3.5.0beta3: Full admin search, better font selection, more robust site search, category personalization, and easier configuration management

[tgxworld (Alan Tan)]

Even more!

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

discourse-activity-pub

Bug Fixes

• Prevent ActorHandler from attempting to apply updates to categories or tags (208)
• Only update actors to available if they are unavailable (204)
• Delivery tracker thread lock (203)
• About page fixes (201)

UX Changes

• Improve Add Actor in ActivityPub Admin (209)

discourse-ai

New Features

• Allow for persona & llm selection in bot conversations page (1276)
• Display more places where AI is used / Chat streamer (1278)
• Bot Conversation Homepage (1273)
• Experimental Private Message Bot Homepage (#1159)" (1272)
• Experimental Private Message Bot Homepage (1159)
• Add spending metrics to AI usage (1268)
• Enhance LLM context window settings (1271)
• Update model names and specs (1262)
• Add streaming to composer helper (1256)
• Improve context management (1260)
• Make Mixtral tokenizer available for embeddings (1258)
• Configure persona backed features in admin panel (1245)
• Allow tools to amend personas (1250)
• Allow to send LLM reports to groups (1246)
• Personas powered summaries. (1232)
• Continue conversation from Discobot discovery (1234)
• Flexible image handling within messages (1214)

Bug Fixes

• Eat all leading spaces llms provide when they stream them (1280)
• Guard against situations where there is no reply, pass thread id (1279)
• Tables should group only per their key on usage page (1277)
• Do not re-render conversations sidebar on navigation (1274)
• Omit thinking tokens from chat (1264)
• Invalid context construction for responders (1257)
• Discovery shouldn’t re-trigger when no search (1255)
• Split topic suggester fixes (1253)
• Search discovery quirks (1249)
• Restore gists previous group access behavior. (1247)
• Less generic animation names (1243)
• Maintain newest uploads correctly when constructing context (1242)
• Return false if no current user personas (1241)
• Persona setting should compare integer value (1239)
• Search discoveries improvements (1228)
• Forced tools wasn’t set correctly when tool has no options. (1231)
• Attempt to fix flaky (1226)
• Ensure category badging present in sentiment reports (1222)
• Persona editor keeps dirty data after persisting a single field (1219)
• Post helper menu results should be selectable (1221)
• Do not error when tools are empty (1218)

UX Changes

• Keep composer actions above AI input icons (1291)
• Only scroll when we surpass max input height (1288)
• Minor alignment adjustments for experiemental bot UI (1285)
• Bring back New Conversation button on mobile sidebar (1283)
• Align styling with conventions (1275)
• Improve groups list in feature table when many groups (1254)
• Adjust artificat UI styles (1240)
• Wider search pane, border, smaller font size (1238)
• Show AI bot toggles in the AI bot options section (1229)

discourse-akismet

Bug Fixes

• Send email to user and not admin about deletion (168)

discourse-calendar

New Features

• Adds support for event preview in rich editor (708)

Bug Fixes

• Remove double quotes " character when building the event’s mar… (716)

discourse-category-experts

Bug Fixes

• Update custom fields when post ownership changes (197)

discourse-data-explorer

New Features

• Add option to send individual report PM to group members (369)

Bug Fixes

• Allow query to be explained (371)

discourse-follow

New Features

• Add following feed to /filter (148)

Bug Fixes

• Regression when saving user preferences (149)

discourse-gamification

Bug Fixes

• Disable solutions scorable when the solved plugin is disabled (199)
• Update scoring based on table (198)

discourse-just-chat

UX Changes

• Hide search (2)

discourse-login-client

New Features

• Retrieve user avatar (6)

Bug Fixes

• Use “nickname” instead of “username” in oauth payload (7)

discourse-open-graph

New Features

• Add Open Graph override to Discourse via plugin (1)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure that the URL is not overridden by the plugin (2)

discourse-prometheus

New Features

• Update hist buckets for http_requests_queue_duration_seconds (147)
• Introduce http_requests__duration_seconds metrics (142)
• Add sidekiq_queue_latency_seconds metric (139)
• Add success label to (sidekiq|scheduled)_job_count (137)
• Add process_cpu_seconds_total metric (138)

Bug Fixes

• Broken scheduled_job_ran metric (140)

Performance

• Drop custom labels from http queue duration metrics (146)

discourse-ratings

Bug Fixes

• Remove handlebars dependency (24)

discourse-reactions

UX Changes

• Have discourse reaction extend to 100% height to align correctly on post actions (359)

discourse-signatures

Bug Fixes

• Preferences controller override following core change (85)

discourse-solved

Bug Fixes

• Solutions directory item was using post creation instead of solved creation (361)
• Accepting another answer does not commit (360)
• 500 due to absent module (359)
• Exclude deleted topics and posts as solution in user summary (358)
• Standardise the definition of what a solution is (352)
• Some solved topics have no answers (350)
• Multiple topics may have the same post as its solution (348)

UX Changes

• Fix misalignment for non-admin and anon + move to variable use (349)

discourse-solved-reminders-plugin

Bug Fixes

• Fix min value for setting remind_mark_solution_after_days (24)
• Revert 1 day to 14 days (23)
• Preferences controller override following core change (21)
• Optimise and update queries, shorter frequency (20)

discourse-subscriptions

Bug Fixes

• Campaign banner size when sidebar is active (274)

UX Changes

• Campaign banner layout improvements (273)

discourse-templates

Bug Fixes

• Bug when private template allowed group is everyone (103)
• Show the modal if the composer has the preview hidden (101)

discourse-theme-creator

Bug Fixes

• Remove override prepend (109)
• Remove broken extra-locales-controller extension (108)

discourse-translator

New Features

• Translate categories with selected provider (282)
• Show an indicator for posts not originally written in the user’s language (274)

Bug Fixes

• Ensure untranslated post ids exclude those already translated to target locale (285)
• Update localisation instead of category (283)
• Include some of the post content when detecting the title language (277)
• Show toggle button even when original content is displayed (275)
• Do not translate new posts if show=original (271)
• Skip locale region for Google Translate API (263)

UX Changes

• Fix scaling of translator button in topic-progress bar (270)
• Show extra details in failure popup when translation fails (262)

discourse-video

Bug Fixes

• Max video duration based on trust level (80)
• Composer placeholder previews (79)
• Post can be undefined (78)
• Post can be undefined (77)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

• Show localized categories route (32464)
• Set category localizations in category settings (32412)
• Show translated category names from localizations table if they exist for the user locale (32380)
• Implement tag group selection in dropdown and multi-select for topic creation and preview when using Form Templates (32108)
• Allow edit custom flags (32344)
• Release admin search for all sites (32327)
• Implement Form Template Preview (32111)
• Add footnote (plugin) rich editor extension (31719)
• Ctrl+M to toggle between rich/markdown editor (32266)
• Add override for crawler title and description tags (32259)
• Allow searching for whispers and bots (32252)
• Introduce new components listing page (32164)
• Prosemirror-codemark for a fake boundary cursor on rich editor (32165)
• Auto-link/unlink url-like words on rich editor when typing (32163)
• Fonts section for branding page (32031)
• Dynamic size for hot topic IDs cache (32175)
• Prioritize the user who is getting the reply in the autocomplete (32086)
• One-click chat reaction settings (32150)
• Highlight watched words found in reviewables. (32167)
• Copy thread messages when copying thread OP (32139)
• When rich-editor is enabled use Jetbrains Mono as code font (32122)
• When rich editor is enabled markdown is in monospace (32097)
• Bulk save site settings (32013)
• Auto contrast text color for categories (32015)
• Implement chat transcripts in rich editor (31819)
• Allow rejected user details to be scrubbed (31987)
• Add icons and emojis to category (31795)

Bug Fixes

• Allow tags to be restricted to admin only (32493)
• Production asset compilation following c62a4a47 (32491)
• Remove sidebar filter (32485)
• Also cater for fixed category positions when localizing categories (32486)
• Ensure site banner hides when user clicks on close button (32444)
• Don’t null out category attributes if no param keys (32483)
• Also show localized categories for users who are not logged in (32465)
• Rich editor link backspace edge case (32476)
• Also show localized categories for users who are not logged in (32460)
• Add category title badges to boxed layout (32395)
• Correctly reset panel when resizing window (32437)
• Delegate silenced_till from anonymous user to main user account (32416)
• Allow to email backup even if backups disabled (32415)
• Hide unnecessary tabs and buttons when backups disabled (32396)
• Recalculate respects default invitee trust level (32393)
• Error when trying to un-favorite badge (32369)
• Remove z-index from user-status in header (32382)
• Enable drafts dropdown on private categories (32370)
• Pasting img on rich editor could be double-processed (32356)
• Flaky test for FormTemplatesController (#32351)" (32359)
• Remove mixed declarations from header.scs (32357)
• Flaky test for FormTemplatesController (32351)
• Unclaim reviewables when finished. (32346)
• Make the ‘Keep Message Deleted’ reviewable option work (32345)
• Remove hint for browser search shortcut (32330)
• Set X-Robots-Tag header to prevent indexing of /safe-mode (32329)
• Fix meta data content modifier state leak (32316)
• Escape regex symbols when replaceText is called for ProseMirror (32280)
• Bugs with refresh page after save fonts (32282)
• Wizard logo step JS error (32303)
• Remove newline from rich editor’s pasted img title/alt (32295)
• Add helpers for title and content for application.html.erb and crawler.html.erb (32290)
• Rich editor insertBlock implementation (32288)
• Click handler position on rich editor details node (32268)
• Refresh disabled state when switching between site texts (32262)
• Rename branding to logo and fonts (32264)
• Avoid double base path on push notification (32228)
• Switch to search icon on narrow desktop (32215)
• Ensure discovery queryParams do not persist invisibly (32178)
• Ensure uploaded watched word CSVs are converted to utf-8. (32263)
• Move CORE_SVG_SPRITES constant to a method (32261)
• Relax automation restrictions (32238)
• Set last_read_post_number for imported watching topic users (32229)
• Prioritize the author when replying to topic (32244)
• Category badge style missing data attr (32253)
• Logs time even when automation raises (32254)
• Hide search field on invites page (32236)
• Incorrect flag message when en_GB language (32191)
• Safari bug on rich editor’s list item (32243)
• Add category badge style to category list (32109)
• Selecting a parent category shouldn’t clear other form fields (32206)
• Flaky admin_branding_spec fonts section (32209)
• Flaky admin_branding_spec (32193)
• Flaky admin_customize_themes_spec (32169)
• Fallback to #search-menu for search input (32188)
• Archiving messages from group inbox (32166)
• Flaky admin_sidebar_navigation_spec (32168)
• Consistent search shortcuts (32099)
• Admin search page shortcut (32140)
• Hide search field on auth pages (32132)
• Invite_link_max_redemptions_limit min 1 (32118)
• Prevent duplicate category icons (32103)
• Always allow edit category bg color (32102)
• Update tag topic counts when bulk removing tags (32095)
• Create UserHistory only when setting changed (32075)
• Allows to resize textarea (32076)
• Prevents d-menu trigger/untrigger propagation (32078)
• “Input data should be a string” error in ProseMirror (32056)
• Prioritize !important CSS in emails (32061)
• Reapply 94ee3554 (32020)
• Update chat icon position on mobile (32016)
• Do not @import .css assets for plugins (32014)

UX Changes

• Fix formatting of two shortcuts (32479)
• Fix rich editor placeholder being cut on mobile (32474)
• Unhide the rich_editor site setting (32455)
• Adjust search blurb text (32467)
• Better differentiation for dark-mode (32450)
• Rich editor placeholder edge case (32448)
• Add missing discourse-table SVG icon (32447)
• Locale and name shouldn’t be “optional” (32446)
• Remove position & z-index style (32445)
• Fix content from not showing above composer (32443)
• Do not let composer affect chat window height (32423)
• Border radius removal (32424)
• Improve input rules for rich editor autolink/linkify (32366)
• Chat more message actions adjustments (32404)
• Avoid nested paragraph tags causing extra large category descriptions (32403)
• Experiment with animation (32341)
• Small-fixes (32387)
• Avoid auto-linking clash with code marks on rich editor (32365)
• Prosemirror rich editor nodes cleanup / slightly better UX (32361)
• Welcome bannner and search tweaks for mobile (32362)
• Don’t decrease composer monospace font on mobile (32358)
• Header search tweaks (32354)
• Auto focus emoji picker input on mobile (32353)
• Header search mobile support - follow up (32306)
• Add visual variation to theme screenshot placeholder (32077)
• Remove z-index (32319)
• Adjust user-field labels (32317)
• Use ‘unused’ instead of ‘active’ for components (32284)
• Use core description of popular components when there’s no description (32286)
• Remove Ctrl+F search shortcut (32281)
• Keep content on rich editor footnote inputrule (32296)
• Quick mobile fix for quote styles (32297)
• Use mixin for quote border radius (32294)
• Border radius prose-mirror select node (32292)
• Remove z-index (32289)
• Keep the whisper editor font/color style consistent between editors (32287)
• Rich editor html_block without escaping and avoiding \n\n (32269)
• Onebox & quote border radius (32242)
• Avoid leading space when serializing some nodes from rich editor (32270)
• Add tooltip for markdown toggle shortcut (32278)
• Header search mobile support (31711)
• Only toggle rich editor details on caret click (32267)
• Improve associated accounts in user preferences (32247)
• Make admin code editor height more flexible (32241)
• Only-emoji consistency between rich editor and cooked (32245)
• Whisper color and font-style on rich editor (32239)
• Backspace rich editor keymap improvements (32234)
• Improve onebox handling on rich editor (32221)
• Wrap participants in pm topic item (32223)
• Add missing admin config page titles (32198)
• Add flex to mentions mixin + update units (32145)
• Button fixes (32152)
• Proper width of unsaved site setting banner (32137)
• Add flex to mention for consistent alignment and spacing (32105)
• Make admin search setting visible (32142)
• Show keyboard shortcut on full admin search page (31646)
• Align tag separator properly when viewing search in full-page mode (32133)
• Adjust spacing between simple tags in the site settings preview (32125)
• Adjust spacing to prevent last setting from being hidden behind save all banner (32127)
• Rename Twitter login button to X (32123)
• Wrap edit category subcategories (32110)
• Convert emdash+hyphen to a horizontal rule on rich editor (32085)
• Admin Dashboard title (32022)
• Improve mobile topic list tag layout (32048)
• Removing baseline alignment from topic title wrapper (32040)
• Emoji styling adjustments (32039)
• Align the previewless composer with posts (31960)
• Storage stats content overflow (31840)
• Display button loading state upon submit on password reset form (32034)
• Change focus to focus-visible (32021)
• Improve hashtag emoji alignment (32019)
• Only check for toolbar-visible class in mobileView (32018)
• Reposition chat header icon (31951)
• Add loading state to button when confirming password (32012)

Security Changes

• Enforce DM limits properly

Performance

• Compile main locale bundles just-in-time (32335)
• Enable brotli in NGINX (32333)
• Set JOBS=1 for low memory build environment (32326)
• Reuse existing core JS build where possible (32311)
• Implement infinite scrolling for new components page (32291)
• Prevent N+1 queries when loading theme/component descriptions (32305)
• Set JOBS=1 for low-memory build environments (32171)
• Set cluster_concurrency 1 for Jobs::BackfillBadge (32121)

Accessibility

• Use singular tag in accessible category_tag string (32492)
• Add H1 tags for screenreaders on discovery routes (32422)
• Welcome banner heading should not be an H1 (32420)
• Site-text-logo should not be an H1 (32405)
• Add aria-label to reply count link in topic list (32402)