Release Note for v5.9

Released on Wednesday, 20 January 2021 with a total of 46 tasks, including:

Improvements

Font size of comments in My Feed has increased
Root navigation padding reduced greatly
Branding font size should not change the size of the elements with static size
Poll node – Font size and weighting has changed for the poll title
WYSIWYG – some icons not appearing in WYSIWYG
Performance issue for first user who accesses live instances each morning
Paste functionality from Word or other content sources no longer works
Webform text area height not being applied when hidden and then revealed via conditions
Search Highlights Reordering Bug
Duplicate welcome emails sent
Elevation effects incorrect in My feed
Group Polls – Questions duplicating in poll results
Cascading permissions Error – Manual step done.
Text link for Simple search widget title
This taxonomy term description bug – Manual step done. DWP only
Optimise query when deleting a large number of groups
Webmaster ticket form broken link – requires a command to be run. HO only

Improve logging and metric reporting
Recurring PreProd manual fixes required – Feature revert
Recurring PreProd manual fixes required –
Disable / enable external apps module
Investigate warnings when building css
Replace hard coded links/plain text output with the mdc_chips formatter
Improve maintainability of file access functions
Preprod – Piwik JS error resulting in long page loading times
Remove message wall index
Recurring PreProd manual fixes required – rebuilding css required
Unit test testFeaturesOverrides fails on 5.9 branches
Upgrade Node.js API version to latest version (4th January 2021 security update)
File upload taking a long time because of virus scanner increasing CPU usage – Add playbook for updating all servers
Do not index immediately on defined entity save
Drupal: Admin only widgets
Apps backend: Admin only panes
Setting file upload max on sites
Very intermittent 504 when saving user profile after team parent change
504 When delete entities with a lot of flags / votes
(Short term solution)
Disable retrieving & indexing of flags for given entities
Increase apache server limit to match php-fpm children
Enable PWA module and early release deploy modules
Indexing items does not respect index options in invotra_group module
Fix issue with solr_prototype_index not disabling index directly
Unit test failure in InvotraPermissionsMatrixTest

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