v0.60.0

[tommoor]

Note: This update requires database migrations, take your installation offline, backup the database, and run with yarn db:migrate or yarn db:migrate --env production-ssl-disabled

Collaborative editing

We're excited to include the first beta of collaborative editing in this release. This feature allows multiple team members to edit the same document synchronously with all changes merged automatically. This feature also includes live cursors, presence, and selection plus the removal of the separate "Edit" mode. To opt-in visit Settings -> Features as an installation admin to enable. Please note that your installation must support websocket connections, and in the future this will be a requirement to continue upgrading Outline.

Command bar

This release also includes new cmd+k functionality which you might recognize from other productivity apps. Type cmd+k anywhere to quickly move around your knowledge base! We'll be building all of the possible actions into this menu over the rest of the year. Some shortcuts of note that were added as part of this – o then d to directly jump to documents, or o then c to jump to collections!

As there was no official release in October this one is also jam-packed with lots of other smaller improvements and fixes:

Enhancements

• New in-built emoji picker in editor, type : to trigger (feat: Emoji picker in editor #2611)
• Added Perl language support in editor code blocks
• Public share links now include an option to change light/dark theme (feat: add changing appearance for guests #2632)
• It is now possible to set a default role for new users in Settings -> Security (fix: Add default role option for new users #2665)
• Warning when dragging doc between collections with different permissions (fix: Warning when dragging document between collections with different user permissions #2516)
• Zooming images now possible while editing
• Several new icons for collections
• It is now possible to delete previous exports in admin (fix: Delete collection exports #2595)
• 🇵🇱 Polish added as language option

Fixes

Editor

• It is now possible to start lists at numbers other than 1.
• Shift+Enter in code block now preserves indentation (fix: Shift+Enter in code fence could preserve indentation rich-markdown-editor#578)
• Shift+Tab now moves up menus (fix: enable shift-tab in CommandMenu rich-markdown-editor#575)
• Fixed newline creation in folded headings (fix: Newline creation in folded heading rich-markdown-editor#562)
• Fixed a race condition while uploading an image to the editor
• Fixed hanging block menu trigger in gutter (+) after folding heading (Menu icon is not hidden after collapsing an heading in the editor rich-markdown-editor#558)
• Keyboard shortcuts for headings and code now correctly toggle the block state
• Fixed text selection toolbar will no longer appear when text selection is empty
• Improved pointer behavior on checkboxes
• Anchor "#" links now work in publicly shared docs (Allow in-page link to headings in shared docs #2652)
• Clicking outside of the editor will now close the toolbar
• Fixed a regression with mailto links (mailto: links don't work #1090)
• Improvements to gist embed display (fix: Remove redundant scrollbar from iframe. #2697)
• Improved mobile styles (Fix: increase left gutter spacing on mobile edit mode #2720)
• Fixed clash between history and table of contents shortcuts (Ctrl + Esc opens the Start Menu on windows instead of canceling editing #2733)
• Fixed UI flash when loading history sidebar
• Fixed code highlighting not updating unless current selection is within code block

Platform

• Emoji in document title are no longer considered when sorting (fix: ignore emoji when sorting #2687)
• Slack and Email settings now more clearly communicate when they are not setup
• Much improved server logging, setting a DEBUG variable is no longer required (feat: Normalized server logging #2567)
• Server now shuts down more gracefully
• Fixed potential forward to incorrect collection url on first sign-in (fix: Forward to incorrect collection url on first signin #2565)
• Printing from doc menu no longer produces a blank page in Firefox (Printing documents in Firefox produces blank output #2543)
• Metrics from worker queues are now available in statsd (chore: Add basic logging of metrics to event queue #2545)
• Redis v6 on Heroku is now supported
• Starred documents can now longer be highlighted twice in sidebar (fix: Double document highlight in sidebar #2551)
• OIDC preferred_username claim now mapped to user record (feat: map preferred_username claim to user record #2569)
• Context menus can no longer extend out of window bounds (Context menus should not extend off-screen #2492)
• Creating an API token no longer reloads the app (Trying to Delete user via API since he can't log in but can't generate API token #2604)
• Public share information on doc not displaying correctly after loading a shared child document
• Updated community translations

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This discussion was created from the release v0.60.0.

[raldred]

This is a great update.
Getting 'WebSocket connection to 'wss://domain.com/collaboration/document.0ed42643-7a7e-4da9-9681-87a1ea370142' failed: ' there's very little else in the console to aid debugging.
Hosted on Heroku

[Snuupy]

I tried #2222 (comment) but it does not work. Not sure how to get websockets working with nginx.

I also tried chsasank/outline-wiki-docker-compose#1 (comment) but that didn't work either.

WebSocket connection to 'wss://outline.domain.com/realtime/?EIO=3&transport=websocket' failed: 

[Snuupy]

Got it working! In my setup, I have 2 reverse proxies: the first to handle SSL termination and the 2nd to handle outline. Both need the following lines added:

    proxy_set_header Host $host;
    proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
    proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;

My mistake was that I only added the above to the first (SSL termination) proxy, but not the 2nd one. Adding it to both got me the collaboration feature working! :)