release: 0.17.0 Characinae

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NOJ v0.17.0 Characinae

This is a minor version update. As mentioned in 0.5.0 logs, the new version system would merge the old major and minor version numbers into new minor version numbers, thus as the 17th minor version update since NOJ 0.1.0, this version would be numbered as major version 0, minor version 17, build pack 0 and patch number 0.

Important: Please follow NOJ Document's guide to upgrading your NOJ from v0.16.x to v0.17.0.

Summary: Update Laravel from 6.x to 8.5, update Laravel Mix to 6.0, requires WKHTMLPDF installed, uses new logo design, supports multiple log channels, supports group homework, supports strong password, supports C11, C++14 and C++17, supports new contest rejudge interface, supports new contest pdf generation interface, supports problem lazy load that increases site rank and group loading time, supports new material preloader, supports new sortable.js as a sortable method, supports Carbon as time processer, supports 2 fonts and 5 environment variables. This version update also includes lots of query optimizations, bug fixes, functionality & UI improvements, and security updates.

Update Logs

• Compatibility: NOJ now supports Laravel 8.5 per Laravel 8.x Support #672 requests, the latest version of Laravel. 8.x uses Symphony 4, which introduced a lot of changes to the base code.
• Compatibility: NOJ now deprecates DomPDF and uses WKHTMLPDF instead.
• Compatibility: NOJ now uses lax for the same site verification.
• Compatibility: NOJ now uses Throwable instead of Exception for the error handler.
• Compatibility: NOJ now uses Laravel Mix 6.0.
• Compatibility: NOJ now separate log channels, group_elo_update and babel_judge_sync are now stored in different files apart from app.log (which originally named laravel.log) and expired after 7 days.
• New: Group homework support per Group Homework Support #667 requests, this feature can be seen as the privatized lite version of NOJ Dojo.
• New: Add createHomework AJAX API.
• New: Use the third edition of the NOJ logo materialized design per New NOJ Logo Support #676 requests. While replacing all old logos, the third edition also modifies its dark and light flattened variant.
• New: Strong password support via environment variable FUNC_STRONG_PASSWORD.
• New: Add C11 language support per Add support for C11, C++14 and C++17 #663 requests (require NOJ JudgeServer v0.2.1 or higher).
• New: Add C++14 language support per Add support for C11, C++14 and C++17 #663 requests (require NOJ JudgeServer v0.2.1 or higher).
• New: Add C++17 language support per Add support for C11, C++14 and C++17 #663 requests (require NOJ JudgeServer v0.2.1 or higher).
• New: Add new problem selector component per Redesign Arrange Contest #664 requests.
• New: Remastered contest rejudge feature per Advanced Rejudge Support #673 requests. This function now opt-in for the beta test.
• New: Contest rejudge now supports custom verdict to rejudge.
• New: Remastered contest pdf generation feature by using WKHTMLPDF per Advanced PDF Export #670 requests. This function now opt-in for the beta test and can only apply to contests in which all problems are self-hosted and you need to install WKHTMLPDF first then setup 2 environment variables, WKHTML_PDF_BINARY and WKHTML_IMG_BINARY.
• New: Contest pdf generation now supports math formula rendering.
• New: Contest pdf generation now supports removing after generation.
• New: Add site-wide delayProblemLoad function for image lazy loading.
• New: NOJ now uses the new material preloader component.
• New: NOJ now uses sortable.js for sortable elements.
• New: Add group left-to-right layout.
• New: Add users_latest_submission query builder for problem model.
• New: Add problems_latest_submission query builder for user model.
• New: NOJ now uses lluminate\Support\Carbon and its alias Carbon for time processing.
• New: Add fonts-asset/simsun package, see Package Hosted Font Resources #504.
• New: Add fonts-asset/dejavu package, see Package Hosted Font Resources #504.
• New: Add barryvdh/laravel-snappy package.
• New: Add _declaration as an scss component.
• New: Add _mathjax as an scss component.
• New: Add _refreshing as an scss component.
• New: Add defaultAvatarPNG as NOJVariables in typescript.
• New: PDF generation locale support for contest admin panel.
• New: Group homework locale support.
• Deprecated: Remove EloquentModel alias for all eloquent models from now on, eloquent models will be referred to directly.
• Deprecated: Remove barryvdh/laravel-dompdf package.
• Deprecated: Remove jquery-ui and noj-jquery-ui-sortable package.
• Fixed: Duplicate lodash package.
• Fixed: A bug causing babel:install to fail when making directories.
• Fixed: A bug causing email verification hidden when social login is disabled.
• Fixed: A bug causing congratulation and other dialogs dismissable via ESC key while exit logic not triggered, see Congratulations on an Accepted problem #722.
• Fixed: A bug causing math formula overflow, see The display of mathematical formula in case note looks abnormal #723.
• Fixed: A bug causing sample note blank, see Cannot Set Sample Note #662.
• Fixed: A bug causing admin portal contest registant_type field mapped wrongly.
• Fixed: A bug causing SPJ uploading to fail.
• Fixed: Typo (we mean it).
• Improved: NOJ Dojo is now greatly optimized by using the new dojo status method, see NOJ Dojo Performance Optimization #725.
• Improved: Optimized site rank page performance, see NOJ Site Rank Performance Optimization #726.
• Improved: Optimized group detail page performance, see NOJ Group Detail Performance Optimization #728.
• Improved: Multidomain config now does not take effect in the console environment.
• Improved: Eloquent contest model getProblemSet method now optimized.
• Improved: PDF generation advice page now uses pure latex formula.
• Improved: PDF generation cover page now uses the latest ICPC standard.
• Improved: Contest admin panel now separates section-panel to own blade template.
• Improved: Problem pagination is now configurable via environment variable PAGINATION_PROBLEM_PER_PAGE.
• Improved: NOJ now uses blade stack to replace outdated additionJS yield.
• Improved: NOJ ico file now bundles 16*16, 48*48 and 256*256 resolution.
• Improved: NOJ now uses a new refreshing button design.
• Improved: NOJ now uses the new problem selector component for contest editing and arranging per Redesign Arrange Contest #664 requests.
• Improved: Redesign ajax/problemExists AJAX API.
• Improved: Group function block now has a color scheme.
• Improved: Group left-to-right layout now applies to all group detail-related pages.
• Improved: NOJ now uses the new left-to-right layout for the analysis page, see Redesign Group Analysis Page #719.
• Improved: Eloquent problem model getProblemStatus method.
• Improved: NOJ now uses the dot-separated router for problems.
• Improved: Google Recaptcha now defaults to false.
• Improved: Admin Portal now displays babel mirror as part of the environment info.
• Security: beyondcode/laravel-dump-server is now at 1.7.0.
• Security: dragonmantank/cron-expression is now at 3.1.0.
• Security: encore/laravel-admin is now at 1.8.14.
• Security: filp/whoops is now at 2.14.4.
• Security: graham-campbell/markdown is now at 13.1.1.
• Security: intervention/image is now at 2.7.0.
• Security: laravel/framework is now at 8.63.0.
• Security: laravel/passport is now at 10.1.3.
• Security: laravel/socialite is now at 5.2.5.
• Security: laravel/tinker is now at 2.6.2.
• Security: laravelium/sitemap is now at 8.0.1.
• Security: league/mime-type-detection is now at 1.8.0.
• Security: mockery/mockery is now at 1.4.4.
• Security: monolog/monolog is now at 2.3.5.
• Security: nesbot/carbon is now at 2.53.1.
• Security: nikic/php-parser is now at 4.13.0.
• Security: nunomaduro/collision is now at 5.10.0.
• Security: phar-io/manifest is now at 2.0.3.
• Security: phar-io/version is now at 3.1.0.
• Security: phpdocumentor/type-resolver is now at 1.5.1.
• Security: phpoption/phpoption is now at 1.8.0.
• Security: phpseclib/phpseclib is now at 3.0.10.
• Security: phpspec/prophecy is now at 1.14.0.
• Security: phpunit/php-code-coverage is now at 9.2.7.
• Security: phpunit/php-file-iterator is now at 3.0.5.
• Security: phpunit/php-text-template is now at 2.0.4.
• Security: phpunit/php-timer is now at 5.0.3.
• Security: phpunit/phpunit is now at 9.5.10.
• Security: predis/predis is now at 1.1.9.
• Security: psy/psysh is now at 0.10.8.
• Security: ramsey/uuid is now at 4.2.3.
• Security: sebastian/code-unit-reverse-lookup is now at 2.0.3.
• Security: sebastian/comparator is now at 4.0.6.
• Security: sebastian/diff is now at 4.0.4.
• Security: sebastian/environment is now at 5.1.3.
• Security: sebastian/exporter is now at 4.0.3.
• Security: sebastian/global-state is now at 5.0.3.
• Security: sebastian/object-enumerator is now at 4.0.4.
• Security: sebastian/object-reflector is now at 2.0.4.
• Security: sebastian/recursion-context is now at 4.0.4.
• Security: sebastian/resource-operations is now at 3.0.3.
• Security: sebastian/version is now at 3.0.2.
• Security: symfony/console is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/dom-crawler is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/error-handler is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/event-dispatcher is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/event-dispatcher-contracts is now at 2.4.0.
• Security: symfony/finder is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/http-foundation is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/http-kernel is now at 5.3.9.
• Security: symfony/mime is now at 5.3.8.
• Security: symfony/process is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/routing is now at 5.3.7.
• Security: symfony/translation is now at 5.3.9.
• Security: symfony/var-dumper is now at 5.3.8.
• Security: vlucas/phpdotenv is now at 5.3.1.
• Security: webpack is now at 5.52.1.
• Security: typescript is now at 4.4.3.
• Security: sass is now at 1.42.1.
• Security: pdfobject is now at 2.2.7.
• Security: codemirror is now at 5.63.1.
• Security: axios is now at 0.21.4.
• Security: dompurify is now at 2.3.2.
• Security: postcss is now at 8.3.9.