What's new in the release for February 6th, 2013?
It's been a while and quite a few things have changed.
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New Features
- API v1.1 is well on its way, with many new features and endpoints.
- 1.1 most notably includes the ability to write data back into Dozuki.
- Because API 1.1 is so close, we recommend waiting to start new projects until we have released version 1.1, within the next month. If you'd like a developer preview of what API 1.1 will contain, please don't hesitate to contact us.
- Created a new page view statistics tracking system that is more accurate.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed numerous security vulnerabilities across the site. Many thanks to the helpful security researchers listed here.
- Fixed accessing embed widgets for guides that no longer exist.
- Fixed a case where the Image Drawer was giving a rather unhelpful error message: "Object | Object".
- Fixed handling of certain fonts in Internet Explorer.
- Made the ordering of the Permissions, Tags, and Privacy modules on the right side of guide edit pages consistent across all stages of guide editing.
- Changed some backend text encodings from Latin-1 to Unicode.
- Fixed an error some customers were encountering when updating their site's settings.
- Made thumbnails in the Media Manager consistently-sized.
- Fixed a bug in site creation for customers with long names.
- Fixed a bug that was preventing PDF generation for some guides.
- Improved error messages on new Dozuki signups.
- Hide User Messaging Reports link in the /Manage interface if User Messaging is not enabled for the site.
- Fixed a bug that allowed new steps to sometimes be accepted automatically when they should have been patrolled.
- Fixed a bug that allowed users not on teams to view the private guides of other users who were not on teams.
- Improved error messages in the Media Manager.
- Fixed PDF generation for guides that included introductory videos.
- Fixed preview images of cropped or marked-up images.
- Fixed a variety of issues with sites whose names contained hyphens.
- Fixed image upload on SSL-everywhere sites.
- Improved error messages when indenting a step line too far.
- Fixed step character count to not include wiki syntax.
- Added parsing of Youtube short-links (e.g. youtu.be) when embedding videos.
- Condensed the Tools and Parts list so that it takes up less space on guides.
- Fixed some spacing issues in Answers.
- Fixed styling on caption text for intro embed videos.
Optimizations
- Improved image processing speed by another 20%!
- Improved quality of all new images uploaded to Dozuki.
- Decreased memory used in image uploading, allowing Dozuki to handle larger image uploads.
- Improved page load speed across the entire site by 15%!
Misc
- Decreased the maximum number of allowed bullet indentations from three to two.
- Improved layout in various parts of Answers.
- Drastically improved Single Sign On documentation.
- Added a user's contributions to the /user/id API endpoint.
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