3.18.0


2021-08-31 · 5 · 7 · 20 · 19 · 25 ‍‍

Engine versions

  • Node: 12.22.1
  • NPM: 6.14.1
  • MongoDB: 3.4, 3.6, 4.0, 4.2
  • Apps-Engine: 1.27.1

New features

  • ENTERPRISE: Maximum waiting time for chats in Omnichannel queue (#22955)

    • Add new settings to support closing chats that have been too long on waiting queue

    • Moved old settings to new "Queue Management" section

    • Fix issue when closing a livechat room that caused client to not to know if room was open or not

  • Banner for the updates regarding authentication services (#23055)

    Add a banner to inform admins about future authentication changes. This banner targets servers that use some sort of authentication service since they're the ones which this update concerns the most.

  • Report "Read Receipts" setting on stat collector (#23033)

  • REST endpoint to delete a DM and allow DM for two other users (#18022 by @abrom)

    [NEW] Improve DM create/delete API management

  • Separate RegEx Settings for Channels and Usernames validation (#21937 by @aditya-mitra)

    Now, there are 2 separate settings for validating names - One for channels and another for usernames.

    This change also removes the old UTF8_Names_Validation setting and adds 2 new settings UTF8_User_Names_Validation and UTF8_Channel_Names_Validation.

    https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/55396651/116969904-af5bb800-acd4-11eb-9fc4-dacac60cb08f.mp4

Improvements

  • Add default permission 'start-discussion' and 'start-discussion-other-user' to app user (#22577)

  • Create thumbnails from uploaded images (#20907)

  • Exclude archived rooms from unread-message count (#22515 by @nmagedman)

  • Increase the verbosity of Omnichannel routing system debugging outputs (#22977)

  • Rewrite File Upload Modal (#22750)

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  • Types from currentChatsPage.tsx (#22967)

  • Use tag autocomplete in more places (#22902)

    Use the proper autocomplete component for omnichannel tags, this adds proper sorting of results and better consistency.

Bug fixes

  • "Read Only" field description is incorrect when the option is checked (#21868 by @epif4nio)

  • "Users By Time of the Day" chart displays incorrect data for Local Timezone (#22836)

    • Add local timezone conversion to the "Users By Time of the Day" chart in the Engagement Dashboard;
    • Simplify date creations by using endOf and startOf methods.
  • Atlassian Crowd connection not working (#22996 by @piotrkochan)

  • Audio recording doesn't stop in direct messages on channel switch (#22880)

    • Cancel audio recordings on message bar destroy event.
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  • Bad words falling if message is empty (#22930)

  • Broken download link on uploaded files (#22848)

    Uploaded files had wrong download links when the deploy had a sub directory. This misbehavior was caused by the wrong usage of the rtrim method, the 2nd parameter is a list of chars, not a string (this method was inspired by php)

  • Can't access other administration menus after opening Engagement Dashboard (#22870)

  • Go command duplicating subfolder path on iframes. (#22796)

  • Manually approve new users is not applied to SAML users (#22823)

  • Production-environment dependencies (#22868)

    @rocket.chat/icons was incorrectly referred as development dependency.

  • QuickActions for mobile screen (#23016)

  • Registration not possible with TOTP and email verification (#22778)

  • Return transcript/dashboards based on timezone settings (#22850)

    • Added new setting to manage timezones

    • Applied new setting to omnichannel dashboards (realtime, analytics) [NOTE: Other dashboards aren't using this setting actually)

    • Change getAnalyticsBetweenDate query to filter out system messages instead of substracting them

  • Tab margin style (#22851)

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  • Threads and discussions searches don't display proper results (#22914)

    • Fix issue in discussions search (which wasn't working after a search with no results was made);
    • Improve discussions and threads searches: both searches (chat.getDiscussions and chat.getThreadsList) are now case insensitive (do NOT differ capital from lower letters) and match incomplete words or terms.
  • Threads List being requested more than expected (#22879)

  • TypeError on Callout type prop (#22790 by @hrahul2605)

  • User is still asked for 2FA confirmation even if it is deactivated (#22801)

  • User presence being processes even if presence monitor was disabled (#22927)

  • users registered via third party apps bypass custom required fields (#22396)

    moves the custom fields from the initial registration form to the "pick a username" screen so that everyone is forced to fill the custom required fields

Minor changes
  • Bump: Fuselage 0.29.0 (#23067)

  • Chore: Enable husky pre-push hook (back again) (#22994)

  • Chore: Fix RHEL container build issue due to gpg keyserver deprecation (#22672 by @jsm84)

    Changed gpg keyserver in RHEL Dockerfile to openpgp.org due to deprecation of the SKS keyserver network.

  • Chore: Fix typo in rtl.css (#22431 by @eltociear)

  • Chore: Prevent new JS files being added (#22972)

    We are moving our code base to TS, one way to help developers remember this is create a task that will notify you every time a new file is created.

  • Chore: Script to start Rocket.Chat in HA mode during development (#22398)

    Sometimes we need to start Rocket.Chat in High-Availability mode (cluster) during development to test how a feature behaves or hunt down a bug. Currently, this involves a lot of commands with details that might be lost if you haven't done it in a while.

    This PR intends to provide a really simple way for us to start many instances of Rocket.Chat connected in a cluster.

  • Chore: Update Livechat widget to 1.9.4 (#22990)

  • i18n: Language update from LingoHub on 2021-08-09Z (#22888)

  • i18n: Language update from LingoHub on 2021-08-16Z (#22937)

  • i18n: Language update from LingoHub on 2021-08-23Z (#23007)

  • Merge master into develop & Set version to 3.18.0-develop (#22834)

  • Regression: Attachment not rendering on message (#23046)

  • Regression: File upload name suggestion (#22953)

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  • Regression: Fix creation of self-DMs (#23015)

  • Regression: Logs were missing from Omnichannel callback methods (#23048)

  • Regression: no-js-action bump version (#22997)

  • Regression: readNow blocked by a invalid condition (#22952)

  • Release 3.17.1 (#22942)

  • Release 3.17.2 (#23045)

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