity to be consistent with API
- TE-16873 - Scripted extensions can now reference a vm/jsm file as the name of a property rule and use that file to implement the client-side and server-side rule behavior. Configuration-based plugins have extension plugin types to enable local rule processing by the plugin.
- TE-17473 - Added new in-process API for working with threading (tasks)
Embeddables
- TE-16450 - Converted existing social IEmbeddables .net code based implementations to new Embeddables format
Forums
- TE-15418 - Improved truncation logic in "top posts" rendering to better handle cases when items like mentions, tables, etc are part of the reply
- TE-16512 - Forum thread live updates to handle an edge cases where update may not propagate across author's own open viewports/tabs (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16591 - Viewing a reply via permalink when the parent reply is hidden no longer returns an error (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16556 - Updated forum thread list to use content peek and deep linking to show answers and latest replies (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17144 - Corrected inconsistency between thread functions in user interface and API. Lock/Unlock thread requires Edit and Review Abuse permissions. (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17183 - Forum thread status changes now initiate search re-indexing
Ideation
- TE-16415 - Updated naming convention for idea votes export to include the idea name
- TE-17291 - Deleting ideas that have votes no longer fails
- TE-17293 - Fixed issue that was preventing the deletion of ideas
Moderation
- TE-9500 - Added support for merging two users
- TE-9716 - Updated moderation to support optionally providing a response when approving/denying content. The response will be included in email sent to the author.
- TE-16073 - Added authentication IP throttling exemption configuration to Moderation Options (Administration -> Moderation -> Moderation Options)
- TE-17197 - Updated 'Link Counts' abuse automation to be case insensitive and added subdomain support
Platform
- TE-8264 - Fixed issue with authors not being reassigned for transcoded videos when a member is deleted
- TE-9574 - Added support for optional CDN-based (CloudFront, Azure CDN, and Fastly) delivery of globally-accessible (accessible to anonymous users) files from the CFS
- TE-9742 - New, single permission, 'View Web Site', permission to disable site access
- TE-14351 - Updated thread reply and comments widgets to show 'Sign in to reply' link and not allow text to be entered when not logged to avoid non-reviewiable posting experience (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-15374 - Root domains are always allowed (unless explicitly disallowed) by content filtering even when the root host resolves to an local IP
- TE-15651 - System files location optimizations
- TE-15794 - Added ability to override redirect locations for platform errors (ex. NotFound, Access Denied) (Administration -> Interface -> Message Redirects) (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-15817 - New Community Health Summary in Administration to monitor site health
- TE-16467 - Updated HTML aware truncation to remove tables, background colors, fonts, colors, etc to simplify truncated markup and improve visual experiences. Search results no longer use HTML aware truncation. (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16482 - Updated 'Content - Table of Contents' do be more defensive against invalid (<hX>) markup situations
- TE-16585 - File validation administration improvements with site level configuration each application inherits (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16605 - Updated references to obsolete v2 permission API to v3 (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16625 - Corrected truncation used in bljog post auto summaries and improved removal of style/script tags in all truncation logic
- TE-16637 - Fixed issue where application IDs are rendered instead of removed when mentions are disabled
- TE-16648 - Updated a few straggling URLs using relative URLs which can be invalid when using a reverse proxy
- TE-16657 - Improvements to paging within wiki and calendar subscription notification APIs
- TE-16680 - Removed duplicate text in Featured Content administration panel
- TE-16877 - SortOrder is no longer case sensitive in APIs
- TE-16612 - Adjusted approach for handling slow studio upload progress, using same indicator as processing/importing, warning before navigation, and applying to more upload scenarios in studios. Added progress indicator to all file import/export operations in studios.
- TE-16635 - Updated evolutionStarRating to better handle image-based stars and to load image stars by default from the CFS
- TE-16636 - Added PostTarget to all APIs missing this option
- TE-16822 - Now showing tip to use Option/Alt+K to see other contextual keyboard shortcuts when navigating with the keyboard (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-16982 - Updated labels on notification list page to use aria-label and added aria-label support to glowDropDownList
- TE-16915 - Fixed potential conversion issue when calculating metrics
- TE-16945 - Added system status indicators to identify potential issues
- TE-16956 - Adjustment to script console resizing when not docked open
- TE-17028 - Improved exceptions administration experience with custom date, category, server and text filtering
- TE-17063 - Improvements to code-based upgrade script processing and disallow re-running previous scripts
- TE-17106 - Improvements to script interoperability
  - A list created in Velocity is now treated as an array when passed to a JSM script.
  - Changes made to globals within a JSM function returned to a Velocity script are now present in the Velocity script after the JSM function has been executed.
  - Exceptions that bubble up through Velocity no longer lose their inner exception hierarchy.
  - Exceptions with inner exceptions are easier to read in the Exceptions log. Arrays returned from JSM functions executed in Velocity now serialize to JSON
- TE-17156 - Updated 'TourTip - List' widget to support larger postback payloads
- TE-17203 - Corrected handling of spaces in linked profile fields when searching via member profile fields
- TE-17209 - Deleting a group now marks its article collections to be deleted
- TE-17287 - Corrected link rendering for sub-navigation items in the 'Navigation - List' widget
- TE-17290 - Improved concurrency controls in content table to avoid duplicate key constraints when rapidly creating content
- TE-17315 - Fixed issue in Navigation - List widget with children navigation items being cleared when editing a parent link
- TE-17316 - Corrected z-index of 'links' pop-up/sheet
- TE-17324 - Updated ui-previewhtml and ui-viewhtml REST APIs to handle fractional width/height values
- TE-17337 - Relaxed aggressive distributed lock checks and improved startup Event log logging to include more startup details and identify slow loading plugins
- TE-17361* - Fixed issue with 'Content - Table of Contents' widget failing to render when an empty header tag is encountered
- TE-17477 - Fixed issue where scheduling a scripted dynamic job cancels all other scripted dynamic jobs
- TE-17092 - New 'UserReassign' event which is used when deleting and merging members
- TE-17137 - Add support for a "base64;" prefix on the Rest-Impersonate-User header value to allow impersonating non-ASCII usernames
- TE-17244 - New exception type plugins are on shown in administration panel under Translatables only
Reporting
- TE-17048 - Performance improvements to 'Top Searches' report query
- TE-17289 - Updated user-to-role tracking to accurately show new user in 'New Group Members' report
- TE-17292 - Fixed issue that may cause reporting ETL to fail after deleting user who created articles
REST
- TE-16792 - Added validation error message for missing required parameters in permissions V3 REST endpoints
- TE-17390 - Added CreatedDate and TypeId as settable parameters on Point Transaction Create REST Request
Scoring
- TE-15874 - Scoring updates related to percentile processing, freshness, performance, and scores review/samples UX
Security, Authentication
- TE-15195 - Login page throttling tuning
- TE-15758 - Improved sliding expiration support with external SSO support (Administration -> Authentication) (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-15828 - Changing passwords now expires all existing sessions (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-15937 - Added PKCE support for public and confidential OAuth Clients
- TE-15980 - Added REST Scopes for additional control over REST API usage (Requires Widget Updates)
  - New option to globally allow/disallow REST APIs available to API key usage (Administration -> Integration -> API Key Scopes)
  - API Keys can now limit access to a set of scopes
  - OAuth clients can configure allowed REST scopes
  - Widget level defined REST scopes that are used to declare and authorize access when rendering on pages/routes
    - Note: It's recommended to disable 'Enable all REST scopes for the user interface' (Administration -> Interface -> Legacy Options) and enable any required scopes for any custom widgets that require REST.
- TE-17394 - OAuth authorization page now presents the user with the list of scopes/permissions being granted to an OAuth client as part of the authorization process (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17229 - New, single 'View Web Site' permission to disable web access for members
Wikis
- TE-15623 - Fixed issue where in some cases a wiki page is bumped when if the author had the wiki page activity story disabled
Removed
- TE-15434 - Removed unused calendar stored procedures
- TE-15443 - Removed obsolete ILoggableException. This type was marked obsolete in version 10.
- TE-16633 - Removed obsolete Flash and Silverlight support/usage in audio/video file viewers
- TE-17375 - Removed setting cookie settings from Administration that allowed renaming of required platform cookies
- TE-15783 - External FormsAuthentication (sharing ASP.NET authtication tickets across sites) authenication option removed

Community 12.1 release is unique in that two updates, the addition of rest scopes (TE-15980) and updating v2 permission references to v3 (TE-16605), required changes to many widget implementations. For this reason, the list below is categorized to help visualize which widgets were updated for reasons not-related to the two mentioned changes only along with those that were updated only for those reasons or a combination of the two. We recommend reviewing all changes on updates.

Updated Widgets
- Updated
  1. Activity Story Stream: TE-15980, TE-16585
  2. API Key List (DELETED, replaced by contextual panel)
  3. Articles - Article: TE-16472
  4. Articles - Category: TE-15222
  5. Articles - Category List: TE-15222
  6. Articles - Create/Edit Article: TE-15222, TE-15980, TE-16585, TE-17367
  7. Blog - Banner: TE-15222
  8. Blog - Create/Edit Post: TE-15980, TE-16605, TE-16585
  9. Blog - Post Image: TE-16483
  10. Blog - Post Peek: TE-15222, TE-15980
  11. Blog Post Preview: TE-15222
  12. Change Password: TE-15828
  13. Change User Avatar Modal: TE-16585
  14. Comment List: TE-16512
  15. Comment Preview: TE-15222
  16. Conversations: TE-9529, TE-15980, TE-16944
  17. Core - Messages: TE-15794
  18. Event Calendar - Add/Edit Event: TE-15794
  19. Event Calendar - Event: TE-15222, TE-16468
  20. Event Calendar - Maps: TE-15222
  21. Forum - Thread: TE-14351, TE-15980, TE-16591, TE-16942, TE-17144
  22. Forum - Thread List:TE-16556, TE-17281
  23. Forum Reply Preview: TE-15222
  24. Forums - Create/Edit Post: TE-15794, TE-16605
  25. Group - Banner: TE-15222, TE-15980
  26. Group - Members List: TE-15222
  27. Ideas - Create Idea: TE-15794
  28. Keyboard Shortcuts: TE-16822
  29. Media Gallery - Drag and Drop: TE-16317, TE-16585
  30. Media Gallery - Upload/Edit File Form: TE-15980, TE-16585
  31. Navigation List: TE-15222
  32. Notification List: TE-15222, TE-15980
  33. OAuth App Authorization: TE-17394
  34. Quick Post: TE-16585
  35. Rendered Blog: TE-15222
  36. Rendered Blog Post: TE-16467
  37. Rendered Comment: TE-16467
  38. Rendered Content Page: TE-15222, TE-16467
  39. Rendered Forum Reply: TE-16467
  40. Rendered Gallery: TE-15222, TE-16467
  41. Rendered Idea: TE-16467
  42. Rendered Media: TE-16467
  43. Rendered Status Message: TE-16467
  44. Site Banner: TE-15980, TE-16666
  45. User Banner: TE-15980, TE-16605, TE-16585
  46. User - Logged Out: TE-15758
  47. User Banned (DELETED)
- Only v2 → v3 Permission Updates (TE-16605)
  1. Forum - Capture Thread
  2. Forums - Ask a Question
  3. Forums - Links
  4. Group - Contact Request List
  5. Set Up Your Community
  6. User - Login And Create
  7. User - Points Activity
  8. User - Points Total
  9. Wikis - Links
- Only Rest Scope Updates (TE-15980)
  1. Abuse Appeal
  2. Activity Story
  3. Blog - Email Author
  4. Blog - Peek
  5. Bookmarks List
  6. Calendar Event Peek
  7. Event Calendar - Event Links
  8. Forum Peek
  9. Friendship
  10. Gallery Peek
  11. Group Peek
  12. Group - Contact
  13. Hover - Previews
  14. Idea Peek
  15. Ideas - Create Ideation
  16. Ideas - Create/Edit Status
  17. Ideas - Idea
  18. Ideas - Idea Links
  19. Ideas - Idea Status History
  20. Ideation Peek
  21. Knowledge Collection Peek
  22. Knowledge Management - Document
  23. Media File Peek
  24. More Content
  25. StatusMessage Activity Story
  26. User - Notifications
  27. User - Shared RSS Feeds
  28. User Consent
  29. User Profile
  30. User Profile Fields
- Only Rest Scope (TE-15980) and v2 → v3 Permission Updates (TE-16605)
  1. Blog - Create Blog
  2. Blog - Links
  3. Event Calendar - Add/Edit Calendar
  4. Forums - Thread Details
  5. Group - Create
  6. Group - Links
  7. Media Gallery - File
  8. Media Gallery - Links
  9. Request Group Membership
  10. Search Result List
  11. Settings
  12. Wikis - Edit Page
  13. Wikis- History
  14. Wikis - Page
  15. Wikis - Revision

Version 12.0.6.21480

August 3, 2022

Articles
- TE-17573 - Added clean-up logic to remove any orphaned article collections created from previous releases
- TE-17581 - Updated URL logic to allow custom pages in articles
Blogs
- TE-17054 - Fixed issue with blog attachment reference (if exists) not being deleted from source location when a blog post is moved
Chat
- TE-17400 - Fixed issue with emoticons not rendering in chat messages
Comments
- TE-17586 - Fixed issue loading past the first page of flattened comments (depth = 1) when ordering by 'Best' (Widget Updates Required)
Document Preview
- TE-17570 - Fixed issue where typing quickly in doc preview search can override the search input value
Editor
- TE-17443 - Fixed UI regression (black boxes overlayed) when previewing polls in editor
- TE-17500 - Update logic in editor to ensure disabled embeddable types are not shown
- TE-17602 - Fixed z-index of the fullscreen editor and management shell handle
Forums
- TE-17641 - Fixed thread reply list cache issue when adding new replies and not listing by ThreadId
Ideations
- TE-17566 - Fixed 'Null reference' exceptions in Ideations when attempting to list ideation in a group for members that do not have access
Mail Gateway
- TE-17632 - Updated previous replies removal logic in when posting through Mail Gateway using Mac or iPhone mail
- TE-17697 - Updated thread/reply tracking logic
Moderation
- TE-17421 - Updated abuse automation to only review string/html (i.e. non-data-type specific) profile fields on users
Platform
- TE-17122 - Fixed issue with intellisense not appearing when studio code windows or sandbox is fullscreen
- TE-17223 - Improved performance when flagging content for search reindexing
- TE-17342 - Improved support for comparing and reverting translations in all 4 studios
- TE-17379 - Fixed issue with RSS pages not rendering when running site as a virtual directory
- TE-17474 - Fixed ordering when sending friendship notification emails that rarely can result in sending duplicate notification if sent in rapid succession
- TE-17499 - Fixed issue with 'Load More' being show when editing a role with multiple pages of users when there are no more pages
- TE-17509 - Updated Apis.Get<> to block on plugin reloading to avoid rare cases (ex. background threads) when Api.GetApi.Get<> can return null
- TE-17512 - Update to ensure that jobs that are implemented as plugins are only run when they are enabled as plugins
- TE-17522 - Fixed several image references in administration panel LESS files to play nice with CDNs
- TE-17537 - Fixed issue where a 503 response code is returned instead of 404 when attempting to render an invalid content page URL
- TE-17540 - Performance improvements when calculating the average score of a group members content quality within a group
- TE-17572 - Job service performance improvements when pulling jobs to avoid potential timeouts when under heavy load
- TE-17578 - User.Signature is now set/available during BeforeUserUpdate event
- TE-17587 - Fixed issue when sharing content that may result in the content link not being pre-filled (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17589 - User caching logic improvements
- TE-17595 - Fixed group filtering logic in Featured Content widget than can cause featured items to be listed in other groups
- TE-17629 - Added AccountStatus as option to core_v2_user.List API
Reporting
- TE-17434 - Fixed issue with long ReturnURLs cause 404s within reporting
- TE-17577 - Updated trend logic in reporting to avoid overlaps
- TE-17647 - Fixed issue where some reporting control values may not be reset when resetting reporting data
Search
- TE-17192 - Fixed issue where a comment that errors during search indexing causes other to not be marked as indexed even though they are in the search index
- TE-17395 - Improved escape logic in search filter values
- TE-17423 - Fixed parsing of search query options to ensure that date filters do not affect date facets
- TE-17433 - Updated site banner and full search to show application facets (in place of content type facets in the site banner) along with ensuring that filtered options in the site banner persist to the full search UI (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17597 - Updated filter/render logic for search results in the Site Banner widget to avoid the appearance of results loading indefinitely (Widget Updates Required)
Widgets (General)
- TE-17422 - 'Application Types' filter is now applied for Site root group in 'Tagged Content List' widget (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17445 - Updated "Current Application" configuration behavior logic in Media File List, Forum Thread List and Blog Post List widgets in cases there are no applications (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17507 - Fixed embedded file reference support in LESS files for widgets (-evo-widgetfile-url)
- TE-17571 - Fixed issue with duplicate notification and message indicators after ignoring a recommended users (Widget Updates Required)
- TE-17605 - Fixed spelling of 'layout_wrap' resource name in widgets (Widget Updates Required)
Widgets Updated In This Release
- Articles - Category List: TE-17605
- Blog - Post List: TE-17445
- Comment List: TE-17586
- Conversations: TE-17587
- Forum - Thread List: TE-17445
- Media Gallery - File List: TE-17445
- More Content: TE-17571
- Navigation List: TE-17605
- Search Result List: TE-17433
- Site - Banner: TE-17433, TE-17597
- Tagged Content List: TE-17422

Version 12.0.5.20244

April 14, 2022

Articles
- TE-17209 - Deleting a group now marks any containing article collections as deleted
- TE-17396 - Fixed issue where users may not have issues to add or edit tags on an article
- TE-17406 - Added required field validator to Article Collection management panel for group selection
- TE-17438 - Updated article expunge process to avoid possible foreign key issue
- TE-17449 - Updated location of embedded files for articles within a workflow
- TE-17469 - Fixed issue where core services (ex. hashtag, permissions) may throw an exception when working with new article or articles collections due to the collection not existing in content system yet
Auditing
- TE-17021 - Added Auditing.Events.AfterCreate event and enabled usage within Automation
Authentication
- TE-17359 - Update to ensure all CFS redirects with SSO are fully qualified
- TE-17480 - Added defensive checks against empty claim mappings when using OpenID
- TE-17492 - Quality Review Fixed OAuth authentication code flow logic when a token expires or invalid REST request occurs
- TE-17516 - Fixed paging issue in SCIM API when listing security groups
Automations
- TE-17247 - Corrected saving of configured automation configuration data to ensure that rules are processed
- TE-17477 - Fixed issue where scheduling a scripted dynamic job (ex. $core_v2_widget.ScheduleFile()) may cancel other scripted dynamic jobs
Blogs
- TE-17164 - Users who are logged out and attempt to unsubscribe from a blog in a 'public' group using the link within emails are now redirected to login instead of home page
- TE-17193 - Fixed description of text when moving a blog to identify the accessing user vs author
- TE-17288 - Publishing/saving a future dated blog post no longer creates duplicate activity stories
Calendars
- TE-17281 - Fixed issue in 'Event Calendar - Event List' widget with incorrect date comparison when determining whether or not to show registration button (Requires Widget Updates)
Forums
- TE-17128 - Updated forum thread list API to honor including sticky posts on top across sort options (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17366 - Changing the author in ForumThread.BeforeCreate events is now honored
Ideations
- TE-17235 - Forum reply permalinks converted to comments during forum thread-to-idea conversion now link to the converted idea
- TE-17236 - Updated forum-to-idea conversion process to keep nested structure for converted comments
- TE-17291 - Fixed issue where deleting an idea that has user votes can result in DELETE statement conflicted with the REFERENCE constraint "fk_UserVoteSummary_Ideation" exception
- TE-17293 - Fixed an issue where an idea cannot be deleted directly from management panel
Moderation/Abuse
- TE-17197 - Added subdomain support and case in-sensitive matching for Link Counts Automation (Administration -> Moderation -> Link Counts)
Notifications
- TE-17363, TE-15884 - Friend request notifications no longer truncate and now show full message. Wrapping style fix in 'Friendship - List' and 'User - Banner' navigation ui-links. (Requires Widget Updates)
Permissions
- TE-17187 - Fixed caching issue that can occur when attempting to review permissions for a recently created application
Platform
- Security Fix
- TE-17156 - Tour tip post backs now use POSTs instead of GETs to avoid URL length restrictions
- TE-17166 - Updated Articles, Ideas and Calendar ApiEntity and IContent classes that return a URL to fully qualify the URL. This also ensures that comment URLs are always fully qualified when returned in REST.
- TE-17189 - Corrected scrolling issues when editing nodes in long trees (ex. editing table of content for wikis with many pages)
- TE-17246 - Fixed issue where dragging text in Chrome within the editor can cause drag/drop file UI to appear
- TE-17261 - Added new database index to better support bulk deleting users
- TE-17287 - Fixed link rendering for sub-navigation items in the Navigation List widget/embeddable (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17542 - Updates to forgot password process
- TE-17315 - Improved editing of nested navigation items in the 'Navigation List' widget to ensure editing a parent does not delete children
- TE-17316 - Updated z-index of links pop-up/sheet to ensure its always on top
- TE-17324 - Update to ensure the view/preview components always request whole numbers for width/height
- TE-17361 - Updated 'Table of Contents' widget to handle and exclude headers with no textual label (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17370 - Fixed issue with users that had created reviewable content could not be deleted
- TE-17390 - CreatedDate' and 'TypeId' are now settable properties in the body on the PointTransaction create REST API
- TE-17411 - Featured Content query performance improvement
- TE-17485 - Fixed image encoding during site logo configuration in site setup (Requires Widget Updates)
- TE-17490 - Fixed client side socket connection handling in tracing and cache panels
- TE-17514 - Fixed possible issue when updating from versions prior to 9.2 due to casing issue with folder name
Reporting
- TE-17027 - Reporting row version tracking improvements
- TE-17289 - Improved tracking and reporting on users added to groups (New Group Members report) indirectly through site roles
- TE-17292 - Fixed issue where ETL may fail after deleting users that created articles
- TE-17520 - Fixed issue with sorting by columns other than the default sort in Top Searches report
Search
- TE-17183 - Fixed issue with forum threads not being re-indexed in search after thread status changes
- TE-17203 - Corrected handling of spaces in search linked profile fields
- TE-17285 - Updated to Solr version 8.11.1
Studios
- TE-16956 - Improvements to scripting sandbox resizing logic
- TE-17340 - Updated studios to support files renames that vary only in casing even on file storage providers that are case insensitive (like windows/FileSystemFileStorageProvider)
- TE-17401 - Corrected 404 links to editing headers/footers from Theme Studio
Wikis
- TE-17319 - Fixed issue with publish/un-publish within wiki page management not saving values due to file casing issue references
- TE-17341 - Fixed issue where a wiki-to-article migration can leave pages inaccessible if the source wiki name contains reserved characters
- TE-17398 - Removed referenced to locked pages in the description of the 'Read Pages' Wiki permission
- TE-17419 - Disabling Wiki Migration plugin is no longer dependent on wiki application disablement
Removed
- TE-17208 - Removed the few dependencies on jQuery Validate and removed the plugin
Updated Widgets
1. Content - Table of Contents: TE-17361
2. Event Calendar - Event: TE-17281
3. Forgot Password: TE-17542 (required/must review)
4. Forum - Thread List: TE-17128
5. Friendship List: TE-17363, TE-15884
6. Navigation List: TE-17287, TE-17315
7. Set up Your Community/Group (Social): TE-17485
8. User - Banner: TE-17363, TE-15884

Version 12.0.4.18802

December 22, 2021

TE-16961 - Fixed display issue when there are multiple feature carousels on the same page
TE-17007 - Open Sans and Source Sans Pro fonts now have extended character sets included
TE-17013 - Fixed 'username' misspelling in default 'Login Type' value in 'User - Login and Create' widget
TE-17033 - Improved search loading logic in search widget to prevent UI load "deadlocking" when doing quick searches
TE-17034 - Fixed issue with article activity story not being removed when the article is deleted
TE-17042 - SMTP configuration administration updates
TE-17045 - Updated styling to ensure bullets within idea status notes are rendered
TE-17046 - Improved performance in 'Search History Cleanup' job
TE-17059 - Fixed issue with forum merge failing to move pinned threads
TE-17068 - Fixed caching issue in GroupNavigation banner widget when an article collection is deleted
TE-17069 - Fixed styling of overflowing look-up textboxes
TE-17079 - Fixed caching issue when editing embeddables
TE-17084 - Improved embeddable/automation studio logic when saving of blank values
TE-17090 - Fix issue where "peek" popup can show up behind modal
TE-17107 - Fixed issue with notification not being triggered when moving a forum thread
TE-17111 - Updated 'User Points Activity' widget to be mobile friendly/responsive
TE-17113 - Added database statistics task during reporting ETL process for improved performance
TE-17127 - Fixed CalendarEventContentType.HasPermission method to use Calendar level permission check instead of group level permission check
TE-17135 - Fixed issue that may result in "Access to view the subscription was denied" when a user is moving a forum thread
TE-17136 - Corrected timezone display name formatting logic to be more precise and better handle international cases
TE-17147 - Reporting ETL fix for possible 'Duplicate keys detected in staged data from "StageReferenceForumThreadRepliesTask..." exception
TE-17175 - Fixed issue where Theme Page Layouts page in Administration may not render correctly
TE-17178 - Updated wikis 'GroupAggregateHome' page (wiki home page) title to be 'Wikis' resource value instead of first wiki page title
TE-17196 - Updated Ideation webhook APIs to be public instead of internal
TE-17200 - Fixed paging issue in Groups -> Sub Groups panel that was limiting results to 20
TE-17218 - Fixed syntax issue in 'Calendar - Event Links' widget that can cause JavaScript exception
TE-17231 - Updated core_v2_forumReply to honor GroupId, ForumId and ForumReplyQueryType regardless if other parameters are set
TE-17238 - Added periodic broadcast pings from socket endpoint to prevent possible proxy disconnections
TE-17285 - Solr Configuration updates

Version 12.0.3.17950

October 5, 2021

Added built-in support for OpenID Connect single sign-on(Okta Only)
Added support for SCIM when using Okta
TE-16312 - REST API Key updates: one-time viewing, update key generator, format and storage
TE-16314 - OAuth secret updates: one-time viewing, update secret generator, format and storage
TE-16708 - Added label to notification lists filter drop-downs on all notifications page (/user/notifications)
TE-16721 - Updated editor to re-route labels/aria-attributes on replaced textarea to editor IFrame
TE-16740 - Added alt-text or 'aria-role=presentation' to images in likes pop-up
TE-16742 - Added 'aria-describedby' to URL field on event creation widget
TE-16743 - Added 'aria-describedby' and wired up labels for drop down lists in event creation widget
TE-16750 - Added title text to next/previous calendar month navigation links
TE-16752 - Added alert role to calendar event statuses (ex. past, in session, cancelled, etc)
TE-16755 - Added aria-label to comment form
TE-16757 - Updated idea vote up/down link titles to match labels
TE-16758 - Added visual success notification when saving user profile changes
TE-16761 - Corrected alt text on 'Post Image' for blog posts
TE-16762 - Updated pager links to include meaningful titles
TE-16767 - Fixed title-to-link duplication in bookmark UI
TE-16772 - Added aria-describedby attributes to media gallery upload widget
TE-16773 - Removed ambiguous "more" text in favor of title attribute in Group Banner widget
TE-16807 - Tables no longer default to Verdana within the editor
TE-16811 - Updated modal/popUpPanel to only handle tabbing on visible elements and ui-links to focus opening element when delay opening. This corrects issues with tabbing within delay-loaded ui-links
TE-16834 - Updated status message to forum thread conversion to include nested replies
TE-16838 - Fixed idea activity story incorrectly referencing Description()
TE-16844 - Added non-web renderings of Tip and Pull Quote for articles
TE-16847 - Fixed issue where blog post auto generated excerpts may cause invalid mention peek rendering
TE-16859 - Corrected user link implementation in CustomNavigation API to better handle usage on site/group contexts
TE-16868 - Added Collapsed option to Event Links and Calendar Links widgets
TE-16885 - Fixed issue with overly aggressive reply attachment deletion when deleting a child reply
TE-16894 - Corrected empty string comparison when saving widgets
TE-16897 - Add ExtendedAttribute support to Calendar and Event in-process and script APIs
TE-16899 - Updated achievement REST route definition
TE-16903 - Update to bump idea activity story when idea status is updated
TE-16911 - Removing peeking from the body of recommended/related content list items. Note: Peeking does still occur using the title.
TE-16912 - Updated document viewer to ignore files in temporary storage
TE-16916 - Update to ensure members can edit and delete their own events and comments on events
TE-16918 - Fixed possible 'Index out of range' exception when attempting to retrieve reviewable content to expunge
TE-16927 - Fixed possible 'The number of rows provided for a FETCH clause must be greater then zero' exception when retrieving activity stories and row count is 0
TE-16936 - Fixed logic when reassigning Blog Posts on User delete
TE-16937 - Fixed issue with GroupList widget showing partial results when viewing the accessing user's bookmarked groups
TE-16938 - Fixed issue with thread notification muting not disabling notifications
TE-16939 - Fixed 'ShowHiddenInTableOfContents' configuration value parsing in $core_v2_wikiPage.List method
TE-16942 - Updated list tag nesting when using flattened thread view
TE-16948 - Fixed schema error when running Install.sql in Azure when using a SQL collation other than the default Azure SQL collation
TE-16959 - Fixed user profile link in 'More Content' widget
TE-16960 - Fixed issue with forum reply list API returning no results when specifying to include the thread starter
TE-16966 - Fixed null reference (dispose) issue that may occur when using Verint Knowledge Management
TE-16969 - Added support for defining custom site-wide headers to be rendered immediately after the opening <head> tag
TE-16975 - Adjusted mention label editing logic to ignore extra spaces
TE-16976 - Fixed issue where a duplicate calendar event may occur when using impersonation to create the event
TE-16986 - Corrected user context when raising Theme and Automation 'StagingUpdated' events affecting cache key calculation in their handlers and preventing the full import of language packs
TE-16987 - Fixed double encoding issue on people search that can cause failed searches (no results) when there are multiple terms
TE-16988 - Added wrapping to Tag List widget to improve situations with lots of tags
TE-16991 - Fixed issue with "Latest X minutes/hours ago" forum thread links not correctly linking.
TE-16993 - Fixed issue with GroupUserMember.List API not applying 'Username' filter when set
TE-17008 - Added 'value' attribute support on <li> tags when lists are allowed
TE-17017 - Added text extraction for embedded file content (if file type is supported) when indexing comments, articles, calendar events, ideas and wiki pages.
TE-17018 - Increased SQL timeout when calculating leaderboards
TE-17029 - Update to ensure soft deleted articles are removed from search
TE-17031 - Fixed possible null reference issue when deleting calendar using REST
TE-17035 - Updates to 'Expunge Deleted Articles Job' to ensure all content is removed
TE-17037 - Forum Thread List caching update
TE-17047 - Corrected loading of theme-specific scripted plugin scripts and updated activity stories to honor their implementations' cache configuration.
TE-17065 - Updates to configuration saving in scripted embeddables
TE-17081 - Fixed conflicting REST URL route when retrieving forum threads by group id (ex. /api.ashx/v2/groups/{groupid}/forums/threads.json)
TE-17089 - Fixed incorrect thread type check value ('Questions Only' instead of correct 'QuestionAndAnswer') in "When a forum thread is posted" automation
TE-17097 - Fixed issue that would reassign blog author to "Former Member" when deleting a user and reassigning their content to a different user.

Version 12.0.2.17146

August 2, 2021

Security Fix
TE-16134 - Fixed Unit parsing regression introduced in previous version (12.0.2.16788) that can result in mobile responsive width not being honored

Version 12.0.2.16788

June 30, 2021

TE-12182 - Fixed issue where a notification to the author may not be triggered when appeal is rejected
TE-16134 - Adjusted factory default detection to treat non-Social, legacy format, themes as custom instead of factory default when upgrading an existing
installation
TE-16191 - Updated SQL install/update script to avoid (harmless) parsing warnings within previous patches due to referencing recently dropped column
TE-16315 - Increased length of generated password when using SSO
TE-16570 - Updated calendar ICS export handling
TE-16572 - Added support for mention and hashtags in calendar events
TE-16574 - Updated Birthday profile field storage to not adjust by time zone
TE-16575 - Fixed issue with Poll rendering for anonymous users when a poll is configured to show results after voting
TE-16577 - Bus diagnostic UI updates and Tasks improvements
TE-16578 - Socket message bus connector no longer logs ignorable, "Async End called on wrong channel." exceptions
TE-16580 - Removed duplicate columns and missing headers in Group Details Report export
TE-16592 - Fixed "Unread Discussions" filter not including recently replied to discussions
TE-16593 - Updated hashtag searching to better support more than 100 contextual tags
TE-16595 - Update to ensure changing group level permissions causes search re-index of applications and content
TE-16597 - Updated media editing within the content editor to not expose "Edit" contextual option to mobile browsers
TE-16598 - Fixed ordering logic for groups, sub-groups, properties, and property values when rendering dynamic configuration forms (ex. Profile fields)
TE-16600 - Developer mode editing updates: Saves to default pages/headers/footers are now committed to factory defaults. Added exposure of developer mode enablement on core_v2_page script API. Updated site setup to not run when developer mode is enabled. Fixes related theme automation API issues.
TE-16608 - Updated inline studio documentation to include type overrides on parameters within optional parameters.
TE-16617 - Ensure a Max File Size of zero is consistently treated as unlimited across all applications
TE-16618 - No longer limiting calendar event listing to 100 direct subgroup descendants
TE-16621 - Improvements to file caching within Widget Studio
TE-16623 - Fixed issue with audit CSV exports not matching selected filters
TE-16624 - Improved contextual menu and context-aware menu items in TinyMCE to show more accurately. Updated contextual menu remove options to hide after a removal.
TE-16639 - Fixed issue with Global Group Permissions template not saving when the role has no (0) granted permissions
TE-16641 - Fixed issue with exception being thrown when filtering media by explicit ContentIds
TE-16643 - Added tab trapping within pop-up panels. Corrected refocus element handling on close to always clean up event handlers. Corrected site banner widget keyboard navigation issues that prevented using enter to navigate to regular links.
TE-16645 - Improved validation logic when creating a calendar event with a null RegistrationType
TE-16649 - Fixed issue when Developer Mode on where staging widgets then staging themes may can cause staged widgets to disappear
TE-16653 - Added stack-overflow protection within embeddables
TE-16654 - Fixed possible SqlException ("Subquery returned more than 1 value.") on blog post LIST\SHOW requests due to SQL compatibility. Note: Applies to SQL Server 2019 and Azure SQL instances.
TE-16661 - Update ideation VotesListOptions properties to be publicly accessible
TE-16663 - Fixed regression with Content Service REST endpoints not functioning
TE-16672 - Fixed issue where calendar registration notifications may not be sent
TE-16688 - Fixed issue where reporting ETL could return duplicate rows loading activities
TE-16711 - Added aria label for conversation messages selection
TE-16779 - Updated BlogPost.PostImageUrl API references to return fully qualified site URL
TE-16795 - Improved text extraction support for following file types: doc, docx, htm, html, pdf, ppt, pptx, rtf, txt, csv, xls, xlsx and xml. Note: The iFilter dependency has been removed.
TE-16796 - Update to ensure any Community hosted privacy policy page/URL is accessible to view before consenting
TE-16802 - Performance improvements to content view summary migration patch
TE-16813 - Non-resolvable system notification emails no longer include "Mark as resolved" link
TE-16816 - Fixed issue with article collection not properly moving to newer parent group when moved
TE-16818 - Updates to robots.txt
TE-16835 - Fixed caching issue that may show non-navigable (null) links after news applications created
TE-16840 - Fixed issue due to recent Chrome changes (v88+) causing connection disconnects for inactive tabs
TE-16841 - Emailing to a role now honors "Allow site to contact me"
TE-16853 - Update to ensure any translatable parts of exceptions are logged in the site's default language
TE-16887 - Fixed issue attempting to parse legacy forum thread URLs when previewing
TE-16898 - Increased SQL timeout when retrieving Average Group Member Calculated score
TE-16910 - Fixed Average Response Time calculation in Forum Summary reporting
TE-16917 - Fixed issue with exception being throw when attempting to view a reply using the permalink when the parent reply has been flagged abusive or for moderation
TE-16925 - Fixed issue with anonymous users being redirected to login page instead of "content has been moderated" notice when creating thread or reply in moderated forums
TE-16930 - Added safety check to prevent widget removal logic when an explicit version is not provided
TE-16931 - Corrected serialization and parsing of Unit values to support server cultures that do not use decimal point for decimal identification.
Fixed various translation resources

Version 12.0.1.16198

May 12, 2021

This release addresses several items when using language packs
TE-16852 - Fixed issue with user unable to create a blog post when using Portuguese language
TE-16778 - Fixed issue with 'Mark as Resolved' button not being legible in unavailable email template
TE-16814 - Fixed date formatting in QAPage structured data
TE-16668 - Fixed issue that may cause widget to remain in 'staged' after publishing
TE-16659 - Fixed syntax issue in "When a Forum Thread is Posted" automation
TE-16640 - Fixed emoticon sizing caused by HTML aware truncation when removing CSS class names and IDs

Version 12.0.1.15778

April 7, 2021

NOTE: There is an database patch in this release related to user content views that may take an extended period of time to run. The running time is related to the number of views in your community.
TE-9679 - Added option to only show content within X days in 'More Content' widget
TE-14185 - Added auto-generated meta descriptions to forum threads, ideas, blog posts, and wiki pages
TE-15730 - Now automatically adding a vote for idea when a user creates a new one
TE-15760 - Added new Poll Quote embeddable
TE-15869 - Updated forum thread-to-idea conversion processing text/description
TE-16079 - Fixed calendar update notification to username of the editing user instead of the original creator
TE-16082 - Enhancements to ContentViews API and Services
TE-16132 - Increase timeout when flagging application search re-indexing
TE-16196 - Fixed a case where users with View Site Reports gets exception viewing Content report due to insufficient permissions elsewhere
TE-16198 - Fixed error in editor that caused the Format > Formats > Alignment menu to be misaligned due to mismatched configuration
TE-16199 - Adjusted glowPopUpPanel to focus target element instead of previously active on hide if active outside viewport
TE-16213 - Updated url redirection logic when using SSO and creating/updates idea statuses
TE-16224 - Improved REST exception details when multiple exceptions exist
TE-16274 - Updated article TOC widget to adjust width of wide images, videos, embeds, and iframes to fit next to the TOC when the TOC is configured to be rendered inline
TE-16307 - Added additional audit entries
TE-16348 - Fixed potential overlapping issue when rendering articles result in SERP page
TE-16349 - Corrected caching of subscriptions when using the mute URL
TE-16351 - Updated saving logic to ensure avatar information is saved if its specified during group creation
TE-16353 - Updates to ensure consistency between use of UserId and name in exports
TE-16358 - Updates 'Related Content' widget to store GUIDs instead of strings for included types
TE-16359 - Fixed possible arithmetic overflow when calculating average response time when there are threads with significant duration before first response
TE-16371 - Corrected handling of 0 (unlimited) for users without override validation when validating file upload sizes
TE-16377 - Updated inline dynamic configuration documentation to load dynamic configuration property scopes dynamically
TE-16385 - Added option to restore an article collection category in management panel
TE-16386 - Added support for reassigning a category on delete (if the category is committed)
TE-16387 - Added public APIs to restore Articles, Article Versions, Categories and Article Collections
TE-16388 - Updates to ensure configuration property rules are processed both through the editing experience and on commit when editing widgets and themes
TE-16389 - Reporting ETL performance improvements when processing content views
TE-16394 - Improvements to top/best responses rendering
TE-16401 - Improved pencil icon rendering in reduced browser size situations to ensure system notification 'close' options does not overlap
TE-16405 - Fixed issue that can occur in reporting ETL if there are deleted calendars and events
TE-16407 - Removed unnecessary exception logging when using Google OAuth when unused key is not found
TE-16410 - Updated date and time renderings to use <time> element
TE-16412 - Increased timeout in activity story expiration job
TE-16416 - Fixed issue with IncludeSubContainers property not being honored when using the TaggedContent list APIs
TE-16417 - Updated styling on download link when viewing web preview files
TE-16418 - Fixed issue rendering votes counts in Idea Management Panel
TE-16424 - Updated version of log4Net
TE-16438 - Added required field validation to Prefix field in Article Options Panel
TE-16452 - Updated article management panel initialization to avoid a potential race condition on initialization
TE-16459 - Update group request notification recipient list to include users that can manage membership in addition to owners
TE-16460 - Removed non-applicable or used 'Current Group' configuration option from Auto Create User Blog Plugin
TE-16462 - Updated image resizing within the editor to adjust the HTML to use a properly resized version of the image and now forcing 2x image scaling for images embedded within content
TE-16473 - New database index than can help when deleting a thread with lots of nested replies
TE-16475 - Fixed invalid references in Site Leaderboards Panel
TE-16478 - Added 'class' and 'id' content filtering options
TE-16481 - Marked INodePermissions API obsolete in favor of v2 IPermissions
TE-16509 - Fixed 'Sort by Name' sorting in 'Article - Browse Collections'
TE-16514 - Updated temporary wiki page redirects to permanent
TE-16516 - Removed 'Low Quality' configuration and cleanup search history job since its no longer needed
TE-16517 - Updated Vimeo File Viewer to handle their updated URL formats
TE-16518 - Improved title encoding logic to prevent double encoding
TE-16567 - Fixed issue that may occur when syncing search synonyms if there are duplicates in the list
TE-16582 - Updates to web preview content generation
TE-16587 - Ensure OpenGraph title is set on content if missing
TE-16614 - Updated logic when manually re-scheduling next execution time on jobs to use user's current date as reference instead of UTC
TE-16630 - Fixed SQL issue that may occur when deleting content with views
TE-16638 - Improvements to exception handling on page handler logic
TE-16651 - Fixed potential permission issue sending notifications when users does not have application/content subscription listing permission

Version 12.0.0.15277

February 25, 2021

TE-16204 - Fixed issue with articles helpfulness entities not being serializable for distributed cache
TE-16457 - Fixed issue with Embeddable "Category" field not being saved
TE-16464 - Fixed issue with group owners not being able to attach remote files to a blog post if the "Attach Urls" permission was originally disabled
TE-16476 - Fixed issue where a member cannot moderate calendar events if they had application level granted but not group level
TE-16477 - Removed extra "No results" in ideas management panel when results exist
TE-16479 - Custom navigation widget updates to correct configuration issues
TE-16485 - Swipe gesture no longer opening context shell on mobile
TE-16507 - Added Articles to user export
TE-16508 - Fixed article tag URLs incorrectly reporting validation exceptions
TE-16510 - Links to non-existent ideas now correctly renders 404 response
TE-16519 - Updates to identify anonymous user for anonymous article feedback and correct hiding "previous feedback" porting of negative feedback modal to check again the member previous negative feedback
TE-16553 - Updates to article helpfulness and delete APIs

Version 12.0.0.15013

February 2, 2021

New

Article Collections and Articles
- Customizable feedback reasons
- Get feedback from members
- Optional feedback resolution when publishing
- Scheduled publish/un-publish times
- Categories to organize your content
- Publish Groups to organize and publish/un-publish sets of articles together
- Review workflow to require approvals before publishing
- Version history
- Capture forum thread content to a new article
- Featured content support
- Helpfulness
- Custom theme support
- Support for migrating existing wikis to articles
- Unique IDs for direct article referencing
- Soft delete support
- Configurable UI with support for navigation lists, category trees, dynamic tables of content, feedback, and more
Auditing
- Tracks data-altering actions with details
- Filterable by action type, text, member, date, server, and source (in-site, API Key, OAuth client)
- Exportable
- Configurable archive settings
Embeddables
- Scripted, configurable, reusable, dynamic widgets that can be selected and embedded into content.
- ‘Tips’ embeddable types to render alerts, warning, and errors
- ‘Navigation List’ embeddable type to list a set of navigation links in content
- Restrict embeddable support and availability to specific content types
- Restrict embeddable availability to specific roles
Embeddable Studio
- Develop and customize embeddable types using an integrated IDE
- Import/export support
Embeddable Management
- Import, export, enable, and translate available embeddables outside of Embeddable Studio
Peekable Content
- New, content-specific rich, interactive, hover previews for all built-in content types
- Can be enabled or disabled per content type
- Preview content is defined by editable widgets
- Same, new, content-specific previews are used for inline-rendered web previews of other content within the community
- Styling of web previews of content outside of the community updated to match peeks.
- Replaces User Hover
- Mentioned content is automatically preview-able
- Extensible with custom content types via IPeekableContent API
Group Permission Template Editing
- New ‘Membership Types’ administration panel to configure default permissions for each built-in membership types per group type independently
- New ‘Global Permissions’ administration panel to configure default permissions for site roles per group type independently
Content Mentions
- Added support for mentioning all core content (articles, wikis, blog posts, forum threads, event, media, and ideas)
- API support for extending to custom types
New Banner System Notifications
- System notifications now visible by default in a banner instead of alert
- Can be dismissed for a configurable period of time
- Both the Job Server and the Socket Message Bus Server (as well as any bus that implements the new IMessageBus API) automatically monitor and raise non-resolvable system notifications on component unavailability, self-resolving when availability is restored.
- All notifications (system and standard) now available in the banner on mobile
New widget enablement (formally called 'Bulk Replace Widget') and replacement experience with staged changes and preview support
Reporting
- New ‘Application Type’ filter
- Added ‘quick access’ reporting links to group and application management panels
- Added direct links in group and application management panels
- Added content type graphs to Active Content and Viewed Content reports
- Added linked graphs to existing summary reports
Moderation
- New moderation workflow option to identify, by content type, when rejected content in the moderation workflow should enter the abuse workflow
- Added data attribute support ('data-*') to content filtering options (TE-14824)
- New ‘Exempt Roles’ option to specify specific roles whose members’ content should bypass automated abuse rules, manual abuse flagging, or moderation
Administration
- Added profile field selections to members export in administration
- New permission, ‘Rest API Key Access’, to enable/disable REST API key usage by role
- New 'Groups' tab in member administration to manage a users group memberships
- Added max cache duration configuration to set max lifetime on cache items
Email verification
- When using forms authentication, optionally require email verification on signup and private email updates
UI General
- Added cancel option when editing content
- Added link to the votes count when viewing an idea to see the members who voted
- Added visual identifier on locked threads in the forum thread list
- Added ability to set role based authorization to content pages
- Preview panel now shows staged items and contexts across the community
Other
- Members can now subscribe to media file subscriptions (TE-9736)
- Added QAPage structured data on question forum threads What is QAPage structured data?
- Added 'Bypass Validation' permission to Groups, Calendars, Ideations, Wikis, and Leaderboards
- Added support for mobile app protocols for OAuth clients
- Added moderate date boosting to search results

Updated

Mention Updates
- Categorized suggestions - Members, Content, Applications, Groups
- Contextual Categories - Content types can define context-aware categories to prioritize
- Automatic mention detection recognizes links from the local community and converts to mentions
Offline Identification (TE-15146)
- Replaced with newer, more minimal UI
- Implemented by ‘Offline Indicator’ widget
Group/Application Permission Management Panel Updates
- New ‘By Permission’ tab
- ‘Site Roles’ tab updated to include filter for only roles with permissions set
Reporting
- Updated group list filter in reporting to include parent group name
- Date filter month and year fields are now dropdowns to allow quicker selection of dates
Widgets
- Updated to support role based custom URL links with open in a new window option
- Added icon support to allow image based navigation
- Added status date to the post attributes
- Main date displayed is now created date
- In sidebar mode and sorting by status date the status date is displayed
- Added sorting options to widget configuration
- ‘Navigation’ widget updated to support role based custom url links with option to open in a new window
- ‘Navigation List’
- ‘Forum Thread - List’ widget updated to sort by thread or reply vs only thread date
- ‘Idea - List’
- New dynamic table of contents widget can decorate most pages’ content with generated, navigable, bookmarkable, index
- New generic tag list widget
Endless scrolling regions
- Only endlessly scrolls to a configurable point, before requiring user interaction to continue to load more, enabling accessible footer content.
- Can quickly return to top of endless scrolling regions
Administration
- Improved user 'Total Posts' count (visible in Member Management) calculation process and added direct link to Content Report filter to the user (TE-9223)
- Event monitoring, New Member experience, and Membership Options panels updated to native panels
Other
- Subscribing to an Idea now additionally includes status update changes (TE-15258)
- Removed comment search results from their owning content type's category. Comments will now only show under Comments facet. (TE-14606)
- Added option to set alt text value for blog post "post image"
- Improved date/time/month selector
- Updated messaging when bookmarking users to clarify the action of following the user (TE-15171)
- Updated OAuth authorization to support Bearer prefix (TE-15661)
- Improved cache control header rendering on content in secured file stores that is also (intentionally) accessible to anonymous users
- General cache and performance improvements
- Updated Solr to version 8.7.0
- Updated to jQuery v3.5

Developers

New LESS color modification APIS, intended to replace all previous uses of lighten(), darken(), or contrast().
- Correctly calculates colors relative to compliments, allowing for significantly improved color configuration support in theme configuration.
- Enables simple support for more significantly configured themes, including dark modes.
- Social theme updated to consume new APIs and expose contrast options
CFS
- Added API support for files over 2.1GB
- Updated CFS download processing logic. Added new before/after download events and GetClientDownloadURL to CFS API
New endless scrolling API ($.fn.evolutionScrollable)
- dynamically loading content on scroll, tracking page index
- Pre-filling
- Support for page batching which limits how many scroll page loads can be loaded until a user is required to continue with "load more"
- Accepting either an explicit container or automatically detecting the scrollable container (self, an ancestor, or window)
- Accurately compensating for static elements beneath scrollable item that could break scroll end events
- Loading indicators along with "return to top" indicator
- Decorates an element to be scrollable, supporting
APIs
- IContextualMentionContainingContentType : IMentionContainingContentType - adds support for providing contextual mentions within its content type.
- ICategorizedMentionContainingContentType : IMentionContainingContentType - adds support for contextual categories within its content type
- IMentionableContentType (v2) : IContentType - enables mention loading with support for editable label text with self-defined mention loading (like V1)
- IIndexedMentionableContentType (v2) : IContentType - enables mention loading with support for editable label text with querying defined by the mention core service via the search index
- ISubscriptionViewContentType - to review users that can read subscription lists
- IAuditable, IExtendedAuditable, IAuditableMessageOverride - API entity interfaces to allow integration with Auditing
- IAuditing - in-process API to add and list auditing records
- AuditableIgnore - attribute that can be added to an IAuditable entity's properties to exclude them from edit change detection
- Can be marked non-resolvable by users and only closed logically by code to enable support for self-resolving notifications
- A state property was added to the PageContext API to allow user defined custom data to be persisted from ParseContext to Validate.
- Improvements to the Validate action on URL definitions to better facilitate translated messages and redirects to login for anonymous users prior to not found or access denied responses.
- New IMessageBus interface replaces ISocketMessageBus to enable better integration of third party message buses
- Adds support for automatically raising and resolving unavailability system notifications, diagnostics, richer logging, cache refreshing on reconnects, and tracking of events.
- Mentions
- Subscription Lists
- Auditing
- System Notifications
- Url Definition Improvements
- Message Bus
- Improved navigation confirmation API with support for usage within administration and contextual management panels
Scripting
- Server-side JavaScript can now throw user-renderable exceptions using “throw ‘message’”
- Improved exception logging from scripts to better identify the script file/name where the error occurred
- All lists coming from the API can now be used as JavaScript arrays in Server-side JavaScript (in addition to their original properties/methods)
- New configuration property templates and rules
- Scheduled file executions with live progress feedback and impersonation support

Fixed

TE-5000 - Fixed exception that may occur when attempting to expunge an abusive comment
TE-5623 - Removed MutipleUpload file handler
TE-7164 - Disapproved users cannot change passwords
TE-8887 - Fixed timezone differences when viewing and setting job schedules
TE-9217 - Update thread split logic to ensure author is sent a notification
TE-10358 - Improved error logging and plugin identification if a plugin fails to load due to errors
TE-10368 - Updated People Search widget to better handle the case when a large number of searchable profile fields are configured
TE-12277 - Improved caching in role services (user role checks and general role retrieval)
TE-14600 - Improved performance when retrieving users for anniversary automation
TE-14632 - Fixed issue where original blog post author was unable to edit blog post that has been featured
TE-14713 - Performance update when retrieving Abuse Creator Effectiveness & Abuse Reporter Effectiveness Metrics
TE-14719 - Migrated remaining usages of obsolete IPropertyControls
TE-14806 - Disapproved users no longer sent emails
TE-14811 - Fixed issue allowing a blank link when adding a custom link in the Navigation widget
TE-14838 - Improved performance when retrieving status messages for search indexing
TE-14851 - 404 encountered when navigating in Administrative panel to Applications
TE-14895 - Unauthenticated users are now redirected to login instead of 404 when viewing user notifications page
TE-14989 - Fixed issue with forum thread list APIs not applying MaxReplyCount when value was 0
TE-14998 - Content that is approved through moderation without sending an appeal (ex. moderated comment, threads) will no longer show up as user appealed in reporting
TE-15007 - General error reporting improvements including improved messaging and more accurate response codes
TE-15068 - Updated default feature sorting in the featured content carousel widget to start date
TE-15069 - Corrected persistence of application configuration data for forums, blogs, media, wikis that can result in configuration differences when legacy file based configuration options did not match
TE-15074 - Updated blog management panel to not list posts that are not editable by the accessing user
TE-15090 - New, auto-resolving system notification when job service cannot be contacted for an extended period of time
TE-15132 - Updates to allowed role editing option for platform service account
TE-15156 - Updated wiki page point automation to not attempt to restore points for creation when the page is edited
TE-15161 - Updated PDF file handling to not force downloading (downloads will still be forced when clicking explicit "download" links in media galleries).
TE-15185 - Removed logging 404s on content pages
TE-15190 - Fixed issue with being unable to mention members that have non-ASCII characters in display name
TE-15344 - Overwrite Permission: Apply to New and Existing Groups, Public Closed, Members, Calendar - Create Events, Allow
TE-15349 - Added api.ashx to robots.txt to avoid any possibility of indexing
TE-15420 - Updated rendered media file listing sort option to match configuration
TE-15427 - Updated anonymous user mention experience
TE-15458 - Updated default option when creating an idea and a category is required to be 'Not Categorized' instead of defaulting to first option
TE-15486 - Updated date format date fields in CSV exports to be more Excel friendly and add UTC date columns
TE-15487, TE-15491 - Removed duplicate import in handheld.less file
TE-15524 - Moved calendar event and media comment notifications out of 'core' plugins to allow configurable enablement/disablement
TE-15532 - URL redirect improvements
TE-15589 - Updated studios to not refresh when searching documentation and hitting enter
TE-15636 - User status message is now disabled by default on REST calls for performance reasons. Added '"enableRestStatusMessageOnUser" option in communityserver.config file to re-enable the option.
TE-15642 - Video transcoding Job shows up in notification list due to the same class implementing the 'transcoding complete' notification
TE-15643 - Video Transcoder does not support transcoding videos over 2.1 GB in size
TE-15645 - CFS APIs now support files over 2.1 GB in size
TE-15683 - Fixed cache issue where comment votes total may be stale for a period of time after a vote
TE-15715 - Fixed caching issue that can cause destination forum thread list to not render after merging another forum into it
TE-15748 - Fixed issue where 'Approve' links on staged changes that appear at the bottom of the panel will not expand until scroll event occurs
TE-15799 - Removed legacy, unused user browse utility file
TE-15811 - Fixed issue with blog post PostImageUrl value being ignored on updates when using APIs
TE-15911 - Updated link to latest thread in Forum Thread - List widget to include 'Latest' text in link target
TE-16086 - Fixed paging with RoleList API
TE-16091 - Updated Open Graph reference URL to https
TE-16112 - Fixed issue with search indexing when a calendar is deleted
TE-16117 - Fixed duplicate blog post notifications when 'Blog Post Author' notification is enabled
TE-16118 - Corrected reverse inheritance processing on Unit values
TE-16126 - Increased OAuth token expiration time

Upgrade Notes

Before upgrading, read Obsolescence.
REST API Key Access
- What changed?
  - Accessing REST using an API key is now authorized using the 'REST API Key Access' permission.
- What do I need to do?
  - Any users that you want to allow accessing REST via API key must be put into the upgraded role 'API Access By Key' or the 'REST API Key Access' permission must be added to any new or existing roles that require this level of access.
REST User 'Current Status'
- What changed?
  - For performance reasons, the 'CurrentStatus' value on the User (Author) entities is no longer returned by default on REST calls. This value represented the last status message the user entered and was typically never used when displaying the information it was returned with. For example, when requesting a list of forum thread replies via REST, this value for retrieved for each reply author but [typically] was out of context (never used for display) for a typical use of listing thread replies yet the cost was incurred.
- What if I need the status message?
  - Status Message API - You can always retrieve users statuses by the Status Message REST Endpoints.
  - Globally re-enabling - To re-enable the previous behavior of including the current status, set the '"enableRestStatusMessageOnUser" option in communityserver.config file to "true".
CFS support for files over 2.1 GB
- What changed?
  - The CFS API ContentLength property as been updated from a int32 to long to support files over 2.1GB.
  - Technically the CFS has always supported uploading files over 2.1 GB but the ContentLength property was inaccurate so any reference to this could create an exception.
  - The CFS API has been around almost as long as Community and there were discussions (internal and external) around creating a new v3 API or update the existing which is traditionally something we attempt to avoid at all cost. Due to potential trickling down and invasive impact of a new V3 for this particular change, we decided to update the existing V2 ContentLength property from int32 -> long.
  - NOTE: This only impacts anyone who has written their own CFS providers or coded directly against the CFS API.
- What do I need to do if this affects me?
  - No code changes are necessary but if impacted you will need to re-compile your assemblies against version 12.