• IMPORTANT DROP OF SUPPORT: Drop support for IE. Browsers now need async/await.
• IMPORTANT SECURITY: Rate limit Commits when env=production
• SECURITY: Non completed uploads no longer crash Etherpad
• SECURITY: Log authentication requests
• FEATURE: Support ES6 (migrate from Uglify-JS to Terser)
• FEATURE: Improve support for non-cookie enabled browsers
• FEATURE: New hooks for index.html
• FEATURE: New script to delete sessions.
• FEATURE: New setting to allow import withing an author session on a pad
• FEATURE: Checks Etherpad version on startup and notifies if update is available. Also available in /admin interface.
• FEATURE: Timeslider updates pad location to most recent edit
• MINOR: Outdent UL/LI items on removal of list item
• MINOR: Various UL/LI import/export bugs
• MINOR: PDF export fix
• MINOR: Front end tests no longer run (and subsequently error) on pull requests
• MINOR: Fix issue with closing a list before it opens
• MINOR: Fix bug where large pads would fire a console error in timeslider
• MINOR: Fix ?showChat URL param issue
• MINOR: Issue where timeslider URI fails to be correct if padID is numeric
• MINOR: Include prompt for clear authorship when entire document is selected
• MINOR: Include full document aText every 100 revisions to make pad restoration on database curruption achievable
• MINOR: Several Colibris CSS fixes
• MINOR: Use mime library for mime types instead of hard-coded.
• MINOR: Don't show "new pad button" if instance is read only
• MINOR: Use latest NodeJS when doing Windows build
• MINOR: Change disconnect logic to reconnect instead of silently failing
• MINOR: Update SocketIO, async, jQuery and Mocha which were stuck due to stale code.
• MINOR: Rewrite the majority of the bin scripts to use more modern syntax
• MINOR: Improved CSS anomation through prefers-reduced-motion
• PERFORMANCE: Use workers (where possible) to minify CSS/JS on first page request. This improves initial startup times.
• PERFORMANCE: Cache EJS files improving page load speed when maxAge > 0.
• PERFORMANCE: Fix performance for large pads
• TESTS: Additional test coverage for OL/LI/Import/Export
• TESTS: Include Simulated Load Testing in CI.
• TESTS: Include content collector tests to test contentcollector.js logic external to pad dependents.
• TESTS: Include fuzzing import test.
• TESTS: Ensure CI is no longer using any cache
• TESTS: Fix various tests...
• TESTS: Various additional Travis testing including libreoffice import/export