3.5.0.beta1: Dark/light mode selector, better flagging info, and encouraging more valuable conversations

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Plugin improvements

discourse-activity-pub

New Features

  • Add ActivityPub topic map, topic actions, post actions and topic info, and update ActivityPub post info (169)
  • Add ActivityPub topic map, topic actions, post actions and topic info, and update ActivityPub post info. (161)

Bug Fixes

  • Update site actors when actor is created or edited (173)
  • Anon users should be included in ‘everyone’ for post status visibility groups (175)
  • Handling of AP attributes in topic info modal of first_post topics (174)
  • Incorrect i18n string change (172)
  • Routing to followers/follows regression (170)

discourse-ai

New Features

  • Experimental search results from an AI Persona. (1139)
  • New sentiment analysis visualization report (1109)
  • Native PDF support (1127)
  • PDF support for rag pipeline (1118)
  • Tool name validation (842)
  • Changes to summaries’ outdated logic. (1108)

Bug Fixes

  • Discovery search would break normal search for anons (1143)
  • Hardcoded require for evals (1137)
  • Add workaround to pgvector HNSW search limitations (1133)
  • Use max_completion_tokens for open ai models (1134)
  • Correctly handle provider edit (1125)
  • Update draft key for new PM with AI bot (1123)
  • Embeddings backfill job compat when transitioning models (1122)
  • Check post action creator result when flagging spam (1119)
  • Need to be able to search replace within lines (1110)

UX Changes

  • Minor adjustments to search bot (1146)
  • Custom icon for Discobot discoveries (1144)
  • Display a tooltip signalling this is an AI powered feature (1141)
  • Better tooltips for embeddings task instructions prefixes (1121)
  • Clarify embeddings description (1113)
  • Include none false for provider params (1111)

discourse-assign

Bug Fixes

  • Skip notifications when topic is not found (634)

UX Changes

  • Fix group assigns layout after core change (631)

discourse-calendar

New Features

  • Add value transformer for showing participants in the event more menu (687)

Bug Fixes

  • Do not show ‘send pm’ button to the user who created the event (690)
  • Allow events belonging to deleted users to be destroyed (688)

discourse-client-performance

Bug Fixes

  • Do not rotate session cookies during perf reports (58)

discourse-data-explorer

Bug Fixes

  • Query downloads were being passed an incorrect query object. (359)
  • Boolean field default state mismatch (353)

discourse-doc-categories

New Features

  • Added Czech translations (29)

discourse-gamification

Bug Fixes

  • N1 on group flair_url (185)

discourse-jira

Bug Fixes

  • Import i18n helper correctly (95)

discourse-livestream

Bug Fixes

  • Chat scrolling issues for desktop version (46)

discourse-preset-topic-composer

Bug Fixes

  • Issue with deprecated icon names (43)

discourse-reactions

Bug Fixes

  • Prevents panel to close on mobile (347)
  • Improves desktop with touch support (345)
  • Add TopicViewPostsSerializerExtension to fix N1s (340)

UX Changes

  • Fix reaction alignment in user stream items (343)

discourse-solved

Bug Fixes

  • Don’t allow or count solutions in PMs (334)

discourse-subscriptions

New Features

  • Add support for CZK currency (265)

Bug Fixes

  • FontAwesome 6 compatibility icon upgrade (264)

discourse-topic-voting

New Features

  • Add “Votes” option to category topic list settings (232)

discourse-translator

New Features

  • Translates every post to automatic_translation_target_languages (207)
  • Show full topic translations (205)

Bug Fixes

  • Entry in .discourse-compatibility was wrong (218)
  • Ensure old feature works with new and show translate button in correct scenarios (215)
  • Add back i18n strings that were removed (214)
  • Do not translate bot posts (213)
  • Set a stripped post’s locale to site default locale (212)
  • Skip deleted or empty content (211)

UX Changes

  • Update copy indicating page is machine-translated (219)
  • Show an obvious timeout error instead of a generic one (216)

All Features and Fixes

New Features

  • Revert/re-add import quote toolbar button (31449)
  • Allow a gjs initializer to be authored in local themes (31423)
  • Type reactions in chat (31439)
  • Initial version of experimental admin search (31299)
  • Allow admins to remove users from chat DMs (31366)
  • Allow showing only experiments on “What’s new?” (31347)
  • Display process information on flag modal (31300)
  • Add first_post_id to TopicListItemSerializer (31254)
  • Allow admins to opt-in to seamless redirects on /auth/* (31235)
  • Dark/light mode selector (31086)
  • Add first post likes data serializer (31216)
  • Allow excluding uploads from min post length requirement (31194)
  • Show flag description along with additional reason (31210)
  • Gracefully handle unhandled reviewables (31118)
  • Introduce a ProseMirror editor (30815)

Bug Fixes

  • Prevents sidebar to scroll when opening channel (31454)
  • Prevent sidebar scroll on chat composer focus (31446)
  • Drafts should not have an expand button (31424)
  • Recover from failing automations (31413)
  • Lightbox chat uploads immediately after optimize (31414)
  • Correct errors in uploads:sync_s3_acls rake task (31411)
  • Improve group name validation (31315)
  • Wikipedia onebox images and sections (31384)
  • Language parser matches with dashes or underscores (31381)
  • Ensure revoke_ungranted_titles! works with user_ids (31371)
  • Adds further support for ‘prioritize_full_name_in_ux’ setting (31346)
  • Make permalink search work even when there’re 100+ permalinks (31354)
  • Don’t show   in date to button (31352)
  • Missing link to deleted post in /my/deleted-posts (31342)
  • Image uploads in site-settings and profile (31350)
  • Prevents double set in the same computation (31348)
  • Relative date format consistency (31349)
  • Post revision respects ‘prioritize_full_name_in_ux’ setting (31293)
  • Minimum username length should be validated (31332)
  • Keep user in same context after login (31314)
  • Ensures fields are correctly unregistered (31329)
  • Calculate reaction_users_count in the bulk import script (30964)
  • Automatically redirect logged in users to topic when… (31301)
  • Do not show confirmation modal (31304)
  • Limit displayed groups in <GroupChooser /> to 100 groups (31288)
  • User profile not loading with an empty export (31290)
  • Correctly display label (31282)
  • Don’t load all groups when rendering <GroupChooser /> (31271)
  • JS error when .header-cloak isn’t present (31281)
  • Invalid CSP directive sources should allow site to boot with valid CSP directives (31256)
  • Improvements for uploads:disable_secure_uploads task (31231)
  • Incorrect topic per-minute invitation rate limit (31252)
  • Automatic auth flow with full page login/signup V3 (31072)
  • Do not notify admins about PMs when suppress is on (31232)
  • Correct typo in property name for save button component (31221)
  • Set the correct state of the dark mode checkbox user preference (31214)
  • Adjust badge selector for proper nesting in plugin list (31218)
  • Only include custom plugin config routes in tabs for old show page (31213)
  • Clean up not secure uploads with access_control_post_id (31189)
  • Correctly check for hasData in admin-report (31197)
  • Propagate pointerdown events on DMenu trigger when the menu isn’t expanded (31104)
  • Correct mobile height of badge and ownership modals (31187)

UX Changes

  • Replace solid face-smile emoji picker icon with a regular one (31421)
  • Close thread panel with a single escape (31426)
  • Triggers upload dialog on doubleclick (31425)
  • Increase limit in chat channel fetcher (31406)
  • Remove old menu border hack (31344)
  • Prevent long category names from overflowing on mobile topic list (31335)
  • Hide powered-by on admin invite page (31303)
  • Add enter key hints for search (31298)
  • Remove main-outlet-wrapper margin reset for mobile (31286)
  • Add confirmation to crawler settings (31269)
  • Update banner image field to use help text (30666)
  • Fix horizontal group nav on mobile (31259)
  • Switch group pages to horizontal nav (31243)
  • Use icon for create topic btn on mobile (31237)
  • Omit date in user stream for small action posts (31236)
  • User stream alignment fix for likes (31234)
  • Do not use generic username suggestions for invites (31175)
  • Conditionally refresh page on wizard styling step (31193)
  • Remove enable_quote_copy site setting (31191)
  • Fix HTML showing in delete user button (31201)
  • Fix layout of invite modal errors (31199)
  • Left-align dropdown menu button text (31198)
  • Fix wrapping of topic map links with counter (31184)
  • Update bot-indicator styling (31108)
  • Multiple drafts menu improvements (31195)
  • Show parent category name for category hashtags (31188)
  • Ensure all children of .with-topic-progress are clickable (31176)

Performance

  • Cache all extra-locale bundles and use CDN (31445)
  • Defer consolePrefix() calculation for transformers (31367)
  • Admin plugin preload settings routes (31215)

Accessibility

  • Fix post control button contrast issue for WCAG colors (31177)
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