Aa-forum

Fixed

- Top margin of the forum navigation (`<br>` is not for styling ...)

Changed

- Better setting names
- Setting constants moved to their model
- Show pagination only when there is more than 1 page
- Replaced all icons that were image files with an SVG sprite to reduce the number of
HTTP requests to the web server.
- Logic in image detection for posts to Discord to "First image to verify"
- Moved search term delimiters to variables
- Some success messages have been improved

Added

- Default forum settings to the admin backend
- `related_name` to foreign keys that were missing them

Changed

- `Setting` model is now a singleton to prevent multiple settings of the same type

Fixed

- HTML syntax (missing mandatory label tag in global search form added)
- CSS classes in forms

Added

- "Required Fields" hint to the forms that were missing it

Changed

- "New Category" form in the admin page visually enhanced
- Contribution guidelines updated
- CSS modernized
- App CSS and JS moved to bundled HTML templates
- Minimum requirements:
- Python >= 3.8
- Alliance Auth >= 2.15.1
- Django CKEditor >= 6.4.2

Removed

- Unused template tags
- Tests for Alliance Auth Beta
- Deprecated `type` parameter from `script` tags
- Deprecated `type` parameter from `style` tags

Changed

- Package discovery for setuptools
- SumoSelect library moved to its own bundled templates
- Minimum Requirement:
- Alliance Auth >= 2.14.0

Fixed

- A CSS class in an image HTML tag
- Return a dummy ID when the user is not in an alliance
- No default alliance for test fake user

Added

- Image sizes to the character portrait image HTML tags
- Error message when submitting an invalid form on topic creation
- Better error messages for topic reply errors

Changed

- Templates cleaned up

Added

- New Feature: Announcement Boards

![New Feature: Announcement Boards]

- Boards marked as "Announcement Boards" have restrictions on who can start a topic
in them. This is the already known group restriction function that is already
used to restrict access to boards in general
- Users with access to an announcement board still can discuss the topic itself
- To start a topic, a user needs to be in (at least) one of the defined groups that
are allowed to start topics
- If no groups are defined that are allowed to start topics in the announcement
board, only users with the `manage_forum` permission (Forum Admins) can start topics
- These settings will not be inherited in child boards