* Improve response time of `/api/v1/challenges` and `/api/v1/challenges/[challenge_id]/solves`
* Rewrite and remove _build_solves_query to make it cacheable
* Closes#2209
* Improve event `ping`s to actually include data so that they show up in devtools
* Improve Event publishers to take an `id` parameter that is sent to the browser
* Add a `since_id` parameter to `GET /api/v1/notifications` to get Notifications that have happened since a specific ID
* Add `HEAD /api/v1/notifications` to get a count of notifications that have happened. This also includes a `since_id` parameter to allow for a notification cursor.
# 3.4.3 / 2022-03-07
**Security**
- Bump cmarkgfm to 0.8.0 to resolve CVE-2022-24724. Copied entry from 3.4.2 since 3.4.2 introduced a bug that prevented writing raw HTML.
**General**
- Fix issue where raw HTML would not be rendered in markdown
* CTFd now has the `THEME_FALLBACK` option enabled by default. This allows users to provide incomplete themes. Missing theme files will be provided from the built-in core theme
* Closes#1967
* Closes#1897
* Adds Topics to Challenges where Topics are admin-only visible tags about challenges
* Adds `/api/v1/topics` and `/api/v1/challenges/[challenge_id]/topics` to API
* Challenge comments have been moved into a modal
* Properly receive non-string config values (None, bool, integers, etc) in /api/v1/config
* Closes#1928
* Fix the response schema for `PATCH /api/v1/configs/<config_key>` in error situations
Overall we weren't particularly strict before and we should try to stay a little lax so we don't break anything.
* Add a way to access the challenge plugin class from the Challenges model
* Allows templates to access the plugin class more easily
* Allows plugins to access the plugin class without having to load the class explicitly
* Closes#1879
* Makes the initial value for a dynamic challenge provided by the `initial` argument instead of the `value` argument. This makes it easier to support ctfcli. Refer to https://github.com/CTFd/ctfcli/issues/13.
* Closes#1875
# 3.3.0 / UNRELEASED
**General**
- Don't require a team for viewing challenges if Challenge visibility is set to public
- Add a `THEME_FALLBACK` config to help develop themes. See **Themes** section for details.
**API**
- Implement a faster `/api/v1/scoreboard` endpoint in Teams Mode
- Add the `solves` item to both `/api/v1/challenges` and `/api/v1/challenges/[challenge_id]` to more easily determine how many solves a challenge has
- Add the `solved_by_me` item to both `/api/v1/challenges` and `/api/v1/challenges/[challenge_id]` to more easily determine if the current account has solved the challenge
- Prevent admins from deleting themselves through `DELETE /api/v1/users/[user_id]`
- Add length checking to some sensitive fields in the Pages and Challenges schemas
- Fix issue where `PATCH /api/v1/users[user_id]` returned a list instead of a dict
- Fix exception that occured on demoting admins through `PATCH /api/v1/users[user_id]`
- Add `team_id` to `GET /api/v1/users` to determine if a user is already in a team
**Themes**
- Add a `THEME_FALLBACK` config to help develop themes.
- `THEME_FALLBACK` will configure CTFd to try to find missing theme files in the default built-in `core` theme.
- This makes it easier to develop themes or use incomplete themes.
- Allow for one theme to reference and inherit from another theme through approaches like `{% extends "core/page.html" %}`
- Allow for the automatic date rendering format to be overridden by specifying a `data-time-format` attribute.
- Add styling for the `<blockquote>` element.
- Fix scoreboard table identifier to switch between User/Team depending on configured user mode
- Switch to using Bootstrap's scss in `core/main.scss` to allow using Bootstrap variables
- Consolidate Jinja error handlers into a single function and better handle issues where error templates can't be found
**Plugins**
- Set plugin migration version after successful migrations
- Fix issue where Page URLs injected into the navbar were relative instead of absolute
**Admin Panel**
- Add User standings as well as Teams standings to the admin scoreboard when in Teams Mode
- Add a UI for adding members to a team from the team's admin page
- Add ability for admins to disable public team creation
- Link directly to users who submitted something in the submissions page if the CTF is in Teams Mode
- Fix Challenge Requirements interface in Admin Panel to not allow empty/null requirements to be added
- Fixed an issue where config times (start, end, freeze times) could not be removed
- Fix an exception that occurred when demoting an Admin user
- Adds a temporary hack for re-enabling Javascript snippets in Flag editor templates. (See #1779)
**Deployment**
- Install `python3-dev` instead of `python-dev` in apt
- Bump lxml to 4.6.2
- Bump pip-compile to 5.4.0
**Miscellaneous**
- Cache Docker builds more by copying and installing Python dependencies before copying CTFd
- Change the default emails slightly and rework confirmation email page to make some recommendations clearer
- Use `examplectf.com` as testing/development domain instead of `ctfd.io`
- Fixes issue where user's name and email would not appear in logs properly
- Add more linting by also linting with `flake8-comprehensions` and `flake8-bugbear`
* Fix an exception that occurred when demoting an Admin user
* Fix the response from the above request from returning a list instead of a dict
* Closes#1794
# 3.2.0 / unreleased
**General**
- Add Team invites.
- Team invites are links containing a token that allow a user to join a team without knowing the team password
- Captains can generate invite tokens for their teams
- Admins can generate Team invite links as well
- Improved Team handling
- Prevent team joining while already on a team
- Return 403 instead of 200 for team join/create errors
- Allow team captains whose teams haven't done anything to disband their team
- Allow for uploading navbar logo, favicon, and index page banner during initial setup
- Fixed issue in teams mode where a user couldn't unlock a hint despite their team having enough points
- The fix for this is essentially to allow the user's points to go negative
- Imports have been made more stable
- This is primarily done by killing MySQL processes that are locking metadta
- This is a subpar approach but it seems to be the only solution to avoid a metadata lock in MySQL. This approach did not appear to be needed under Postgres or SQLite
- Update some migrations to first check if a table already exists.
**API**
- Addition of `POST /api/v1/teams/me/members` to generate invite tokens for teams
- Fixed an issue in `POST /api/v1/awards` where CTFd would 500 when a user could not be found by the provided `user_id`
- `POST /api/v1/unlocks` in teams mode now uses the team's score to determine if a user can purchase a hint
- Properly check for existing unlocks in teams mode in `POST /api/v1/unlocks`
- `/api/v1/notifications` and `/api/v1/notifications/[notification_id]` now have an html parameter which specifies the rendered content of the notification content
**Themes**
- Added syntax highlighting to challenge descriptions, pages, hints, notifications, comments, and markdown editors
- This is done with `highlight.js` which has been added to `package.json`
- Fix notifications to properly fix/support Markdown and HTML notifications
- Notifications SQL Model now has an html propery
- Notifications API schemas now has an html field
- Removed MomentJS (see https://momentjs.com/docs/#/-project-status/) in favor of dayjs
- dayjs is mostly API compatible with MomentJS. The only major changes were:
- dayjs always uses browser local time so you don't need to call `.local()`
- dayjs segments out some MomentJS functionality into plugins which need to be imported in before using those features
- Fixed issue in `challenge.html` where the current attempt count would have a typo
- Fixed issue in `challenge.html` where the max attempts for a challenge would not show if it was set to 1
- Edit donut charts to have easier to read legends and labels
- Make data zoom bars thinner and more transparent
**Plugins**
- Don't run `db.create_all()` as much during plugin upgrade or during imports
- By avoiding this we can let alembic and migrations do more of the table creation work but this means that plugins specifically opt into `app.db.create_all()` and will not implicitly get it through `upgrade()`.
- This means plugins that run `upgrade()` without a migrations folder (no idea who would do this really) will need to upgrade their code.
**Admin Panel**
- Add Favicon uploading to the Admin Panel
- Move Logo uploading to the Theme tab in the Admin Panel
- The challenge left side bar tabs have been rewritten into VueJS components.
- This fixes a number of issues with the consistency of what data is deleted/edited in the challenge editor
- This also prevents having to refresh the page in most challenge editing situations
- Fixed a possible bug where the update available alert wouldn't go away on server restart
- Examples for regex flags are now provided
- Wrong submissions has been renamed to Incorrect Submissions
- Graphs in the Admin Statistics page will now scroll with mouse wheel to improve browsing large datasets
**Deployment**
- A restart policy set to `always` has been added to nginx in docker-compose
- Rename `requirements.txt` to `requirements.in` and generate `requirements.txt` using `pip-tools` under Python 3.6
- `UPLOAD_PROVIDER` no longer has a default `filesystem` set in config.ini. Instead it is defaulted through `config.py`
**Miscellaneous**
- The `psycopg2` dependency in development.txt has been removed in favor of `psycopg2-binary` which was updated to 2.8.6
- The `moto` dependency in development.txt has been updated to 1.3.16
- Add `pip-tools` to `development.txt`
- Add `import_ctf` and `export_ctf` commands to `manage.py` and deprecate `import.py` and `export.py`
- Override the `MAIL_SERVER` config with the `TESTING_MAIL_SERVER` envvar during tests
- `ping` events in the notification event handler have been fixed to not send duplicates
* Prevent team joining while already on a team
* Return 403 instead of 200 for team join/create errors
* Allow team captains whose teams haven't done anything to disband their team
* Closes#1588
# 3.1.0 / 2020-09-08
**General**
- Loosen team password confirmation in team settings to also accept the team captain's password to make it easier to change the team password
- Adds the ability to add custom user and team fields for registration/profile settings.
- Improve Notifications pubsub events system to use a subscriber per server instead of a subscriber per browser. This should improve the reliability of CTFd at higher load and make it easier to deploy the Notifications system
**Admin Panel**
- Add a comments functionality for admins to discuss challenges, users, teams, pages
- Adds a legal section in Configs where users can add a terms of service and privacy policy
- Add a Custom Fields section in Configs where admins can add/edit custom user/team fields
- Move user graphs into a modal for Admin Panel
**API**
- Add `/api/v1/comments` to manipulate and create comments
**Themes**
- Make scoreboard caching only cache the score table instead of the entire page. This is done by caching the specific template section. Refer to #1586, specifically the changes in `scoreboard.html`.
- Add rel=noopener to external links to prevent tab napping attacks
- Change the registration page to reference links to Terms of Service and Privacy Policy if specified in configuration
**Miscellaneous**
- Make team settings modal larger in the core theme
- Update tests in Github Actions to properly test under MySQL and Postgres
- Make gevent default in serve.py and add a `--disable-gevent` switch in serve.py
- Add `tenacity` library for retrying logic
- Add `pytest-sugar` for slightly prettier pytest output
- Add a `listen()` method to `CTFd.utils.events.EventManager` and `CTFd.utils.events.RedisEventManager`.
- This method should implement subscription for a CTFd worker to whatever underlying notification system there is. This should be implemented with gevent or a background thread.
- The `subscribe()` method (which used to implement the functionality of the new `listen()` function) now only handles passing notifications from CTFd to the browser. This should also be implemented with gevent or a background thread.
# 3.0.0a2 / 2020-07-09
**General**
* Accept additional profile fields during registration (affiliation, website, country)
* This does not add additional inputs. Themes or additional JavaScript can add the form inputs.
**Admin Panel**
* Redesign the challenge creation form to use a radio button with challenge type selection instead of a select input
**API**
* Admins can no longer ban themselves through `PATCH /api/v1/users/[user_id]`
**Themes**
* Spinner centering has been switched from a hard coded margin in CSS to flexbox CSS classes from Bootstrap
**Plugins**
* Revert plugin menu (`register_admin_plugin_menu_bar`, `register_user_page_menu_bar`) changes to 2.x code
**Miscellaneous**
* Fix issue with `Configs.ctf_name` returning incorrect value
* Add prerender step back into challenges.js
* Better handling of missing challenge types. Missing challenge types no longer bring down all other challenges.
