Vulcan/packages/telescope-releases/releases/0.25.0.md

v0.25 “FlowScope”

Flow Router

• Switched from Iron Router to Flow Router.
• Moved auth/permission logic from router to templates.
• Removed /top, /new, /best, etc. routes.

Categories

• New category filter mode.
• New settings option to switch between regular categories and filter categories.
• On post edit page, auto-expand selected categories.
• On post submission, auto-add all parents of all selected categories.
• Now including posts from children categories in posts category count.
• Added option for auto-hiding empty categories.
• In category menu, expand category tree to show active categories.

Other New Features

• New post approval/rejection workflow: pending posts can be approved or rejected; approved posts can only be rejected; rejected posts can only be approved.
• Added approved/reject/delete buttons to post item actions.
• Added rejected view to show all rejected posts.
• Posts.parameters.get now iterates over the postsParameters callback hook to build parameters object.
• Comments.parameters.get now iterates over the commentsParameters callback hook to build parameters object.
• RSS feed and API can now both accept any post query parameter (limit, view, cat, before, after, etc.)
• Now passing current user ID to Posts.parameters.get query constructor.
• Added afterEmbedlyPrefill callback hook on client.
• Removing a user now gives the option to remove their posts and comments, too.

Renamings

• postApprovedAsync hook renamed to postApproveAsync, added postRejectAsync.
• Changed Posts.getSubParams to Posts.parameters.get.
• Changed Comments.getSubParams to Comments.parameters.get.

Removals

• Removed Telescope.utils.getCurrentTemplate();
• Removed search logging.
• Disabled single day view.
• Posts.checkForSameUrl doesn't auto-upvote the existing post anymore.
• Removed delete link from post edit page.

Menu Component

• Menu item custom data context is now passed as item.data.
• Add nesting level CSS class to menu items.

Other Changes

• Moved schema i18n to collection level.
• Use Users.adminUsers more consistently.
• Upvote/downvote functions now take document _id as argument, not document object itself.
• Using tmeasday:publish-counts to publish posts category counts (instead of denormalizing).
• Fixed delay on post submission.
• Updated category_title template to handle multiple categories.
• Fixed Subscribe to Comments feature.
• Fixed Safari CSS issues by enabling autoprefixer.

i18n

• Korean translation.
• Slovenian translation.
• Italian translation.