coralproject/talk v5.2.0

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Features

• Moderator notes 📃
  • Moderators can now share notes with each other on a particular commenter
  • You can see these by going to Notes as part of the Commenter History drawer
  • More info: #2601
• Configurable staff badges ⭐
  • Instead of only showing "Staff", you can now customize this badge for your newsroom
  • This badge will show for anyone with the role of Admin, Moderator, or Staff
  • More info: #2620
• Set a commenter to "pre-mod" status ✋
  • You can assign a commenter to be always pre-moderated
  • If a commenter has this status, all of their comments will automatically go into pre-moderation, so you can accept or reject their comments manually
  • More info: #2572
• Prevent repeat comments 📋
  • Coral now warns a commenter if they're posting the same comment twice
  • If they proceed, the comment goes to moderation
  • More info: #2632
• Comment Count widget 🔢
  • You can now easily add a comment count to your articles by adding a widget to your page
  • More info: #2581, #2598
• Keyboard shortcuts 🎬
  • Moderators can now use the new and improved keyboard shortcuts they so loved in previous versions of Coral
  • More info: #2588, #2635, #2626
• Comment revisions ✏️
  • Moderators can now see a comment's previous revisions, so they can make better decisions when moderating a comment
  • More info: #2590
• Better SSO support 🔐
  • We've removed username validation for newsrooms integration with SSO to make it easier to work with the user data you already have #2627
  • We also now hide the Logout button when the JTI is undefined #2652
• Rate-limiting for commenting ⏳
  • For added security, we now prevent commenters from making too many comments in a row
  • More info: #2616

Fixes & Enhancements

• Warn if someone is trying to invite a user who has already been invited #2637
• Updates to email template language #2615
• Small copy fixes #2607, #2606
• Add favicon support #2595

Automatic Migrations

• We now have automatic migrations which will run when a new version is deployed #2597

Dev Support

• Move to eslint #2634, #2642
• Update Mongo version to 4.2 #2592
• Persist fragment access tokens in sessionStorage #2643
• Allow unknown fields to be passed in the JWT #2640
• Restrict number of elements returned for security reasons #2641
• Fix bugs with allowing certain roles to take actions #2630, #2631
• Fixes for OIDC support #2623
• Remove dupe code #2618, #2608
• Add encoding for Story ID #2614
• Add support for Comment Search API #2578
• Remove X-Powered-By express header #2605
• Index support #2596

Translations

• Updates to Brazilian Portuguese #2647, #2645, #2629, #2621, #2604, #2661

How to Use v5

• ⏰It is currently not possible to upgrade from v4 to v5; this will break your install of Coral. Stay tuned for migration paths and instructions coming soon. ⏰
• Documentation related to v5 is located in our docs: https://docs.coralproject.net
• If you have any questions, write us a note in our GitHub Issues