3.4.0.beta4: Redesigned emojis, exporting user data, flagging illegal content and more

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Plugin improvements

discourse-activity-pub

Bug Fixes

  • ActivityPub user locale strings (150)
  • Broken followers list for anonymous users (145)

discourse-ai

New Features

  • Changes to summaries’ outdated logic. (1108)
  • Improve o3-mini support (1106)
  • O3-mini supports (1105)
  • Use persona default LLM for Discord integration (1104)
  • Block seeded models for being a persona default (1100)
  • Gemini Tokenizer (1088)
  • Track duration of AI calls (1082)
  • Formalize support for matryoshka dimensions. (1083)
  • Configurable embeddings (1049)
  • Add user location info to spam scanner context (1076)
  • Llm quotas (1047)
  • Add the ability to disable streaming on an Open AI LLM
  • Smart date support for AI helper (1044)

Bug Fixes

  • Need to be able to search replace within lines (1110)
  • Make sure DiscoursePrometheus is installed when collecting metrics (1107)
  • Android tablet composer menu z-index (1102)
  • OpenAI api key still needed for Dall-E. Unhide it. (1098)
  • Open AI embeddings config migration & Seeded indexes cleanup & (1092)
  • Always raise the single exception/Open AI models migration (1087)
  • Embeddings backfill rake task was using old code (1084)
  • Convert provider_params hash to json before db insert (1081)
  • Open AI embedding shortening is only available for some models (1080)
  • Restore the accidentally deleted query prefix. (1079)
  • Set default for existing records. (1073)
  • Make summaries backfill job more resilient. (1071)
  • AWS Bedrock non-streaming calls response log (1072)
  • Only hide posts detected explicitly as spam (1070)
  • Missing table check in post_migration (1068)
  • Do batches for backfilling huge embeddings tables (1065)
  • Composer helper not appearing on tablets (1064)
  • Split backfill into separate migrations to use independent transactions (1063)
  • Split statements to avoid timeout (1062)
  • Invalid locale yaml (1057)
  • Update spam controller action should consider seeded LLM properly (1053)
  • Keep track of silence reason when spam detection flags user (1046)
  • Prevent LLM enumerator from erroring when spam enabled (1045)
  • Embedding validation (1043)
  • AI Helper category / tag suggestion when user does not categories muted (1042)
  • Embeddings validator test needs to use the new Vector class. (1041)
  • Custom prefix causing allowed seeded LLMs not to be shown (1039)
  • Cloudflare Workers AI embeddings (1037)
  • Properly spin down unused streamer threads (1035)

UX Changes

  • Include none false for provider params (1111)
  • Improve embeddings config styles (1085)
  • Update usage “Learn more…” link (1090)
  • Set usage as first AI admin tab (1089)
  • Fix composer helper z-index (1086)
  • Full page search – always show tooltip & add msg (1051)
  • Close summary modal on click outside (1050)
  • Disabled preseeded edit button, add description (1038)
  • Minor improvements to LLM page and admin tables (1034)

Security Changes

  • Fix XSS on Shared AI Conversations local Onebox (1069)

Performance

  • Optimize backfill query to prevent statement timeouts (1066)

discourse-assign

New Features

  • New “notification level when assigned” user preference (626)

discourse-calendar

Bug Fixes

  • Row height on the upcoming events calendar (677)
  • Recurring events not displayed on /upcoming-events (676)
  • Correctly apply local dates on event dates (671)

UX Changes

  • Do not show participants in admin drop down menu for standalone events (679)
  • Remove going indicator for standalone events (672)

discourse-chat-integration

Bug Fixes

  • Topic changing category was not triggering notifications (244)

discourse-client-performance

New Features

  • Record CLS and improve INP target identification (53)
  • Log viewport width/height information (51)

Bug Fixes

  • Do not divide CLS by 1000 (54)
  • Logging of initially-loaded route (38)
  • More robust reporting on mobile (52)

discourse-data-explorer

Bug Fixes

  • Boolean field default state mismatch (353)

UX Changes

  • Apply admin table classes for consistent mobile styling on the recent queries page (349)

discourse-development-auth

UX Changes

  • Add plugin title (22)

discourse-doc-categories

UX Changes

  • Added plugin About information and a link (30)

discourse-encrypt

Bug Fixes

  • Remove a duplicated topic-status icon (366)

discourse-follow

Bug Fixes

  • Stream should come from args instead of this (138)

discourse-gamification

New Features

  • Add option to lock leaderboard view to default period (179)

Bug Fixes

  • Redo period filtering to respect leaderboard date bounds (178)

discourse-post-voting

Bug Fixes

  • Delete reviewable when the user is deleted (227)

discourse-reactions

UX Changes

  • Prevent accidental text selection of the reactions counter (336)

discourse-rewind

UX Changes

  • Text & width adjustments (9)
  • Make card clickable link
  • Adjust styles for long words
  • Simplify hours and minutes shown
  • More books styling (4)

discourse-solved

Bug Fixes

  • Use both possible *_answer attributes (329)

discourse-staff-alias

Bug Fixes

  • Allow any type of post revision for staff alias topics (86)

discourse-translator

New Features

  • Show experimental language switcher for anon users (198)

Bug Fixes

  • Strip detection text before truncation (196)
  • Skip images and quotes when sending for language detection (195)
  • Normalize languages within Discourse AI translator (194)

discourse-whos-online

Bug Fixes

  • Cannot read property of undefined (119)

discourse-zoom

Bug Fixes

  • fast_typing_threshold site setting (112)
  • Modernize topic page integration (111)

docker_manager

UX Changes

  • Removed a redundant git pull statement from the user message (260)
  • Update the admin page header to use DPageHeader (258)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Remove unnecessary org names from PR oneboxes (31102)
  • Handle newer url format for Twitch clips (31080)
  • Localization admin settings config page (31085)
  • Multiple Draft Topics (30790)
  • New fast_typing_threshold site setting (30865)
  • Improve wizard font selection and set Inter as default font for new sites (30974)
  • Allow setting locale from ‘lang’ param (30952)
  • Add attribution to staff notice and rename functionality (30920)
  • Allow admins to export users (30918)
  • Add new hidden site setting to show full names in user card
  • Handle special font properties from discourse-fonts (30891)
  • Improve use_email_for_username_and_name_suggestions (30845)
  • Chat thread inline oneboxes (30834)
  • Setting allowing tl0/anonymous flag illegal content (30785)
  • Add drafts dropdown menu (30277)
  • Add IP Lookup to review queue (30688)
  • Add a onebox_locale site setting. (30655)
  • Show silence reason when viewing silenced users (30635)
  • Add trigger_on option to topic_tags_changed automation (30391)
  • Add new setting to select view for category page on mobile (30519)
  • Improve wizard quality and rearrange steps (30055)
  • Add support for One-Click unsubscribe (RFC 8058)
  • Allow disabling of anti spam profile hiding feature (30508)
  • Add option to hide full name input at signup (30471)
  • Support adobe analytics tags tracking (30433)
  • Unhide ‘suppress_secured_categories_from_admin’ setting (30436)
  • ThreadPool implementation (30364)

Bug Fixes

  • Allow to follow non-ASCII canonical links for oneboxes
  • Better standalone checkbox support (31130)
  • Chat was enqueueing too many “chat summary” emails (31133)
  • Quote from thread in drawer mode (31137)
  • Supports height/preview form-kit composer (31121)
  • Hacker News onebox favicon (31115)
  • Reset the delete automatic group tooltip (31094)
  • Switch panel back to forum last known url (31092)
  • Cannot manually add users to automatic groups (31062)
  • Quoting videos can show a corrupted thumbnail (31079)
  • Change off to disabled for fast_typing_threshold setting (31077)
  • Wizard preview fonts not loaded (31064)
  • Remove groups when promotion is recalculated. (31058)
  • Only validate length when value is set (31053)
  • Hide none on required fields with value (31052)
  • Allow user directory searches to return more than 20 matching results (31032)
  • Remove muted topics/tags/categories from top and hot topics lists (30892)
  • Update AdminNotice details when problem check tracker changes (31031)
  • Hijack controller for topic move posts (31029)
  • Always search email logs including the cc: addresses
  • Correctly closes panels in threads (31013)
  • Reset bool site setting not updating checkbox (30999)
  • Improves reliability of last visit line in chat (30948)
  • Minor i18n problems on admin webhooks pages (31010)
  • NULL IP for similar users caused incorrect message (30981)
  • Enforce second factor with subfolders (30992)
  • Don’t return the last post we already have when paginating /posts (30991)
  • Double click on tag INPUT breaking expected behavior (30975)
  • /posts pagination uses ID not created_at (30990)
  • Ensures category is rendered (30988)
  • Query syntax error in UserBadge.update_featured_ranks! (30979)
  • Truncate extremely long site name titles (30977)
  • Broken tada emoji on subfolder account activation (30972)
  • Scrub Client-Ip request header in nginx (30971)
  • Show the correct message when no user export exists. (30970)
  • Which topic do you want to reply to rendering raw HTML (30962)
  • Only apply the rate limit to user exports, not downloads (30965)
  • Revert “Automatic auth flow with full page login/signup” (30960)
  • Allow touchmove in composer when there is a selection (30957)
  • Keep active state in sidebar button for category/tag hot routes (30954)
  • Automatic auth flow with full page login/signup (30928)
  • Adjust search menu buttons alignment (30939)
  • Display either the topic-status outlet or the fallback (30938)
  • Incorrect i18n titles for fallback topic-status (30937)
  • Prevent frozen string error in import scripts (30325)
  • Ensures more icon is visible on hover (30925)
  • Ensures chat navbar is on top of content (30923)
  • Admin sidebar problem check missing -1 check (30916)
  • Restore footer-nav backdrop-filter for iOS `< 18 (30914)
  • Enforce ‘prefix’ notation for media-query ranges (30913)
  • Lint issue follow-up to a3359ac (30911)
  • Removes mousewheel edge case on messages (30900)
  • Emoji picker position when clicking more (30896)
  • Supports quoting mathjax (30876)
  • Avoid possible rendering infinite-loop in post-menu (30873)
  • Invalidate stylesheet cache when discourse-fonts is bumped (30869)
  • Update nginx types config (30868)
  • Adjust grid-template-columns to prevent text overflow (30864)
  • Prevent wrapping of select box container by applying nowrap (30863)
  • Don’t allow editing own posts user can no longer see (30839)
  • Only attach images in digests (30844)
  • Re-adds favorite reactions on mobile (30746)
  • Relative links in the insert hyperlink modal (30842)
  • Expand the hidden post menu when one option is available. (30831)
  • Do not store 0 has min width for thead panel (30818)
  • Ensures scrolls work in chat when touch is on text (30817)
  • Add a DB migration to update font site settings types (30813)
  • Process tag synonyms when approving reviewable queued post (30810)
  • Include original filename in s3 uploads even if not attachment (30789)
  • S3Inventory#backfill_etags_and_list_missing need to unescape key (30787)
  • Remove /u/ from robots (30782)
  • Do not allow_any on fonts site_settings (30780)
  • Double trigger of close user menu (30732)
  • Safari on iOS crashes when pinch-zooming (30779)
  • Full page search result infinite scroll with added results (30771)
  • Prevent multiple requests when clicking drafts trigger (30736)
  • Add Type column to Flag Status CSV export (30756)
  • Set fixed width for email group chooser dropdown to prevent resizing based on content (30740)
  • Avoid loading reactions index when plugin is not installed (30749)
  • Improve sidebar invite link highlight persisting, link tabbing and activation behavior (30734)
  • Remove complicated ‘chat_duplicate_message_sensitivity’ site setting (30516)
  • Strip unsubscribe links in incoming emails (30695)
  • Ensure GroupChooser works with localized group names (30593)
  • Show both group’s full name & name when they differ (30672)
  • Allow admins to use reserved usernames (30262)
  • Add back API keys plugin outlet lost in translation (30730)
  • Correctly position emoji picker when clicking more (30724)
  • Removes blank spacing in message actions (30697)
  • Simplify body scroll lock on iOS (30696)
  • Add back missing API key ‘peek’ step (30683)
  • Correct emoji picker size in modal (30675)
  • Lockup when navigating with j/k (30674)
  • Emoji picker followups (30670)
  • Improve the user badge alignment on mobile devices. (30665)
  • Inline oneboxes should obey the locale. (30664)
  • Do not memoize score types (30657)
  • Ensure Onebox requests ask for the correct language. (30637)
  • Emoji-picker minor improvements (30645)
  • Cleaned up horizontal nav scrolling so arrows show/hide properly (30621)
  • Name field should appear in the signup form for login-required sites (30634)
  • Move posts modal passing topic instance rather than ID (30622)
  • Wizard improvements post-merge part 1 (30612)
  • Ensure popups from the chat composer dropdown gain focus (30613)
  • ChangeFullNameRequiredSetting could fail if setting was already in DB (30605)
  • Consistent delete button for admin panel (30592)
  • Allow attachments to be opened in a new tab instead of downloading them (30535)
  • Calculate experiment_enabled on server for “What’s new?” (30599)
  • Stuck notification for mentions within threads (30546)
  • Dashboard last checked date was always English (30569)
  • Allow signups when full names are disabled (30551)
  • Show error message when password is too common (30507)
  • Fallback when embedding YouTube videos with lazy videos (30514)
  • Dashboard report change tooltip was not translated (30541)
  • Reports did not respect user locale (30524)
  • Wizard branding step null logo (30523)
  • Correctly extract body and/or reply from exchange emails (30512)
  • Switch back to using a temp table for moving posts. (30509)
  • Correct topics and posts count in import:ensure_consistency rake task (30104)
  • Consistently notify lowest post number if post_moved notification generation (30448)
  • All admins should be allowed to see deleted PM posts regardless of their mod status (30206)
  • Treat contact_url setting as a domain by default (30225)
  • We introduced a Jobs::UserEmail which broke consistency checks (30409)
  • More… should not show when there are no visible links (30405)
  • Correclty allows to untoggle a fk toggle (30404)
  • Better handle race condition when a channel is deleted (30403)
  • Handle more thread pool edge cases (30392)
  • Simplify nginx config change (30383)

UX Changes

  • Restore shared sidebar link for posts and drafts (31159)
  • Improve drafts list (31122)
  • More selectors for transparent buttons (31155)
  • Hide inner site settings sidebar if admin sidebar enabled (31047)
  • Prevent topic map link menu from overflowing when there are many links (31147)
  • Replace href cancel with DButton (31138)
  • Remove half-pixel border from loading dots (31105)
  • Unblock clicking through progress bar wrapper (31135)
  • Fix topic progress position when composer is open (31134)
  • Fix user-select regressions (31129)
  • Update system font stack to system-ui (31125)
  • Clean up post action menu styles, fix issues, add variables (31100)
  • Fix discourse topic onebox styling (31106)
  • Allow msg select buttons to wrap (31084)
  • Move “hide profile” checkbox to profile tab (31095)
  • Show full total numbers in admin reports (31061)
  • Remove animation for back button on mobile (31048)
  • Fix tag revert rename 404 error (31049)
  • Fix mobile chat DM row layout (31043)
  • Add missing class to group bulk select button (31038)
  • Re-check triggerRule to avoid autocomplete in code (30961)
  • Sidebar “more” icon color fix (31017)
  • Hide user card focus until keyboard navigation begins (31014)
  • Respect user locale when sending chat notices (30996)
  • Improvements to posts route (30968)
  • Fix admin dashboard link and style regressions (30969)
  • Add HTML class for composer preview to manage sidebar height (30956)
  • Revert #30547
  • Use em units for code font-size (30936)
  • Inherit font-settings on form controls (30935)
  • Fix minimized composer position on iOS PWA and app (30926)
  • Rename “hamburger menu” to “navigation menu” in keyboard help (30927)
  • Adds chat send shortcut user preference (30473)
  • Set mobile read state indicator to static size to avoid overflow (30910)
  • Only lock viewport scale during focusin events for iOS PWA/Hub (30908)
  • Improve git/code oneboxes (30822)
  • Remove loading="lazy" from avatars for improved UX (30897)
  • Workaround iOS bottom overscroll bug in header-offset calcs (30895)
  • Extend Safari scrolling fix to work in iPad PWA (30894)
  • Improve sidebar positioning in Safari (30888)
  • Fix scrolling of form template composer on mobile (30883)
  • Remove table editor transition effect (30878)
  • Replace font-size-ios-input workaround (30877)
  • Convert “view all notification” to a link (30874)
  • Replaces custom more menu by d-menu (29090)
  • Makes smile the default emoji-picker icon (30843)
  • Improve the alignment of long status messages (30830)
  • Removed a redundant git pull statement from the docs (30801)
  • Wizard and theme install modal improvements (30788)
  • Tweak plugin and customize-based admin page margins (30808)
  • Use DPageHeader on the Logs page (30786)
  • Wizard homepage dropdown improvements (30763)
  • Adjust styling of Back button in topic progress (30769)
  • Use DPageHeader on the Email Style page (30784)
  • Use DPageHeader on the Emails page (30781)
  • Use DPageHeader on the Site Settings page (30783)
  • Remove redundant text-decoration: none, follow up to 912b002 (30775)
  • Show strikethrough, underline in post edit diff (30773)
  • Check category permission before new topic quote (30753)
  • Use DPageHeader on the Components page (30762)
  • Getting started guide fixes (30757)
  • Remove flat icons from wizard step two (30761)
  • Use DPageHeader on the Themes page (30759)
  • Apply admin UI guidelines to Reports pages (30684)
  • Add placeholder title for drafts (30747)
  • Switch button focus state to focus-visible (30744)
  • Improve discobot certificate font language support (30722)
  • Improve git blob oneboxes (30694)
  • Add DPageHeader to watched words and color palettes (30686)
  • Final pass of admin setting pages (30682)
  • Follow-up sidebar variable fixes for c398933 (30676)
  • Use FontSelector for displaying font-related settings. (30636)
  • Use font with more glyphs for discobot certificates (30646)
  • Conditionally render permalinks filter (30633)
  • Align silence reason header text with content alignment (30639)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Files and Other (#30572) (30614)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Onebox (30611)
  • Admin setting page consistency - User API (30610)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Rate Limits (30609)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Developer (30607)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Spam (30606)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Security (30598)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Experimental (#30572) (30603)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Group permissions (#30528) (30578)
  • Refactor nav stack active element (30601)
  • Remove version from “What’s new?” items (30596)
  • Update email and security sidebar link copy (30563)
  • More translations for admin dashboard (30570)
  • Adjust mobile to avoid progress bar jitter (30591)
  • Improve table hover states, fix table button margin issue (30585)
  • Add missing icon for open_topic small action (30586)
  • Only show red count in IP lookup when greater than 0 (30584)
  • Do not anchor scroll on topic navigation/map (30580)
  • Minor copy edit for full name requirement setting options (30581)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Navigation (30574)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Search (#30528) (30573)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Legal (30572)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Trust levels (30571)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Site Logo (30567)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Fonts (30564)
  • Admins embedding page follows admin ux guideline (30122)
  • Avoid triggering the autocomplete mid-word (30042)
  • Use em for code font-size (30547)
  • Admin setting page consistency - Notifications (30528)
  • Inherit font-size for code in headings (30536)
  • Replace partially written emoji when using picker on chat (30517)
  • Tweak suppress_secured_categories_from_admin setting description (30532)
  • Do not tab to an already active tab (30531)
  • Add highlight for active nav in admin secondary sidebar (30486)
  • Move first settings admin route to config page (30510)
  • Add Sentence Casing for Setting Names (30479)
  • Hide before-header-panel-outlet on login page (30472)
  • Remove chat hover effect from github status badge (30447)
  • Add highlight for active nav in category settings (30428)
  • Fix misalignment + remove border-radius of topic progress element (30427)
  • Improve link copy status transition (30401)
  • Site setting filter background inconsistencies (30393)
  • Admin sidebar link changes (30365)
  • Refactor IP lookup using DMenu to improve layout and positioning (30374)

Security Changes

  • Limit /inline-onebox to 10 URLs at a time
  • Ensure user-stream topic titles are always escaped correctly
  • Ability to bypass disabling chat of users
  • Disable access to “activate-account” route for existing users
  • Restrict allowed URL patterns
  • Preload data only when rendering application layout
  • Sanitize video placeholder urls

Performance

  • Remove old fullscreen-detection code (31075)
  • Optimize uploads:disable_secure_uploads to load in batches (31030)
  • Enqueue Job::BackfillBadge in Jobs::BadgeGrant (30945)
  • Enable gzip for ttf/otf fonts (30867)
  • Refactor and optimize splash screen implementation (30373)

Accessibility

  • Fix color issue with delete topic button in WCAG palette (31023)
  • Show focus when tabbing to user menu items (bottom bar) (31015)
  • Allow tabbing to members link in chat channel card (31016)
  • Move heading role to parent tag to fix voice control (30796)
  • Fix screen reader access to user directory (30499)
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