Changelog for the upcoming release (preview)

New

• Added user shares to poll groups
• Added a forbidden route and page
• Added WatchController to OCS-API
• Sticky option headers in vote table
• added a variant of the sticky option headers to the user settings
• Lazy loading of participants on scroll, if too many vote cells are rendered
• Support Nextcloud 30

Changes

• Optimized janitor cron
• Optimized rebuild command
• Optimized poll loading by migrating subqueries to join (#3692)
• Accelerated loading performance of polls
• Separated pollGroups from polls (Store, Service, Mapper, ...)
• Catch CronJob runs and report as error, but avoid crash at higher thread levels
• Changed poll loading triggers (mainly navigation affected)
• Added some status to the watchWorker
• removed performance user setting in favor of lazy loading participants
• reduce noise by avoiding toasts for obvious changes

Fixes

• Fixed broken endpoint for manually calling autoReminderCron
• fix avatar foreground color

What's Changed

🚀 Enhancements

• Accelerate poll loading by @dartcafe in #4151
• Optimze scrolling with fixed header row and column by @dartcafe in #4154

🐛 Fixed bugs

• Fixes and more acceleration by @dartcafe in #4152

Full Changelog: v8.1.0-rc.1...v8.1.0-rc.2