# 2.9.0.beta6: Whisper Improvements, Loading Splash Screen, Security Fix, and more **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta6-whisper-improvements-loading-splash-screen-security-fix-and-more/231585 **Category:** Announcements **Tags:** release-notes **Created:** [June 30, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta6-whisper-improvements-loading-splash-screen-security-fix-and-more/231585 "2022-06-30T19:33:08Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro) #### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 7:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta6-whisper-improvements-loading-splash-screen-security-fix-and-more/231585/2 "2022-06-30T19:33:08Z")
## 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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/32566?silent=true) #### New Features - Bookmarkable QueryGroups. ## Additional Features and Fixes > **Click to expand** > > ### 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 when`enable\_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. --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/2-9-0-beta6-whisper-improvements-loading-splash-screen-security-fix-and-more/231585)._