Platform

Updates / Bug Fixes

• UTM parameters are now properly escaped. Previously, if someone signed the petition at: https://demo.controlshiftlabs.com/petitions/repair-the-yellow-brick-road-1?utm_campaign=red%26blue, the UTM Campaign parameter would be logged as red%26blue. Now, with proper escaping, it'll be logged as Red&Blue.
  
  
• The just_launched banners for petitions and events now have share click tracking. This share click information is then included in the bulk data API and allows organizations to see how many attendees/signatures result from an individual share. More info.
  
  
• Organizations can now set a bounding box from Settings > Time Zone & Locale. This allows organizations to set a default map view for various maps, search results, etc.  †
  
  
• Organizations can also now set a utm_source_for_email parameter, which will be used on email sharing links. By default, we'll use utm_source=email for shares by email, but organizations can customize the source code in Settings > Social Media. †
  
  
• Shares with Facebook messenger now include share click IDs.
  
  
• In our bulk data APIs, we've updated thee event column names to use end_at and start_at, not end and start. Our developer docs will be updated to reflect this change shortly. 
  
  
• We've updated the petition promoted toggles. We'd seen that the toggle would show as "off" even if the petition was being promoted. This update should fix that. The update also prevents users from promoting an inappropriate petition.
  
  
• We've increased the number of places we're using turbolinks, which should make it faster to navigate between admin pages. 
  
  
• We've updated the way we use Segment identifiers so that they're consistent between server-side and client-side events. Previously, a single user who created a petition would have different anonymous IDs in Segment when being logged as viewing the new petition page (client side) vs. launching the petition (server side). Now the anonymous ID will remain consistent. 

Petitions

Updates / Bug Fixes

• When users create petitions on mobile, the just launched banner now includes a Facebook messenger button (if the organization has Facebook messenger shared enabled).
  
  
• The email supporters page was briefly broken for users with two-factor authentication enabled. This is now fixed.
  
  
• When an admin clicks to delete a signature from a petition's Signatures tab, we now perform a physical deletion instead of a logical deletion. That means the signature is fully removed from the database not just marked as deleted. †
  
  
• When viewing the moderation status section of an unmoderated petition's admin page, we now show a helpful reminder that the petition has not been moderated and link to the moderation queue. †
  

Events

Updates / Bug Fixes

• On event listing pages (/events or a calendar's hub page), we were double escaping special characters. That meant that site visitors were seeing & instead of &. This is now fixed.
  
  
• We've updated the calendars:admin_view permission so that users with this permission can no longer access the calendar's settings page.
  
  
• A postcode mismatch error was causing some unsubscribe requests to fail for virtual events. This has now been fixed.
  

Groups

Updates / Bug Fixes

• We've updated the group_collection:admin_view permission so that users with this permission can no longer access the group collection's settings page.

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