Release notes

Projects and improvements developed

April 2022

Web application:

• New "homepage article" widget on organization portals

• Redesign of organization members insert

• Improvement to white label management interfaces

  - New "platform manager" right: delete, merge, unblock accounts

• Option to mark a previously read message as "unread"

Mobile application:

• Possibility to access a video conference from an event or a calendar

March 2022

Web application:

• New calendar widget

• Creation of a logo chooser for spheres (image, icon, emoji)

• New analytics indicators for invitations (number of invitations sent, number of invitations accepted, conversion rate)

• Addition of a filter on the member management page: select sub-organizations and spheres linked to sub-organizations

• Addition of a filter on the member management page of mother organizations: list of "blocked" members

February 2022

Web application:

• Redesign of the "My tasks" page

• Updates to article layout (edit icons, full page)

• Personalization of CMS articles (option to add a banner)

• Unified search engine

• Profile completion indicator

• Personal "My activity" widget (available with white label)

• Events displayed in the News carrousel

January 2022

Web application:

• Redesign of the members insert in spheres

• Links to messages open in a modal (My Favorites, Kanban, file box, Widgets, etc.)

• Tags in spheres listed in alphabetical order

• New options available from users' personal account menus: My favorites, My tasks, My badges

• New personalization for organization portals and internal articles

• Option to prohibit the downloading of videos in a sphere

• From an organization calendar, possibility to highlight events in the color of the style or of the sphere

Mobile application:

• Possibility to create a network

December 2021

Web application:

• Possibility to select a personal Webex link to add to an event

• Addition of an "Edit widgets" entry from sphere and organization menus

• New "Sphere directory" page that lists all spheres in a federation (available with white label)

• Possibility to download the list of participants from a BigBlueButton session

• Possibility to select a style when creating an event

• Addition of a "FAQ" layout in the CMS

• New calendar

• Display an event in the color of its style or its sphere

• Possibility to add a sphere to favorites

• Organization option: personal video conference link

November 2021

Web application:

• New "Event" widget: highlight a specific event

• New restricted sphere option: possibility to hide the message writing field from members

• New sphere option: possibility to hide the members insert

• Redesign of the styling system (CSS) of interfaces (spheres and organizations) in light colors

• New audio conferencing feature in spheres ("Audio spheres")

• In the Kanban, when clicking on a task, the message linked to it opens in a modal

• New widget center

October 2021

Web application:

• Possibility to add a "Lucca" widget that displays the list of the day's absentees from a Lucca account

• Added an upload button from the "video" widget

• Favorites: messages, files, articles

September 2021

Web application:

• Creation of a personal dashboard to replace an organization's homepage

• Possibility to enable or disable the video conferencing feature in a sphere

• Clicking on the name of a sphere in an open chat redirects to the message in the sphere

• Generic root page navigation

• Sphere families visible on the root page (web) and in the "My spheres" menu

• Possibility to differentiate between members and visitors in a sphere

• Addition of a download icon next to files in comments

• Possibility to start a free 14-day trial of Whaller Pro

• Possibility to duplicate a folder in a sphere box

• New "Subscription" pages, possiblity to track the number of licenses available

• Possibility to preview videos posted in comments

• New organization option: make choosing a role mandatory with invitations

August 2021

Web application:

• Redesign of message ergonomics (menu, layout)

July 2021

Web application:

• New navigation in spheres and organizations (including administration pages)

• Application of webinar options in webinar breakout rooms

• Possibility to select and move multiple files at the same time in the file box

• Possibility to use "News" carousels on an organization portal

• Creation of a widget area that is displayed throughout an entire federation

• Possibility to export stats on presence in video conferences

• Addition of an "edit online" shortcut next to editable files

June 2021

Web application:

• New analytics

• Possibility to record webinars on BigBlueButton

• Possibility to disable private messages in a sphere

• Possibility to add one's own general terms and conditions (white label)

• New "panel" display to navigate within portals and articles

• Possibility to display a menu with the choice of languages in the header (white label)

• Integration of new languages (Portuguese, German, Italian, Swedish, Hungarian, Romanian)

May 2021

Web application:

• Redesign of header

• Addition of favicons for the file box, file editing and BigBlueButton

• Redesign of connection modalities on public portals

• Possibility to request entry into sub-organizations (white label)

• New sphere option: Disable the option for members to share classified ads

Mobile application:

• Access to organization portals

• Possibility to request entry into a sphere

• Possibility to leave an organization

• Possibility to mention groups or roles

• Visualization of links in the file box

April 2021

Web application:

• Multilingual management of CMS articles

• Possibility to accept or reject several requests to join an organization at the same time

• Possibility to assign one or more roles to requests to join an organization

• Two layouts now available for white label login pages ("basic" and "two columns")

• Possibility to add a "request entry" button on white label ("Gate") login pages

• Update of icons

• New "News" widget

• Modification of the width of organization management pages (1130 px)

• Possibility to put the "Latest messages" widget at the top of organizatin portals

• New design for "Sphere summary" and "Latest messages" widgets

• Possibility to edit and co-edit all files compatible with OnlyOffice

• Integration of new message styles

March 2021

Web application:

• Redesign of chat

• Removal of the option to connect a Whaller box to OneDrive or GoogleDrive

• Image gallery feature available from the Pro offer

February 2021

Web application:

• New integration of messages waiting to be published

• Possibility to change the order of images when editing a message

• Redesign of message editing (text, Markdown, files, images, priority, publication date)

• Redesign of link display (New: the author can delete them one by one)

• Insert a link to an article in a message via Markdown tools

• Possibility to share a CMS article from within a sphere

• Possibility to share a CMS article in a sphere from the article

• Multilingual content: possibility to translate messages into the languages available on Whaller

January 2021

Web application:

• Additional Markdown options

• Export an organization's list of spheres and their details

• Autocompletion when adding sphere administrators

Mobile application:

• Suggestions of usernames in comments

• Apple SSO connection

December 2020

Web application:

• All users can schedule messages in spheres

• Possibility to download the contents of a folder or an entire sphere box

November 2020

Web application:

• Display a larger version of a single emoji when left as a comment

• Extend the rights attributed to "Publishers"

• Possibility to use Zoom for video conferencing

• Possibility to host large files (up to 3GB)

• Cybersecurity option: prevent the reuse of a password when it is renewed

• (Re)launch of the Full Remote offer

• Suggestion platform (Feature Upvote)

• Links displayed below messages are updated after a message is edited

Mobile application:

• Addition of connection via Google

October 2020

Web application:

• Deployment of a new WYSIWYG editor for CMS articles

• Possibility to associate a video conference room to an event (only if the sphere has BigBlueButton selected as its video conferencing tool)

• Redesign of the "sphere settings" window

• Viewing of Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents shared in messages on Whaller

• Launch of Whaller 365: co-editing of documents, spreadsheets and presentations

• Securing of accounts with a strong U2F authentication factor

September 2020

Web application:

• "My tasks": all current tasks assigned to a user appear on their root page

• Cybersecurity option: organization managers can define different levels of classification for information and assign consultation rights according to these levels to members

August 2020

Web application:

• Improved performance of conversation feeds

• Interpret an event's "location" field with a URL

• Possibility to configure an Ausha widget

July 2020

Web application:

• Ability to view a PDF, an image or a video directly from the sphere Box (and update of file icons)

• Ephemeral spheres available with the Enterprise offer (spheres that are archived on a pre-determined date)

• Cybersecurity option: possibility to temporarily disable the uploading of documents in an organization

Mobile application:

• Possibility to invite phone contacts to a sphere

• Display of badges in profiles

June 2020

Web application:

• Possibility to set video conferencing in webinar mode (listen-only mode for participants, more than 100 participants)

• White label: a user who logs in can be redirected to either the "root" page or the portal page

• The "Reply" buttons in notification emails refer directly to the reply field of the concerned message

• Translation of messages in foreign languages (with DeepL)

• Creation of top-down options (within federations) in the settings of a "mother" organization, so that thay can be applied to all "daughter" organizations

• Improved upload for large files (according to organisation settings)

• Possibility to paste a file directly in the "new message" or "new comment" fields

Mobile application:

• Integration of video conference feature

• Display custom profile fields in profiles

May 2020

Web application:

• Possibility to disable online support via Intercom for an organization

• Notifications: "new member" and "new sphere" emails sent to sphere administrators and organization managers now take into account the settings defined in the general notification frequency - invitation or entry request emails are not affected

• Possibility to have a specific profile field appear next to the username in conversations. (Example: company name of members in an inter-professional network)

• Replacement of the term "sphere open to visitors" by "sphere accessible to visitors"

April 2020

Web application:

• Automation of the "pass a member as a visitor" process by automatically removing them from members-only spheres

• Deletion of quizzes feature

• Addition of a "visitors" icon on spheres accessible to visitors

• Improvement of the UI of registration and login forms

• Modification of the rules for spheres accessible to visitors (impossible to make them global, open, etc.)

• Temporary blocking for 30 minutes (instead of permanent blocking) of users who have tried to log in with the wrong password 5 times

• In a federation: inheritance of offers, and a number of "top-down" options

• Creation of a federation management page

• Correction of the bug that turned some images 🙈

• Video player update (with the possibility to detach the video in the foreground)

• Agglomeration of analytics in a federation

March 2020

Web application:

• Add BigBlueButton (BBB) as a video conferencing option, these instances are stored on the Whaller infrastructure

• BBB as a default in school organizations

• Launch of FULL REMOTE offer
  

Mobile application:

• Do not display active spheres if the user has access to only one organization

February 2020

Web application:

• Release of new Pro, Business and Enterprise offers

• POC of connection with Atlassian (JIRA and Confluence). Those who would like to test can write to us!

• POC of integration of SAP Cloud

• Review of all transactional email texts

January 2020

Infrastructure: all Whaller servers (data and service) migrated to OVHcloud in Roubaix (France).

Web application:

• Reinforcement of security options: password policy, automatic signout after inactivity, etc.

• Integration of meet.jit.si as a choice for video conferencing

Mobile application:

• Sphere and organization calendar feature available

• Ability to start a private conversation directly from a user's profile

December 2019

(Work on client platforms)

November 2019

Web application:

• Display of organizations in the same federation in an arborescent manner on the "root" page and in the "My Spheres" menu

• When a temporary message is commented on, it becomes permanent

• Temporary password renewal URL

October 2019

Web application:

• Management of cookie preferences for users (GDPR)

• GDPR & Privacy by Design: By default, fields in a user's enhanced profile should be set to "Unpublished"

• Make the blurring of private messages optional

• Launch of the new Whaller Help Center: https://help.whaller.com/

• Add the names of authors to articles

September 2019

Web application:

• Connection of the sphere box to OneDrive

• The user now has the choice to delete documents they deposited in a sphere Box when they leave (GPDR)

August 2019

Web application:

• Restructuring of organization settings

• Premium Option that allows managers to validate the creation of new spheres (Sphere creation workflow)

July 2019

Web application:

• Change in provider for transaction emails. From Mandrill (US) to Sendinblue (France) (GPDR)

• Blurred private messages
  

Mobile application:

• Correction of duplicate messages sent
  

June 2019

White Label site (GATE)

• Creation of the possibility to have a white label site for an organization or federation network (code name: GATE)

• Personalization of the header

• Personalization of the footer

• Design of a white label "root" page of a site, with the side navigation bar

• Ability to play shared videos automatically

• Creation of a stronger confidentiality option in order to not show one's full name to the entire network

Web application:

• Addition of a premium option: "Use badges"

Mobile application:

• Creation of the possibility to have a white label mobile application (realized first for France Télévisions)

May 2019

Web application:

• Possibility to share GIFs in spheres and comments

• Add a publication end date for programmed messages

• Premium organization option to hide Google Drive and Microsoft Office 365 shares

• Addition of Markdown shortcuts for level 2 and 3 titles

• Addition of a Premium option to disable scratch-off messages

• Addition of the ability to choose a native emoji from a selector 🎉

• Ability to export participants to an event

• Sphere creation workflow (validated by an organization manager), available for Premium

• Ability to cancel an entry request from the "root" page

April 2019

Web application:

• Drag & drop tasks in sphere Kanban

• Display the Kanban in a new tab

• Remove the integration of Facebook videos in spheres to not have Facebook cookies on Whaller

• Authorize the creation of public isolated spheres

• Highlight the visio-sphere (under sphere members)

Mobile application:

• Possibility to share videos from the app

• Display ads in messages

• Possibility to copy text from a message or comment

• Possibility to copy a URL open in Whaller

March 2019

Web application:

• Ambassador program improvements (Podium, possibility to earn Illicado gift cards)

• Improvement of message display performance, especially when data is outsourced to a proprietary server (see Data outsourcing offer)

• GPDR: Logging all Whaller ADMIN actions

• Organization Federations: When adding an organization as a "child", its members are added automatically to "parent" organizations

• Establishment of an IdP server allowing the installation of a "Whaller Connect" button on third-party sites (via SSO). Realized example: configuration of a Whaller login button on a Wordpress site

• Extension of shared file size limit to 1Go for organizations (Premium)

February 2019

Web application:

• Improvements to SSO mechanisms for organizations that use them

• When a sphere exceeds 50 members, automatic welcome messages are disabled

• In the organization members management section, possibility to use the action "Remove from the organization" for several people at a time

• Change the font used for messages in order to display all languages on all OS

• Messages and comments can be edited at any time

January 2019

Web application:

• Simplification of the "My account" menu

• Remove "lemonades" and "bouquets of roses" from gifts

• Remove the 3,000 character limit for messages

• Integration of a Markdown editor in the message writing field

Mobile application:

• Possibility to connect via LDAP

• Display documents in messages

• Access to sphere boxes (new "tools" icon in spheres)

• Display tasks in messages

• Display gifts in messages

• Display message styles

December 2018

Web application:

We wanted to improve the "serenity" or "focus" aspect of Whaller, which sometimes gave the impression to send too many notifications. Our logic: give ALL the control back to users, don't overwhelm them with information, and only send what's necessary:

• Removal of transaction emails (new messages, etc.) if the user has installed the Whaller mobile app (focus)
  

• Possibility to select time slots to receive email/mobile pushes (not during the night, weekend, etc.) (focus)
  

November 2018

Web application:

• Launch of a new chat

• No longer sending emails for a like or dislike (focus)

• Possibility to block sending pushes for comments in a sphere (backend option)

• Change the default sending frequency for emails: no more than 2 emails per day (focus)

• Simplification of the notification settings page: fusion of the "new comments" and "new messages" setting, add an insert concerning "educational" emails

Mobile application:

• Improved message display performance (x2)

• Events in spheres

• Better offline management

• Design of private messages

• Possibility to connect in LDAP

• Password recovery link
  

October 2018

• Possibility to download a list of participants for an event

• Redesign of the "real time" system for sending pushes, and synchronized display of new messages, comments, likes

• Opening to all public spheres

• Possibility to block the creation of public spheres in an organization

• Display public spheres on organization portals

• Add Capterra and G2Crowd missions to the Ambassador program
  

August / September 2018

• Redesign of the mobile application in ReactNative

• Public spheres: the first public spheres are opened upon request. For the time being, you can visit: l https://whaller.com/sphere/jaimemaboite

• Redesign of the chat (still a feature)

• Image galleries (Premium)

• Official release of zap' Whaller : https://zapier.com/apps/whaller/integrations

• Addition of an activity table to Whaller Analytics

July2018

• Beta release of new chat. Ask to test it on https://whaller.com/sphere/tcjwx6

• Beta release of the new mobile application. Ask to test it on https://whaller.com/sphere/b799m1

• Creation of an interface that lists a person's spheres for an organization (only for the manager)

• Analytics: addition of a frame and an asset counter for the selected period (Premium)

• Addition of emojis :bzh:, :corsica: and :euskadi:

• Integration of "stripe elements" for card entry
  

June 2018

• Creation of a Premium organization option: "do not notify by email/push for anonymous messages"

• Security fixes following feedback from Bug Bounty

• Creation of the Whaller Sports page

• "Scratch-off" messages

• Ability to move a sphere from one organization to another

• Create a "verified" certificate for organizations and people

May 2018

• Create an event from Google calendar via Zapier

• Redesign of the ergonomics message types
  

• Add a task to a message that has already been posted (Premium)

• Program messages in advance (Premium)

• Restricted spheres: addition of a "block comments" option (Premium+)

April 2018

• "Alpha" release of the new chat (not visible to all users)

March 2018

• Improvements to the entry path in a network from its public portal

• "Enter a sphere" tutorial + customization of this tutorial

• Improvement of the UI of the signup modal on organization portals

• Make public portal pages responsive

February 2018

• Possibility to mention a group of people with the same role in a sphere using "@@nameofrole" (Premium)

• Creation of a CSS field allowing the graphic modification of organization interfaces (Premium)

• Points earned in "incentive" organizations are displayed in the navigation sidebar (Premium)

• Customization of the entry route in an organization: personalization of the redirect page after registration

January 2018

• Add percentages to csv survey extracts

• Possibility to merge two user accounts

• Creation of the Associations landing page with Halo Asso: https://whaller.com/fr/usage/association

December 2017

• Zapier application accessible on https://zapier.com/apps/whaller/

• Can archive spheres in an organization (Premium)

• Restriction of the organization standard offer: self-accepting emails, badges personalization of emails, charters

• Creation of the Universities landing page: https://whaller.com/fr/usage/college

November 2017

• Respond to a comment in private (triggers an alert)

• Can upload videos in a custom profile field

• Display a LinkedIn profile in a Whaller profile

• Creation of a "no role" filter in the members management section (Premium)

• Compatibility with native emojis!

• Export analytics in an Excel file
  

October 2017

• Connection of a "wedoogift" boutique to Whaller for one of our clients (will be generalizable) (Premium)

• Synchronization and generic authentication in LDAP (Premium)

• Addition of an option to hide the "website" link on an organization portal

• Increase the sphere description to 500 characters

• Addition of Dutch in the languages 🇳🇱

• Addition of a premium option to remove the notion of price in events + PayPal
  

• Allow the upload of InDesign files
  

September 2017

• Possibility to create a hierarchy between several organizations (Premium+) : with link between profiles, role, etc. (Premium)

• Create events from calendars (Premium)

• Block a person

• Creation of assignable rights according to roles (Premium): right to create a sphere, right to accept new members in the organization

• "Serendipity" widget (suggestions of people in an organization): specific to a single network at the moment. A generic version may be planned someday depending on requests (Premium)

• Implementation of the "Analytics" page in spheres, for sphere administrators (Premium)

• Creation of a new type of customizable profile field: free lists with suggestions (Premium)

• Removal of "product" icons (prices, premium,...) from organization portal pages (Premium)

• Sphere administrators can now create and edit widgets linked to their sphere (This was reserved exclusively for organization managers before) (Premium)

• Strengthen the invitation "quota" security policy

August 2017

• Can personalize the list of types of events (Premium)

• Possibility to block "I dislike" (Premium)

• Possibility to define a list of "blacklisted" words that automatically report messages to administrators and managers (Premium)

• Mobile application: can connect with Microsoft Office 365

• Showing roles in the form of medallions on avatars (Premium)

• Creation of the Premium + "Maps" page /product/premium-plus/map

• Generalization of the use of "Glowbl visio-spheres"

• Strengthening of the password security policy

July 2017

• Possibility to sign up/ connect with LinkedIn

• Possibility to share a message in several spheres at the same time (Premium)

• Addition of invitation quotas

• Improvement of the navigation in the right hand column of spheres: always visible, always scrollable

• "Forum" spheres for Premium+ (organization spheres in which you van validate or refuse the responses to a message)

• Ability to search all of a person's profile fields, including specific fields in an organization Premium

• Addition of a "role" filter in member directories Premium

• Message legacy (possibility to leave the messages you've written when you leave a sphere) Premium

• Can disable automatic messages for new documents in a sphere box Premium

• Possibility to structure organizations among themselves by defining "sub-organizations" to an organization; legacy profiles: avatars, bio, roles and specific fields (Premium)

June 2017

• SSO SAML (Premium+ option)

• Public page /contact

• Member management: can filter non-activated members

• Can disable the Kanban in spheres

• External hosting of message content and attached files

• "Whaller Ambassador" program: https://whaller.com/account/refer

• Addition of a navigation sidebar for isolated spheres

• Addition of attachment to automatic message in the sphere's box

• Mini profile: when clicking on the photo, it is displayed in full resolution

• Publication of Whaller's 3 core values on the homepage

• Publication of Whaller's Manifesto on the homepage

May 2017

• Automatic online payment (integration of the last elements)

• Integration of Google Drive in the sphere Box: possibility to manage a Google Drive folder directly from a Whaller sphere (beta)

• Deletion of the old mobile version and passage of spheres and root page in full responsive

• Integration of Glowbl as a replacement for visio-spheres

• Member management: Display the list of spheres for each person

• Ability to disable welcome messages in a sphere

• Public page /integrations

• Public page /mobile

• SEO improvements

• Creation of a "Start a trial" workflow

April 2017

• Create a task directly from a Kanban in a sphere

• Ability to share a GoToMeeting in a message (in an event)

• Automatic publication of a welcome message when a new member joins a sphere

• Redesign of the "sphere summary" widget

• Permanent deletion of old personal spheres

• Redesign of badge management
  

March 2017

• New network creation path

• New Premium+ offer "data hosted on the third party server"

• Tasks: fusion with ideations, possibility to assign a task to several people

• Integration of Office 365: registration and authentication with an Office 365 account, possibility to share OneDrive files

• Integration of Google Suite: registration and authentication with a Google account, possibility to share Google Drive files

• New discussion thread UX

February 2017

• Ability to create temporary, self-destructing messages ("burning messages")

• Notifications when a document is added in the Box

• PDF document viewer in the spheres

• Mobile application: new network creation path

• Mobile application: display of entry requests

January 2017

• Annual debug campaign. More than 150 bugs found and corrected.

December 2016

• Statistics tool: "Whaller Analytics"

• Possibility to activate "Premium" for a single sphere

• Card editor (points, quiz, info...)

• Interfacing Plussh & Whaller

• Twitter widget

• Entry course: (Join/ Create a network)

• Creation of a sponsorship/ referrals page

• Depreciation Internet Explorer < 10

November 2016

• New entry course: "What would you like to do?" and "Join a network"

• Redesign of the sphere management page: all settings accessible from this page

• Performance of web interfaces

• Creation of the page status.whaller.com

October 2016

• Switch to PHP7

• Update of ElasticSearch search engine

• Suggestions of organizations

• Creation of the "connected apps" account page

September 2016

• Ability to remove or add several sphere members at a time

• Enrichment of events: types (carpool,...), spots available, price, PayPal.Me

• Redesign of directory ergonomics and people search

• Synchronization of tabs
  

August 2016

• Improvement of real time, possibility to interact with a message while it's being updated (likes, etc.)

• Creation of the "publisher" right
  

July 2016

• Integration of IFTTT

• Multiple surveys
  

June 2016

• Redesign of the notification management page

• Pin a message
  

May 2016

• Side navigation bar