Release Notes: September 1st, 2014

Hi everyone! Although we have not done so for many years, I will be posting release notes monthly from now on. If you have anything to ask or say about what we've been working on, feel free to comment.

Without further ado, here are the release notes:

New Features

  • Released iFixit Pro
    • Create a team for your business
    • Integrate your Yelp ratings into your team’s profile
    • Make your business iFixit Certified
    • Jumpstart your repair business with the brand new Repair Business Toolkit
  • Added Stories API endpoints
  • Updated the oManual site with some improvements to the standard
  • You can now create human translated versions of wikis
  • Switched to using OAuth because Google is deprecating OpenID
  • Teams and profile pages have been redesigned for greater ease of use and to be more aesthetically pleasing
  • Added a note when editing a prerequisite guide that warns you that your changes will be seen on multiple guides
  • People who do not have an account yet can now be invited to join your team
  • Authors can now edit any team’s profile page
  • Team names can now include many more valid characters
  • Added a new PDF viewer with more functionality, such as search and highlighting
  • Moved Table of Contents option above Additional Information section for greater noticeability and clarity
  • Expanded the coverage of our API

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where setting your location on your iFixit Meta user profile didn’t work in certain countries
  • Fixed the alignment of the Moderation and About tabs on Answers
  • Fixed a permissions bug where Authors couldn’t join Teams
  • Minor UI improvement to the loading spinner animation
  • Fixed a bug where you couldn’t name a wiki the same thing as a wiki that had been previously deleted
  • Fixed a bug where if you previewed a guide’s intro before it was saved it would cause an error
  • Fixed a bug where if you added a video to a guide that failed to generate a thumbnail it made the guide unusable
  • Fixed a bug where guide blurbs weren’t formatted correctly on mobile devices
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