Forums 4 - Release 5 - July 9, 2009
Forums 4 Release 5 is scheduled to be deployed end of the day July 9th.
Changes
An update to the Expression masthead to be consistent with the rest of the Expression online sites
Answers branded thread pages will show related topics in the right railBug Fixes
Fixes for rendering RSS for User Threads for users having DBCS characters in their display name
Fix for editing a post, some users see flashing and edit text disappearing when attempting to edit
Update to the Atom date times to correct an offset for UTC, enabling offline aggregates to correctly show local date times
Fix to place Answers back into the thread "All Replies" section (When unselected in the "My Settings" page)
An IE 7 specific issue to not horizontally scrooll to the right when replying
URL eyebrow and banner image fixes for the Microsoft and Answers branded forumsNotes
The team is looking into a release in the next few weeks to ensure thread posts are ordered by date time and not helpful vote counts. We are also looking into a few minor visual updates to the voting user interface to make it more discoverable and understandable.
Community Forums Program Manager
