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.
Security Updates
This beta includes 1 security fix for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
- Prefer Loofah for processing cooked HTML
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
Code Review
- Support repositories where the default branch isn’t
master
Docs
- Improve mobile styling
BCC
- Personalize Message with Recipient’s Name
Additional Features and Fixes
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New Features
- Allow category group moderators to pin/unpin topics
- Allow search engines to index tag pages.
- Allow invites redemption with Omniauth providers.
- Change very high/low search priority to rank at absolute ends.
- Add newly loaded topics to bulk-select automatically if Select All is on
- Move security related user preferences to different tab
- Add year to relative time picker
- Add a site setting to allow emojis to come from an external URL
- Include details about S3 backup storage errors
- Filter reviewables by id.
- Add site description for the webmanifest
- Add disable_onebox_media_download_controls hidden site setting
- Use the “time_read” stat to flag users as suspicious.
Bug Fixes
- Update excerpt after process_post
- Ensure the signup boolean is passed when started via _autoLogin
- Bump aws-sdk-s3 and aws-sdk-sns
- Flaky JS tests
- Do not add same email multiple times
- Validate user email only once
- Add translation string for clear all watched words
- Do not clean up uploads when they’re used by theme settings
- Incorrect parameter when using omniauth providers on invites page.
- Race condition in draft sequence updates
- New topic indicator on the mobile categories page
- Subfolder prefix should work even if url starts with the prefix
- Ensure UserField changes are reflected instantly in webhooks
- Mobile app notification urls w/ subfolder
- Make
emaila required param when accepting invite links. - Message bus when group private message
- Missing quote in emoji cdn setting caused by 83f332b
- Remap old S3 endpoints during backup restore
- Typo in emoji path caused by 83f332b
- Remove list double padding
- Sort topic timer and bookmark time options
- Check min tag count requirement when change category
- Remove unused JS from “finish installation” page
- Add href to user avatar in group cards
-
Topic#invite_groupfailed to notify users on newly created topic - Components mobile-specific CSS was missing
- CSS tweaks so bookmark + timer modal work on mobile
- Skip sending PM email for user silence
- Add appropriate classes to
htmlelement includinglang - 100% Width for logout button
- Use
addRawTemplateseven when compiling.hbrfiles - Update digest when updating color definitions in theme component
- Do not output empty style tags for components
- Exclude users with posts from purge_unactivated query
- When using Ember CLI theme Javascript/HTML was not being inserted
- Incorrect URL for tag pages inside category in subfolder setup.
- Reintroduce auto_silence_first_post_regex
- Don’t display error if only error is a missing image
- Ignore enter key press on “move to existing post” search field
- Send notification in user’s locale if available.
- Allow adding user to PM when inviter is in allowed list (even
- Strip whitespace from URL before validating
- Login modal max-width wasn’t specific enough
- Paste table with multiline cell
- Detect installed themes using URLs instead of names
- Unsubscribe from topic presence when navigating between topics
- Pass ajax function to loadOneboxes
- Ensure badge description is updated when routing without loading state
- Allow entering blank values in relative-time-picker
- Improve error message when login_required sites are under load
- Emails.rake-use domain when sending mail test
- Don’t update
posts_read_countwhen the post is from a PM. - Log warning when context is missing when a user is destroyed
- Allow mobile-nav to work without loading transitions
- Adding a custom scope should not modify the original ones.
- Avoid Safari service worker error on back navigation
- Don’t show “bulk” icon on group-index for unauthorized users
- Do not send rejection emails to auto-deleted reviewable users
- Make email_valid handling consistent
- Close navigation dropdown when item selected
- Reduce the time_read threshold to one minute.
- Subfolder replace should only affect URL prefix
- Sort admin dashboard new updates by latest
- Don’t require a rejection reason if the user is a spammer.
- Do not allow bookmarks to use post date in past for reminder
- Ensure corrected migration runs
- Optimise MoveNewSinceToTable
- Use the S3 CDN for the Group flair
UX Changes
- Consistent labels in invite form
- Fix broken styling on login modal when local login is disabled.
- Login; smaller titles, more consistent spacing, other fixes
- Minor improvements to invites
- Remove duplicate title from watched words page
- Add class to email div on login
- Fix bulk select button height on search page
- Clean up tag styles to improve alignment
- Restore autofocus on login inputs
- Add link for email login below username, remove button
- Remove redundant focus style
- Use default browser focus styling for checkbox and radio inputs
- Styling adjustments for admin new features
- Allow select-kit to have an autofocus option
- More consistent group mention style
- Remove emoji step in wizard
- Tweak
grouplayout to fix button alignment - Skip github commit avatars for topic/post thumbnails
- Make tag input full width for PMs
- Implements a new tags-intersection-chooser
- On very short screens switch quick-access-profile to 2-columns
- Show bullets for some composer lists
- Adjust padding on create account modal