* Add a comments functionality for admins to discuss challenges, users, teams, pages
* Adds `/api/v1/comments`
* Adds a `CommentBox.vue` component for the Admin Panel
* Closes#321
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`
2.2.0 / 2019-12-22
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## Notice
2.2.0 focuses on updating the front end of CTFd to use more modern programming practices and changes some aspects of core CTFd design. If your current installation is using a custom theme or custom plugin with ***any*** kind of JavaScript, it is likely that you will need to upgrade that theme/plugin to be useable with v2.2.0.
**General**
* Team size limits can now be enforced from the configuration panel
* Access tokens functionality for API usage
* Admins can now choose how to deliver their notifications
* Toast (new default)
* Alert
* Background
* Sound On / Sound Off
* There is now a notification counter showing how many unread notifications were received
* Setup has been redesigned to have multiple steps
* Added Description
* Added Start time and End time,
* Added MajorLeagueCyber integration
* Added Theme and color selection
* Fixes issue where updating dynamic challenges could change the value to an incorrect value
* Properly use a less restrictive regex to validate email addresses
* Bump Python dependencies to latest working versions
* Admins can now give awards to team members from the team's admin panel page
**API**
* Team member removals (`DELETE /api/v1/teams/[team_id]/members`) from the admin panel will now delete the removed members's Submissions, Awards, Unlocks
**Admin Panel**
* Admins can now user a color input box to specify a theme color which is injected as part of the CSS configuration. Theme developers can use this CSS value to change colors and styles accordingly.
* Challenge updates will now alert you if the challenge doesn't have a flag
* Challenge entry now allows you to upload files and enter simple flags from the initial challenge creation page
**Themes**
* Significant JavaScript and CSS rewrite to use ES6, Webpack, yarn, and babel
* Theme asset specially generated URLs
* Static theme assets are now loaded with either .dev.extension or .min.extension depending on production or development (i.e. debug server)
* Static theme assets are also given a `d` GET parameter that changes per server start. Used to bust browser caches.
* Use `defer` for script tags to not block page rendering
* Only show the MajorLeagueCyber button if configured in configuration
* The admin panel now links to https://help.ctfd.io/ in the top right
* Create an `ezToast()` function to use [Bootstrap's toasts](https://getbootstrap.com/docs/4.3/components/toasts/)
* The user-facing navbar now features icons
* Awards shown on a user's profile can now have award icons
* The default MarkdownIt render created by CTFd will now open links in new tabs
* Country flags can now be shown on the user pages
**Deployment**
* Switch `Dockerfile` from `python:2.7-alpine` to `python:3.7-alpine`
* Add `SERVER_SENT_EVENTS` config value to control whether Notifications are enabled
* Challenge ID is now recorded in the submission log
**Plugins**
* Add an endpoint parameter to `register_plugin_assets_directory()` and `register_plugin_asset()` to control what endpoint Flask uses for the added route
**Miscellaneous**
* `CTFd.utils.email.sendmail()` now allows the caller to specify subject as an argument
* The subject allows for injecting custom variable via the new `CTFd.utils.formatters.safe_format()` function
* Admin user information is now error checked during setup
* Added yarn to the toolchain and the yarn dev, yarn build, yarn verify, and yarn clean scripts
* Prevent old CTFd imports from being imported
