Archive of Our Own ^beta

Welcome to Release 0.8.6. Cesy, Elz, Enigel, Pixel, Rebecca and Sidra contributed code to this release, which was tested by our awesome testing team: Enigel, erda, hill, Jackie, Kylie, mumble, Seph, and xparrotx. This release required extra attentive testing because we are rolling out a big new feature - subscriptions!

Highlights!

Subscriptions

Yes, after many requests and three years on our roadmap, we have finally released the first version of subscriptions! We know our users (and our staff) have long wanted some way of keeping track of their favourite creators on the AO3. Now you can subscribe to users and receive an email notification when they post a new work, or when they add a chapter to an existing work. To subscribe to a user, just go to their user profile and select 'Subscribe' (see the Subscriptions FAQ for more information).

This is only the beginning for subscriptions! We wanted to start small, because subscriptions have a big potential impact on performance (which is why we had to wait for the new servers before we could even think about them). Once we have seen how the alpha version of subscriptions works, we plan to roll out more features: subscriptions to tags, to specific searches, RSS feeds, and more! We're super-excited about rolling out the first of this functionality!

Challenge request lists

Gift exchange challenges often like to post the list of challenge prompts or requests at the end of the challenge, so that people can write extra treats for participants. Now you can do this on the AO3 at the click of a button - mods simply enable the option in their challenge settings, and the list of prompts will appear under the 'Requests Summary' for that challenge for users to browse.

We're currently putting the finishing touches on some more features for challenges... stay tuned in the next release for more cool stuff! You may notice 'My Claims' showing up on your user home - this is for the forthcoming features and is not yet active.

Known Issues

See our Known Issues page.

Release Details

Features

• Subscriptions YEAY
• Challenge request lists
• Additions and fixes for the skinning wizard
• New procedure in case of forgotten password: Currently you receive an email with a new password that you can use to log into your account. To prevent others from resetting your password for you, we will now send you a temporary password that you can use within seven days. If you didn't request a new login, just ignore the email - no changes to your password will be made.

Bug fixes

• Searches containing a slash were broken, this is now fixed
• fixed a problem where a work would behave as if locked to archive users if, for example, imported without preview
• There was a problem with works being incorrectly counted as WIPs, which had to do with the way the position of the existing chapters was evaluated, this has been fixed (by simply counting the number of chapters instead)
• The somewhat buggy reordering of chapters has been fixed as well (this means you cannot create a chapter 3 if there is no chapter 2 - it will be automatically counted as chapter 2, unless and until you post a chapter 2 again, in which case all subsequent chapters will be reordered accordingly.)
• Collections and challenges:
  • fixed individual revealing of works in a collection
  • fixed broken tag links (e.g. for fandoms or relationships) in challenge assignment emails and signup details
  • set challenge assignments to be generated in the background (similar to the matching process) to minimize server load
• There was a problem with the "cancel" function when deleting comments (the comment would get deleted anyway); this has been fixed
• Made sure that a problem with posting a work would lead to a proper error message (and not just make the posting quietly fail)
• Semi-fixed a display bug for fandom pages in Internet Explorer 6 - we're doing our best to continue supporting this browser for those people who have no other options
• Systems:
  • updated Rails to 3.0.4
  • moved from delayed jobs to resque for background tasks such as sending out emails, generating matches in a gift exchange and creating assignments (as delayed jobs was quite broken)
  • deployment process maintenance to make sure the servers can communicate properly amongst each other
  • made sure you can save a work when our search engine, Sphinx, is down (causing problems before because saving a work involves letting Sphinx know it exists)
  • the current release number can now be found in the footer (replaces the revision number)