Release Note: Evetro v1.1.3b

What is New?

• Evetro PS Pattern: A WebSocket-based solution for listening to changes. Users receive live updates on notes and actions from other users on the same retrospective (on creation, deletion, and changes).
• Voting on Notes: Retrospectives now offer the opportunity to prioritize the importance of some notes over others. Voting may be activated when creating or editing a retrospective. To cast a vote, the user clicks on either of two arrows on the note card in the Team Insight page. Total votes from all users will be shown on each note and group in the Create Actions page.
• Team Action List: Actions may now be edited or removed from a retrospective.

Improvements

• Creating Retrospectives:
  • It is now possible to close the list of Gather and View methods by simply clicking outside the list.
  • It is now possible to see which retrospective one has chosen for importing the last action list under the Warm-up column.
• Retrospectives may now be deleted by facilitators.
• Creating Actions: The list of groups in the sidebar is sorted by the aggregated number of votes on its notes, if voting is activated on the retrospective.
• Find Retrospective: Each retrospective box shows the end date; each box is color-coded to indicate whether the sprint has not yet started, is ongoing, or has ended.
• Team Insight: Incoming notes are animated.
• Team Action List: The next retrospective, using the current as the previous, can be created from this page, both sharing the same attributes (method, modules to use, participant set, etc.). The dates for the next retrospective are set to last one week after the end of the current retrospective.
• Timeline:
  • Points can now be dragged past other points in the timeline and will automatically reorder themselves.
  • Added a field around nearby points when dragging to prevent stacking too closely together.
  • Users can now add multiple notes to each point, with a note list displayed when notes are added.
  • It is now possible to add points without adding notes.
  • The x-values in the timeline are now datetime values instead of pure dates. Points will remain where they are placed rather than defaulting to the start of the day.

Fixes

• Dashboard: For small view windows, the elements in the dashboard no longer overflow across the sidebar. The red default border upon loading has been removed.
• Team Insight/Create Actions: Note cards will no longer stack vertically instead of utilizing the full view width.
• Create Actions: Fixed escaping issue when writing a new note in Create Actions, preventing recursive escaping of the ampersand symbol (&).

Operations

• Naughty Dev Mode Middleware: Production now runs a separate server module from the one used in development to combat lethal operation errors leading to 502 Gateway errors in the browser.
• Authentication: To reduce the likelihood of the magic link email getting flagged as spam, we've added two text records—one featuring the SPF protocol and another implementing DMARC—to our domain and subdomains.

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