New Features

• User and display name changes will now be seen without having to refresh or navigate into the discussion again.
• A new section has been added to the “My Kialo” navigation page that displays all discussions that are relevant to the user, including those that the user was explicitly invited to but never visited.

• The profile preview has been revised as part of a larger coming change in how names/profiles are displayed on Kialo. Additionally, compatibility with touch devices has also been introduced to the profile preview with this release.

• The Create Discussion Wizard has been restructured to make the discussion creation process simpler and allow advanced users to skip steps they know aren’t relevant to the discussion being created.
• Additionally, there have been some minor styling changes and improvements that have been released.

• Discussion and team invitations have been reworked to include a reason on the alert card shown in the Overview and Respond tabs and not just in the email invite, adding context to the invitations on Kialo directly.

• With the latest release, we have updated the colorset for Kialo to make it more accessible and comply with WCAG 2.1 level AA guidelines. This means that readability has been improved site-wide and all elements have sufficient contrast, meeting industry standards.
• Additionally, more variations for default avatars have been introduced.

• A new version of the mention picker (when opened either through the context menu or using ‘@’) has been released which fixes stylistic issues with long comments or when using a mobile device.
• An issue which caused an incorrect error message to sometimes be displayed when using the OAuth signup form has been fixed.

• An improvement has been made to the team invite wizard, providing an overview of teams/accounts that have been selected for an invitation.
• Minor bug fixes and performance improvements were released.

A new dialog for inviting users to discussions and teams has been released, as a part of a larger initiative to reinvigorate Kialo’s user invite interfaces.

• The login and sign up dialogs have been revamped with an improved user experience.
• A minor visual improvement has also been rolled out with this release, making the discussion card menu overlay more visually appealing.
• A minor isue with sidebar content not properly displayed has been fixed.

• There are now more visually appealling default images for account and team avatars and discussion images.

• URLs generated for inviting users and access to discussions now have a “Copy Link” button to copy the URL to your clipboard.
• Bug fix: An incorrect confirmation message that was shown when removing a team from discussions has been fixed.

• On Kialo Edu, Discussion Tasks can be used to direct students towards specific activities in a discussion.
• A Sources sidebar is available in the discussion menu, listing all the external links from the claims of the discussion.

• A new wizard makes inviting teams to discussions more intuitive.
• The link editor can now quickly be brought up with Ctrl+K.

• Kialo now supports Microsoft Single Sign On.

• Discussions can now be muted. When muted, users won’t receive notifications when mentioned, nor when new claims or comments are suggested.

• A new read-only Viewer role was released, which cannot suggest, vote or change discussions in any way.
• The old role Viewer has been renamed to Suggester, which is more accurate given discussion participants with that role are able to suggest claims and comments and can vote.

• All dialogs have been redesigned and their design and button placement has been made more consistent across the whole site.

• Discussion contents and chat comments now support displaying right-to-left text. 
• Screen reader compatibility has been improved.