2.9.0.beta3: Pasting GIFs, New Category Page Style, Muted Category Improvements, and more

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Plugin improvements

Animated Avatars

New Features

  • Make gifsicle an optional dependency
  • Pause animations on blur

Bug Fixes

  • Crop when gifsicle is installed
  • Alias method ordering

Assign

New Features

  • Improves random assign to assign to a post

Bug Fixes

  • Add missing notification title
  • New notification type needs one more i18n string
  • New notification type needs some i18n string
  • Reuse topic query method to find group topics

UX Changes

  • Topic list refactor

Zendesk

Bug Fixes

  • Creating ticket spec

Discourse Chat

Features
  • Limit unique emoji reactions to 30 per message
  • Insert link with shortcut in composer
  • Remove move to topic
  • Deleting chat channels
  • Include reactions in archive chat quotes
  • Settings for minimum message length & disabling attachments
  • Close/open chat channel
  • New setting to define default emoji reactions
  • Retry failed archive
  • Block duplicate messages sensitivity setting
  • Chat channel archiving
  • Auto-focus composer on key press in full page
  • Add chat_default_channel_id site setting
  • Allow use of [chat] bbcode within chat messages
  • Add chat keyboard shortcuts to help modal
  • Auto silence users from flags
  • Chat channel statuses
  • Auto-silence users who exceed rate limit
  • Quick silence button for staff, and block silenced users from interacting w/ chat
  • Uses upload filename for reply to excerpt if message is empty
  • Allow using [quote] bbcode in chat messages
  • Highlight code blocks for chat messages
  • Infinite scrolling downwards
  • Add simple composer shortcuts
  • Notify chat message users on quote
  • Rate limit message sending with btn to re-send
  • Chat quoting
Bug Fixes
  • Pasting a link with active text selection was broken
  • DOM operations should happen after render
  • Ensures chat-composer-details uses available space
  • Ensures editing is cancelled on channel change
  • Do not autofocus chat when ? pressed
  • Clipboard copy chat quotes breaks on Safari
  • Don’t error when user no longer exists
  • Incorrectly ignoring sticky scrolling after fetching messages
  • Ensures only one msg-action on mobile
  • Only return open channels for quick selector
  • We were comparing user object and id
  • Displays unread-indicator only when needed
  • Use similar styles for chat-emoji-avatar as chat-user-avatar
  • Use system user for archive topics and posts
  • Use correct chat_allow_uploads setting
  • Show last 3 used emojis for recent reactions
  • Moves unread indicator to chat-channel-title
  • Ensures tc-reply-display is taking using necessary space
  • Use dedicated emoji store in chat only for reactions.
  • Clear unread when channel archived
  • Autocapitalize sentences on mobile
  • Full-page don’t capture space button
  • Chat channel selector was broken for incoming webhooks.
  • Guardian can_rebake? was breaking core post rebake endpoint
  • Improvements to archiving tool
  • Archive channel refinements
  • This would always evaluate to true
  • Convert emojis to unicode in push notifications
  • Locale nesting for chat_default_channel_id site setting
  • Move channel settings button to channel browse list
  • Revert chat-composer keyUp to keyDown event
  • Show deleted messages if can moderate
  • Ability to tab to and press enter on chat header
  • Ensures body is not scrolled when inserting channel list
  • Ensure online flair is shown correctly on replies
  • Preserve uploads with associated ChatUpload
  • Ability to react to previously staged message
  • New DM erroring on create because of canModifyMessages
  • Don’t expand deleted messages on scroll up
  • Focus in composer after ‘edit message’ button is clicked
  • Always use dark color for background on upload
  • Upload in use callback returned from method
  • Block more UI while previewing channel
  • Don’t create errored chat message from webhook event
  • User’s reactions are correctly marked as reacted
UX Changes
  • Center channel title on mobile
  • Much more specific chat mention notifications
  • Reduces is-online circle width
  • Implements presence indicator as a circle instead of bubble
  • Chat notification consistency
  • Revert margin changes to .chat-channel-title
  • Re-apply channels margin on mobile.
  • Improves behavior of the icon when chat is visible
  • Restyle browse channels page
  • Adjust styles, remove leave chat button
  • Add visual element when dragging files to upload into chat
  • Expand target area for chat uploads
  • Remove the alert gap on more alert types
  • Small padding fix
  • Fix style inconsistencies in chat quoting
  • Minor fixes for font, width, and icon adjustments
Performance
  • Removes two unnecessary enclosing divs for each message
  • Remove n+1 for in_reply_to messages
Accessibility
  • Add role region and aria labels to important regions of chat

Voting

Bug Fixes

  • Add second order by column to preserve order while paging.

BBB

Bug Fixes

  • Compatibility fix after a core change

Calendar

New Features

  • Adds holiday flair to chat
  • Adds support for timezone (recurring and non recurring)
  • Adds a currently away report

Bug Fixes

  • Ensures client is sending UTC to backend
  • Missing translation for currently away report
  • Apply latest holidays definitions
  • Ensures custom fields are reloaded in the spec
  • Fix hidden calendar weeks on month view
  • Remove arrow even if there is no whitespace around it
  • Validates the recurrence

Solved

Bug Fixes

  • Intializer regression
  • Refresh custom fields and removes dup fabricator

Encrypt

Bug Fixes

  • Check signature using crypto primitives
  • Do not error when there is no currentRouteName
  • Update “Generate paper keys” instruction clarity

UX Changes

  • Minor composer button style updates

Kolide

New Features

  • Update user alert PM content after a device is destroyed.
  • Assign device owner from Discourse group alert PM.

Bug Fixes

  • Content-Type header is required for PUT methods on Kolide API.

Code Review

Bug Fixes

  • Allow deleted topics to be imported again
  • Validate code_review_default_parent_category setting
  • Show error if plugin is not configured
  • Escape Git trailers before replacing links
  • Do not reuse GraphQL clients

RSS polling

Bug Fixes

  • Fail fast if user is nil

Subscriptions

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure sidebar class is removed when component destroyed

Cakeday

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t disable birthday emojis when cakeday is disabled.

Zoom

Bug Fixes

  • Compatibility fix after a core change

Reactions

Bug Fixes

  • Always fetch users for each reaction when changed
  • Remove duplicated code

Accessibility

  • Ensures focus on reaction button is clearly visible

Automation

New Features

  • Implements post field
  • Adds support for args when using %%REPORT%%
  • Allows to insert reports using placeholders syntax
  • Adds support for zapier webhook script
  • Matches topic title in auto-responder script

Bug Fixes

  • GroupField can be destroyed mid-init
  • Followup to #b17235b breaking form
  • Do not parse date if not start_date/end_date
  • Ensures we don’t stop at first empty results
  • Prevents automation to run when not needed in few cases
  • Ensures we don’t crash if url is not given

UX Changes

  • Adds default state when no automation have been created yet
  • Correctly describes key as being evaluated as a regex
  • Show caret when selecting script on new automation
  • Makes clear changing script/trigger will also save new state

Performance

  • Prevents unnecessary work in auto-responder asap

Docs

Bug Fixes

  • Remove reference to share-popup

Chat Integration

Bug Fixes

  • Use correct identifier in transcript thread hint
  • Use correct copy for ‘all categories’

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Let reviewables override the score type title.
  • Update push notification icons
  • Enable canonical url indexing
  • Use canonical links in posts.rss feed
  • Add nofollow to RSS alternate link in topics and categories
  • Add new site setting list type with name and values
  • Use Postgres unaccent to ignore accents
  • Return geoname IDs from MaxMindDb
  • Add ENV to control themes:update errors
  • Replace share post popup with share modal
  • Disable indexing of non-canonical pages by default
  • Add settings to scale daily flags limit
  • Use new topic-chooser for invite modal

Bug Fixes

  • Do not raise if title cannot be crawled
  • Ensure all/none subcategory filters work correctly with tags
  • Issue 404 for invalid /tags/c/... routes
  • Add replaceAll to browser-detect
  • Staff should not be able to PM groups that “Nobody” can message
  • When using Ember CLI, plugin admin code was not being loaded in tests
  • Reset last sent for existent bookmarks
  • Ember test imports, again
  • Ember test entries in discourse-loader
  • Show bookmark options by default when editing
  • Remove racing requests for admin users
  • Skip ember-cli build memory optimisation for multiple rake tasks
  • Always include the first poster when converting to PM
  • Do not run Ember CLI chunk files through babel twice
  • J/K post stream navigation inconsistencies
  • Return nil when RetrieveTitle.crawl fails
  • Update topic route id param
  • Invalidate site settings cache in all instances
  • Update group inbox notifications on archive/unarchive
  • Apply onebox blocked domain checks on every redirect
  • Buggy jump-to-post on Firefox
  • Include engine mount path for API scopes added by plugins
  • Allow admins to change user ignore list
  • Only display the first listed price
  • Make reply-ids public by fixing a typo
  • Show 404 html on /posts/:id/raw and /p/:id
  • Update and rebake uses of the old centralized avatar service
  • Prevents self-reference to discoveryTopics from discoveryTopics
  • Better 0 file size detection and logging
  • Support new layout on Amazon product pages
  • IOS do not have working push notifications yet
  • Save email rejection error class names for incoming email logs
  • Correctly notifies subscribers with post_action_destroyer
  • Calculate docking - include offset of main
  • Indirectly muted categories for topic-tracking-state
  • Minor indentation fix for fullscreen code
  • Setting emoji filter from initial autocomplete
  • Make sure html_raw is hoisted in custom markdown cook function
  • On mobile, overflow on post controls if there are many buttons
  • Respect the cooldown window when editing a flagged topic.
  • New indirectly muted category
  • Avoid validations when destroying posts
  • Move selectable_avatars_mode_validator_spec to new directory
  • Use the category’s text-only description in the category-chooser
  • Sanitize parameters provided to user actions
  • Dev subfolder session cookies
  • Don’t warn on empty .discourse-compatibility
  • Don’t advance draft sequence when editing topic title
  • Respect text direction inside quotes
  • Show invite button if users can be invited
  • Show links with 0 clicks in top links section
  • Allow none category if default is none
  • Use fresh theme setting values when compiling stylesheets
  • Ensure category/tag classes are added and removed correctly
  • Conform EmailLog#bounce_error_code to RFC
  • Increase FinalDestination MAX_REQUEST_SIZE_BYTES
  • Count clicks on links with query params
  • ReplyByEmailAddressValidator should leverage EmailAddressValidator
  • Update can_see_members attribute after leaving a group.
  • Handle nil values in DistributedCache#defer_get_set
  • Don’t accept accents in slug if generation_method == ‘ascii’
  • Load short upload URLs only once
  • Unable to filter user directory when sorted by user field.
  • Do not increase invite count for current user
  • Redis may not be availiable on Redis initializer
  • Tag show - hide no topics footer until there are no topics
  • Post migration to fix custom emojis with secure URL
  • Update application_helper logic now that Ember CLI is default
  • Ensure theme JavaScript cache get consistent SHA1 digest

UX Changes

  • Styling changes to global banner
  • Hide group avatar flair block if it’s empty
  • Tweak the “new” badge size, position, color
  • Allow d-editor to be shrunk
  • Print view always shows 0 votes, hide it
  • Fix misaligned avatar
  • Add description to the 2FA page when adding new admins
  • Differentiate ‘emails disabled’ notice for ‘yes’ and ‘non-staff’
  • Remove loading spinner from emoji picker
  • Change color functions to match original primary, tertiary functions
  • Improve timeline touch hit areas
  • Add discourse-follow to official plugin list
  • Display post count badge even when user has only two posts.
  • Fix alignment on full page search
  • Styleguide changes & color variable additions
  • Change styling of admin bulk invite button
  • Add ‘update’ to theme error message
  • Prevent user menu overflow on tiny screens
  • Control whitespace on categories topic list
  • Use autocomplete=“off” for date-picker
  • Improve default_code_lang copy

Performance

  • Fix n+1 for categories + featured topics
  • Avoid following links in topic RSS feeds
  • Only subscribe to /new when logged in
  • Perform all cached counting in background
  • Bump message_bus to 4.2
  • Use a shared message for replies to tracked topics
  • Load all common passwords in one go
  • Reduce anon_polling_interval to match long_polling_interval
  • Bump message_bus to 4.1
  • Skip running ‘auto_leave’ during every PresenceChannel method
  • Introduce site/global emoji cache
  • Reduce number of EXPIRE calls from CachedCounting
  • Use Redis SET EX GET instead of LUA script for counting
  • Terminate rake process during ember build
  • Update ember-auto-import and webpack

Accessibility

  • Focus last viewed topic in topic lists
  • Use dynamic type scaling on iOS devices
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