2.9.0.beta7: Security fix, bug fixes and more

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.

Plugin improvements

discourse-data-explorer

UX Changes

  • Making the headers of the query results table sticky

discourse-theme-creator

Bug Fixes

  • Correctly defer loading of admin locale

discourse-adplugin

New Features

  • Support placing ads between topic list for house ads

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t render the connector when we shouldn’t display an ad in the topic list item.

discourse-assign

UX Changes

  • Don’t display assign user menu glyph when sidebar is enabled

discourse-calendar

New Features

  • Add Matariki holidays for nz

Bug Fixes

  • Generate definitions for indonesian holidays
  • Delete event posts not automatic holidays

discourse-saved-searches

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t create posts for trashed topics

discourse-subscriptions

Bug Fixes

  • Allow user to update card details for recurring subscriptions

discourse-reactions

UX Changes

  • Hints the reason you can’t remove a like/reaction

discourse-checklist

Bug Fixes

  • Make other checkboxes read-only while updating the one.

discourse-translator

Bug Fixes

  • :globe_with_meridians: Add lang mapping for Thai

discourse-chat

New Features

  • Chat channel preview card
  • Chat-sidebar in core sidebar

Bug Fixes

  • Correctly opens channel from user card
  • Makes drawer not expanded on full page
  • Move CSS to sidebar-extensions
  • Marks drawer as not expanded when full screen
  • Selector modal was not correctly filtering channels
  • After create channel respects current mode
  • Do not fetch messages for draft channel with no ID
  • Create channel modal error with type param required
  • Prevents loading more to reset list
  • Correctly handles chat-channel-row active state
  • Use as_json instead of to_json for chat DM message bus
  • Allow user to direct message themself again and fix DM inconsistencies
  • Ensures no members found is displayed when filtering
  • Prevents destroyed emojis to break the UI
  • Tracking state is an ember object and should use set
  • Correctly make browse page scrollable
  • Shows only one sidebar on mobile
  • Notification shape
  • Various fixes to chat pages height/scroll
  • Prevents nil name/desc to nullify the other

UX Changes

  • Is focused background was not visible in dm creator
  • Fix width of full page chat when paired with experimental sidebar
  • Remove gap on sidebar with full page chat
  • Hides useless notices for chat
  • Fix channel msg indicator
  • Improve category hints when creating a channel.
  • Displays delete btn using red icon
  • Hide desc when empty and not editable
  • Do not focus composer on ipad
  • Moves join/leave button to about tab
  • Supports emoji in title of about view
  • Prevents ipad to autofocus filter input

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Publish everyone’s status to everyone
  • Plugin outlet for sidebar
  • Allow iframe allow attribute in posts
  • Auto remove user status after predefined period
  • Use full post width for Vimeo embeds

Bug Fixes

  • Mobile usability issues in crawler view
  • Fixes few regressions in select-kit
  • Detect firefox `< 89 as an unsupported browser
  • Set resolver options on the legacy resolver
  • Update flaky bulk invite spec
  • Just inline the QUnit CSS in theme-test html
  • Ensure category-tag filter routes are functioning
  • Apply all watched words rules to user fields
  • Ensure splash screen <noscript> is loaded for legacy browsers
  • Ensure splash screen logic is iOS12 compatible
  • Add ember redirect for tags/:tag_id ->` tag/:tag_id
  • Min/max username length limits weren’t validated
  • Inputs using focusout regressed in #17345
  • Allow connector template names to be camelCase
  • Should be UploadReference instead of UploadReferences
  • Ensure there is no limit on tag list settings
  • Ensure pull-hotlinked can rewrite lone oneboxes
  • Correct error in ip-lookup component definition
  • Posts can belong to hard-deleted topics
  • Replace onebox markdown when pulling hotlinked image
  • Logout could fail due to cached user
  • Correctly display /admin/emails errors
  • Experimental sidebar preferences link not shown for users
  • Move ember-cli-deprecation-workflow to runtime deps
  • Incorrect currentUser could be cached for requests with API key
  • Vimeo regex pattern

UX Changes

  • Fixes navigation 1px jitter
  • Add classes to create-account modal for easier customization
  • Fix exp sidebar toggle alignment, add hovers
  • Skip length check on reply drafts
  • Less janky animation for experimental sidebar
  • Add border-box to stop padding from overflow
  • Makes splash dots use theme colors
  • A save should always have a cancel action
  • Don’t animate experimental sidebar on reload
  • Improve experimental sidebar transitions
  • Switch highlight/select colours in select-kit
  • Prevent experimental sidebar scroll jumps
  • Splash should always stick to top left corner of the viewport
  • Staff notice should utilize full post width
  • Prevent overlap between splash loader and splash text on some browsers take 2
  • Prevent overlap between splash loader and splash text on some browsers
  • Hide user menu bookmark link when experimental sidebar is enabled
  • Update categories/tags in sidebar only after saving.
  • Enforce bullet category style in sidebar
  • Mobile experimental sidebar improvement
  • Remove hardcoded colour value
  • Missing specificity
  • Retain category badge style on categories select kit.
  • Makes splash screen setting enabled by default
  • Use discourse-ready as a baseline for removing the splash
  • Made “Dismiss New” button clickable by replacing float method.
  • Hide sidebar li overflow, remove title margin
  • Improve experimental sidebar scrollbar
  • Minor experimental sidebar alignment changes
  • Remove experimental sidebar notification text
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