Here are the changes to the JS-Kit platform over the last month.

Highlights

• New Admin Dashboard!

  The new JS-Kit Admin Dashboard is a cleaner, more robust experience for users to configure and moderate JS-Kit widgets. It’s only a first step, the Admin Dashboard is about to get very, very cool. [Evgeny]

• Improved User Profile

  User Profile look and feel has been dramatically improved [Andrew]

• Twitter Integration

  Users can now log in and tweet their comments from the comment form [Denis]

• Google Friend Connect Integration

  Users can now log in and share their comments via Google Friend Connect [Denis]

Other updates:

Administration:

• UPGRADED: Intermittent “Damaged data” error message improved to be more user-friendly [Alexander Ovchinnikov]

• NEW: Admin Dashboard now reflects a site’s account level (Free, Pro and Pro+) and unlocks features as appropriate [Evgeny]

Authentication:

• UPGRADE: Administrators can now specify their own Google Friend Connect key rather than using the generic JS-Kit Key (which is used by default) [Denis]
• NEW: Administrators now need to log in or register to install JS-Kit Widgets. This will improve the robustness of the administration process/workflow [Oleg]
• NEW: New users are now asked for an email address when creating their account so that they can receive important system updates when necessary [Leonid]
• FIXED: Case sensitivity in OpenIDs was causing some login/functionality to break [Oleg]
• NEW: Two-legged OAuth support [Vlad]

Clients:

• CHANGE: The URL field is now turned on by default for all sites. Administrators can toggle the URL field off in the Admin Dashboard [Yuri]
• FIXED: Visitor Profile now public by default [Andrew]
• FIXED: Pages with HTTPS were not loading comments [Lev]
• CHANGED: Comment form is now open by default for new implementations [Yuri]
• NEW: Pasting content into the Comment form is now stripped of some formatting to improve consistency and cleanliness of imported content [Igor]
• UPGRADED: Admin Settings for Polls Widget now appears as a separate configuration palette [Andrew]
• FIXED: Closed potential security loophole in Firefox by stripping script tags from permalinks [Andrew]
• FIXED: Ratings were hanging the browser for IE7 [Andrew]
• FIXED: “Help” link update [Andrew]
• FIXED: adminDBColor attribute does not affect posts made by moderators with OpenID accounts [Igor]
• FIXED: Navigator Admin Palette position often displayed in poor locations [Andrew]
• FIXED: E-mail checking function was triggering false positives for email formatting errors [Denis]
• FIXED: Visitor Profile Close ‘X’ clickable surface was limited in IE – improved clickable area [Andrew]
• FIXED: Intermittent “JSKitGlobal is undefined” error on Admin Dashboard [Leonid]
• FIXED: Transparency and rendering errors on certain images in IE [Leonid]
• FIXED: Minor layout issues in Experian Advisor Application in IE8 [Andrew]
• FIXED: A number of visual artifacts appear in standard pulldown menus [Dmitry]
• FIXED: User Profile comment pagination is not clearing the previous page before displaying the next page [Andrew]
• FIXED Incorrect Links to Comments and Ratings in Navigator [Yuri]
• FIXED: Keybord behavior in Navigator Admin Console [Andrew]
• FIXED: Closing Advisor popup before ratings loaded causes error
• FIXED: Buttons now conform to size of label text for non-english languages [lizard]

Performance:

• IMPROVED: Blogger import has been dramatically improved to support many more simultaneous imports [Vlad]
• FIXED: Reply loop in reply-by-mail feature [Igor]

Third Party Integration:

• UPGRADE: Blogger comment sync now performed via OAuth [Alexander]
• NEW: Blogger install wizard [lizard]
• FIXED: Third Party Integration Blogger. Bulk importer now preserves information about a comment’s permalink [Alexander]
• FIXED: Improved handling of a case when a comment Atom entry does not have thr:in-reply-to tag [Alexander]
• IMPROVED: Facebook Connect 4th Party Integration [Denis]
• FIXED: Comments imported from Blogger sometimes end up in the incorrect chronological order due to poor granularity in Blogger date/time stamp references [Alexander]

Website:

• UPGRADED: Login and registration text on Admin Dashboard [Oleg]
• UPGRADED: Support form improved to make logging support requests easier for customers [Alexander Ovchinnikov]

Notification

• UPGRADED: Email notifications now differentiate between “New comment…” and “Reply to your comment…” via the subject line
• FIXED: Google’s “forwarded” text included in comment when replying by email [Igor]
• FIXED: Notification email address must be case insensitive