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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 1 security fix for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
- Disable MessageBus::Diagnostics.
Plugin improvements
Many plugins
- Translations
- We’ve updated the translations in many of our plugins
Assign
New Features
- Delete previous assign reminder PMs
- Active flag for assignments
Bug Fixes
- Always unassign posts when deleted
- Refresh topic when topic or post is deleted or recovered
- Specs for search fix
- Indirect assigned to in search
- Dont allow assigning user to topic when post assigned
- Correctly position dropdown in modal on desktop
- Refactor assign / reassign to combine logic
LinkedIn Auth
Bug Fixes
- Handle duplicate rows in migration
Accessibility
- Adds missing titles to tc-message actions
Akismet
Bug Fixes
- Deleting user works even if pending reviewable exist
Calendar
New Features
- Re-use existing invite and reminders notifications.
Microsoft Auth
Bug Fixes
- Handle duplicate rows in migration
UX Changes
- Rename from Office365 to ‘Microsoft Auth’
Solved
New Features
- Show notice if user can accept an answer
UX Changes
- Prevent solve text and icon from wrapping
BCC
Bug Fixes
- Groups being mentioned in each message
Kolide
New Features
- Display detail of open Kolide issues in footnote.
- Sync issues and devices based on webhook payload.
- Alert Kolide group admins about unassigned devices.
- Display global notice to warn about non-onboarded devices.
Bug Fixes
- Assign topic variable before getting the title.
- Don’t remind users when no issues found.
- Don’t remind Kolide admins when no issues found.
- Do not updated admin topic unless it changes
- Skip reminders if there are no issues.
- Increase per_page from default 25 to 500
- Add default text for post body if issues not found.
- Update custom field value only if post is present.
- Use
logger.warninstead ofDiscourse.warnmethod. - Take 2 on stopping notification flood.
UX Changes
- Remove link to the Kolide for device issues.
- Display the notice only if onboarding topic id available
- Navigate users to onboarding topic via banner.
SAML
New Features
- Allow the plugin to be configured using site settings
Bug Fixes
- Ensure JS script path is correct for subfolder
- Add
content-typeheader to auto-submitting form - Do not compress SAML request for POST binding
- Correct after_create_account errors from 4e0a5e0a
- Defer UsernameSuggester logic to the auto_create_account
- Ignore empty
saml_base_urlsite setting - Do not override existing session cookie during callback
- Ensure SAML follows after-login redirects
- Remove prefix from base_url
- Update name selection logic
UX Changes
- If configured via environment variables, hide the site settings
Subscriptions
Bug Fixes
- Html strong tags showing
Policy
New Features
- Add private attribute to policy
- Paginate PolicyUser results
Bug Fixes
- Allow automatic groups to be selected
- Policy users per page should not change
UX Changes
- Show grey buttons for the other policy option
Reactions
Bug Fixes
- Reaction notifications were broken (take 3)
- Reaction notifications were broken (take 2)
- Reaction notifications were broken
Automation
Bug Fixes
- Only allows select-script when creating a new automation
UX Changes
- Makes dropdowns filterable and scrollable
Footnote
Bug Fixes
- Moves to assets/vendor/javascripts
- Correctly import popper
Security Changes
- Fix malicious footnote causing clientside errors
Chat Integration
New Features
- Allow selecting ‘automatic’ groups for rules
Bug Fixes
- Store slack thread_ts on a per-channel basis
- Ensure edit modal validation works on first opening
- Ensure telegram bot only responds to slash-commands
Additional Features and Fixes
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New Features
- when suggesting usernames skip input that consist entirely of disallowed characters
- Scheduled problem checks for admin dashboard
- Allow to modify topic-backed static pages
- Add topic-navigation plugin outlet and popup component
- Extend plugin API to add multiple poster icons
- Add Apple plugin to the official list
- A notification consolidation plan for keeping the latest one.
- Delete previous reviewable reminders.
- Experimental support for group membership via google auth
- Pre-setting user locale via bulk invite
- Add the ability to go back and forth between PM and New Topic
Bug Fixes
- fallback to
anonymousnotuserwhen suggesting usernames for anonymous users - Use correct argument name in pending reviewables translation
- Menu panel position adjustment
- Use basic meta description if other description tags are missing
- Translation overrides from fallback locale didn’t work on client
- “Customize Text” showed compiled MessageFormat string for overridden
_MFtranslations - Translation precedence was different on client and server
- Incorrect header offset calculation
- Add smooth scrolling polyfill
- Uses new format for search tag endpoint to prevent issues
- Notify group members when someone quotes or replies to their post.
- Add more actions to the uploads API key scope
- Correct email_tokens_token_to_nullable migration
- Ensure theme names are escaped in HTML attributes
- Check if invite domain is valid
- Allow OAuth2Authenticator to handle existing associations
- Blurry onebox favicon images
- Only consider it handled by composer when a composer
- Defer topic/post created events until emails have been added
- Make tests work with higher starting upload id
- Select correct topic draft for user
- Update has_topic_draft when draft is updated
- Ensure MessageIdService can handle hostname changes and multisite
- –header-offset didn’t account for overscroll
- References header leading to broken email threading
- Make thumbnail tests start with a clean slate
- Display pending posts in a moderated category
- Edit tag test
- Tag transition only if tag name changed
- Missing allowed urls when displaying granualar API key scopes.
- Auth incorrectly handles duplicate usernames
- Updating a consolidated notification should bump it to the top.
- When using external auth disallowed characters weren’t removed from username
- Make user themes sort order case insensitive
- Add random suffix to outbound Message-ID for email
- PWA badges were not updating
- Match for indeterminate depth in URL during upload tests
- Allows more precise placement strategy on mobile
- Don’t redirect XHR/JSON requests when login is required
- Extract and fix overriding of usernames by external auth
- Set
auto_updateto false for non-git themes/components - Skip themes that have blank URL in the
themes:updaterake task
UX Changes
- Update navigation-container scaling & wrapping
- Correctly handles escape on emoji picker
- Always show avatar on mobile topic lists
- Let mobile post controls scroll on overflow
- Show group card with animated loading state
- Prevent timeline overflow in extreme cases
- Extend user hyperlink in staff action logs
- Fix topic status icon size in mobile search results
- Only apply link formats on paste to selections that do not contain bbcode-like tags
- Make toggling to filtered replies mode less jumpy.
- Improve composer presence-display positioning
- Scroll row to top of container in select-kit
- Fix flair dropdown styling in user account
- Remove style that breaks composer on pm page
- Reduce composer jumpiness on android
- Prevent overflow on mobile timeline dates
- Improve tag info style
- Fix alignment in group navigation bar
- Only apply link formats on paste to selections that do not contain links
Performance
- Make tests faster by prefabricating more things
- Prefabricate more parts of users_controller_spec
- Speed up the tests by pre-fabricating more things
- Prefabricate posters in topics_controller_spec
- Prefabricate more of topics_controller_spec.rb
- Redis snapshotting during tests
- Speed up tests
- Add index on email_tokens.token_hash
- Shave off some test-suite time
- Migrate normalized_emails in a migrations
Accessibility
- Focus last viewed topic in topic lists
- Move focus to highlighted post when visiting a topic
- Remove dupe label on signup confirm field