World 😁 Smile 😁 Day bug fixes

In honor of World 😁 Smile 😁 Day, here are some bug fixes we released in the last week that are making us smile:

  • Broken link checker & report: We noticed that the reports for some knowledge base with lots of external links were taking a long time to complete. We decreased the amount of time we wait for a response from an external site from 60 seconds to 5 seconds. Links that don't return a response to us within that window will be marked as 404s. This may add a few false 404s to your report; we'll be continuing to evaluate if this time window needs further refinement.
  • Single sign-on (SSO): we've been seeing a lot of issues with SSO setups where there are no attribute mappings set up (which prevents readers from being properly created/updated, among other things). To try to make it easier for you to troubleshoot this yourself, we've added new warnings to Settings > SSO in both the SAML Settings and SAML Attribute Map tabs when SSO is enabled but the SSO ID attribute mapping hasn't been set up.
  • When you create a new Shared content category, the pop-up for the category creation was allowing you to edit the category title, which would edit both the title as well as the permalink. We've locked this down so you won't be able to edit the title until the shared content category has created and opened in the editor.
  • For URL redirect articles, if they were set to open in a new tab and someone tried to open them from the Table of Contents, sometimes they would open in the new tab and sometimes they opened in the same tab. We've fixed this so they should consistently open in a new tab if they're configured to do so.