CHANGELOG.md

Change Log

All notable changes to Flarum and its bundled extensions will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Added

• Allow social auth extensions to upload an avatar via URL for new users
• Improve security by using HTTP-only cookie + CSRF token for API authentication
• Require user to re-enter password after 30 mins when performing sensitive/destructive actions
• Add onhide hook to Modal component
• i18n: Extract some leftover hardcoded strings

Changed

• i18n: Rename core.lib.deleted_user_text to core.lib.username.deleted_text

Fixed

• Fix error when sorting discussions by "oldest" (#627)
• Fix composer preview button on mobile (#196)
• Enable "Start a Discussion" button if global permissions are restricted but tag-specific permissions are granted (#640)
• Fix crash when loading notifications in some instances
• Improve composer appearance/usability on mobile
• Show "reply" action in discussion menu on mobile
• Fix some issues with dropdown positioning
• Various user interface tweaks

0.1.0-beta.4 - 2015-11-05

Added

• Add an icon/label to the back button to indicate where it leads
• Add "Loading..." text while the JavaScript payload is loading

Fixed

• Fix some admin actions resulting in "You do not have permission to do that"
• Fix translation keys persisting after enabling an initial language pack
• Fix translation => references not being parsed in some cases

0.1.0-beta.3 - 2015-11-03

Architecture improvements

• Composer-driven extension architecture. All extensions are Composer packages installable via Packagist.
• Backend codebase & API refactoring. Classes, namespaces, and events systematically tidied up.

Improved internationalization

A huge thanks to @dcsjapan for the countless hours he put in to make this stuff happen. You're amazing!

• New systematic translation key naming scheme.
• Make many hardcoded strings translatable, including administration UI and validation messages.
• More powerful pluralization via use of Symfony's Translation component instead of a proprietary one.

New moderation tools

• Hide/restore discussions. Discussions can be soft-deleted by moderators or by the OP if no one has replied.
• Flags. New bundled extension that allows posts to be flagged for moderator review.
• Approval. New bundled extension that hides/flags new posts to be approved by the moderation team.
• Akismet. New bundled extension that checks new posts for spam with Akismet.
• IP address logging. IP addresses are stored with posts for use by extensions (e.g. Akismet).
• Flood control. Users must wait at least ten seconds between consecutive posts.

Other features

• Social login. New bundled extensions that allow users to log in with Facebook, Twitter, and GitHub.
• More compact post layout. All controls are grouped over to the right.
• Improved permissions. The admin Permissions page has been improved with icons and other tweaks.
• Improved extension management. The admin Extensions page has a new look and is easier to use.
• Easier debugging. The "oops" error message has a Debug button to inspect a failed AJAX request.
• Improved JavaScript minification. Minification is done by ClosureCompiler only when debug mode is off, resulting in easier debugging and smaller production assets.

Added

• Allow HTML tag syntax in translations (#574)
• Add gzip/caching directives to webserver configuration (#514)
• API to set the asset compiler's filename
• Migration generator, available via generate:migration console command
• Tags: Ability to set the tags page as the home page
• bidi attribute for Mithril elements as a shortcut to set up bidirectional bindings
• route attribute for Mithril elements as a shortcut to link to a route
• Abstract SettingsModal component for quickly building admin config modals
• Model::afterSave() API to run callback after a model instance is saved
• Sticky: Allow permission to be configured
• Lock: Allow permission to be configured
• Add a third state to header icons (#500)
• Allow faking of PATCH/DELETE methods (#502)
• More reliable form validation and error handling

Changed

• Rename notification_read_time column in discussions table to notifications_read_time.
• Update to FontAwesome 4.4.0.

Fixed

• Output forum description in meta description tag (#506)
• Allow users to edit their last post in a discussion even if it's hidden
• Allow users to rename their discussion even if their first post is hidden
• API links correctly include the /api path (#579)
• Tags: Fix sub-tag ordering algorithm in Chrome (#325)
• Fix several design bugs

0.1.0-beta.2 - 2015-09-15

Added

• Check prerequisites (PHP version, extensions, etc.) before installation (#364)
• Enforce maximum title and post length through validation (#53, #338)
• Ctrl+Enter submits posts (#276)
• Syntax highlighting for code blocks (#248)
• All links open in new window, receive rel=nofollow attribute (#247)
• Default build script for extensions (#438)
• Input validation in installer

Changed

• Ask for admin password confirmation in installer (#405)
• Increased some text contrasts for accessibility (#390)

Fixed

• Discussion list did not work with non-empty database prefix (#269, #380)
• Non-admins could not reset their password (#229)
• Requests ending with a slash resulted in a 404 (#334)
• In rare cases, posts did not load correctly (#295)
• Avatars did not show up when installed in a subfolder (#291)
• Installer crashed when views directory was not writable (#376)
• Table prefix could not be set in web installer (#269)
• Enabling an extension disabled all other extensions (#402)
• Invalid custom CSS could crash the application (#400)
• First posts could not be restored or deleted
• Several design bugs
• Set cookies to be HTTP-only
• Tags: Sometimes, tags could not be dragged for reordering in the admin panel (#341)
• Suspend: Use correct column name in when migrating database
• Lock: Check for correct permission when displaying lock control
• Likes: Allow liking permissions to be configured

0.1.0-beta - 2015-08-27

First Version