KasperVld Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Hi everyone, The forums will suffer some scheduled downtime tomorrow to perform a software update. This update will bring a few new features and bug fixes, detailed in the spoiler below. Cheers! Reveal hidden contents Key Changes This is a maintenance release to fix reported issues and add refinement to existing features. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, it includes following enhancements: New Features: When you mouseover the badge showing who liked a post, you will now see a larger list of who liked that post. You can still click to get the full list. Ratings now show half-stars for the average (for example, if one user votes 3 stars and another 4, it will show 3 and a half stars) and there is now an indication if you have rated something. A "Preview" button has been added to the post editor which shows how the post will appear after BBCode processing. Tabs show how the post will appear on desktop, tablet and mobile. Users can now choose to ignore notifications for being mentioned in posts by particular users. You can now filter searches by specific forums/categories. You can now control whether open and click tracking should be used for emails sent by SparkPost. Activity Stream enhancements: The filter dropdowns now have an "Apply" button for better usability (previously you had to click outside the dropdown). The "Expanded/Collapsed" toggles are now clearer. Hitting back from a clicked item in any activity stream now remembers your position and loaded results. Other enhancements and improvements: The way dates are formatted can now be customised by language strings. For example, if you want to change the date format to "DD-MM-YYYY" that is now possible. With this change, the new default is US-style ("March 4, 1992") rather than the previous European-style ("4 March 1992"). Advertisements no longer have padding which makes them easier to position in other areas such as headers. When comparing revisions of articles in Pages databases, a new browser-based diff tool is used which is more user-friendly and moves the computation from the server to the user's browser for greater performance. Better indication of files pending approval in Downloads. The version number for themes now displays in the AdminCP list. Technical features: If you are using the utf8 rather than utf8mb4 character set (which will mean you can't post Emoji) there is a new tool in the AdminCP to upgrade to utf8mb4. System logs have been rewritten to use the database for logging where possible with a more user-friendly interface in the AdminCP. Downloading files from Amazon S3 has been changed to redirect the user to a temporary download URL rather than serve the file through your server for significantly improved performance and reliability, especially with large files. If it is available on the server, ImageMagick will now be used rather than GD by default. ImageMagick also has a new setting to control JPG quality. APC User Cache is now supported in addition to APC. Additional Information Important Fixes In addition to many smaller bug fixes and performance improvements, the following important fixes are included: Uploading animated gifs was broken in some areas Support departments in Commerce could not be deleted. Member groups could not be deleted. The summary when submitting a calendar event may show the wrong time. Double posts may occur on Windows servers. Reports were not being sorted correctly. PM search is now more reliable. Profiles, and pages from the Pages app were missing from the sitemap in the default configuration. Using very high limits for the number of questions per poll may cause errors. Setting up the REST API may fail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Quark Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Does it take act at 12 AM? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smjjames Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 On 5/26/2016 at 10:48 AM, Kandjk said: Does it take act at 12 AM? Expand I'm sure they'll do it at the leastmost convenient time as possible Anyway, cool to hear on the forum update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Dilsby Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 On 5/26/2016 at 9:57 AM, KasperVld said: Users can now choose to ignore notifications for being mentioned in posts by particular users. Expand Oh, this is the most frabjous thing I've heard all week. Next best thing to seeing the "Guess Which Forum User We'll Needlessly Ping Next" thread get burned to the ground, run over with a train, and then set on fire again just to make sure. Hooray! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gojira1000 Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 On 5/26/2016 at 2:18 PM, Kuzzter said: Oh, this is the most frabjous thing I've heard all week. Next best thing to seeing the "Guess Which Forum User We'll Needlessly Ping Next" thread get burned to the ground, run over with a train, and then set on fire again just to make sure. Hooray! Expand Dang it, I was prepping my autopost to Kuzzter app for release... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sampa Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 ok, good to know, with my luck, this will occur while I am at work tomorrow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoMrBond Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 ISO 8601 for life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoloYolo Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Any idea how long it will be down? Field Trips don't last ALL day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obsidian_mc Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 QUICK, EVERYONE TO THE SPACE ENGINEERS FORUMS! WE WILL BE REFUGEES! (This is going to suck,a LOT) (Hopefully the bugs are treated afterwards, maybe SQUAD will actually NOT destroy a few threads...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dman979 Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 @regex? I heard you wanted a post preview? (You also said you wanted BBCode, but you can't get all the Hanukkah presents on one night. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Padishar Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 On 5/26/2016 at 9:57 AM, KasperVld said: The forums will suffer some scheduled downtime tomorrow to perform a software update. Expand As Kandjk asked earlier, is there any set time scheduled (and any estimate of the length of the downtime)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KasperVld Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 No set time, and I may have to postpone this to next week to await a hotfix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KasperVld Posted May 27, 2016 Author Share Posted May 27, 2016 The update has been postponed to next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stibbons Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 Dang, sorry the update didn't come through. Better luck next week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerbart Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 On 5/26/2016 at 10:48 AM, Kandjk said: Does it take act at 12 AM? Expand Somewhere in the world, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Quark Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 It 10 am for me now xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matuchkin Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 On 5/27/2016 at 2:41 AM, Obsidian_mc said: QUICK, EVERYONE TO THE SPACE ENGINEERS FORUMS! WE WILL BE REFUGEES! Expand I tried to go there, I stumbled into a virtual brick wall. They don't seem to want us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KerbalOmmex Posted May 27, 2016 Share Posted May 27, 2016 On 5/27/2016 at 2:37 PM, KasperVld said: The update has been postponed to next week Expand So that's why the forum isn't down...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruedii Posted May 28, 2016 Share Posted May 28, 2016 (edited) Is there a way you could get a read-only mode backup server running during the maintenance cycle this time? It would be very nice to be able to read the forums even if you can't reply. After all, many of us fetch certain references from the forums like the community list of mods. p.s. if not this time, could you see about doing it next time there is a maintenance/upgrade cycle? Edited May 28, 2016 by Ruedii Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukeoftheaura Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 am I the only one still wanting vbulletin back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KasperVld Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 On 5/28/2016 at 12:04 AM, Ruedii said: Is there a way you could get a read-only mode backup server running during the maintenance cycle this time? It would be very nice to be able to read the forums even if you can't reply. After all, many of us fetch certain references from the forums like the community list of mods. p.s. if not this time, could you see about doing it next time there is a maintenance/upgrade cycle? Expand If all goes well this update shouldn't take more than an hour. I'm still undecided exactly when this week it'll be though. On 5/31/2016 at 6:29 AM, kerbingamer376 said: am I the only one still wanting vbulletin back? Expand Maybe not, but we won't go back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 All the changes look great! On 5/26/2016 at 9:57 AM, KasperVld said: You can now control whether open and click tracking should be used for emails sent by SparkPost. Expand But what does this mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KasperVld Posted May 31, 2016 Author Share Posted May 31, 2016 On 5/31/2016 at 5:19 PM, Mad Rocket Scientist said: All the changes look great! But what does this mean? Expand That's a change that doesn't apply to us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Rocket Scientist Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 On 5/31/2016 at 5:20 PM, KasperVld said: That's a change that doesn't apply to us Expand OK, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 31, 2016 Share Posted May 31, 2016 On 5/31/2016 at 5:20 PM, KasperVld said: That's a change that doesn't apply to us Expand Ah. SparkPost. I tried configuring it on my forums the other day. I immediately went back to SMTP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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