For users

Navigation

• A new popup menu has been added to every page allowing you to quickly switch between your spaces. You can access it by clicking on your name at the top-right of the screen.
• You can now select items on index pages by clicking anywhere in the row. To choose multiple items select a first item and then hold down shift while selecting the second. Selected items are also now highlighted in blue so they can be more easily seen.
• On index pages that use a time span search filter you can now select a particular year, month or day by choosing the 'Specific date...' option from the time span dropdown menu.
• The letter index on index pages now only appears if you select the button next to a text filter. You can also now achieve the same effect by typing a single letter and selecting the Search button.
• Consistency has been improved between searching, sorting and paging on index pages. If you change the sort order by selecting the heading of a column the search will no longer be lost. On most index pages editing an item will return you afterwards to the place where you were in the index.

Discussion and knowledge

• Discussion messages and knowledge entries can now contain inline styles. This means it is now possible to use colours in the HTML editor. Note that style definitions are sanitised to remove any that could cause potential security issues.
• When you select the 'Transfer' button for a discussion message or knowledge entry, a popup menu will now appear to let you choose the new location, rather than you being taken to a new page to choose.
• You can now search discussion messages from the discussion by day and discussion by thread index pages.
• The discussion by day index page now uses a calendar format, making it easier to visualise the activity that has taken place.
• You can see all the discussion messages or knowledge entries written by a single member by following the links from their member profile.
• A tag cloud has been introduced in the sidebar when viewing a discussion message, discussion thread, discussion day or a knowledge entry, giving you an indication of how much content there is in a space for a particular tag. Tags are also listed in the sidebar by type.

Tagging

• When you select the 'Tags' section from the navigation bar you will now be taken directly to the tags index, rather than the tag map. The tag map can still be viewed by selecting this view from the sidebar.
• There are no longer separate index pages for people and events - these have now become tags. You can view just the people tags or event tags by going to the tag index and selecting either 'Person' or 'Event' as the tag type from the drop-down menu on the left.
• Tags can now have types. There are two special built-in types for people and events that will always be there. When it finds an appropriate tag, the system will also automatically create types for regions, countries, cities, US states, UK counties and some other common categories. These types will be expanded and their detection further refined in future versions. You can choose which tags to use as types and delete any that you do not want. You can manually assign types to tags or remove them when they are not appropriate.
• A tag cloud now appears on the home page of each space highlighting the most-used tags in the space.
• The concept of key tags has been removed. Key tags were originally intended as good starting points for exploring, but we now provide tag clouds automatically showing the important tags, which we feel serve the same purpose. See 'For space administrators' for further details of this change.
• When manually tagging a knowledge entry, the system will now offer suggestions of potential tags as you type their names.

Design and browser support

• Improved support has been added for Internet Explorer 6 and Safari 3.2 and for the beta versions of Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3.1 and Safari 4.
• There is now a printer stylesheet, so printing a discussion message or knowledge entry will use the same styling as on screen but omitting the navigation elements from the page.
• Many other minor user interface and design improvements have been made along with improved consistency between different browsers.

Other changes

• The help system has been overhauled, making it easier to scan help articles for relevant information and generally improving their quality and consistency.
• A number of issues with feeds have been fixed, notably feeds containing incorrect URLs for themselves and broken titles where discussion areas are used in spaces.
• Improvements have been made to error alerts, giving more specific messages where possible about why an operation could not be completed.
• A number of other small fixes have been made throughout the product.

For space administrators

Discussion and knowledge

• You can now delete multiple threads from the thread index.
• You can now move multiple threads to a different discussion area from the thread index.
• When you select the 'Move area' button on the thread index or on an individual thread, a popup menu will now appear to let you choose the new area, rather than you being taken to a new page to choose.

Tagging

• The tag cloud on the home page of each space highlighting the most-used tags in the space will appear either where the tag map section was before or if that is not present it will be added at the top right of the page. In the home page settings you can configure how many tags to include in the tag cloud or remove it if it is unwanted.
• In the 'New tags' section type on the space home page and newsletter you can now choose to show only tags of a particular type. There are also still special section types for forthcoming events and new people.
• Tags no longer have a 'key tag' property and the 'Key tags' section has been removed from the space home page. If you need this functionality you will need to create the 'Key tag' type and add a 'New tags' section to the home page that only shows tags for the 'Key tag' type.
• Two tags can be merged together, adding the name and alternative names of the second tag with the alternative names of the first and combining their types and associations.
• You can choose whether a tag is used for automated tagging or can only be assigned manually. This can be useful for tag types that you don't want to show up in actual content.
• In the 'Tags' space settings you can now set whether you want people and events to always have tags created for them immediately or to treat them like other tags and only create them when the system considers them important enough. The default is always to create them immediately.
• We have removed tag splitting. This was an assisted process to help you define new tags once a tag had too many occurrences, using the content of knowledge entries to guide their creation. However, it has been little used and has been superseded by major improvements to our automated tagging.

Other changes

• The registration forms have been improved, now telling users beneath the fields on the form whether a username is already taken and the strength of the chosen password.