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Coral v5.4.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-01-14 // over 4 years ago

  • 🔋 Features

    • 🆕 New designs for Coral Admin 💅
    • 👀 Moderation controls for New Commenters 🌱
      • Now you can set a threshold for new commenters to be able to post comments without pre-moderation, which can stop trolls and bots, and help you identify and welcome new members of the community
      • More info: #2752
    • 🍱 Toxic Comment multilingual support 🗣️
      • Toxic Comment detection now works automatically if the language you use for Coral is supported by the Perspective API
      • Currently supported languages: English (en), Spanish (es), French (fr), German (de), Portuguese (pt), Italian (it)
      • More info: #2737
    • 👍 Automated Accessibility support ♿
      • Coral now automatically runs a11y checks as part of our test runs on each commit using jest-axe and react-axe
      • This means we ensure our code and UI meet our accessibility requirements on each and every new feature addition and bug fix
      • More info: #2741, #2725
    • 🍱 Slack Support for v5 🎈
      • Coral now supports Slack integration directly via the Coral Admin UI
      • Simply go to Admin > Configure > Slack and you can set up incomming webhooks so you can get comment notifications in Slack
      • More info: #2713
    • 👍 Better linking from Comment Cards in Moderation 🔗
      • We now make it easy to go directly to the comment in moderation or to the comment in the stream
      • More info: #2721
    • 🍱 Single Comment View navigation enhancements 👍
      • Now you can scroll through comments that are in moderation easily via the J and K keys
      • More info: #2712
    • 🔗 Link to Moderate this Stream 📌
      • Brings back a v4 feature that allows you to easily navigate from the comment stream directly to moderation of an article's comments in the Admin, by going to Configure from the Stream when you're signed in as an admin or moderator
      • More info: #2729

    🐛 Bug fixes & enhancements

    • 🛠 Fixes for downloading CSV of comment history #2767
    • 🛠 Fixes bug with HMSET #2769
    • 🛠 Fixes UI bugs #2768, #2726, #2761, #2779
    • 🛠 Fixes timestamp issue in decision history #2747
    • 🛠 Fixes scraper timeout bug #2724
    • 🛠 Fixes incorrect Account Deletion timeframe and some copy updates #2789

    👍 Dev Support

    • ➕ Adds activeStories endpoint so you can query for the stories most recently commented on #2787
    • ➕ Adds support for Feature Flags #2756
    • ⬆️ Upgrades and enhances Final Form support #2735
    • 🔨 Refactors CommonContext to TenantContext #2780
    • ➕ Adds comment count per user #2744
    • ⬆️ Upgrades to Passport #2777

    📄 Docs

    • ➕ Adds updates for all v5 docs #2776
    • ➕ Adds new environment variables #2770
    • 🛠 Fixes broken links #2773
    • ⚡️ Updates install docs #2771

    i18n

    • 👌 Improvements to Portuguese translations #2757
    • ➕ Adds French support for v5 #2720

    🍱 Thank you! 👏

    🚀 A big thank you to our many collaborators for this release: @honzie, @cristiandean, @Dzarr, @albertly, @sgtram, @dennyabrain, and @flosoft