13.12 Release Notes

In the 13.12 release, Lithium continues to improve and iterate on its badging and spam filtering features (currently in closed beta) as well as provide some key bug fixes.

Closed beta announcement

We currently have multiple exciting new beta programs in progress. Currently, these are closed betas limited to a select group of customers.

• Badges: A badge is a type of visual reward that community members can earn for completing specific community actions or for achieving important community milestones. Badges are a great way to extend gamification on your site and encourage casual users to use different community features and spend more time engaging with the community. You can create badges that encourage the specific behaviors that you want to instill in your members.
• Automatic spam filtering: Lithium is committed to making sure that your communities serve up the highest-value content to your community members. To meet this promise, we continue to look for ways to help you combat spam. Lithium’s new spam detection tools run in the background. Each new message is logged and tested for spam automatically. Additionally, our system learns about the content on your site as it monitors all your boards and forums, enabling it to continuously improve its content filtering over time.

You Found It. We Fixed It

• The Go to Production link now displays properly on the Studio Publish version tab.  (Community)
• Sending test emails to yourself from Studio > Text Editor > Email Text no longer fails in non-English languages.  (Community)
• When exporting results of searches to a CSV file (search options > export search results as CSV file),the CSV file now includes all the appropriate topics and replies, based on your configuration settings and search terms. (Community)
• 3-byte characters are no longer blocked from the content filter.  (Community)
• Users with the Manage All Blog Messages permission can now view drafts of any user’s blog articles.  (Community)