2.8.0.beta8: API Key Improvements, Image alt Text Editing, Fullscreen Tables, and more

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

  • Disallow caching of MIME/Content-Type errors
  • Ensure _forum_session cookies cannot be reused between sites

Plugin improvements

Many plugins

  • Translations
    • We’ve updated the translations in many of our plugins

Assign

New Features

  • Reassign workflow
  • Small post action with link to post
  • Display indirect assignments in the first post
  • Assign to post

Bug Fixes

  • Return proper aria-labels
  • Correctly update UI when post is assigned/unassigned
  • Rename action_code_href to action_code_path
  • Missing assignee icon in search
  • Move post assignment when move post
  • Pin plugin version when running discourse `<= 2.8.0.beta1
  • Deprecate TopicAssigner

Unhandled Tagger

Bug Fixes

  • Use an atomic transaction to update tags
  • Skip revision when adding unhandled tag

Calendar

Bug Fixes

  • Ensures notifications popup has a key

Encrypt

Bug Fixes

  • Swap fancy_title with decrypted title

SAML

New Features

  • Added support for admin synchronisation
  • Introduce saml_groups_ldap_leafcn setting

RSS Polling

New Features

  • Allow to filter from feed category substring matches

Subscriptions

Bug Fixes

  • 500 error when editing a pricing plan

Category Experts

Bug Fixes

  • Add scores when creating reviewable
  • Category link in reviewable
  • Use preloaded post custom field
  • Preload post custom fields

Docs

Bug Fixes

  • Hide navigation elements when printing a Docs topic

UX Changes

  • Solved filter alignment adjustment

Chat Integration

Bug Fixes

  • Remove use of InputValidation library

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Direct S3 multipart uploads for backups
  • Use uppy for tags uploader
  • Small action post accepts href
  • Use uppy for watched word uploader
  • Move avatar uploader to uppy
  • Move emoji uploader to use uppy
  • Add setting to disable notifications for topic tags edits
  • Pull hotlinked images in user bios
  • Bypass topic bump when disable_category_edit_notifications is enabled
  • Mark omniauth failures as HTML safe.
  • Include user custom fields in base exporter

Bug Fixes

  • A screen-track/appEvents regression in #14929
  • Composer education message for group mentions were broken
  • Use previous chunk to check if local backup chunk upload complete
  • Set null to group if groupAttrs param is not available.
  • Use the same hljs version in prod and tests
  • Prevent PreloadStore from calling the finder when value is falsy
  • Use Map instead of Object for caching
  • Ensures minimum tags logic is correct and shared
  • Display top posts from private categories if the user has access.
  • Topic queryParams are removed from history state when scrolling.
  • LocalJumpError in rake tasks
  • Call _clearFlash() when displaying a modal
  • Don’t fail if s3_install_cors_rule is off
  • Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for ember CLI
  • Disable scroll events while on full screen
  • Allow bulk invites to be used with DiscourseConnect
  • In Ember CLI some plugin tests were referring to the wrong container
  • Make PostRevisor more consistent
  • Show perma-delete in menu without refresh
  • Remove xlink:href to favour href due to deprecation
  • Use correct attribute method to get post id from dataset.
  • Regression introduced in #14715
  • Keep topic context when redirecting to full search
  • Generate valid heading ids
  • Restore animation for like action on mobile
  • Persist notifications in OS X
  • Include admins in presence reply channel permissions
  • Rename action_code_href to action_code_path
  • Skip post validations for system revisions when author deletes post
  • Ensure CORS rules exist for S3 using rake task
  • Canonical URLs may be relative
  • Stop saving bookmark on modal press ESC
  • Ensure required_tag_group_name is null if no value present
  • Exclude suppressed category topics in digest even if unmuted.
  • Rake categories:move_topics shouldn’t move category description topic
  • Display Instagram Oneboxes in an iframe
  • Use mouse down event when cancelling search
  • Insert commas even when field value is null
  • Prevent duplicate search requests to backend
  • Deleting a for_topic bookmark caused JS error
  • Use the same mode for chinese search when indexing and querying.
  • Resolve responses of 103 should be retried using small_get
  • Include topic details when PMing
  • Allowed_theme_ids should not be persisted in GlobalSettings
  • Do not replace words in hashtags and mentions
  • Hide links to muted topics and in categories list
  • Avoid another N+1 query in Site.json_for
  • Update flair group of all members if primary group setting changed.
  • Should not receive topic invites from ignored users.
  • Do not perform link lookup for replaced links
  • Include new tags in validation if user can create one.
  • Cleanup PresenceChannel instances when composer closed
  • Prevents a circular json error in tests
  • Vanilla importer fixes
  • Avoid N+1 query in Site.json_for
  • Correctly avoid concurrent requests in PresenceChannel get
  • Do not send presence leave beacon if not present in any channels
  • Show right message when permanently deleting topic
  • Correct tracking context for some category routes
  • Include the Vary:Accept header on all Accept-based responses
  • Allow every tag for watched words
  • Remove superfluous topic allowed users on group invite
  • Correct site setting name
  • Don’t leak unhashed user API keys to redis
  • 2N+1 sql in admin /api/keys endpoint

UX Changes

  • Fix share/notify modal styles
  • Number steps in cloud installation README
  • Layout fixes for admin permalinks page
  • Remove tags chooser on PMs for non-staff users
  • Fix several issues with topic progress refactor
  • Fix bar-style category dropdown
  • Better accommodate PM composer with tags
  • Fix short post width on mobile
  • Show quick search hint more consistently
  • Remove animation in admin theme list
  • Change login tabindex, follow-up to 6aa6275
  • Change tabindex on login to skip email login link
  • Apply tags during PM creation
  • Make PresenceChannel changes more responsive
  • Never show back button if less than current position
  • Don’t show anchor icon on touch devices
  • Re-order auth-related site settings for clarity
  • Add special case for user search when in a topic
  • Sometimes the footer would show up while refreshing a list route

Performance

  • Update like count in visible posts without an extra GET per like
  • Use different column for better query plan
  • There was a large performance regression in Logster
  • Optimize search in private messages query
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