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Coral v6.2.0 Release Notes

Release Date: 2020-06-05 // almost 4 years ago

  • 💥 Breaking Changes 🔥

    • 🗄 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 replace CLUSTER_METRICS_PORT, metrics are now no longer served on PORT and must be specified on a separate port
    • ⚡️ 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.

    🔋 Features

    • 👍 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.
    • 👍 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
    • Count reset #2960
      • You can now call CoralCount.getCount({reset: true}) to update comment counts on the page.
    • ➕ Added pt and fr support for toxicity detection #2940
    • ➕ Added validator for checking translation files #2953

    🛠 Fixes

    • ⬆️ Dependency upgrades #2867
    • ⚡️ Story update fix #2939
      • Previously, there was some issues using the updateStory mutation, this resolves those issues
    • 🛠 Fixes issue where moderation card does not show details tab sometimes #2946
    • ⚡️ Updated pt-BR translations
    • 🛠 Fixed issues with deleted users #2952
    • 🛠 Fixed a bug when posting comments under certain conditions #2963
    • ⚡️ Updated copy around slack support #2959