Rebuild required. The rebuild will update package versions to latest, and must be completed to apply the security updates.
Revamped wizard
We’ve revamped the wizard to make it even quicker for new admins to get started on their new site. 3 steps, with an optional 3 more if one wants to continue.
Security Updates
This beta includes 2 security fixes for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
Do not cache error responses for static assets (CVE-2022-31182)
Prevent abuse of the update_activation_email route (CVE-2022-31184)
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
Chat
New Features
Show status on the direct message users list
Show status next to avatar on chat messages
Holiday flair in sidebar
Integrate chat-sidebar to core-sidebar
Statistics for chat messages, users, and channels
Bug Fixes
Ensures membership query is not returning duplicates
Use new enable_sidebar setting
Reorder private messages in sidebar
Don’t add users when chatable isn’t present
Hook to user_seen event to auto-join users on their first visit.
Unescape emoji in channel title when displaying in core sidebar
Add a scheduled job to auto-join users when their state changes.
Ensures user can see channel even with membership
Ensures we wait for runloop after pasting event
Another possible failure du to white space
Possible test failure due to white space
Transitions to previous route on leaving full page
For non-open channels do not show Join on preview card
Ensures deleting a channel redirects to chat home
Various issues in selector modal
Changes scrollbar broder based on background
Hook to event instead of model callback to make sure we auto-join users
Makes structured return followed channels only
Track when a user is activated and trigger the auto-join process
Sets default to open for structured method
Prevents an error due to closeModal not present
Slugified title is lowercased
Ensures chat channel has a title
Slugify channel name when opening from float
Improves slugify channel
Allow overflow for pop-up visibility
UX Changes
More composer fixes
Improves state of the composer on mobile
Surfaces chatable color and read restricted
Clickable target for setting icon
Rename default site feedback channel to general
Tweaks to chat browse stylings
Fully reimplements browse page
Stop displaying member count, clean up minimized chat view
Improve copy for on/off auto join
Templates (formerly Canned Replies)
New Features
Private templates
Ability to fetch templates from multiple parent categories
Calendar
New Features
Allow post events to be edited based on post guardian
Bug Fixes
Ensure date/time pickers behave correctly in all timezones
Consistent desert island icon for holidays
Use moment timestamp when transforming for timezone change
Handle non-UTC events correctly
Encrypt
Bug Fixes
Update deleted topic
Ad Plugin
Bug Fixes
Ensure we won’t render the connector if there are no ads
Video
Bug Fixes
Switch to unminified hls.js script
Automation
New Features
New script to append last checked by detail in post content.
Bug Fixes
Triggers on first badge
Automation was checking grant_count incorrectly
User Notes
UX Changes
Add btn-default class
Chat Integration
Bug Fixes
Don’t process commands when ‘text’ is missing
Gamification
New Features
Time period filter on leaderboard view
Bug Fixes
Do not score deleted users
Leaderboard name wasn’t displayed
UX Changes
Better copy on group restrictions settings
Disallow selecting everyone group in leaderboard settings
Make you-rank no longer clickable
Additional Features and Fixes
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New Features
Add categories page style to order topics by created date
My_bb import supports avatars
Add users and groups links to community section in sidebar
Replace hamburger dropdown with Sidebar when undock
Users with no posts shouldn’t able to edit username after the allowed period.
API for sidebar
Add plugin API to register About stat group
Show status in the tooltip on the status bubble on the user menu
Bug Fixes
Publish membership update events when refreshing automatic groups.
Support for group everyone in tag setting
Sidebar is always disabled on wizard route
Rejected emails should not be cleaned up before their logs
Ensure uploads work when the user’s browser rewrites ellipsis
Allow users to quote in closed topics
Ensure admin templates are not used for non-admin controllers
Don’t cook user fields to apply watched words
Make sure user list is complete and sorted
Make sure every user instance has correct status tracking counter
Handle correctly the case when several subscribers call trackStatus() on the user model
Correct mention paths in fixtures
Linear gradient with stops makes R2 confused
Improves handling of filter with invalid tag chars
Rebuild required. The rebuild will update package versions to latest, and must be completed to apply the security updates.
