RSS Feed Inquiry

LiveWhale
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Hello,

I’ve noticed some interesting markup in the default RSS feeds (ex. University of Connecticut Events). The closing link tag followed by a trailing https:// (see below…pulled from the first few lines of the linked RSS feed) is unusual/new to me. Could you explain this formatting/syntax?

Thank you!

<description>University of Connecticut Events</description>
<link/>
https://
<h3>All Events</h3>
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Hey Janet, thanks for reporting this – that erroneously self-closing <link/> tag is a bug that I’ve seen before; I thought we’d quashed and fixed it in a recent release, but there must be some circumstance where it’s able to still manifest in the latest version of LWC. We’ll check this out and file it for a bug-fix.

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Hi Janet,

Good news! We were able to incorporate a fix for this into our next release. In the meantime, as a thank-you for bringing it to our attention, I was able to go ahead and patch the fix to your live site so the RSS feed you mentioned no longer has the erroneous HTML in it, and the link tag is fixed.

Karl

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We at the University of Minnesota Duluth have seen the same code coming from our calendar.d.umn.edu site which is causing errors on a mobile app we have. When is this code update supposed to be pushed out?

Thanks,
Andy

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Hey Andy,

Great question – we’re planning to bundle this into a patch release version of LiveWhale at the end of this week, so it should be available to start testing on dev as soon as next week. I’m thinking (in order to avoid anything auto-upgrading in the days before Thanksgiving holidays) that the official release date, and when production auto-upgrades will run, we’ll pin to Sunday, December 1.

If that changes for any reason, you’ll see it mentioned in the release notes and also you can opt-in to email notifications of new releases if you like.

Karl