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[XenCustomize] Auto Watch Forums 2.0.6
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A new update is available for Auto Watch Forums by XenCustomize.
This update adds integration with Forum Watch Digests, giving admins control over digest email frequency for automatically watched forums. It also introduces a new rebuild tool for resetting existing forum watches and reapplying the current configuration.
XenCustomize Auto Watch Forums 2.0.6 Released
Full Changelog:
New Features
- Added optional Forum Watch Digests integration with support for Default, Daily digest, and Weekly digest email frequencies.
- Added a new Reset Forum Watches rebuild tool for resetting existing forum watch settings before applying the current Auto Watch Forums configuration.
Changes
- XenCustomize Core Library 1.0.4+ is now required.
- XenCustomize branding can now be removed at no additional cost through the AdminCP license options.
For screenshots and more detailed examples of the new features, please see:
Documentation & Follow-up Threads
The new Email frequency setting in Auto Watch Forums, with Default, Daily digest, and Weekly digest options.
The new Reset Forum Watches tool lets administrators reset selected forums or all forum watches before reapplying the current Auto Watch Forums configuration.
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This update adds new admin options to control whether automatic forum watching sends notifications for new threads or new messages, only applies to users who have enabled "Receive site mail", and skips discouraged users. It also includes a reliability improvement for newly registered users and fixes a rare error that could occur on some page loads.
Full Changelog:
- Added an admin option to choose whether automatic forum watching sends notifications for new threads or new messages.
- Added an admin option to only auto-watch forums for users who have enabled "Receive site mail".
- Added an admin option to skip discouraged users from automatic forum watching.
Improvements
- Improved the reliability of automatic forum watching for newly registered users (Report).
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a rare fatal error that could occur on some page loads due to the add-on's user handling (Report).
This update adds a new "Excluded users" option, allowing administrators to specify users to be ignored by the background synchronization job. This ensures that manual opt-outs are respected during automated forum watch assignments.
Full Changelog:
- Added "Excluded users" Admin Option:
- Administrators can now specify specific users to be ignored by the background synchronization job. This is ideal for users who have manually unsubscribed and do not wish to be re-subscribed automatically.
This update fixes an important issue with forum watch notifications and improves how notification settings are applied when auto-watching forums.
Thanks to everyone for the feedback and testing - it helped make this release solid
- Auto Watch Forums now correctly respects the “Send notifications via” admin option for both new and existing watchers.
- More reliable handling of forum watch notification settings when running cron jobs.
- Fixed an issue where auto-watched forums were saved with notifications disabled even when enabled in admin options.
- Existing forum watch records are now correctly updated when auto-watch runs.
This update improves stability, performance, and accuracy when automatically setting forums to be watched for selected user groups.
- Fixed an issue where the Auto Watch Forums cron job only checked secondary user groups and ignored primary user group members.
- Improved the user entity logic to correctly handle both primary and secondary groups during registration.
- Added stricter validation to skip processing when no valid forum or user group configuration exists.
- Optimized batch processing in the Auto Watch Forums job for better performance and reliability.
- Cleaned up and standardized database queries for improved maintainability.
This update fixes an important logic issue affecting forum auto-watch assignments. Thanks to @Umbisac90 for reporting this issue and helping us improve.
- Fixed an issue where users were not automatically set to watch selected forums due to an unnecessary filter.
- Ensures that all users in the selected user groups are now correctly auto-watched when the cron job runs or when new users register.