2.7.17

Added

• Settings to turn off post, log, and news previews for the main page and search results

Changed

• HTML Purifier will allow the align attribute on p, img, hr, div, and span tags as well as all heading tags
• HTML Purifier will properly treat the center tag as a block-level element
• HTML Purifier will allow block-level elements inside of the center tag
• HTML Purifier will allow the style tag
• Nova will no longer do XSS filtering for post, log, and news content when updating the records
• Post, log, and news previews on the main page have been increased to 100 words from 50 words (this matches the word limit on search results)
• Post, log, and news previews will strip style tags and their contents for previews

Fixed

• In some cases during a Nova 2.6 upgrade, a bad redirect would cause a 404 error
• The main page was not properly stripping HTML tags from news item preview content

2.7.16

Changed

• HTML Purifier will recognize the center and font tags again
• Fixed PHP warnings when writing news items and personal logs
• Added sample post field for fresh installs (missed in previous update)
• Added news item pagination setting for fresh installs (missed in previous update)

2.7.15

Added

• News item page now paginates results for the public site
• Appearance setting for controlling how many news items appear per page
• Sample post is now stored in the database during registration
• Sample post is now displayed on the View Application page

Changed

• News item page no longer uses the "Categories" label above the list of news categories
• News item page no longer users the main_news_js Javascript file (the file has been left in place for any games or themes that still reference it)
• HTML Purifier recognizes most HTML5 tags and attributes
• Tailwind module now includes margin utility classes (1, 2, 3, 4, and 8 for mt, mb, mr, ml, my, mx, and m)
• Minor UI updates to the view application page

Security

• Updated dependencies to address CVE-2024-50345 (this is a low severity security advisory)

2.7.14

Added

• Send the version of Nova being updated from to Telemetry

Changed

• Refreshed user interface for updates
• Nova 3 compatibility report now includes the intl extension

Fixed

• Better PHP 8.4 compatibility (deprecation notices will continue to be logged from a Composer package that we are not able to fix)
• PHP warning logged about post_content key not being available in some situations
• Selection variants broken in Chrome 131 due to missing fallback opacity variables
• Server requirements should no longer show a failure when using MariaDB as a database

Removed

• SMS upgrade code
• Old update code that's no longer used

2.7.13

Added

• Unique game ID to the system information table

Changed

• Registration will now store a unique game ID from the Anodyne servers
• HTML Purifier recognizes the details and summary tags
• Modals that fail because of missing view files will show an error message

Fixed

• Unclosed HTML tags would cause bad formatting in search results (thanks to jasoncollege24 for the report and fix)
• Deprecation warning that was raised when trying to load empty My Links
• Suppress warning messages raised when unserializing session data
• PHP warning about assigning array items to a false value

Security

• Dependency updates

2.7.10

Added

• Snapshot endpoint
• Nova 3 compatability report to System Information and Version History report

Fixed

• If a posting requirement is not set, the dashboard would error. It will now default to 1 day.
• If there are no game masters set, attempting to send the contact form errors. The contact form will now be disabled if there are no game masters.
• Several deprecation warnings
• Some timestamps would show the word "ago" multiple times
• In some situations, editing a wiki page would throw errors (thanks to @c0dezer019 for the report)
• RSS feeds have inaccurate timestamps (thanks to @TurqW for the report and fix)
• RSS feed title can misbehave with special characters (thanks to @TurqW for the report and fix)

2.7.4

Changed

• Updated all fields marked as nullable in the install process as nullable in the update process.
• Better support for PHP 8.2.
• Analytics will properly report initial install date during the update process.
• Version checking uses an API endpoint on the Anodyne servers instead of parsing a YAML file.
• The response from the version check will be cached for 24 hours.

Fixed

• Could not delete any site messages.

2.7.3

Added

• update_read_guide language key.

Changed

• Updated Nova license to include 2023.
• Install and update processes will now report analytics back to Anodyne.
• In the production environment, Nova will only log errors and follow best practices for displaying errors and what it reports for logging.
• In the development environment, Nova will be more verbose in its logging.
• Update notifications have a better UI.
• Future update notifications will link to the update guide on the documentation site.

Removed

• Testing environment code. (This mirrored what is used for the production environment and was unnecessary.)

Fixed

• Some games running the BLANK genre were not able to get to their site after successfully updating.

2.7.2

Changed

• Minimum PHP version requirement has been raised from 7.0 to 7.4.
• Upgraded Swiftmailer to version 6.3.
• PHP's built-in mail() function can no longer be used with Swiftmailer. When using the mail protocol, Sendmail will be used instead.
• Moved the errors directory from application/views into the Nova core.
• Made the 2.4.10 update file idempotent to avoid duplicate data issues.
• When uploading images, if the target directory doesn't exist, it will attempt to create the directory.

Fixed

• Missing background image from jQuery UI library on the admin control panel in the Pulsar skin.
• Missing background image from jQuery UI library on the admin control panel in the Titan skin.
• Footer appears twice in the main section of Titan skin.
• Missing folders in the zip files (this only impacts fresh installs).
• Running the updater multiple times results in the version number being set to 2.5.
• Upload Image page didn't display information from the upload config file correctly.

2.7.1

Fixed

• Misconfigured base URL would redirect users to an external domain during the update process.