Release Update: September 2014

Features

• Teams and profile pages have been redesigned for greater ease of use and to be more aesthetically pleasing
• Persistent API tokens can be created for automated access to the content of your site
  • See our API documentation for more information
• Google has deprecated OpenID, so we are making the transition from OpenID to OAuth
  • If you have a site that uses Google to log in, you can convert using the instructions found here
• Minor Manage UI cleanup
• Added a note when editing a prerequisite guide that warns you that your changes will be seen on multiple guides
• People who do not have an account yet can now be invited to join your team
• Authors can now edit any team’s profile page
• Team names can now include many more valid characters
• Added a new PDF viewer with more functionality, such as search and highlighting
• Moved Table of Contents option above Additional Information section for greater noticeability and clarity
• Expanded the coverage of our API
  • Added endpoints for private guide teams
  • The following guide attributes may now be modified via the API:
    • Time required, difficulty, image, documents, prerequisites, and flags

Bugs

• Fixed a bug where users’ reputation would sometimes be shown on sites where reputation wasn’t enabled
• Fixed a bug where some Mods and Authors were unable to login when SSO is enabled
• Fixed the alignment of the Moderation and About tabs on Answers
• Fixed a permissions bug where Authors couldn’t join Teams
• Minor UI improvement to the loading spinner animation
• Fixed a bug where you couldn’t name a wiki the same thing as a wiki that had been previously deleted
• Fixed a bug where if you previewed a guide’s intro before it was saved it would cause an error
• Fixed a bug where if you added a video to a guide that failed to generate a thumbnail it made the guide unusable
• Fixed a bug where guide blurbs weren’t formatted correctly on mobile devices