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- BREAKING: css, js: Prefix all classes with
isso-(#816, ix5) Now Isso's CSS is "namespaced" in order not to conflict with other classes on the page. This change necessitates adjusting custom CSS files to the new names. - Drop support for outdated Python version 3.5 (#808, l33tname)
- Fix avatar sizing, limit default gravatar images to 55px (#831, l33tname)
In case of a custom gravatar URL, the
&s=55size parameter will have to be added, see `Gravatar: Image requests`_. - Add
data-isso-reply-notifications-default-enabledoption to configure whether or not the subscribe to replies checkbox should be checked by default. - Accessibility: Use labels rather than placeholders for name, email & website in post box (#861, ix5)
- Re-enable
no-intra-emphasismisaka extension in default config. - Allow
supandsubHTML elements by default - Add
data-isso-page-author-hashesoption to client which makes it possible to style comments and replies made by the page's author(s). - Add Ukrainian localisation (`#878`_, okawo80085)
Serve isso.css separately to avoid
style-src: unsafe-inlineCSP and allow clients to override fetch location (#704, ix5):data-isso-css-url="https://comments.example.org/css/isso.css"
New "samesite" option in [server] section to override SameSite header for cookies. (#700, ix5)
Fallback for SameSite header depending on whether host is served over https or http (#700, ix5)
Have client read out shared settings from server. (#311, pellenilsson) This affects these settings for which
data-isso-*values will be ignored:[general] reply-notifications gravatar [guard] reply-to-self require-author require-email
Improved detection of browser-supplied language preferences (#521) Isso will now honor the newer
navigator.languagesglobal property as well asnavigator.languageandnavigator.userLanguage. There is a new configuration propertydata-isso-default-langthat specifies the language to use (instead of English) when none of these is available. (The existingdata-isso-langoverrides browser-supplied language preferences.)Remove
ISSO_CORS_ORIGINenviron variable, which never worked at all (#803, ix5)
- Don't ignore missing configuration files. (Jelmer Vernooij)
- Require Python >= 3.5, for consistency with werkzeug. (#698, Stefan Gehn)
- Use npm for package installation. (#695, Stefan Gehn)
- Use sassc. (Stefan Gehn)
- Cope with broken HTTP clients that require specific casing of "200 OK". (#646, #347, Konzertheld)
- Add European Portuguese translation. (#692, boturon)
- Various doc updates. (ix5)
- Add Turkish translation. (Özcan Oğuz, #669)
- Drop Python 2 support. (Jelmer Vernooij)
New "flags" option in the [markdown] section to customize Misaka's Markdown HTML rendering. By default, no flags are set.
[markup] flags = skip-html, escape, hard-wrap
Check docs/configuration/server.rst for more details. #616
- Fix compatibility with newer versions of werkzeug. #614
- Add Python 3.8 support. #600, #615
- New 'latest' endpoint to serve latest comments. #556
- include admin.js in Python Package. #606
- Add a approve-if-email-previously-approved setting.
- Fall back to author names in gravatars (#482)
- Make Isso compatible with Content Security Policies without script-src 'unsafe-inline'. #597
- Set subject for notification about new comment, subject should not be empty. #589
- Fix rendering of disabled.html for 'Sub URI' sites.
- contrib: Add Blogger importer tool. #529
- Return 200 with empty array when there are no comments. #301
- Translation updates for Polish, Slovak, Occitan.
- Redirect to comment after moderation. #358
- Revert use of labels instead of placeholders, since it breaks mail notifications. #524
- Revert fix for duplicate slashes, as it prevents isso from starting in some cases. #523
- Fix compatibility with new XML API.
- Don't enable admin interface with default password by default. #491
- Add support and documentation for "generic" imports.
- Remove potential duplicate slashes in URLs from email links. #420
- Add data-isso-reply-notifications to attributes in configuration.
- Use default IP in imports if none is found. Fixes imports of some comments.
- embed: fix feed link creation on older browsers.
- Properly handle to field in mail notifications when using uWSGI spooler
- css: fix vertical alignment of notification checkbox
- Include pre-built minified JavaScript and CSS.
Bugs & features:
- Fix link in moderation mails if isso is setup on a sub-url (e.g. domain.tld/comments/)
- Add reply notifications
- Add admin interface
- Add links highlighting in comments
- Add apidoc
- Add rc.d script for FreeBSD
- Add the possibility to set CORS Origin through ISSO_CORS_ORIGIN environ variable
- Add preview button
- Add Atom feed at /feed?uri={thread-id}
- Add optionnal gravatar support
- Add nofollow noopener on links inside comments
- Add Dockerfile
- Upgraded to Misaka 2
- Some tests/travis/documentation improvements and fixes + pep8
Translations:
- Fix Chinese translation & typo in CJK
- Add Danish translation
- Add Hungarian translation
- Add Persian translation
- Improvement on german translation
- fix missing configuration field
add support for different vote levels, #260
List of vote levels used to customize comment appearance based on score. Provide a comma-separated values (eg. "0,5,10,25,100") or a JSON array (eg. "[-5,5,15]").
For example, the value "-5,5" will cause each isso-comment to be given one of these 3 classes:
- isso-vote-level-0 for scores lower than -5
- isso-vote-level-1 for scores between -5 and 4
- isso-vote-level-2 for scores of 5 and greater
These classes can then be used to customize the appearance of comments (eg. put a star on popular comments).
add new post preview API endpoint, #254
add an option for mandatory author, #257
clients can now use data-title to get the HTML title for a new page, #252
add finish translation and other minor bugfixes
- fix wrapper attribute when using data-isso-require-mail="true", #238
- fix reponse for OPTIONS response on Python 3, #242
- follow redirects, #193
- fix getAttribute return value
- fix empty author, email and website values when writing a comment
add new configuration section for hash handling.
[hash] salt = Eech7co8Ohloopo9Ol6baimi algorithm = pbkdf2
You can customize the salt, choose different hash functions and tweak the parameters for PBKDF2.
Python 3.4+ validate TLS connections against the system's CA. Previously no validation was in place, see PEP-446 for details.
add fenced_code and no_intra_emphasis to default configuration.
Fenced code allows to write code without indentation using ~~~ delimiters (optionally with language identifier).
Intra emphasis would compile foo_bar_baz to foo<em>bar</em>baz. This behavior is very confusing for users not knowing the Markdown spec in detail.
new configuration to require an email when submitting comments, #199. Set
[guard] require-email = true
and use data-isso-require-email="true" to enable this feature. Disabled by default.
new Bulgarian translation by sahwar, new Swedish translation by Gustav Näslund – #143, new Vietnamese translation by Đinh Xuân Sâm, new Croatian translation by streger, new Czech translation by Jan Chren
fix SMTP setup without credentials, #174
version pin Misaka to 1.x, html5lib to 0.9999999
- fix regression in SMTP authentication, #174
- several Python 3.x related bugfixes
- don't lose comment form if the server rejected the POST request, #144
- add localStorage fallback if QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERR is thrown (e.g. Safari private browsing)
- add '--empty-id' flag to Disqus import, because Disqus' export sucks
- (re)gain compatibility with Werkzeug 0.8 and really old html5lib versions available in Debian Squeeze, #170 & #168
- add User-Agent when Isso requests the URL, an alternate way to #151 (add 'X-Isso' when requesting).
- add compatibility with configparser==3.5.0b1, #128
- fix SMTP authentication using CRAM-MD5 (incorrect usage of smtplib), #126
remember name, email and website in localStorage, #119
add option to hide voting feature, #115
data-isso-vote="true|false"
remove email field from JSON responses
This is a quite serious issue. For the identicon, an expensive hash is used to avoid the leakage of personal information like a real email address. A git blame reveals, the email has been unintentionally exposed since the very first release of Isso :-/
The testsuite now contains a dedicated test to prevent this error in the future.
prevent no-break space ( ) insertion to enable manual line breaks using two trailing spaces (as per Markdown convention), #112
limit request size to 256 kb, #107
Previously unlimited or limited by proxy server). 256 kb is a rough approximation of the next database schema with comments limited to 65535 characters and additional fields.
add support for logging to file, #103
[general] log-file =
show timestamp when hovering <time>, #104
fix a regression when editing comments with multiple paragraphs introduced in 0.9.3 which would HTML escape manually inserted linebreaks.
- fixed a regression when using Isso and Gevent
- remove scrollIntoView while expanding further comments if a fragment is used (e.g. #isso-thread brought you back to the top, unexpectedly)
- implement a custom Markdown renderer to support multi-line code listings. The extension "fenced_code" is now enabled by default and generates HTML compatible with Highlight.js.
- escape HTML entities when editing a comment with raw HTML
- fix CSS for input
- remove isso.css from binary distribution to avoid confusion (it's still there from the very first release, but modifications do not work)
comment pagination by Srijan Choudhary, #15
Isso can now limit the amount of comments shown by default and add link to show more. By default, all top-level comments are shown but only 5 nested comments (per reply). You can override the settings:
isso-data-max-comments-top="N" isso-data-max-comments-nested="N"
Where N is a number from 0 to infinity ("inf"). If you limit the amount of shown top level comments, the overall comment count may be incorrect and a known issue.
You can also configure the amount of comments shown per click (5 by default):
isso-data-reveal-on-click="N"
This feature also required a change in the comment structure. Previously, all comments are stored tree-like but shown linearly. To ease the implementation of pagination, the comment tree is now limited to a maximum depth of one. Jeff Atwood explains, why discussions are flat by design.
When you upgrade, Isso will automatically normalize the tree and some information gets lost. All new replies to a comment are now automatically a direct child of the top-level comment.
style improvements by William Dorffer, #39, #84 #90 and #91
Isso now longer uses a fat SCSS library, but plain CSS instead. The design is now responsive and no longer sets global CSS rules.
experimental WordPress import, #75
Isso should be able to import WXR 1.0-1.2 exports. The import code is based on two WXR dumps I found (and created) and may not work for you. Please report any failure.
avatar changes, #49
You can now configure the client to not show avatars:
data-isso-avatar="false"
Also there is no longer an avatar shown next to the comment box. This is due to the new CSS and removes two runtime dependencies.
you may now set a full From header, #87
[smtp] from = Foo Bar <spam@local>
SMTP (all caps) is now recognized for notifications, #95
Isso now ships a small demo site at /demo, #44
a few bugfixes: Disqus import now anonymizes IP addresses, uWSGI spooling for Python 3, HTTP-Referer fallback for HTTP-Origin
remove Django's PBKDF2 implementation in favour of the PBKDF2 function available in werkzeug 0.9 or higher. If you're still using werkzeug 0.8, Isso imports passlib as fallback (if available).
This release also features a new templating engine Jade which replaces Markup.js. Jade can compile directly to JavaScript with a tiny runtime module on the client. Along with the removal of sha1.js and pbkdf2.js and a few build optimizations, the JS client now weighs only 40kb (12kb gzipped) – 52kb resp. 17kb before.
replace
<textarea>with<div contentedtiable="true">to remove the sluggish auto-resize on input feature. If you use a custom CSS, replacetextareawith.textareaand also setwhite-space: pre.remove superscript extension from Markdown defaults as it may lead to unexpected behavior for certain smileys such as "^^". To enable the extension, add
[markup] options = superscript allowed-elements = sup
to your configuration.
comment count requests are now bundled into a single POST request, but the old API is still there (deprecated though).
store session-key in database (once generated on database creation). That means links to activate, edit or delete comments are now always valid even when you restart Isso.
Currently statically set session keys in
[general]are automatically migrated into the database on startup and you will get a notice that you can remove this option.fix undefined timestamp when client time differs for more than 1 second. The human-readable "time ago" deltas have been refined to match Moment.js behavior.
avatar colors and background can now be customized:
data-isso-avatar-bg="#f0f0f0"sets the background colordata-isso-avatar-fg="#9abf88 #5698c4 #e279a3 #9163b6 ..."sets possible avatar colors (up to 8 colors are possible).
new [markup] section to customize Misaka's Markdown generation (strikethrough, superscript and autolink enabled by default). Furthermore, you can now allow certain HTML elemenets and attributes in the generated output, e.g. to enable images, set
[markup] allowed-elements = img allowed-attributes = src
Check docs/configuration/server.rst for more details.
replace requirejs-domready with a (self-made) HTML5 idiom, #51
fix malicious HTML injection (due to wrong API usage). All unknown/unsafe HTML tags are now removed from the output (html5lib 0.99(9) or later) or properly escaped (older html5lib versions).
See 36d702c and 3a1f92b for more details.
remove kriskowal/q JS library (promises implementation) in favour of a self-made 50 LoC implementation to ease packaging (for Debian), #51
add documentation to display a comment counter, #56 and #57
SMTP notifications now support STARTTLS and use this transport security by default, #48 and #58. This also changes the configuration option from ssl = [yes|no] to security = [none|starttls|ssl].
translation can now be made (and updated) with Transifex. If you want to take ownership for a language, contact me on IRC.
fix french pluralform
the (by default random) session-key is now shown on application startup to make different keys per startup more visible
use threading.lock by default for systems without semaphore support
Major improvements:
override thread discovery with data-isso-id="...", #27
To use the same thread for different URLs, you can now add a custom
data-isso-id="my-id"attribute which is used to identify and retrieve comments (defaults to current URL aka window.location.pathname).isso.dispatch now dispatches multiple websites (= configurations) based on URL prefixes
fix a cross-site request forgery vulnerability for comment creation, voting, editing and deletion, #40
show modal dialog to confirm comment deletion and activation, #36
new, comprehensive documentation based on reST + Sphinx: http://posativ.org/docs (or docs/ in the repository). Also includes an annotated example.conf, #43
new italian and russian translations
Minor improvements:
- move isso:application to isso.run:application to avoid uneccessary initialization in some cases (change module if you use uWSGI or Gunicorn)
- add Date header to email notifications, #42
- check for blank text in new comment, #41
- work around IE10's HTML5 abilities for custom data-attributes
- add support for Gunicorn (and other pre-forking WSGI servers)
Major improvements:
listen option replaces host and port to support UNIX domain sockets, #25
Instead of host = localhost and port = 8080, use listen = http://localhost:8080. To listen on a UNIX domain socket, replace http:// with unix://, e.g. unix:///tmp/isso.sock.
new option notify (in the general section) is used to choose (one or more) notification backends (currently only SMTP is available, though). Isso will no longer automatically use SMTP for notifications if the initial connection succeeds.
new options to control the client integration
data-isso-css="false"prevents the client from appending the CSS to the document. Enabled by default.data-isso-lang="de"overrides the useragent's preferred language (de, en and fr are currently supported).data-isso-reply-to-self="true"should be set, when you allow reply to own comments (see server configuration for details).
add support for gevent, a coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlets (lightweight threads). Recommended WSGI server when not running with uWSGI (unfortunately stable gevent is not yet able to listen on a UNIX domain socket).
fix a serious issue with the voters bloomfilter. During an Isso run, the ip addresses from all commenters accumulated into the voters bloomfilter for new comments. Thus, previous commenters could no longer vote other comments. This fixes the rare occurences of #5.
In addition to this fix, the current voters bloomfilter will be re-initialized if you are using Isso 0.4 or below (this is not necessary, but on the other hand, the current bloomfilter for each comment is sort-of useless).
french translation (thanks to @sploinga), #38
support for multiple sites, part of #34
Minor improvements:
- ipaddr is now used as ipaddress fallback for Python 2.6 and 2.7, #32
- changed URL to activate and delete comments to /id/<N:int>/activate etc.
- import command uses <link> tag instead of <id> to extract the relative URL path, #37
- import command now uses isDeleted to mark comments as deleted (and eventually remove stale comments). This seems to affect only a few comments from a previous WordPress import into Disqus.
- import command lists orphaned comments after import.
- import command now has a
--dry-runoption to do no actual operation on the database.
- Isso now handles cross-domain requests and cookies, fixes #24
- Isso for Python 2.x now supports werkzeug>=0.8
- limit email length to 254 to avoid Hash-DDoS
- override Isso API location with
data-isso="..."in the script tag - override HTML title parsing with a custom
data-title="..."attribute in<div id="isso-thread"></div>
- improve initial comment loading performance in the client
- cache slow REST requests, see #18
- add a SQLite trigger that detects and removes stale threads (= threads, with all comments being removed) from the database when a comment is removed.
- PyPi releases now include an uncompressed version of the JavaScript files -- embed.dev.js and count.dev.js -- to track down errors.
- use uWSGI's internal locking instead of a self-made shared memory lock
- initial PyPi release