IPS 4.1.9 Update

[iacas]

Key Changes

This release fixes reported issues from clients in our bug tracker and support tickets and adds refinement to existing features.

New or Changed Features

• When your link auto-embeds in a post such as with an image, YouTube video, Twitter link, etc. an option will now display to revert the embed back to a plain text link if you do not want the embed. (Please continue to embed your videos.)
• New setting to disable embedding. (We will not be enabling this.)
• Facebook/Twitter integration improvements.
• If you are an administrator and encounter a system error, additional debug output will now display. Regular members will see the normal error message. (Cool.)
• Custom Fields for Support Requests in Commerce now show on the front-end. (Meh.)
• If an advertisement is set up with a main image, but not smaller images for tablets/mobiles, the ad would not show at all on tablets/mobiles. This has changed so the main image will display on all devices unless smaller images are provided.
• Topics scheduled to automatically lock or unlock will now reflect this in the topic listing and when viewing the topic.
• Placing a link to a Facebook status will embed when possible. (Nice.)
• When viewing a report, the container (for example, the forum) the content is from is displayed.
• The Account Settings page now uses vertical rather than horizontal tabs to prevent overflow.
• If Gravatar is enabled, and a user has not defined an profile photo, then their email address will be used to fetch from Gravatar unless explicitly set not to. (This might be good, if it works like we're thinking.)
• Gfycat embeds now use their oEmbed endpoint rather than their JS API.
• Inline notifications can now be dismissed
• Efficiency improvements to the search index
• You can now close a poll independently of the topic

Important Fixes

In addition to dozens of smaller fixes this release includes fixes for the follow items that impacted many clients:

• Several security enhancements.
• The posting parser has been made more efficient.
• Some BBCode does not parse correctly in version 4 and we have applied some fixes for this. In general BBCode is deprecated so we only provide basic support.
• Sitemaps could sometimes be blank if there was no content in a specific section.
• The timezone detection is now more robust and will more gracefully fail if it cannot determine a visitor's timezone.
• Permission matrices have been reworked to send less data to prevent exceeding server limitations.
• Decimal handling has been reworked in Commerce for more precise calculations.
• Performance improvements to areas which perform large updates on the members table (for example, when editing permissions).
• Pages 'number' custom fields previously had an upper limit for submitted values around 2 billion.
• Multiple fixes for tag searching

Additional Information

Activity Stream Improvements

The activity stream has a new toggle and filter bar that replaces the "Edit Form" link. It is now faster and easier to customize existing streams and to change the filtering options without having to create new streams.

Example of "un-embed" option

Facebook/Twitter integration improvements

• If signed in with Facebook or Twitter, when posting a status update, a checkbox to share on these services appears instead of the old setting to export statuses in the account settings panel. This change ensures IPS4 conforms with Facebook's Terms & Conditions and will pass Facebook's App Review.
• When setting up Facebook integration, a new setting allows disabling status imports so you do not need to go through Facebook's App Review if you only want to allow users to sign in with Facebook and not integrate with status updates.
• When setting up Facebook or Twitter integration, the setting to allow automatic sharing is shown in addition to in the sharing settings so it is easier to enable this feature.
• Facebook integration has been updated to use their latest API endpoints.

A new guide will be available after 4.1.9's release to explain in detail how to go through Facebook's App Review process

[iacas]

 

[Ernest Jones]

And the circles and stars for "go to last unread post" are now blue!! 

And the circles and stars for "go to last unread post" are now blue!! 

Holy smokes, those are some big ass badges!

[boogielicious]

Thanks. BTW,  Gravatar sounds like a villain in a Marvel comic. 

[Ernest Jones]

The blue is gone, bummer...

[iacas]

1 hour ago, Ernest Jones said:

And the circles and stars for "go to last unread post" are now blue!! 

I was resetting the TST theme. Why do you care (honestly asking) if they're blue?

1 hour ago, Ernest Jones said:

Holy smokes, those are some big ass badges!

Which ones?

[Ernest Jones]

1 minute ago, iacas said:

I was resetting the TST theme. Why do you care (honestly asking) if they're blue?

 

Just thought it was a nice change. I don't really care, but it's more interesting than US politics...

1 minute ago, iacas said:

Which ones?

 

The Established Member/Supporter/Forum Leader series of badges was quite large on my iPhone. That seems to no longer be the case.

[iacas]

Just now, Ernest Jones said:

Just thought it was a nice change. I don't really care, but it's more interesting than US politics...

The Established Member/Supporter/Forum Leader series of badges was quite large on my iPhone. That seems to no longer be the case.

Probably the same thing - custom.css is about the only file I've changed to make our "theme" so if that's gone, the badges revert to their actual size, instead of the smaller size for hi-res displays.

[pumaAttack]

The announcements are showing twice:

[iacas]

11 minutes ago, pumaAttack said:

The announcements are showing twice:

They're not here. Where are you seeing that?

[pumaAttack]

2 minutes ago, iacas said:

They're not here. Where are you seeing that?

Hard refresh cleared them.  Odd