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This is the April maintenance release, IPB 4.7.9 with fixes and some new stuff.  Detailed change log below.

 

 

IPB Changes:

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IPS Community Suite 4.7.9

Released 04/04/2023

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Key Changes

This is our April maintenance release.

Key changes include:

• Gallery, Events & Clubs: Improvements From Your Feedback
• Live Topics
• iPhone notifications, web app and more
• PayPal & Maxmind API updates in Commerce

Additional Information

Core

• Added support for Emoji 14.
• Added a minimum of one day end date to Alerts.
• Improved the database checker to change member id columns to BIGINT if they are nearing a limit.
• Improved performance in some situations when posting content.
• Improved outbound connection speed when connecting to the same host multiple times.
• Move web app settings to a new controller in the AdminCP.
• Fixed an issue where older browsers and iOS versions may not display editor/images.
• Fixed an issue where moving conversations between folders may move to the wrong folder or fail to move.
• Fixed an issue where the member_create webhook wouldn't include custom profile field data.
• Fixed an issue where club settings would be shown on the ACP-Settings-Clubs page even if clubs were disabled.
• Fixed an issue where "this club" was not set as the default search context when viewing clubs.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a post from a hidden topic could remove the topic from the activity streams.
• Fixed an issue where the same emoji may show in the shortcode popup more than once where the name is the same.
• Fixed an issue where pasting files into the editor may display an unsupported file type notification.
• Fixed an issue where profanity filters were being applied to account email addresses.
• Hid ACP statistics blocks for Clubs when Clubs are disabled.
• Fixed an issue where users could edit comments that were hidden by a moderator.
• Hid member-menu in ModCP Approval Queue when reviewing content posted by guests.
• Allow users to reply to alerts even if they have messenger restrictions that would prevent them from doing so.
• Allow iOS/Safari notifications from Safari 16.4 onwards.
• Accordion titles on the Notifications settings page now wrap to multiple lines if they're too wide for the browser window.

Commerce

• Increased number of days PayPal Subscriptions are checked for payments.
• Updated PayPal integration to v2 API where appropriate.
• Updated PayPal Payout API to latest version.
• Updated Maxmind integration to latest API, added support for tracking pixel.
• Fixed an issue where a customer may be charged before accepting the terms and conditions when requiring T&Cs and using Stripe.
• Fixed an issue where incoming emails containing '-' or '.' may be discard.
• Fixed an issue where a fatal error is thrown during email processing if the email character set is not supported by current PHP configuration.
• Deprecated Authorize.net, Braintree and 2Checkout payment gateways.
• Removed Hosting Reseller support.

Pages

• Added the media URL to the ACP - Media Details sidebar.
• Added the ability for records to use the publish date field when synchronising with forum topics.
• Fixed an issue where the Media Preview Image wouldn't be shown on the ACP - Media Details page.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to create paths that conflicted with system folders.
• Fixed an issue where comment counts displayed in the record feed when comments were disabled.

Forums

• Added support for mark solved in clubs.

Downloads

• Removed an unnecessary span tag from the rows template.
• Added the moderator checkbox to grid view as it was previously missing.
• Added status badges (pinned, hidden, etc) to the grid view.
• Padding has been added to grid cells while viewing files in profiles.

Gallery

• Added some customization options to the Overview page.
• Now, when searching for images via the "Insert other attachment" editor option, searching by album name returns images from that album.

Events

• Added links to subscribe to and download iCal events on the overview page.
• Fixed an issue where the "All Calendars" dropdown link would load the overview page instead of monthly view.
• Fixed an issue where the 'Copy Event' link would be shown even if the member had no permission to create new events in the calendar.
• Fixed an issue where recurring events would time out for some locales and languages.
• Fixed an issue where venue events may not show on the happening near me map.

Converters

• Added basic support for converting [table] and [spoiler="text"] bbcode from XenForo.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers

• Added a new constant NOTIFICATION_BACKGROUND_THRESHOLD to determine when to defer sending notifications to background process.
• Switched from cURL to cURL multi handle for improved connection re-use.

GraphQL, REST, Webhooks and Zapier

• Removed the reference to the ipAddress in the Members REST Endpoint documentation.
• Fixed an issue where API calls to /core/members/{id}/warnings did not work if a reason was specified.

Deprecations and Removal Announcements

This release sees the following items deprecated

• Commerce physical product sales
• Commerce support desk/support requests
• Payment Gateways for Braintree, Authorize.net and 2Checkout

The hosting reselling tools have been removed following their deprecation in September 2020.

See our deprecation tracker for more information.

 

 

 

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