Latest OBA Production update (13.2.18)

Stability is a must, which is why we are releasing this new production update with speed improvements and visual fixes.

What’s New

• Pagination looks a little different.

• Signing in or registering an account looks different, this is in preparation of a future feature!

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Account Settings

• Can you figure out what we have in the works?
• Improvements in admin interfaces, such as Audio/Video Uploads.

Changes

• OpenBadges now show “Revoked” and “Expired” fields.

Fixes

• After adding files, the button caused errors to happen.
• Badge descriptions were truncated at 503 characters.
• Internal changes to ensure cache is cleared properly.
• No e-mail notification was sent when badge declined.
• Push to Backpack button was being unresponsive.
• A misleading error when awarding a badge.
• Unable to assign a badge to the primary site manager.
• After deleting a manager, any assigned badges were not automatically unassigned.
• Signing up as an individual didn’t always list available sites.
• Amend the font used in upload layers.
• Blacklisted words are now validated case insensitive.
• Suppress double loading spinners when encoding media.
• “Cannot find this badge submission” after an e-mail award.
• It was possible to add notes directly to deleted evidence.
• Items in Track Progress were misaligned.
• Keep the scrollbar within a task evidence popup.
• Prevent seeker going beyond the player element.
• Prevent note list becoming center-aligned.
• Uploaded Badges page had a misaligned bin icon.
• “Finishing upload” was slightly off-center.
• Video thumbnails were missing.
• 500 error when downloading an Awarded Badge.

Optimisations

• Transcoding media is slightly faster.
• Switching between pages with pagination has improved.
• Database migrations to Aurora — meaning these areas now process data quicker:
• Currency
• Subscriptions
• Notes
• Endorsements