Luna 2.1 "Fluorescent Blue" Shiplist

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Luna 2.1 "Fluorescent Blue"

Fluorescent Blue is an intermediate version update to Luna which we will hopefully provide with regular minor feature updates along the way while we're putting our back into fixing everything we think is wrong with Luna, which might take a while...

Features

• Rewrite CSS in LESS #1642 Backstage redesign: the Backstage has gotten an updated look with improved navigation for small devices and quicker access to all pages.
• CDN update #1647 CDN vendor packages: if you want, you can now tell Luna to get Font Awesome, Bootstrap and jQuery from their respective CDNs rather than downloading them from your own domain.
• Font Awesome 5 #1653 Font Awesome 5: we've replaced all icons with Font Awesome 5 (up from 4.7), this means that there is a whole new set of icons available to you to use as forum icons.
• Drop smily support #1655 Smily support removed: support for the classic smilies has been removed, instead, Luna will now always use emojis.
• Remove update rings #1656 Update rings: you can no longer change in which update ring you are. As we drop the maintenance of nighlies, it didn't make much sense to keep this in place.
• Remove setting to change emoji size #1681 Emoji size: you can no longer change the size of emoji.
• Custom emojis #1682 Custom emoji: you can now add new emojis in Settings > Emoji.
• Social embeds #1683 Social embeds: the parser now supports a number of social embeds.
• Icon packs #1684 Icon packs: a new type of plugin has been added named "icon packs".
• Make emoji case insensitive #1702 Case insensitive emoji: emoji shortcodes are now case insensitive.
• Introduce new codes for including emoji #1703 Emoji codes: emoji now have a new set of shortcuts.
• Support for local videos #1706 Local videos: videos can now be embedded from a local source.
• Remove a number of pointless user settings #1711 User settings: a number of users settings have been removed.

Backstage

• Censored words save #1686 Censored words save: censored words can now be saved all at once.
• Rework Themes page to show theme details #1685 Theme selection: the Backstage now shows more information about themes.

Design

• Improve night mode #1658 Night mode: night mode has been improved with better contrast and a darker design.
• Move to Bootstrap 4 #1689 Bootstrap 4: Backstage, Fifteen and Sunrise have gotten a Bootstrap 4 upgrade.

Parser

• Use collapse plugin for spoiler #1594 Improved spoiler support: we've improved the spoiler tag implementation to use the native Bootstrap collapse plugin.

Theme

Fifteen and Sunrise

• Use table-responsive in inbox #1611 Responsive tables: whenever a table is used, it is now responsive.
• Use native font stack #1616 Native font stack: Luna now uses a native font stack, which means that Luna now goes with the font that best fits your operating system rather than using its own.
• Mobile menu should be more touch-optimized #1640 Improved mobile navigation: Fifteen is getting an updated navbar design to improve the experience for mobile users.
• Rewrite CSS in LESS #1642 Fifteen SCSS: Fifteen and Sunrise have been rewritten in SCSS.
• Bring back avatar as user icon #1641 User avatar: the user avatar is now used as icon for the user menu.
• Improve thread sidebar on small screens #1671 Sidebar improvements: the sidebar has been improved to take up less space on small devices.

Typography

• Typography #1679 Typography: Luna has a new default theme in Typography.

System

• Drop MySQL support #1708 MySQL legacy: MySQL and MySQL InnoDB support has been dropped.
• Use PDO to communicate with the database #1710 PDO layer: Luna now uses PDO to connect to a database.

Developers

Themes

• Provide data-only for built-in menus #1256 Data-only menus: menu data is now passed to themes without any markup.
• Installable themes #1688 Installable themes: themes now require installation.
  • Drop XML in favor of JSON #1677 Theme registration: themes now have to store their data in theme.json instead of information.php.
  • Define theme features in JSON #1678 Theme features: themes can now register which features they support in theme.json, which will result in warnings in the Backstage for settings that are not supported by the current theme.
• Move more exposed values to objects #1709 Easier theming: Luna now provides objects with all data required by themes.

Components

• jQuery 3.3.1 #1622 jQuery 3.3.1: jQuery has been updated to version 3.3.1.
• Update to Bootstrap 4.1.2 #1701 Bootstrap 4.1.2: Bootstrap has been updated to version 4.1.2.
• Font Awesome 5 #1653 Font Awesome 5.1.1: Font Awesome has been updated to version 5.1.1.

Enhancements

• Inconsistent use of "email" and "e-mail" #1680 Email vs e-mail: Luna now consistently says "email" instead of using both notations.

Fixed issues

Documentation

• For Luna 2.1, we're putting a lot of effort in updating and expanding the Luna documentation. If you'd like to contribute, be my guest, all help is welcome. For all changes coming in the documentation, see Luna 2.1 documentation update Documentation#1