Release notes

This page lists the changes released with each version of the Inner Drive Technology Journal project. This is version 1.0.9708.0.

Top-to-bottom review of performance and security; see the blog post about the previous release for more context.

Fixed secrets and settings TTL to balance data invalidation delays against performance
Sped up "find adjacent" searches to improve list performance
Rooted out two synchronous calls in database reads that caused performance degradation under load
Eliminated redundant writes when saving new items
Eliminated redundant permissions checks at several points in the write process
Streamlined filtering on batch tag and comment reads
Additional hygienic and minor performance improvements
Corrected permalink generation for non-blog events
Fixed a regression bug that prevented audit history from loading properly
Added retries and exponential backoff to index writes for list reliability

Full-text search now looks at creator and title (name) fields
The View page has a link directly to the calendar for that date
Events now have custom fields
The Edit page now separates groups of controls into tabs
All Events, including media consumption, have friendly permalinks
The View button on the Edit page now opens the item in a new window
Fixed an annoyance that caused audit log entries to show up three times. Three times. Three times.
Corrected the Edit page to simplify the code path for saving items, which also fixed a problem saving tags in some use cases
Solved a critical bug that caused some database errors to crash the application
Addressed several caching errors to improve overall performance

Media types and dispositions are now configurable by project
Media consumption verbs (read, was reading, etc.) are configurable
Eliminated parallel Edit pages; one Edit page composes itself based on Event type
Media events now have Private Notes visible only to Event owner
Simplified creating new Events through the magic of routing
Projects now have default Event types, and their Media events now have default media types
Corrected an issue in the data layer that caused intermittent thread starvation
Found and fixed a subtle bug that affected tags when the same tag appeared in multiple projects
Simplified the navigation bar
Added a utility to rebuild event indices selectively in case of data corruption
Additional security and usability fixes
(Patch releases 1.0.9678 on 30 June and 1.0.9679 on 1 July)

Added new event types to keep track of media consumption (books, movies, TV, etc.)
Improved handling of some permissions scenarios to ensure the correct data is returned
Significantly increased Edit page performance
Security and reliability improvements

Fixed a regression bug that prevented editors from uploading images
Fixed another regression bug that allowed users to see certain post metadata meant for debugging
Fixed a minor issue with the RSS feed that caused it to fail in an unlikely but still-possible set of circumstances
Removed an assertion in the integration test suite that choked when Azure DevOps slowed down during the test in question

Corrected the mishandling of tags that have single quotes in them (like O'Hare)
Fixed a bug that forgot the user's origin page when the user logged in
Plugged a security hole introduced by an upcoming feature that allowed anonymous visitors to see future, unpublished (but public) blog posts in certain circumstances
Tightened a few other security issues
Tweaked the order and spacing of icons and badges in event listings
Migrated the UI to Blazorise 2.0
Added robots.txt

Users can now sign in with Google
Added the "private" privacy level, which restricts post access to the owner and people the owner has affirmatively shared the post with
Users can now share items easily (which matters because of how Private items are shared)
Searching by tag now displays posts in 3-month chunks with "earlier" and "later" links to see more of them when viewing post by tag
Lists of posts (like the pinned post list on the home page) highlight new and recently-updated items
Made an internal change to remove a kludge in how logged-in users can set their own profile locations

Corrected a really dumb caching error that prevented anonymous users from leaving comments
Updated the favicon and added Android and Apple icons
Put previous releases inside an accordion container on this page

Users can now go directly to a specific date on the calendar navigator
Fixed minor display issues with the calendar navigator control
Reduced unnecessary logging in a couple of spots, like when auto-saving a new post
Fixed a logic error that disabled auto-saving published posts even when the user wanted to turn the feature back on
The Edit Post page now knows not to use a user location of 0°N,0°E
Added a missing page title

Added a calendar navigator control
Users can set a default location for their own posts
Admins can now change several previously hard-coded settings, including auto-save interval, comment max length, main page look-back days, and cache expiration time
Users now return to the page they were on when they log in
Lowered the severity of several exception conditions that aren't all that exceptional
Fixed numerous small and annoying bugs

First production release!
Completed 188 JIRA cases, including 92 stories, 52 bugs, and 44 technical tasks
Committed 785 changes in Git since 17 July 2020
Wrote 17,191 lines of executable code and 256 unit tests
Approximately 300 hours of development time, plus hundreds of other hours musing, thinking, and taking notes