0.8.0 2018-09-23

See the release blog post.

Note

Users of pretalx.com are already on the latest version of pretalx and have access to all of the listed new features and bugfixes. Administrators of self-hosted pretalx instances can find upgrade instructions here.

General

  • [Feature] A human-readable time until the CfP closes now shows up next to the end time. (#213)

  • [Feature] As an organiser, it’s now possible to send an email to all reviewers in the Compose Mail section. (#454)

  • [Feature] In exports, HTTP ETags are now supported to allow for more aggressive caching on clients. (#492)

  • [Feature] Organisers can now also reset the password for the speakers they have access to.

  • [Feature] Present a public list of talks and a list of speakers.

  • [Feature] The submission list now includes a graph of submissions over time.

  • [Feature] You can now see the sneak peek / is_featured flag in the submissions and talk API endpoints.

  • [Feature] You can now use your authentication token to access all pages you have access to, as you already could for the API. This makes integration of exports much easier.

  • [Feature] When using paper cards to build a schedule, each card comes with a QR code link to a quick scheduling form for that submission. (#240)

  • [Feature] You can now see warnings and what the public changelog will look like before releasing a new schedule.

  • [Feature] The schedule editor shows warnings on scheduling conflicts, including live feedback on where you can schedule a talk. (#214)

  • [Feature] The review dashboard now features the same search and filter options as the submission list. (#474)

  • [Feature] You can now add length restrictions to abstracts, descriptions, speaker biographies, and all text-based questions. (#408)

  • [Feature] When linking to a talk on social media, those pages will show the talk image.

  • [Feature] French translation

  • [Feature] The event logo shows up larger and up to the full width of the document below. Please check that your event still looks as intended after upgrading.

  • [Feature] Allow to order rooms manually. (#149)

  • [Feature] Allow to order questions manually. (#149)

  • [Feature] Instead of setting a flag somewhere, pretalx now has an explicit “go live” button. Plugins can listen to the corresponding signal (please refer to the plugin documentation for further information).

  • [Feature] For organisers, the submission/talk API endpoints now contain the question answers given by the speakers.

  • [Feature] Schedules now contain a search bar to filter talks by title or speaker.

  • [Feature] Schedules now feature a sidebar navigation to jump directly to a selected day.

  • [Feature] Allow organisers to configure which of the default CfP fields to request and require. Please check your settings after updating, as the migration is not guaranteed to work as expected.

  • [Feature] Prevent organisers from adding a non-localhost mail server without transport level security to make sure our Privacy Policy holds true.

  • [Feature] Allow organisers to trigger a password reset for team members. (#415)

  • [Fixed bug] When a user removed a submission containing an answered choice question, pretalx removed the selected answer option, too.

  • [Fixed bug] When a speaker held more than two talks, their related talks did not show up. (#501)

  • [Fixed bug] Custom CSS may now also include media queries. (#505)

  • [Fixed bug] Display of times could be off in the static HTML export. (#500)

  • [Fixed bug] Not all current TLDs did end up included as URLs when processing markdown input to build links. (#503)

  • [Fixed bug] The schedule import in the organiser backend never worked (while the manage command for administrators did work).

  • [Fixed bug] If a review question was mandatory while submission questions were active, they would block the submission process.

  • [Fixed bug] The HTML export contained media files (not other content) from all conferences on an instance, instead of the exported conference. (#488)

  • [Fixed bug] The behaviour of pressing enter in multi-step forms was not intuitive in some places. (#478)

  • [Fixed bug] Following the revamp of team permissions, override votes were missing from the settings. We re-introduced the settings, and improved the general handling of override votes. (#473)

  • [Fixed bug] You could make questions inactive, but not delete them.

  • [Fixed bug] Don’t show a 404 error if a reviewer tries to review their own submission, but show an error message instead. (#463)

  • [Fixed bug] Don’t crash during pretalx init if no conference organiser slug is present. (#451)

  • [Announcement] The URLs for schedule exports have changed from /my-event/schedule/export?exporter=exporter-name to /my-event/schedule/export/exporter-name – if you have hard-coded links to schedule exporters, please update them accordingly.

Administrators

  • [Announcement] All manage commands available in pretalx are now included in the documentation.

  • [Announcement] pretalx now does not support usernames any longer – as all users had to have email addresses already, you will now have to provide an email address to log in. This may confuse users – as an administrator, you can look up users’ email addresses if they don’t remember them, or change them, if necessary.

Developers and plugins

  • [Feature] We now have tests to make sure all config options and plugin hooks are part of our documentation.