The AstroBin releases thread

2018-03-01 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.21.0
 * (iotd) Anonymize hd zoom image in queues
 * (docs) Replace Finnish Copyright Act with Swiss one in TOS
 * (account) Switch to cookie based sessions
 * (emails) Send specific reminder emails to autorenew and non-autorenew
    members
 * (tests) Make tests work also with PREMIUM_ENABLED=false
 * (db) Soft-delete images and users

2018-02-25 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.20.0
 * (docker) Apply migrations in docker CMD
 * (accounts) Add tos and email acceptance checkboxes
 * (emails) Add admin backend to send emails to subscribers
 * (emails) Add alert message prompting to check out email permission preferences
 * (emails) Rate limit to 30/m to match SES limit

2018-02-25 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.19.0
 * (settings) Fix serving of local static files in debug mode
 * (accounts) Upgrade django-registration to 2.4.1
 * (celery) Remove periodic tasks from source code
 * (docker) Remove custom runserver command from compose and document
 * (nginx) Set 200 MB limit to local nginx conf too, for consistency
 * (emails) Add django-bouncy to handle SES bounces/complaints

2018-02-20 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.18.0
 * (help) Fix description of IOTD process in FAQ
 * (forum) Let topic subscribers view topic even if not group members
 * (users) Centralize username rendering and add color codes for roles
 * (breadcrumbs) Fix for forums and account pages
 * (images) Fix premium badge being rendered for wrong user
 * (performance) Switch to cache backend for sessions
 * (moderation) Redirect spam images to 404
 * (notifications) Add timestamps
 * (iotd) Add Top Pick badge
 * (subscriptions) Add email notification when subscription about to expire
 * (subscriptions) Implement single-payment and discontinue auto-renewals
 * (sharing) Fix Facebook sharing preview image
 * (iotd) Add link to full size in queues
 * (infra) Replace debug_toolbar with silk
 * (performance) Cache user metadata
 * (performance) Prevent unneeded db queries when donations are disabled
 * (performance) Cache activity stream stories
 * (infra) Migrate from Vagrant to Docker
 * (infra) Split settings in multiple files
 * (general) Add support for READ ONLY mode to most views
 * (email) Use celery to send emails in the background
 * (search) Update index in real-time on celery worker

• You can now change your email address in the settings
• You can also login with your email instead of your username
• If your emails bounce, you will get an on-site alert message
• Comments get the user's real name if available, instead of the username

2018-03-08 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.22.0
 * (infra) Update bleach to newest version
 * (scripts) Fix typo in admin creation in init script
 * (accounts) Allow login via email address too
 * Add notice to contact form re contacting the staff
 * (accounts) Add support to change one's own email
 * Make imagecache directory always be in /media
 * Fix soft-delete usage
 * (tasks) Delete inactive users with hard-bounced emails
 * (emails) Show alert on-site to users with bounced emails
 * (emails) Do not send emails to permanently hard bounced address

2018-03-05 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.21.4
 * (ci) Simplify travis jobs
 * (docs) Improve README
 * (docker) Add script to reset env
 * (api) Fix IOTD API sync
 * (comments) Make comments fetch real name from the API
 * (docker) Use defaults that allow easy local dev
 * (infra) Minitor dependency status with PyUp
 * (ci) Add codecov support

2018-03-02 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.21.3
 * (premium) Safeguard is_lite/is_premium methods against missing
   usersubscription
 * (uploads) Consider deleted revisions when computing new label
 * (premium) is_lite/premium tags always return false for anon user
 * (subscription) Make premium_get_valid_usersubscription really only look for
   valid ones

2018-03-02 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.21.2
 * (subscriptions) Fix determining when a user is Premium if they have
   multiple subscriptions

2018-03-01 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.21.1
 * Add missing import

2018-03-09 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.24.0
 * (forum) Make forum notification look like other notifications
 * (images) Fix issue with soft deletion of revisions
 * (infra) Fix issue with test script

2018-03-08 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.23.0
 * (emails) Add HTML transactional emails
 * (emails) Fix double-slash in comment emails
 * (emails) Only warn users with permanent bounces

2018-03-10 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.25.0
 * (emails) Add HTML versions to all notifications
 * (infra) Do not fail test script if codecov token is unavailable

2018-03-30 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.26.0
 * (general) Unify pagination UI across modules
 * (forums) Add numbered pagination
 * (performance) Minify JS and CSS, and gzip HTML
 * (infra) Automatically generate CSS from SCSS and cache-bust statics
 * (docs) Add documentation to the "Exclude from competitions" field
 * (infra) Fix template debugging in debug mode
 * (comments) Take WYSIBB into use, just like the forums
 * (comments) Improve UI and add avatars

1. Comments now have a nicer editor, the same as the forums, and support BBCode instead of Markdown. Easier to format and add pictures too!
2. There is a number of frontend performance improvements, so the site should be marginally faster
3. The forum topics have numbered pagination at the bottom, instead of just "Previous" and "Next"

Salvatore Iovene
PS: there is one regression: the comment usernames now show the bare usernames again, instead of the real names. It's almost 1 AM now so I will fix it tomorrow.

2018-05-10 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.28.0
 * (images) Add data_source field (see #570)
 * (infra) Make celery accept json serialized content

2018-05-07 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.27.4
 * (workers) Fix thumbnail queue by fixing task name typo

2018-05-07 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.27.3
 * (subscriptions) Fix documentation about available uploads on free/lite accounts
 * (images) Disable "Top 100" badges until a more performing solution is implemented
 * (infra) Add dedicated thumbnails and emails queues to celery

2018-05-07 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.27.2
 * (images) Improve async generation of thumbnails

2018-04-07 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.27.01
 * (images) Fix overflow of 'real' sized images

2018-04-05 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.27.0
 * (comments) Fix autofocus of input area
 * (images) Move away from 'capty' and use pure CSS and figure/figcaption
 * (infra) Move search engine update tasks to own queue
 * (infra) Move thumbnail generation to async task queue
 * (infra) Serve media files in DEBUG mode

2018-07-07 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
  * v1.28.1
  * (images) Make the data_source field default to none, so users notice it
  * (images) Fix horizontal scrolling on full size images for IE


2018-11-10 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.30.0
 * (admin) Allow superuser to change any image's watermark
 * (admin) Allow superuser to do Flickr import without Premium account, for debugging purposes
 * (admin) Allow superuser to promote/demote any image
 * (admin) Fix broken IOTD models on admin interface
 * (ci) Add unit tests to Top Picks page
 * (docker) Add support for swarm mode
 * (docker) Persist search data in a volume
 * (forums) Fix broken word breaks on Firefox/IE
 * (images) Allow filtering by data source on Wall and Top Picks pages
 * (images) Fix caching of image captions not being segregated by language
 * (images) Fix issue when redirecting to invalid URL
 * (images) Fix spacing after technical card labels
 * (images) Restrict extensions to jpg/jpeg/png/gif in upload form
 * (index) Fix index 1y index calculation
 * (infra) Enable log rotation
 * (iotd) Sort top picks by published date
 * (quality) Perform small clean up of main models file
 * (thumbnails) Add "force" option to thumbnail retrieval, for debugging purposes
 * (users) Fix broken user info popup

2018-10-20 Salvatore Iovene <salvatore@iovene.com>
 * v1.29.0
 * (ci) Stop Travis's native postgres so port mapping works
 * (dependencies) Update cryptography from 2.1.4 to 2.3.1
 * (dependencies) Update markdown2 from 2.3.4 to 2.3.6
 * (dependencies) Update pyyaml from 3.12 to 3.13
 * (dependencies) Update requests from 2.17.3 to 2.19.1
 * (deps) Update django-avatar to 4.1.0
 * (docker) Add some production-friendly defaults that also work for local dev
 * (docker) Always restart celery workers
 * (docker) Do not use beat pid file
 * (docker) Expose elasticsearch port
 * (docker) Expose postgres port
 * (docker) Expose rabbitmq port
 * (docker) Make postgres host configurable
 * (docker) Publish port 443 for nginx container
 * (docker) Use shared volume for letsencrypt
 * (docs) Add info about new db index on astrobin_image
 * (forum) Improve topic list
 * (general) Use hasattr to see if request haas LANGUAGE_CODE
 * (homepage) Reduce stream actions to 20 per page, for performance
 * (images) Add blank space after 'Contains'
 * (images) Transliterate image field when making cache key
 * (infra) Add django-debug-toolbar with template debug panel
 * (infra) Fix locale issues by setting locale to utf-8
 * (infra) Make celery broker URL configurable
 * (infra) Make Elasticsearch URL configurable
 * (infra) Remove invalid reference to bootstrap.js from full.html
 * (infra) Rename JS bundle to avoid conflict
 * (infra) Simplify contain_imagecache_size task/script
 * (iotd) Reduce submission window to 2 days
 * (notifications) Fix url to logo
 * (performance) Cache astrobin usernames
 * (performance) Cache notifications table
 * (registration) Use https in activation email
 * (search) Fix pagination when provided page is "last"
 * (search) USe batch-size and concurrency in update_index script
 * (users) Fix broken user popover

Salvatore Iovene
To explain it as plainly as I can, what I've done is I enabled AstroBin to scale to multiple servers in the future, to allow for better performance and less downtime.