Complete changelog

New Features

• There’s a new macro in town: a combined search and list macro for users. Functionality, look and feel are inspired by the people directory.
• You can now enable waiting lists for events without timeslots.
• Event editors can now configure up to five messages that are sent to all participants at specified dates.
• The event hub now sports a brand new quickfilter for past events.
• You can now use images attached to Confluence pages or blog posts as event images.
• You can now use images attached to other Confluence pages as news teaser image.
• As a user you can now read Mandatory News an hour or a day later.
• Personalize your newsletters! It’s now possible to send out more than one News Digest, addressed to different user groups.

Improvements

• We ensured that Linchpin Suite is compatible with Confluence 8.5
• It’s no longer possible to sign up for past events.
• We improved compatibility with assistive technologies in Linchpin Enterprise News
• We improved accessibility, especially for keyboard navigation in Microblog settings.
• We improved screenreader compatibility for the footer.

Bugfixes

• We fixed a bug that wrongly showed some tabs in profiles of other people that only belong in your own profile.
• We fixed an error that occurred when a field label went missing.
• Rendering of phone numbers was not consistent throughout all of Linchpin. This has been fixed.
• We fixed a bug which could lead to very long sync times when using the “User Sync” app by re:solution.
• We fixed a bug which created issues when linking a text inside the page editor using the page editor panel.
• Linchpin News Digest stubbornly refused to write audit logs. Our Devs were even more stubborn and convinced it to work again.
• When trying out the preview of Linchpin News Digest before saving a configuration, there no longer is a misleading error message.
• We enabled a basic preview of the layout box macro. Nested macros can’t be previewed.
• If Linchpin Theme is active, Confluence Custom HTML will now not be dismissed anymore. This allows for embedding tracking codes and the likes at the end of the body.
• When used together with section and column macros, the Linchpin Teaser macro sometimes didn’t work properly with images. This has been fixed.
• We fixed the custom JS/CSS editor display if Confluence Source Editor is enabled.
• We ensured compatibility of Linchpin Theme with Aura cards.
• We fixed a misleading field label for the footer configuration.
• We fixed a bug that produced unnecessary scroll bars when using nested Layout Box macros.
• On pages with little content, the footer liked to float too high. We convinced it to stay at the bottom.
• 5.7.2 We improved accessibility when navigating and editing your profile.
• 5.7.2 We fixed a bug that made pages almost unusable when using a “Code block” macro.
• 5.7.2 In the preview of the “My contacts” macro, the list of users is displayed.
• 5.7.2 In a fresh install, the email address was missing from the list view in the people directory. This has been fixed.
• 5.7.2 We corrected a wrong error message when testing the LDAP connection.
• 5.7.3 We fixed the sorting when filtering by group in the people directory or people search & list macro.
• 5.7.3 Clicking event categories resulted sometimes in blank pages. We convinced the app to show events instead.
• 5.7.3 You can now find events by title or location without entering at least three letters.
• 5.7.3 We fixed a bug that caused the event details dialog to disappear under certain circumstances.
• 5.7.3 When using several Linchpin Teaser macros and giving them each a set height, they didn’t display nicely.
• 5.7.3 Linchpin Teaser macros sometimes had an unnecessary scrollbar when viewed with Firefox.
• 5.7.3 In rare cases the Linchpin Teaser macro led to pages not loading correctly.
• 5.7.3 We fixed a faulty behaviour that occurred when using the anchor macro together with Linchpin Theme.
• 5.7.3 We fixed an incompatibility with an older version of the app “Page Reminder”.
• 5.7.3 We stabilized the label search when configuring the Corporate News Feed macro.
• 5.7.3 The kicker line went astray and took shelter in the news text excerpt. We convinced it to only appear above the title.
• 5.7.3 The order of mandatory apps was not always consistent. We fixed that.
• 5.7.3 Org Chart and Structural Charts macros on pages linked from the sidebar or footer didn’t show up. We fixed that.
• 5.7.3 In some cases the profile macro didn’t show all the info when used in Linchpin Touch. Now it does.
• 5.7.3 The Web Feed macro didn’t properly work in Linchpin Touch, this has been fixed.
• 5.7.3 We ensured compatibility with Okta SSO.