Key Changes
This is our November security and maintenance release.
Key changes include:
- Report Center updates.
- Email notification when dormant accounts sign in.
- SEO Improvements.
- Hot Topic updates for Cloud customers.
- Updated share link functionality (click to copy).
- Prepare for v5 - A new AdminCP page to ensure you will be able to use v5.
- Content Spam analysis enabled for all Cloud customers.
Additional Information
Security
- Fixed a potential stored XSS issue, thanks to Colonel_mortis for reporting.
Core
- Added a default timeout for the SMTP connection.
- Added Message-ID generation for SMTP emails, for compatibility with SMTP servers that do not follow the RFCs.
- Added email notification for users signing in to dormant accounts.
- Added a requirement for CAPTCHA to be enabled for guests to use post before registering.
- Improved IndexNow error logging.
- Improved consistency with share links popups and added click to copy URL.
- Improved the Report Center, adding new functionality and improving the user experience.
- Optimised deleting member content.
- Fixed an issue where changing a primary or secondary group for a member wouldn't reset the cached value.
- Fixed an issue where permanently deleting content from the ModCP-Report Center would fail. . Fixed a wrong path in the robots.txt file.
- Fixed an issue where deleting nodes could throw an error.
- Fixed an issue where some club containers could throw an error.
- Fixed an issue where member profiles could be broken if a member had an invalid group.
- Fixed an issue where search can be slow on very large communities.
- Fixed an issue where the member history may show a wrong "by" name.
- Fixed an issue where the diagnostics statistics settings wouldn't save successful.
- Fixed an issue with the admin stream settings, where the "Active Members" Setting wouldn't be saved.
- Fixed an issue where the clubs widget could throw an error when a custom field filter for a deleted field is being used.
- Fixed an issue where creating a stream in the ACP wouldn't show all available nodes.
- Fixed an issue where streams could not always be sorted correctly.
- Fixed an issue with Firefox, where one couldn't break out of the quote box by pressing enter twice.
- Fixed an issue in the core-webhooks documentation.
- Fixed an issue where automatic moderation rules couldn't be created if there were no report types.
- Fixed an issue where the s3 deletion task wouldn't be enabled.
- Fixed an issue where promoted Comments could not be removed from Promoted Content.
- Removed the deprecated hive task.
- Removed the ping call to the deprecated Google Sitemap Service.
Events
- Replaced the h2 header on the landing page with an h1 element.
Commerce
-
Added Canonical URLs for
/store
and/subscriptions
. -
Added robots.txt rule to block
?currency=
(currency changer links). - Updated the code to support the new MaxMind API version.
- Fixed an issue where subscriptions with no expiration threw an error when calculating upgrade cost.
- Fixed an issue where multiple currencies could be set as the default.
- Fixed an issue with reactivating purchases.
Gallery
- Fixed an issue where moving images from an album wouldn't rebuild the total images count.
Downloads
- Fixed an issue where editing the member restrictions would throw an exception when downloads app was enabled.
Forums
- Optimised topic summary for busy communities.
- Fixed issues with JSON-LD/Schema.org markup in Q&A mode.
- Fixed an issue where publishing a future topic manually wouldn't update the topics publish date & time.
- Fixed an issue where approving a topic may not immediately update the number of topics pending approval.
- Fixed an issue where archived posts were not included in the post counts.
- Fixed an issue where topics you have posted in are not always marked with a star.
Pages
- Fixed an issue where creating comments via REST wouldn't show the comment when comments were synced with forum posts.
- Fixed an issue where records from club categories were showing in feeds incorrectly.
- Added a description field to the Club Category form.
- Fixed an issue where the club name was not displaying in feeds for club records and comments.
- Fixed an issue where Map fields were showing on the form for non-Address fields.
Courses
- Fixed an issue where the quiz questions were missing the formatting while taking the quiz.
Platform
- Enabled content Spam Analysis, can be disabled via AdminCP > Smart Community > Spam Analysis.
- Improved hot/popular topics for Cloud customers; Added ability to disable.
- Added ability add Live Topics to Club Calendars and convert to Club Forums.
Converters
- Fixed an issue where Polls are not converted correctly during SMF conversions.
Changes affecting third-party developers and designers
- Updated PHPUserAgent to 1.0.9.
- JSON-LD BreadcrumbList now includes the breadcrumb for the page being viewed.
-
Redis now uses a reader for
lRange
. - Optimised fetching online user list when using Redis.