2.7.0.beta4: DiscourseConnect, Topic Timer UI revamp, Login Modal UI revamp, 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.

Security Updates

This beta includes 2 security fixes for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.

  • Attach DiscourseConnect (SSO) nonce to current session
  • Rate limit MFA by login if possible

Plugin improvements

Many plugins

  • Bug fix
    • We’ve patched numerous bugs in many of our plugins
  • Translations
    • We’ve updated the translations in many of our plugins

Canned Replies

  • Security fix to ensure correct permissions
  • General style fixes and minor UX improvements

Ad Plugin

  • Use title to iframe elements

Subscriptions

  • Add pagination support to admin page
  • Improve repurchase styling
  • Improve purchase page usability

Docs

  • Renamed Knowledge Explorer to Docs
  • Add support for inline oneboxing of Docs topics

Apple Auth

  • Remove custom button styling

Encrypt

  • New site setting: encrypt pms default
  • Use Title Case in all labels
  • Option to rotate user encyrption key
  • Correctly handle encrypted uploads

Login with Amazon

  • Update button styling and text

Data Explorer

  • Add a graph report to query results

Discourse Docker

  • Add MAXMIND key support to discourse-setup
  • Correct image prune time with description

Docker Manager

  • Handle repository branch rename from master to main

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Quick theme installs via query parameters
  • Use diffhtml to update composer preview
  • Support mark tag
  • When moving posts to existing topic auto-select single topic
  • Allow onebox images to be used as topic thumbnails
  • Add “Recently read topics” tab to user activity page
  • Allow post/topic thumbnails to be prioritized via markdown
  • Support keyboard back/forward navigation on DiscourseHub
  • Allow overriding the backup location when restoring via CLI
  • Handle user agent push subscription change events
  • Allow durations < 1 hour and < 1 day for topic timers where duration is specified (auto delete replies, close based on last post)
  • Check blocked_onebox_domains setting for inline oneboxes
  • Improve group settings and members management
  • Topic timer UI revamp
  • Add daily job to check for new features

Bug Fixes

  • NewPostManager should respect category_group_moderator settings
  • Limit post read time to the max integer value
  • Remove top gradient from signup modal
  • Delete topic timers far in the future
  • Remove unnecessary OR from dismiss service
  • Bump max topic timer duration to 20 years
  • Dismiss new when topic_user exists without last read
  • Allow plugins to correctly extend API key scopes.
  • Hide sso payload behind a button click and log views
  • Auto close topic from category settings based on topic created_at
  • Force refresh staff action logs when transitioning from site settings
  • Category redirect to correct slug should not loop
  • Fix subcategory, tag drops and none values
  • Update topic_count when updating visibility
  • Use autocomplete=discourse in select-kit to disable autocomplete in Chrome
  • False for service workers to stop log spam via workbox
  • Do not mark group_flair images as secure on upload
  • Clean up topic-timer-info CSS classes, add edit button, and improve UI
  • Adds google tracking to page publishing
  • Restoring backup via UI was broken
  • Do not show SSO last payload to moderators
  • Dismiss new with better migration
  • Should_alter_quality should respect png_to_jpg_quality
  • Regression in admin new features
  • Allow all tags in site/theme settings, ignore tag group restrictions
  • Validate duration minutes values for topic timer
  • Adjust width to avoid horizontal overflow
  • Don’t add a slug to constructed quote urls
  • When adding a quote when the composer is closed, add a newline
  • Handle empty email address from authentication provider
  • Login UI Fixes
  • Do not notify when the hidden tag is added or removed
  • Restoring could fail due to missing path
  • Restoring backup could fail due to missing uploads
  • Return 404 not found error if a topic is deleted.
  • Check if post.topic exists before publishing topic updates
  • Some error messages used wrong translation key
  • Correct server error for starting SSO login, and add spec
  • Topic progress bar should be on the left in RTL layouts
  • Topic timer duration_minutes was not backfilled correctly
  • The invite success email translation variable was renamed
  • Select earliest post when aggregating posts in a topic for search.
  • Don’t cancel filtering on second “n replies” tap
  • Improve SCSS handling in components
  • Process new invites when existing users are already group members
  • Save updated remote theme, only update enabled themes/components
  • Composer upload icon regression because of WEBP
  • Don’t create email invites when SSO is on or local logins are off
  • Don’t invite new users via group with SSO on or local logins off
  • In FastImage 2.2.2 an error is raised with a nil path
  • Include extra SCSS in child theme
  • Restore support for pasting multiple PM recipients
  • Avoid pulling hotlinked images of post that have been deleted.
  • Refresh category order after save
  • Ensures rects is present before using it
  • Show bookmark name in quick access hover
  • Make discobot certificate faster/non blocking
  • Skip shared drafts logic if disabled
  • Emoji search/autocomplete should respect selected skin tone
  • Existing shared drafts should be accessible
  • Return the CDN’s URL when using the site’s small logo as the system’s user avatar.
  • Stop trying to set values on destroyed bookmark component
  • IMAP allow unknown senders to reply to group topics via email
  • Invisible is not the opposite of visible

UX Changes

  • publishes page, on public change, only when page is published
  • Remove margin from security key login button
  • Change emailLogin to info class when empty
  • Adjustments to admin theme editor
  • Add editing guidance for remote themes
  • Fix excess line breaks in login modal alerts
  • Relative-time-picker should use pluralized strings
  • Fix local-dates styling
  • When auto-selecting topic make sure the focus is on selected topic
  • Second Factor + Alert Display
  • Show plugin descriptions on admin plugins page
  • Trim @ char from start of the username string in search.
  • Remove pluralization in single category notification types.
  • Specify social button styling
  • Prevent badges on usercards from overflowing
  • Improve tag and assign display in search
  • Adjust focus styles for autocomplete input
  • Hide external login column when account creation in progress
  • Adjust gradient, icon hover, capitalizations
  • Remove Convert option for system themes
  • Changes to new features section in admin dashboard
  • Remove 2px border from some select-kit buttons
  • Remove Helvetica from our font stack
  • Small fix for Chrome focus style on replies button
  • Show caret icon on user notification dropdown
  • Don’t display tag notification menu on category page.
  • Fix reply where modal layout
  • Clarify user rejection modal
  • Fix & clarify bulk notification change modal
  • Use bright color for primary button hover on dark schemes
  • Adjust focus styles for topic post menu, composer cancel
  • Popup menu buttons need focus style
  • Add a confirmation modal to “Remove All Tags” action
  • Remove unneeded margin from user stream
  • Fix button alignment on log-in required page
  • Ensure category breadcrumbs have consistent height
  • Uniformize styles for focus states
  • Always show confirmation dialog when converting themes/components
  • Remove border from certificate due to iframe
  • Allow some overflow in composer preview
  • Fix bulk select top positioning

Performance

  • Avoid lookbehinds when replacing links in imported emails
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