Community Forum IPB 4.7.19 Update!

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This is the November security and maintenance release., IPB 4.7.19 with fixes and tweaks.  Detailed change log below.

 

IPB Changes:

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Invision Community 4.7.19

Released 11/12/2024

This is a security release and we recommend all clients upgrade as soon as possible.

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Key Changes

This is our November security and maintenance release.

Key changes include:

• Report Center updates.
• Email notification when dormant accounts sign in.
• SEO Improvements.
• Hot Topic updates for Cloud customers.
• Updated share link functionality (click to copy).
• Prepare for v5 - A new AdminCP page to ensure you will be able to use v5.
• Content Spam analysis enabled for all Cloud customers.

Additional Information

Security

• Fixed a potential stored XSS issue, thanks to Colonel_mortis for reporting.

Core

• Added a default timeout for the SMTP connection.
• Added Message-ID generation for SMTP emails, for compatibility with SMTP servers that do not follow the RFCs.
• Added email notification for users signing in to dormant accounts.
• Added a requirement for CAPTCHA to be enabled for guests to use post before registering.
• Improved IndexNow error logging.
• Improved consistency with share links popups and added click to copy URL.
• Improved the Report Center, adding new functionality and improving the user experience.
• Optimised deleting member content.
• Fixed an issue where changing a primary or secondary group for a member wouldn't reset the cached value.
• Fixed an issue where permanently deleting content from the ModCP-Report Center would fail. . Fixed a wrong path in the robots.txt file.
• Fixed an issue where deleting nodes could throw an error.
• Fixed an issue where some club containers could throw an error.
• Fixed an issue where member profiles could be broken if a member had an invalid group.
• Fixed an issue where search can be slow on very large communities.
• Fixed an issue where the member history may show a wrong "by" name.
• Fixed an issue where the diagnostics statistics settings wouldn't save successful.
• Fixed an issue with the admin stream settings, where the "Active Members" Setting wouldn't be saved.
• Fixed an issue where the clubs widget could throw an error when a custom field filter for a deleted field is being used.
• Fixed an issue where creating a stream in the ACP wouldn't show all available nodes.
• Fixed an issue where streams could not always be sorted correctly.
• Fixed an issue with Firefox, where one couldn't break out of the quote box by pressing enter twice.
• Fixed an issue in the core-webhooks documentation.
• Fixed an issue where automatic moderation rules couldn't be created if there were no report types.
• Fixed an issue where the s3 deletion task wouldn't be enabled.
• Fixed an issue where promoted Comments could not be removed from Promoted Content.
• Removed the deprecated hive task.
• Removed the ping call to the deprecated Google Sitemap Service.

Events

• Replaced the h2 header on the landing page with an h1 element.

Commerce

• Added Canonical URLs for /store and /subscriptions.
• Added robots.txt rule to block ?currency= (currency changer links).
• Updated the code to support the new MaxMind API version.
• Fixed an issue where subscriptions with no expiration threw an error when calculating upgrade cost.
• Fixed an issue where multiple currencies could be set as the default.
• Fixed an issue with reactivating purchases.

Gallery

• Fixed an issue where moving images from an album wouldn't rebuild the total images count.

Downloads

• Fixed an issue where editing the member restrictions would throw an exception when downloads app was enabled.

Forums

• Optimised topic summary for busy communities.
• Fixed issues with JSON-LD/Schema.org markup in Q&A mode.
• Fixed an issue where publishing a future topic manually wouldn't update the topics publish date & time.
• Fixed an issue where approving a topic may not immediately update the number of topics pending approval.
• Fixed an issue where archived posts were not included in the post counts.
• Fixed an issue where topics you have posted in are not always marked with a star.

Pages

• Fixed an issue where creating comments via REST wouldn't show the comment when comments were synced with forum posts.
• Fixed an issue where records from club categories were showing in feeds incorrectly.
• Added a description field to the Club Category form.
• Fixed an issue where the club name was not displaying in feeds for club records and comments.
• Fixed an issue where Map fields were showing on the form for non-Address fields.

Courses

• Fixed an issue where the quiz questions were missing the formatting while taking the quiz.

Platform

• Enabled content Spam Analysis, can be disabled via AdminCP > Smart Community > Spam Analysis.
• Improved hot/popular topics for Cloud customers; Added ability to disable.
• Added ability add Live Topics to Club Calendars and convert to Club Forums.

Converters

• Fixed an issue where Polls are not converted correctly during SMF conversions.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers

• Updated PHPUserAgent to 1.0.9.
• JSON-LD BreadcrumbList now includes the breadcrumb for the page being viewed.
• Redis now uses a reader for lRange.
• Optimised fetching online user list when using Redis.

 

Theme changes:

• None yet

Other changes:

• Updated PhP version

 

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