Totara Social Release Notes

Totara Social 1.0.8 Released 2nd July 2015

 
Yuliya Bozhko
Totara Social 1.0.8 Released 2nd July 2015
by Yuliya Bozhko - Thursday, 2 July 2015, 5:02 AM
 

Totara Social 1.0.8 is a snapshot release containing bug fixes and various improvements. In this release, we have also updated several third-party plugins to stay up to date with their improvements and bug fixes.

Here is the changelog for Totara Social 1.0.8:

 

Release 1.0.8 (2nd July 2015):
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Improvements:
    TS-434    Added a menu to edit/delete content items directly in Activity Stream
    TS-426    Added an option to submit status updates attachments. Such attachments are
              now displayed in Activity Stream as embedded images or files for download
    TS-540    Various forum improvements:
               - Added parent subject into the topic reply post, to encourage a new subject
                 to have some relation to the previous one
               - Made poster name linkable to their profile in forum email notifications
               - Improved message headings in forum emails
    TS-549    Added 'active users' to the registration and statistics data. Active users
              are calculated based on the accounts' last login/access data within 365 days
    TS-566    Added links to success messages when adding connections or joining groups from
              the recommendation block

Third-party libraries updates:
    Updated jQuery-UI to version 1.11.4
    Updated jQuery Fileupload plugin to version 9.10.1
    Updated Elastica plugin to version 2.0.0

Bug Fixes:
    TS-559    Prevent files from being uploaded when the file type check fails in page blocks
    TS-135    Added missing strings in Activity Stream
    TS-565    Fixed an issue where formatting in email messages between users was lost
    TS-563    Fixed topics from other groups showing on Group Activity Stream
    TS-552    Fixed Elasticsearch 'Tags only' option not working correctly
    TS-537    Made files uploaded as attachments not trigger activities in Activity Stream
    TS-555    Fixed console error when sending '0' as a message in chat
    TS-553    Fixed typo in Contributions block English language string
    TS-548    Moved chat garbage collection to cron
    TS-556    Fixed warning message when deleted files are used in page blocks
    TS-543    Improved performance of instant notifications
    TS-544    Made function rrmdir() check that it is not removing non-chat data
    TS-546    Changed error handling in chat to only show debugging information to developers
    TS-547    Improved handling of an issue when chat was creating a lot of messages files
              due to incorrect directory permissions
    TS-97     Added better error handling if ActivityType methods are called in wrong order
    TS-558    Added description about allowed filetypes in Embedded media blocks