v7.8.9

mattermost-community/focalboardv7.8.9Oct 11, 2023by sbishel

AI Summary

February 2023 feature release introducing person and date property filtering and grouping capabilities, along with hidden boards updates and multiple bug fixes.

Key Highlights

Person property filter and grouping
Date property filter
Hidden boards update
Fixed CSS issue with security roles
Schema migration improvements for postgres and duplicate rows

New Features

Person property filter and grouping
Date property filter
Hidden boards functionality
CSS fix for security roles
Database schema migration fixes

Full Release Notes

Focalboard v7.8.9 is the February 2023 release.

**Mattermost**: Update to the latest version of the plugin by Downloading `mattermost-plugin-focalboard.tar.gz`
**Personal / Development Server**: Follow the [install](https://www.focalboard.com/download/personal-edition/ubuntu/) or [upgrade guide](https://www.focalboard.com/download/personal-edition/ubuntu-upgrade/)

Major updates in this release:
- Person property filter and grouping
- Date property filter
- Hidden boards update

Updates from v7.8.1
- Fixed css issue, causing changing security roles to be extremely difficult.

Updates from v7.8.2
- Added migration check for duplicate rows before creating index.
- Fixed schema migration issue with multiple instances on single database

Updates from v7.8.3
- Fix schema migration check for postgres
- Update writeFileResponse, fix missing images on templates
- Update mySQL syntax for v5

Updates from v7.8.4
- Attachments no longer accessible after deleting card
- Fixed issue where bad board link can cause issue with displaying channels.

Updates from v7.8.7
- Fixes issue deleting a card deletes all images

Updates from v7.8.8
- Verifies guest access on APIs
- Sanitize user on certain APIs
- Unify and enhance block validation
- updates the import reading logic to use a scanner.