verbb/comments 1.8.0

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Added

• Add Gravatar support to automatically fetch commenter avatars.
• Add comments widget to show summary of comments in the Dashboard.
• Add votes param to orderBy comment queries, allowing you to order comments by their total number of votes.
• Add isFlagged comment query param.
• Add maxUserComments plugin setting to control the maximum number of comments each user can add, for each owner element.
• Add securityMatchExact plugin setting to allow security keywords to be exact word matches.
• Add notificationAdmins plugin setting, allowing you to add emails for administrators to get email notifications on every comment.
• Add templateEmail plugin setting to provide your own template for email notifications.
• Add maxReplyDepth plugin setting to control how many levels of replies a comment can have - even disable replies altogether.
• Add notificationAdmin to provide a collection of emails for certainly admin-centric notifications.
• Add notificationAdminEnabled to notify nominated admins whenever a comment is made.
• Add notificationFlaggedEnabled to notify nominated admins whenever a comment is flagged.
• Add “Votes” column to comment index in control panel.
• Add “Flagged” column to comment index in control panel.
• Add native Feed Me support.
• Add custom field support for Feed Me importing.
• Add commentsSiteInclude() Twig function to allow template include resolution to site templates.
• Add jsSettings optional parameter to craft.comments.render() to supply JS with extra settings.
• Add trashAction and trashActionMessage to JS render variables.
• Add comment caching for parent comments.
• Add caching for avatars, to prevent fetching the same avatar multiple times.

Changed

• Improved database query performance, lowering average queries by 30%.
• Replace class selectors with attributes for javascript. (thanks @jsunsawyer).
• Comments now requires Craft 3.5.8+.
• Memoize flags and votes for performance.

Fixed

• Fix eager-loading comments more than 2 levels deep.
• Fix comment replies not appearing in the control panel when editing a comment, if the replies were trashed.
• Fix guest avatars not caching correctly for comment elements.
• Fix comment owner not being cached properly for comment elements.
• Fix missing <p> tags when editing a comment and closing a comment on the front-end.

Removed

• Removed showCustomFields config setting.