# Admin Panel Changes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-panel-changes/322115
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 17, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-panel-changes/322115 "2024-08-17T23:01:34Z")
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### Author: ![philh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/philh/32/532740_2.png) [@philh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philh)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2024, 11:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-panel-changes/322115/1 "2024-08-17T23:01:34Z")

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While updating some servers from Ubuntu 23.10 to 24.04 I discovered a spiffy new (to me) admin panel which is much preferred over the old panel.

 ![newadminScreenshot 2024-08-17 143244](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/4/1/2419840668ad5dd657db5ca2f27ec3cef3e30512.png)

Old panel in 3.3.0.beta5-dev (43aa47b118) after Restore.

 ![oldadminScreenshot 2024-08-17 143244](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/3/7/c/37c1ae3b033051d4eca424f63153acc85f95646e.png)

Am I missing some settings?

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### Author: ![Moin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/moin/32/554653_2.png) [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2024, 11:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-panel-changes/322115/2 "2024-08-17T23:06:03Z")

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The admin sidebar is enabled by the `admin sidebar enabled groups` site setting

> [@Introducing admin sidebar navigation](https://meta.discourse.org/t/introducing-experimental-admin-sidebar-navigation/289281):
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> mega Update: The old admin top navigation has been officially deprecated and removed in the 3.4 release. The sidebar navigation has seen huge improvements lately and, going forward, is the only way to navigate the Discourse admin. We have been working internally on some changes around how the navigation structure will work in the admin areas of Discourse. The first part of this work is introducing an admin sidebar. It looks like this:

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### Author: ![philh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/philh/32/532740_2.png) [@philh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/philh)
#### Post date: [August 17, 2024, 11:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-panel-changes/322115/3 "2024-08-17T23:09:50Z")

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Thank you!

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2024, 11:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/admin-panel-changes/322115/4 "2024-09-16T23:10:04Z")

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