IPS Released IPS Community Suite 4.7.x Release | IPS 4.7 4.7.16

This is our March maintenance release. This release also includes an important security related fix for Commerce users.


New features:

• Pages Databases in Clubs

Additional Information​

Security

• Resolves an issue in Commerce when tampering with filters could cause errors.

Core

• Improved the efficiency when getting attachments for topic statistics.
• Improved the efficiency of streams when "Content I posted in" is selected.
• Improved the Internal Embeds system to show better error messages for deleted comments & reviews.
• Improved performance of invalidating member sessions when using Redis.
• Added new Moderator actions by action statistics section.
• Fixed Checkbox Overview Statistics not working properly.
• Fixed Moderator Activity statistics table not displaying properly.
• Fixed Warnings over time statistics table not displaying properly.
• Fixed Suspended users over time statistics table not displaying properly.
• Fixed saved charts not displaying data correctly when custom form filters are used.
• Fixed Geographical Charts CSV download not generating properly.
• Fixed an issue where creating an activity stream in the ACP could be missing the clubs filter.
• Fixed an issue where the badge title would be shown as hash value in translated notification emails.
• Fixed an issue where the Posts Per Day Limit was also used for private messages.
• Fixed an issue in the members/warnings endpoint where the POST request could fail while giving a member a warning if warning actions were present.
• Fixed an issue where deleting content may send a delete request to Community Hive, even if it was not enabled.
• Fixed an issue where 3rd party applications with a broken/missing versions file would break the upgrader.
• Fixed an issue where members with a false validation flag would be unable to login.
• Fixed an issue where the Google Maps Autocomplete Integration could display an error message.
• Fixed an issue where not all clubs may be shown on the member profile clubs page.
• Replaced the hardcoded forum_id in the promotion achievement extension.
• Fixed an issue where the Signature Settings page couldn't be accessed to change the signature visibility, without permissions to edit signatures.
• Fixed an issue where new comment notifications posted in anonymous topics were showed as posted by an anonymous member.
• Fixed an issue with the post count value for the Mass Move /Mass Delete action.
• Fixed an issue where delayed deleted content from private clubs isn't shown in the ModCP - Deleted Content area.
• Fixed the default value for the Manifest related manifest_details setting.
• Fixed an issue where the guest group settings couldn't be edited.
• Fixed an issue where YouTube embeds may not lazy-load.
• Fixed an issue where the guest group settings couldn't be edited.
• Fixed an issue where admins with permission to manage stored replies could still not manage these.
• Fixed an issue where the club filters could cause an EX0 error when a not existing field was used.

Blogs

• Fixed an issue where moving a blog entry and sending a moderation alert may cause an error.

Forums

• Added new Solved Topics by Group statistics section.
• Added new Unsolved Topics statistics section.
• Added Top Solvers statistics section.

Courses

• Fixed Enrollments statistics table not displaying status correctly.
• Fixed an issue where sorting the enrollments in the ACP by name would throw an error.
• Fixed a missing language string.
• Fixed not translatable module titles.

Pages

• Added ability for database categories to be added to Clubs.
• Views are now tracked for Pages.
• Fixed an issue where pages were not reindexed after WYSIWYG blocks were added/edited.
• Fixed an issue where record thumbnails which were created via the REST API hadn't the proper thumbnail size.

Platform

• Page views for pages will now be included in analytics reports.
• Fixed an issue with the post before registering flow when content was identified as spam.

Commerce

• Fixed an issue with the subscriptions member filter.
• Fixed a broken default value in the businessAddress.
• Fixed an issue in the commerce categorySidebar template.

Events

• Added organizer, eventAttendanceMode, and VirtualLocation to events JSON_LD.
• Fixed an issue where guests searching for events could see an error

Downloads

• Fixed an issue in the Downloads File Embed Template where the comment count was shown for files in categories without comments.

Gallery

• Fixed an issue where the vertical image widget wouldn't show the image in Chrome.
• Fixed missing alt texts for event cover images.

Converters

• Improved conversion of attachments in WordPress, Attachments will now be converted inside posts instead of converting to media files.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• Added new core/admin/global template userLinkWithPhoto.
• Added new tableLangPrefix property for Dynamic Charts.
• Fixed adding new warning reason throwing an error while IN_DEV.
• Fixed an issue where the radio form template would result in an error if no htmlID was set.
• Fixed an issue where clean IN_DEV installations have a broken serviceworker if no manifest details were set.
• Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.17.0.
• Replaced JShrink with JS-minify for better Javascript compatibility
• Removed jQuery History, removing deprecated 'onunload' handler

Core

• Added the ability to moderate and block new registrations from specific regions.
• Added email verification to Contact Us page.
• Added the ability to moderate or block new registrations using known disposable email addresses.
• Added aliases for x.com embeds.
• Added the ability to manually upgrade Marketplace resources, further updates will need to be obtained from the author instead of the Marketplace.
• Fixed an issue where disabling or removing the Twitter login handler may not remove the Twitter social promote option.
• Fixed an error in the REST API when a member has an invalid primary group.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a node via the API
• Fixed an issue where profanity filters that block words did not work on content titles.
• Fixed an issue where saving too many groups on a member can result in an error.
• Fixed an issue where having many groups can cause an error when updating a users location.
• Fixed an issue where the Who's Online and Active Users widgets will be cached by a guest and shown to everyone.
• Fixed an issue where the default value of a language string may not be correct when entities such as > and < are used.
• Fixed an issue creating new content with specific a specific tag configuration with alphabetic tags enabled.
• Fixed an issue where a profile field with the type "Date" could break the search.
• Fixed an issue with ACP notifications for PII & Deletion requests.
• Fixed an issue where passing null to a text field may cause an error with PHP > 8.1.
• Fixed an issue where lightbox meta titles were not being used.
• Fixed an issue where REST API requests may set an incorrect language.
• Fixed an issue where the move members queue offset was not being applied correctly.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to trigger a MySQL error by specifying an invalid API page parameter.
• Fixed an issue where the cookie banner may show an error when used by guests.
• Removed an orphan referrals module.
• Removed the Edited By line for anonymous content that was edited by a moderator without the ability to silently edit.
• Disabled responsiveness in the Admin CP > API.

Blog

• Fixed an issue where moving blog entries between blogs can cause its category to be lost.

Courses

• Fixed an issue where the Attachment Permission check could fail.

Commerce

• Fixed an issue where a payment that is declined would show a generic failed error instead of a declined error.
• Fixed an issue where post before register data was not properly accounted for when registering via Commerce.

Forums

• Fixed an issue where a redundant message may show when a closed topic is archived.

Pages

• Fixed an issue where articles set to publish in the future may persist in the unread stream after publishing.
• Fixed an issue where item statistics may show incorrectly when record comments are stored in topics.

Events

• Fixed an issue with searching for an event not working properly.
• Fixed an issue where event search would try to load a map when none are enabled.
• Fixed an issue where the next/prev month navigation links may not work in certain timezones.
• Fixed an issue where the calendar time period links would default to the main calendar when viewing clubs.

Converter

• Fixed an issue where some Pages database language strings may be missing after conversion.

Platform

• Added the missing 'most_views' language string.
• Added post content analysis scanning to detect spam in post content.
• Fixed an issue where live topic creation fails if the Events app is disabled.
• Removed the Marketplace resource restriction on lower plans, custom resources can now be installed.

Invision Community 4.7.12​

Released 07/17/2023

Key Changes​

This is our July maintenance release.

Additional Information​

Core

• Added some missing acp live search keywords.
• Added ability to disable or redirect PII data requests & account deletion.
• Improved the security of the visual language editor.
• Improved the responsiveness of the buttons in the cookie message.
• Fixed an issue where an extra space can be added to the end of dates in specific locales.
• Fixed an issue where oAuth tokens weren't revoked for banned users.
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to cancel optional mfa setup.
• Fixed an issue where page output may be broken if a large signature is used.
• Fixed an issue where Edge on Android could be detected as Chrome.
• Fixed an issue where achievements could be abused in private messages.
• Fixed a database error when viewing the moderator control panel.
• Fixed a missing language string in Member History when an account deletion has been cancelled.
• Fixed an issue where it wasn't possible to dismiss an alert if a password change was being forced.
• Fixed an issue where a solved notification may have incorrect wording.
• Fixed an issue where the All / None buttons on chart filters may not work.
• Fixed an issue where images would be restricted to 1200px regardless of the max image dimensions to display setting.
• Fixed an issue where posts from future topics may show in profile content streams.
• Fixed an issue where webhooks may send an empty auth header which can confuse some destination URLs.
• Fixed an issue where saving custom charts failed.
• Fixed an issue where AdminCP notifications emails for PII Requests & Account Deletion may not be sent.
• Fixed an error when using question & answer challenges for captcha with recent PHP versions.
• Fixed an issue where the cookie information page wasn't visible for validating members.
• Fixed an issue where the cookie consent opt-in may not return the visitor to the page they were on.
• Fixed an issue where a specially crafted search query could cause an uncaught exception.
• Fixed an issue where the onboarding wizard may show an error on save.

Pages

• Fixed an instance where an empty ACP error notification may get logged.
• Fixed an issue where large file uploads to Pages media may fail.
• Fixed an issue where a moderator can not edit database records if their group does not have edit permission, however they have moderator permissions to edit globally.

Forums

• Changed og:image on topic view to one image, more than one is not fully compatible with the meta tag editor.
• Fixed an issue where a significantly large number of reactions could cause memory issues in the expanded topic list view.

Events

• Fixed an issue where automated tests may log an error in the admin control panel from a no longer used block of code.

Converter

• Fixed an error caused when merging an Invision Community using letter photos.

Commerce

• Fixed an issue where subscription upgrade/downgrade pricing was not calculated correctly.
• Fixed an issue where making paying with PayPal after a failure caused an exception.
• Fixed Maxmi9nd AdminCP notification missing language string.

Courses

• Fixed an issue in the FrontNavigation extension, where the item was shown without a permission check.
• Fixed an issue where moderators were unable to access ModCP with Courses enabled.

Platform

• Updated the Live Topic conversion notification to link to the new topic.
• Fixed an issue where a host or staff member not in an attendee group could not join

Downloads

• Fixed an issue where responding to reviews did not work.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• Updated CKEditor to 4.21.0.
• Updated jQuery to 3.7.0.
• Updated jQuery UI to 1.13.2.
• Updated jQuery Migrate to 3.4.1.
• Fixed an array offset error on the spam whitelist form.
• Fixed an issue where temporary cache data wasn't removed from \IPS\Content\Statistics on app uninstall.
• Fixed an issue where the front/table/rows template was missing a check for the \IPS\Node\Statistics trait.
• Removed legacy file loader for Extensions.
• Removed legacy polyfill for IntersectionObserv

Released 06/21/2023
This is a security release and we recommend all clients upgrade as soon as possible.

Key Changes

This is an essential security and maintenance update. Including improvements for our recently release PII & Statistics features.
We recommend not using the visual language editor until you upgrade.

Additional Information​

Core

• Improved the Cookie Consent system based on feedback from our community.
• Fixed some missing language strings in Member History relating to PII / Account deletion requests.
• Fixed some issues with the AdminCP notification for PII requests.
• Fixed an issue where an administrator exporting PII for a member may not contain the members device data.
• Fixed an issue with links in the PII request emails.
• Improved the security of the Visual Language Editor.

Platform

• Fixed an issue with content item analytics.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• _getEssentialCookies() can now return a wildcard at the end of a cookie name where there may be a different ID on each, i.e. ipbforumpass_*

Deprecations and Removal Announcements​

Please review our deprecation tracker for upcoming deprecations.

Released Thursday at 01:22 AM

Key Changes​

This is our June maintenance release.
Key changes include:

• Strengthening Community Trust with Privacy and PII Data Features
• Explore Our New Reporting and Statistical Capabilities

Additional Information​

Core

• Added Support for Cookie Consent.
• Added support for forcing tags to be listed alphabetically.
• Members can now request their PII Data via the Frontend.
• Members can now request to be deleted via the Frontend.
• Members can no longer react to content if they have unacknowledged warnings.
• Adjusted the OAuth setup instructions to use the new "API" instead of "REST & OAuth" menu point.
• Removed the none function default Giphy API key.
• Improved the way how we send requests to IndexNow to skip it for items which are literally never visible to guests.
• Fixed few instances, where we weren't removing the IP address from the database via the IP Address truncate task.
• Fixed an issue where the similar content block may cause an error on some pages when using Elastic/Opensearch.
• Fixed an issue with lightbox grouping in activity stream where Elastic/Opensearch is used.
• Fixed an issue where push notifications may not be sent if a browser/device has been used to sign in to multiple accounts.
• Fixed an issue in validating custom header/footer theme inputs.
• Fixed an issue where moderating all links did not work correctly.
• Fixed an issue where editing an item and setting a future publishing date did not work correctly.
• Fixed an issue where viewing the members content on his profile may show an error while viewing some reviews.
• Fixed an issue where chart labels containing a comma caused CSV downloads to be incorrectly formatted.
• Fixed an issue where adding the 'group' parameter in the 'core/members' REST endpoint would result in the other parameters being overlooked.
• Fixed an issue where Custom Fields of type Member did not function correctly.
• Fixed an issue where bulk mail could not be filtered by a CheckboxSet profile field.
• Fixed an issue where responses to reviews were not checked against word filters.
• Fixed an issue where the related content widget added invalid hover parameters in some cases.
• Fixed an issue where the memberregistrationcomplete` webhook was triggered too early.
• Fixed an issue where clubs set to not show members still showed on the profile.
• Fixed a missing live search keyword for admin control panel notifications.
• Fixed an issue where ACP notifications may cause an error if the extension has been removed.
• Fixed an issue where content can be missing in streams if the last comment is waiting approval.
• Fixed an issue generating iOS startup images.
• Fixed an issue where an administrator IP may show in the list of ban suggestions if they had changed the members display name.
• Fixed an issue where a malformed search request could trigger an uncaught exception (and system log).

Forums

• Added og:image tags for first 4 image attachments.
• The topic summary was removed for future topics.
• Fixed fatal error when upgrading from IP.Board 3.x.
• Fixed an issue where publishing a scheduled topic did not properly update the last post information on the forums.
• Fixed an issue where re-engagement emails would show replies from the topic author.

Commerce

• Added the table filter and sort options to the redirect target after deleting an invoice in the ACP.
• Fixed an issue with PayPal when buying multiple quantities of a product in one order.
• Fixed a bug where the expiry date can be calculated incorrectly when upgrading/downgrading between packages.
• Fixed an issue where the wrong value was displayed on custom fields during checkout.
• Corrected PayPal API endpoint to the newer version.

Pages

• Fixed an issue moving comments to forum if the article previously had a linked forum topic that no longer exists.
• Fixed an issue where copying multiple topics to a database resulted in duplicated attachments.
• Fixed an issue where display options in the ACP did not match the display of custom fields on the front-end.

Gallery

• Fixed an issue where it was possible in some circumstances for a private album title to show in Activity Stream.
• Fixed an issue where gallery videos could not be inserted as existing attachments in the editor.

Courses

• Added default front navigation.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a course module did not delete the language strings.
• Fixed an issue where Courses not visible to Admins were not displaying in the ACP.

Platform

• Fixed an issue where editing a video upload to Gallery may not transcode it to MP4.
• Fixed an issue where email copies of Commerce actions may not be sent.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• \IPS\Helpers\Form\Text 'autocomplete' option now has a boolean 'alphabetical' sub-option to force values to sort alphabetically.
• \IPS\Content\Views interface has been deprecated, you should use the \IPS\Content\ViewUpdates trait instead.

Core

• Added a minimum of one day end date to Alerts.
• Replaced Authy MFA with Verify.
• Enforce account completion (display name and email are set) before using the account to login to third party OAuth Clients.
• Fixed an issue where the Moderation IP Tool wouldn't show the logged IP addresses for private messages.
• Fixed an issue where creating a new content item may show an undefined index error.
• Fixed an issue where the rebuild URL queue extension class could throw an exception if the item author had been deleted.
• Fixed an issue where the close date of Polls could break API outputs.
• Fixed an issue where rebuilding achievements wasn't logged in the AdminCP.
• Enforce account completion (display name and email are set) before using the account to login to third party OAuth Clients
• Fixed an issue where older iOS devices (<13.4) had images and other elements that would not load.
• Fixed an issue where it was not possible to apply paid club renewal changes to existing purchases.
• Fixed an issue where moderators could receive report notifications in containers they cannot moderate in.
• Fixed an issue when OAuth providers use really long codes for authorization.
• Fixed an issue where the timezone cookie required extra validation.

Gallery

• Fixed an issue where previous and next links may not work in Gallery if FURLs are not set up.

Commerce

• Fixed an issue where reactivating subscriptions may cause an error if the original invoice is deleted.
• Fixed an issue where bad data could cause the store to throw a fatal error.
• Fixed an issue where changing the owner of a club does not correctly update the payment recipient.
• Fixed an issue where tax caused PayPal not to work correctly.
• Fixed an issue where using a coupon and paying with PayPal did not work.
• Fixed an issue where changing renewal prices for parent/child products did not update existing purchases.
• Fixed an issue where upgrading from a monthly to an annual subscription did not properly set the expiration date.

Pages

• Fixed an issue where long text broke the record display layout.

Blog

• Fixed the broken byline in blog entries for future publish entries.

Downloads

• Updated the grid layout to fix inconsistencies with some 3rd party themes.

Clubs

• Fixed poor alignment of Accept button on "Users Requesting Access" page

Platform

• Added ability to remove a block on an email that has hard bounced in the past.
• Enhanced transparency for the reason when emails are blocked.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• New Hooks will contain mixin phpDoc.
• Updated Whoops to 2.15.2.
• Changed the return type of the Queue Extensions preQueueData method.
• Fixed issue where the settings.json file would be written incorrectly.
• Fixed an issue where the \IPS\Helpers\Table\Db could return a wrong total count for the pagination when the query used a groupBy statement.

GraphQL, REST, Webhooks and Zapier​

• Fixed an issue in the REST API Content Controller where filtering for items without polls failed.

Core

• Added pagination to the Edit History screen.
• Added the core_api_logs database table to the support tools database checker.
• Added a noindex metatag to the poll voters page.
• Added the ability to reset 2fa security answers for all members.
• Added the time to the date form validator message when the time is also used.
• Changed the recommended MySQL version to 5.7.8, this will be the minimum version in future.
• Changed the Author and Update Check URL fields when exporting a language to an URL field to enforce valid URLs.
• Improved the error handling when a club node is missing.
• Show "Success" message above the form after a user changes their password.
• Achievement badges and rank icons are no longer squashed in the Recent Achievements widget.
• Items in the "Our Picks" widget carousel no longer have a cropped border.
• Upgraded Google Fonts API to v2 with improved performance using font-display:swap;
• Imported font-weight:500 for Google fonts resulting in improved font rendering.
• Redesigned the share/promote buttons so they sit on a single line on mobiles.
• Updated the background-color of some social icons to match their actual brand color.
• Sticky announcements will now always stick to the top of the window, instead of only being sticky within the header element.
• Widgets have received a IU polish, with a few alignment bugs solved.
• The alignment of topic prefix icons (pinned, featured, etc) has been improved.
• Breadcrumbs no longer truncate long titles. They will now wrap to a new line if necessary.
• Fixed a bug where members weren't able to opt in/out of custom PII data being shared with 3rd parties.
• Fixed an issue where banning a member with a banned IP address could accidentally remove the IP ban.
• Fixed an issue where content with no replies was being treated as solvable.
• Fixed an issue where the Admin CP Login Logs did not show the proper value in the Display Name column.
• Fixed an issue where the Admin CP Login Logs advanced search did not work properly.
• Fixed an issue where club areas may link to the wrong location.
• Fixed an issue where content being held for approval would show the wrong word as the reason.
• Fixed PWA Notifications causing an error if the remote service cannot be reached.
• Fixed an issue where the club_created Webhook wasn't fired when a club was approved.
• Fixed a race condition which could cause an error when an invalid timezone on an account is used.
• Fixed an issue where a group could have the maximum number of lines in a signature as 0, but the signature editor was still available.
• Fixed an issue where banning a member could generate an unnecessary member changelog entry.
• Fixed an issue where it was possible to enable security question mfa without any questions.
• Fixed an issue where the theme templates list did not display properly in the ACP if an upgrade notice was visible.
• Fixed an issue where mentions did not use the color specified in the theme settings.
• Fixed an issue where managing the ACP - Share Handlers could cause an error.
• Fixed an issue where recounting the reputation points in the ACP could cause an error.
• Fixed an issue where stopping all email notifications excluded digests.
• Fixed an issue where the widget cleanup task could fail when the tasks were run via CLI.
• Fixed an issue where club pages would show members even if only set to show for Club Moderators.
• Fixed an issue where share links were using http protocol instead of https.
• Fixed an issue where hCaptcha challenges may not show on contact us dialog when another challenge exists on the page.
• Fixed an issue where tooltips could become very long. They now wrap text onto multiple lines when necessary.
• Fixed an issue that may occur when using search and MySQL read/write separation.
• Fixed an issue where saving widgets could fail.
• Fixed an issue where polls were not deleted when an application was uninstalled.
• Fixed an issue where editing content may not preserve the correct file storage location and revert to the base URL.
• Removed unused photos_url ACP search keyword.

Forums

• Relocated the forum title in the forum grid UI for forums, resulting in better contrast.
• Simplified the UI of the expanded view while viewing a topic list.
• Post controls (Edit, Quote, etc.) are now always vertically aligned to the bottom of posts.
• Fixed Solved Statistics throwing an error on some MySQL / MariaDB versions.
• Fixed an issue where topic hover previews would display "Guest anonymous" instead of the anonymous placeholder text.
• Fixed an issue where building search index permissions could fail.
• Fixed an issue where re-engagement email notifications were sent for non-solvable topics.
• Fixed an issue where changing the topic publish date to "immediately" did not publish the topic.
• Fixed an issue where "Users can choose best answer" in Questions forums was not being saved correctly.

Downloads

• Added the ability to allow the file submitter to delete pending new versions.
• Added a new category grid view.
• Fixed an issue where embedded free files were being displayed as not available for purchase.
• Fixed an issue in the downloads-file REST API endpoint where purchasing a file could result in an error.
• Fixed an issue where custom fields could not be marked to be included in topics.
• Fixed a missing language string on the custom fields edit page.

Gallery

• Improved performance of image view when categories/albums are ordered by recently updated.
• Fixed an issue where promoted albums could break the achievements rebuild process.
• Fixed an issue where albums not in a club could be set to allow submissions from anyone in a club.
• Fixed an issue where users had the option to sort by reviews when reviews were not enabled.
• Fixed an issue where sorting by date could duplicate images in the carousel.
• Fixed a performance issue related to prefetching previous and next images.
• Fixed an issue where hidden images may appear in profiles.
• Fixed an issue where gallery video comment search results may show an error when no thumbnail is uploaded.
• Removed the background on the landing page title to be more consistent with other areas of the suite.

Events

• Fixed an issue where searching events on the overview page did not properly display a map.
• Fixed an issue where a user who responded "Maybe" could attempt to RSVP to an event after the RSVP limit was reached.
• Fixed an issue where searching events on the overview page did not properly display a map.
• Fixed an issue where the featured event cover photo may not display if the filename contains special characters.
• Fixed an issue where searching for events with a missing or invalid location wouldn't return any results.

Commerce

• Fixed an issue where checking out as a guest would not pass guest email to Stripe.
• Fixed an issue where the expiration date in custom product emails didn't work.
• Fixed an issue with Stripe where device (Apple/Google) payments may not work if transaction has a shipping address.
• Fixed an issue where PayPal Subscription task may throw an error if a customer doesn't have any subscriptions.

Pages

• Added support for past dates in records.
• Fixed an issue where stats in the record list would overflow on mobiles

Blog

• Fixed an issue where attachments may not be properly cleared upon deletion.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• Added more properties to the Polls API output.
• Added constant \IPS\SITEMAP_MAX_PER_FILE to define the maximum number of entries in a sitemap file.
• If your application ships with a log database table which can get huge, you can register the table in
• Fixed an issue during template compilation if a theme hook uses PHP mode and has a call to parent::.\IPS\core\modules\admin\support\_support::getLogTables to have it automatically checked in the support tools.
• A new helper method \IPS\core\Followed\Follow::getClassToFollow was introduced which will return the class to follow for a given app and area.

GraphQL, REST, Webhooks and Zapier

• Added a new Members GraphQL query which is able to return more than one member based on different criteria.
• A new GraphQL Query to return a list of clubs was added.
• A new webhook for the downloads app was added, which is fired when a new file version gets available.
• Fixed an issue in the core/members/follow REST API endpoint, where trying to follow clubs failed.
• The REST API Log allows one to use the advanced search without having to select a specific endpoint or response code.
• /core/members REST API response for photoUrlIsDefault is now true for letter photos.
• Webhook Payload for nodes which belong to clubs, will contain now also information about the club.
• Added a new Members GraphQL query which is able to return more than one member based on different criteria.
• Fixed the statistics GraphQL query.
• Fixed several issues in the Calendar GraphQL query.

Deprecations and Removal Announcements​

Our next (April) 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.

IPS Community Suite 4.7.7

Released 02/07/2023
Key Changes

This is our February maintenance release.

Key changes include:

New Feature: Gallery refresh
GraphQL support has been expanded. Blog and Documentation are now available.

Additional Information

Core

Added the ability to allow non members to post in individual sections of closed clubs.
Added pagination to referrals page in the Account Settings.
Added Clubs and Club Pages to sitemap.
Added missing language strings for the Email Statistics report.
Updated CKEditor to 4.20.1.
Re-enabled Grammarly in CKEditor.
Fix changing Time Periods on streams not clearing previous values completely.
Fixed an issue where dropdown menus would be treated as a link if child items in the main navigation.
Fixed an issue where times may be in the wrong timezone due to a Chromium bug with Asia/Kolkata & Asia/Kathmandu.
Fixed an issue with AdminCP upgrading a self-hosted community if large table changes are required.
Fixed an issue where changing Time Periods on streams not clearing previous values completely.
Fixed an issue where dropdown menus would be treated as a link if child items in the main navigation.
Fixed an issue where auto-saved editor contents would not clear when the editor was on a tab.
Fixed an issue where custom date filters were not preserved on the search page.
Fixed an issue where moderating all links posted did not flag the content for moderation.
Fixed an issue where Administrators with permissions to view moderator statistics got a no-permission error.
Fixed an issue where club areas may link to the wrong location.
Reduced the scenarios where some uploaded files names may get prefixed with random numbers.

Gallery

Visual refresh.
Added support for converting videos to mp4 for consistent playback experience (cloud only).
Added gallery overview page to better highlight Gallery activity.
Added support for searching image contents using AI (cloud only).
Added not safe for work filter functionality.
Added support for prefetching next and previous images.
Added a member profile extension for Gallery images.
Set default album sort to match the default sort on a category.
Fixed an issue where images may not be sorted correctly.
Removed lightbox overlay.
Removed a lot of redundant javascript to optimize page loading times.

Pages

Added a way to disable indexing of pages.
Fixed an issue where sorting by the default sort did not use the correct sort direction.
Fixed an issue where anonymous records were displayed as Guest in record listings.
Fixed an issue where anonymous records created topics with an author name of Guest and a hash..
Fixed toggled fields when adding/editing a database field.
Automatically set a page as default when it's the only page in a folder
Removed the "Add comment" checkbox on the Update Record form in cases where it was not applicable.

Events

Fixed an issue where events in the by month block may display the wrong month.
Fixed an issue where events may show on the wrong time.

Forums

Fixed an issue where checkbox sets with large option lists in polls would condense into a scrollable list.
Fixed an issue where the first post in a scheduled topic had a different timestamp than the topic.
Fixed issue where publish date field was sometimes shown on the Poll tab of the Topic form instead of the Content tab.
Fixed an issue where changing the publish date of an already published topic to a future date wouldn't update the containers last post data.

Converters

Improved member conversion speed upto 50% in some scenarios.

Downloads

Fixed an issue where anonymous comments were not tracked correctly.

Commerce

Fixed VAT number verification failing.
Fixed an issue where invoices from guests may not be marked as paid after a successful transaction.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers

Added new GraphQL endpoints for Blog & Events.
Added the ability to use OAuth access tokens or API keys with GraphQL requests.
Added a new optional parameter to the Events > front > events -> event template.
Added constant \IPS\SITEMAP_MAX_PER_FILE to define the maximum number of entries in a sitemap file.
Updated HTMLPurifier to 4.15.0.
Fixed an issue where hooks with USE statements were wrapped in a try/catch.
Fixed an issue creating Polls via the REST API that are not multichoice.
Fixed an issue where reordering ACP restrictions generated an error.
Fixed an issue with the autocomplete form field in third party resources.
Method signatures and return type have been changed for \IPS\File\Amazon::chunkFinish() & \IPS\File\FileSystem::chunkFinish().
Removed jsTimezoneDetect library, replaced with native browser functionality.

REST, Webhooks and Zapier

The member, blogs entries, download files, gallery images, events, pages records and forum topics GET endpoint supports now a new ìds parameter to return items by multiple ids. This change also applies to any third party application that extends \IPS\Content\Api\ItemController and uses $this->_list().

This is our January maintenance release.

During the holiday period, our focus is on providing bug fixes and improving stability. Feature updates will resume in February.

Additional Information​

Core

• Added password resets to administrator logs.
• Added email icons for Twitch and Discord.
• Added the tags page to the disallowed URLs in the robots.txt.
• Added a noindex meta tag for the offline page.
• Included a PHP Version check for CLI tasks.
• Improves performance of alerts list.
• Fixed an issue where predefined tags can throw an error on the Tags form on PHP8.
• Fixed an issue where the Editor > Stock Replies table search did not work in the AdminCP.
• Fixed an issue where images in search results were not grouped for lightbox.
• Fixed issue where word expansions were replacing phrases in the middle of a word.
• Fixed an issue with Google OAuth logins when an error is returned.
• Fixed an issue with custom OAuth logins if a user info endpoint returns an unexpected data format.
• Fixed an issue where club content could display in feeds to users with no permission to the clubs module.
• Fixed an issue where moderators were not sent email notification of new reports.
• Fixed an issue where system logs may be generated if an invalid URL is passed to the redirect code (for email links).
• Fixed an issue where tags could not be removed from content if tagging was disabled.
• Fixed an issue where moving items using the multimod functions did not always reset the container counts.
• Fixed an issue error that can occur when a 'hide' word filter is triggered on content that does not support hiding (personal conversations).
• Fixed an issue where warning a member sometimes generated an exception and a template error.
• Fixed an issue where rebuilding the search index generated pages of logs for orphaned posts/comments.
• Fixed layout of responsive tables in the ACP.
• Fixed an issue where importing/exporting language packs did not use the correct version.
• Fixed an issue where publishing scheduled items were marked unread for the author.
• Fixed an issue that could cause duplicated notifications when using multiple database servers.
• Fixed an issue on the onboarding page when no image was uploaded.
• Fixed issues with confusing language strings in the report center.
• Fixed an issue where Twitter Emoji no longer loads (The CDN providing the images shut down).
• Removed the unused "core_image_scanner_logs" database table.

Forums

• Fixed an issue in the topic feed widget where it would show the hover preview when it shouldn't.
• Fixed an issue where the approval reason would not show for topics.
• Fixed an issue where locking a guest topic from the bottom moderation menu behaved differently than using the top moderation menu.
• Fixed an issue where creating a forum may show an error on certain versions of MySQL.

Platform

• Fixed an issue where the check for new comments may show the wrong number if the end-user is not on the last page of comments.

Pages

• Fixed an issue where the sitemap could contain a link to a database category for a database which doesn't use categories.
• Fixed an issue where deleting a custom field wouldn't drop the column from the database.

Downloads

• Fixed an issue where deleting previous versions generated a template error.
• Fixed an issue where submitting a file to a category where moderation is required could fail when IN_DEV is enabled.
• Removed an unused cloud setting for max download speed.
• Removed deprecated files data from Downloads File REST API response, use /download endpoint instead.

Events

• Fixed an issue with links to calendars when the default view was not set to overview.
• Fixes an uncaught TypeError exception when viewing badly formed Events URLs.
• Fixed an issue with searching events by current location.
• Fixed an issue where a blank event sidebar would show after events have passed.
• Fixed an issue where online event links would be removed at the start time if no end was set.
• Fixed an issue where repeating events may show on the wrong day when displaying in a different timezone.

Gallery

• Removed profile tab image view preferences for guests to make it consistent with other areas where preferences can't be saved.

Commerce

• Added og:image tag to product pages.
• Fixed an issue where saving shipping rates was flagged as not covering all possible values.

Blog

• Fixed an issue where a broken or missing blog entry image would break the blog entry page.
• Fixed an issue where blog tags were not appearing in the recommended tags results.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• New constant DEBUG_HOOKS will log any errors thrown by a hook before executing the parent method.

Key Changes​

This is our December maintenance release.

During the holiday period, our focus is on providing bug fixes and improving stability.

Additional Information​

Core

• Added Twitch & Discord to list of theme Social Profiles.
• Disabled Caching for Zapier API responses.
• Fixed an issue where the Overview stats custom date range was excluding the end date.
• Fixed an issue where copying custom fields resulted in a duplicate column error.
• Fixed issue where items that were not permitted to be merged could be merged into other items.
• Fixed an issue where copying a setting value does not use the correct value.
• Fixed an issue where word expansions that end in a non-alphanumeric character are not properly replaced.
• Fixed issue where banned users still receive email updates for streams.
• Fixed an issue where changing the warning reason could append multiple default notes.
• Fixed issue where creating a new FURL generated an error on PHP 8.
• Switched Minimum Rating field on widgets to a dropdown to allow for the selected value to be cleared.
• Fixed an issue where topic snippet view may be slow when managing topics with more than 4,000 pages and many reactions.
• Fixed an issue where the error logs table would show the md5 hash instead of the error message.
• Fixed an issue where notifications inside buttons were being cropped due to overflow:hidden.
• Fixed the broken reported content states.
• Fixed few instances in the topic view, where the "Send an Alert to .." toggle wouldn't work.
• Fixed an issue where creating alerts could be broken with PHP8 if there was no End Date.
• Fixed an issue where the attachments page could result in an exception caused by an Editor Extension which has no Attachment support.
• Fixed an issue where Facebook would still show up in the content promotion form.
• Fixed an issue where the maifest file was tried to be loaded from the wrong path.
• Fixed an issue where the ignore page threw an error when there were no ignored users.
• Fixed an issue where Checkboxes, Checkbox Sets, and YesNo fields were not included in Group Promotion or Bulk Mail filters.
• Fixed the uncaught IPS\Http\Request\CurlException exception which was thrown when the IndexNow Request timed out.
• Fixed an issue where the manifest file was tried to be loaded from the wrong path.
• Fixed an issue where some orphaned profile field data could break the account completed check.
• Fixed an issue where the cleanup task could fail while removing orphaned widgets.
• Fixed an issue where Guests could access the Activity Streams when guest access was disabled.
• Fixed an issue when comments are split from existing content where the alert may go to the wrong member.
• Fixed an issue where moderators get email notifications for reported content that they cannot access.
• Fixed an issue where mailto links were being rewritten in bulk mails.
• Fixed an issue where filtering members by badges generated an error if no badges were configured.
• Fixed an issue where club content could display in feeds to users with no permission to the clubs module.
• Fixed a potential issue when de-authorizing member devices when using Redis.
• Fixed an issue where predefined tags can throw an error on the Tags form on PHP8.

Commerce

• Fixed a missing Editor Name Language String ( filestorage__nexus_Gateways ).
• Fixed an issue where upgrading/downgrading a product showed a hash in the member history.
• Fixed an issue where viewing a billing agreement with no associated purchases generated a theme error.
• Fixed automatic renewals to only charge credit cards on file when the invoice items allow for the card payment method.
• Fixed an issue where a user could request a manual payout without entering payment details.
• Fixed an issue where a user could not renew a cancelled subscription when the site forces all users to purchase subscriptions.

Forums

• Fixed an issue where moderators without the permission to create alerts couldn't lock topics.
• Fixed an issue where the "Solved Re-Engagement" email was sent for deleted topics.
• Fixed the php8 issue where people without a signature could trigger an error on the topics page.

Events

• Fixed an issue where deleting an event without a dispatcher instance may fail.

Blogs

• Fixed an issue where deleting a blog without a dispatcher instance may fail.

Pages

• Fixed an issue where the pages sitemap extension would create unnecessary rows in the sitemap db table.
• Fixed a class not found error when viewing Pages Records.

Gallery

• Fixed an issue where missing metadata could result in an error with PHP8.

Changes affecting third-party developers and designers​

• Fixed an issue where reordering the ACP Menu items on a sub-menu removed other menus.
• Fixed an issue where parameters were not being populated in REST API documentation for /report endpoints.