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The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

IMPORTANT!!! This is a release candidate (RC). Please do not use this installation/upgrade package for any production websites of any kind. This release is not supported and is only provided for test purposes, to allow others to test their websites first.


Important Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

Minimum DNN Platform Version

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

Upgrading to 9.x if you have customized templates (must read)

If you're upgrading to version 9.x AND you have customized templates, you NEED to view What to Know When Upgrading to Commmunity Forums 9.0


DNN Community Forums Release Notes

09.01.00

New Features & Enhancements

  • NEW: Adds Recycle Bin (PR #1531)
  • NEW: Adds avatar injection from Gravatar (PR #1446)
  • NEW: "Subscribe" control now tokenized to allow for button or checkbox (PR #1567 / PR #1577)

Bug Fixes

  • FIX: Update indexes on forum/topic tracking tables for uniqueness; upgrade script to detect and remove duplicates, keeping the latest entries (Issue #1434)
  • FIX: Users can't view attachments (Issue #1559)
  • FIX: Forums Viewer module not properly handling friendly URLs (Issue #1557)
  • FIX: <code> blocks don't display HTML/XML correctly (Issue #1385)
  • FIX: Non-Admin users can't edit their own posts (#1562)

Tasks / Development Updates (and Technical Debt)

  • Remove unused columns from forums table (Issue #792)
  • Categories and topic categories are now first-class entities (Issue #1441)
  • Update Web API method security to not require ForumId for certain methods (e.g. user Ban) (Issue #1507)
  • Refactor Web API methods security checking to use Role Ids rather than string array of Role names (Issue #1526)
  • Use DataTables.Net JavaScript library for UI enhancements to recycle bin and subscriptions data grids (Issues #1549/#1550)
  • 09.01.00 Release Prep (Issue #1543)