08.02.01

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"&gt;[FORUMGROUP:GROUPNAME]&lt;/a&gt;]

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.

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DNN Community Forums Release Notes

08.02.01

THANK YOU for all of the valuable contributions by @johnhenley!

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: Multiple Issues with Email Notifications (Issue #1236)

Tasks / Development Updates (and Technical Debt)

• None at this time.

08.02.00

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"&gt;[FORUMGROUP:GROUPNAME]&lt;/a&gt;]

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.

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DNN Community Forums Release Notes

08.02.00

THANK YOU for all of the valuable contributions by @johnhenley, @Timo-Breumelhof, and @WillStrohl!

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

New Features & Enhancements

Control Panel Security Configuration

• UX: (Re)Organized the Security in the Control Panel (Issue #931
• UPDATE: Allow Default Forum Settings to Be Created & Easily Used by Forum Groups (Issue #650)
• UPDATE: Made Forum Security Configuration Inheritance More Logical (Issue #62)
• UPDATE: Added Inheritance Labels When Forums are Inheriting Security and/or Settings (Issue #1161)
• UX: Re-Labeled Security Permission Options After Consolidation for Better UX (Issue #930)
• UX: Added Helpful Explanatory Text to Security Grid Titles (Issue #862)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModLock" and "Lock" Security Permission Options (Issue #926)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModPin" and "Pin" Security Permission Options (Issue #927)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModEdit" and "Edit" Security Permission Options (Issue #929)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModDelete" and "Delete" Security Permission Options (Issue #928)
• UX: Improved How the Security Grid is Displayed in the Control Panel (Issue #1115)
• UPDATE: Improved CSS for Control Panel Security Tooltip Position (Issue #1050)

Notifications, Likes, and Pins

• UPDATE: Get Notified When Someone Likes Your Post (Issue #632)
• UPDATE: Allow Authorized Visitors to See Who Likes a Post (Issue #801)
• UPDATE: Send Notification to Original Poster When Topic is Moved (Issue #1008)
• UPDATE: Enable/Disable Option for Email Notification to Posting User (Issue #263)

Templates & Tokens

• UPDATE: Email Notifications Modernized to Use Token Replacement (Issue #1128)
• UPDATE: New Template & Tokens for Search Results (Removes Hard-Coded HTML) (Issue #1101)
• UPDATE: New Template & Tokens for Filtered Topic Results (Removes Hard-Coded HTML) (Issue #1102)
• UPDATE: New Template & Tokens for the Forum Toolbar (Removes Hard-Coded HTML) (Issue #1113)
• UPDATE: New Token [FORUM:LOGINLINK] Replaces [ADDREPLY] When Unauthenticated (Issue #1107)
• UPDATE: Added the [FORUMPARENTNAME] Token for Child Forums (Issue #469)
• UPDATE: New Messages & Admin Log Reporting When Using Legacy Tokens in Templates (Issue #1062)
• UPDATE: Refactored Nested Template Insertion & Honor the [DCF:TEMPLATE-xxxx] Tokens (Issue #1124)
• UPDATE: Use Token Replacement Service for Moderation Notifications (Issue #1112)
• UPDATE: Static Text in Templates Can Now Be Localized (Issue #470)
• UPDATE: Updated community-* Templates to Move Markup from Code to a Template (Issue #1117)
• UPDATE: Use Template Caching Module Setting for Forums Toolbar Template (Issue #1095)
• UPDATE: Changed Replaced Tokens to Use Classes Instead of Inline Styles (Issue #467)
• UPDATE: Improved the HTML Output of the [AF:CONTROL:STATUSICON] Token (Issue #743)
• UPDATE: Added Core Token Replace Support to Some Templates (Issue #521)
• UPDATE: Removed Unnecessary HTML from Token Replacement in Email Templates (Issue #1127)
• UPDATE: Replaced Like Button Hard-Coded HTML with Tokens (Issue #1142)
• UPDATE: Moved Email Subject From the Template to Forum Settings (Issue #702)

User Experience & More...

• UX: Improved the Scaling of Large Images on All Viewports (Issue #982)
• UX: Many New Mobile User Experience Updates (Issue #932)
• UX: Improved How Moderated Forums Are Displayed (Issue #999)
• UX: Improved How IPv6 Addresses Are Displayed (Issue #1118)
• UX: Improved Messaging with No Moderator Content Pending (Issue #958)
• UX: Moderator Button Styling Improved (Issue #969)
• UX: Made Distance Consistent in the TopicsView Bootstrap Template (Issue #1192)
• UX: My Subscriptions & My Settings Cleared Upon Logout (Issue #981)
• UX: Styling for New Like Features (Issue #1189)
• UPDATE: Improved Avatar Image Quality for Forum Users (Issue #888)
• UPDATE: Improved UX on Topics When Not Logged In w/ Login Link (Issue #1001)
• UPDATE: Modernized Statuses for Forums, Topics, Replies (Issue #468)
• UPDATE: Forums Responses Marked as an Answer to be More Obvious (Issue #1144)
• UPDATE: Moderator Views Now Make it Easier to Navigate to Reported Posts (Issue #1041)
• UPDATE: Optimized How & What Gets Posted to the Journal (Issue #748)
• UPDATE: User Online Status Now More Accurate (Issue #1083)
• UPDATE: Search Results HTML Output has Newly Added div Tags (Issue #480)
• UPDATE: Don't Emit the Signature HTML Output When There Isn't a Signature (Issue #486)
• UPDATE: Adds Exception Logging to Web API Authentication (Issue #1051)

Bug Fixes

• FIXED: Images in a Forum Post can Appear to be Oversized & Break the Design (Issue #1105)
• FIXED: Editing the Topic Subject Should Update DNN Journal Item (Issue #821)
• FIXED: Tokens Such as [RESX:Views] are not Supported in UPPERCASE (Issue #475)
• FIXED: False Error When Updating User Profile (Issue #1002)
• FIXED: Posts Going Through Moderation Not Updating a User's Post Count (Issue #983)
• FIXED: Moderator Buttons not styled correctly (Issue #995)
• FIXED: Resolves an Issue When Properly Tracking Forum Reads & Views (Issue #1032)
• FIXED: "What's New" Module Showing Topics from Forums Not Selected in Module Settings (Issue #992)
• FIXED: Using the "Quick Jump" Forum Control Throws an Error (Issue #1034)
• FIXED: Splitting a Forum Thread Can Result in an Exception (Issue #1036)
• FIXED: Next/Previous Links Not Updated After Deleting Topics (Issue #1043)
• FIXED: Exception When Switching Between Tabs with Different Forums Instances (Issue #1075)
• FIXED: Updates to Resolve Known Process Queue Errors (Issue #1090)
• FIXED: Unable to Move an Existing Topic to a Hidden Forum (Issue #1089)
• FIXED: Topic View is Showing an Incorrect Topic Template on a Forum Thread Page with Only Replies (Issue #1139)
• FIXED: Fatal Exception In Getting Started Wizard in Some Cases Due to Serialization (Issue #857)
• FIXED: Forum Collapse Broken Due to [GROUP] Token Location in the Template (Issue #1153)
• FIXED: URL for a Specific Group of Forums Shows Other Groups (Issue #1152)
• FIXED: Subscriptions to Deleted Forums Are Orphaned (Issue #1156)
• FIXED: Update Redirect() Method Calls for Consistent and Correct Usage (Issue #970)
• FIXED: [SIGNATURE] Token Not Replaced in Topic Review Section When Creating a Reply (Issue #1177)
• FIXED: Forum Posts in Topic View Showing Wrong Signature (Issue #1194)
• FIXED: Changed Pin & Lock to Use ID Instead of Class on Reload (Issue #1209)
• FIXED: Updated TopicController to Use the Correct ContentID (Issue #1210)
• FIXED: Multiple UserProfile Records Created for ...

08.02.00 RC 1

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

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IMPORTANT!!! This is a Release Candidate (RC)

NOT FOR PRODUCTION!

Please do not use this installation/upgrade package for any production websites of any kind. This release is not supported and is only provided for test purposes, to allow others to test their websites first.

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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"&gt;[FORUMGROUP:GROUPNAME]&lt;/a&gt;]

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.

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DNN Community Forums Release Notes

08.02.00 RC 1

THANK YOU for all of the valuable contributions by @johnhenley, @Timo-Breumelhof, and @WillStrohl!

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

New Features & Enhancements

Control Panel Security Configuration

• UX: (Re)Organized the Security in the Control Panel (Issue #931
• UPDATE: Allow Default Forum Settings to Be Created & Easily Used by Forum Groups (Issue #650)
• UPDATE: Made Forum Security Configuration Inheritance More Logical (Issue #62)
• UPDATE: Added Inheritance Labels When Forums are Inheriting Security and/or Settings (Issue #1161)
• UX: Re-Labeled Security Permission Options After Consolidation for Better UX (Issue #930)
• UX: Added Helpful Explanatory Text to Security Grid Titles (Issue #862)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModLock" and "Lock" Security Permission Options (Issue #926)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModPin" and "Pin" Security Permission Options (Issue #927)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModEdit" and "Edit" Security Permission Options (Issue #929)
• UX: Combined (Duplicated) "ModDelete" and "Delete" Security Permission Options (Issue #928)
• UX: Improved How the Security Grid is Displayed in the Control Panel (Issue #1115)
• UPDATE: Improved CSS for Control Panel Security Tooltip Position (Issue #1050)

Notifications, Likes, and Pins

• UPDATE: Get Notified When Someone Likes Your Post (Issue #632)
• UPDATE: Allow Authorized Visitors to See Who Likes a Post (Issue #801)
• UPDATE: Send Notification to Original Poster When Topic is Moved (Issue #1008)
• UPDATE: Enable/Disable Option for Email Notification to Posting User (Issue #263)

Templates & Tokens

• UPDATE: Email Notifications Modernized to Use Token Replacement (Issue #1128)
• UPDATE: New Template & Tokens for Search Results (Removes Hard-Coded HTML) (Issue #1101)
• UPDATE: New Template & Tokens for Filtered Topic Results (Removes Hard-Coded HTML) (Issue #1102)
• UPDATE: New Template & Tokens for the Forum Toolbar (Removes Hard-Coded HTML) (Issue #1113)
• UPDATE: New Token [FORUM:LOGINLINK] Replaces [ADDREPLY] When Unauthenticated (Issue #1107)
• UPDATE: Added the [FORUMPARENTNAME] Token for Child Forums (Issue #469)
• UPDATE: New Messages & Admin Log Reporting When Using Legacy Tokens in Templates (Issue #1062)
• UPDATE: Refactored Nested Template Insertion & Honor the [DCF:TEMPLATE-xxxx] Tokens (Issue #1124)
• UPDATE: Use Token Replacement Service for Moderation Notifications (Issue #1112)
• UPDATE: Static Text in Templates Can Now Be Localized (Issue #470)
• UPDATE: Updated community-* Templates to Move Markup from Code to a Template (Issue #1117)
• UPDATE: Use Template Caching Module Setting for Forums Toolbar Template (Issue #1095)
• UPDATE: Changed Replaced Tokens to Use Classes Instead of Inline Styles (Issue #467)
• UPDATE: Improved the HTML Output of the [AF:CONTROL:STATUSICON] Token (Issue #743)
• UPDATE: Added Core Token Replace Support to Some Templates (Issue #521)
• UPDATE: Removed Unnecessary HTML from Token Replacement in Email Templates (Issue #1127)
• UPDATE: Replaced Like Button Hard-Coded HTML with Tokens (Issue #1142)
• UPDATE: Moved Email Subject From the Template to Forum Settings (Issue #702)

User Experience & More...

• UX: Improved the Scaling of Large Images on All Viewports (Issue #982)
• UX: Many New Mobile User Experience Updates (Issue #932)
• UX: Improved How Moderated Forums Are Displayed (Issue #999)
• UX: Improved How IPv6 Addresses Are Displayed (Issue #1118)
• UX: Improved Messaging with No Moderator Content Pending (Issue #958)
• UX: Moderator Button Styling Improved (Issue #969)
• UX: Made Distance Consistent in the TopicsView Bootstrap Template (Issue #1192)
• UX: My Subscriptions & My Settings Cleared Upon Logout (Issue #981)
• UX: Styling for New Like Features (Issue #1189)
• UPDATE: Improved Avatar Image Quality for Forum Users (Issue #888)
• UPDATE: Improved UX on Topics When Not Logged In w/ Login Link (Issue #1001)
• UPDATE: Modernized Statuses for Forums, Topics, Replies (Issue #468)
• UPDATE: Forums Responses Marked as an Answer to be More Obvious (Issue #1144)
• UPDATE: Moderator Views Now Make it Easier to Navigate to Reported Posts (Issue #1041)
• UPDATE: Optimized How & What Gets Posted to the Journal (Issue #748)
• UPDATE: User Online Status Now More Accurate (Issue #1083)
• UPDATE: Search Results HTML Output has Newly Added div Tags (Issue #480)
• UPDATE: Don't Emit the Signature HTML Output When There Isn't a Signature (Issue #486)
• UPDATE: Adds Exception Logging to Web API Authentication (Issue #1051)

Bug Fixes

• FIXED: Images in a Forum Post can Appear to be Oversized & Break the Design (Issue #1105)
• FIXED: Editing the Topic Subject Should Update DNN Journal Item (Issue #821)
• FIXED: Tokens Such as [RESX:Views] are not Supported in UPPERCASE (Issue #475)
• FIXED: False Error When Updating User Profile (Issue #1002)
• FIXED: Posts Going Through Moderation Not Updating a User's Post Count (Issue #983)
• FIXED: Moderator Buttons not styled correctly (Issue #995)
• FIXED: Resolves an Issue When Properly Tracking Forum Reads & Views (Issue #1032)
• FIXED: "What's New" Module Showing Topics from Forums Not Selected in Module Settings (Issue #992)
• FIXED: Using the "Quick Jump" Forum Control Throws an Error (Issue #1034)
• FIXED: Splitting a Forum Thread Can Result in an Exception (Issue #1036)
• FIXED: Next/Previous Links Not Updated After Deleting Topics (Issue #1043)
• FIXED: Exception When Switching Between Tabs with Different Forums Instances (Issue #1075)
• FIXED: Updates to Resolve Known Process Queue Errors (Issue #1090)
• FIXED: Unable to Move an Existing Topic to a Hidden Forum (Issue #1089)
• FIXED: Topic View is Showing an Incorrect Topic Template on a Forum Thread Page with Only Replies (Issue #1139)
• FIXED: Fatal Exception In Getting Started Wizard in Some Cases Due to Serialization (Issue #857)
• FIXED: Forum Collapse Broken Due to [GROUP] Token Location in the Template (Issue #1153)
• FIXED: URL for a Specific Group of Forums Shows Other Groups (Issue #1152)
• FIXED: Subscriptions to Deleted Forums Are Orphaned (Issue #1156)
• FIXED: Update Redirect() Method Calls for Consistent and Correct Usage (Issue #970)
• FIXED: [SIGNATURE] Token Not Replaced in Topic Review Section Wh...

08.01.02

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

New Bootstrap 4 & 5 Forum Theme

Please be sure to test this and report any issues you may find. It's a brand-new feature!

When you use the community-default or the community-bootstrap Theme, make sure to set the Avatar size to 250 x 250 pixels in the Module Settings.

Also, please note that this version of the community-bootstrap theme will not work with Bootstrap 3 and/or the DNN Xcillion theme.

New Languages Added!

Dutch already had a language pack, but now there are language packs for German, French, Spanish, and Italian. They were generated though, so we could use your help from the community to make sure the translations are indeed accurate.

We recommend that you use Peter Donker's translation software (below) to make things easier for you.

• Blog: A Central Hub for Language Packs, by Peter Donker
• Download: DNN Translator
• Related Pull Request: Add Azure Cognitive Services (Microsoft Translator v3) as a Translation Service

Upgrading? Reindex Your Search

There have been significant updates in the way the forums module integrates with the DNN search engine. This includes a handful of bug fixes. It's important to reindex your DNN search as soon as possible after the upgrade.

NEW CSS Loading Order (since 8.0)

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update (since 8.0)

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

08.01.02

New Features & Enhancements

• UPDATE: Make sure Filtered Topics dropdown text is visible on mobile (Issue 959, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)

Bug Fixes

• BUG: After Update to 8.1.1 Visited / Read forums icons not reflecting actual status anymore. (#973, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Email notifications being sent for topics that have not cleared moderation (#971 , thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Redirect after editing a post comment (#962 , thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Clicking Save in forum control panel restores default security when forum is not inheriting security from group (#964, thanks @johnhenley!)

Tasks / Development Updates (and Technical Debt)

• None at this time.

08.01.01

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

New Bootstrap 4 & 5 Forum Theme

Please be sure to test this and report any issues you may find. It's a brand-new feature!

When you use the community-default or the community-bootstrap Theme, make sure to set the Avatar size to 250 x 250 pixels in the Module Settings.

Also, please note that this version of the community-bootstrap theme will not work with Bootstrap 3 and/or the DNN Xcillion theme.

New Languages Added!

Dutch already had a language pack, but now there are language packs for German, French, Spanish, and Italian. They were generated though, so we could use your help from the community to make sure the translations are indeed accurate.

We recommend that you use Peter Donker's translation software (below) to make things easier for you.

• Blog: A Central Hub for Language Packs, by Peter Donker
• Download: DNN Translator
• Related Pull Request: Add Azure Cognitive Services (Microsoft Translator v3) as a Translation Service

Upgrading? Reindex Your Search

There have been significant updates in the way the forums module integrates with the DNN search engine. This includes a handful of bug fixes. It's important to reindex your DNN search as soon as possible after the upgrade.

NEW CSS Loading Order (since 8.0)

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update (since 8.0)

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

08.01.01

New Features & Enhancements

• UPDATE: No Longer Listing Informative Posts as "Unanswered" (Issue 946, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Added Headings to Filtered Topic Overviews (Issue 949, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Added 'Add Reply' Buttons on Top of TopicsView (Issue 941, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Added Alignment for 'Next' in the community-default Forum Theme (Issue 934, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)

Bug Fixes

• BUG: [DISPLAYNAME] Not Included in Email Notifications (Issue 923, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved Alignment Issues in the Active Topics Filtered List (Issue 948, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved Issue Attempting to Mark Topic as Answered (Issue 945, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Added Cache Keys to Resolve Topic Paging Issues (Issue 933, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Moderation Email Not Sent if Disapproving a New Topic (Issue 938, thanks @johnhenley!)

Tasks / Development Updates (and Technical Debt)

• None at this time.

08.01.00

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

New Bootstrap 4 & 5 Forum Theme

Please be sure to test this and report any issues you may find. It's a brand-new feature!

When you use the community-default or the community-bootstrap Theme, make sure to set the Avatar size to 250 x 250 pixels in the Module Settings.

Also, please note that this version of the community-bootstrap theme will not work with Bootstrap 3 and/or the DNN Xcillion theme.

New Languages Added!

Dutch already had a language pack, but now there are language packs for German, French, Spanish, and Italian. They were generated though, so we could use your help from the community to make sure the translations are indeed accurate.

We recommend that you use Peter Donker's translation software (below) to make things easier for you.

• Blog: A Central Hub for Language Packs, by Peter Donker
• Download: DNN Translator
• Related Pull Request: Add Azure Cognitive Services (Microsoft Translator v3) as a Translation Service

Upgrading? Reindex Your Search

There have been significant updates in the way the forums module integrates with the DNN search engine. This includes a handful of bug fixes. It's important to reindex your DNN search as soon as possible after the upgrade.

NEW CSS Loading Order (since 8.0)

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update (since 8.0)

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

08.01.00

New Features & Enhancements

• NEW: Adds a new Bootstrap 4 &; 5 theme/template for the forum (Issue #734, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: A new process queue has been added to offload front-end page loads from running backend logic (Issue #376, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Now able to independently inherit security settings into forums from the forum group (Issue #611, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added a button to allow a person to easily subscribe to all of the forums (Issue #593, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Major enhancements made to how the module caches data (Issue #724, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Adds 'ban user' options to forum moderation (Pull #800, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Adds Announcements and Unresolved topic views to the toolbar (Issue #701, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Add subscriber counts to topics / topic view in Bootstrap Template (Issue #707, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Added language pack files to support German (Pull #811, thanks @johnhenley!)
  • Thank you so much to Michael Tobisch (@MaiklT) for checking this language pack!
• NEW: Added language pack files to support French (Pull #812, thanks @johnhenley!)
  • Thank you so much to Daniel Valadas (@valadas) for checking this language pack!
• NEW: Added language pack files to support Spanish (Pull #813, thanks @johnhenley!)
  • Thank you so much to Vicenç Masanas (@vmasanas) for checking this language pack!
• NEW: Added language pack files to support Italian (Pull #814, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATED: Updated language pack files to support Dutch (Pull #815, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Improved moderator notifications when banning a user account (Issue #721, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Adds support for [GROUPNAME] & [FORUMGROUPID] tokens in the [GROUP] section in ForumView (Pull #795, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Numerous usability improvements to Mark as Answer features (Issue #400, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Added subscriber counts to topics / topic view in community-default theme (Pull #706, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Replace NavigateUrl() with an INavigationManager implementation (Issue #378, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Removed the now legacy mail options from the view (all notifications now use the forums mail queue) (Issue #635, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Change Filters in the toolbar to Filtered Topics (Pulls 810, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Numerous improvements to the overall experience when working with topic ratings (Issue 398, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Moderator actions were not styled as buttons (Issue #661, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Adds the ability for end-users to change which forums they're looking at (Issue #703, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Replaced login message with a login link for unauthenticated users (Issue #781, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Updated confusing verbiage when subscribing/unsubscribing to/from a topic (Issue #756, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Moving post while moderating required scrolling to see the move dialog (Issue #679, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Topic reply & reply editor improvements to labels (Issue #717, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Improved experience when attempting to view 'unanswered' forum threads (Issue #660, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Show current Theme when editing Templates (Issue #569, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Add link in Control Panel forum editor to quickly go to parent Forum/Forum Group (Issue #669, thanks @johnhenley!)

Bug Fixes

• UPDATE: Added the missing control panel toolbar to the My Settings view (Issue #686, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Resolved several bugs when splitting a topic (Issue #780, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Topic Subscribe/Quick Reply Subscribe checkboxes have different labels (Issue #649, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Site Search returning incomplete URLs when using Friendly URLs (Issue #643, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Forum topics not included in DNN search results for unauthenticated users (Issue #808, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Now any related journal items are also removed when banning a user (Issue #741, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Improved user workflow when deleting a topic with no replies (Issue #390, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: NullReferenceException when saving module settings on upgraded sites (Issue #774, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Avatar alignment was wrong in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #791, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Alignment display issues in Bootstrap 5 themes for sub-forums (Issue #805, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Borders were inconsistent in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #803, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Forum collapse doesn't work in a Bootstrap 5 theme (Issue #788, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Quick reply layout incorrect in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #789, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Error occurs when attempting to delete a post from the Activity Feed (Issue #798, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Fixed friendly URLs for the latest posts in the Forums View (Pull #794, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Next topic button incorrectly aligned in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #786, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Quick Reply not posting (correct) ReplyId to Process Queue (Pull #782, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved data retrieval issues with search results (Pull #770, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: TopicsSubscriber view has extra whitespace (Issue #772, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Resolves several display issues with the default theme/template (Issue #764, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Properly aligning the Subscription options in the default theme/template (Issue #765, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: TopicView template uses a class fa-prev-next, while this should have been dcf-prev-next (Issue #742, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Resolves several display issues in the new Bootstrap theme/template (Issue #762, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Changed activeforums_EmailNotificationQueueId (identity) column from int to bigint/long to prevent possible overflow (Pull #758, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved a 'null' value for PortalSettings when...

08.01.00 RC 2

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

---

IMPORTANT!!! This is a Release Candidate (RC). Please do not use this installation/upgrade package for any production websites of any kind. This release is not supported and is only provided for test purposes, to allow others to test their websites first.

---

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

New Bootstrap 4 & 5 Forum Theme

Please be sure to test this and report any issues you may find. It's a brand-new feature!

If you are using a Bootstrap 3 theme - including DNN Xcilliin - use the community-default theme rather than the community-bootstrap theme

New Languages Added!

Dutch already had a language pack, but now there are language packs for German, French, Spanish, and Italian. They were generated though, so we could use your help from the community to make sure the translations are indeed accurate.

We recommend that you use Peter Donker's translation software (below) to make things easier for you.

• Blog: A Central Hub for Language Packs, by Peter Donker
• Download: DNN Translator
• Related Pull Request: Add Azure Cognitive Services (Microsoft Translator v3) as a Translation Service

Upgrading? Reindex Your Search

There have been significant updates in the way the forums module integrates with the DNN search engine. This includes a handful of bug fixes. It's important to reindex your DNN search as soon as possible after the upgrade.

NEW CSS Loading Order (since 8.0)

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update (since 8.0)

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

08.01.00 RC 2 (NOT FOR PRODUCTION!)

New Features & Enhancements

• NEW: Adds a new Bootstrap 4 &; 5 theme/template for the forum (Issue #734, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: A new process queue has been added to offload front-end page loads from running backend logic (Issue #376, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Now able to independently inherit security settings into forums from the forum group (Issue #611, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added a button to allow a person to easily subscribe to all of the forums (Issue #593, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Major enhancements made to how the module caches data (Issue #724, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Adds 'ban user' options to forum moderation (Pull #800, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Adds Announcements and Unresolved topic views to the toolbar (Issue #701, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Add subscriber counts to topics / topic view in Bootstrap Template (Issue #707, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Added language pack files to support German (Pull #811, thanks @johnhenley!)
  • Thank you so much to Michael Tobisch (@MaiklT) for checking this language pack!
• NEW: Added language pack files to support French (Pull #812, thanks @johnhenley!)
  • Thank you so much to Daniel Valadas (@valadas) for checking this language pack!
• NEW: Added language pack files to support Spanish (Pull #813, thanks @johnhenley!)
  • Thank you so much to Vicenç Masanas (@vmasanas) for checking this language pack!
• NEW: Added language pack files to support Italian (Pull #814, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATED: Updated language pack files to support Dutch (Pull #815, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Improved moderator notifications when banning a user account (Issue #721, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Adds support for [GROUPNAME] & [FORUMGROUPID] tokens in the [GROUP] section in ForumView (Pull #795, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Numerous usability improvements to Mark as Answer features (Issue #400, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Added subscriber counts to topics / topic view in community-default theme (Pull #706, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Replace NavigateUrl() with an INavigationManager implementation (Issue #378, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Removed the now legacy mail options from the view (all notifications now use the forums mail queue) (Issue #635, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Change Filters in the toolbar to Filtered Topics (Pulls 810, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Numerous improvements to the overall experience when working with topic ratings (Issue 398, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Moderator actions were not styled as buttons (Issue #661, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Adds the ability for end-users to change which forums they're looking at (Issue #703, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Replaced login message with a login link for unauthenticated users (Issue #781, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Updated confusing verbiage when subscribing/unsubscribing to/from a topic (Issue #756, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Moving post while moderating required scrolling to see the move dialog (Issue #679, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Topic reply & reply editor improvements to labels (Issue #717, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Improved experience when attempting to view 'unanswered' forum threads (Issue #660, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Show current Theme when editing Templates (Issue #569, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Add link in Control Panel forum editor to quickly go to parent Forum/Forum Group (Issue #669, thanks @johnhenley!)

Bug Fixes

• UPDATE: Added the missing control panel toolbar to the My Settings view (Issue #686, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Resolved several bugs when splitting a topic (Issue #780, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Topic Subscribe/Quick Reply Subscribe checkboxes have different labels (Issue #649, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Site Search returning incomplete URLs when using Friendly URLs (Issue #643, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Forum topics not included in DNN search results for unauthenticated users (Issue #808, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Now any related journal items are also removed when banning a user (Issue #741, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Improved user workflow when deleting a topic with no replies (Issue #390, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: NullReferenceException when saving module settings on upgraded sites (Issue #774, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Avatar alignment was wrong in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #791, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Alignment display issues in Bootstrap 5 themes for sub-forums (Issue #805, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Borders were inconsistent in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #803, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Forum collapse doesn't work in a Bootstrap 5 theme (Issue #788, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Quick reply layout incorrect in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #789, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Error occurs when attempting to delete a post from the Activity Feed (Issue #798, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Fixed friendly URLs for the latest posts in the Forums View (Pull #794, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Next topic button incorrectly aligned in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #786, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Quick Reply not posting (correct) ReplyId to Process Queue (Pull #782, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved data retrieval issues with search results (Pull #770, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: TopicsSubscriber view has extra whitespace (Issue #772, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Resolves several display issues with the default theme/template (Issue #764, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Properly aligning the Subscription options in the default theme/template (Issue #765, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: TopicView template uses a class fa-prev-next, while this should have been dcf-prev-next (Issue #742, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Resolves several display issues in the new Bootstrap theme/template (Issue #762, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Changed `activeforums_EmailNotification...

08.01.00 RC 1

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

---

IMPORTANT!!! This is a Release Candidate (RC). Please do not use this installation/upgrade package for any production websites of any kind. This release is not supported and is only provided for test purposes, to allow others to test their websites first.

---

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

New Bootstrap 4 & 5 Forum Theme

Please be sure to test this and report any issues you may find. It's a brand-new feature!

If you are using a Bootstrap 3 theme - including DNN Xcilliin - use the community-default theme rather than the community-bootstrap theme

New Languages Added!

Dutch already had a language pack, but now there are language packs for German, French, Spanish, and Italian. They were generated though, so we could use your help from the community to make sure the translations are indeed accurate.

We recommend that you use Peter Donker's translation software (below) to make things easier for you.

• Blog: A Central Hub for Language Packs, by Peter Donker
• Download: DNN Translator
• Related Pull Request: Add Azure Cognitive Services (Microsoft Translator v3) as a Translation Service

Upgrading? Reindex Your Search

There have been significant updates in the way the forums module integrates with the DNN search engine. This includes a handful of bug fixes. It's important to reindex your DNN search as soon as possible after the upgrade.

NEW CSS Loading Order (since 8.0)

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update (since 8.0)

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of this release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the milestone for this release in GitHub.

08.01.00 RC 1 (NOT FOR PRODUCTION!)

New Features & Enhancements

• NEW: Adds a new Bootstrap 4 &; 5 theme/template for the forum (Issue #734, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: A new process queue has been added to offload front-end page loads from running backend logic (Issue #376, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Now able to independently inherit security settings into forums from the forum group (Issue #611, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added a button to allow a person to easily subscribe to all of the forums (Issue #593, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Major enhancements made to how the module caches data (Issue #724, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Adds 'ban user' options to forum moderation (Pull #800, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Adds Announcements and Unresolved topic views to the toolbar (Issue #701, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Add subscriber counts to topics / topic view in Bootstrap Template (Issue #707, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Added language pack files to support German (Pull #811, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added language pack files to support French (Pull #812, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added language pack files to support Spanish (Pull #813, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added language pack files to support Italian (Pull #814, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATED: Updated language pack files to support Dutch (Pull #815, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Improved moderator notifications when banning a user account (Issue #721, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Adds support for [GROUPNAME] & [FORUMGROUPID] tokens in the [GROUP] section in ForumView (Pull #795, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Numerous usability improvements to Mark as Answer features (Issue #400, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Added subscriber counts to topics / topic view in community-default theme (Pull #706, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Replace NavigateUrl() with an INavigationManager implementation (Issue #378, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Removed the now legacy mail options from the view (all notifications now use the forums mail queue) (Issue #635, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Change Filters in the toolbar to Filtered Topics (Pulls 810, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Numerous improvements to the overall experience when working with topic ratings (Issue 398, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Moderator actions were not styled as buttons (Issue #661, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Adds the ability for end-users to change which forums they're looking at (Issue #703, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Replaced login message with a login link for unauthenticated users (Issue #781, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Updated confusing verbiage when subscribing/unsubscribing to/from a topic (Issue #756, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Moving post while moderating required scrolling to see the move dialog (Issue #679, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Topic reply & reply editor improvements to labels (Issue #717, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Improved experience when attempting to view 'unanswered' forum threads (Issue #660, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Show current Theme when editing Templates (Issue #569, thanks @johnhenley!)
• USABILITY: Add link in Control Panel forum editor to quickly go to parent Forum/Forum Group (Issue #669, thanks @johnhenley!)

Bug Fixes

• UPDATE: Added the missing control panel toolbar to the My Settings view (Issue #686, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Resolved several bugs when splitting a topic (Issue #780, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Topic Subscribe/Quick Reply Subscribe checkboxes have different labels (Issue #649, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Site Search returning incomplete URLs when using Friendly URLs (Issue #643, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Forum topics not included in DNN search results for unauthenticated users (Issue #808, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Now any related journal items are also removed when banning a user (Issue #741, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Improved user workflow when deleting a topic with no replies (Issue #390, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: NullReferenceException when saving module settings on upgraded sites (Issue #774, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Avatar alignment was wrong in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #791, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Alignment display issues in Bootstrap 5 themes for sub-forums (Issue #805, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Borders were inconsistent in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #803, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Forum collapse doesn't work in a Bootstrap 5 theme (Issue #788, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Quick reply layout incorrect in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #789, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Error occurs when attempting to delete a post from the Activity Feed (Issue #798, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Fixed friendly URLs for the latest posts in the Forums View (Pull #794, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Next topic button incorrectly aligned in Bootstrap 5 themes (Issue #786, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Quick Reply not posting (correct) ReplyId to Process Queue (Pull #782, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved data retrieval issues with search results (Pull #770, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: TopicsSubscriber view has extra whitespace (Issue #772, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Resolves several display issues with the default theme/template (Issue #764, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Properly aligning the Subscription options in the default theme/template (Issue #765, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: TopicView template uses a class fa-prev-next, while this should have been dcf-prev-next (Issue #742, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Resolves several display issues in the new Bootstrap theme/template (Issue #762, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• BUG: Changed activeforums_EmailNotificationQueueId (identity) column from int to bigint/long to prevent possible overflow (Pull #758, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Resolved a 'null' value for PortalSettings when search crawling (Issue #754, thanks @johnhenley!)
• BUG: Default Community theme uses an incorrect dcf-topic-content CSS class (Issue #732, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!...

08.00.01

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

NEW CSS Loading Order

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

08.00.01

New Features & Enhancements

• None at this time.

Bug Fixes

• FIXED: FIXED: Quick Reply > Submit Button Missing for the Legacy Theme (Issue 641, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Flood Interval Not Working on Quick Reply (Issue 639, thanks @johnhenley!)

Tasks / Development Updates (and Technical Debt)

• None at this time.

08.00.00

The Official Community Forums Module for DNN CMS

IMPORTANT: Upgrade Notes

The release notes will follow, below these important notes.

NEW CSS Loading Order

CSS loading has been improved to deliver robust CSS both within the module, across all themes, and then theme-specific with a custom override.

New Community Forum's CSS Load order:

• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/module.css (already existing)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/themes.css (new name and CSS content / used across all themes)
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/theme{.min}.css (already existing / new name). Can now have a .min.css variant.
• ~/DesktopModules/ActiveForums/themes/_currenttheme_/custom/theme{.min}.css (new) has been updated. Can now have a .min.css variant.

Orphaned Web.Config Update

If you have previously installed the Community Forums module --and its URL rewriter in order to use friendly URLs-- that process inserted the attribute runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" into the <configuration><system.webServer><modules> tag in the main web.config.

Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.

Since you may have other modules that require it, we have chosen to NOT remove it automatically. If you have no other modules that require it, you many remove it manually.

Release Notes

What's to follow are all of the relevant updates that have occurred during the development cycle of the 8.0 release.

If you wish to see all of the development work (including updates related to internal testing), you can view the 8.0 milestone in GitHub.

08.00.00

New Features & Enhancements

• NEW: Rebranded Active Forums to Community Forums (Issue 280, thanks @johnhenley & @WillStrohl & @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Updated the template engine to store templates in the file system instead of the database (Issue 227, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Raised minimum supported DNN version from 9.4 to 9.9 (Issue 374, thanks @WillStrohl!)
• NEW: Created a new Community Forums module logo (Issue 401, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Added ability to Ban user accounts from the forums ([Issue 165, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added <Ctrl>+<Enter> keyboard shortcut to submit quick replies (Issue 502, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Lots of caching updates for less database reads and overall performance improvements (Issue 258, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Theme engine now includes minified & maximized theme.css (Issue 65, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Default themes included with & without Bootstrap dependencies (Issue 501, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Loads a minified theme CSS if exists & fallback to maximized if it doesn't (Issue 600, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added a custom folder & instructional README.md for theme developers (Issue 604, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Modernized the collapse icons in the Topic Editor (Issue 602, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Installs & uses a local instance of FontAwesome for a newly included icon library (Issue 556, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Updated community details on the initialization view (Issue 519, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Updated the module branding & info in the control panel to help newer forum administrators (Issue 490, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof & @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added view options for Most Liked & Most Replies forum filters (Issue 420, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added localizable headers to the forum listing grid for the Ratings & Status columns (Issue 476, thanks @johnhenley!)
• NEW: Added a dnn-community-forums wrapper class for easier styling and theming (Issue 449, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• NEW: Added a project README and Code of Conduct (Issue 372, thanks @WillStrohl!)
• UPDATE: Moved hard-coded quick reply HTML to a theme file (Issue 348, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Stop setting runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests on the <modules> tag in the web.config (Issue 439, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability of quick reply on mobile devices (Issue 305, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability of quick search (Issue 577, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability of toolbar icons (Issue 550, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• UPDATE: Replaced iconography of Next & Previous topic navigation (Issue 522, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability of control panel navigational links (Issue 570, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• UPDATE: Improved design & usability of the original (legacy) forum theme for v8.0 compatibility (Issue 547, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability of topic collapse/expand iconography (Issue 471, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Marked the module as not shareable, due to not fully supporting IPortable & multi-portal (yet) (Issue 530, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability of topic & forum subscription text/links (Issue 523, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Updated titles to use headers for consistent theming (Issue 457, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Implemented a deliberate CSS loading order for stability & easier theming (Issue 228, thanks @johnhenley!)
• UPDATE: Improved usability for forum subscription checkboxes (Issue 300, thanks @johnhenley!)

Bug Fixes

• FIXED: Friendly URL detection can report false positives (Issue 336, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Bundled CSS files won't load using the Client Resource Manager (Issue 609, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Quick reply button position & design (Issue 491, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• FIXED: Close previous button emits HTML into the page (Issue 557, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• FIXED: Resolved exception generated by viewing the control panel (Issue 539, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Moving a topic does not move the subscription to the topic (Issue 537, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Only send one email if subscribed to the topic & forum (Issue 419, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Advanced search title is not wrapped in an element (Issue 481, thanks @Timo-Breumelhof!)
• FIXED: Added v07.00.12 to the upgrade version list in the manifest to ensure friendly URLs are updated (Issue 447, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Unable to move forums in the control panel when a forum has been deleted (Issue 254, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Resolved HTTP 404 errors with topic icons in the control panel (Issue 437, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Paging not working when forum doesn't inherit group settings (Issue 425, thanks @johnhenley!)
• FIXED: Rest API endpoints ...