3.6.0.beta1: Color palette editing, user fields on sign up, themeable site setting discovery, images with Google AI, and reliable drafts

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Plugin improvements

discourse-activity-pub

UX Changes

  • Add missing btn-default (255)
  • Fix ActivityPub naming (247)
  • Fix locale capitalization and formatting (242)

discourse-brightcove

UX Changes

  • Add missing btn-default classes (75)

discourse-category-experts

UX Changes

  • Add missing btn-default classes (207)

discourse-doc-categories

Bug Fixes

  • Redirect spec (55)

discourse-follow

UX Changes

  • Add default button class to follow button component (157)

discourse-group-tracker

UX Changes

  • Add missing aria label character and title to timeline nav button (98)

Accessibility

  • Add aria-labels to timeline nav buttons (97)

discourse-livestream

Bug Fixes

  • Only show livestream chat button if channel is present (66)

UX Changes

  • Switch to chat modal based on viewport width (65)

discourse-signatures

Bug Fixes

  • Saving preferences wasn’t working (93)

discourse-theme-creator

Bug Fixes

  • Correct imports following core change (118)
  • Get things working again after core changes (115)

discourse-zoom

UX Changes

  • Add missing btn-default classes (128)

docker_manager

UX Changes

  • Update tests-passed → latest` in help string (284)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Bulk select posts and delete drafts (34972)
  • Auto-trigger uploads for <img>s with src=data:* content (35012)
  • Open the discourse-id gates (34949)
  • Add api scope for user create (34921)
  • Promote Discover to a dedicated feature. (34846)
  • Force refresh translations (34904)
  • Do not bump topic on post edit (34681)
  • Show themeable site settings in site setting lists (34666)
  • Add configurable age penalty for semantic related topics (34842)
  • Ability to re-order objects in site/theme setting type objects form (34828)
  • Disable chat DM threads by default (34840)
  • New topic button always enabled (34603)
  • Allow hiding user fields on signup form (34672)
  • Managed auth can override avatars (34123)
  • Allow picking first day of week in calendar (34670)
  • Add run query param to group data explorer reports (34673)
  • Add option to flag + delete for llm triage (34590)
  • Introduce max attendees for events (34313)
  • Enable new color palette edit page (34566)
  • Add run query param to automatically run data explorer reports (34565)
  • New rake task to remap topic titles (34608)
  • Add support for google image model (34570)
  • Create AI tagging automation (34587)
  • Update US Holidays (34558)
  • Also allow language switcher to be shown when users are logged in (34578)
  • Ability to set palettes as default on theme (34480)
  • Add Discourse ID registration service with challenge endpoint (34326)
  • Re-introduce quick test validation when selecting embeddings model (34524)
  • Better composer controls for “Save & close (X)” and “Discard” (33510)
  • Allow choosing custom emoji in reaction (34312)
  • Add support for -user and unseen filter (34506)
  • Use embeddings to find similar topics to the one being composed (34448)
  • Append locale to links in crawler view if present (34466)
  • Use an area for experimental settings (34454)
  • Disable user tips + narrative bot welcome post for all sites (round 2) (34373)
  • Preserve the query when redirecting to login/signup (34363)
  • User and group filters (34400)
  • Move theme site settings config page to a tab in the customize page (34376)
  • Dynamic poll support (34368)
  • Add support for Groq as a pre-configured LLM (34402)

Bug Fixes

  • Add support for subfolder in discourse-id registration (35011)
  • Do not hide time when overflowing in month view (35016)
  • Ctrl/Cmd + Enter search results should open in new tab (34989)
  • Escapes account-created routes on Welcome banner page visibility (34951)
  • Publish the topic instead of the post to refresh topic titles (34961)
  • Ensures user notes routes are correctly defined (34960)
  • Respect query language when searching for discoveries (34958)
  • Allow passing custom id to create topic btn (34952)
  • Also translate topic title if ‘Translate Post’ is on the first post (34947)
  • Include TOS and Privacy Policy URLs in signup when login required (34926)
  • Always show the translation post menu (34927)
  • Force composer markdown mode in email template editing (34668)
  • Limit tool usage in AI Discover (34923)
  • Disable category calendar when post event are disabled (34897)
  • Check conditions for mobile /filter bulk select btn (34887)
  • Horizon topic activity username sometimes blank (34679)
  • Handle deleted users in solved topics gracefully (34880)
  • Add finished to modal animateBackdropOpacity promise (34879)
  • DiscourseConnect provider redirect to forum instead of the sso_redirect_url in the payload (34580)
  • Supports description for post events in rich editor (34873)
  • Don’t store return path in the session
  • Allow reverting topic revisions with only tag changes (34169)
  • Check for label arg in create-topic-button component (34844)
  • Stop double encoding URLs when pasting via link UI (34834)
  • applySurround should detect both sides when deleting surrounde… (34243)
  • AI usage doesn’t refresh custom date ranges correctly (34816)
  • Do not send empty content when detecting language (34825)
  • Welcome banner: excludes all admin routes (34822)
  • Reset hashtags when pressing return in composer (34579)
  • LLM config must be valid before running a test (34806)
  • Ensures event serializer has tags info (34801)
  • Ensures quick reactions usage shows in frequently (34798)
  • Removes custom fc-past-event (34796)
  • Update ‘modern mobile’ regex following iOS 15 support drop (34792)
  • Validate email length (34786)
  • Check if _cardClickListenerSelectors selector exists before adding listener (34779)
  • Define the typical AFL Grand Final date. (34768)
  • Ensure base_path is correctly inserted into LLM triage messages. (34778)
  • Ensures category calendar is querying a date range (34764)
  • Can not click any reaction on ios (34730)
  • Make web_hook_events#id a bigint (34620)
  • Add ld+json VideoObject to each lazy video (34678)
  • Allow draft auto save after escaping modal (34703)
  • Reset category styles for ancestor recursion (34702)
  • Display a generic message when email is auth’ed without a provider (34691)
  • Ensure ember version in cache key is coupled to compiler (34694)
  • Do not directly import admin module from main app (34689)
  • Correct user deletion wording (34680)
  • Use user timezone when creating new events (34675)
  • New features git hash version tweaks (34671)
  • Include subcategories in upcoming events list, add after param (34640)
  • Unnecessary “Show more” link in categories modal (34636)
  • In chat messages, filter uploads by UserUpload, not by Upload.user (34596)
  • Compute correct date with local time (34623)
  • Exclude non-text user fields from watch word check (34646)
  • Add delete button to themes grid (34606)
  • Use an integer, not a float, in the AI tagging automation (34622)
  • Ensures events have correct duration (34621)
  • Add missing translation for stop_impersonating (34616)
  • Lazy load category badge color (34613)
  • Removes support for include_expired param (34582)
  • Client based chat message timestamp (34592)
  • Supports html entities in chat (34591)
  • Don’t show setting save/cancel buttons when selecting the current value (34552)
  • Prevent group chat when cannot see group members (34571)
  • Exclude deleted posts and topics from assignments lists in various places (34564)
  • Default Locale site setting not included in admin search (34562)
  • Use CDN url for chat (34541)
  • Correctly order events in upcoming events list (34526)
  • Correctly start weeks en Monday (34536)
  • Do not show toast if draft not saved (34535)
  • Show ‘Show more’ link in categories modal after intersection observer loads (34516)
  • Use CDN url for chat (34507)
  • Respect long_polling_base_url setting for message bus configuration (34477)
  • Required confirmations not showing up (34504)
  • Truncate long names for autocomplete results (34479)
  • Sites with form templates had broken uploads (34455)
  • Update associated accounts report to handle Discourse Connect (34462)
  • Improve color mode selector visibility logic (34434)
  • Respect database prefix param in SMF2 importer (34446)
  • Remove text added by mistake (34447)
  • Timeout issue when updating a large collection of users when changing the default_categories_* and default_tags_* SiteSettings (33665)
  • Default prompts have to be explicit about the expected format. (34442)
  • Handle lower case dark (34444)
  • DiscourseConnect & SiteSetting.auth_immediately = false (34424)
  • Support light-dark on older browsers (34438)
  • Filter UI overlapping with INPUT on small screens (34426)
  • Broken base_scheme_id migration when base is default (34430)
  • Allow creating new color palettes based on custom palettes (34351)
  • Relax Matrix room ID validation (34399)
  • Handle auxclick event on topic list (34408)
  • Don’t leave blank additional_tag_ids param after removing dups in intersection (34423)
  • Restore styles in finish-installation route (34420)
  • Update i18n key for toggle localization button (34405)

UX Changes

  • Remove <b> tag from move post modal to avoid double-bolding (35048)
  • Enable ‘viewport based mobile mode’ by default (35036)
  • Improve AI translations chart colors in dark mode (35042)
  • Horizon search adjustment (34909)
  • Fix new topic btn reappearing in Horizon (35017)
  • Show a helpful error when theme preview fails (35034)
  • Prevent icon and text wrapping in breadcrumb (35008)
  • Use search padding for discoveries (35005)
  • Redesign 404 (34999)
  • Use new --danger modifier in dropdown (34981)
  • Update emoji size (34494)
  • Remove hover effect (not consistent) (34881)
  • Polish the new user first post notice (34965)
  • Replace btn-danger with modifier class for bookmark dropdown (34941)
  • Timeline fix (34953)
  • Adjust welcome banner search-menu when there are AI discoveries (34957)
  • Add welcome banner text color setting (34657)
  • Use admin table classes for Calendar Holidays list (34942)
  • Update copy (34944)
  • Fix emoji size in post excerpts (34924)
  • Horizon >` add same state styling to danger btn (34922)
  • Improve progress styling on mobile (34886)
  • Horizon >` sidebar NT btn state styling (34918)
  • Horizon >` button styling tweaks (34912)
  • Add translation button changes tooltip over icon color (34901)
  • Horizon >` increase z-index for list controls (34902)
  • Remove shadow, implement space variables (34885)
  • Disabled restore backup title included link HTML (34894)
  • Fix padding for no-ember pages (34884)
  • Mobile user card fixes (34883)
  • Make add_email.email uppercase (34876)
  • Keep “Themes & Components” admin sidebar link active on components (34869)
  • Improve user card badge wrapping for higher max_favorite_badges setting (34860)
  • Overhaul of GroupSelector with Floatkit (34685)
  • Adds a start new dm link when no dms present (34820)
  • Improve layout for reviewable flagged post in new UI (33534)
  • More consistent use of d-hover in menus (34794)
  • Apply htmlSafe to topic titles in bookmark notifications (34826)
  • Fix user profile wrapping on smaller screens (34817)
  • Remove margin from navigation-controls children in favor of gap (34771)
  • Make admin list item headings clickable (34772)
  • Polish for topic list controls (34714)
  • Control event display through a site setting (34795)
  • Use more specific language for dynamic polls (34769)
  • Ensure all blockquotes handle long word wrapping (34748)
  • Minor improvements to the admin email log layout (34735)
  • Glimmerize CreateTopicButton, make btnType class variable for Horizon (34733)
  • Only remove paragaph margin in banner if it’s the last child (34695)
  • Replace horizon spacing vars with new core ones (34701)
  • Horizon >` badge fixes (34700)
  • Some translation progress chart refinements (34674)
  • Horizon >` bring back unread number (34662)
  • Layout adjustment for sidebar customisation modal on mobile (34665)
  • Composer discard button styling + position (34638)
  • Close autocomplete menu on space but allow for continued search of user full names (34611)
  • Show a bit more information on translation progress chart (34643)
  • Keep new nav underline visible (34612)
  • Fix brand capitalization in locale (34631)
  • Do not include PWA/mobile app footer nav on some routes (34619)
  • Fix for border-radius on welcome banner (34609)
  • Horizon compatibility fixes (34577)
  • Welcome banner background image text color modes (34519)
  • Only show AI persona dropdown with multiple options (34527)
  • Use ColorPalettePicker in base palette modal (34560)
  • Improve color palette layout with proper spacing (34559)
  • Improve search and filter experience on mobile (34554)
  • Horizon >` unhide create topic btn (34546)
  • Prevent unnecessary safari auto-sizing in filter dropdown (34533)
  • Restyling of the solved popup (34518)
  • Primary button styles on Discourse ID social button (34465)
  • Add class to inline-footnote to display as inline-block (34515)
  • Remove chat and message buttons on currentUser profile (34513)
  • Remove height limit when showing preview on mobile composer (34485)
  • Remove “(Sign in with Apple)” as suffix as we’re already including it as prefix (34481)
  • Improve default badge positioning on admin themes/colors index (34456)
  • Always apply post content classes for replies (34468)
  • Improvements to rich editor spoiler (34149)
  • Change “Open AI” to OpenAI (34459)
  • Fix cmd-k bottom padding (34440)
  • Fix the ‘default_dark_badge’ locale (34432)
  • Display loading indicator on user impersonation button (34431)
  • Tweak min-height of elements in toast to align close icon better (34416)
  • Creating a new theme/component should redirect to theme edit route (34353)

Security Changes

  • AI helper suggestions based on a topic should check user has access to it
  • Use nonce-based restrictions during restore
  • Rich editor chat transcript XSS

Performance

  • Optimize translation progress dashboard with batch query (34861)
  • Correctly index event dates (34877)
  • Removes N+1 when loading events list (34841)
  • Do not fetch thread data when we have it (34799)
  • Add index_web_hook_events_on_created_at (34594)
  • Do not hydrate all candidates in big relation (34553)
  • Improve performance of SiteSetting.humanize_name + all_settings (34404)

Accessibility

  • Fix toolbar keyboard navigation with d-menu items (34615)
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