The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

Welcome to NEW Contributors in DNN Community Forums 09.00.00!

Before we get to the release notes, first things first -- a SHOUT OUT to our new contributors!!

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

VERY IMPORTANT: The MINIMUM DNN Platform version for this release is now DNN 9.11.

If you're upgrading to version 9.0 AND you have customized templates, you NEED to view the important release note FYI wiki article below.

THANK YOU for all of the valuable contributions by @johnhenley, @nvsai, @ernieblues, and @Timo-Breumelhof !

NEW: Convention-based template names (Issue ##477)
NEW: Moderators can now see attachments on unapproved topics (Issue #1386)
NEW: "Debounce" topic and forum links to prevent multiple clicks (Issue #1027)
NEW: Avatar token can contain size, e.g., [FORUMAUTHOR:AVATAR:50] (Issue #421)
NEW: Move text from email notification template to resource files to facilitate localization (Issue #1454)
NEW: More modern email notification template and UTF8 encoding (Issue #1457)
NEW: Wider subject text box in quick reply (Issue #1470)

FIXED: Unauthenticated users should not see direct-messaging icon (Issue #1403)
FIXED: Brackets in content interfering with token replacement (Issue #1384)
FIXED: 'Edit' link in topics view loading latest reply rather than the originating topic (Issue #1396)
FIXED: Scheduler item not correctly removed in 8.1 (Issue #1397)
FIXED: Submit button disabled after click to prevent duplicated posts (Issue #1031)
FIXED: Improved token replacement causing page to not load if topic contains curly braces (Issue #1435)
FIXED: Forum Groups not inheriting from default settings are losing their sort order (Issue #1433)
FIXED: Keep Unicode quotes and accents out of friendly URLs (Issue #1456)
FIXED: Incorrect image paths for spacers in control panel (Issue #1467)
FIXED: Collapsible sections not opening on first click (Issue #1462)
FIXED: Broken link in moderation notification emails (Issue #1468)
FIXED: During 09.00.00 upgrade, fix any permissions (role Id's) separated by colon rather than semi-colon (Issue #1443)
FIXED: After upgrade to 09.00.00, email notifications are missing the email body (Issue #1452)
FIXED: After upgrade to 09.00.00, exception when retrieving notification subscriptions (Issue #1463)

Remove template editor from control panel (Issue #1354)
Refactor/modernize template caching and controller methods (Issue #465)
Refactor/modernize permissions checking (Issue #950)
Convert NTEXT database columns to NVARCHAR(MAX) (Issue #1184)
Update minimum DNN Platform dependency to 9.11 (Issue #1224)
Migrate csproj to SDK format (Issue #1274)
Update third-party dependencies (Issue #1307)
Update code files to use explicit using statements (Issue #1350)
Duplicated tags in csproj file (Issue #1421)
Remove unused images (Issue #1310)
Remove deprecated methods (Issue #377)
Update MSBuild.Community.Tasks to 1.5.0.235 (no longer require .NET Framework 3.5/2.0 for build) (Issue #1418)
Remove legacy Analyzer tags from project file (Issue #1425)
Update wiki documentation for v8-v9 upgrade path for anyone using customized templates (Issue #1352)
09.00.00 RC1 Release Prep (Issue #1423)
09.00.00 RC2 Release Prep (Issue #1436)
09.00.00 Release Prep (Issue #1460)