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Per Microsoft documentation, this attribute is obsolete if you are running IIS 7 (plus a patch), or IIS 8+.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