3.0.0a1 (#1523)

Alpha release of CTFd v3. 

# 3.0.0a1 / 2020-07-01

**General**

- CTFd is now Python 3 only
- Render markdown with the CommonMark spec provided by `cmarkgfm`
- Render markdown stripped of any malicious JavaScript or HTML.
  - This is a significant change from previous versions of CTFd where any HTML content from an admin was considered safe.
- Inject `Config`, `User`, `Team`, `Session`, and `Plugin` globals into Jinja
- User sessions no longer store any user-specific attributes.
  - Sessions only store the user's ID, CSRF nonce, and an hmac of the user's password
  - This allows for session invalidation on password changes
- The user facing side of CTFd now has user and team searching
- GeoIP support now available for converting IP addresses to guessed countries

**Admin Panel**

- Use EasyMDE as an improved description/text editor for Markdown enabled fields.
- Media Library button now integrated into EasyMDE enabled fields
- VueJS now used as the underlying implementation for the Media Library
- Fix setting theme color in Admin Panel
- Green outline border has been removed from the Admin Panel

**API**

- Significant overhauls in API documentation provided by Swagger UI and Swagger json
- Make almost all API endpoints provide filtering and searching capabilities
- Change `GET /api/v1/config/<config_key>` to return structured data according to ConfigSchema

**Themes**

- Themes now have access to the `Configs` global which provides wrapped access to `get_config`.
  - For example, `{{ Configs.ctf_name }}` instead of `get_ctf_name()` or `get_config('ctf_name')`
- Themes must now specify a `challenge.html` which control how a challenge should look.
- The main library for charts has been changed from Plotly to Apache ECharts.
- Forms have been moved into wtforms for easier form rendering inside of Jinja.
  - From Jinja you can access forms via the Forms global i.e. `{{ Forms }}`
  - This allows theme developers to more easily re-use a form without having to copy-paste HTML.
- Themes can now provide a theme settings JSON blob which can be injected into the theme with `{{ Configs.theme_settings }}`
- Core theme now includes the challenge ID in location hash identifiers to always refer the right challenge despite duplicate names

**Plugins**

- Challenge plugins have changed in structure to better allow integration with themes and prevent obtrusive Javascript/XSS.
  - Challenge rendering now uses `challenge.html` from the provided theme.
  - Accessing the challenge view content is now provided by `/api/v1/challenges/<challenge_id>` in the `view` section. This allows for HTML to be properly sanitized and rendered by the server allowing CTFd to remove client side Jinja rendering.
  - `challenge.html` now specifies what's required and what's rendered by the theme. This allows the challenge plugin to avoid having to deal with aspects of the challenge besides the description and input.
  - A more complete migration guide will be provided when CTFd v3 leaves beta
- Display current attempt count in challenge view when max attempts is enabled
- `get_standings()`, `get_team_stanadings()`, `get_user_standings()` now has a fields keyword argument that allows for specificying additional fields that SQLAlchemy should return when building the response set.
  - Useful for gathering additional data when building scoreboard pages
- Flags can now control the message that is shown to the user by raising `FlagException`
- Fix `override_template()` functionality

**Deployment**

- Enable SQLAlchemy's `pool_pre_ping` by default to reduce the likelihood of database connection issues
- Mailgun email settings are now deprecated. Admins should move to SMTP email settings instead.
- Postgres is now considered a second class citizen in CTFd. It is tested against but not a main database backend. If you use Postgres, you are entirely on your own with regards to supporting CTFd.
- Docker image now uses Debian instead of Alpine. See https://github.com/CTFd/CTFd/issues/1215 for rationale.
- `docker-compose.yml` now uses a non-root user to connect to MySQL/MariaDB
- `config.py` should no longer be editting for configuration, instead edit `config.ini` or the environment variables in `docker-compose.yml`

docs/deployment.rst

@@ -53,12 +53,15 @@ While CTFd is a standard WSGI application and most WSGI servers (e.g. gunicorn,
 Database Server
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-CTFd makes use of SQLAlchemy and as such supports a number of SQL databases. As of CTFd 2.0, the recommended database type is MySQL. CTFd is tested and has been installed against SQLite, Postgres, and MariaDB but this could change in the future.
+CTFd makes use of SQLAlchemy and as such supports a number of SQL databases. The recommended database type is MySQL. CTFd is tested with and has been installed against SQLite, Postgres, and MariaDB.
 
 By default CTFd will create a SQLite database if no database server has been configured.
 
 .. Note::
-    CTFd makes use of the JSON data type. MySQL >= 5.7.8 implements a proper JSON type while MariaDB does not. Small differences like these could eventually result in CTFd only supporting a few database servers.
+    CTFd makes use of the JSON data type which your database backend must support.
+
+.. Note::
+    CTFd is typicaly used with MySQL, MariaDB, or SQLite. Using CTFd with Postgres is uncommon and could be deprecated in any version. Even though Postgres may be part of the CTFd test suite, using Postgres as your database backend is at your own peril. Any issues raised regarding Postgres support will carry the expectation that the issue author write an accompanying pull request to resolve said issue.
 
 Caching Server
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