https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/20445
- after switching to a browser-like user-agent, YouTube started responding with a "supported browsers" message rather than the actual video meaning bookmark creation failed
- when trying other user-agents it was discovered that nytimes.com (why the user-agent was originally changed) had a problem with the github.com address in the user-agent. By switching to using https://ghost.org instead the request was allowed through fixing both YouTube and NYTimes embeds
closes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ONC-115
- OpenTelemetry was throwing errors when viewing posts
- disabled the instrumentation in development mode so it requires explicit config to enable
closes https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-762
- nytimes.com and other sites return 403 responses when requests do not match typical browser user-agents
- our bookmark fetching requests were using `Ghost(https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost)` meaning bookmark creation failed for these user-agent-blocking sites
- switched to using a standard browser user-agent string to avoid such blocks
closes https://github.com/TryGhost/Ghost/issues/20028
It's fairly common practice for oembed providers to skip some of the "required" fields from the oembed spec such as `height` when it doesn't make sense for the embeddable content, this was the case with Bluesky embeds which return `height: null`
- removed validation for `height` being present in the response for it to be recognised as an embed because we don't use it anywhere and the validation is blocking otherwise valid embeds
no issue
Full details coming soon to https://ghost.org/changelog
- Link toolbar and bookmark cards now let you search your existing posts/pages/tags/authors in addition to manually entering the URL
- Typing "@" inside your content lets you quickly search and add a text link
- Typing "@" on a blank paragraph provides a quick way to search and add a bookmark
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/SLO-127
- problem: when using a card with a button (Button, Email CTA, Header,
Product), the Button URL suggestions fail to load for Contributors,
Authors, and Editors
- cause: Contributors, Authors and Editors don’t have permission to
fetch offers, and this causes the entire list of button url suggestions
to break
- solution: if offers fail to fetch for any reason, the rest of the url
suggestions for cards with a button is now still populated (i.e. offers
URLs are ignored)
no issue
- removed labs flag
- removed labs flag conditionals
- removed code related to old setup/done screen
- fixed tests that weren't correctly running against the GA flag code
ref
https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-1240/race-condition-when-updating-members-last-seen-at-timestamp
When members click a link in an email, Ghost updates the member's
`last_seen_at` timestamp, but it should only update the timestamp if the
member hasn't yet been seen in the current day (based on the
publication's timezone).
Currently there is a race condition present where multiple simultaneous
requests from the same member (if e.g. an email link checker is
following all links in an email) can cause the `last_seen_at` timestamp
to be updated multiple times in the same day for the same member. These
additional queries add a significant load on Ghost and its database,
which can contribute to the exhaustion of the connection pool and
eventually requests may time out.
The primary motivation for this change is to avoid that race condition
by adding a lock to the member row, checking if `last_seen_at` has
already been updated in the current day, and only updating it if it
hasn't.
Another beneficial side-effect of this change is that it avoids locking
the `labels` and `newsletters` tables, which are locked when we update
the `last_seen_at` timestamp in the `members` table currently. This
should improve Ghost's ability to handle a large influx of requests to
redirect endpoints (confirmed with load tests), which tend to happen
immediately after a publisher sends an email.
This commit adds OpenTelemetry instrumentation to Ghost's backend, which
allows us to view traces similar to what we see in Sentry Performance
locally.
OpenTelemetry is enabled if `NODE_ENV === 'development'` or if it is
explicitly enabled via config with `opentelemetry:enabled`.
It also adds a [Jaeger](https://www.jaegertracing.io/) container to
Ghost's docker-compose file for viewing the traces. There's no setup
required (beyond running `yarn docker:reset` to pickup the changes in
the docker-compose file the first time — but this will also reset your
DB so be careful). This will launch the Jaeger container, and you can
view the UI to see the traces at `http://localhost:16686/search`.
no issue
Typing "@" in the editor will immediately trigger an internal link search to make it faster to link to one of your articles. After typing "@" continue typing to search, results can be selected using Up/Down arrow keys or the mouse, then pressing Enter or clicking will insert the selected result's title pre-linked. Pressing Escape or moving the cursor out of the search box will cancel the search.
- removed labs flag
- updated Koenig feature flag for at-linking to use the same flag as our internal linking beta
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/MOM-108/ap-phase-two
Added a WIP version of the Ghost-to-Ghost ActivityPub feature behind the feature flag. Enabling it will add a new item to the main sidebar nav that lets you interact with our ActivityPub mock API in the following ways:
- Shows you the list of sites you follow
- Shows you the list of sites that follow you
- Shows you the articles published by sites you follow
- Shows you activities (who followed you or liked your article)
- Shows your liked articles
Mock API can be easily updated to simulate working with different types of data and interactions.
DES-459
The font size of subtitles/excerpts in newsletters was similar to the
body font size which doesn't reflect the content hierarchy
appropriately. Also, the spacing should be adjusted to represent that
the title and the subtitle belong together.
ref MOM-239
- for ActivityPub + Egg
- allow custom headers to be passed to createQuery hook in Admin X.
- this includes the ability to use it inside `createQueryWithId` hook.
- Added testing
ref
https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-1240/race-condition-when-updating-members-last-seen-at-timestamp
When members click a link in an email, Ghost updates the member's
`last_seen_at` timestamp, but it should only update the timestamp if the
member hasn't yet been seen in the current day (based on the
publication's timezone).
Currently there is a race condition present where multiple simultaneous
requests from the same member (if e.g. an email link checker is
following all links in an email) can cause the `last_seen_at` timestamp
to be updated multiple times in the same day for the same member. These
additional queries add a significant load on Ghost and its database,
which can contribute to the exhaustion of the connection pool and
eventually requests may time out.
The primary motivation for this change is to avoid that race condition
by adding a lock to the member row, checking if `last_seen_at` has
already been updated in the current day, and only updating it if it
hasn't.
Another beneficial side-effect of this change is that it avoids locking
the `labels` and `newsletters` tables, which are locked when we update
the `last_seen_at` timestamp in the `members` table currently. This
should improve Ghost's ability to handle a large influx of requests to
redirect endpoints (confirmed with load tests), which tend to happen
immediately after a publisher sends an email.
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ONC-94
- adds Sentry logging for the unsaved changes modal in Admin (tags,
members, collections)
This will let us monitor for spikes in rates so we know if a change to
Ghost has caused faulty logic in detecting dirty models.
DES-189
Our use of borders makes it very difficult to style a theme that looks
good with all states. Theme developers need a border to separate
comments from the content, but the current comments output includes
borders. It's possible to make it look ok in most of the time, but it's
difficult to work with. This change updates borders from the comments
CTA box with the following rules:
- Logged out without comments: no borders
- Logged out with comments: top border only
- Logged in without comments: no borders
- Logged in with comments: no borders
Fixes
https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/DES-4/image-caption-size-in-email-newsletter.
There were no styles defined for captions for cards beyond the featured
image (bookmark, gallery, video), and we had no way of targeting those
captions with CSS. They are now wrapped in a div with a specific class,
which allows for more selective styling, and are styled similarly to the
caption of the featured image.
ref https://linear.app/tryghost/issue/ENG-1211
- the post slug now re-generates based on the post title for draft posts
unless manually set
- updated unit tests to be a bit more comprehensive
It's frequently the case that draft posts might have WIP titles. We
would generate a post slug based on the title and never change it, so
unless writers remembered to come back in to update it for their final
post, it could look off to readers. This should make that a bit more
intelligent.
Going forward, we will change the slug unless we expect it to be a custom slug (user-set in the side panel). If the title is cleared out and saved, we will also reset it. We will only ever automatically generate & change the slug for draft posts.
