Connect 2.4.15

Released on 10/01/2019, contains multiple improvements and bugfixes major are listed

• Registration/Profile page improvements
• Bug fixes
• Team management section udpates
• Show Created By for files and links list in Assets Library
• send new roles to analytics

for more details follow commits pushed as part of this release #3342

Connect 2.4.14

Released on 08/30/2019
Contains support for reading query params in smart forms to support auto selection of answers for few questions based on URL to allow marketing catalog to deep link to the forms.

Connect 2.4.13

• Redesigned navigation (A step towards common primary navigation across all topcoder apps)
• New Asset library module which improves the Files and Links management easier
• New Improved Messaging UX (e.g. notification badges with count of unread messages)
• More targeted emails for project invites for SSO users
• Support for inviting multiple emails in single call
• More entities to manage in admin interface
• Support for new question types (especially one for searching skills from topcoder skill library) for scope forms
• Bug fixes and improvements

Connect 2.4.12

The release introduced new smart scope forms for the projects. Apart from many improvements for smart scope forms, this release included many other important features/bug fixes and enhancements. Some of them are as follows:

• Support of attaching files to the posts
• Listing links, pasted in a thread/post, to the left side panel for better access and sharing.
• Notification badges on the project listing page (both card and list view) which show the number of unread mentions in the project discussions
• Added option to capture better error details from user for better support. (we still need to work on adding more details to each possible error condition so that the new feature can get more details)
• Improved the responsiveness of the page when typing in a thread or post for a project having many threads/post (#2185)

Connect 2.4.11

• New messaging experience with most recent post at the top.
• Private messaging.
• Member-Invite improvements, checking invited/added members across different teams.
• Grid view for customer to view projects listing.
• Improved/Uniform File upload experience to be a single step process, directly to upload file.
• Improved json condition parser for dynamic forms.
• Other minor-bugs/Improvements/Sentry-issues fixed.

Connect 2.4.10

• 'Connect Account Manager' role has been added which will have special previlage of seeing all the new/draft projects notification
• Copilot approval workflow - now managers and copilot can also request copilot-manager to add another user as copilot to project
• Registration page improvements
• Improved searching for project listing page, now projects could be searched based on ref code as well, try clicking the column title and type the search keyword
• Improved file listing/sharing UI
• Improved new user's landing page
• Search ahead when typing username in member invite text area

Connect 2.4.9

• Basic organization support and uses that to provide custom project catalog URL for specific orgs
• Permissions support for file attachments of projects
• New user role, Connect Copilot Manager which would responsible for copilot assignments in a project
• Team Management improvements for better view of invited members
• SSO support in team invitation email for new users

Connect 2.4.8 - Revamped Team Management

This release is primarily for new improved team management apart from few bug fixes. With new team management users:

1. would be better able to differentiate between topcoder and customer teams
2. would be able to invite a non topcoder user by email
3. can invite existing topcoder users by email
4. can invite user by handle without waiting for auto suggest to complete

Note: This release introduced a new role called 'Observer', however, that role does not have any specific utility as now. This role should be equivalent to Manager role as of now. Product team is working to have more roles and their abilities.

Connect 2.4.7 - User Profile/Account Setting for Connect Users

Below features and enhancements are pushed as part of this release -

1. Users can See/Update their profile from Connect(Except handle and email for Now, in later release that's also in plan)
2. Customer related Info for connect could also be seen on profile page which are filled during Connect onboarding
3. Routine CommunityFixes-13 are also pushed as part of this release which contains fixes for minor bugs and enhancements to existing features
4. Work on overall UX improvement is done in this release

Connect 2.4.6 - New Email Settings, Web Notifications and Improved Project-listing page.

Lot of enhancements and New features have been added as part of this release, find the below list for more details -

1. Bundling support for email group
2. Improved project listing page to correctly update Last Update column to reflect latest project with changes
3. New notifications for timeline/milestones
4. New settings for project plan events in notification settings page
5. Community Fixes, CF-13, for minor features and enhancements
6. Improved fetching the template data in single call to reduce the latency
7. Cleanup by avoiding making redundant calls to project-service
8. Changed the redux store to keep template data in cleaner way
9. Ability to add files to project through the dashboard sidebar