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2022

2022-12-15

Improvements:

  • synchronise dependencies in real time
  • faster creation of multi cards
  • presence of users open on card without board open
  • link to API documentation
  • adding dependencies between private cards
  • handling of dependencies where not accessible
  • make associated comments public when card is made public
  • synchronise my private tasks between my windows

Fixes:

  • issue opening board "Error: Minified React error #185"
  • issue where Community widget shows 'my' boards incorrectly
  • issue where someone online in board remained online if page reloaded
  • issue where lists hidden when previewing Kanban view while creating a Board
  • issue where page crashed on logout in Node view
  • issue where page crashed on logout in Timeline view
  • issue where files couldn't be downloaded
  • issue where page reloaded in admin view

2022-11-15

Improvements:

  • Redis client reuse
  • Ensure Redis is available on startup

2022-11-09

Features:

  • installable web app

Performance:

  • faster load
  • added virtual scroll for Kanban
  • smoother drag and drop
  • faster filtering/searching inside a Board

Improvements:

  • improved new user experience in integrations
  • hide dependency lines while dragging & resizing
  • usability of tile color label edit/selection
  • stop auto redirecting expired account
  • debugging added for socket connections and description locking
    > In browser console, you can enter `boards.setDebug(true)` and press Enter to enable this, then reload the page.
> You will then get debug logs in the console for all websocket and description lock events.
> Use `boards.setDebug(false)` to turn this off when done.

Fixes:

  • fix for drag scrolling lists on mobile
  • fix editing link titles
  • fix positioning of timeline arrows caused by swimlane animations
  • fix double click to add list

2022-10-24

Improvements:

  • reduced processing whilst dragging cards
  • /app/createcard micro app - new users can now create a board instead of being stuck with no board to choose

Timeline:

  • animate expand/collapse of scheduled lanes
  • fix for hidden cards on timeline when duplicated (eg multiple colors/assignments)
  • highlight multiple instances of same card on hover
  • remember last view (list/color/members)
  • live updates of list names, color labels and members
  • show color labels

Fixes:

  • webhook api events may not have fired in a specific situation for users with linked accounts

2022-10-10

Fixes:

  • API documentation page no longer using local config (all "Try it out" routes would fail).

2022-10-07

API Updates:

  • Add PATCH method for /node/{nodeId} to allow changing any attribute of a card or list
  • Add webhook for card-moved events (/webhook/card-moved/{boardId})

Translations:

  • Full translation run for all supported languages

Features / Fixes:

  • Fixed scolling in the Timeline view when you have too many lists to fit in the view
  • Changed colours on the Timeline view to better show cards when dragging
  • Fix for closing date picker on touch screens
  • Remade the drag preview on timeline to look more like a card
  • Build process refactor - docker images are much smaller after this update
  • All images updated to pass latest security scan requirements

2022-09-07

Security Update:

  • Full node.js package audit and update

2022-08-25

Features:

  • Added translations for Dependencies feature
  • Added translations for all email templates

2022-08-16

Features:

Fixes:

  • Distorted profile image if not square

2022-08-09

Improvements:

  • Compatibility for private channels in Teams

Fixes:

  • Attach Card with remembered previous selection

2022-06-24

Features:

Improvements:

  • Printing in Board View
  • Highlights widget opening fullpage
  • Updated Recent Boards in side toolbar
  • Viewing card title when user presence is also displayed
  • Visibility of Owners Only group Boards

Fixes:

  • Styling of user presence when multiple
  • Card toolbar on smaller resolutions
  • Community widget now works if user has no email
  • 'Commented on' recent updates not syncing in real-time
  • Auth loop when using Connections Header
  • Loading ToDo View & 'View' by 'Groups' when a group has been deleted
  • Description not saving in certain window changing scenarios

2022-05-13

Features:

  • Auto login to Boards if only one provider configured

Improvements:

  • Prevent closing page when still editing description
  • Styling of description locked alert for visibility when scrolled
  • New Teams welcome message card
  • New Teams notification cards

Fixes:

  • Clickable links in description
  • Moving focus between description and comments
  • Saving description changes when focusing new comment
  • Truncation of comment when posting in some circumstances
  • Prevent authors attempting to edit descriptions when not allowed
  • @mentions on new lines created with shift+enter
  • Showing bubble editor when select all text in comment (ctrl+a)
  • Issue with attachments from EML uploads (e.g. drag from HCL Notes)

2022-04-20

Features:

Fixes:

  • Issue loading Activity Stream gadget
  • Issue with Moderated Community access
  • Issue when updating Board title
  • Issue with lock of description in communities

2022-04-07

Improvements:

  • Reduced number of simultaneous MongoDB connections

Fixes:

  • Issue with comment stream entry for Orient Me
  • Issue with updating card title from Boards view in FireFox
  • Issue with deeplinked Connections Community widgets
  • Issue with Boards Search styling
  • Issue with opening filters via icon
  • Issue with Moderated Community ACL
  • Issue with Teams login popup not closing

Activity Migration:

  • Fix invisible top level task/entries

2022-03-21

Improvements:

  • File upload feedback (eg when socket unavailable)

Fixes:

  • WebSocket failure fallback to Polling
  • Prevent duplicates appearing in history from live events
  • First comments not live displaying
  • Issue where Timeline displaying some cards a day out
  • Issue where Subscriber Redis crashes after too many concurrent events

2022-03-09

Improvements:

  • Upgraded libraries for performance/security/support (e.g. Material UI, Redis)
  • Improved loading perfomance (reduced bundle size)

Fixes:

  • issue where comments disappear in certain scenarios
  • issue where pasting into edited comment clears comment
  • issue where loading a Community widget where the Board has been deleted causing an inifinite loop

Activity Migration:

  • Added optional variables to reprocess migrated files which had encoding issues

2022-02-17

Features:

  • Ability to change Private cards to Public

Improvements:

  • Updated Date pickers with month/year selection
  • Updated Material UI library to latest
  • Better internationalisation of dates

Fixes:

  • Fix for saving description on modal closure
  • Fix for transfer membership
  • Fix detection of descriptions migrated from Activities
  • Fix for entry styling when Visual Update One applied

Activity Migration:

  • Uses new FileInfo meta structure
  • Fix to flag cards with description

2022-02-10

File store migration

CAUTION: When deployed, this release (and all subsequent) will migrate the minio file store, changing it's structure permanently, we recommend performing a backup of the file store (/pv-connections/kudos-boards-minio) before installation in case there is any need to roll back.

Improvements:

  • File uploads have better user feedback, showing a partial file and track the upload progress
  • File downloads make better use of the original mimetype and no longer use the file name in the url
  • When setting Due, Start and End Dates the picker now supports clicking in the header to choose a year

Fixes:

  • Cards created from Outlook / Verse can crash a board
  • Date "chips" on card view need to be clicked twice
  • Pasting an image can wipe a description
  • Boards in a community / team no longer show "My Boards" on error
  • Clicking "Private" sometimes does nothing
  • File size calculation now allows a full 50mb file

2022-01-07

Fixes:

  • Issue where notifications of comments not sent to other commenters
  • Issue where emails sent to content creators when users are no longer Board members
  • Issue when completing tasks when multi-assign has been removed
  • Issue where sub cards not loading when opening a card via url
  • Issue where card breadcrumbs (ancestors) not displaying when opening a card via url

2021

2021-12-17

Improvements:

  • Throttle lookups of members from Communities application
  • Improved description of scheduled cards in Recent Updates history
  • Arabic language updates

Fixes:

  • Issue when adding Tag with same starting letter as previous
  • Issue when moving Cards in MindMap
  • Issue where Board title overflowed in MindMap
  • Issue where removing description was not synchronised to other users with modal open

2021-11-23

Features:

  • Recent Updates (board level and inside cards)

Improvements:

  • Arabic language updates
  • MSGraph user searching (inc Guests)
  • Activity Migration: better feedback when invalid content store data

Fixes:

  • Assigning a user by drag/drop creates second card from profile image

2021-11-18

Updates:

  • All services have been updated to the latest LTS version on Node.js, all dependencies have been updated to their latest supported versions.
  • Updated translations for Arabic and German.

2021-11-02

Fixes:

  • Licence not found errors when adding or removing licences in the LICENCE key environment variable.

2021-10-26

Fixes:

  • SSL Issue connecting to Component Pack Mongo

2021-10-22

Features:

  • User Presence
  • Private Cards

Improvements:

  • Load performance by reducing page size
  • Activities View performance
  • Optional API Rate Limiting
  • Better handling of conflicting CSS from Visual Update One
  • Enhancement for Microsoft Graph groups which are not teams (owner vs member)

Fixes:

  • Issue when adding Connections Communities as members
  • Issue when changing user account tries to loads the previous open Board
  • Issue where link is inserted at start of description
  • Issue with authenticated webhooks
  • Issue with S3 "bucket-already-exists" race condition
  • Issue where multiple toasts in quick succession never auto closed

2021-09-29

Improvements:

  • Reduce reliance on Communities application

    • Reduce member lookups
    • Increase page size of Communities requests
    • Throttles simultaneous requests to Communities
    • Increase caching of responses

  • Undo / Redo option in Rich Text editor

Fixes:

  • Indexing issue when recreating providerID_1 with new options

2021-09-24

Improvements:

  • Debug logging of 400 errors in webfront

Fixes:

  • issue with index in Component Pack mongo when assigned task name too long

2021-09-17

Note: this update performs several schema changes on start-up as a once-off. Board content may be temporarily unavailable for a few minutes. Also be aware that downgrading to a previous release will cause access issues in Community boards with role 'inherit'. Please contact us if you have any issues at support@huddo.com

Note: if you encounter 400 bad requests when loading /boards, please see this troubleshooting guide.

Features:

  • Private Cards

Improvements:

  • Board load performance
  • User/Group search performance
  • more granular user permissions for group membership
  • ability to set group permissions for a Board on create in the group
  • Community name search improvements (handling of names with special characters)
  • added missing German translations
  • MongoDB - refined and reduced total indexes. Be aware that this update will cause a heavy re-index.

Fixes:

  • issue where you could not change level of community members
  • issue assigning colours in quick succession
  • issue when removing filters on ToDo view
  • teams notifications turning back on when they are disabled
  • issue accepting email invites for guest/external users

2021-06-24

Fixes:

  • Added environment variable FORCE_POLLING in webfront to avoid issues seen when using IHS as reverse proxy
  • API documentation should now work for cp releases, see /api-boards/

2021-06-09

Breaking change:

Emails are now sent by the events service. You must move the NOTIFIER_* environment variables from core to events as shown in v3 of our chart

New Features:

  • Due Date reminder emails
  • Email notification controls
  • Product Tours

Improvements:

  • New email styling & full Card/Board representation

Fixes

  • Visibility of assignment completion (ticks) when multi-complete
  • Issue where description was hidden if other card attribute updated
  • UI feedback when completing task on Todos view
  • Completion logic when completing last assignment
  • Missing description when post comment, export Board as CSV, create Board from Template (since 06-02)
  • Logout issue (since 06-02)

2021-06-02

Improvements:

  • Only load Descriptions when required (less data, faster loading times)
  • Styling/positioning of Date selection

Fixes

  • Missing Boards when viewed by Color (if never opened)

2021-05-31

Improvements:

  • Microsoft (Teams & Sharepoint) - detect owners vs members (authors)
  • Creating board in Sharepoint sites
  • Comment create/delete UI performance
  • Card completion performance

Fixes:

  • ACL for Readers/Commenters
  • Protect against removing an assignment while still creating
  • Showing image pasted in description with no text
  • Linking to files in folders
  • Description lock issues when framed (Connections, Sharepoint etc)
  • Wrap long comments instead of sideways scrolling

2021-05-13

Improvements:

  • Link to Files / Upload to Files

    • Show options for all member Groups (Communities)
    • Updated defaults for private Boards
    • Alphabetic ordering of Connections files
    • Type to filter

  • Allow custom NodeMailer email options (insecure tls etc)

    core.env.NOTIFIER_EMAIL_OPTIONS: "{\"ignoreTLS\": true,\"tls\":{\"rejectUnauthorized\":false}}"

Fixes:

  • Color tag menu positioning on small screen
  • Boards image on file uploads (context root)

2021-05-04

Improvements:

  • User feedback when assigning tasks to multiple users (no flickering)
  • Reconnect live events after service updates
  • API docs only at root, send 404 for missing/incorrect routes
  • Reduce height of background event loading progress bar

Fixes:

  • Archive view loading animation
  • Adding an Admin by email search
  • Dot in Node modal above name input visible with a theme
  • Outlook add-in file updates
  • Deep linking to Community Boards widget in Highlights app
  • Authors can no longer assign users to tasks they did not create
  • Authors and Readers can complete 'All Must Complete' tasks they are assigned to

2021-04-29

New:

  • Boards Event service

Fixes:

  • Allow editing of rich text when sockets fail
  • Opening cards with html imported from Outlook
  • Member assignment on click in menu
  • Remove card theme when deleting file set as card theme
  • Multiple assignments in rapid succession

2021-04-26

Improvements:

  • Updates to Rich Text Editor & editor locking mechanism
  • Card icon for scheduled start/end dates
  • Admin revoke & anonymise user function
  • API for email to Card/Entry parsing
  • API for file upload as new Card

Fixes:

  • Highlights widget update for C7
  • Updated German translation

Activity Migration

  • Use Connections Shared Drive to load Activity long descriptions and files (new variables & volume/mount required in yaml)

2021-03-22

Improvements:

  • Board loading performance

Fixes:

  • Locking of description when socket fails
  • Activity migration - protect against old public data

2021-03-16

Improvements:

  • Handle legacy Boards WebSphere URL redirect (hashes)

  • Ability to transition between providers

    • Link User accounts by full email address
    • Map Groups by CSV file
    • Transfer Ownership & Unlink accounts

Fixes:

  • Verse integration

2021-03-10

Fixes:

  • Groups not saving expanded members (affects imported Activities)
  • Issue where homepage didnt reload after login from secondary alias
  • Improved support for imported community owner + reader role

Activity Migration:

  • Updated Mongoose version to fix 'module exports inside circular dependency' warning

2021-03-05

Features:

  • New Huddo branding!
  • New API with docs!

  • API integrations with

    • Zapier
    • Power Automate

  • Leave a Board

  • Card description lock (one-at-a-time editing)
  • Embed Cards/Boards in third party apps (e.g. Sharepoint)

Fixes:

  • Prevent file upload with zero size
  • Support migrated folders

2021-03-04

Fixes:

  • Connections login no longer sends redirect_uri (connections will use the one configred in wsadmin)

2021-03-03

Improvements:

  • Ability to sync profiles from Connections & Microsoft (please follow the steps on the Admin page of each Client)
  • Ability to automatically link user aliases in 2 different clients (eg Connections & Microsoft)
  • Support for Activity URL with entryId

Fixes:

  • Redirect to login if required when accessing Activity URL
  • Board ACL updates for membership escallation

2021-02-19

Improvements:

  • Todos view
    • hide sub-cards which are not applicable
    • hide multi-assigned tasks I have completed (assigned view)

Fixes:

  • Disable notification for Communities with 'owner-only' membership
  • Notifications when creating a Board & members at the same time
  • Protect against imported data for assignments without users & nodes without creator
  • Mindmap - expand/collapse icons
  • Redirect from Activity URL to Board URL in the Connections header frame
  • Show all public members when multiple

2021-01-19

Improvements:

  • Show login page on file download when unauthorized
  • Login options for Verse/Outlook integration

Fixes:

  • Tile color popup positioning and scrolling for small screens
  • Protect against null assignment value after import
  • PDF downloads inside the community widget
  • Show new cards added in assignments view
  • Show assigned cards in Timeline view (only affects some users with multiple linked accounts)

2020

2020-12-14

Features:

  • Updated migration service to support the new "Community Owners only" option

  • Added fix for Activities that had already been imported and used the equivalent permission set in Activities

    boards.yaml

    migration:
    env:
        # test = report activities and board membership that can be updated
        # true = run the fix and report results
        FIX_COMMUNITY_OWNERS_ONLY: test|true

2020-12-12

Features:

  • Added group membership option "Community Owners Only" which makes the community owners have owner rights in a board but does not allow any other community members access. This option is available for boards created in a community widget only.

2020-11-13

Improvements:

  • Increase multi-lingual coverage

2020-11-02

Improvements:

  • Increase multi-lingual coverage
  • Creating Board from template includes members/description
  • Option to disable Welcome emails (user.env.DISABLE_WELCOME_EMAIL)

Fixes:

  • Uploading file in iOS Safari

2020-10-14

Improvements:

  • Updated Rich Text Editor

Fixes:

  • Re-open last board view
  • User trial reminder
  • Extension of user trials
  • Download linked files with .odt extension

2020-10-05

Features:

  • Board Search
    • Increase visibility of filters
    • Maintain filters after page reload
    • Hide Completed Todos
    • Hide Empty Lists
  • Preview Files, support for
    • Excel (xlsx, xls)
    • PDF

Improvements:

  • Rich Text Editor - allow indenting paragraphs
  • Logging updates
  • Activity Migration - add default link type

Fixes:

  • Default handling of links from migrated Activities
  • User Avatar initials fallback
  • Include current user as option in user licence search & custom field person

2020-09-18

Features:

  • New rich text editor with improved handling for
    • tables
    • whitepace
    • paste from office
    • font, font size, font color
    • file upload feedback
  • Search Board by Custom Fields (Text & People)
  • Search improvements - show sub-tasks when parent match filter

Improvements:

  • UI feedback for Chrome Incognito third-party security exception
  • Microsoft Teams file preview
  • Microsoft Teams file links
  • Internal microservice communication (Note: this requires a new Helm Chart V2)
  • Updated HCL Connections icon

Fixes:

  • Issue where page reloads constantly in Connections frame
  • Outlook integration issue
  • File Preview in Safari
  • Board Properties toolbar 'more' menu
  • API update for completing a task already completed

2020-08-24

Features:

  • Live Board Tile views (my/public/groups)
  • Export Board/Cards as CSV
  • Upload multiple files at once
  • Drag and drop multiple emails into an open card
  • Link to Board/List/Card - copies a direct URL to clipboard

Improvements:

  • Performance (loading times)
  • Use local font files (no external URLs)
  • Focused people search results in Connections
  • Previewing linked files has link to Connections file info
  • Loading Community images
  • Support nested comments imported from Activities
  • Support pasting images in comments
  • Support long board names in left sidenav
  • Scroll members area in right sidenav when long
  • Show summary numbers in Members dialog
  • UI feedback while saving custom fields
  • Cookie handling (SameSite)
  • Firefox scrollbar styling

Fixes:

  • Saving of description on reload & modal change
  • Comment duplicate while saving
  • Support non-english @mentions
  • @mention overflow issue
  • Recent boards in left sidenav
  • Move and not open page crash issue
  • Ordering of links in a card
  • Sharing my private file with a public folder
  • Previewing of linked Community files
  • Activities imported with unknown user assignments
  • Dragging color onto tiles
  • Allow unassigning users who are no longer members
  • Ordering issue on cards created using past

2020-07-10

Improvements:

  • Activity Stream deep-linking to Community Boards
  • Community Boards - open board links in fullpage
  • Fix searching individual Activity imports
  • Update individual Activity import grouping of top level entries
  • Fix loading of some imported Activities

Activity Migration:

  • Support migration of Activity files with unicode & whitespace characters in name
  • Performance & stability improvements (large activities & filesets, rollback files on failure, extra logging, retry logic)

2020-06-17

Fixes:

  • Show newly created comments in Todo view
  • Support Activity URL redirects
  • Community Boards loading issue

Activity Migration:

  • UI control options fix
  • Support migration of Activity files with special characters in name
  • Support for Activity links
  • Protect against system tenant IDs '-Ignore-Organization-ID-' etc
  • DB2 support for PEOPLEDB on secondary host

2020-06-05

Please see our Cloud blog

Improvements:

  • Loading performance
  • Rendering performance
  • Reduce size of application
  • Node view UI refresh

New Features:

  • Card theme from uploaded images
  • Preview uploaded files (images, docx, pdf, html etc)
  • Todos Overview - filtering to selected Boards
  • Drag and drop Email into Cards (ie from HCL Notes)
  • Activity Stream Gadget for Boards - config updates required
  • Multiple Assignment options for Cards

Fixes:

  • Email notifications for invited collaborators

2020-04-09

Fixes:

  • Connections OAuth issue - missing scope

2020-03-06

Fixes:

  • Updating cards permissions
  • Boards list - show completed & deleted
  • individual import of Activity with emails
  • member issue when moving card into new board
  • Archived cards appear twice
  • Powered by Huddo image

Language support:

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    "ca":[],
    "cs":[],
    "da":[],
    "de": [],
    "el":[],
    "en": ["US"],
    "es":[],
    "fi":[],
    "fr":[],
    "he":[],
    "hr":[],
    "hu":[],
    "it":[],
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    "th":[],
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    "zh":["TW"]
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