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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.jsscript
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
- Don’t raise an error on onebox timeouts
- Title for keyboard shortcuts button in sidebar
- Notify tag watchers when publishing topic
- Make group members bulk operations consistent
- Pass sidebar custom link willDestroy
- Badge backfilling triggers :user_badge_granted DiscourseEvent
- Ensure injections are skipped when rehydrating stale models
- Do not redeem invites if user resets password
- When a user status update received other users statuses were getting cleared
- Correctly pluralize sidebar strings
-
isExistingIconId()regressed in #17553 - Correctly invoke dynamic components by name
- Can’t hide overflow of d-editor-button-bar on mobile
- Use padding, not margin
- Use URI#merge to merge base and relative URLs
- Prevents multi-select to use noneItem for its list
- Restrict sidebar specific select kit CSS to sidebar
- Pass custom section willDestroy
- Skip job if tag edit notification is disabled
- Allow Symbol objects to be deserialized in PostRevision
- Check if tags edit notifications are disabled
- Unread count badge shown for topics that user is not tracking
- Support systems without SSE 4.2
- Allow Time objects to be deserialized in PostRevision
- Bug with multiselect user field validation
- CSS tweak and production position fix for miniprofiler
- Improve reliability of topic tracking state
- Change UserCommScreener to use user_ids
- Adjust topic avatar height to fix stickiness
UX Changes
- copy change
- Sidebar transition and styling adjustments
- Add bulk-select to mobile topic lists
- Replace site-settings link with “Admin” link in sidebar
- Make sidebar hamburger menu occupy full width
- Only transition header on sidebar toggle
- Prevent color flicker on dark themes
- Docking/undocking sidebar toggles sidebar hamburger dropdown
- Set theme color on splash a bit earlier
- Let hamburger-sidebar restrict child width
- Updates sign up CTA copy
- Prevent jitter in some onebox images
- Properly size emoji in sidebar section link text
- Remove bookmarks link from community section
- Rename Sidebar ‘Topics’ section to ‘Community’
- Set width on hamburger menu drop down to prevent overflow
- Only hide section header icons when sidebar is pinned on Desktop
- Option to account for the sidebar in the breakpoint mixin
- Plus icon for sidebar messages section header
- Prevent sidebar count from wrapping
- Prevent long toolbars from resizing the column
- Make space for scrollbar in mini-profiler
- Increase text size for mobile exp sidebar
- Remove .btn-default from admin btn
- Prevent pre tag from making posts too wide
- Better account-created page
Performance
- Add index for TopicTimer#topic_id
- Avoid extra object created on each User#validatable_user_fields call