v0.11.0

New Features & Enhancements

• Streamlined Comment & Notification Experience

  • When you receive comment notifications, the thread names are now clearer.

• Improved Content Display

  • Suggested edits now include a visible category header.
  • On the “All Communities” page, post entries and reputation numbers are now linkified.

• Enhanced Search & Sorting

  • Activity sorting has been added to search results and now aligns with how categories are ordered.

• User Interaction Upgrades

  • Avatars in user cards have become clickable.
  • When entering two-factor authentication codes, input fields use the numeric keypad on mobile devices.

• Social & SEO Improvements

  • OpenGraph tags have been fixed to ensure that shared links display the appropriate preview information.

Bug Fixes & UI Refinements

• Layout & Visual Tweaks

  • Fixed issues with elements that used to overflow their containers.
  • Resolved a max-width CSS problem that was affecting the droppanel on posts, and improved the numeric stats column wrapping in the user sidebar.

• User Data & Moderation Enhancements

  • Usernames now handle empty values more gracefully.
  • Moderators can now follow links to deleted user profiles.

• Test & Deployment Stability

  • Resolved issues that caused seed data to fail on a clean test database.
  • The release also includes various under-the-hood fixes to improve overall system stability.

Maintenance & Under-the-Hood Updates

• Regular dependency updates

• Technology Refresh

  • The project now requires Ruby 3.1 or higher.
  • Started to remove jQuery as part of our efforts to modernize the codebase and streamline the frontend.

• Internal Task Updates

  • Updates to maintenance tools
  • Switched our code coverage from Coveralls to Codecov

Full Changelog

• Support only Ruby 3.1 onwards by @trichoplax in #1526
• Bump rack from 2.2.10 to 2.2.11 by @dependabot in #1529
• Update maintenance_tasks by @ArtOfCode- in #1530
• Maintenance: switch from Coveralls to Codecov by @ArtOfCode- in #1531
• clarify thread name in comment notifications by @cellio in #1541
• Bump nokogiri from 1.17.1 to 1.18.3 by @dependabot in #1532
• Show category header for suggested edits by @cellio in #1547
• add activity sort to search results, match order with category sorts by @cellio in #1550
• linkify entries for posts, reputation on "all communities" page by @cellio in #1549
• Fix Nokogiri dependency issue due to bump to 1.8.3 by @Oaphi in #1552
• Bump rack from 2.2.11 to 2.2.12 by @dependabot in #1554
• Remove server.pid in the entrypoint if present by @Oaphi in #1556
• Bump ruby-saml from 1.17.0 to 1.18.0 by @dependabot in #1564
• Bump rack from 2.2.12 to 2.2.13 by @dependabot in #1560
• Bump nokogiri from 1.18.3 to 1.18.4 by @dependabot in #1565
• Fix for seeds failing on clean test database by @Oaphi in #1571
• cleaning up after dependabot's breaking of nokogiri by @Oaphi in #1573
• New user comments by @ArtOfCode- in #1578
• Add overflow-wraps to several elements currently overflowing by @LunarWatcher in #1558
• Add YARD comments by @ArtOfCode- in #1443
• Fix OpenGraph tags by @ArtOfCode- in #1581
• Null-safe usernames by @ArtOfCode- in #1582
• Switch order of page titles by @ArtOfCode- in #1580
• fixed max-width override taking over droppanel's max-width in posts by @Oaphi in #1587
• Link to deleted users for moderators by @ArtOfCode- in #1585
• Use numeric inputs for two-factor codes by @ArtOfCode- in #1583
• RAILS_ENV should be set to test not only during prep when running CircleCI jobs by @Oaphi in #1588
• Fix numeric stats column wrapping in user sidebar by @Oaphi in #1593
• Workaround for #1591: expand server-side rendering by @ArtOfCode- in #1592
• Remove jQuery by @ArtOfCode- in #1431
• make avatar in usercard clickable by @cellio in #1597

New Contributors

• @LunarWatcher made their first contribution in #1558

Full Changelog: v0.10.0...v0.11.0