08.02.03
The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS
Important Upgrade Notes
The release notes will follow, below these important notes.
Upgrading Through 8.0 & 8.1 (must read)
First, if you're upgrading from a version earlier than 8.0, you NEED to view the important release note FYI wiki articles below.
- What to Know When Upgrading to Commmunity Forums 8.0
- What to Know When Upgrading to Commmunity Forums 8.1
New "Legacy Token" Replacement
Tokens are used in various templates to insert content from a forum, topic, reply, etc. into a page. However, in previous versions, HTML was injected from code for certain tokens, which made it impossible for a designer to tailor the HTML markup without customizing the code.
DNN Community Forums 08.02.00 introduces new token replacement features that inject only the data associated with the token, allowing the designer to create whatever HTML markup is desired.
The community-default and community-bootstrap themes and templates have been updated to include the markup that used to be generated in the module's code.
However, for installed sites that have other themes and templates, DNN Community Forums 08.02.00 will replace a legacy token--on-the-fly--with its modern replacement, including the previously-injected markup.
For example, [GROUPNAME] will now be replaced by [FORUMGROUP:FORUMGROUPLINK|<a href="{0}" class="dcf-forumgroup-link">[FORUMGROUP:GROUPNAME]</a>]
IMPORTANT! The legacy token replacement feature will be supported through version 10.00.00, and will then be removed.
If you use your own themes and templates, please visit our wiki to read more and see which legacy tokens are replaced by which updated tokens.
Removed Duplicated Templates
In 08.00.00, template loading was enhanced to fallback/default from theme templates to module default templates, making it no longer necessary to duplicate all templates into a theme folder if not specifically customizing a template for a particular theme.
Several templates shipped with the community themes have been removed in 08.02.00 since they are the same as the defaults in /config/templates. If you have a custom theme and a template has not been customized from the version shipped with DNN Community Forums, the template can be removed from your custom theme if desired.
DNN Community Forums Release Notes
08.02.03
THANK YOU for all of the valuable contributions by @johnhenley and @WillStrohl!
What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.
New Features & Enhancements
- None at this time.
Bug Fixes
- FIXED: Filtered Topics View Showing Incorrect "Started By" User (Issue #1254)
- FIXED: Exception Occurs When Sending Email Notifications Due to
HttpContext(Issue #1258) - FIXED: Reversal of Approval for Posts After Moderation (Issue #1240)
- FIXED: Unable to Add a Forum Group After Deleting Sample Groups (Issue #1264)
- FIXED: Exception Logged When Displaying TopicsView (Issue #1253)
- FIXED: HTML Output Mangled Due to Token Replacement (Issue #1252)
Tasks / Development Updates (and Technical Debt)
- TASK: 8.2.3 Release Prep (Issue #1266)
