v0.9.0

What's Changed

Lots has changed in almost a year since the last formal release here. Some of the big-ticket items are:

• Filters (a way for users to specify what posts they want to see)
• SSO/SAML by @Taeir
• Docker support updated and actually works again
• Updated to Ruby 3
• Improvements around the QPixel JS API, primarily preferences
• System tests
• Pending edit suggestions are surfaced better
• Better control of privacy around Stripe
• Improvements to 2FA
• Improvements to search and documentation/user help
• Customisable min title/body length per category

See below for the full changelog.

New Contributors

• @BoxedFruits made their first contribution in #421
• @dyaskur made their first contribution in #424
• @b-Istiak-s made their first contribution in #478
• @Dani21 made their first contribution in #483
• @razetime made their first contribution in #484
• @fredster33 made their first contribution in #472
• @cellio made their first contribution in #506
• @rahulsnkr made their first contribution in #508
• @kevinmmansour made their first contribution in #530
• @Yafdance made their first contribution in #704
• @Trilarion made their first contribution in #758
• @RobertFloor made their first contribution in #762
• @Taeir made their first contribution in #822
• @sujaldev made their first contribution in #880
• @eip-ewi made their first contribution in #888
• @trichoplax made their first contribution in #955
• @duncanscode made their first contribution in #972
• @Oaphi made their first contribution in #1120

Full Changelog: v0.8.0...v0.9.0

v0.8.0

It's been a while since our last release, so while there's not a single thing driving this timing, it felt right to make a new full version. Improvements include:

• Threaded comments
• Reactions such as "worked for me" and "outdated" (configurable)
• New search options
• Support for creating new post types
• Summary of votes received on the user profile page
• New configuration options and user preferences

Along with a lot of smaller fixes and improvements.

v0.7.0

Changelog

• Abilities. The privilege system has been completely replaced with a new activity-based abilities system. See the meta post about it for full details.
• Post types. The post types system has also been completely reworked; it's now much easier to define and use custom post types.
• Community resources: the post types upgrade opens the door for a post type that anyone with the unrestricted ability can edit without having to go through review - ideal for a community's shared resources.
• Table of contents: parent posts (such as questions) may now include a table of contents to quickly list their answers (which can also function as a leaderboard)
• System banners: a sysadmin can now set a system-wide banner to appear on every page visit, for user messaging.

v0.6.1

Changelog

• Docker Compose setup support
• More details in audit and block logs
• Tag rename & merge
• Last edited dates on posts

v0.6.0

Changelog

• Fix a security issue involving user-supplied images
• Add new help center article on scoring
• Warn about posts that contain images without alt text
• Add automatically-generated community adverts
• Add audit logs for all notable events (admin & moderator actions, security information, anti-abuse tooling)
• Make it easier to pull correct user IP addresses, even when the site is running behind a proxy
• Add additional anti-abuse tooling, blocks, and rate limits
• Add a tool to allow moderators to disable comments on a post
• Add a user activity log (public actions only for regular users; moderators get a more detailed view)
• Add "pinned links", allowing moderators to feature posts (with a new mod tool) or other content/links
• Add a basic keyboard shortcut system
• Add a staff role and profile indicator to help identify staff accounts

v0.5.0

Changelog

• Help center updates: lots of new help and guidance for new users and moderators
• More moderator tools: warnings, suspensions, category migration, convert to comment
• Tags refresh & hierarchies
• Suggested edits
• Post scoring displays up/down votes and sorts on a calculated score; colored bars indicate how well-received posts are
• Network-wide sign in and out
• Categories have moderator-only tags

v0.4.0

Changelog

• Configurable site-wide sidebar notice
• MathJax
• 2FA via emailed links in addition to app-based
• Updated Markdown rendering system: more consistency between preview and post, and better CommonMark support
• Article post type - no answers, yes comments

v0.3.0

Changelog

• Data import v3 (now featuring actually working!)