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Release Notes

March 2026

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AUTHOR: OpenWeb Team

What's new in March: Key product updates, and improvements.

Enhancements

Ads

  • Added Forums-specific conversation ad components with scoped campaign handling and fallback to existing behaviors.

Admin Panel

  • Introduced the new "Show Conversation" feature. This update is designed to streamline the moderation process by allowing Admins and Moderators to:

    • Navigate complex conversation trees more conveniently.

    • Moderate comments while viewing the surrounding context and replies from within a single view.

    • Improve the overall speed of community management.

  • Added a “View on Site” action for published comments to allow direct navigation to the live article with focused comment view.

Identity

  • Extended the Admin Panel session timeout from 30 to 60 minutes to reduce frequent re-login prompts.

Social

  • Reduced excessive re-rendering during registration flow with Descope to improve performance and load time.

Bug Fixes

Social

  • Fixed a missing translation in the GIF search bar.

  • Resolved the notification bell dropdown being obstructed and not visible on click.

  • Fixed styling issues in embedded comments module, including missing formatting and default title handling.

  • Resolved special characters displaying incorrectly in “Be the first to post” message in Forums.

  • Fixed apostrophes displaying incorrectly in usernames when replying to comments.

  • Fixed UI issues in embeddable comments, including missing divider and alignment inconsistencies.

  • Fixed ratings description displaying a raw key instead of the proper label.

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