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Release binaries

• commento-v1.8.0-linux-glibc-amd64.tar.gz (signature)
  SHA-256: ba775550096f2d3f8e74de28bd1ed5c5c8c8340ba89882b54571f4064d5808c9

Changes since v1.8.0-rc1:

• PostgreSQL dependency version compatibility is now pinned to 9.6

Release binaries

• commento-v1.8.0-rc1-linux-glibc-amd64.tar.gz (signature)
  SHA-256: dfaffe4f765e34ce46f61633f4dc3fc7044784bbd3eb4a2b63f6013e6b1cc84a

After a really long time, v1.8.0 is almost ready. We'll potentially go through a series of release candidates before the final v1.8.0 release is ready and tagged after a week or so without any critical bug reports after the last release candidate.

There are too many small features to summarise them all in these notes, so I'll just stick to the most relevant and important features and bug fixes that have been merged since the last release.

New features

• Delete your own comments
• Edit your own comments
• Sort comments by upvotes or chronologically
• Custom count.js text (see data-custom-text in docs)
• Automatically update OAuth profiles on login
• Edit your profile information (such as name, photo, website)
• Delete your account
• Custom page IDs using data-page-id
• Support custom Gitlab installations as OAuth source
• Import comments from a different Commento installation

Bugs that have been fixed

• Failing OAuth buttons
• Incorrect comment count after a comment was deleted
• Email notifications are now more robust
• Github OAuth failed when the user has no specified name

New stuff relevant to developers

• Migrated Go dependencies to to go mod
• Migrated the frontend build process to Gulp 4
• Removed DCO
• Docker support for arm64

Please try out check out v1.8.0-rc1 and file bugs if you face any issues!

New features:

• Single sign-on has been implemented! Read the documentation.
• count.js has been added. Read the documentation.
• Twitter and GitLab OAuth has been added. Read the documentation.
• A new, shiny badge is now displayed next to comments made by moderators.
• User photos are now mirrored by the Commento server for better privacy.
• There's a new option to clear all the comments in the dashboard. This can be useful if you want to start afresh.
• A short markdown tutorial is provided below textareas.
• A lot of frontend improvements!

Bug fixes:

• Previously, there was no charset header in the HTML responses served by Commento. This has been fixed.
• The case of the disappearing "Logout" button has been fixed.
• Comment sorting was unstable previously; this has been fixed.
• Domains with /path were previously accepted in the dashboard when registering a new domain. This is no longer allowed.

This is a quick minor release to fix a dumb bug I introduced in v1.6.0 in the Dockerfile.

This release includes:

• Email notifications (finally!)
• Email moderation
• A new, cleaner textarea design that's more user-friendly (example)
• iFrame support
• Some minor features and bug fixes

This release includes:

• GitHub OAuth
• Data Export
• An important Disqus import update since Disqus randomly changed their spec
• A dashboard cleanup
• A few minor bug fixes

I wanted to get email notifications into this release as well, but unfortunately I didn't have the time. I'll try to get a v1.5.1 released tomorrow with email notifications and a subdirectory setup fix.

• A bug fix for sticky comments and thread locking
• Improved anonymous comments logic

This release includes:

• A hotfix to resolve a bug when upvoting comments (see #96)