3.1.0.beta5: Customizable Community section, Improvements to Admin Notifications, Topic Merge and more

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Plugin improvements

discourse-adplugin

UX Changes
  • Introduce min-height for responsive ads

discourse-ai

New Features
  • Disable smart commands on Claude and GPT 3.5
  • Improve search prompt
  • Add support for GPT <-> Forum integration
  • Basic StableDiffusion text2img support
  • Less friction for starting a conversation with an AI bot.
  • Hide various api keys in site settings
  • Update summarization token count and add Claude 100k
  • Handle invalid media in NSFW module
  • Multi-model support for the AI Bot module.
  • Allow excluding closed topics from semantic related
  • Introduce the ai-bot module
  • Add a table to audit OpenAI usage
  • Add internal support for streaming mode
  • Topic summarization
  • Add a basic tokenizer API
Bug Fixes
  • Support multiple command executions
  • Missing localization
  • Ensure embeddings database outages are handled gracefully
  • Give up trying to reuse the DB connection and rely on pgbouncer
  • Guide GPT 3.5 better
  • Ensure we only attempt embedding once every 15 minutes
  • Results will be nil for invalid queries
  • Hide summarization button from anons
  • Non instructor OSS embeddings was broken
  • Toxicity automatic flagging should be disabled by default
  • Pass correct API Key to summarization service
  • Only send supported image types for classification
  • Chat-composer is now using glimmer
UX Changes
  • Improve drop down menu for enabled bots
  • Improvements to the AI Bot header shortcut
  • Add missing label translation
  • Add a custom sparkles icon for AI action buttons

discourse-akismet

New Features
  • Add comment_date_gmt for additional signal

discourse-assign

New Features
  • Skip group invite if all members can see topic already.
  • Invite user/group to PM if not a participant already.
  • Allow adding note when bulk assigning topics
Bug Fixes
  • Don’t invite user when already a member of an allowed group.
  • Reassigning to a group creates an incorrect mention’s link
  • Properly check key values for shortcuts
UX Changes
  • Constrain avatar size due to core change

discourse-automation

New Features
  • Support subcategories in post_created_edited and after_post_cook
  • Adds user_first_logged_in trigger
  • Adds new script for user_added_to_group
  • Allow post trigger to be limited to create or edit
  • Add auto tag topic script
  • Script to update category notification level for group members.
Bug Fixes
  • Allow choices components to be reset

discourse-category-experts

New Features
  • Auto-tagging topics when experts post
Bug Fixes
  • Wrap action in parentheses

discourse-chat-integration

New Features
  • Trigger follow rules when category changes
Bug Fixes
  • Stop ‘tag_added’ rules from firing for normal posts

discourse-data-explorer

Bug Fixes
  • Show “false” and “0” in query result
UX Changes
  • Fix parameters inputs spacing

discourse-docs

New Features
  • Add setting to show tags by group
  • Site setting to control search menu tip addition
Bug Fixes
  • Toggling categories was requiring two clicks
  • Incorrect plugin name in requires_plugin
  • Icons not appearing

discourse-footnote

UX Changes
  • Fix height issues with inline footnotes

discourse-gamification

New Features
  • API for custom score events
Bug Fixes
  • Names were blank on the leaderboard when the user does not have full name
  • LikensGiven was awarding to wrong user
  • LikesReceived was using post date instead of Like date
  • Skip serializing gamification_score when plugin is disabled

discourse-patreon

Bug Fixes
  • Retrieve the creator’s access token using the “token” property.

discourse-prometheus

New Features
  • Introduce http_application_duration_seconds summary metric

discourse-reactions

UX Changes
  • Constrain avatars to container for core change
Performance
  • Replace pluck with a select

discourse-solved

New Features
  • Prioritize_solved_topics_in_search to prioritize solved topics
  • Solved topic auto close setting per category
Bug Fixes
  • Take enable_names setting into account
  • Respect “display name on posts” site setting

discourse-subscriptions

New Features
  • Capture cardholder address fields for Stripe customer
  • Skip product listing if only one product is present
Bug Fixes
  • A few more syntax fixes for button actions
  • Fix syntax for some buttons following recent updates

discourse-theme-creator

Bug Fixes
  • Use correct action name for showAdvanced
  • Saving theme settings
  • Include ‘value’ for serialized ThemeFields for remote themes
UX Changes
  • Fix theme settings layout
  • Fix empty space in the share URL
  • Fix theme actions buttons position alignment

discourse-translator

New Features
  • Restrict translations by poster group
  • Added restrict_translation_groups to limit posts translation by groups
Bug Fixes
  • Fix for anon users visiting posts when the plugin is enabled

discourse-user-notes

Bug Fixes
  • Incorrect PLUGIN_NAME

docker_manager

New Features
  • Adds support for git tags
Bug Fixes
  • Upgrading was broken when repo uses master branch
  • Update compatibility file for v3.1.0.beta1 and below

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Dynamic chunk size with uppy
  • Add new site setting type for tag-group lists
  • Add Mailpace webhook
  • Support sub-subcategories in new edit sidebar categories modal
  • Image grid in posts (experimental)
  • Use new hashtag autocomplete system on all sites
  • New dismiss button for combined new and unread view
  • Allow S3 ACLs to be disabled
  • Offline indicator
  • Add API Scope for latest posts
  • API Scope for latest.rss feed
  • Allow expanding hidden posts for groups in SiteSetting.can_see_hidden_post
  • Serve RTL versions of admin and plugins CSS bundles for RTL locales
  • Reduce avatar sizes to 6 from 20
  • Display PM participant group names in the topics list.
  • Chat thread header indicator improvements
  • Improving thread list item and header
  • Modal for admins to edit Community section
  • Support for chronologically merging posts into existing topic
  • Initial chat thread unread indicators
  • Apply hashtag styles to autocomplete
  • Create legal topics for set company name
  • Add support for AVIF images
  • Add user status to inline mentions in chat
  • Allow searching for oldest topics
  • Fuzzy search in site settings and raise limit to 100 matches
  • Show user cards for inactive users
  • Create and update thread memberships
  • Chat-replying indicator for threads
  • Default to subcategory when parent category does not allow posting
  • Thread list initial UI
  • Enable user tips by default
  • Allow for longer membership domains
  • Add new notification for admin problems
  • Search_rank_sort_priorities modifier
  • Offline indicator controlled by message-bus connectivity (#21324)"
  • Offline indicator controlled by message-bus connectivity
  • Reimplement offline indicator
  • Service to track message bus connectivity + offline indicator(#21259)
  • Add support for figure and figcaption tags in embeddings
  • Add support for user badge revocation webhook events
  • Reintroduce better thread reply counter cache
  • Allow admins to delete reviewables via API
  • Add new don’t feed the trolls feature
  • Allow drafts to be deleted via the API
  • Detect current git “branch” even when a tag is checked out

Bug Fixes

  • Change dismiss new button label
  • Use _presentChannels.size instead of _presentChannels.length
  • TOC anchors in a subfolder setup
  • Scroll top after chat activation
  • Various mobile optimizations
  • Make serialized watched word regex Javascript compatible
  • Correctly re-conciliate message bus backlog
  • Prevents long press to hijack reaction event
  • Json_schemer no longer allows nil keys
  • Create new PM notifications for watching_first_post groups
  • Disables pointer events while showing menu
  • Prevents lightbox to close chat on escape
  • On iOS PWA prevents touch to click
  • Prevents back history loop
  • Do not allow blank chat messages
  • Pasting files into chat was not working
  • Correctly set value on textarea interactor
  • Send TL2 promotion message to correct user
  • Add category colors back to categories pages
  • Add removed image that may still be used
  • Non-Interfering Backdrop Clicks
  • Apply chat header icon indicator style to urgent only
  • Use a default hashtag icon color for user with no permission
  • Toggle topic pinning for user only if thumbtack icon is pressed.
  • Restore sidebar footer background
  • Attempts to exit lock-on early
  • Hide delete button to invite as user are unable to delete anyway
  • Simplify review community section link
  • Prevent undefined on isSafari capabilities test
  • Ensure mention autocomplete box doesn’t go off-screen in RTL locales
  • Correctly set last message bus ids on resync
  • Delete synonym tags if other synonyms are already exist.
  • Change Community icons
  • Use fixed dimensions for user card avatar
  • Correctly resubscribe after restart
  • Do not add mentioned groups as mentioned users
  • Prevents admins to be silenced
  • Elements floating away on overscroll in Safari
  • Uses DiscourseURL.routeTo for drawer transitions
  • Applies getURL on both app and chat URLs
  • Correctly uses getURL to open full page
  • Remove unneeded RTL-specific CSS rules
  • Removes destroyed mentioned used
  • Recover by showing drawer index on 404
  • u/:username/deleted-posts route regression
  • Call composer reset with correct params
  • Show Privacy Policy or ToS when they exist
  • Page size edge case for null last_read_message_id
  • Create original message user thread membership
  • Auto fill was not happening on first load
  • Ensures chat-thread is not overflowing
  • Move thread storage out of chatApi.thread() call
  • N+1 query for chat message serializer on mentions
  • Hashtag CSS class color specificity
  • Do not attempt to mark as read a staged message
  • Chat deleted last read message and tracking state issues
  • Include more_topic_url in the response to /categories_and_{latest, top}
  • Serialize thread membership for user
  • Prevents saving draft in incorrect channel
  • Correctly nullifies active message
  • Flakey spec in sidebar with new font size
  • Don’t run validations when invalidating invites
  • Improves draft for channels
  • Do not preview chat channels to read-only users
  • Skip iframe URLs with relative paths in pretty text sanitizer.
  • Do not error if admin/owner checks target message
  • Improve chat membership update on deleted message
  • Allow published pages to be added to sidebar
  • Removing arbitrary limit in a Discuz importer script query
  • Ensure sidepanel size is correctly applied when showing
  • Update client lastReadMessageId on trashed message
  • Keeps panel size when changing content
  • Video thumbnails can have duplicates
  • Cancel fetching messages after channel change
  • Page size check for thread messages
  • Consider users.created_at for inactive cleanup
  • Do not cook icon with hashtags
  • Allow admin to change topic notification level via API
  • Consider users with trashed topics/posts for inactive cleanup
  • Correct replying indicator padding
  • Anonymizing a user clears their user status too
  • Fix for Default to subcategory when parent category does not allow posting
  • Improve mailman email parsing
  • Clicking on edited notification should open edit history modal
  • Adds missing margin on desktop draft message
  • Ensures message has been added before scroll
  • Update category tag stats with new or deleted
  • Show gif upload size limit error straight away
  • Prevent Email Processor errors when mail is blank or nil
  • Various fixes to chat styleguide
  • More resilient bottom of message check
  • Ensures replying indicator has limited height
  • Ensures chat composer docks to topic composer
  • Remove obsolete references to lounge category
  • Searching for svg sprite icons connecting to default database
  • Clear topic list cache after archiving a PM
  • Compensate for lack of replying indicator on draft
  • Sync channel tracking state properly on presence change
  • Followups to composer notch adjustments
  • Allows notch to have composer bg color
  • Show scrollbars under firefox in chat
  • Don’t show duplicates in styleguide
  • Drawer styles for chat thread icon
  • Add new chat threads icon and move thread list button to right
  • Ensure modal alert is hidden when empty
  • Hide d-modal during page load
  • Miscellaneous tagging errors
  • Chat height fixes
  • Hides global notice on chat
  • Moves chat height computation to a mixin
  • Various fixes following channel height changes
  • Limits max height to viewport on channel only
  • Handle all UTF-8 characters
  • Sidebar custom sections rendering perf degrades over time
  • AddNavigationBarItem api example
  • Composer should be sending metaData
  • Do not set VH while zooming
  • Always listen on window resize
  • Refresh site when enable_user_tips changes
  • Ensures all_mentioned_user_ids is not used as identifier
  • Thread reply indicator overflow
  • Incorrect PLUGIN_NAME for “poll”
  • Avoid double-encoding featured topic title in user profile
  • Prevents subscribing with an old id
  • Close panel earlier
  • Allow integer group_ids for create invite api
  • Messages selection with shift + click
  • Keyboard on android
  • Rely only on one keyboard computation solution
  • Chat NotificationLevels extension breaking in prod
  • Excerpt overflow and children click events
  • Handle deleted original message for thread index
  • Don’t autojoin users when they have ready-only permissions
  • Show 404 on new category page for moderators when Site Setting disabled
  • Fallback to composer for non ascii characters
  • Do not allow title stuffing to dominate search
  • Prevents fast channel switching to cause an error
  • Minor thread changes on mobile
  • Create invite api docs
  • Likes received count in digest email
  • Service worker for Safari
  • More precise chat-replying-indicator
  • Fast-edit should fall back to composer for non-ascii characters
  • Change the limit on badges description
  • No event when threading is disabled
  • Makes mouse events passive
  • Ensure order when moving chat messages to another channel
  • Correct link on original message
  • Attempts to reconciliate tracking state
  • Jumpy more sidebar section
  • Update test limit for email domain
  • Flaky sidebar-user-community-section-test
  • Resolve timezone issues with date-time-input
  • Service worker should cache only 200 requests
  • Incorrect unread count shown in channel when message deleted
  • Thread mention read state and notification links
  • Remove double escaped Vimeo titles
  • Ensure expand table works regardless of click event target
  • Do not log ‘personal message view’ when sending webhook
  • Allow re-flagging of ninja-edited posts
  • Blank user messages inbox dropdown on subfolder setup.
  • More resilient dates separators computation
  • Ensure user admin button is present on mobile
  • Email receiver should ignore x-auto-response-suppress
  • Add thumbnails for Vimeo unlisted lazy videos
  • Ensures page height is correct on ipad + hub
  • ChatComposerMessageDetails icon was always edit
  • Disables send btn while uploads in progress
  • Correctly use types for reviewables type
  • Quoted images should be lightboxed
  • Disallow invisible Unicode characters in usernames
  • Rename notify_about_flags_after to notify_about_reviewable_item_after
  • Empty video thumbnails
  • Correctly differentiates channel/thread upload inputs
  • Allows youtube embeds to respect the t param
  • Correctly homogenizes panels min width
  • Chat height was incorrect on ipad
  • Include group flair in homepage category topic lists
  • Ensure group-filtered group user event webhooks fire
  • Ensures thread is cleared when closing it
  • Cancels saving draft when composer is destroyed
  • Correct border color of message actions
  • Show large image placeholder for image onebox
  • Improve chat route cleanup
  • Properly respects chat_minimum_message_length
  • Attempts to make cooking less order dependent
  • Generates markdown from pasting link
  • Require date db_timestamps_mover script
  • Safely return from missing post on check_dont_feed_the_trolls
  • Safeguard in case the message is active during transition
  • Allows composer to expand
  • Bbcode URLs not handling paths correctly
  • Don’t display destroy reviewable button on client
  • Show auto-group flair according to user preferences
  • Blank video thumbnails
  • Ensure skip-module JS is transpiled correctly
  • Ensure reviewable counts are updated correctly for new user menu
  • Error when trying to bump a topic with no category
  • Do not delete old chat messages if chat disabled
  • Include liked_consolidated and reaction types in the likes tab unread count
  • Do not overwrite existing thumbnails
  • Better detect text selection in search input
  • Increase reorder sidebar delay for desktop
  • Don’t render error for bad-sequence
  • Send notifications after a chat message was updated with new mentions
  • Chat publisher publishing to thread when threading disabled
  • Revert “DEV: Add overflow-x: hidden to chat message containers (#21030)”
  • Hashtag subcategory ref incorrect when not highest-ranked type
  • Resetting user directory columns
  • Quote button doesn’t press on mobile
  • Chat composer shortcuts should respect context
  • Do not count thread messages for channel unreads
  • 500 error when adding restricted category tags
  • Nil exception in chat notifier
  • Add missing translations strings for lazy-videos

UX Changes

  • Better alignment for experimental grids
  • Remove rounded border on hover lightbox
  • Make user tips more visible
  • Dark color palettes need darker shadows
  • Chat unread indicator refactor
  • Small spacing fix for grid items
  • Minor #mention style adjustments
  • Increase contrast of “more” sidebar dropdown
  • List group label indicator should match existing design
  • Remove ‘Create Topics’ notice
  • Show tooltip for global nav section icon
  • Correctly adds spacing for selection-management
  • Improves chat message long press and touch
  • Allow users to filter categories in edit sidebar categories modal
  • Don’t block render of user messages secondary nav for tracking state
  • First pass at edit categories navigation modal for sidebar
  • Fix number cutoff in header chat indicator
  • Improve /print rate limit description
  • Remove title and description block if blank
  • Remove sidebar background color
  • Fix greyed out add button in chat composer when focussed
  • Correct educate message when there are no new topics
  • Adjust frequent poster size in topic map
  • Chat channel header icons
  • Add show more btn to reviewable item
  • Adjust various avatars due to size changes
  • Style adjustments for sidebar edit modal
  • Followups to #1f37fe5
  • Tweak user deleted posts items
  • Chat composer buttons refactor + emoji
  • Fix post history raw view
  • Deletes a message when editing to blank
  • Add support for flagged chat message in reviewqueue
  • Closes drawer on esc if input is not focused
  • Minor spacing adjustment in message details
  • Drop display of short_site_description site settings in sidebar
  • Long unsetyled category names need truncation
  • Minor active state fix for sidebar
  • More style adjustments for larger sidebar font
  • Increase sidebar font-size
  • Add show password on mobile login modal
  • Improve edit history display
  • IPad footer nav now included in header offset
  • Improve tags spacing
  • Chat composer step 2
  • Add indicator for msg from currentUser
  • Add custom section button should not be shown to anon users
  • Tweak on logo size to make sure it’s not too small on small screen
  • Remove welcome topic admin tip and tweak copy
  • General chat composer tweaks
  • Minor fix with new composer and reply/edit
  • Improve display of short site description in header dropdown
  • Include custom headers in --header-offset
  • Show fast edit at top of window on mobile
  • Add more mass to thread icon
  • Sections not collapsable in “header dropdown” navigation menu
  • Chat composer styling on focus
  • Removes thread margins
  • Implements new composer design
  • Better copy for generic error msg
  • Update copy of badges granted to others
  • Opens side panel early to avoid jitter
  • Hide settings btn when disabled
  • Various improvements to welcome topic CTA
  • Thread panel sizing/spacing on mobile
  • Loading slider for select-kit filter
  • Groups deleted messages
  • Scroll to bottom when message is staged
  • Preloads a thread when hovering thread indicator
  • Implements draft threads
  • Use fixed colors for admin stacked chart reports
  • In sidebar dropdown mode expose ‘more’ items
  • Fix color scheme setting reset position
  • Fix color preference layout
  • Resets active message when scrolling
  • Two column dropdown sidebar layout
  • Cook message before sending edit
  • Fix user onebox layout
  • Composer use BEM + small tweaks to enabled/disabled styling
  • Add a warning that updating min_trust_level_for_user_api_key will disable users from using DiscourseHub
  • Use dvh for sidebar height
  • Onebox/blockquote/chatreaction slight accent colour change
  • Displays channel title in document title
  • Fix space position in badge counts
  • Minor installation success style adjustments
  • Include subcategories in crawler view
  • Improves composer and thread panel
  • Chat thread hover
  • Better digest centering in event of truncation
  • Fix time pickers input width on mobile
  • Fix kbd tag text’s color in the composer full screen prompt
  • Improve layout and styles for solo preferences
  • Update ring animation to avoid scroll
  • Remove new message element from chatpane
  • Slight design changes to chat timestamp
  • Ensures cursor is pointer over custom sections

Performance

  • Drop throttling from resize node
  • Improve workbox loading strategy
  • Cache ToS and Privacy Policy paths
  • Avoids eager pluck in posts controller
  • Prevents eager pluck in post alerter
  • Avoid rendering a component that isn’t required most of the time
  • Preload user information when visiting user messages routes
  • Client side triggering multiple requests when opening composer
  • Sends publish_new_channel only when not followed
  • Creating a post would cause an N+1
  • Strict loading for SidebarSection queries
  • Avoid triggering TopicTrackingState change callbacks unnecessarily
  • Remove unnecessary queries from Theme#set_field
  • Don’t serialize value for theme_fields unnecessarily

Accessibility

  • Improve select-kit accessibility (take 2)
  • Improve select-kit accessibility
  • Select kit close on focus out
  • Use correct structure for badge headings
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