v1.7.1

[lewislarsen]

There have been a variety of improvements and updates to Vanguard in this version, the most prominent features being the revamped connection manager and the ability to copy backup tasks. There have been a lot of feature releases this update but in the near future my focus will be any little bugs that have cropped up.

Below are the changes that have been made.

Features

• Copy Backup Task - There is a button near the 'Create Backup Task' button which allows you to copy a backup task. You'll need to specify a new task run time for it though. It will copy over your notification streams and tags that are linked to the original task too.
• Help Page - We've added a new 'Help' page which easily lists which lists helpful resources if you get stuck. You can find this in your account settings page.
• Connections Manager - We've revamped how Vanguard handles external connections such as GitHub and GitLab. Existing connections have been migrated over to the new system, you can find this in the account settings menu as well.
• Snooze Notifications - If you need to stop receiving notifications from Vanguard, you can do so by visiting the Quiet Manager in account settings and setting a date. You will be notified via email when the time is up and you'll start receiving notifications again.
• Experiment Feedback - When an experiment is active, you'll be able to send feedback directly to us through your Vanguard instance. (Providing it can access the internet). This is securely sent to a web app which you can find the code for here.

Removals

• Removed the github link status from the /user API endpoint as it was data that wasn't necessary.

Improvements

• We've improved links on the footer, account dropdown to be more informative.
• Improved the account settings navigation menu, with the amount of options added recently, it was getting messy, so it is now sorted into categories and looks much nicer.
• Minor improvements to old JS code.

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This discussion was created from the release v1.7.1.