Coral v6.2.0 Release Notes
Release Date: 2020-06-05 // almost 4 years ago-
๐ฅ Breaking Changes ๐ฅ
- ๐ Cookie deprecation #2944
- Coral no longer sets or reads cookies to mitigate issues with cookie partitioning schemes that caused issues with Safari users, replaced with saving them to local storage
- Cluster metrics cleanup #2955
- Removes the
CLUSTER_METRICS_PORT
variable - Adds a
METRICS_PORT
to replaceCLUSTER_METRICS_PORT
, metrics are now no longer served onPORT
and must be specified on a separate port
- Removes the
- โก๏ธ Live updates will be paused on dormant stories #2947
- Stories that have been created and/or have not received any comments in the configured
DISABLE_LIVE_UPDATES_TIMEOUT
(defaults to 2 weeks) will have their live updates disabled. These are re-enabled automatically after a new comment is written on those threads.
- Stories that have been created and/or have not received any comments in the configured
๐ Features
- ๐ Custom Moderation Phases (Experimental support) #2901
- Administrators can now configure an external moderation phase to handle moderation requests of comments, more details in the PR
- Documentation here EXTERNAL_MODERATION_PHASES.md
- Reaction styling #2930
- New rules have been added to support styling comments based on number of reactions.
- ๐ Coral Theming support #2969
- Developers can now theme Coral by passing
bodyClassName
in the embed config; this can be used for example to match the comment stream to articles with light or dark backgrounds
- Developers can now theme Coral by passing
- Count reset #2960
- You can now call
CoralCount.getCount({reset: true})
to update comment counts on the page.
- You can now call
- โ Added
pt
andfr
support for toxicity detection #2940 - โ Added validator for checking translation files #2953
๐ Fixes
- โฌ๏ธ Dependency upgrades #2867
- โก๏ธ Story update fix #2939
- Previously, there was some issues using the
updateStory
mutation, this resolves those issues
- Previously, there was some issues using the
- ๐ Fixes issue where moderation card does not show details tab sometimes #2946
- โก๏ธ Updated
pt-BR
translations - ๐ Fixed issues with deleted users #2952
- ๐ Fixed a bug when posting comments under certain conditions #2963
- โก๏ธ Updated copy around slack support #2959
- ๐ Cookie deprecation #2944