v8.6.0

New features

We've added a series of optional new features aimed at publishers who are either based in the EU, or who deliberately target EU audiences, so that they can be compliant with the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). The relevant part of the DSA comes into operation on 2/17/24.

The new DSA-related features can be activated by admins inside the 'Configure' menu by switching on the "DSA reporting and moderation experience."

Our DSA features include:

• The ability for end users to report comments for containing illegal content, adding relevant context
• The ability for moderators to review reports of illegal content in a specific tab in the moderation interface labeled "DSA Reports." Moderators can then add notes, mark reports as "In Review", download CSVs for legal review, review the commenter's prior behavior, and make a final decision
• The ability for moderators to add specific reasons for comment rejection
• The ability for end users to receive notifications related to their reports and rejected comments

The branch for this work is #4356

v8.5.3

Bug fixes

• Fix static asset deploys #4363

v8.5.2

Bug fixes and improvements

• allow additional origins for oembed api calls by @kabeaty in #4328
• add web view troubleshooting info to docs by @kabeaty in #4335
• fix edit child reply to edited parent not updating by @kabeaty in #4334
• update all comment-count translations to remove $numberClass by @kabeaty in #4347
• Left align fallback comment embed by @marcushaddon in #4351
• handle empty wordlists in the wordlist worker by @nick-funk in #4345
• update textHtml in redis cache for comment counts when count updates by @kabeaty in #4341
• clarify data-coral-url in docs for comment count by @kabeaty in #4330
• accessibility improvements in the stream by @kabeaty in #4331
• add optional count param to active stories script by @kabeaty in #4342

Full Changelog: v8.5.0...v8.5.2

v8.5.1

New features and improvements

Convert coral into a mono-repo with 3 main projects #4301

If you are developing locally, you will need to read the new development instructions https://github.com/coralproject/talk/blob/main/docs/docs/development.md

v8.5.0

New Features and functionality

• Spam ban via stream moderation #4296
• Add reject button in view conversation modal in admin #4310
• Custom flair badges #4316 - huge thanks to @jbotte for suggestion and initial implementation

Bug fixes and improvements

• Only display single site ban options for single site tenants #4285
• Reject all comments in queue when user is banned and their comments all rejected #4291
• Update to have comment count and embed jsonp use primarily Redis cache #4309
• Improve consistency of Redis cache key for comment count #4300
• Fix flaky and slow CommentContainer tests #4317
• Replace Google Container Registry with Google Artifact Registry #4318
• Update Dutch translations #4307

v8.4.2

Bug fixes and improvements

• Add CORS to single comment embed oembed endpoint #4297

v8.4.1

• Fix bug with "add announcement" feature #4282
• Update allowed origins input to Textarea #4277
• ensure npm run watch runs on m1 and m2 macs #4283
• update unanswered tags when rejecting comments #4281

v8.4.0

New features and improvements

• update icon library from Google Material Icons to Streamline Icons #4203
  • Note: this may be a visually breaking change if you are using custom CSS that targets the i element to style icons. All custom styles targeting icons by element should be update to target either the svg element or the span that wraps it.

v8.3.2

Bugfixes

• update unanswered tags when rejecting comments #4281

v8.3.1

Bugfixes and improvements

• get custom css and fonts css from stream embed for single comment embeds #4274