# Discourse 2.0.0.beta2 Release Notes
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-0-0-beta2-release-notes/79545
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [February 1, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-0-0-beta2-release-notes/79545 "2018-02-01T13:52:12Z")
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2018, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-0-0-beta2-release-notes/79545/1 "2018-02-01T13:52:12Z")
# New features in 2.0.0.beta2
### Improved HTML Pasting Support
Introduced originally in [Discourse 1.9.0.beta16](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-9-0-beta16-release-notes/75884), in this beta we’ve improved support for complex table formats, as well as improvements to other types of complex HTML pasting
### Invision Power Board Importer
Discourse has import scripts for [many different forum software](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/script/import_scripts) as well as other tools like Disqus comments and mailing lists. All our import scripts are open source, and thanks to contributor @pfaffman, we now offer an Invision Power Board script.
### `log personal messages views` Site Setting
Site admins have always had the ability to view all content on their site, including personal messages sent by users. We’ve added a new site setting (default off) what when enabled will log when admins view personal messages they’re not a recipient of so viewing personal content is auditable.
### Lock Post Editing
Discourse staff members now have the ability to lock posts. Locking a post prevents its author from editing it. Why would you want to do this? Sometimes a user posts something bad, so a staff member will go in and change it. Before this commit, there was no way to prevent a user from maliciously changing it back.
To lock a post, click the wrench under it and select “Lock Post”
When locked, a lock icon will be displayed on top of the post and the poster will not be able to edit it until it is unlocked.
### Disable Emoji Shortcuts Site Setting
Discourse automatically converts emoji shortcuts like `:)` into emoji 🙂. Some sites do not like this, so admins can now disable this automatic conversion via site settings.
### Improve Category/Tag Dropdowns
First released in [Discourse 1.9.0.beta15](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-1-9-0-beta15-release-notes/75171), @j.jaffeux has continued to improve our select boxes and dropdowns. For 2.0.0.beta2, he’s updated [the category and tag filters](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-test-select-kit/74502), which now include support for searching!
### Allow Sending Invites to Staged Users
Staged users can now be invited, allowing you to easily grant access to staged users even on `invite only` sites.
### Grant Badges in Post Admin Wrench
Thanks to contributor @xrav3nz, admins can now grant badges to user right from the topic view. A new Grant Badge option is including to the post admin wrench.
It opens up a modal for the admin to choose a specific badge to be granted to the user. The “badge reason” will automatically be attributed to the post from which the “grant badge” action is triggered.
### Font Size, Line Height, and z-index Improvements
Can you believe that we had over 50 different font sizes in Discourse!? Can you tell the difference between `.929em` and `.93em`? I couldn’t, and thanks to our incredible designer @awesomerobot our font, line height, and z-index systems have been cleaned up and improved. You can read all the details in [Cleaning up our font system](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cleaning-up-our-font-system/75396) and [Implementing a new z-index system with SASS](https://meta.discourse.org/t/implementing-a-new-z-index-system-with-sass/78236).
These improvements also make small and large size font themes incredibly simple - just add a single line of css, `html {font-size: YYpx !important;}` (replace YY with your desired size, default is 14) and nearly your entire site will be scaled.
### Security Updates
This beta includes 1 security fix for issues reported by our community and [HackerOne](https://hackerone.com/discourse).
- Email domain whitelist could be bypassed
### Even more!
This beta has so many notable improvements they could not all be listed in 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
### Voting
- Voters will now be shown on closed/archived topics
### Solved
- Improved tooltips
- Updated README including instructions
### Patreon
- Patreon account details now shown on user details page
- Admin warning for invalid access token
- Improved code tests
- Bug fixes
### Assign
- New site setting to require a post be claimed before resolving
### Ad Plugin
- The ADVERTISEMENT label can be translated
### Onebox
- Fix Sketchfab embeds
# Additional Features and Fixes
> **Click to expand**
>
> ### New Features
>
> - Select-kit api to modify collection header
> - Allow plugins to register a new locale
> - Do not restrict categories filtering to only FULL permission type
> - Bump rbtrace to latest
> - Add topic posts count to webhook post serializer
> - Shorten setting name to max\_reqs
> - Emit external\_id field with user webhook
> - New modal to show flags received for a user
> - Plugins can send more data to Google Tag Manager
> - Show header search results on search log term details page
> - Keyboard shortcut to refocus composer
> - Much improved and simplified crawler detection
> - Add collapse button
> - Replace period-chooser by a select-kit component
> - Add setting to display tags by tag groups
> - Allow system api to target users via external id or user id
> - Display force\_https warning in admin problems dashboard
> - Show create new topic link on mobile
> - Global rate limiter can bypass local IPs
> - Allow posting via email to read-only mailing list mirror category
> - Updates emojis to last revision
>
> ### Bug Fixes
>
> - Don’t blow up on badly encoding incoming email body
> - System user edits should not generate notifications
> - 404 page when clicking a badge notification from before changing username
> - BBCode to Markdown conversion in phpBB3 importer was broken
> - PhpBB3 importer imported some users as anonymous users
> - Allowed href scheme link can start with a +
> - Inline oneboxer min title length of 2
> - Show label beside confirm user fields, and fix spacing around them
> - Time read on users directory was not rendering correctly on mobile
> - Remove old unused text
> - Missing translation
> - Emoji-picker improvements
> - Hides upload link on mobile
> - Don’t allow username update via update route
> - Select-kit category dropdown issues in IE11
> - Redirect to original URL after social login
> - Improves UI state when no extensions are allowed for upload
> - Makes sure allowUncategorized is passed to category-selector
> - Enabling verbose localization for session didn’t work
> - Featured links are ‘undefined’ in suggested topics
> - CTRL+mouse-left-click / CMD+mouse-left-click or mouse-middle-click should open link in new tab
> - Remove all notifications of staged user during sign-up
> - Show message from discobot when staged user signs up
> - Application should not crash when selected locale is missing
> - Server didn’t use default\_locale as fallback locale
> - Uploads not working on themes admin page
> - Makes sure allowUncategorized is passed to underlying component
> - Force full width on mobile for cat and tag drops
> - Mods should be able to grant badges in post wrench
> - Censored regex words were replacing other text that shouldn’t be censored
> - Larger tag-drop
> - Tweaks to tag and category drops
> - Improvements to category-drop when used with a subcategory
> - Better handling of collection height
> - Alignment for box/bullet tag styles
> - Uploads:migrate\_from\_s3 wasn’t destroying records before creating new ones
> - Badge group edit modal controller is missing modal functionality
> - Creating new message via link was failing for anon user
> - Missing footer on groups pages
> - UX improvements for system messages when PMs are disabled
> - Don’t show suggested messages if private messages are disabled
> - Users column too wide on tablet
> - Tag alignment
> - Space below post-actions
> - Regression, missing 404 page
> - Don’t link icon to the private messages page if they are disabled
> - Disable the keyboard shortcut if private messages are disabled
> - Flags notification badge becomes too narrow when menu is open
> - Support for generating excerpt when nesting `` blocks
> - Category badge when using box style on long category names
> - Caret clone div position for RTL locales
> - Prevent users from moving whispers to new topic
> - Migrate\_from\_s3 rake task not working
> - Ensure proper header transfer (except for cache control)
> - Preventing presence users from overflowing window
> - Notify\_about\_queued\_posts\_after copyedit
> - Allow plugins to register importers
> - Encode image filename so ‘`[', ']`’ and ‘|’ doesn’t break the markdown
> - Invalid SQL in vanilla\_mysql import script
> - Margin below topic-map
> - Support recovering images using ‘upload://’ scheme
> - Makes sure mousedown is stopped only on select-kit element
> - Jump to original post when expanded posts are collasped
> - Prevent `` nesting abuse
> - Correctly log topic timings as background
> - Never flush timings while in progress
> - Wrap similar topic titles at narrow widths
> - Increasing z-index on topic-avatar
> - Cache\_file storage cleanup logic was wrong
> - Don’t create new like notifications for deleted topics
> - Box badges on 404 page not displaying correctly
> - Allow shared CDN for s3 and assets
> - Badge with box mode having incorrect background size
> - Mbox importer didn’t detected already indexed files
> - Validate presence of ‘top menu’ setting
> - Topic and category exporters were only exporting users who created the first post
> - Subfolder: top referred topics report was missing subfolder in links
> - Subfolder support was broken
> - Adds support for selection-indicator
> - Category topic count alignment
> - Graphs should go to zero for missing dates
> - Invalid cache for parent category with limit\_suggested\_to\_category
> - When deleting a tag, the warning modal has the wrong topic count
> - GitHub auth always asking to verify email for new users
> - Return 429 when admin api key is limited on admin route
> - Rescue login required / broken images
> - Suspension / Silence reasons were incorrect on save
> - Fix category-link spec failure
> - Category badges css refactoring/fixes
> - Disable by default limitMatches
> - Support for watched\_words\_regular\_expressions when censoring words
> - Allow plugins to override admin component templates
> - Makes rake qunit:test task work on macOS
> - Show create new topic link when there are no search results
> - Don’t downcase watched words on input since it can break the watched\_words\_regular\_expressions setting
> - Censored words should support \* as wildcard
> - Handle invalid password reset token
> - Adds select-kit api to modify header computed content
> - Add guard to prevent a primary `UserEmail` from being reassigned.
> - Source admin locale from cdn
> - Cache admin locale file for 24 hours
> - Broken test
> - Google Calendar oneboxes weren’t working
> - URI must be ascii only for URI.parse command
> - Broken select badge as user title
> - Broken select badge as user title
> - Render error message when backup download fails
> - Do not validate messages sent to mailing list mirror
> - Never mark emails sent to mailing list mirror as auto-generated
> - Facebook deprecated facebook messenger emojis
> - Correct shushing\_face name
> - Do not create duplicate topics
> - Don’t raise error if I18n key is not found
>
> ### UX Changes
>
> - Input and search cleanup
> - Prevent anons from clearing pins 📌
> - Generic ‘no invites to show’ message
> - The delete button is also a dropdown
> - Adding a sticky footer to the post history modal, removing bootstrap columns
> - Removing some old references to the star feature
> - Trim selected text while copying to the link building modal
> - Copy selected text to the link building modal
> - Additional protections to prevent tag nesting exploits in posts
> - White text for social login buttons, regardless of theme
> - Very long tag names should truncate
> - Improve description of s3\_use\_iam\_profile
> - Adjustments for embedded reply collapse button
> - Small adjustments to similar topics popup
> - User column heading needs a width
> - Implementing a z-index system
> - Modal; Moving cancel further away from confirm
> - Removing width: auto; in mobile autocomplete so long strings truncate
> - Button styling
> - Styling embedded post collapse button
> - Tag alignment and size in topic titles
> - Switch to quartlerly period view for search log term graphs
> - Increasing contrast on composer elements
> - Line-height should be larger with single-line titles
> - Increase post meta font size
> - Type system rebuild
> - Don’t use a chevron when a dropdown is just an icon
> - Switch back to line chart
> - Put the HR in the correct place
> - Adding a little space after oneboxes
> - Show bar chart for admin graphs
>
> ### Performance
>
> - Ability to crawl for titles without extra HEAD req
> - Slow down optimizing images per host
> - Guard so we only create one optimized image per process
> - Reduce memory usage for post alerter
> - Run post timings in background
> - Bypass theme handling on static routes
> - Add frozen string literals to app controller
> - Reduce queries required for post timings
> - Avoid expensive OR clause query info more efficiently
> - Improve perf of topic suggested query with limit\_suggested\_to\_category
> - Handle debounce in redis cause SQL can be slow
> - Bypass omniauth unless in an auth path
> - Add frozen strings
> - Calculate topic\_counts for tags in an async job so tag queries that include counts are much faster
> - Cache messages so re-opening composer on same topic does not issue a req
> - Use cdn for extra locales
> - Enable gzip on proxied requests
> - Defer message bus on hidden tabs so only one in 1.5 seconds happens
> - Add some minimal caching to javascripts folder
> - Conserve memory while rebaking posts