HISTORY.md

0.13.0

• Support only Python 3.8, 3.9, 3.10, and 3.11
• Support only Django 3.2, and 4.2

0.12.3

• Security fix: fixes open redirect vulnerability (issue #307)
• Added: support for search on Asian languages, set setting ST_NGRAM_SEARCH = True and rebuild the index python manage.py rebuild_index (issue #304)

0.12.2

• Fixed: missing template caused an error on password reset completed

0.12.1

• Updated Pillow dependency

0.12.0

• Added: email notifications for replies and mentions
• Added: ST_SITE_URL setting; this setting is required
• Added: ST_HUEY_SCHEDULE setting to control Huey periodic tasks schedule
• Added: ST_NOTIFY_WHEN setting to set the default frequency of email notifications for new users

0.11.1

• Added: support for Django 3.1
• Added: custom_header_logo block to template/spirit/_header.html template to extend/override the site's name/logo
• Added: button to mark all notifications as read
• Added: show installed Django version in admin dashboard
• Fixed: error when ST_STORAGE was set to 'spirit.core.storage.OverwriteFileSystemStorage'
• Fixed: Django deprecation warnings
• Fixed: UX/UI reply preview styles

0.11.0

• Added: show success message after a topic moderation action
• Fixed: Gravatar was removed (issue #103)
• Added: user avatar upload, and default CSS avatar
• Added: ST_STORAGE setting to use a custom media storage for Spirit images
• Added: ST_ALLOWED_AVATAR_FORMAT setting to restrict the allowed avatar image formats
• Added: DEFAULT_FILE_STORAGE is set to 'spirit.core.storage.OverwriteFileSystemStorage' that will overwrite files instead of renaming them when there is a name clash on save

0.10.1

• Fixed: ST_ORDERED_CATEGORIES no longer generates migrations
• Fixed: LOGIN_URL not being used in some places; now it's used everywhere
• UX: all lists rows in the admin section are now clickable

0.10.0

• Added ST_EXTENDED_FONT setting to load the extended font (includes Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic charsets)
• Added DIRS to the TEMPLATES setting to support templates overriding
• Added custom_head_extra, custom_before_spirit_body, and custom_after_spirit_body blocks to template/spirit/_base.html template to extend and include custom markup/styles/code into Spirit's base template
• Added ST_COMMENT_MAX_URL_LEN setting
• Added huey to the logging settings
• Added rel=nofollow to moderator/admin posted URLs
• Fixed password reset should use the send email task
• Fixed Facebook share comment link
• Removed admin footer snippet (issue #197)
• Removed spirit.topic.poll that was deprecated in Spirit v0.5
• Upgraded django-haystack and Pillow dependencies
• UX: every row in the topic list redirects to the topic on click
• UX: added microphone badge to OP

0.9.1

• Add default logs formatter and level to settings/base.py

0.9.0

• Added Kyrgyz translation (thanks to @jumasheff)
• Added django.contrib.humanize to INSTALLED_APPS settings
• Added HAYSTACK_SIGNAL_PROCESSOR to settings
• Added support for Huey and Celery task managers; added ST_TASK_MANAGER and ST_SEARCH_INDEX_UPDATE_HOURS settings
• Added realtime search indexation, full search index (periodic) update, and send email tasks
• Fixed user comment reply button
• Fixed paginator current page button (issue #168)
• Fixed ordered list style for the comments (issue #134)
• Revamped UI; Internet Explorer Browser is no longer supported
• Added Dark mode UI; it's active when the web browser is in dark mode, there is no user preference to activate it
• Namespaced CSS style

0.8.0

• Breaking changes:
  • Removed Python 3.4 support
  • Removed Django 2.0 support
  • Removed Django 2.1 support
  • Removed Django 1.1 support
  • Added Django 2.2 support
  • Added Django 3.0 support
  • No longer avoid duplicated user files, because of performance reasons. Set ST_PREVENT_SOME_FILE_DUPLICATION to True to get the previous behaviour back.

0.7.1

• Add math support (disabled by default, see doc's settings section)
• Add sortable categories (disabed by default, see doc's settings section). Thanks to @andreynovikov
• Update mistune and Pillow dependencies
• Remove uni-slugify and Unidecode dependencies
• Python and Django warnings are enabled for new projects. The change is in manage.py
• Fix strike-through style

0.7.0

• Breakig change: usernames are now case-insensitive, set ST_CASE_INSENSITIVE_USERNAMES = False to disable this feature. Disabling it is likely required for existing instances of Spirit due to clashing usernames
• New: case insensitive usernames

0.6.3

• Fix private forum restriction regression where an anonymous user was able to view sections other than the index
• Make bookmark save latest place only, going back to a previous page won't update the bookmark anymore (PR #245)
• Update locales/translations

0.6.2

• Fix password reset
• Make admin user-list redirect to the right user profile when clicking on a username

0.6.1

• Update dependencies: pillow==5.2.0 and django-djconfig==0.8.0

0.6.0

• Drops support for Django 1.8, 1.9 and 1.10
• Adds support for Python 3.7 (no changes required)
• Adds support for Django 2.0 and 2.1
• Adds django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware``to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES` setting
• Adds LOGOUT_REDIRECT_URL = 'spirit:index' to settings
• Removes jQuery dependency in favor of vanilla JS
• Fixes user's last_seen feature. There was a bug in the middleware that would update the field pretty much on every request
• Renames MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES (deprecated by django) setting to MIDDLEWARE
• Removes spirit.settings deprecated in Spirit 0.5
• Avoids installing spirit.topic.poll app in the generated project
• Updates haystack dependency to 2.8.1

0.5.0

• Drops support for Python 3.3
• Adds support for Python 3.6
• Adds support for Django 1.9, 1.10 and 1.11
• Adds python-magic dependency (to check uploaded files)
• Improvement: focus on comment editor after clicking a format button. PR #219 (thanks to @cryptogun)
• Fixes: untranslated strings. PR #218 (thanks to @cryptogun)
• Fixes: missing link on admin flag. PR #217 (thanks to @cryptogun)
• Fixes: XForwardedForMiddleware middleware and gunicorn error. PR #216 (thanks to @cryptogun)
• Improvement: Add @username on comment editor when clicking on a reply link. PR #212 (thanks to @cryptogun)
• Improvement: notifications page drop-down menu for read/unread. PR #213 (thanks to @cryptogun)
• New: lithuanian translation, thanks to @sirex
• New: file upload on comments
• Improvement: Adds ST_UPLOAD_IMAGE_ENABLED to enable/disable image uploads and ST_UPLOAD_FILE_ENABLED to enable/disable file uploads
• Remove deprecated topic_poll app
• Remove deprecated (since v0.2) spirit_user.User (PR #141), read the wiki or the PR for a workaround
• Updates mistune, haystack and woosh dependencies
• Deprecates spirit.settings. It will be removed in future releases
• Updates locales

0.4.8

• New: Anti double post (including comments, topics and private topics)
• New: Adds ST_DOUBLE_POST_THRESHOLD_MINUTES setting to change the the threshold time in which the double posting is prevented
• Improvement: Adds ST_COMMENT_MAX_LEN setting to change the maximum characters limit per comment (#107)
• New: Adds optional category title color (#110 thanks to @sheepsy90)
• Fix: Too many submissions when form submission has an error (#58)
• New: Key based expiration rate-limit.
• New: ST_RATELIMIT_CACHE = 'st_rate_limit' setting and CACHE.
• Fix: Boolean filters for Elasticsearch (PR #130)
• Improvement: UTC timezones instead of GMT in user profile form (#108)
• Fix: missing emojis (#93)
• Improvement: Replaced twitter emoji pack by emojiOne pack (PR #126)
• Improvement: Search within comments (#57)
• Improvement: Search-index partial update (PR #129)
• Improvement: Support for YouTube embeds that have a timestamp (PR #116 thanks to @alesdotio)

0.4.7

• Removed unused ST_UNCATEGORIZED_CATEGORY_PK setting
• Security fix: fixes a regression within markdown URLs present in v0.4.6 (#105 thanks to @qll)
• New: settings.ST_ALLOWED_URL_PROTOCOLS a set containing valid URL protocols

0.4.6

• Improvement: Updated mistune (markdown) dependency
• Fix: Facebook share link (#87 thanks to @initialkommit)
• Improvement: Adds email confirmation in registration
• Improvement: Removes password confirmation in registration
• Improvement: Login message changed to inform when the username is not found
• Improvement: Force HTML5 youtube player

0.4.5

• Adds Python 3.5 support
• New: Comment history diff (inserted & deleted lines)
• New: Twitter emojis pack
• New (Dev): Gulp tasks npm run gulp css and npm run gulp coffee for building assets
• Improvement: Adds rel="nofollow" to all comment links of regular users
• Improvement: CSS & JS minification and concatenation
• Improvement: Added STATICFILES_STORAGE = 'ManifestStaticFilesStorage' (settings.prod only) to append hashes to assets file names
• Improvement: woff2 font support
• Fix: Email required on registration
• Fix: Changed DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL default to webmaster@localhost (Django's default)
• Fix: Redirect to first unread comment on visited topics
• Fix: Adds missing apps.AppConfig in spirit.search to avoid app label clashes.

0.4.4

• New: mark topic as visited (grey out the link) when it has a bookmark
• New: mark topic as has new comments (red out comment icon) when it has new comments
• Fix: send emails as DEFAULT_FROM_EMAIL (default to site.name <noreply@[site.domain]>), setting this will be mandatory in future releases (default will be removed).
• Fix: Implement missing apps.AppConfig in spirit.core to avoid app label clashes.
• Fix: Show category names in the advance search template.

0.4.3

• New app comment.poll: Polls within comments
• New: Floating flash messages when there is a hash in the URL
• New: Case insensitive emails (setting.ST_CASE_INSENSITIVE_EMAILS)
• New & updated translations: Turkish (thanks to negativefix), Hungarian (thanks to istvanf), Polish, Polish (Poland), Spanish, German, Chinese, Swedish and Russian

0.4.2

• Adds management commands: spiritinstall, spiritupgrade
• Fix to use current date when a history comment is created

0.4.1

• Adds missing user profile migration (issue #62)

0.4.0

• Removed old migrations.
• Removed spirit app, it has been decoupled into many apps.

0.3.0

• Requires Django 1.8 (support for 1.7 has been dropped).
• Drops the custom AUTH_USER_MODEL.
• Deprecated AbstractForumUser and AbstractUser. They will be removed in future releases.
• Moved spirit.middleware.XForwardedForMiddleware to spirit.core.middleware.XForwardedForMiddleware.
• Moved spirit.middleware.TimezoneMiddleware to spirit.user.middleware.TimezoneMiddleware.
• Moved spirit.middleware.LastIPMiddleware to spirit.user.middleware.LastIPMiddleware.
• Moved spirit.middleware.LastSeenMiddleware to spirit.user.middleware.LastSeenMiddleware.
• Moved spirit.middleware.ActiveUserMiddleware to spirit.user.middleware.ActiveUserMiddleware.
• Moved spirit.middleware.PrivateForumMiddleware to spirit.core.middleware.PrivateForumMiddleware.
• Removed most signals.
• Renamed models: spirit.Category to spirit_category.category, spirit.UserProfile to spirit_user.UserProfile, spirit.Topic to spirit_topic.Topic, spirit.TopicFavorite to spirit_topic_favorite.TopicFavorite, spirit.Comment to spirit_comment.Comment, spirit.TopicNotification to spirit_topic_notification.TopicNotification, spirit.TopicPoll to spirit_topic_poll.TopicPoll, spirit.TopicPollChoice to spirit_topic_poll.TopicPollChoice, spirit.TopicPollVote to spirit_topic_poll.TopicPollVote, spirit.TopicPrivate to spirit_topic_private.TopicPrivate, spirit.TopicUnread to spirit_topic_unread.TopicUnread, spirit.CommentBookmark to spirit_comment_bookmark.CommentBookmark, spirit.CommentFlag to spirit_comment_flag.CommentFlag, spirit.Flag to spirit_comment_flag.Flag, spirit.CommentHistory to spirit_comment_history.CommentHistory and spirit.CommentLike to spirit_comment_like.CommentLike. ContentTypes were renamed accordingly, so if you have a model that relates to Spirit via a GenericForeignKey, you should not worry about it.

0.2.0

• Requires Django 1.7 (support for 1.6 has been dropped).
• Polls.
• Better markdown parser.
• Global pinned topics and regular pinned topics.
• Unicode url slug.

0.1.3

• Swappable user model: allows you to replace the Spirit user model by your own user model.

0.1.2

• Code highlighting.
• Emojis popup selector.
• Js scripts rewritten in coffeescript + tests.
• Social Integration: share comments on twitter, etc.
• Languages: German (by derWalter), Swedish (by silverstream).

0.1.1

• Private forum setting: if it's on, it won't allow non-members to browse the forum.
• Markdown fenced code blocks.
• Image upload for comments (not Drag&Drop).