3.2.0.beta5: add groups to DMs, mobile chat footer redesign, passkeys enabled by default, and more!

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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.

Plugin improvements

discourse-activity-pub

Bug Fixes

  • Manually scheduling posts should only be possible with First Post (63)
  • Ensure process transaction errors are logged (60)

discourse-ai

New Features

  • Allow excluding tags and categories from LLM report (447)
  • Add support for new OpenAI embedding models (445)
  • Support gpt-4-0125 which was just released (443)
  • Setting to control per post embeddings (439)
  • Even smoother streaming (420)

Bug Fixes

  • Add table name to remove ambiguous column reference in SQL (449)
  • Include provider in automation models (446)
  • Typo in Automation::AVAILABLE_MODELS (442)
  • Automatic embeddings index could fail if it existed in the backup schema (441)
  • Misconfigured OpenAI API for embeddings shouldn’t spam logs (440)
  • Don’t try to generate embeddings of posts in deleted topics (433)
  • Typo (432)
  • Truncate content for sentiment/toxicity classification (431)
  • Always ensure #generate gets a valid input (427)
  • Scrub invalid prompts when truncating (426)
  • Clean unicode usernames when adding messages through prompt’s contrstuctor (425)
  • Set ivfflat.probes using topic count, not post count (421)

UX Changes

  • Validations to LLM-backed features (except AI Bot) (436)
  • Start progress dot animation instantly if it’s the only content (437)

discourse-akismet

Bug Fixes

  • Do not run job if the plugin is absent (114)

discourse-animated-avatars

Bug Fixes

  • Avoid accessing/mutating internal SafeString properties (25)

discourse-calendar

New Features

  • Support upcomingDays parameter on the upcoming events list (524)

Bug Fixes

  • Convert emoji to unicode on event title (530)
  • SafeString conversion under latest Ember (535)
  • Update Malaysia holidays for 2024 (527)

discourse-code-review

New Features

  • Add a keyboard shortcut to approve commits (204)

discourse-data-explorer

New Features

  • Allow topic URL without post number for post_id param (275)

discourse-jira

Bug Fixes

  • Typo (58)

discourse-oauth2-basic

Bug Fixes

  • Do not attempt to fetch user JSON if URL is not set (94)

discourse-post-voting

Bug Fixes

  • Customize New Button Compatibility with Post Voting Plugin (186)
  • Correct can_flag_post_voting_comments? (187)

discourse-prometheus

New Features

  • Add database label to active_record_connections_count (84)

Performance

  • Avoid hammering the database with pg sequence check queries (83)

discourse-topic-voting

Bug Fixes

  • Render votes RSS feed (180)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Support silent internal links (25472)
  • Mobile Chat Notification Badges (25438)
  • Display last message on mobile (25384)
  • Add option to sort topic query result via plugin. (25349)
  • Enable passkeys by default (25340)
  • Trigger app event for click tracking (25381)
  • Add support for custom site name in Open Graph metadata (25373)
  • Save/retrieve scroll position in chat channel (25336)
  • Implements dates separators for threads (25335)
  • Allow users to DM groups in chat (25189)
  • Add hot as a homepage option (25325)
  • Improvements to hot algorithm (25295)
  • Experiment with hot sort order (25274)
  • Mobile Chat Footer Redesign (25161)
  • Add username header to global-rate-limited responses (25265)
  • Allow sorting group members by custom field via API (25061)
  • Option to sort user and group private messages. (25146)
  • Prefer topic_embed’s cached content when summarizing (25190)
  • Add loading spinner on categories page (25171)

Bug Fixes

  • Chat messages exporter (25461)
  • Hide ‘My Threads’ if no followed channels have threads (25470)
  • Make long thread titles readable (25456)
  • Do not show quote copy button to anon (25471)
  • Missing ampersand in input class selector (25464)
  • Avoid flash-of-unstyled-content in Safari with bug workaround (25462)
  • Allows to translate yesterday (25446)
  • Global selector needed to avoid clicks registering on other elements (25445)
  • Remove excess margin after title (25444)
  • Export csv file failed message (25443)
  • Deprecate NumberField, use <input> instead (25434)
  • Auto-populate group field in invite modal on group route (25431)
  • Set allowUncategorized SelectKit option (25440)
  • Remove css that should not have been added (25425)
  • Computed property override error for webhook.categories (25418)
  • Allow category to be set on topic model instances (25416)
  • FinalDestination::HTTP: validate address argument (25407)
  • Use site setting to show my threads chat footer tab (25277)
  • Renders channels-list wrapper only once (25383)
  • Minor bookmark issues (25358)
  • Allow sanitized-HTML in GH issues and categories oneboxes. (25374)
  • Clear db_backup_port default value
  • Radar chart not widely available. (25368)
  • Search escape handler should be on keydown (25364)
  • User-tips regression in #25361 (25367)
  • Ignore invalid images when shrinking uploads (25346)
  • User group check should return true for system user for auto groups (25357)
  • Correctly save scroll position in channel (25345)
  • Correctly exclude muted channels from thread unreads (25339)
  • Fixed a bug where keyboard on ios was broken (25338)
  • Ensures active message is cleared on threads opening (25337)
  • Localize text in github oneboxes (25327)
  • Rake task executed wrong method (25323)
  • Account for moderators in group to TL mapping (25326)
  • Errors when loading My Threads and Channel Threads (25310)
  • Prevent popup when thread count request fails (25308)
  • Allow staff to change group members visibility level for automatic groups (25281)
  • “Action Logs” button on user admin page (25300)
  • Set channels tab as default on mobile chat footer (25296)
  • Correctly support safe-area-inset-bottom in footer (25276)
  • Use category hashtag instead of link in guidelines_topic.body (25253)
  • Update global rate limiter keys/messages to clarify user vs ip (25264)
  • Trigger search app event being triggered multiple times (25250)
  • Use getter and setter for computed properties (25259)
  • Enforce proper max for clean_orphan_uploads_grace_period_hours (25235)
  • Set microdata schema for topic on missing first post (25195)
  • Exclude empty posts from microdata schema for topic (25198)
  • Ensure consistent datePublished on follow-up pages in topic microdata schema (25130)
  • Admin sidebar on mobile was still showing forum panel (25236)
  • Admin sidebar fixes and custom link registration (25200)
  • Respect creation date when paginating group activity posts (24993)
  • Delete topicNotificationLevel from transformed post before creatingRecord in post widget (25229)
  • Convert the route to Ember Octane to fix the dependency issue. (25221)
  • Don’t use joins to filter (24904)
  • Hide deprecated site setting that was missed out (25220)
  • Logs api scope not working (25215)
  • Do not show themes list filter unless there are 10+ items (25202)
  • Serialize categories when viewing a topic (25206)
  • Chat summary email link in subfolder setups (25188)
  • Correctly rewrite script/link tags in the proxy (25204)
  • Incorrect admin sidebar setting migration (25192)
  • Hide deprecated site settings that were missed out before (25180)
  • Refactor calling of timed backup deletion

UX Changes

  • Add bg style to input field type number (25460)
  • Improve mobile table editor button location (25426)
  • Fix and improve topic title badge spacing (25441)
  • Chat >` channel info: show member count on tab (25439)
  • Overflow fix for add participants to PM on mobile (25437)
  • Improve featured link positioning in topic titles (25427)
  • Simplify education message layout on empty /new route (25412)
  • Fix spacing for about page headings (25410)
  • Add spacing in new topic draft text - timestamp (25403)
  • Add “filter for more” to icon picker (25263)
  • Remove legacy option copy in nav menu setting (25382)
  • user.account_possessive was impossible to translate (25331)
  • Hide draft post notice on mobile chat (25297)
  • Show the SSO options when creating an account on mobile (25260)
  • Chat composer dropdown styling mobile (25244)
  • Adjust onebox styles for chat, title line-height (25249)
  • Cleaning up some invite page styles (25247)
  • Remove lock icon positioning (25241)
  • Chat header size and alignments (25239)
  • Change chat back button to btn-transparent (25184)
  • Ensure links styled as buttons don’t get visited color (25199)
  • Remove specific href styling (25183)
  • Add max width for c-navbar on mobile to prevent horizontal scroll (25182)
  • Add title attr to thread titles (25178)
  • Fix review queue category and tag alignment, whitespace (25166)

Security Changes

  • Properly escape user content within <noscript>

Performance

  • Eliminate some slow CSS selectors (25392)
  • Better query performance for user avatar consistency check. (25342)
  • Avoid loading the whole record when we only need id (25301)
  • Skip validations when hotlinked images are replaced in posts
  • Prefer subquery instead of two queries (25167)

Accessibility

  • Show focus state in user PM topic list (25313)
  • Allow keyboard users to scroll help modal (25226)
  • Add role=“button” to composer cancel button (25228)
  • Add describedby associations in create account modal (25227)
  • Fix sidebar toggle icon color contrast (25225)
  • Better contrast for lightbox overlay links (25208)
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