# 2.7.0.beta8: Share Topic Modal Improvements, Searchable User Fields, Pause Animated Images, and more

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**Created:** [April 29, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-7-0-beta8-share-topic-modal-improvements-searchable-user-fields-pause-animated-images-and-more/188564 "2021-04-29T17:39:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 29, 2021, 5:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-7-0-beta8-share-topic-modal-improvements-searchable-user-fields-pause-animated-images-and-more/188564/2 "2021-04-29T17:39:50Z")

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### 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 does not include any security fixes. A security fix was released for the Calendar plugin.

- Calendar Plugin: prevent arbitrary method call from input

## 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

### Signatures

- Add default CSS rule to limit image width to parent width

### Onebox

- Display long PR/Issues with an expandable excerpt

### OAuth2 Basic

- Handle invalid `email_verified` data from identity provider

### BCC

- Add name personalization
- Update syntax

### Zendesk

- Add option to include all categories

### Chat Integration

- Improve formatting for Slack transcript messages
- Add support for Slack message shortcuts

### [Data Explorer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true)

- Add help modal

### Assign

- Improve quick access copy when no topics are assigned

### Docker Manager

- Always show Docker Manager second in the list

## Additional Features and Fixes

> **Click to expand**
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> ### New Features
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> - Small improvements to the topic list embed
> - Include avatar flair on the avatars listed in a user summary’s “Most…” sections
> - TL4 & category moderators can merge posts
> - Add reviewable score updated webhook
> - Allow using ‘top’ view for topic list embed
> - A low priority filter for the review queue.
> - Allow pausing animated images in posts
> - Make `category-navigation` outlet tagless
> - Watch title for automatic tagging
> - Review every post using the review queue.
> - Topic count in category boxes
> - Add plugin outlet for category-box-below-each-category
> - Show the slow mode indicator in composer
> - In the slow mode dialog make “Enabled Until” mandatory
> - Tweak slow mode messages and intervals
> - Allow setting postgres connection variables via environment
> - Reduce invite key length
> 
> ### Bug Fixes
> 
> - Do not cut off long polls
> - Gracefully handle inline images in emails
> - Add theme field errors
> - Avatar flair wasn’t displaying on the user summary page
> - Improvements to animated image pausing
> - Ensures successive topic hydrates doesn’t override category
> - Recent regression meant we were proxying qunit when we shouldn’t
> - Ember CLI Live Reload was not supported by the CSP
> - Remove whitespace from theme git versions
> - No JIT when quoting a mention
> - Handle charset=windows-1252 in mbox import script
> - Replace use of regular expression
> - Make diffHTML handle external changes
> - Show staff bulk actions only to staff
> - Skip notifications about beginner badges
> - Bug when scrolling in iOS Safari with composer open
> - Forward all the HTTP headers through when we bootstrap Ember CLI
> - Ensures successive tags can be renamed
> - Allow moderators to access /admin/customize/watched\_words
> - Ensure tag topic lists are not scrolled to an incorrect position
> - Do not add CSS transition effect to animated images
> - Send a different message if export fails
> - When a flag is handled archive message for moderator group
> - Exclude emoji images from JS sizing
> - Invalid Date on “last” shortcut for timer + bookmarks
> - `TagDrop` uses `currentCategory` now
> - Blank avatar on user card if flair url is undefined
> - Allow finding non-lowercase tag groups
> - Fall back to hardcoded version when period check disabled
> - Do not dump schema during production database migrations
> - Use CDN urls for theme settings of type upload
> - Revert color of post-map
> - If we want a `.json` path, don’t bootstrap
> - Use CDN urls for theme uploads
> - User group message route should not be case-sensitive
> - Clientside validate min tags for required tag group
> - POP3 polling shouldn’t stop after exception or old email
> - Enforce tag group count validation before sending to review queue
> - Allow CodeCommit-style theme .git url format
> - Update database\_restorer to avoid shell use
> - Whitespaces when copying code blocks
> - Ensure plugin’s gems are in the gem path
> - Generate unique HTML heading names
> - Docking mixin was not cleaning up timers
> - Remove old usercard styles, fix bg img class
> - Show invite validation errors to users
> - Improve error messages for invites
> - Ensure the top 6 categories are shown in the user summary
> - Already sent headers error in Ember CLI
> - `this.loading` is undefined, it should be `state.loading`
> - Handle permalinks with query parameters
> - `ember build` was not adding digests to additional bundles
> - Don’t show the get a room composer message in private categories
> - Use Nokogiri and Loofah consistently
> 
> ### UX Changes
> 
> - Reduce the number of columns on invite page
> - Fix styling for long label in multi-select choices
> - Minor tweaks to insert-hyplink modal
> - Ensures toolbar gear button has identic color and height
> - The Site’s logo is the selected option when changing the system’s user avatar.
> - Fix positioning of back button on progress bar
> - Consistent topic timer message button order
> - Mobile consistency for topic status messages
> - Improve alignment and spacing of category headers
> - Correctly shows outline around focused input time
> - Improve copy when no results in bookmarks and notifications quick access panel
> - Stop presence indicator hop, space consistency
> - Do not pre-select blank tag on append tags bulk action
> - Uses native date picker when possible (eg: not safari)
> - Prevent topic progress bar from overlapping
> - Fix layout of group header buttons on mobile
> - Fix focus style for post edit history button
> - Update positioning of mobile post controls
> - Improve user card control layout for long text
> - Wider drop down for top page select kit
> - Update signup cta styles
> - Show error message instead of disabling save button on tag groups page
> - Displays a descriptive error when theme is not allowed
> - Smoother timeline footer animation, padding fix
> - Mobile styling for discard draft modal buttons
> - Prevent some composer buttons from receiving focus
> - Full height composer on mobile Android
> - Minor styling improvements to invites
> - Moves from summary/details to a button to expand github body
> 
> ### Performance
> 
> - Make stylesheet max\_file\_mtime calculation more efficient
> - Add timeout to theme import git commands
> - Improve theme stylesheet compilation performance
> - Remove N+1s from ThemeController#update and #show
> - Properly preload emails to speed up user exports
> - Async notify users after inviting group
> 
> ### Accessibility
> 
> - Category logos are decorative, set empty alt

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