3.4.0.beta2: Better pageview metrics, multiple category moderator groups, watch chat threads, 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

  • Adding tags in admin UI (116)
  • Support multiple moderation groups on category (114)

Performance

  • Static id for like post action type (112)

discourse-ai

New Features

  • Allows forced LLM tool use (818)
  • Allow llm triage to automatically hide posts (820)
  • Add Ollama provider (812)
  • RAG search within tools (802)
  • Basic support for GPT-o models (804)
  • Make tool support polymorphic (798)
  • Add a SambaNova LLM provider (797)
  • Disable rate limiting when skipping hyde (793)
  • More accurate and faster titles (791)
  • API scope for semantic search (785)
  • Smooth streaming animation for summarization (778)
  • Improve site setting search (780)
  • Initial support for seeded LLMs (756)
  • Allow embedding based search without hyde (777)
  • Triage rule can skip posts created via email (775)

Bug Fixes

  • AI Helper not visible on iPads (805)
  • Diff modal closing along with composer menu on mobile (803)
  • Keyboard shortcut should be platform specific (801)
  • Support case insensitive setting lookup (795)
  • Display cached summaries with our new streamer. (792)
  • Bail earlier when a chat thread has no messages (789)
  • Correctly display errors when parent module needs to be disabled first (788)
  • Coerce value before downcasing the hyde param (787)
  • We were never reindexing old content (786)
  • Prevent proofreading when there is no content (779)

UX Changes

  • Update icon and text for copying message (815)
  • Move templates to main LLM config tab, restyle (813)
  • AI composer helper z-index issue (809)
  • Take composer height into account when calculating the max-height for topic summary (806)
  • Improve toast message location (800)
  • AI post helper DMenu styling (770)
  • Replace “share” with “share-alt” icon (784)
  • Summary container should be fixed instead of growing (783)

Performance

  • Speed up spec (794)

discourse-assign

Bug Fixes

  • If a group is deleted also remove assignments (592)

discourse-calendar

UX Changes

  • Prioritize events with high participant counts (610)
  • Allow event time to be hidden if desired (606)

Security Changes

  • Fix XSS in calendar event name (607)

discourse-category-experts

New Features

  • Added Category Experts unapproved post WebHook Event (161)
  • Added Category Experts approved WebHook Event (156)

Bug Fixes

  • New post sending unapproved post webhook event (162)

discourse-chat-integration

New Features

  • Add chat integration reference post (216)

Bug Fixes

  • Adjust full_url method in ChatIntegrationReferencePost to return the correct URL (220)
  • Revert chat-integration move to discourse-automation (219)
  • Revert chat-integration move to discourse-automation (214)

discourse-data-explorer

UX Changes

  • Automatically convert to lowercase in explorer-schema (325)

discourse-encrypt

Bug Fixes

  • Add missing event handler (336)
  • Errors may be null-ish (334)

discourse-gamification

UX Changes

  • Convert admin leaderboard forms to FormKit (157)

discourse-livestream

New Features

  • Add update to chatable when topic category changes (33)

discourse-patreon

Bug Fixes

  • Use current Patreon logo for social login (145)

discourse-reactions

Performance

  • Remove unnecessary ‘includes’ call (309)

discourse-salesforce

Bug Fixes

  • Use correct user_id field from return auth result (90)
  • Remove incorrectly added ‘App not approved’ message (89)

discourse-saml

Security Changes

  • Upgrade ruby-saml to 1.17.0 which fix CVE-2024-45409 (104)

discourse-solved

Bug Fixes

  • Support multiple moderation groups on category (307)

discourse-staff-alias

Bug Fixes

  • Convert type in whisper params (75)

discourse-subscriptions

Bug Fixes

  • Redirect to the pricing table page when enabled (239)
  • Payments not showing up for users (233)
  • Create customer for one off pricing table purchases (232)

discourse-translator

New Features

  • Add ProblemCheck for google (167)

discourse-zoom

New Features

  • Add Zoom description and location to Google Calendar (87)

docker_manager

Bug Fixes

  • Remove `<3.4.0.beta1 version pin (241)

UX Changes

  • Suppress pnpm upgrade notifications in build logs (240)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Limit client side image compression on Safari to version >`= 18 (28373)
  • Improve the suppression for admins when required (29041)
  • Supports mark tag in chat messages (28949)
  • Increasing name length in automation (28945)
  • Add ability to dismiss admin notices (28916)
  • Allow names in chat channel title (28843)
  • Toolbar API supports custom action for keyboard shortcuts (28883)
  • Add setting to exclude groups from /about page (28809)
  • Convert chat plugin UI to new show plugin and admin UI guidelines (28632)
  • Switch to new methods of pageview measurement and reporting (28729)
  • Added Category Experts unapproved post WebHook Event (28802)
  • Log tag group changes in staff action log (28787)
  • Only play chat sound when chat badge icon is shown (28387)
  • Add user to topic_tags_changed event (28714)
  • Add ‘Edit this page’ link at the top of the new /about page (28766)
  • Support designating multiple groups as mods on category (28655)
  • Added Category Experts approved WebHook Event (28525)
  • Add ability to watch chat threads (28639)
  • Post created/edited trigger can skip posts created via email (28615)

Bug Fixes

  • Skips caching a generated secret key base token if skip_redis is true. (29029)
  • Import script didn’t set public attribute of polls (28864)
  • Create an automation with forced_triggerable enabled (29030)
  • Fix broken client-side review actions (29025)
  • Unscoped plugin config page actions outlet (29026)
  • Custom flag name should be unique (28869)
  • Permanent delete of posts by deleted users (28992)
  • Don’t raise on some search terms
  • .badge-posts alignment on mobile glimmer topic list (28959)
  • Appropriately handle uninstalled problem checks (28771)
  • Show topic admin menu if can_split_merge_topic (28937)
  • Prevents user status selection in mentions (28944)
  • Support getters in hbr #each context (28941)
  • Retry updating webview background color (28912)
  • Prevent recurring automations from getting stalled under specific conditions (28913)
  • Don’t show move topic for private messages for TL4 (28871)
  • Error when moving the group default notification state (28910)
  • Remove anonymous users from users directory (28892)
  • Flaky system admin flags specs (28873)
  • Exclude inactive and silenced users from /about page stats (28877)
  • Regression in short description in admin badges page (28884)
  • Support date field in FormKit page object (28872)
  • Incorrect titles in two components (28865)
  • Align bulk award button with the other header action buttons (28859)
  • Use a custom prefix for custom flags (28839)
  • Errors may be null-ish (28826)
  • Poll voters list wasn’t expanding properly (28823)
  • Form template limit validation (28791)
  • Poll preview list styling remove redundant bullets (28592)
  • Prevent chat channel not found ajax error (28818)
  • Add “in:first” to user summary category search (28688)
  • Prevent layout shift caused by locale description length (28807)
  • Remove breaking super call in scroll-tracker component (28810)
  • Open file handles ‘just in time’ during s3 migration (28806)
  • Replace shield-blank with shield-halved for font awesome (28804)
  • Requested changes from dev (28784)
  • Reset cache after flags are seed (28801)
  • Supports groups field in post_created_edited (28783)
  • Supports groups field in post_created_edited (28773)
  • Add traffic info footer to the new /about page (28779)
  • Toggle chat drawer on channel thread list (28759)
  • Creating an automation without script should error (28752)
  • Ensures message field is rendering placeholders (28753)
  • Don’t let static pages overflow on some devices (28751)
  • Don’t use post ID as timeline collapse delay (28712)
  • Passkey login when Discourse used as SSO provider (28672)
  • Prevents PM to large groups (28681)
  • Return proper results when searching for a topic in Japanese
  • Keep the original URLParams in navigation item (28696)
  • Ensures global notices are destroyed on post created (28684)
  • Ensures default required validator handles 0 (28686)
  • Correctly pass updateGroupings to the modal (28683)
  • Mini-profiler CSP nonce when in report-only mode (28664)
  • Chat emoji picker positioning (28643)
  • Chat mailer log noise (28616)
  • Change eq to match_array in topic_tags_changed_spec.rb to solve flaky test (28640)
  • Ensure About#stats uses the cache (28634)
  • Use .login-right-side instead of .has-alt-auth (28628)
  • Do not enforce 2fa when an account is created with OAuth (28625)
  • Correctly filter user bookmarks (28612)
  • Restore propertyEqual following native-class conversions (28605)
  • Correctly render ace editor in FormKit (28601)
  • Poll ensure ranked choice results can handle options with rich text and links (28195)
  • Sum pageviews with number instead of string (28596)
  • Flaky flags spec (28591)
  • Correctly apply translate mod key (28520)

UX Changes

  • Improve bottom padding to chat index on mobile (29086)
  • Chat index mini refactor (29082)
  • Change twitter share link to X (29056)
  • Prevent user stream title from overflowing page (29032)
  • Add label for delete own post button in review queue (28991)
  • Proper description of the allowed_iframes setting (28997)
  • Minor admin mobile fixes (29028)
  • Remove alias from chat direct message channel titles (28958)
  • Chat composer style tweaks (28938)
  • Small colour change to chat composer insert button (28904)
  • Sort chat channels by activity in desktop drawer (28822)
  • Upodate stying of chat composer focused state (28900)
  • Add link to bootstrap mode docs (28898)
  • Link to sections in getting started guide (28882)
  • Tell 1Password to ignore the link name input (28559)
  • Fix confusing “claim reviewable” positioning (28870)
  • Fix admin report filter stacking (28875)
  • Fix double li-element in mobile list control (28840)
  • Update banner to handle responsive images with aspect ratio scaling (28825)
  • Prevent a focus-visible outline on mobile (28815)
  • Hide ‘other’ and ‘crawler’ site traffic on report page (28817)
  • Add learn more URL for admin flags page (28816)
  • Add a description on the about config area (28790)
  • Upgrade to fontawesome 6.6.0 (28778)
  • Fix wizard link in getting started guide (28768)
  • Remove btn-default class from chat thread tracking dropdown (28789)
  • Apply the admin page header component (28767)
  • Change organization alert type from error to info (28762)
  • Add links to getting started check list (28761)
  • Update chat channel sorting (28760)
  • Fix spacing of emoji in chat channel title (28756)
  • Chat drawer increase unread channel visibility (28731)
  • Apply admin UI to Badges (28724)
  • Update Chat Group Name and Placeholder (28703)
  • Update post_menu and post_menu_hidden_items copy (28723)
  • Avoid flashing error when loading form template (28700)
  • Adjustments for the about page banner image (28692)
  • Change admin plugins list to follow UI guidelines (28478)
  • Add descriptions to auto groups and auto group indicator (28630)
  • Change usercard selector to new identifier (28641)
  • Add progress bar to the registration flow (27694)
  • Add group link to category permission row (28560)
  • Fix spacing in topic map views menu (28583)

Security Changes

  • Prevent topic list filtering by hidden tags for unathorized users
  • Block registrations for encoded emails that are invalid
  • Add pagination to post replies
  • Correctly parse URLs in chat excerpts

Performance

  • Cache serialized voters at topic view level (28894)
  • Update migration to drop index concurrently. (28955)
  • Drop user_search_similar_results site setting (28874)
  • Use insertText more efficiently in replaceText (28880)
  • Preload user options when status is enabled (28827)
  • Preload voters_count and has_voted (28808)
  • Don’t do initialization for every DB if RAILS_DB is set (28668)

Accessibility

  • Add aria-label to user profile link in topic list (29088)
  • Announce “link copied!” confirmation for screen readers (29058)
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