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It’s almost Christmas again, and Comentario is decking the halls with the fresh 3.12.0 Faughanvale release!

Comentario is a fast and powerful free comment server for web pages, written in Go.

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What’s new

Multilingual support for commenters

The embedded Comentario supports multiple languages since version 3.6.0. The new release extends this support to emails and, potentially, other interface elements (#139).

The user can specify their desired language in the Profile. Its initial value is defined by the language reported by the browser during registration.

User language in the Profile.

💡 Interested in contributing your own translation? Read the how-to and submit one!

Email address update

In the new version the system administrator can enable a user-initiated email address change in the Dynamic configuration (#134).

When it’s enabled, any user can initiate an email address change in their profile by clicking on the button located next to the Email field in their Profile.

If the user has the superuser privilege, clicking it will bring them to the Edit user page.
For regular users, this button will navigate to the dedicated Update email page, allowing the user to start a process of changing email and requiring their password for verification:

Then, if the SMTP mailer is properly configured, the user will receive an email at the new address, asking them to complete the change. If no working SMTP is available, the email is changed right away, without a confirmation.

Max. comment length setting

Another new dynamic configuration parameter allows a domain owner to set the limit on comment text’s length (#142). Its default value is 4096 (the same as before), but it can be set as low as 140 or as high as 1 MiB (1,048,576) characters.