v0.25.2 “MenuScope”

Added regenerateAllThumbnails method.
Fixed postedAt issue with pending posts.
Created postsListTop zone and moved messages, category_title, and views_menu modules to it.
Renamed category_menu_item template to categories_menu_item.
Added itemTemplate option to menu to enable setting a custom template for all elements.
Created new defaultMenuItem template.
Now passing reference to whole menu object to each node instead of just menuItems.
Renamed top zone to contentTop.
Created new contentBottom, postsListTop, postsListBottom zones.
Extracted menu component into its own utilities:menu package.
Newsletter banner is now included in contentTop zone, not hero.
Renamed "Outside Links Point To" setting to "RSS Links Point To".
Added infinite scrolling option.
Added one hour offset to show future posts to fix real-time bug.

v0.25 “FlowScope”

Meteor 1.2

Updated for Meteor 1.2

Flow Router

Switched from Iron Router to Flow Router.
Moved auth/permission logic from router to templates.
Removed /top, /new, /best, etc. routes.

Other New Features

New post approval/rejection workflow: pending posts can be approved or rejected; approved posts can only be rejected; rejected posts can only be approved.
Added approved/reject/delete buttons to post item actions.
Added rejected view to show all rejected posts.
Posts.parameters.get now iterates over the postsParameters callback hook to build parameters object.
Comments.parameters.get now iterates over the commentsParameters callback hook to build parameters object.
RSS feed and API can now both accept any post query parameter (limit, view, cat, before, after, etc.)
Now passing current user ID to Posts.parameters.get query constructor.
Added afterEmbedlyPrefill callback hook on client.
Removing a user now gives the option to remove their posts and comments, too.

Renamings

postApprovedAsync hook renamed to postApproveAsync, added postRejectAsync.
Changed Posts.getSubParams to Posts.parameters.get.
Changed Comments.getSubParams to Comments.parameters.get.

Removals

Removed Telescope.utils.getCurrentTemplate();
Removed search logging.
Disabled single day view.
Posts.checkForSameUrl doesn't auto-upvote the existing post anymore.
Removed delete link from post edit page.

Menu Component

Menu item custom data context is now passed as item.data.
Add nesting level CSS class to menu items.

Other Changes

Moved schema i18n to collection level.
Use Users.adminUsers more consistently.
Upvote/downvote functions now take document _id as argument, not document object itself.
Using tmeasday:publish-counts to publish posts category counts (instead of denormalizing).
Fixed delay on post submission.
Updated category_title template to handle multiple categories.
Fixed Subscribe to Comments feature.
Fixed Safari CSS issues by enabling autoprefixer.
Extracted Spiderable into its own telescope:spiderable package.

i18n

Korean translation.
Slovenian translation.
Italian translation.

v0.24 “SubScope2”

[BREAKING] Modules data context must now be passed on explicitely using the moduleData attribute.
[BREAKING] Updated category_title template.
[BREAKING] Refactored post_admin template. Added delete link, now using icons, and moved post edit link from post_info to post_admin.
When in debug mode, you can now log out information about a template to the console by clicking on it.
Improved category slug generation logic to avoid duplicate slugs.
[BREAKING] custom_ prefix is now always loaded last, and takes priority over every other prefix.
Added Quickfit script to auto-fit site title to sidebar width in side nav layout.
[BREAKING] Removed menu component's menuMode argument, now doing menu variants via CSS and menuClass.
[BREAKING] Got rid of accordion menu variant.
[BREAKING] Tweaked markup of menu component.
Now showing "Post" button to logged out users, too.
Icons are now always displayed square with fixed width.
[BREAKING] Added wrapper div to notification, user, and categories menus
Improved debug mode: you can now click any template to log out its information to the console.
Custom menu item templates now inherit helpers from menuItem template.
Added category hierarchy breadcrumbs to category_title template.
Post submit form now uses collapsible categories menu.
When adding a category to a post, all parents are now automatically added by default.
Added Category.postsCount to keep track of how many posts are in a category.
Now filtering out categories with no posts from the categories menu.
Added postDeleteAsync callback hook.
Now publishing all public user data all the time to work around nested fields subscriptions bug.
Categories with same name now get different, unique slugs.
Now getting link source name and URL from Embedly if available.
[BREAKING] Renamed posts_views_nav to views_menu.
Added Telescope.modules.addRoute to add new routes to existing modules.

v0.23 “SubScope”

Template modules now take only and except options to only display on specific routes.
Now only caching first 15 days of posts_daily view.
Added okgrow:iron-router-autoscroll package.
Small tweaks to search UX.
[BREAKING] Use collection helpers instead of postLink and target in post_title and post_thumbnail.
[BREAKING] Use collection helpers instead of pathFor in post_comments_link and post_discuss.
Added new i18n strings.
Modified custom template prefix system to accept multiple prefixes.
[BREAKING] Changed Telescope.config.customPrefix = "foo" to Telescope.config.addCustomPrefix("foo").
Added new facebookPage setting.
Added category description to category menu, when it exists.
Fixed post category and post thumbnail CSS classes.
Switched back to aldeed:autoform instead of sacha:autoform.
Updated to Meteor 1.1.0.3.
Added support for menu hierarchies.
Added hierarchical categories.
Now only showing "play" button for actual videos.
Not subscribing to postsListUsers on user profile page anymore.
Added per-category RSS routes (thanks @lewisnyman!)
Now showing top comments in email newsletter (thanks @sungwoncho!)
Fixed blank URL edit bug (thanks @johnthepink!)
Added .posts-day wrapper in posts-daily template.
[BREAKING] menu label template must now be specified using menuLabelTemplate option in menu component.
Menu label template data context can now be specified using menuLabelData option.
user_menu template and its helpers moved from telescope:core to telescope:users.
Now recalculating email hash whenever email changes.
Added user avatar to user menu in nav.

v0.22.2

Made approvePost and unapprovePost methods take postId instead of post as argument and fixed approve/unapprove bug.
Now sorting email newsletter posts by baseScore (time-independent), not score.

v0.22.1 “DebugScope”

Introduced new template debug mode.
Fixed invites bugs (thanks @badibouteraa!).
Made hero modules full width (thanks @jshimko!).
Renamed nav template to header.
Renamed postsListTop zone to top.
Renamed footer template to footer_code, which is part of the footer module zone.
Any template can now be used as menu label in menu component.
Added Telescope.menuItems.removeAll()
Number of columns in Hubble grid layout now adapts to viewport width.
Added image support to RSS feed and API.
Added setting for pointing RSS feed to discussion pages.
Made video lightbox responsive and made video stop on lightbox close.
Simplified template modules markup structure.
Fixed bug preventing non-logged-in users from signing up to newsletter (thanks @frabrunelle!).
Moved errors and banners styles to base theme.
Updated Kadira package.
Implemented post-specific SEO logic for generating Open Graph and Twitter meta tags.

v0.21.2 “FastScope”

Added day by day settings for newsletter frequency (thanks @johnthepink!).
Implemented Subs Manager.
Implemented FastRender.
Now using check for methods.

v0.21.1 “SlugScope”

Added URL slugs for posts (i.e. /posts/xyz/my-post-slug).
i18n files clean-up.
Added post downvote setting.
Renamed post_upvote template to post_vote.
Refactored notifications code.
Added kadira-debug package.
Fixed avatar bug.
Fixed screen refresh bug on post page.
Fixed security issue (thanks @delgermurun).
Fixed security issue (thanks @pcorey).
Added Swedish translation (thanks @Alekzanther).
Improved French translation (thanks @camilleroux).

v0.20.6 “AutoScope”

Added Extra CSS field (thanks @johnthepink!).
Fixed security issue with Settings (thanks @jshimko!).
Added automatic template replacement.

v0.20.5 “MinorScope”

Just a couple minor bug fixes.

Changed how email template customization works (see documentation).
Ensure email uniqueness and keep it in sync.
Improve profile completion screen validation & errors.
Generate public user properties list from schema.
Fixed video lightbox issue.
Updated Getting Started content.
Enforcing better URL formatting for Site URL setting.
Fixed notification settings.
Reworked user settings.

v0.20.4 “RefactorScope”

See blog for more details.

v0.15.1 “PageScope”

Settings now have their own telescope-settings package (thanks @delgermurun!).
Swedish translation (thanks @Alekzanther!)
Various fixes (thanks @azizur, @ndarilek, @kai101, @saimeunt, @Kikobeats!).
Added telescope-pages module for managing static pages.

v0.15 “SideScope”

Layout

Added new postListTop zone that only appears on post lists.
Now showing tagline on every post list.
Added the Side Nav layout.
New Admin menu layout.

Settings

Added the Post Views setting.
Changed color settings names.
Added field for optional category image (thanks @dtsepelev!).

SEO

Added telescope-sitemap package (thanks @yourcelf!).
Added improved SEO support (thanks @yourcelf!).
Added field for SEO site image.

Other

Improved performance when loading comments for long threads (thanks @dandv!).
Usernames are now case and space insensitive. John Smith, JohnSmith, and johnsmith are now all considered to be the same username (thanks @splendido!).
Now using feedparser instead of htmlparser2 to parse RSS feeds (thanks @delgermurun!).
Now supporting RSS categories (thanks @delgermurun).
Refactored dropdowns into menu components.
New {{{icon}}} helper for icons, using FontAwesome.
New accent color customization API.
Fixed various bugs (thanks @webyak, @yourcelf, @ywang28, @delgermurun!).
Now publishing upvoters and downvoters on single post page.

Internationalization

Added Arabic translation (thanks @nwabdou85!).
Added missing translations in Brazilian Portuguese (thanks @alanmeira!).
Improved French translation (thanks @klamzo!).
Romanian translation (thanks @razvansky!).
Added Dutch translation (thanks @reneras!).

v0.14.3 “TableScope”

Implemented Reactive Table for the Users dashboard (thanks @jshimko!).
Upgraded Herald package (thanks @kestanous!).
Upgraded Avatar package (thanks @bengott!).
Upgraded Autoform package.
Added Greek translation (thanks @portokallidis!).
Improved Spanish translation (thanks @brayancruces!).
Added new callbacks for upvoting and downvoting (thanks @Baxter900 !).
OP comments now get the author-comment CSS class.

v0.14.2 “FaviconScope”

Added settings for auth methods.
Added setting for external fonts.
Use site tagline as homepage title.
Make favicon customizable.
Making webfont customizable. To get previous font back, use: https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Source+Sans+Pro:400,700,400italic,700italic.
Fix juice issue.
Non-admins should not be able to access rejected posts.
Bulgarian translation (thanks @durrrr91!)

v0.14.1 “TaglineScope”

Fix double notification bug.
Fix singleday view bug.
Fix post approval date bug.
Don't let non-admins access pending posts.
Give search field a border on white backgrounds.
Spanish, Brazilian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Polish translations (thanks everybody!).
Do not put comment reply page behind log-in wall.
Various CSS tweaks.
Added tagline banner package.
You can now assign a category to posts generated from feeds (thanks @Accentax!).
Use tagline as title on homepage.
Refactor default view route controller code.
Fixed security issue with post editing.

v0.14.0 “GridScope”

Added Grid Layout option.
Cleaned up vote click handling functions and added tests (thanks @anthonymayer!).
Added threadModules zone.
Added upvoteCallbacks and downvoteCallbacks callback arrays.
Fix “post awaiting moderation” message bug.
You can now subscribe to comment threads (thanks @delgermurun!).
Added postApproveCallbacks callback array.
Added notifications for pending and approved posts, for admins and end users.
Renaming "digest" view to "singleday".
Make sure only valid properties can be added to posts and comments.
Added newsletter time setting (thanks @anthonymayer!).
Change "sign up" to "register" (thanks @Kikobeats!).

v0.13.0 “ComponentScope”

Tweaked comments layout in Hubbble theme.
Added Bulgarian translation (thanks @toome123!).
Cleaned up permission functions (thanks @anthonymayer!).
Various fixes (thanks @comerc and @Kikobeats!).
Stopped synced-cron message logging.
Limit all posts lists to 200 posts.
Refactored posts lists to use the template-level subscription pattern when appropriate.
Refactored single day and daily packages.
Footer field now accepts Markdown instead of HTML.
Feeds can now be assigned to a user.
Various CSS tweaks.
Fixing newsletter issue.
Post rank now has its own module.
Changed how field label i18n works.

v0.12.0 “DummyScope”

Important: existing newsletters and feeds need to be manually enabled in the Settings panel

Added "Enable Newsletter" setting. Note: existing newsletters must be re-enabled.
Added "Enable Feeds" settings. Note: existing feeds must be re-enabled.
Now showing release notes for latest version right inside the app.
Added dummy posts, users, and comments.
Added new Events collection for keeping track of important events.
Log first run event.
MAIL_URL environment variable can now be set from Settings.
Renamed viewNav to viewsMenu.
Renamed adminNav to adminMenu.
Improvements to the Post by Feed package.
Added tests for nav bar (thanks @anthonymayer!).
New and improved documentation.

v0.11.1 “FeedScope”

Post submit and edit forms now submit to their respective methods directly.
Removed postSubmitRenderedCallbacks and postEditRenderedCallbacks.
telescope-post-by-feed package now lets you import posts from RSS feeds.
Adding limit of 200 posts to post list request.
Refactoring post and comment submit to fix latency compensation issues.
Tags package now using Autoform.

v0.11.0 “AvatarScope”

Added new userCreatedCallbacks callback hook.
Added new setting to subscribe new user to mailing list automatically.
Added new debug setting.
siteUrl setting now affects Meteor.absoluteUrl().
Added new Telescope.log function that only logs if debug setting is true.
Simplified post module system, modules are not split in three zones anymore.
Added new postThumbnail hook to show Embedly thumbnail.
Simplified Hubble theme CSS for both desktop and mobile.
Many CSS tweaks for Hubble mobile.
Show author and commenters avatars on post item.
Adding description to post list pages and showing them in menus.
Improved Russian translation (thanks @Viktorminator!).
Now using editorconfig (thanks @erasaur!).
Upgraded to useraccounts:unstyled@1.4.0 (thanks @splendido!).

v0.10.0 “RefactorScope”

Renaming Errors to Messages (thanks @yourcelf!).
Adding fast-render (thanks @arunoda!).
Extracted digest into its own package.
Adding "scheduled" view that shows upcoming scheduled posts.
Bringing back "delete post" link that was removed by mistake.
Made user profile display page modular.
Made user profile edit page modular.
Started extracting invites into their own package.

v0.9.11 “FormScope”

Now using Autoform's quickform feature to generate post submit and edit forms.
Various fixes by @anthonymayer.
Now using fourseven:scss to directly compile SCSS files.
Renamed post method to submitPost.
Post editing now happens via a postEdit method.
Categories are now normalized (only the _id is stored on the post object, not the whole category object).
Refactored Embedly package; now fills in description as well (thanks @kvindasAB!).
Thumbnail height and width are now customizable in settings panel.
Settings and Post forms now i18n'ized.

v0.9.10 “i18nScope”

Now using tap:i18n for internationalization (thanks a ton to @theosp).
Each package is now i18n'd invididually.
Chinese i18n code is now zh-CN, not zh.
Various fixes (thanks @anthonymayer).
Upgrade Avatar package (thanks @bengott).

v0.9.9

Updating to Meteor 1.0.
Updating to Iron Router 1.0.
Adding view counter (thanks @steffenstraetz! See PR #489)
Splitting out router.js in multiple files.
URL can now be removed when editing a post (thanks @massimilianomarini! See PR 484).
Now waiting on allUsersAdmin subscription for post submit page (thanks @kai101! See PR 508)
Putting server-side routes for email template tests in their own respective packages.

v0.9.8

Fixing #457 (pending posts view not working).
Added German translation (thanks @Helmi!).
Added ?q= parameter to searches (thanks @yourcelf!).
Abstracting isAdmin (thanks @yourcelsf!).
Refactoring getPostsParameters (thanks @delgermurun!).
Using bengott:avatar package for avatars (thanks @bengott!).
Upgrading to Meteor 0.9.3.1.

v0.9.7 “SettingsScope”

Updating to Meteor 0.9.3.
Improving RSS feed (thanks @delgermurun!).
Fixed redirection issues on sign-up (thanks @steffenstraetz!)
Fixed bug on Twitter sign-in.
Splitting up the settings form into sub-sections.
Adding help text to settings form.
Fixing problem with daily view theming.
Improving avatar stuff (thanks @shaialon and @bengott!).

v0.9.6

Fixed security hole in user update.
Kadira is now included by default.
Comments now have their own feed (thanks @delgermurun!).
Fixed URL collision bug (thanks @GoodEveningMiss!).
Now using account-templates (thanks @splendido!).
Retinizing avatar sizes (thanks @shaialon!).

v0.9.5 “FixScope”

Fixed /settings bug (thanks @steffenstraetz!).
Code cleanup (thanks @wulfmeister!).
Fixed upvote/downvote concurrency bug (thanks @spifd!).
Renamed SubmitServerCallbacks to SubmitMethodCallbacks for posts and comments.
Added AfterSubmitMethodCallbacks for posts and comments.
Made notifications into their own telescope-notifications package.
telescope-update-prompt package now sends user, post, and comment count when phoning home.

v0.9.4 “UpdateScope”

Removed unneeded allow insert on Posts and Comments.
Renaming postMeta template to postInfo to avoid ambiguity.
Fixing avatar code.
Adding update prompt package.
Upgrading to Meteor 0.9.2.
Do not remove deleted comments from database, use isDeleted flag instead.
Now showing "X new posts" instead of just displaying them. Thanks @dburles!

v0.9.3 “DailyScope”

Show user comments on user profile page.
Move votes to their own user.votes object.
Add daily view.
Default root view is now customizable.
Updated app to 0.9.0.
Updated all packages to be 0.9.0-compatible.
Fixed XSS bug (CVE ID: CVE-2014-5144) by sanitizing user input server-side.
Now storing both markdown and HTML versions of content.

v0.9.2.6 “InviteScope”

Added new invite features (thanks @callmephilip!)
Changed navItems to primaryNav and added secondaryNav.
Added new themeSettings object for storing theme-level settings.
Notifications is now a nav menu item.
Renamed comments to commentsCount on Post model.
Now tracking list of commenters _ids on Post model.
Rerun interrupted migrations.

v0.9.2.5 “AccountScope”

Now keeping track of upvoted/downvoted posts & comments.
Using accounts-entry for accounts stuff.
Split out part of the Hubble theme into a new “base” theme.

v0.9.2 “MailScope”

Use handlebars-server for all email templates.
Refactored email system to use global HTML email wrapper.
Added routes to preview email templates.
Changed how notifications are stored in db.
Added deleteNotifications migration to delete all existing notifications.
Now using templates for on-site notifications too.
Added heroModules and footerModules hooks.
Added telescope-newsletter package.
Sending emails from within setTimeouts to fix latency compensation issue.

v0.9.1.2

Added lastCommentedAt property to posts.
Added hooks to post_edit and post_submit's rendered callback.
Embedly module now supports video embedding in a lightbox.
Updated to Meteor 0.8.3.
Updated packages.

v0.9.1

Using Arunoda's Subscription Manager.
Updating mobile version.
Made the background color setting into a more general background CSS setting.
Added postHeading and postMeta hooks.

v0.9

See blog post for changelog.

v0.8.3 “CleanScope”

Refactored the way dating and timestamping works with pending/approved posts.
Cleaned up unused/old third-party code.
Migrated "submitted" property to "postedAt".
Added a "postedAt" property to comments.

v0.8.2 “SchemaScope”

Improved migrations with timestamps and number of rows affected.
Created telescope-lib and telescope-base pacakge.
Pulled out search into its own telescope-search package.
Made menu and views modular.
Using SimpleSchema and Collection2 for models.

v0.8.1 “FlexScope”

Extracted part of the tags feature into its own package.
Made subscription preloader more flexible.
Made navigation menu dynamic.

v0.8 “BlazeScope”

Updated for Meteor 0.8.1.1/Blaze compatibility.
Using Collection2/SimpleSchema/Autoforms for Settings form.

v0.7.4 “InterScope”

Added basic internationalization (thanks Toam!).
Added search logging.

v0.7.3

Refactored notifications.
Added notifications for new users creation.

v0.7.2

Added basic search (thanks Ry!).

v0.7.1

Added karma redistribution.
Improved user dashboard.
Improved user profiles.

Note: run the "update user profile" script from the toolbox after updating.

v0.7 “IronScope”

Huge update!

Switched to IronRouter.
Added new invite system.
Made nested comments optional.
Reworked notifications settings.
Stopped publishing all users.
Added URL slugs for user profiles.
Using nProgress to show loading.
Paginating users dashboard.
Filtering users dashboard.

Note: If you're upgrading from a previous version of Telescope, you'll need to run the "update user slugs" method from within the Admin Toolbox panel inside the web app to get user profiles to work.

v0.6.2

Fixed bug where anybody could delete any comment.
Added option to add new users to a MailChimp list.

v0.6.1

Added Bitly integration.
Fixed Twitter avatars.
Refactoring allow/deny code.
Added click tracking on links.
Refactoring RSS and API code to use server-side routing.

v0.6

Added categories
Cleaned up file structure.

v0.5.6

Added simple JSON API showing the 100 last posts.

v0.5.5

Added Google Analytics pageview tracking.
Added RSS feed for /new

v0.5.4

Added email notifications for approved users.
Added delete users link.

v0.5.3

Added basic color customization.
Fixed Flush bug.

v0.5.2

Added email notifications of new comments and new replies for all users (along with unsubcribe link) and notifications of new posts for admin users.

v0.5.1

Added a second createdAt timestamp. Score calculations still use the submitted timestamp, but it only gets set when (if) a post gets approved.
Started keeping track of versions and changes.

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