votesUP is constantly being developed and improved. On this page you can find an overview of all the latest news and changes.
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A11Y
Accessibility
BUGFIX
Bugfix
DESIGN
User interface & appearance
FEATURE
New functionality
I18N
Internationalisation and translations
SECURITY
Security improvements
STABILITY
General code maintenance
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STABILITY: The filter for inappropriate posts has been improved and extended.
STABILITY: Improvements to the recognition of email bounces.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 72โฏ400 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 72โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 72โฏ000 entries.
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STABILITY: Improved algorithm for gender recognition.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 69โฏ800 entries.
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BUGFIX: The results summary sent by email had a formatting error in list votings with an abstention option. This has now been fixed.
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STABILITY: Very old events are flagged for incompatibilities, and it is recommended that the outdated data be deleted.
SECURITY: Several security improvements to system routines.
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FEATURE: The minutes now also record system entries when participants are automatically logged out due to a lost connection.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 69โฏ500 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 71โฏ700 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 71โฏ300 entries.
FEATURE: If the organisers add their own text sections when sending out invitations, any links contained within those paragraphs will now be sent as clickable links in the emails.
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FEATURE: When sending invitations, the organiser can now easily send a single test email to themselves.
FEATURE: When sending invitations, additional organiser accounts can choose whether they or the main organiser is stated as the sender.
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FEATURE: The agenda display now allows you to specify not only the agenda item numbers and start times, but also the duration of each item.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 70โฏ800 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 70โฏ500 entries.
SECURITY: Minor improvements to the login page and the representation of the digital ballot box.
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SECURITY: Minor improvements to user input sanitation.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 70โฏ100 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 69โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 69โฏ000 entries.
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BUGFIX: If the โDelete Results Onlyโ function was used under โReset Eventโ and previously used votings were restarted afterwards, an error could occur in the digital ballot box. However, the actual results overviews were not affected. The bug has been fixed.
BUGFIX: If a voting ended automatically while no organiser was online, the automatic closure was always logged to the minutes in English, even if the event language was different. This error has been fixed for future cases.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 68โฏ600 entries.
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FEATURE: When sending out personalised email invitations automatically, the organiser can now add their own text sections.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 68โฏ500 entries.
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BUGFIX: If a voting was set to start automatically at a specific time, the system always incorrectly recorded it as a roll-call vote. This error has now been corrected for future votings.
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DESIGN/STABILITY: When casting digital postal votes, automatic logout with redirection to an external URL was not supported by all browsers, which meant that voters could not see that the submission process had finished. The display has now been standardised so that auto-logout takes place, but voters must actively click on the redirection destination.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 68โฏ200 entries.
SECURITY: Improved detection of invalid or unverifiable email domains
STABILITY: Various improvements to bot detection and defence
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FEATURE: Improved recognition of email bounces.
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FEATURE: There are now three additional types of procedural motions that the event organizers may approve: a motion to repeat a vote or election, a motion for a public debate, and a motion to refer the matter to another body.
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BUGFIX: An error could occur when deleting an event if specific presentation settings had been configured. This error has now been fixed.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 68โฏ000 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 66โฏ700 entries.
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Various corrections and additions to the online manual.
DESIGN: Improved display of the online manual on small screens (smartphones).
I18N: The manual has now been largely translated into Catalan and Croatian.
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I18N: The features for voting delegation have finally been translated into all 35 languages.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 66โฏ400 entries.
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The overview of technical and organisational measures has been expanded and updated.
SECURITY: votesUP now also provides a security.txt file.
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FEATURE: Once a user has requested a password reset and saved the new password, they can select to be signed in directly without having to re-enter their login details.
STABILITY: Code improvements for list-based votings.
SECURITY: When a user logs in successfully, new password hashes are re-created for the database to automatically update old hashes and to ensure that, if an event is duplicated, there is no technical indication that a password may have been used more than once.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 66โฏ200 entries.
BUGFIX: In case the speaker lists were only open to organisers, participants were sometimes still able to add their names to a list via the welcome page. This has now been fixed.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 64โฏ500 entries.
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SECURITY: votesUPโs security systems had mistakenly identified the SSLlabs.com testing platform as an attacker and blocked certain actions. This resulted in the test results being distorted. This issue has now been resolved.
SECURITY: We have increased the length of the TLS encryption keys to 3072 bits (RSA) in order to enhance the security of the connection without placing an excessive load on servers and user devices.
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When limits are increased for โdigital absentee votingsโ, organisers receive an information email containing important guidance. This guidance has been expanded and clarified.
The template for data processing agreements has been amended in one section: under โ8. Compensationโ, we now explain more clearly that we may charge an expense allowance if requests for information and cooperation exceed the legally required scope, particularly for free events. Previously, it sounded as though we would always charge for expenses, which is not the case. In addition, the readability of the agreement in German language has been slightly improved through more logical gender-neutral language.
I18N: The translations into several languages (Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Catalan, Croatian and Serbian) have been further completed.
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STABILITY: Improvements to the efficiency of the database structure
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 64โฏ400 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 64โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE: When duplicating events, the configuration of permitted types of procedural motions can be retained.
BUGFIX: Minor corrections.
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FEATURE: The organiser may restrict the types of procedural motions that are admissible.
STABILITY/BUGFIX: The configuration option to allow new voters to join an ongoing voting now works in all cases. Previously, only certain combinations of settings were permitted, which were difficult for organisers to keep track of.
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FEATURE: Events that use passwordless tokens for login have been upgraded โ participants can now use them to log in multiple times. However, for confidentiality reasons, the following features are not available in events using passwordless tokens: chat between participants and the direct transfer of voting rights to other participants.
FEATURE: For each brainstorming session, organisers can configure whether guests are allowed to participate or whether contributing is restricted to voters and full participants.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 64โฏ000 entries.
BUGFIX: The automatic token generation did not follow the specified event language. Instead, all accounts were created with โDeutsch (Sie)โ. This error has now been fixed.
SECURITY: The default length for new tokens is now 10 characters for tokens with a password and 14 characters for tokens without a password. The minimum length is now 6 and 10 characters respectively.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 63โฏ700 entries.
DESIGN: In brainstorming sessions, a card note posted by a regular participant can now only be deleted if it has not been marked with a favourite star. Only the organisers now have general deletion rights.
STABILITY: The detection of inappropriate posts in brainstorming sessions has been improved.
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FEATURE: FEATURE: Ongoing votes can now be cancelled and reset immediately if necessary. In the past, it was only possible to close them in the usual way and then, if necessary, withdraw the result.
FEATURE: In addition to open and secret votes, there is now a third option: โroll-call votesโ. These work in principle like open votes, but the individual votes are recorded in the minutes and in the results email.
FEATURE: Individual results or ballot papers from secret and open votes can be deleted if only the overall result is to be retained.
DESIGN: The display of ongoing and completed votes is now slightly clearer, as additional functions have been moved to a context menu.
SECURITY: Various access rights within an event have been revised.
A11Y: Several clickable elements in the organiser panel have been made more accessible.
I18N: Improvements to several language versions, particularly Danish, English and French.
FEATURE: Until now, votes configured so that their results were not visible to the organisers or election observers could only be made visible to all participants directly in the results display. It is now possible to retrospectively enable the audit view for organisers and election observers.
FEATURE: The automatic minutes now record deliberate logouts by voters and full participants.
DESIGN: The minutes view has been slightly revised to make it clearer.
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STABILITY: If the organiser had prohibited participants from viewing the list of participants, they could still view the list of eligible voters when the voting results were released. This was inconsistent and has therefore now been disabled.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 63โฏ300 entries.
DESIGN: When displaying the results, votesUP shows how many votes cast would correspond to three-quarters. Previously, only half and two-thirds were displayed.
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DESIGN: Organisers will be informed in more detail about activations and cancellations of limit increases, and future system entries in the log have been improved accordingly.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 62โฏ800 entries.
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BUGFIX: When logging in, participants incorrectly received the message that their device was outdated. This problem has been fixed.
BUGFIX: In prepared ballots, the organisers were unable to make any adjustments regarding secret or open voting. The problem has been fixed.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 62โฏ500 entries.
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DESIGN: The limit manager has been redesigned to make it easier to use.
A11Y: The accessibility statement has been revised to reflect improvements of the platform.
18N: Improvements for all translations. Additions to the six newest language versions (Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Catalan, Croatian and Serbian).
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STABILITY: Major overhaul of bot and abuse detection
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A11Y: Several improvements to the organiser area, making navigation with screen readers more convenient.
BUGFIX: Access to messages failed temporarily. The issue has been fixed.
STABILITY: Improvement to handling incorrect email addresses: votesUP removes unintended mailto:-data for user registrations.
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FEATURE: In paid and in partner events, voting weights of up to 10,000 per entitled voter are now possible (previous limit: 7,500).
BUGFIX: List voting did not work when yes/no/abstain was possible for each proposal and only the yes votes counted. This error has now been fixed.
FEATURE: When organisers send invitations and similar emails via votesUP, they now receive feedback not only in the case of undeliverable messages, but also in the case of absence notifications.
DESIGN: If eligible voters transfer all of their votes to another person, they will now receive the status โFull participant without voting rightsโ (previously they were changed to โGuestโ) in order to continue to have access to all content of the event.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 62โฏ300 entries.
DESIGN: Partner events receive more comprehensive information about their benefits.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 62โฏ000 entries.
STABILITY: Improved handling of prohibited characters in user accounts.
DESIGN: The list of participants to choose from when transferring voting rights is now sorted alphabetically.
STABILITY: Code optimisation for votings with high voting weights and for speakers lists that contain many entries.
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STABILITY: Improvements to the recognition of mail bounces and handling of problematic email addresses.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 61โฏ600 entries.
I18N: Improvements for all translations. Additions to the six newest language versions (Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Catalan, Croatian and Serbian).
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DESIGN: The email verification message for participants sometimes caused confusion, as it did not apply to every event. The wording has therefore been clarified.
I18N: Improvements and additions for the six new language versions (Albanian, Armenian, Georgian, Catalan, Croatian and Serbian).
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 61โฏ400 entries.
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I18N: votesUP is now available in six additional languages: Albanian, Armenian, Catalan, Croatian, Georgian, and Serbian. Not everything has been fully translated yet. Missing content will be added bit by bit. We welcome feedback and suggestions for improvement.
The Terms of Use have been revised and now replace those from October 2024. The following changes have been made:
It is now specified more specifically what compensation will be paid in the event of system unavailability if fee-based events were agreed during this period.
The obligation to enter larger events in the capacity planner has been removed, as server resources are managed automatically via the limit increases.
Free cancellation for standby service is now only possible up to two weeks before the agreed date (previously: one week).
Addition to free cancellation options for live support, unless individual agreements have been made.
Heading for โ5) Liabilityโ has been rephrased as โResponsibility for contentโ.
In โ10) Compatibility with user devicesโ, the last sentence has been reworded to make it clearer.
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INFO: Voting weights above 100 per account are now subject to a fee. Voting weights of up to 7500 per account are possible.
BUGFIX: When creating tokens, the voting weight was accidentally set as 0 instead of 1. The same problem occured for batch admissions of participants. Both problems, which had been introduced by an update on February 1st, have now been fixed for future occasions.
BUGFIX: The email delays that occurred since yesterday evening have been resolved.
I18N: Numerous improvements to the translations.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 61โฏ100 entries.
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FEATURE: Efficiency and general code improvements for email handling.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 61โฏ000 entries.
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BUGFIX: When transferring voting rights from an eligible voter to a guest, the guest voter received one vote too many. This error has been corrected for future cases.
FEATURE: The recognition of email bounces has been improved.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 60โฏ800 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 60โฏ500 entries.
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STABILITY: Logins based on email addresses that contain a โ+โ are now also supported in the mixed mail/token event mode. Before that they were only allowed in the โemail addresses onlyโ variant.
SECURITY: Improved protection against bots.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 60โฏ000 entries.
STABILITY: The duplication function for free events has been made a little more permissive. It now allows further duplications of an event if previously made copies have been deleted.
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FEATURE: Once their event has been automatically deleted after 90 days of inactivity, organisers will receive confirmation of deletion by email.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 59โฏ500 entries.
I18N: Several translations have been improved, especially the Lithuanian one.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 59โฏ400 entries.
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In the past, votesUP sent a notification email to the organiser one week before an event was due to be deleted automatically. However, we received numerous responses indicating that this lead time was too short. Therefore, votesUP now sends a notification email two weeks before the deletion date.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 59โฏ100 entries.
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FEATURE: A new role, โWithout voting rightsโ, has been introduced, which differs from โGuestsโ. Participants โwithout voting rightsโ have the same access rights as those with voting rights, but cannot vote.
FEATURE: New features for individual editing of participants (direct change of roles).
SECURITY: Minor improvements to the participants manager.
I18N: Improvements and additions to several language versions.
SECURITY: Improved protection against bots.
STABILITY: Extended logging when editing of participants.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 59โฏ000 entries.
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FEATURE: Improved detection of email bounces: votesUP now also informs the organiser if the receiving server has classified incoming emails as spam.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 58โฏ500 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 58โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 58โฏ000 entries.
STABILITY: Various efficiency improvements.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 57โฏ400 entries.
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BUGFIX: Due to an error, emails to web.de could not be sent over the past few days. This issue has now been fixed.
STABILITY: Progress indicators for organisers slightly accelerated in several places (voting, presentation).
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 57โฏ200 entries.
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SECURITY: Improved verification process against invalid email domains.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 56โฏ800 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 56โฏ700 entries.
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BUGFIX: In a list voting, if 1 was specified as the minimum selection amount and 0 (= all) as the maximum selection instead of a specific maximum number, the ballot could not be submitted. This issue has now been resolved.
FEATURE: When editing individual participants directly, the organiser can call up the internet address for an email domain directly, switch to an external email app or write a direct message in votesUP.
BUGFIX: The display of list votings sorted by results could not be activated. This error has now been fixed.
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DESIGN: The banner display for the organisers regarding persons in the waiting room can now be clicked individually to switch directly to editing the corresponding person.
STABILITY: Improvements to the mail bounce recognition.
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STABILITY: Minor improvements to the participants manager, including status notifications and handling of email addresses containing underscores.
STABILITY: Improvement to the filter for gender recognition
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 56โฏ500 entries.
SECURITY: The organisers no longer have access to draft proposals and can no longer accidentally publish them. However, the organisers can still see the title of a proposal in the draft stage.
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DESIGN: The layout of proposals received in proposal rounds has been improved so that participants and organisers can keep track of things more easily.
DESIGN: The time for invitations scheduled to be sent later is now also displayed when the ยซCheck queueยป button is clicked.
STABILITY: Significant improvements to gender recognition, especially when the sequence of first and last names changes.
STABILITY/BUGFIX: Several improvements to cancellation confirmations. For example, limit increases for digital absentee votings were not represented correctly in cancellation notifications.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 56โฏ300 entries.
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FEATURE: Organisers and election board may check which eligible voters have cast their votes, even after the voting has been completed.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 55โฏ800 entries.
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FEATURE: You can now also set the date and time at which the personalised email invitations should start being sent out.
STABILITY: Improved processing of dates and times.
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BUGFIX: If a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 1 allowed vote were specified in a list voting, the ballot could not be submitted. This error has now been fixed.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 55โฏ600 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 55โฏ400 entries.
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FEATURE: The organisers can prohibit participants from changing their registered email address. They can do this in the event settings.
STABILITY: Minor code corrections and improvements to translations.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 55โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE: The participant manager has been made slightly more flexible: the organisers can now also assign guest status to a person entitled to vote by setting their voting rights to 0.
BUGFIX: When participants transferred their voting rights to someone else, the success or error message was not displayed in the preferred language. This has now been fixed.
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FEATURE: When preparing ballots, the organiser can now specify whether the minimum and maximum number of options to be selected applies only to โyesโ votes or also to โnoโ votes and abstentions, if applicable.
STABILITY: If a ballot paper is filled out incorrectly, the submit button now turns red in all cases. Previously, only the submission was prevented; now the invalidity is also visually indicated at all times.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 55โฏ000 entries.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 54โฏ900 entries.
A11Y: Updates to the Accessibility Statement.
BUGFIX: When re-editing voting templates, previously selected quickvote options were not selected correctly. This has now been fixed.
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FEATURE: The inclusion or exclusion of participant groups can now also be applied to brainstorming sessions and agenda items.
SECURITY: If an event is created with the โdigital absentee voteโ setting, email verification for participants is now set as mandatory by default.
DESIGN: Improved display when managing a participants group.
STABILITY: The auto-activation of limits increases has been enabled for additional scenarios. In addition, in many cases it is now faster by several minutes.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 54โฏ600 entries.
FEATURE: The organisers can also change the language setting for the event for all existing participants in one go.
FEATURE: If the voting result has been withdrawn, the organiser may still copy the voting template or redo the voting at a later date.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 54โฏ300 entries.
BUGFIX: If more than one participant account per event refused further use during email verification, the refusal resulted in a blank page instead of the refusal being carried out. This has now been fixed.
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A11Y: votesUP now respects settings in users' devices and browsers to reduce or minimise motion (animations).
FEATURE: Typical typing or spelling mistakes such as โseperateโ are automatically corrected when saving event titles, agenda items, group names and similar fields.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 54โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE: Participant groups can now be created and assigned automatically if the โOrganisation/Groupโ field is filled in for participants. Assignment to multiple groups is possible using the separator โ|โ.
DESIGN: When editing a participants group, votesUP now also displays the organisational background information of a participant, if filled out.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 53โฏ900 entries.
STABILITY: Efficiency improvements, especially for database queries.
SECURITY: Improved uniqueness of email matching.
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FEATURE: More flexibility when resetting an event: Participants can now be deleted in one go without also deleting the voting templates.
DESIGN: The joint deletion of all inactive tokens has been migrated from participant management to the โReset eventโ section.
BUGFIX: The CSV template optimised for Microsoft Excel had a separation error. This has now been fixed.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 53โฏ600 entries.
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STABILITY: When deleting all inactive tokens, consideration is given to whether they have already been eligible in a voting.
A11Y: Improvements to the document structure of the of the data processing agreements so that they can be rendered correctly by screen readers.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 53โฏ400 entries.
I18N: Improvements to the French translation.
SECURITY: Improved verification when an organiser deletes a user account.
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STABILITY: Several improvements to the general code and email system.
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STABILITY: Improvements to gender/name recognition.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 53โฏ000 entries.
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STABILITY: Votings with a large number of voting options were sometimes cut off in the automatic minutes log. This has been fixed for new votings.
BUGFIX: Secret ballots with a large number of voting options were not fully displayed in the recountable digital ballot box. This has been fixed for new ballots.
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STABILITY: The option to create event IDs with long hyphens has been removed due to confusion among participants. Only a minus sign is now permitted as a dash.
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STABILITY: The CSV import of participants has become a bit more tolerant towards errors.
PRIVACY: The privacy policy has been supplemented with information that web server log files are deleted after 24 hours.
PRIVACY: The privacy policy has been translated into five additional languages and is now available in all 29 language versions.
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STABILITY: Improvements to the algorithm for gender/name recognition.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ900 entries.
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A11Y: Several minor updates to the accessibility statement.
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BUGFIX: If the organiser changed multiple-choice questions in motions and nominations after proposals had already been submitted, this could led to minor display errors. These have now been fixed.
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STABILITY: Improvements to the internal password reset workflow and handling of exceptions.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ800 entries.
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BUGFIX: Proposals published in proposal rounds were only visible to organisers and proposers, even though they should also be displayed to voters and guests. This error has now been fixed.
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BUGFIX: Two-factor-authentication via the organiser login was not possible. This has been fixed.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ600 entries.
STABILITY: Several improvements to the code and email system.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ500 entries.
I18N: Improvements to the email templates in several languages.
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STABILITY: Improved information about email bounces and general code maintenance.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ400 entries.
BUGFIX: The display of messages was broken yesterday. The problem is now solved.
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BUGFIX: Since the last update, the display whether a user is online or not had not functioned properly in the messaging centre. This is now fixed.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ200 entries.
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FEATURE/SECURITY: One-time email verification for participants can now be set as mandatory.
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DESIGN / SECURITY: The shared waiting room only shows participants who have not been explicitly excluded by the organisers from being contacted by others.
STABILITY: Improved recognition of email bounces.
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FEATURE: Organisers can configure the minimum length requirement of passwords for participants.
SECURITY: Passwords can now be up to 80 characters long instead of 60.
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FEATURE: Participants who have uploaded files to the agenda can now also remove them even after event-wide publication by the organisers.
DESIGN: Participants who have uploaded files to the agenda can now check whether their files have already been scanned for viruses.
SECURITY: Files in the agenda will not be displayed (except for the uploading account) until the virus scan has been performed.
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STABILITY: Efficiency improvements to the application code that handles accounts.
I18N: Improvements to several translations.
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DESIGN: The participants manager shows more clearly whether email addresses have been confirmed.
DESIGN: The display of token accounts in the participant management has been slightly improved to differentiate them from email-based accounts.
SECURITY: For newly created events, (optional) email confirmation for participants is now enabled by default.
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DESIGN: Participants are now more clearly reminded when the organiser requests the verification of their email address.
FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ100 entries.
STABILITY: Email verification for initial logins are now also available for events that mix token and email accounts.
DESIGN: Minor layout improvements.
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I18N: Improvements to the translations, especially regarding the brainstorming sessions feature.
STABILITY: Character limitations for brainstorming sessions are now more strictly enforced.
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FEATURE: The dictionary for gender/name recognition now comprises over 52โฏ000 entries.
STABILITY: The main organiser of an event will now be informed more reliably and quickly if an email to a participant could not be delivered.
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SECURITY: The password reset feature has been revised to prevent misuse.
I18N: Improvements to the translations, especially regarding the brainstorming sessions feature.
STABILITY: Several improvements to the email system.
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SECURITY: Protection from XSS attacks by malicious files during CSV import has been improved.
DESIGN: Minor improvements to the brainstorming sessions.
STABILITY: Submitted chat messages that exceed the allowed limit of 2000 characters, are now correctly cut off.
BUGFIX: Fixed visual glitch in the message inbox/outbox regarding voting transfer requests.
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DESIGN: If a minimum number of selected options (e.g. candidates) is required in a list vote and the required minimum has not yet been selected, votesUP now displays the โCast Voteโ button in red colour. Previously, this was only the case when too many options were selected.
FEATURE: During an ongoing vote, the organiser will be informed with a time estimate if high voting weights are expected to prolong the voting process.
SECURITY: For new events, the minimum password length for regular participants has been increased from 5 to 6 characters.
SECURITY: When changing the password on the profile page, at least 6 characters are now required for regular participants and at least 10 characters for organisers (equal to when creating an event).
