jomaxro
March 17, 2023, 12:22am
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We have improved our search feature with new optimizations. See the linked topic for full details!
Recently, due to internal feedback, we decided to prioritize a round of improvements to our search algorithm.
These changes have now been rolled out to all sites as part of Discourse 3.1.0.beta3. After updating, your site will automatically begin to reindex all your content for search.
There are two new site settings as part of this, but these have been set to values we have found work well in our testing here on meta, so we do not expect most sites will have any reason to change them.
We’ve updated the chat draw to be resizable. To adjust the size of your draw, grab the top left corner with your mouse and adjust to taste. The size of the drawer will be stored on device, and remembered when you visit Discourse in the future.
We’re continually iterating on chat. In this beta, we’ve added support for inline audio players, as well as the editing of channel slugs (admin only). We’ve also added a new user preference for the chat header icon. Users can configure the following options:
All New Messages (default) - This maintains the existing behaviour where all new messages in the channel show a blue dot on the iconDirect Messages and Mentions - Only show the green dot on the icon when you are directly messaged or mentioned, the blue dot is never shownNever - Never show any dot on the chat icon, for those who
We’ve added additional API scopes to allow developers to ensure API keys they generate only work on specific endpoints. New API scopes include:
Listing topics in a category
Listing, adding, and removing group members
Listing, creating, deleting, and updating groups
Deleting a topic or post
Listing tags
Updating topic status
We’ve added support for push notifications on macOS, via service workers. This is supported on Ventura and later. We anticipate Apple adding support for push notifications in iOS on iPhones and iPads later this year.
Did you know you can insert a date/time into a post which automatically displays in the user’s timezone? Below I’ve inserted the date 2023-03-01, at 12:30pm EDT. Users in California will see 9:30am, while users in Germany will see 17:30pm.
2023-03-01T17:30:00Z
For quickly adding the current time to the composer, users can type the following:
On Windows/Linux: Ctrl + Shift + .
On macOS: ⌘ + Shift + .
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jomaxro
March 17, 2023, 12:22am
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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.
This beta includes 9 security fixes for issues reported by our community and HackerOne .
Bug Fixes
Prevent deadlocks while communicating with ClamAV.
Improve scanning and error handling under different scenarios.
Bug Fixes
Missing actions icon
N+1 in search result
Use same limit as default for user search
UX Changes
Clearer assign messages on first post
Fix status alignment after core change
Improve custom icons for group assign
Remove whitespace in assign tag
Class for small posts when assigns are private
Bug Fixes
Disable invitation notifications for recurrent events
Add backward compatibility for reminders
Bug Fixes
Always use parent thread_ts for slack threads
Bug Fixes
Special attributes not working
Clear state when reports are changed
Maintain editing state after saving query changes
UX Changes
UX Changes
Remove condition for new user nav, remove old nav
UX Changes
Bug Fixes
Jump to first post (pre-glimmer)
Bug Fixes
Use “cursor” pagination param to fetch all the records from API.
(File|Dir).exists? is deprecated
Bug Fixes
Prevents inline span to be forced into blocks
New Features
When creating policies, enter canned accept text
Bug Fixes
Display timestamps as UTC
Ensure end timestamps are shown correctly
UX Changes
Ensure local-dates popover is not clipped
Only show horizontal scrollbar when required
Improve behavior on small-width screens
Bug Fixes
Fix scroll from being always visible
Fix width
UX Changes
Adjust styling
Update reaction badge icon
New Features
Add a new site setting to set case origin.
UX Changes
Drop unneded comma in a string
New Features
Bug Fixes
Add title to solved notifications
UX Changes
Tweak ‘Solution’ button design
Accessibility
Screen readers should read spoiler contents after expanding
New Features
Support custom endpoints for Microsoft provider
Security Changes
Update old username when the user is anonymized.
New Features
Restore long lost auto-refresh of ps
Add Upgrade tab to the admin nav
Refresh the page on transition after upgrade
Bug Fixes
Remove ruby memory flags
Incorrect use of d-icon params
Make find repos a class method
Make find_repos public
The dialog service usage
Repo status link
Support git submodule plugins
A syntax error
UX Changes
CSS cleanup
Restore and adjust the animated progress bar
Improve non-essential upgrades banner css
Make upgrade-show heading better translatable
Improve headings
Fix the nav tabs styling
Update “Upgrade” button styling
Tweak some styles
Click to expand
Hook for suggested topic customization
Only list watching group messages in messages notifications panel
Configurable auto-bump cooldown
Tooltip for disabled new topic button
Add new tags from edit tag synonyms page
Allow external links in custom sidebar sections
Chat header icon indicator preference
Log to STDOUT using Rails 5 env var
Update topic/comment embedding parameters
Add API scope for listing topics in a category
Adding some more api scopes
Add API scopes for group endpoints
Add word count and indicator when exceeded max
Roll out new search optimisations
Use feature detection for showing push notification in iOS
Chat side panel with threads initial skeleton
Add shortcut to insert current time in composer
Create SQL-only backup if there are no uploads
Automatically create chat threads in background
Support collapsing array sections in JSON Schema field types
Allow embedded view to include a header
Allow DTooltip interaction
Inline audio player for chat uploads
Resizeable chat drawer
Use similarity in user search
Prioritize_exact_search_title_match hidden setting
Allow restricting duplication in search index
Enable service worker for Apple devices
Move metadata user results to list bottom
Hidden site setting to disable search prefix matching
Allow editing channel slug
Rate limit anon searches per second
Add separate api scope for topic status
Do not send emails when channel-wide mentions are disabled in a channel
Latest post created_at on topic-timeline not updating
Update LoadMore selector for user tables
default_list_filter = none navigation and preloading
TopicQuery for NULL category.topic_id
Broken topic-timeline summarize topic button
Anonymous users cannot load topics with mentions with a user status that has an end date
Avatar upload error
Welcome topic banner showing after general category is deleted
Ensures edited message is correctly re-decorated
More consistent scroll to bottom
Tag dropdown not working with default_list_filter
Ensure form_template_ids is defined on new category records
Improves unread state precision
Review q issues
Don’t send image sizes for emojis/avatars
Ensure required_tag_group is defined on new category records
Uploading multiple files to chat could cause canellations
UploadReference order by tiebreaker for UploadSecurity
Set external flag before validation
Broken sticky date on firefox
More precise unread message detection
Correctly syncs current user message in multiple sessions
Display a proper error when user already exists and email addresses are hidden.
Don’t email suspended users from group PM
Do not show infinite loading state on draft with new users
Class for section link when name has space
Anonymous FAQ link to external URL
Handle null values in category settings relative time pickers
Trim whitespace on email field for invites
Prevents mouseover to gain focus on sk row
Deleting security keys was not working
Do not refresh when accessing loaded reply
Use the default value correctly for theme settings of type uploads
Leaking callbacks to synchronize state
Incorrect topic tracking state count when a new category is created
The default inbox label if username is not all lower cased in the url
Prevents duplicate reactions
Prevents exception on required login sites with chat
#present ->` #presence typo in TopicRetriever
No small action created when a non-author removes itself from a PM
Allow floats for zoom level in Google Maps onebox
Don’t set categoryId on PM drafts
Recalculating trust levels was not working
Only show approved users in search_user results when site setting enabled
Mark posted as true for post authors in the TopicUser table during ensure_consistency task
Copy & Fullscreen button edits in codeblocks
Autocomplete failing for
Do not escape slash for category text description
Correct issues in admin-embeddable-host
Correct issues in admin-styles-editor (#20435 )
Use category description for sidebar link title
Correct issues in admin-theme-editor
Make sure regular users can delete their PMs
Fast edit doesn’t work on content with certain characters
Blank dialog when auto-join selected in channel creation modal
Text selection breaking with hashtag SVG in Firefox
Override navigation menu to “legacy” via query param not working
Add support for Europe/Kyiv timezone
Allow changing default DNS query timeout of 2s via GlobalSetting
Wrong interpolation key
Do not enqueue update_post_uploads_secure_status unnecessarily
Glimmer component arg access
Correctly update _subscribedTo* props
Allow HTML in category read-only dialog
Correctly add user info data to message serializer
Chat member user card rendered out of view
Removes uneeded footer-nav-height subtraction
Ensures staged message are set with channel id
Correctly account for ipad footer nav height
Removes stored scroll position in drawer
Unsubscribing via key associated with deleted topic
Correct sidebar and chat height on DiscourseHub
Don’t fallback to original implementation for linkTitle in the custom type
Ensures chat-message is recomputed with model
Regression with chat shift+select messages
Correctly open channel info
Overflowing chat content in main-chat-outlet grid
Dominant color not working for 16bit images
Reset admin theme controller on modal cancel event
Reverts part of thread css
Do not notify admins on suppressed categories
Edit custom section title
Category settings migration failing on ‘’ integer
Error anonymous when tl4_delete_posts_and_topics setting
Correctly listens to chat notifications
Account for cursor drift when completing terms
IconPicker option to display only available icons
Replace hard-coded string with translation
Chat’s user autocomplete threw errors
Add index to sidebar_section_link
Stop youtube autoplay on scrollups
Return valid JSON when a post in enqueued
Changed classname for YT images
Hide add section button
Improvements for user custom sections
Apply max-height on the outer container
Ensures non existing user/group cards are not stuck
Redirecting to download backup from S3 could fail
Remove action buttons if post has already been reviewed
Ensure ColorScheme#resolve falls back to base for missing color
Avoid race condition when setting user status
Fix dragging in horizontal overflow component
Use / for start_url in webmanifest on non-subfolder installs
Autocomplete showing under keyboard on android
Delete associated notifications when trashing chat messages.
Allow keyboard navigation when searching emojis in chat
Category hashtags weren’t always found for sub-sub-categories
De-prioritize archived topics
Domain searches not working properly for URLs
Correctly filters input with pre-filled value
Add support for PG 14 and up
Back button action and position on glimmer topic timeline
Emoji autocomplete “more” button not working in chat
Better ordering of similar user search suggestions
Use username_lower in user menu router lookup
Extend username updates to self-mentions
Sync user’s reviewables count when loading reviewables list
Search index duplicate parser matching is too restrictive
Emoji preview showing incorrect preview on keyboard focus
Update flag URL in auto silence PM to moderators
Reverts value check when reseting composer value
Corrects a regression hiding avatar in user selector
Replace R2 gem with rtlcss for generating RTL CSS
Allow non-persisted color-scheme colors to be edited
Category permission change not creating a log
Vimeo iframe url when data-original-href is missing
Reword generic site policy defaults
Don’t spam presence requests when getting 429
Error calling LazyYT from chat when disabled
Update bookmark topic copy
Add support for multiple TikTok aspect ratios
Uses popper for cards
Preserves avatar size inside onebox
Correct various mistakes in chat-notification-manager
Truncate existing user status to 100 chars
Validate asset url before replacing base url
Better UX for timezones selector in date modal
Intercept old channel URLs in drawer mode
Failing system spec for rate limited search
Limit user status to 100 characters
Ensure soft-deleted topics can be deleted
Fixed getting badges from inviting youself
Remove link to site with inappropriate content
Use specified limit option in user search
Ensure anon-cached values are never returned for API requests
Change JPEG to JPG for search consistency
Improve menu panel height fallback for older browsers
Improve safe-mode copy
Avoid overflow clipping descenders
Some admin theme list style adjustments
Improves site setting description for discourse_connect_url
Position of group user table dropdown, border
Tweak last-visit/date separators
Fix chat-reply overflow
Ensure header logo has dimensions, style clean-up
Fix width for top embedded reply, post notice
Style improvements to new user tables
Remove visual chat msg staging effect
Remove old group directory template, CSS
Makes last visit stand out less
Fix banner overlapping issue at breakpoint of around 1260px width
Update user chat preference link for new nav
Switch My Posts link in sidebar to My Drafts when drafts are present
Skip applying link-type watched words to user custom fields
Update badge icons
Fix large onebox avatars in img chat messages
Fix tag & category clicks on mobile topic list
Only allow scroll grab if nav is scrollable
User badges tweaks
Restore wider search dropdown width
Highlight vars updates
Release new user profile navigation for sidebar compatibility
Apply skeleton animation on content only
Add h1 tag to user page
Badge page styling update
Remove fixed width from buttons
Hide hamburger dropdown when enable_sidebar query param is used
Contains overscroll in channels list
Move vertical admin plugin nav to horizontal overflow nav
Prevents scroll in chat to propagate to parents
Userstatus limit handling in UI
Catch edge cases in tooltip
Update chat draft icon colour
Style edits
Fix remove-user-from-pm hover styling
Add transparent border for header icon
Hide chat button on user card when suspended
Warn about consequences of group deletion
Allow sidebar to appear inline down to 768px
Fix confusing error message
Add missing backtick to string
Add flex alignment for form actions
Easily toggle badges in admin badge list
Improve layout of keyboard shortcut modal
Fix timeline-handle positioning
Implements a random and auto generated skeleton
Allows drawer to take most of height space
Allow tags to wrap under categories on mobile
Orders public channels by slug instead of title
Show full topic title for reply-where
Apply same style for highlight mention span
Move data export to preferences page for new user nav
Add transition to glimmer-topic-timeline fullscreen view
Add timezone aliases for IST, KST and JST
Calculate missing hover/selected colors from existing colors
Flex horizontal form controls
Remove chat-specific font declaration
Brings back URL on chat icon when in full page
Improve emoji alignment for text
Highlight var refactor
Add staff action log text for permanently_delete_post_revisions
Remove request for PM topic tracking state initiated from sidebar
Various perf improvements of chat-live-pane
Reduce height of the load more past message area
Applies optimisations on chat-live pane
Skip metadata routes for mini_profiler
Eager load linkables when loading custom sidebar sections
Add index to speed up ReindexSearch job
Refactor slide-in menu sizing for improved performance
Remove ember-link-component-extension to enable Glimmer LinkTo
Remove custom Sidebar::SectionLinkTo implementation
Move user-tips and narrative to per-user messagebus channels
N+1 queries on /tags with multiple categories tags
Allow header logo/title to hide, if needed
Header icons should be buttons, not links
Add aria-label to header notification counts
Share label needs corresponding ID on input
Add aria-label to embedded jump link
Aria-label for the post edit history button
Add aria tags for topic map expansion
History modal mode toggles need aria-labels
Embedded posts need disclosure widget attributes
Post avatars should not be tabbable
Add accessible label for bookmark name input
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