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.
Security Updates
This beta includes a security fix for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
- Limit email invitations to topic
Plugin improvements
discourse-encrypt
New Features
- Allow tagging & quick edit in encrypted PMs.
discourse-github
New Features
- Add setting to limit number of linkbacks per post
discourse-assign
New Features
- Assign Status
- Allow submitting the assign modal with ctrl+enter
discourse-prometheus
New Features
- Add the job_failures metric
discourse-automation
New Features
- Create new trigger
pm_createdforauto_responderscript. (sponsored by Elastic)
discourse-code-review
Bug Fixes
- Rename
can_reviewtocan_review_code
docker_manager
New Features
- Force a rebuild when behind a specific discourse commit.
discourse-reactions
Bug Fixes
- CSV report was missing dates
discourse-restricted-replies
Bug Fixes
- No longer need to override category params since the issue fixed in core.
discourse-chat
New Features
- Keyboard shortcut to toggle open/close of chat drawer
- Respect ignoring / muting / blocking DM user preferences
- Show status on the direct message users list
- Show status next to avatar on chat messages
Bug Fixes
- Restore/fix quote-in-topic and copy-quote features
- Implements DeletedChatUser as a placeholder to deleted users
- Staff can participate in private categories’ chat presence channels.
- Fixes ios white screen without causing scroll jump
- Don’t stage sent message if there are more to load.
- Memberships order are username dependent
- Prevents test failure in message mover spec
- Enforces focus of composer after send
- Removes ideal first channel logic from unfollowChatChannel
- Moving memberships out of channel decorator
- Allows messages’s owner to restore deleted message
- Removes -webkit-overflow-scrolling
- Calls vibrate only once when reacting
- Various optimisations on mobile for live pane
- Ensures even message with no avatar are tracked
- Do not call throttled fn immediately to avoid missing update on fast resizing
- Doesn’t include status when loading channels if user status is disabled in settings
- Mark message as visible as soon as the first line appears in the viewport
- Do not allow chat uploads if secure_media is enabled
- Checks if notification has a title or lets router handle it
- Mark message as visible when 60% is inside the viewport
- Prevents crash when joining channel
- Don’t corrupt users’ last read IDs.
- Ensures chat notifications have a URL
- Restores presence and displays it on sidebar
- Ensures badge is showing uncategorized category
- Fixes height regression on browse page
- Prevents mutation of dm creator selected users
- Sidebar direct messages are limited to 20
- Adjust reply indicator spacing on iOS
- Ensures membership query is not returning duplicates
UX Changes
- Alignment member tab
- Ensures drawer position is correct with small/closed topic composer
- Increases max count of fetched public channels from 20 to 50
- Matches scrollbar background with channels-list background
- Adjust fullscreen height for the iPad iOS app
- Skip sidebar additions if user has disabled chat
- Avatar border chat
- Prevents presence ring to move avatar
- Adjust to fit composer on desktop, fix iPad layout
- Slightly increases margin over tabs list
- Tweaks info page
- Tweaks to browse and members page
- Chat-draft-channel-screen is already in a container with correct height
Performance
- Prevents N+1 on public channels due to topic url
Additional Features and Fixes
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New Features
- Update bootstrap mode notice to add invite and wizard links
- Add welcome topic cta banner
- Show status on post streams
- Add image delete button in preview.
- Track stats around failing scheduled jobs
- Show SMTP response on admin email sent list and rearrange columns
- Add support for case-sensitive Watched Words
- Show user status on the user profile page
Bug Fixes
- Destroy all posts when hard deleting topic
- Swallow SSL errors when generating oneboxes
- Broken onebox images due to url normalization bugs
- Don’t raise an error if file not found in S3.
- Make word watcher work with nil strings
- The phpbbb import script was not parsing youtube tags
- Prevents android keyboard to be hidden instantly on sk focus
- Allow to add the same watched word with a different case
- Properly log all internal job failures
- Do not redeem expired invites on new user signup
- Secondary more section links not marked as active
- Handle actor not having preferences in UserCommScreener
- Don’t memoize site setting in guardian
- Scope memoization of category moderation per category
- Show update banner only once on categories with subcategory lists
- Unsubscribe from the
/reviewable_countschannel when leaving the review-index route - Links incorrectly marked as active in Sidebar::MoreSectionLinks
- Avoid usage of dig when looking for job class
- Inject appEvents in ScreenTrack
- Use default locale for footer of embedded topics
- Do not overwrite top_menu site setting in wizard styling step
- Bugs with year selector and erase button
- Update word_watcher cache key following schema change
- Wizard last step “corporate” was not saving changes
- Bots could generate errors when slug generation method is encoded
- Accept HEAD requests for mandrill webhook
- Show bookmarks loading spinner correctly
- Ensure all public topic-query options can be used via Ember
- Ensure theme_uploads_local only has one
/at beginning - Show button bar overflow on iPad & mobile
- UserCommScreener filter acting user ID from target user IDs
- Allow array values for custom fields in category params.
- Ensure error handlers render correctly without preload_json
UX Changes
- Add left sidebar toggle when sidebar enabled
- Improve empty state copy on the activity/topics page
- Display gap between tag sort options on PMs
- Move About and FAQ links into secondary section in More… dropdown
- Update register admin wizard page styles
- Fix chat lock icon position and background
- Account for iPad hub nav when calculating top
- Move links in Sidebar footer under community section
- Add ellipsis for long category names in category chooser dropdown
- Change unrelated icon in the CTA Signup prompt
- Remove count from more section links
- Adjust sidebar margin to avoid composer height
- Fix extra spacing for group metadata in user profile
- Updated account activation page design
- Add the TOS disclaimer to the invite signup
- Only set user bookmarks loading state when loading
- Sidebar appearance shouldn’t shrink fonts
- Sidebar focus styles, remove hover for touch
- Reduce number of links displayed in Community by default