3.3.0.beta1: Discourse Discover opt in, Hot topics page, "It's illegal" flag reason, 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

  • Ensure topic collections exists for full_topic activities (67)
  • Use full slugPath to reload categories with permissions (65)
  • Delivery job failure log (64)

discourse-adplugin

New Features

  • Improve DFP / Ad-manager Content-Security-Policy compat (201)

Bug Fixes

  • Calculate no ads for groups server side (200)
  • Add exclude groups for each ad platforms (197)

discourse-ai

New Features

  • Share conversations with AI via a URL (521)
  • AI Quick Semantic Search (501)
  • Add GitHub Helper AI Bot persona and tools (513)
  • Support for claude opus and sonnet (508)
  • Option for AI triage to send a post to the review queue (498)
  • AI helper support in non English languages (489)
  • Handle secure uploads in image caption (476)
  • AI image caption (470)
  • New Discourse Helper persona (473)
  • Mentionable personas and random picker tool, context limits (466)
  • Allow personas to supply top_p and temperature params (459)
  • Fine tune llm report to follow instructions more closely (451)

Bug Fixes

  • Syntax highlighting for shared-ai conversions with CSP enabled (532)
  • Handle unicode on tokenizer (515)
  • Expire assets when CSS changes
  • Missing translation on share page (528)
  • Don’t show share conversation incorrectly (526)
  • Filter soft-deleted topics when backfilling sentiment (527)
  • Ai-image-caption should not crash on checking currentUser can_use_assistant (523)
  • Image caption feature should respect composer AI helper groups (522)
  • Tune function calling (519)
  • Improve AI persona editor inputs and optional GitHub auth (518)
  • Prevent AI chat thread titles from being created before replies are posted (517)
  • Avoid all bot feedback loops (507)
  • Backspace in composer custom prompt closes menu (505)
  • System persona non English save, missing bot pms
  • Support multiple tool calls (502)
  • Stream messages when directly PMing a persona (500)
  • Support spaces within arguments for Open AI (499)
  • Composer service call breaking shared edits (494)
  • Lower truncation size for Gemini Embeddings (493)
  • Image generation in gemini was broken (490)
  • Caption was broken with multiple subsequent calls (481)
  • Unable to share conversations with persona user (479)
  • Cleanup AI search results when a subsequent search happens (469)
  • Better AI chat thread titles (467)
  • Use a dedicated prompt for thread titles (464)
  • Explicit check for empty string in compat migration (463)
  • Hide related topics when module is disabled (461)
  • Typo causing text_embedding_3_large to fail (460)
  • Improve embedding generation (452)
  • Add table name to remove ambiguous column reference in SQL (449)

UX Changes

  • Add title suffix to shared AI pages (531)
  • Add support for dark mode (529)
  • Update styles and markup for share feature (525)
  • AI Helper positioning (506)
  • Minor adjustments for image caption size, behavior (484)
  • Minor image caption style adjustments (482)
  • Add missing settings descriptions (465)
  • Re-introduce embedding settings validations (457)
  • Validate embeddings settings (455)

Security Changes

  • Place a SSRF protection when calling services from the plugin. (485)

discourse-akismet

Bug Fixes

  • 500 Error when editing a PostVotingComment (127)
  • Missing translation for review_tl1_users_first_post_voting_comment (128)

discourse-automation

New Features

  • Allow either custom_fields or user_fields in trigger (253)
  • Automated Post creation on user updated (249)

Bug Fixes

  • Update how we pass values to ModalJsonSchemaEditor (257)
  • Correctly format placeholders (255)
  • Computes next daily recurring from now (248)

discourse-cakeday

UX Changes

  • Fix page layout, clean up (123)

discourse-calendar

New Features

  • Use new options from downloadCalendar (549)

Bug Fixes

  • Editing custom field of event didn’t work (550)
  • Update test for holiday adjustments (541)

Security Changes

  • Hide invitees from users who are not allowed to see the event post (544)
  • Disallow self invite to private events (543)

discourse-client-performance

Bug Fixes

  • Use the proper plugin name in PLUGIN_NAME

discourse-data-explorer

New Features

  • Add group_list parameter type (283)

discourse-global-filter

Bug Fixes

  • Empty category matrix by converting it to glimmer (133)

discourse-group-membership-ip-block

Security Changes

  • Don’t expose custom fields from other plugins (13)

discourse-jira

Bug Fixes

  • Update jira field to Component API. (61)
  • Typo (58)

discourse-kolide

New Features

  • New checkbox to mark a device as mobile in onboarding (89)

discourse-math

UX Changes

  • Hide mathjax loading toast (78)

discourse-microsoft-auth

Security Changes

  • Emails from microsoft are not verified (72)

discourse-multilingual

Bug Fixes

  • Failing tests due to i18n.default (3)

Security Changes

  • Add max length to content_languages custom field

discourse-oauth2-basic

New Features

  • Allow specifiying required paths when retrieving userinfo (96)

discourse-post-voting

Bug Fixes

  • Next Page issues with crawlers (193)

discourse-reactions

New Features

  • Count all reactions as likes with exceptions controlled by a site setting (267)

Bug Fixes

  • Stop requesting more reactions when none exist (282)
  • Do not show Likes on reactions-received endpoint (279)
  • View activity reactions for other users (278)
  • _allowHover() function call (277)
  • Hovering reaction icon causing error would flood AJAX requests (274)
  • Do not show users who Reacted under post … menu (275)
  • Do not show likes with reactions on likes-received list (273)
  • Handle null post.user_id for UserAction sync (270)
  • Require missing scheduled job in plugin.rb (269)

discourse-solved

Bug Fixes

  • Nest combobox within LI element (280)

discourse-steam-login

Bug Fixes

  • Button styling and label (79)

discourse-subscriptions

Bug Fixes

  • Ensure deletion of product upon confirmation (195)

discourse-templates

New Features

  • Add a link to template source topic (70)

Bug Fixes

  • Slowness when listing templates and the templates category (67)

discourse-vk-auth

UX Changes

  • Improve button design to match other logins (29)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Optionally show “Powered by Discourse” link to discourse.org (26162)
  • Filter additional keywords for the sidebar (26148)
  • Use browser dir="auto" for support_mixed_text_direction (26129)
  • Silence Close Notifications User Setting (26072)
  • Improve “+ subcategories” option (26086)
  • Enable strict-dynamic Content-Security-Policy by default (26051)
  • Show remaining count in category-drop (25938)
  • Move back to the forum link above the filter (26070)
  • Bulk Silent Close Topics (26043)
  • Add “+ subcategories” option back (26035)
  • Allows to force a thread (25987)
  • Site setting to include post in penalty messages (26025)
  • Add onebox for loom (26016)
  • Introduce APIs for manipulating header icons (25916)
  • Allow specific groups to view raw email (26003)
  • Add recover api scopes (25978)
  • Support boolean, enum and integer fields for schema theme settings (25933)
  • Introduces chat_preferred_mobile_index setting (25927)
  • Allow rowspan and colspan attributes on HTML tables (20973)
  • Filter admin sidebar (25853)
  • Add user status to chat members list (25831)
  • Schema theme setting input fields (25811)
  • Hide user status when user is hiding public profile and presence (24300)
  • Add scheduled Twitter login problem check - Part 1 (25830)
  • Call hub API to update Discourse discover enrollment. (25634)
  • Add automatic before and after outlets to wrapper plugin outlets (24254)
  • Add plugin-outlet before/after sidebar sections (25807)
  • Add a checkbox for users to confirm before flagging as illegal (25762)
  • Back button for schema theme settings (25743)
  • Create a link to start a new chat (25722)
  • Add a .topic attribute to transformedPost (25757)
  • Add experimental option for strict-dynamic CSP (25664)
  • Groundwork for schema theme settings UI (25673)
  • Shift+j and shift+k will scroll entire posts (25684)
  • Apply pinning to hot topic lists (25690)
  • Backlink to the site from Logster (25669)
  • Auto generate and display video preview image (25633)
  • Async load of category and chat hashtags (25526)
  • Add new ‘illegal’ flag reason (25498)
  • Show unread post indicator on mobile (25421)
  • Permalinks for users (25552)
  • Allow disabling user activity tab for non admin users (25540)
  • Improvements to hot feature (25533)
  • Adds a link to original message (25503)

Bug Fixes

  • Correctly strip unneeded csp directives under strict-dynamic (26180)
  • Support [code] in blockquotes (26182)
  • Handle nil post_search_data for search result (26179)
  • Clicking “more…” in emoji autocomplete (26176)
  • Clicking “more…” in emoji autocomplete (26160)
  • Improvements for the admin sidebar (26168)
  • Hide suggestion to send PMs when PMs are disabled for user (26157)
  • Avoid sending user emails if @ mentioning a staged user in a topic (26102)
  • Wait for async Topic.apply_transformations during loadMore (26143)
  • Lookbehind assertions aren’t available in `< iOS 16.4 (26139)
  • Close user menu on navigation (26131)
  • Code “block” detection before showing autocomplete (26023)
  • Correctly detect RTL (26127)
  • Ensure header topic info updates immediately when navigating away (26128)
  • Correct pm icon link in glimmer header (26125)
  • Don’t prevent opening regular links in :hamburger:wrapper (26126)
  • Store registration ip address when creating user via SSO (26121)
  • Allow nil for properties values when they’re not required (26112)
  • Use user’s locale for chat push notifications (26107)
  • Bug in desktopNotifications service not allowing unsubscription (26103)
  • Improves linking of thread messages (26095)
  • Dismissing unread not dismissing correctly (26096)
  • In topic search for glimmer header (26040)
  • Check for options in dismissRead (26065)
  • Brings back discourse-sidebar icon (26050)
  • Update Discobot’s UserProfile#bio_raw when default locale changes (26045)
  • <td> spacing on expanded table (26037)
  • Do not show threads with no replies (26033)
  • Correctly shows as disabled a user who can’t chat (26010)
  • Active webhook types exclude inactive plugins (26022)
  • ThemeSettingsObjectValidator not allowing URL paths for string (26005)
  • Down downgrade trust level if all requirements are met. (25953)
  • Prevents duplicate attachments in incoming emails (25986)
  • Return missing href attribute for topic map participants avatars (25981)
  • Instantly removes group message when leaving (25961)
  • import:rebake_uncooked_* jobs couldn’t be run in parallel (25969)
  • Show “no category” in category-chooser (25917)
  • Live updates threads from my threads page (25955)
  • Channel member status live updates (25925)
  • Show deleted bookmark reminders in user bookmarks menu (25905)
  • Do not show send pm prompt when user cant pm (25912)
  • Add status to channel membership serializer (25906)
  • Better handling of error on create DM (25908)
  • ThemeSettingsValidator.validate_value returning wrong error (25901)
  • Error when integer values are set as default of string type settings (25898)
  • Prevents exception when last reply has deleted user (25852)
  • Do not raise error on transition aborted (25841)
  • Correctly updates last read on scroll arrow click (25838)
  • Prevent admin sidebar errors in safe mode (25832)
  • Muted tags breaking hot page when filtered to tags (25824)
  • Do not double-highlight admin plugin links in sidebar (25808)
  • Regression with onFilesPicked action (25819)
  • Make category-drop search subcategories (25817)
  • Show Uncategorized in category-chooser (25794)
  • Allows to query a username made of integers (25815)
  • FollowRedirects when changing sidebar panel (25814)
  • Customize form template view modal footer buttons (25804)
  • Make /categories/search order deterministic (25793)
  • Ensure model properties are set (25790)
  • Cache keys should be strings (25791)
  • Load categories with search topic results (25700)
  • Category results should be ordered by term (25771)
  • Admin sidebar was hiding chat/forum toggle button (25781)
  • Do not duplicate admin sidebar plugin links (25780)
  • Admin nav active link in dark mode (25759)
  • Set the video background to be black (25744)
  • Correct category name for auto_join_users_info in chat (25739)
  • Full post jump not working (25734)
  • Add a boarder around the video placeholder play button (25727)
  • Preload parent categories for sidebar (25726)
  • Remove strict-dynamic-specific logic from CSP extensions (25725)
  • Respect homepage prefs on admin sidebar Back to Forum link (25642)
  • Is_my_own? check for users who are anonymously doing actions (25716)
  • Make recent search items populate input with value (25704)
  • A regression in b797434 (25694)
  • Logster backlink config in production (25685)
  • Make similar topics selectable (25682)
  • Allow several chat channels to have an empty slug (25680)
  • Hide timer info on topic status toggle (25596)
  • Touch up illegal flag type translations (25670)
  • Do not add "tag-" class to pages with no tag filter (25677)
  • Serialize can_ignore_users (25672)
  • Don’t unnecessarily scrub query params from homepage (25665)
  • Preload user-specific category fields (25663)
  • Email category badges shouldn’t use category text color (25655)
  • Quoted private topic url respects subfolder install (25643)
  • Sort chat channels by slug (25656)
  • No reply as a new topic without permission (25641)
  • Webauthn origin was incorrect for subfolder setups (25651)
  • Sort chat channels by mentions, unread and channel title (25565)
  • Change max_image_megapixels logic (25625)
  • Render category badge styles inline for email (25487)
  • Look up all channel hashtags (25617)
  • Preload associations on subcategories when lazy loading categories (25630)
  • Always preload admin plugin list for admin in sidebar (25606)
  • Hot not adding recently bumped topics (25619)
  • Do not async already loaded categories (25607)
  • Respect date range in top traffic sources report (25599)
  • Service worker push notifications when cache disabled (25610)
  • Always trust admin and moderators with post edits (25602)
  • Translation missing for Illegal flag on topic (25603)
  • Always allow staff (admins & mods) to post links (25601)
  • Add id to warn (25597)
  • Omit CSP nonce and hash values when unsafe-inline enabled (25590)
  • Restore support for .js.es6 files in PrettyText (25588)
  • Similar topics relying on widget search menu (25586)
  • Clicking a notification was triggering an error (25583)
  • Correct className for notification avatars using system avatar (25578)
  • Visits for TL3 actually means “Posts Read: unique days” (25468)
  • Save previous chat state when navigating with the sidebar (25537)
  • Insert Hyperlink search badge spacing (25563)
  • Correctly save group invites (25566)
  • Update themes javascript cache after running themes migrations (25562)
  • Add desktop redirect for mobile only chat routes (25561)
  • Handle old Firefox versions that do not support isConditionalMediationAvailable (25549)
  • Plugin image assets in production (25547)
  • Prevents discourse header to go under ipad navigation (25542)
  • Only use mention styling for valid mentions in chat (25523)
  • Preload sidebar categories when lazy loading categories (25332)
  • Serialize uploaded_avatars_allowed_groups check on current user (25515)
  • Better supports ipad and hub footer nav (25518)
  • Video playback on iOS (25513)
  • Use feedback_category placeholder in i18n string (25514)
  • Remap postgres text search proximity operator (25497)
  • Missing translation of guidelines_topic.body (25505)
  • Conditionally hide ‘My Threads’ on mobile (25494)
  • Remove fast-edit regex and string replacement (25496)
  • Chat channel row indicator should only show urgent count (25458)
  • Default more group settings to staff + TL(N) (25493)
  • Remove newlines from img alt & title in HTML to markdown parser (25473)
  • Site-setting integer input type (25485)

UX Changes

  • Fix chat title margin on drawer and side panel (26171)
  • Fix chat navbar header alignment (26161)
  • Update glimmer header with new dnd icon (26166)
  • Display setting description for objects typed theme setting (26152)
  • Improve error handling for DiscourseConnect (26140)
  • Chat thread last replied user avatar (26123)
  • Remove last reply from My Threads preview + restyle (25568)
  • Change default action label from “Message” to “Send Message” in composer when sending a message (26109)
  • Styles for back to the forum link on the hamburger menu (26118)
  • Show loading spinner while loading dependencies for ace-editor (26099)
  • Chat avatar is-online styling (26012)
  • Update Facebook blue hex, add comment about button color (26105)
  • Don’t hide new navigation item in experimental new new view (26094)
  • Add optional grid-area below-content (26091)
  • Clean up invite buttons (26068)
  • Left align suggested topics header and footer text (26058)
  • Add sidebar icon (26046)
  • Move top dismiss button from topics to d-navigation (26032)
  • Fix fontsize and weight for prioritize username setting (26034)
  • Chat message creator scss cleanup + design tweak to username display (25928)
  • Always show image controls on touch devices (26018)
  • Site setting descriptions initial pass (25829)
  • Disable the image preview controls while invisible (25990)
  • Improve group email setting wrap, cleanup styles (25985)
  • Improve advanced search wrapping, remove mobile stylesheet (25975)
  • Clean up tag info styles, remove mobile stylesheet (25973)
  • Simplify styles for image uploader (25970)
  • Enable badge title on mobile, style cleanup (25968)
  • Update appropriate btn-flat instances to btn-transparent (25945)
  • Increase chat pre scrollbar contrast (25930)
  • Chat >` general fixes (25929)
  • Improve invite error message when a user uses an email that has already redeemed (25695)
  • Flexible autocomplete width (25900)
  • Make sure a-tag uses border radius var (25882)
  • Fix border-radius for dropdown in chat msg actions (25881)
  • Remove margin on bookmark icon on chat msg (25859)
  • Remove hardcoded value (25499)
  • Chat >` send btn alignment + hardcoded value fix (25836)
  • Chat composer >` fix typing indicator and top padding (mobile) (25821)
  • Group names shouldn’t always be capitalized (25820)
  • Fix topic map link expansion hover (25822)
  • Tweaks for send button (25816)
  • Allow fullscreen composer on mobile (25787)
  • Chat composer design update (mobile) (25789)
  • Fix sidebar section modal styles (25803)
  • Modal mobile fixes (25788)
  • Chat channel title links to channel settings (25785)
  • Change the color of the overriden dot to be slightly visible in dark mode (25782)
  • Hide the draggable icon in the sidebar form on mobile (25738)
  • Fix the video spinner css (25770)
  • Tweak play button css (25754)
  • Tweaks on the admin sidebar (25717)
  • Allow resetting password when confirming session (25708)
  • Better card alignment (25720)
  • Show search history for more contexts (25705)
  • Chat browse redesign (25698)
  • Clean up some label and form inconsistencies, reduce excess bolding (25701)
  • Prevent groupname from wrapping (25696)
  • Fix group search result alignment and styles (25681)
  • Show the full mobile read-state indicator (25678)
  • Add loading indicator to ‘new or updated’ PM banner (25676)
  • Clarify old dates with YYYY instead of 'YY (25661)
  • Set width for the new feature items (25657)
  • Add loading indicator when loading ‘new or updated topics’ (25649)
  • Onebox container sizing (25658)
  • Set zindex of chat action menu higher (25645)
  • Make refresh notice copy more friendly (25646)
  • Don’t display empty state while changing notification filter (25631)
  • Fix post count position on avatars in topic map (25622)
  • Add padding to bottom of mobile chat channel settings page (25587)
  • Grant names some more space on /u (25576)
  • Chat Sizing on Mobile (25543)
  • Refactor Do Not Disturb indicator (25508)
  • Shows PWA/Hub footer navigation on chat (25501)
  • Update selected colour var (25500)

Security Changes

  • Generate more category CSS on client
  • Limit invites params length
  • Prevent large staff actions causing DoS
  • Add rate limits for uploads
  • Don’t disclose the existence of secret subcategories

Performance

  • Omit HTML view from sessions by logged on users. (26170)
  • Avoid saving ThemeSetting twice when creating new db override (26076)
  • Add indexes to speed up notifications queries by user menu (26048)
  • Reduce ActiveRecord allocations in CategoryList#find_relevant_topics (25950)
  • Stop running bootsnap in development mode on all environments (25737)
  • Use -ping option to ImageMagick identify command (25713)
  • Pass the -ping option to the identify ImageMagick command to speed it up (25697)
  • Don’t allow a single user to monopolize the defer queue (25593)
  • Add cache for Category.asyncFindByIds (25531)

Accessibility

  • Update bulk selection keyboard shortcuts (26069)
  • Markup sidebar form errors as live regions (25937)
  • When adding custom sidebar link, first input of new row should get focus (25920)
  • Change composer role to dialog, improve aria-labels (25666)
  • Mark up custom nav section form for screen readers (25623)
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