2.9.0.beta6: Whisper Improvements, Loading Splash Screen, Security Fix, and more

Announcements
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Plugin improvements

Translator

New Features

  • Update Google language mapping

RSS Polling

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t attempt to import topics with invalid categories.

Assign

New Features

  • Allows note to be edited

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a bug where a note change was ending in a full blown whisper
  • Don’t reuse assign note when reassigning
  • Ensure that assignee is participant of pm

Kolide

Bug Fixes

  • Correct the table markdown

Gamification

New Features

  • Allow excluding groups from leaderboards

Policy

Bug Fixes

  • Use activerecord’s none method instead of returning empty array.

Chat Integration

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t send nil user.name for MS Teams

Subscriptions

Bug Fixes

  • Set Discourse consistent styles on Stripe card element
  • Import script confirmation flag logic

Follow

UX Changes

  • Disable the plugin by default

Automation

New Features

  • New script to append last edited by detail in post content.

Chat

New Features

  • Info screen
  • Add unsubscribe link in chat email summaries.

Bug Fixes

  • Sidebar channels should be shown at all time
  • Correctly displays unread indicator in titles
  • Correctly orders name/username using ascending order
  • Memberships query shouldnt list inactive/staged/suspended
  • Switch back to global presence
  • Isolated mode was not showing channels list
  • Channel title height without sidebar
  • Limits title padding
  • Replaces emojis in title of info screen
  • Prevents textarea to overflow modal on mobile
  • Progress bar was out drawer
  • Show hovering when sidebar is on as well
  • The create channel’s security settings link should work with nested categories
  • Ensures onebox date is linking to message id
  • Typo in the chat_channel subject translation
  • Ensures msg actions stay in live-pane
  • Ensures a new channel always starts with unread 1
  • Clean up deleted chat message bookmarks
  • Do not list bookmarks of trashed messages
  • Don’t include old messages in chat email summaries
  • Correctly place the retention reminder
  • Codeblock sizing (message and transcript)
  • Ensures chat-channel before rendering chat-live-pane
  • Properly wrap super-wide transcript oneboxes
  • Chat quote interfering with oneboxes

UX Changes

  • Prevents ipad to autofocus filter input
  • Adds slightly more padding to title with sidebar
  • Prevents autofocus on mobile
  • Remove discrepant styling from actions in composer
  • Improve summary email subjects.
  • Allows to refresh only notifications and not full page

Security Changes

  • Ensure chat message lookup checks for channel access

Math

New Features

  • Support equation labelling and referencing in KaTeX (more mathjax compatibility)

Calendar

New Features

  • Add Indonesia holidays

Bug Fixes

  • Stable core still needs a 6.1 migration
  • Optimize performance of UnescapeEventName migration on large sites
  • Bring back missing regions

UX Changes

  • Tiny css fix

Akismet

Bug Fixes

  • Publish mark-as-spam message to all current subscribers

Data Explorer

New Features

  • Bookmarkable QueryGroups.

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Store sidebar section display state in local storage
  • Decouple category/tag presence in sidebar from notifi level
  • Validate tags in WatchedWords
  • User status emoji
  • New/unread messages count in experimental sidebar
  • Custom unsubscribe options
  • Expand messages filter links when viewing private messages.
  • Add Croatian language
  • Add messages section links to experimental sidebar.
  • Log the SMTP response in EmailLog
  • Change auto tracking to require 5 minutes vs 4

Bug Fixes

  • Max value for SiteSetting.delete_removed_posts_after
  • Add clearfix back for admin contents
  • Keep unique post checks separate for PMs vs topics
  • Uploading large files (>5GB) failed whenenable_direct_s3_uploads` is enabled
  • Didn’t delete upload stub when a new upload is created
  • Markdown handling failed on empty attribute value
  • Fix bulk_invite flaky tests
  • Improve mixcloud oneboxing
  • Defer removing the splash screen until the window load event fires take 3
  • Skip the window load event for now
  • Defer removing the splash screen until the window load event fires take 2
  • Remove splash screen in no-js view take 2
  • Reverts #17225 & #17223
  • Uninitialized class variable error in sidekiq
  • Typo in log_thread
  • Defer removing the splash screen until the window load event fires
  • Remove splash screen in no-js view
  • Use first supported type item when JSON-LD returns array
  • Use bookmarkable pattern for bookmark cleanup
  • In [DELETE] /admin/user/:id.json, parse boolean block_* parameter correctly
  • DarkMode availiability detection was broken
  • 99999 is not a valid TCP port
  • Tag groups were not visible to allowed group members
  • Remove leftover uses of ember_jquery
  • Defer scripts on theme-tests route
  • Quoting local dates bbcode regeneration
  • Link to “recently used devices” in suspicious_login email notification
  • Precompile admin-plugins.js (#17154)
  • Add wizard.js to ember-cli assets
  • Precompile start-discourse.js
  • Stop logging blank and invalid CSP reports
  • Skip invalid values in site setting upload references migration
  • Add missing pluralization rules for Bosnian
  • Extra-locale merging didn’t account for fallbacks
  • Double selecting replies
  • Wizard css was overriding some of core css
  • Make watched words uploads work as intended
  • JSON Schema editor layout issue with subarrays
  • Ensure presence endpoints don’t break the session
  • Ensure emoji is inserted in the correct location
  • Handle sites with more than 1 JSON-LD element
  • Whisper available when reply to topic
  • Allow all subdomains of localhost in development
  • NavItem and Composer prop overriding was broken
  • Rake tasks related to uploads were broken
  • Remove tags from experimental sidebar on notification level changed

UX Changes

  • Reduces splash animation delay
  • Core adjustments and styles for the experimental sidebar
  • Update color on arrow tippy box
  • Change copy for user-selector placeholder
  • Update topics stats automatically
  • Allow more mobile topic elements to be tapped
  • Truncate long category names in sidebar
  • Makes splash setting visible
  • Splash screen v1 improvements
  • Improve group page grid sizes
  • Introduces a splash screen behind a hidden site setting
  • Change wording for ‘regular’ categories to ‘normal’
  • Skip special paste handling in email-group-user-chooser when maximum is 1
  • Remove extra whitespace in github onebox

Performance

  • Remove server plugin outlet for post
  • Remove total for time to first response report.
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