Category: Minor update

3.2.0

New animation system for content, slide reading duration evaluation, better fonts.
This update brings new features, improvements and fixes.

Content editor and frontend

• Implemented a new animation system for content blocks that supports concurrent animations and allows for the customization of animation duration for each block.
• Added frontend fonts to ensure consistent visual appearance of content across all devices.

Quick Preview

• Implemented a new ‘quick preview’ button in the content editor. This button opens a resizable window that displays the actual preview of the current content and slide. In testing, content creation was significantly faster since users no longer need to switch between browser tabs to see the preview. The quick preview is optimized for Infotaulu content, resulting in faster preview updates compared to the native WordPress preview function.

Block patterns

• Infotaulu now fully supports the WordPress pattern library and patterns, including a wider selection of built-in patterns.

• More ready-to-use block patterns can be found at https://wordpress.org/patterns/, where you can also make more and share them with other users.

Slide editor

• Added read time estimation to the slide editor. The editor now calculates the estimated read time based on the current content and suggests a longer duration for the slide if the current duration is insufficient for reading the content. The estimation is based on the average reading speed for various languages found at https://irisreading.com/average-reading-speed-in-various-languages. This feature’s locale can be changed in Infotaulu settings.

Improvements

• Enhanced logging details to include the IP address for failed login attempts.
• Optimized the temperature rendering for the weather extension. Values are now rounded to the nearest integer, and zero temperature is consistently displayed as 0 (rather than -0 or 0).
• Enhanced the frontend fonts to ensure consistent visual appearance across all devices. Previously, fonts were rendered differently depending on the device, leading to missing fonts on certain devices. Infotaulu now includes built-in fonts that will be loaded and used, resulting in consistent font rendering regardless of the device.
• Added a new option in extension development that enables JSON to be pretty printed in extension help guides.
• Streamlined the Infotaulu dashboard widget by removing trashed displays.
• Improved the dashboard widget by removing the search engine link for users who do not have the required capabilities to edit the link.
• Optimized the channel scheduler clipboard styles by ensuring that all copied entries are the same width, resulting in a more visually clear and consistent clipboard.
• Disabled the “edit channel” menu item in the channel scheduler for users who do not have the required capabilities to actually edit the channel.
• Changed the required capability for issue reporting from “edit_posts” to “report_issues” to give administrators more control over who can send issue reports.
• Improved slide editor top toolbar and menu styles by adjusting alignments, and changing the position of undo/redo buttons to prevent them from jumping to the right during autosave.
• Changed the scroll speed of frontend notification messages to use the rendered font family in speed calculations. This results in a more consistent and smoother scrolling experience across different devices and browsers.
• Improvement that separates the Infotaulu frontend from WordPress themes. This means that the Infotaulu frontend will have its own theme support, which will not affect other areas in the current WordPress installation or vice versa. However, there are still some known issues if the WordPress theme is changed to something else than the one shipped with the Infotaulu. This improvement makes the Infotaulu more modular and less dependent on the WordPress theme.
• Users can now choose which font to use in the content editor and on the frontend, giving them more control over the look and feel of their content.
• Upgraded the content editor loading process to enhance the speed and performance.

Bug fixes

• Fixed an issue related to user roles where content editing and slide editor did not work for some users or some functions were not available. All user roles and associated permissions have been checked and are now working correctly. More information can be found at https://www.vilucloud.com/user-roles-and-permissions/
• Resolved a problem with bus schedules not showing up any more, Updated Infotaulu Bus Schedules API url.
• Resolved a problem where the height of the color palette edit view was incorrect.
• Resolved the problem of excessive debug log entries caused by the timeout error of the update service.
• Resolved an issue with the Infotaulu issue report API.
• Resolved a bug that caused the content editor to crash when animations failed to load.
• Resolved a frontend issue that caused crashes in certain cases when an extension block was present without configuration.
• Resolved an issue that prevented some Infotaulu users from loading content with extensions
• Removed edit links from channel editor for unauthorized users who lack the necessary permissions to edit slides or contents.
• Resolved an error in the channel scheduler that occurred when an empty schedule was encountered in certain situations.
• Resolved a bug that caused channel schedule calendar items to not be properly selected in some cases.
• Resolved a display problem with notices on certain admin pages.
• Resolved a rendering issue with the datetime-picker component.
• Corrected redirection issues after login, such as redirecting users with only a single role to their profile page instead of the dashboard, and ensuring users are redirected to the What’s New page only once after Infotaulu update.
• Resolved an issue in the slide editor where certain users were unable to view the publish/save button.
• Resolved an issue in certain admin pages where tables failed to update properly or the sorting function did not work as intended.
• Improved user capability and permission checks to ensure more accurate and consistent results throughout the application.
• Resolved access denied errors for users with appropriate permissions.
• Resolved a formatting error in Infotaulu logs that occurred when multiple items were copied.
• Resolved an issue in the slide editor where modifying the duration of a slide resulted in the resetting of background settings for some users.
• Resolved an issue with the rendering of the first-time user tooltip in the slide editor.
• Resolved an issue where content preview was not loading for some users.
• Resolved an issue where creating a new slide in the content editor caused a page reload, impacting the user experience. This has been fixed.
• Resolved an issue with block pattern sizes not displaying correctly in the block library.
• Resolved an issue with the rendering of the Image block in the content editor.
• Resolved a bug in the content editor top bar color palette selection, where the presence of an empty color palette could cause the content editor to crash in certain scenarios.
• Corrected block library previews not displaying properly.
• Resolved an issue in the content editor guide where user settings were fetched multiple times, leading to performance problems.
• Fixed an issue in the frontend where changing the slide order without any other changes in the channel update was not being recognized.

3.2.0

Whole system optimization

This update improves memory management, loading and security.

New features

• Completely redesigned Infotaulu Settings.
• New Issue reporting tool.
• New tool for creating example screen, channel, slides and content.

Other

• All auxiliary libraries have been updated to the latest versions, which fixes the latest vulnerabilities found on the JavaScript side.
• Adjusted dropdown margins and borders.
• Updated REST Api routes:
  • Frontend REST route
  • Issue report tool REST route
  • Logging system REST route
  • Settings REST route
  • Extensions REST route
  • Color palette REST route
• Added filters and callbacks for the sandbox mode.
• Added Test and Default buttons to Settings to test the connection.
• Adjusted `Quick Preview’ button margin in content editor.
• Secured settings and their REST routes from sandbox users.
• Updated the tool used to generate sample content.
• Added option to drop logo directly from files to settings.
• Optimized JavaScript file registration and download.
• Optimized jQuery library loading.
• Added possibility to delete multiple linked contents and slides at the same time..
• Added possibility to restore multiple linked contents and slides at the same time
• Improved deleting and restoring individual linked items.

Bug fixes

• Fixed a problem in the slide editor, due to which the estimated reading time was not always updated when the editor was started.
• Fixed a bug that caused the slide editor to crash in some situations when the version of the Infotaulu extension block was older than the one currently in use.
• Fixed an issue that caused some browser extensions to display an error message in the console.