1.7.20

Highlights

• Various bug fixes and improvements (special thanks to our contributors @denyshon, @janbrasna, and @vichekaoeun)
• Some initial groundwork for supporting semantic search
• Some simplification of our JavaScript stack (removed our jquery and jquery-ui dependencies by replacing them with vanilla JavaScript)

What's Changed

• remove jquery and jquery-ui by @escattone in #7718
• Improved tooltip on history chart by @vichekaoeun in #7712
• align caret icon with show-more button by @escattone in #7742
• provide permission locale override for visible method by @escattone in #7741
• Introduce KB chunker for the retrieval layer by @akatsoulas in #7707
• Update autotags on question update by @denyshon in #7656
• Bump django-activity-stream from 1.4.2 to 2.0.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #7341
• fix username dropdown for groups by @escattone in #7743
• remove unused caching of question tags by @escattone in #7744
• Fix revision compare RTL alignment by @janbrasna in #7676
• Bump httplib2 from 0.31.2 to 0.32.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #7749
• Bump postcss from 8.5.16 to 8.5.23 by @dependabot[bot] in #7748
• Resolve URL mismatch on response preview by @vichekaoeun in #7746
• avoid clipping on article dropdown for marky links by @escattone in #7745
• Playwright: Fix locators by @emilghittasv in #7750
• Bump django-timezone-field from 7.2.1 to 7.2.2 by @dependabot[bot] in #7758
• Restore award email notifications by @denyshon in #7710
• Do not set a default value for flagging by @akatsoulas in #7722
• Improve flagging error message by @emilghittasv in #7759

Full Changelog: 1.7.19...1.7.20