2.9.0.beta13: Security fixes, sidebar improvements, new API scopes, and more

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But wait, there’s more! We do our best to highlight new features and changes for you, but there’s always too many changes to detail. For a full list of new features, bug fixes, UX improvements, and more, be sure to review the Additional Features and Fixes listed below.

Plugin improvements

Assign

New Features
  • Cleanup notifications when reassigning

Follow

UX Changes
  • Update plugin’s user page navigation to be compatible with new nav

Calendar

New Features
  • Set holiday status immediately when adding or updating calendar post
Bug Fixes
  • Exclude deleted events from MonitorEventJob

Data Explorer

Bug Fixes
  • Better handling of edge cases

Solved

New Features
  • Add new badges and rename existing badges
Bug Fixes
  • Use default_enabled for badges
  • Use generic, static names for badges
  • Badges shouldn’t be editable
Performance
  • Improve query for “Helpdesk” badge
  • Improve query for “Tech Support” badge

Encrypt

Bug Fixes
  • Allow encrypt_pms_default to be null

BBCode Color

Bug Fixes
  • Chat is now a core plugin

Docker Manager

Bug Fixes
  • Modernize upgrade-header compilation
Performance
  • Use less_memory_flags for s3:expire_missing_assets
  • Cleanup unneeded S3 assets after deploys

Code Review

Bug Fixes
  • Update repository name when receiving webhook
  • Retry after rate limit is lifted

Signatures

Bug Fixes
  • Remove register_asset call for .hbs file

Client Performance

New Features
  • Log other metrics relative to ttfb
  • Log domain of app and CDNs

Reactions

Bug Fixes
  • DB Migration didn’t handle existing “First Reaction” badge
  • Use generic, static name for badge
Performance
  • Improve badge query

Translator

Bug Fixes
  • Increase Microsoft max character limit to new limit

Twitter Profile Link

Bug Fixes
  • Correct hbs file extension and remove sprockets call

Automation

Bug Fixes
  • Prevents saving an enabled automation with no trigger

Question Answer Discourse

Bug Fixes
  • Returns all post-voting fields for new posts
  • Register plugin notification item icon

User Notes

Bug Fixes
  • Use period filters passed into plugin for admin reports

Docs

New Features
  • Add a global setting to support custom docs url path

Gamification

UX Changes
  • Add settings link

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Sync user tips status between client
  • API to customize server side composer errors handling in the client side
  • Generic hashtag autocomplete lookup and markdown cooking
  • Hidden site setting to suppress unsecured categories from admins
  • Stop hiding “allow archiving channels” setting

Bug Fixes

  • Ensures chat sidebar is present when core sidebar is disabled
  • Prevents drawer error when resizing core composer
  • Use correct Regexp flag to ignore case
  • Push category hashtag slug match to top
  • Existing users were mistakenly unable to redeem invite
  • Pass period filter to plugin outlet
  • Minor hashtag autocomplete fixes
  • Experimental hashtag search result matching and limit fixes
  • Do not click track .hashtag-cooked
  • Set chat_allowed_groups based on chat_enabled setting
  • Unescape :emoji: in hashtag search results
  • Filtering rows of S3 inventory files was too strict
  • When filtering tags for visibility, respect tag group permissions
  • Update link in group_in_subject site description
  • Delete associated channel upon category deletion
  • Allows to change sound when no sound was ever set
  • Revert to old hashtag style for hashtag-raw
  • Do not add color style if no prefixColor
  • Amend release_notes_link in app/models/admin_dashboard_general_data.rb
  • Amend release_notes_link in /tests/fixtures/dashboard-new-features.js
  • Ensure DButton uses the correct target for string actions
  • Enable_auto_join_users was used in create channel
  • Better chat-message-actions position
  • Correct implementation for user preferences tracking page
  • Tag ordering adjustment for new hashtag autocompletion
  • Allow new hashtag HTML to be quoted to markdown
  • Allow tl4 to bulk select
  • Hides user card button when current user can’t DM
  • Invite redemption error if user had already redeemed
  • Bug with admin trust level growth report
  • Regression with special a keyword in search
  • Update user options only once
  • Status was clearing after editing user preferences
  • Add Custom Primary-Numbers
  • Support unicode in search filter @username
  • Deprioritize reaction notifications
  • Rename Users to Sign-Ups in About page
  • Prevents arrow keys to bubble into parents components
  • Only applies scroll position to full page
  • Allow sidebar links to register didInsert actions
  • Correctly opens drawer to message id when given
  • Ensures composer is focused after edit
  • Only checks for full page instead of preference

UX Changes

  • Alters chat icon behavior on drawer and mobile
  • Show educational messages for the likes tab when it’s empty
  • Improve mention styling, simplify
  • Styling backwards compatibility for old user page navigation
  • Style adjustments & addition of login button on admin invite page
  • Use solid envelope icon for consistency
  • Improve mention styling
  • Update “education.dominating_topic” and raise default percentage
  • Ensures browse view input is focused on page load
  • Do not automatically refresh page while composer is open
  • Removed tracked section link from Community section in Sidebar
  • Padding adjustment for empty channel message
  • Reorganize user prefs for experimental user nav
  • User message controls need some padding
  • Better email login pages
  • Mark pre-populated dropdowns as not required
  • Redesign of chat settings + add chat retention info
  • Improves arrow support in chat emoji picker
  • Move horiz nav margin to padding
  • Force sidebar to occupy full height
  • Add channel header offset to browse page height

Performance

  • Stop downloading images from post processor and lean on uploads
  • Speed up S3 inventory updates
  • Adjust node memory threshold for assets:precompile
  • Limits use of redis cache while building emojis list

Accessibility

  • Improve “my posts” sidebar link title
  • Improved titles for chat in the sidebar
  • Add title & aria-expanded for sidebar toggle
  • Improve the accessibility of sidebar content
  • Add live area for search menu, labels
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