Waterhole 0.2

Waterhole 0.2 is here with a security fix, better emoji support, new translations, and a whole range of other improvements and fixes.

Highlights

0.2 is mostly about smaller enhancements and bug fixes, but there are a few notable changes. To explore all the smaller details, check out the Release Notes.

Improved Emoji Support

Emojis are now rendered using TextFormatter, the formatting library used by Waterhole. This is more performant and fixes a security vulnerability with the old emoji rendering method. It also means you can configure Waterhole to use an alternative emoji set instead of Twemoji.

New Translations

Waterhole has been translated into French (thanks to @Qiaeru) and Russian (thanks to @Awilum). You can enable these locales on your installation by adding the following to your WaterholeServiceProvider:

Extend\Locales::add('French', 'fr');
Extend\Locales::add('Russian', 'ru');

Other Improvements

There are a whole range of minor enhancements and bug fixes, including:

• Internal links no longer open in a new window
• The post last activity time now links to the last comment
• Slightly decreased the container width and typographic measure to improve readability
• Added the ability to look up users by ID in the CP
• Fix the text editor emoji popup not displaying
• Fix an error when running the waterhole:make:extension command
• Fix the bottom of composer textarea going off-screen

Upgrading From 0.1

Upgrade Using Composer

In your composer.json file, change the waterhole/core requirement:

- "waterhole/core": "^0.1"
+ "waterhole/core": "^0.2"

Then run:

composer update waterhole/core --with-dependencies

Update Emoji Configuration

The emoji configuration in config/waterhole/design.php has changed. To continue using Twemoji in your project, you'll need to make the following change:

- 'twemoji_base' => 'https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/twemoji/14.0.1/',
+ 'emoji_url' => 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@latest/assets/svg/{@tseq}.svg',

Reformat Content

Emojis in content are now formatted at parse-time rather than at render-time. Run the following command to reparse emojis in all existing content:

php artisan waterhole:reformat