Coral v5.5.1 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-02-10 // about 4 years ago-
🚀 This is a bug release fix on 5.5.0.
🐛 Bug Fixes
- Wordlist filters returned invalid responses under certain conditions, this affects all versions below 5.5.1 - #2828
🔄 Changes from 5.5.0
🔋 Features
- 🍱 Introducing Announcements! 📢
- Now newsrooms can set a general announcement to appear on all their comment streams to highlight a feature or promote a live chat
- The announcement will show for the time period that is set and will automatically disappear afterwards
- Commenters have the ability to dismiss the message after they read it
- Currently does not include advanced features like rich-text styling or ability to add linkable text
- More info: #2813
- IE11 Support 🌐
- We've added IE11 support for legacy users
- More info: #2801
- Developer docs: https://docs.coralproject.net/coral/v5/developing#compatibility-with-ie11
- Special thanks to the Financial Times team for contributing this 🥇
- 🎉 Initial Load of Comments 💬
- Based on feedback from newsrooms, we've changed how comments load, increasing the initial load of top-level comments and decreasing the load of replies
- We now load 20 comments initially and on Load More, instead of 10
- We now load 3 replies initially and on Load More instead of 5
- More info: #2800
🛠 Fixes & Enhancements
- 👍 Allow configuration of Perspective timeout via env variable #2817
- 🛠 Fix migration bug with commentsCounts #2816
- 🛠 Fix Relay errors #2815
- 🛠 Fix alignment in Admin #2803
- ⚡️ Update branding on admin login #2788
- 👌 Improved messaging for closed streams #2792
- 🛠 Fix color inconsistencies for moderation badges #2814
- 🛠 Fix radio button positioning in Firefox #2805
- ➕ Add semi-bold selected text on radio buttons #2804
- 🔨 CSS variables refactor #2791
- 🛠 Fix migration name format #2802
- 🛠 Typo fixes #2793
🌐 Translations & i18n
- 🍱 Coral is now available in Swedish! 🇸🇪 #2798
- 🍱 And Finnish! 🇫🇮#2811
- 🍱 And French! 🇫🇷#2807
- 🌐 Spanish translation fixes 🇦🇷#2812
🍱 Thank you! 👏
🚀 Special thanks to our contributors for this release: @felixdro, @impronunciable, @Dzarr, @jpkilpi