⏰Upgrading your v4 instance to our v5 beta will break your install of Coral ⏰
📢 If you're interested in helping us beta test v5, contact us at support@coralproject.net 📢
Features
- Introducing Live Updates on the Comment Stream! ⚡️
- New comments in the comment stream are updated automatically as they are created
- This functionality can be toggled on or off for heavy trafficked articles or websites to decrease load on the server
- Much sleeker and more user friendly design as compared to v4
- More info here: #2379
- Introducing Commenter History! 📈
- As in v4, now you can once again easily see the most pertinent information about your Community members
- More info here: #2383
- Introducing Team Invites! 💌
- Admins can easily invite their other team members to become Staff, Moderators, or other Admins
- Simply go the Community page and invite away! Note that email has to be configured on the server as well as admin local authentication to work
- More info here: #2349
- Introducing the ability to toggle different Toxicity Models for the Perspective API
- No need to manage this via .env files, this is now easily managed in the Configure page
- More info here: #2337
Fixes & Enhancements
- Fix bug that was preventing banned users from viewing the comment stream
Dev Support
- Add Cookie Support for future AMP support #2339
Migrations
- ⏰ This release requires 1 migration to upgrade from v5.0.0-beta.3 to v5.0.0-beta.4:
- Allows the capability for moderators and admins to disable live updates site wide or per story.; see here for migration instructions: #2391
How to Try v5
- All of v5 will live on the
nextbranch until we merge intomasterwhen it leaves the beta stage. We anticipate this will happen by Q3 2019 - For beta-ready features and code, you can use release tag
v5.0.0-beta.4 - If you'd like the
nightly build, you can pull directly from thenextbranch - Documentation related to v5 is located in our
READMEin thenextbranch - Please note that we currently do not support a migration path from v4 and below to v5; this will be coming in the future
- One more time: ⏰Upgrading your v4 instance to our v5 beta will break your install of Coral. This is not migration ready. ⏰
- If you have any questions, write us a note in our GitHub Issues