What’s new in Discourse 3.0.0.beta15?
This beta moves us from 2.9.0.beta14 → 3.0.0.beta15, as we are planning a major version bump in January to consolidate various exciting changes into Discourse:
Sidebar + new user menu (significant change to the way Discourse looks)
Discourse Chat (now included in the Discourse source tree)
The upcoming major version upgrade to 3.0 will also mark tons of other additions we’ve been working on in 2022. As things stand, note that these upgrades do not bring any incompatibility concerns with the backend API.
Hashtags got a #makeover!
Chat and Sidebar are now enabled by default
Through this change, Chat and Sidebar are now enabled via site settings on all new Discourse instances! While there are no changes to existing sites, admins can enable them via the chat enabled
and sidebar
site settings or by running the Setup Wizard (discourse.example.com/wizard
).
Improved Admin Experience
Besides various other improvements in Discourse 3.0, you’ll see helpful new toggles every time admins run the Setup Wizard:
Another change was to send admins a new notification when the site gets new features after an upgrade/deploy:
Simplifying DnD, User Status, and Notifications
Do not Disturb mode was integrated with User Status and renamed to “Pause Notifications”.
- User Status is now shown on group pages
- Show live User Status on inline mentions on posts
- Allow user_status scope for UserApiKey
More features!
- Warn admins about private group name’s exposure to anonymous users
- Add user toggle to mask/unmask passwords
- Onebox for Embed Motoko
- Add support for desktop push notifications in core
- Sort hashtags starting with term higher priority
- Differentiate notification type for directly vs indirectly watched topic
- Allow category moderators to set auto deletion topic timers
- Show similar users when penalizing a user
- Optionally allow a separate
s3_asset_cdn_url
to be specified - Allow showing hashtag autocomplete results without term
- Better UI to manage 2fa
- Enforce mention limits for chat messages
- Show live user status on inline mentions on posts
- Youtube Short onebox support
- Allow user_status scope for UserApiKey
- Improve composer warnings for mentions
- Channels can allow/disallow @all/@here mentions
- Add experimental plugin API to register messages nav dropdown
- Separate notification indicators for new PMs and reviewables