Threadwell 4.2 is out: sidebar sections, faster search and a new composer

The sidebar sections are exactly what our moderators asked for. We had a theme component doing a worse version of this — happy to delete it.

Rebuild went through cleanly on a 2 GB droplet. Took about 11 minutes, which is a bit longer than 4.1.

Took about 11 minutes, which is a bit longer than 4.1.

That's the asset precompile for the new composer. It should settle back once the bundle is cached on the next rebuild.

Is there a CSS hook on the new section headers? I'd like to tint them per section in my theme.

Yes — each section carries data-section-name, so .sidebar-section[data-section-name="resources"] works. I'll add it to the theming guide.

Threadwell 4.2 is available today for every hosted site, and as a tagged release for self-hosters.

Highlights

• Custom sidebar sections. Admins can add sections of links to the sidebar for everybody; members can add their own.

• Search is 3× faster on large sites, thanks to a rewritten ranking query.

• Rich-text composer (beta). Toggle between markdown and rich text with Ctrl+Shift+M.

Upgrading

cd /var/threadwell
git pull
./launcher rebuild app

Full notes, including two deprecations for plugin authors, are in the changelog. Thank you to the 41 people who contributed to this release.