Ever mention a user, realize a day or two later they never replied, and then wonder why? Only to realize that user doesn’t have access to the topic or PM? No more! We now show a warning if a mentioned user cannot see the post.
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 4 security fixes for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
Do not sign in unapproved users
Advanced group search did not respect visiblity of groups.
Hide user’s bio if profile is restricted
Only show user suggestions with regular post
Plugin improvements
Many plugins
Translations
We’ve updated the translations in many of our plugins
Assign
Bug Fixes
Use Ember router for small action post links
Bulk assign modal was broken
Set these fields in condition below only
UX Changes
Change “Re-assign” copy to “Reassign”
Chat
Features
Collapses youtube, external gifs and images, and uploads properly
Collapse gifs
Collapse images
Store reply-to in draft
Collapse youtube previews in chat
Allows to unfollow direct message channel
Displays a separator between days
Show placeholders that tell the user who they’re talking to
Renaming channels from browse page
Chat channel creation modal
Let me talk to myself
Swap time from relative to absolute
Bug Fixes
Correctly computes channels max height in float panel
Ensures chat-user-avatar width can’t be shrinked
Ensures first message before content width is correct
Make file names small like before
Don’t collapse all oneboxes
Removes superfluous wrapping div for sidebar-channels
Simplify code when inserting full-page-chat
Attempts to avoid duplicated channels tracking
Use rAF to minimize visible scroll jump
YouTube thumbnails were cropped
Loading past messages
Makes chat-channel-title tagLess
“All loaded” message was shown too early
Uses absolute to prevent safari bug in scrolled containers
Prevent audio from playing on top of each other CAUSING IT TO BE LOUD
Pluralize i18n strings
Channel row height since btn was added
ALWAYS set the reply-to message when a new channel is loaded
Set replyToMsg on chat-live-pane correctly
Clear reply-to from draft when it’s cancelled in composer
Show available link to new chat.browse route
Max-width an image
Enter not working inside backticks
Ensure we also check for array in favorites
Stretchy avatars on iOS < 15.1
Don’t crash on missing favs
Simplify the layout to fix an overflow issue
Save new draft when upload is removed
Uniform sidebar channel row heights
Fix margins for multiline text
User is not available on AnonymousUser
Reconciliate state of live-pane
Don’t crash when a personal convo user is deleted
Ensures loading state is removed
DOMParser is very picky especially on firefox
User chooser was not auto opened anymore
Use ember component for collapsing instead of yanking into a container
Chat channel timestamps columns defaults were static
Correctly handle skip result
Avoids N+1 query when fetching chat channels
Parsed cooked to get mentioned users
Clean up a bit of code
Revert “Show myself at the top of my DMs if I ever DM-ed myself”
Serialize fancy title if name isn’t present and save custom field
UX Changes
Uses primary for icon color on direct hover
Attempts to simplify css for chat channel rows
Remove space between dots in ellipsis
Allows chat-channel-row to hide leave button
Single line placeholder text
Fix compatibility with custom themes
Adjust sidebar channel row height
Tweak message-separator styling
Do not show leave channel btn on mobile
Fixes various minor issues
Show better copy when creating channels
Remove reply-to line if message is directly above
Drop down placement adjustment
Full-page & exit button changes
Align vertically tc-message-collapsible
Dont transition when unfollowed channel is not currently viewed
Smoother state when unfollowing a direct message channel
Fix channel list sizes in floatie and mobile
Unify sidebar row sizes
Fix composer sizing
Minor emoji alignment fix
Make the full-page chat more core-like
Tweak on-hover menu css
Avoid using blue for text not being a link
Increase separator vertical margin
Makes all actions having a consistent styling
Small tweak
Increases first message of day separator contrast
Simplify date formatting for last week
Small margin adjustments
Channel browse tweaks
Single-line chat placeholder
Mostly chat sidebar CSS fixes
Various CSS fixes
Tweak .tc-msgactions CSS
Closes menu on mobile after reaction
Fast access to favorite reactions
Browse channels styling
Fix another case of messages overflowing the viewport
Make area beside scroll-to-bottom clickable
Prevent message overflow; circular indicators
Performance
Prevents N+1 on direct message channel title
Voting
Bug Fixes
Allow anons to view votes if the voting_show_votes_on_profile setting is enabled
OAuth2 basic
UX Changes
Update setting description for oauth2_overrides_email
Patreon
Bug Fixes
Define name in PatreonAuthenticator
Calendar
New Features
FullDay calendar option
Update IN Holidays for 2022.
Update SG Holidays for 2022.
Uses after-chat-channel-username outlet to display holiday
UX Changes
Shrinks holiday indicator size
Solved
Bug Fixes
Do a transition to update ‘solved’ queryparam
UX Changes
Update filter breadcrumb due to core changes
Encrypt
Bug Fixes
Switching the timer back to “Never” didn’t work
Kolide
New Features
Save user IPs in custom field & match against device IPs
Add Kolide helpers group to user alert PM participants.
Sync Kolide checks & delay user reminders based on checks.
Bug Fixes
Remove devices no longer available on Kolide.
Correct the typo in UserAlert class name.
Treat webhook event payload data as hash to get user_id
SAML
New Features
When suggesting usernames skip input that consist entirely of disallowed characters
Bug Fixes
Simplify data to store in extra column
Docker Manager
Bug Fixes
Do not activate plugins before checking compatibility
Code Review
New Features
Don’t use email for username suggestions until it’s explicitly enabled in site settings
When suggesting usernames skip input that consist entirely of disallowed characters
Bug Fixes
Don’t duplicate notifications if receiving duplicate webhooks.
Reactions
New Features
Remove overlap with like notifications.
Collapse multiple reactions to the same post.
Bug Fixes
Correct like reactions count
Include likes in the reactions received list.
Filter reactions when clicking a consolidated notification.
Always keep the icon of the last notification when collapsing
Keep the hearth icon when consolidating multiple like reactions.
Keep the heart icon if all the collapsed reactions were likes.
Use correct reaction notification locale key
OpenID Connect
UX Changes
Update setting description for openid_connect_overrides_email
Translator
New Features
Add AWS IAM roles setting
Add AWS translate
Bug Fixes
Avoid assigning nil values to custom field
Category Experts
Bug Fixes
Allow filter by user when plugin is enabled
Automation
New Features
Adds auto_responder script
Bug Fixes
A topic can be stalled even if it only has OP
Crowd
Bug Fixes
Define name for CrowdAuthenticator
Footnote
Bug Fixes
Ensures footnote is closed on page change
Fix footnotes in encrypted PMs
Remove usage of safe navigation operator for old iOS compatibility
Chat Integration
UX Changes
Correct typo in Microsoft Teams channel config
Additional Fixes and Changes
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Bug Fixes
attempts to compensate for first line spacing with pre-line
prevents tweets to lose format in onebox
Bypass service worker on the SSO path
Navigate to topic/PM regardless of Shift key press
Handling of /p/### URLs within Ember
LOAD_PLUGINS=0 in dev/prod, warn in plugin:pull_compatible_all
Allow slug-less topic URLs to work within the same topic
Don’t display duplicated emoji in picker
Update recent emoji list when selecting from it
Don’t trigger topic_created event for reply posts via email.
Disable cast votes button for multiple polls with no min.
Regression in topic list kbd navigation
Append /all to URL if default list is ‘none’
Actually save fields on themes:update
Refresh logic in discovery topic lists
When composing a message do not suggest deleted posts users
New-topic feature was broken when ‘Default List Filter’ was set to ‘no subcategories’
When loading more topics, showFooter was not updated properly
Jittery topic progress on some window sizes
Clean flagged queue when response to flagged post deleted
Error when voting on a multiple poll without the min/max attrs.
Use font-down
Smaller pencil icon for edit tags
Hide user’s bio if profile is restricted
Small adjustments to topic progress position on desktop
Tone down admin dashboard critical problem messaging
Don’t allow NULL values for notification_level in category_users
Improve the way magnific popup is loaded
Uploads were broken in old Safari
Save draftSequence when it is 0
Predict draftSequence on draft save
SiteSetting.title was being polluted in StaticController
Gives composer options to post:highlight trigger
Remove length constraint of fancy_title in topics
UX Changes
Adjust invite and related form spacing
Change text of public_topic action code in login required sites.
Tweak emoji picker css
Updated “accept invite” error page
Prevent crawler view topic-list overflow
Better invite accept form
Post action spacing refactor & consistency
Improved invite accept page layout
Maximize the preview space in composer
Performance
Turn common test prefixes into contexts in topics_controller_spec
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into it, and enjoy all sorts of new emoji!
