2.9.0.beta11: Security fixes, New general category, Sidebar improvements, and more

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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.

Plugin improvements

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Bug Fixes
  • Show group icon for group notifications

Chat

New Features
  • Improve mobile chat index screen experience
  • Improved emoji selection
  • Enable flagging for DMs
  • Inline video player for video uploads
  • Link general chat channel to general category
  • Use direct_message_enabled_groups for DM access
  • Improve chat messages flagging.
Bug Fixes
  • Prevents silenced users to send messages
  • 10ms might be too short for ios hack
  • Removes requestAnimationFrame
  • Improves iOS hack for momentum scrolling
  • Ensures actions backdrop is removed when collapsing on mobile
  • Channel index mobile issues
  • Move reaction emoji name from class to data attribute
  • Improve chat reactions store
  • Prevents exception when transcripting multiple messages
  • Don’t fail when trying to display DM flags in the review queue.
  • Makes emoji filtering case insensitive
  • Remove hijack on webhook and improve documentation
  • Ensures emojis have a title in the picker
  • Default is now only used for custom emojis
  • Prevents shimmer effect to apply to sidebar
  • Prevents selected toned emoji to append t1
  • Firefox uses relatedTarget for toElement/fromElement
  • Prevents blank screen on ios on initial load
  • Avoids blank screen on ios on sticky scroll
  • Stalled core emoji cache could return emojis without search_aliases
  • Ensures we reset selecting messages when switching channel
  • Prevents scrollbar to appear over content on android
  • Use sidebar contentCSSClass for muted channels
  • Staff should always be able to chat
  • Direct_message_enabled_groups refinements
  • Closing button not visible on chat index page
  • Deleting old messages should also clear flags.
  • Prefers /chat/channel/:id/:title?messageId=x link
  • Tighten flagging restrictions for chat messages.
  • Correctly censors excerpts
  • Simplifies loading message code
  • Enforces chat_channel_id when present
  • Add missing translation chat_message_flag_allowed_groups
  • Make chat_allow_uploads apply to DM channels
UX Changes
  • Fix link colour channel cards
  • Implements leave button on channel card
  • Adjusts composer/uploads padding
  • Ensures emoji picker search gets focus on first load
  • Double clicking one of your messages starts editing it
  • Moves new channel button to browse view
Accessibility
  • Show emoji color options in WHCM

discourse-voting

UX Changes
  • Avoid double li tag in user-activity-bottom outlet

discourse-calendar

New Features
  • When user is on holiday set user status in core
Bug Fixes
  • Calendar wasn’t resetting expired statuses
  • Disabling of header sorting now checks the correct site setting and defaults to false

discourse-data-explorer

Bug Fixes
  • Click not opening query
  • Errors when running query due to PG template patterns or comments

discourse-perspective-api

Bug Fixes
  • Add nil check for topic

discourse-code-review

UX Changes
  • Remove unnecessary li tag for user-activity-bottom plugin outlet

discourse-subscriptions

Bug Fixes
  • Simplify Stripe webhook handler
UX Changes
  • Make styling consistent with everything else

discourse-policy

New Features
  • Email notifications for policies
Bug Fixes
  • Adds prefix to UserOption enums to avoid collision

discourse-cakeday

New Features
  • Separate sidebar links for anniv and bday

discourse-shared-edits

Bug Fixes
  • Validate post when committing revision
  • AppEvents.off error when destroying controller:topic

discourse-reactions

Bug Fixes
  • Do not override core rate limiting error message
  • Handle rate limit error messages on server side
  • Deleted topic should exclude it from reactions given
UX Changes
  • Use a regular mouse cursor in popover
  • Remove unnecessary li tag for plugin outlet
  • Remove unnecessary li tag for user-activity-bottom plugin outlet

discourse-automation

New Features
  • Adds settings and enable_manual_trigger
  • Adds once support to auto-responder script

discourse-question-answer-discourse

Bug Fixes
  • Adjust QA answers header sorts in RTL mode

discourse-footnote

Bug Fixes
  • Do not registerPlugin if no window.markdownitFootnote

discourse-gamification

New Features
  • Added a setting for the default leaderboard period
Bug Fixes
  • Update plugin canon repo
UX Changes
  • Allow picking any leaderboard in minimal component
  • Add crown
  • Leaderboard minimal styling

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Reduce suspicious distance logins warning to 100km
  • Control topic width with variables
  • Generic hashtag autocomplete sorting
  • Add button to reset seen popups
  • Generic hashtag autocomplete part 1
  • Implement new onboarding popups
  • Show relative time when date is omitted
  • Add contentCSSClass for sidebar section-link
  • Double color for subcategories prefix
  • Adds seeded default categories to the sidebar
  • Preload resources via link header
  • Omit showing day when ‘to’ day is same as ‘from’ day
  • New outlet topic-list-main-link-bottom added to mobile
  • Handle oneboxes for complex GitHub URLs
  • When entering a topic scroll to last visited line marker

Bug Fixes

  • Can’t change notification level of categories set to regular
  • Evaluate all callbacks rather than override them
  • Don’t notify topic author about small action posts
  • Follow up fixes for password-reset error page
  • Simplify display of multiple AJAX errors
  • Don’t attempt to add user again to a group when syncing groups via SSO
  • Ignore unique conflicts when backfilling sidebar defaults
  • Ensure that custom {{action}} modifier works with actions hash
  • A couple of topic elements are too wide
  • Move group-box group name from class to data attribute
  • Allow users already in automatic groups to log in
  • Add theme-color <meta> tag when a dark scheme is selected
  • Variable name typo
  • Reset error props on Topic model
  • Log user addition/deletion from groups when they’re changed via DiscourseConnect
  • Category chooser not updating selection when editing reviewable
  • Correctly reset controllerReady prop
  • Use only first line from commit message
  • Minor typo
  • Set max-width on category logo img
  • Clientside checks for personal_message_enabled_groups
  • Set width on category logo img, not container
  • Do not show a 404 page when visiting messages
  • Correctly debounce various functions
  • Calculate header offset once on load
  • Skip all post validations if necessary
  • Ensure minification does not break colocated connectors
  • Do not include group less emojis in standard list
  • Sidebar_list_destination on CurrentUserSerializer
  • Ensure dropdown is above sibling labels
  • Sidebar list destination for tracked and tags
  • Exclude hidden topic posts and small actions from the RSS feed.
  • User card focus state appearing on click
  • Clarify security key copy
  • Reset general_category_id if the general category was deleted
  • Prevent layout shift while traversing dropdown
  • Adjust the users per trust level cells in RTL mode
  • Remove RS384 and RS512 cose ciphers
  • Show timelines dates as clickable
  • Action_code_path not being loaded for user-stream-item
  • Missing category badge for category with color stored as 3-digit hex code
  • Category sidebar link not active when filtered by none and all
  • Replace prefixCSS with prefixElementColors
  • Remove nil items before sorting the sha1 string array.
  • Reset related site settings on general category delete
  • Status emoji was shown on the left on mobile
  • Alignment of user status emoji on posts
  • Correctly handle HTTP errors during dominant color calculation
  • Typo
  • Warning about sidebar prefix style
  • User field styling on login
  • Change text
  • Staff action log ‘show details’ links
  • Ensure local date format shortcuts work correctly
  • Ensure poll type toggle buttons function correctly
  • Deprecated settings should not override from UI
  • Hide old PM settings
  • Show error if field is same as password
  • Remove public topic invite functionality
  • Do not show welcome CTA banner if the welcome topic is deleted
  • Ensure group inboxes in messages section is sorted by group name
  • Determining local date same range is erroring when there is no date
  • Arrive at topic must be hidden when must_approve_users
  • Improve error handling for calculate_dominant_color!
  • Do not prefill default site title value on wizard introduction step
  • Make sure first admin users are added to auto groups
  • Watched topic overcome muted category
  • Ability to trigger emoji after indented code block
  • Missing sidebar section link icon for PM tags
  • Link to discovery.category in sidebar`
  • Skip quality title validations for static topics when edited by admin
  • Count resulting bulk invites correctly
  • Do not show user status on posts twice
  • New general category changes preventing topic create
  • Review sidebar link showing for users that can’t review
  • Workaround a bug in the R2 gem to produce valid RTL CSS
  • Allow email login for admins in staff-writes-only-mode
  • Allow logout for admins in staff-writes-only-mode
  • Remove zero-width space when not necessary
  • Add better and more strict invite validators
  • Revert recursively tag lookup with missing ancestor tags
  • Missing theme upload should not break precompile process.
  • Removed bookmark reminder alert for reminders set in the past
  • Ensure closing sidebar tears down all callbacks.
  • Quirks around starting new uploads when one was in progress

UX Changes

  • Ensure image size is maintained even after loading error
  • Switch no categories/tags configured text in sidebar to a link
  • Fix grammar typo in trust_level_unlocked_tip
  • Change emoji graphic on invite error page
  • Make whole category box clickable
  • Allow linebreaks mid-word in github onebox file paths
  • Use a friendlier educational message
  • Send notification of type replied to topic author if they’re watching the topic
  • Drag new user menus, scroll primary user nav
  • Fix user status display in autocomplete
  • Stop falling back to topic image on embeds
  • Improve autocomplete styling
  • Show category edit button when in tag intersection
  • Extend horizontal user nav to all user pages
  • Correct capitalization
  • Fix alt text cancel button in dark mode
  • Change button to grey
  • Simplify bootstrap mode visuals
  • Prevent reply to name from being longer than 400px
  • Welcome CTA edits
  • Theme setting highlight update
  • Horitzontal scroll controls for new user nav
  • Hide keyboard shortcuts on mobile
  • Onboarding edits
  • Conditionally display sidebar tags section for user
  • Conditionally hide sidebar categories section for user
  • Hide tags section in sidebar when user has no visible tags
  • Danger colour update
  • Updated styles for user nav with sidebar
  • Hide tags section from anonymous user when site has no tags
  • Correct colour to nav instead of danger
  • Default to dark category logo on dark schemes
  • Add more spacing to tab btns
  • Ensures we don’t focus invisible button in sidebar
  • More... → More` in Sidebar
  • Hide sidebar on 2FA route
  • Change notifications nav icon in user page to bell
  • Add max-width to digest email, format erb
  • Fix post placeholder on mobile
  • Move dismiss button on the bottom to the right of the footer message

Performance

  • Exclude anon sidebar tags in site serializer for logged in user
  • Move dominant color calculation to separate job

Accessibility

  • Add keyboard support to youtube embeds
  • Add title to drafts remove icon button
  • Add for attributes for location, website in profile
  • Sortable header elements should have pointer
  • Add aria-label to topic post badges
  • Return focus to header search button upon escape of search
  • Improve group search accessibility
  • Improve user card appearance in WHCM
  • Add aria labels for posts in group activity
  • Improve topic timeline in WHCM
  • Bookmarks modal
  • Add href to frequent poster avatars
  • Improve accessibility in WHCM themes
  • Add more information to the “reply to” button label.
  • Signal the toggle header can reorder table elements.
  • Trap focus on auth security modal
  • Make input popup errors keyboard-accessible
  • Fix tab order in “Feature topic” modal
  • Make “Load parent post” element accessible
  • Set role=presentation if alt attr is missing
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