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Isso v0.9 Release Notes

Release Date: 2014-05-29 // almost 10 years ago
    • comment pagination by Srijan Choudhary, #15

    Isso can now limit the amount of comments shown by default and add link to show more. By default, all top-level comments are shown but only 5 nested comments (per reply). You can override the settings:

    isso-data-max-comments-top="N"
isso-data-max-comments-nested="N"

    Where N is a number from 0 to infinity ("inf"). If you limit the amount of shown top level comments, the overall comment count may be incorrect and a known issue.

    You can also configure the amount of comments shown per click (5 by default):

    isso-data-reveal-on-click="N"

    This feature also required a change in the comment structure. Previously, all comments are stored tree-like but shown linearly. To ease the implementation of pagination, the comment tree is now limited to a maximum depth of one. Jeff Atwood explains, why discussions are flat by design__.

    .. __: http://blog.codinghorror.com/web-discussions-flat-by-design/

    When you upgrade, Isso will automatically normalize the tree and some information gets lost. All new replies to a comment are now automatically a direct child of the top-level comment.

    • 💅 style improvements by William Dorffer, #39, #84 #90 and #91

    Isso now longer uses a fat SCSS library, but plain CSS instead. The design is now responsive and no longer sets global CSS rules.

    • experimental WordPress import, #75

    Isso should be able to import WXR 1.0-1.2 exports. The import code is based on two WXR dumps I found (and created) and may not work for you. Please report any failure.

    • avatar changes, #49

    You can now configure the client to not show avatars:

    data-isso-avatar="false"

    Also there is no longer an avatar shown next to the comment box. This is due to the new CSS and removes two runtime dependencies.

    • you may now set a full From header, #87

      [smtp] from = Foo Bar spam@local

    • SMTP (all caps) is now recognized for notifications, #95

    • Isso now ships a small demo site at /demo, #44

    • 🛠 a few bugfixes: Disqus import now anonymizes IP addresses, uWSGI spooling for Python 3, HTTP-Referer fallback for HTTP-Origin

    • ✂ remove Django's PBKDF2 implementation in favour of the PBKDF2 function available in werkzeug 0.9 or higher. If you're still using werkzeug 0.8, Isso imports passlib__ as fallback (if available).

    🚀 This release also features a new templating engine Jade__ which replaces Markup.js__. Jade can compile directly to JavaScript with a tiny runtime module 🏗 on the client. Along with the removal of sha1.js and pbkdf2.js and a few build optimizations, the JS client now weighs only 40kb (12kb gzipped) – 52kb resp. 17kb before.

    .. _: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/passlib .. _: http://jade-lang.com/ .. __: https://github.com/adammark/Markup.js