Discourse 2.2.0.beta3 Release Notes

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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.

Security Updates

This beta includes 3 security fixes for issues reported by our community and [HackerOne]
(HackerOne).

  • Only allow picking of avatars created by self
  • Correct XSS on long topic titles
  • Remove admin memory diagnostics routes

Plugin improvements

Discourse Graphviz

Discourse Calendar

Discourse Sitemap

  • Bug Fix
  • update URL of news sitemap

Docker Manager

  • Improve Post Deploy Migrations
  • Reduce Unicorn workers in upgrade process
  • Bug fixes

Data Explorer

  • Style improvements in query edit & result view
  • Show the number of results after running a query (limit 1,000)
  • Ship default queries with Data Explorer

Discourse GitHub Linkback

Discourse GitHub Badges

Discourse GitHub

  • Initial release: Combine GitHub Linkback and GitHub Badges into a single plugin
  • Add support for replacing GitHub non-permalinks with permalinks.

Discourse Perspective API

  • Make Official: The plugin is now an supported and maintained by the Discourse team.

Discourse Assign

  • Bug Fixes

Discourse Staff Notes

  • Bug fixes

Discourse Voting

  • Bug fix
  • Improve layout

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Log long running jobs in the defer queue
  • XenForo importer can import categories from the xf_node table and convert sub-categories beyond second level to tags
  • Support backup uploads/downloads directly to/from S3.
  • Support category slug when creating new topic via URL
  • Added MaxMindDb to resolve IP information.
  • Added browser detection based on user agent.
  • Add branch option to remote theme import
  • Adds header text/background color to site
  • Post deployment migrations
  • Only export settings that changed via rake task
  • Add indication if incoming email attachment was rejected and inform sender about it
  • Enable the notification prompt by default
  • Add support for responsive images in posts
  • Change default to enable login by email out-of-the-box
  • Notify admins when scheduling of backup fails
  • Add Lithuanian locale
  • Display trust level descriptions in site settings
  • Auto grant an available title when removing old title
  • Do not allow moderators to export user list
  • Add external details to user fields
  • Log entity export in staff logs
  • New ‘search_ignore_accents’ site setting
  • Match user title when primary group changes
  • Unconditionally omit no-follow for staff
  • Updated CORS config to explicitly specify http methods
  • Add SiteSetting for s3_configure_tombstone_policy
  • Don’t blow up when can’t reach theme’s repo, show problem themes on dashboard

Bug Fixes

  • Make time attribute as optional for local-dates bbcode
  • Do not allow revoking the token of current session.
  • Email preview content not updated in second local date
  • Error looking at users in admin when tl3_promotion_min_duration is set to a very high value
  • Typo, should be authentication
  • Do not use force timezone value in display timezone
  • Don’t reply to Unsubscribe email sent to mailing list mirror
  • Groups list does not refresh when query changes.
  • Allow theme edit route name to be overridden
  • Fix open quote links in new window.
  • Properly escape name of custom emoji
  • Strip null bytes in mail subjects.
  • Multiple loadScript to the same url may resolve prematurely
  • Do not add lightbox to onebox images
  • ‘none’ tag page would not load
  • Generate Onebox for posts of type moderator_action.
  • upload:migrate_to_s3 rake task not remapping properly.
  • When associating Github account disassociate others
  • Maxmind download task does not need environment
  • Make error in Discourse Hub more descriptive.
  • Add missing variable in params
  • Add missing param for import_theme method
  • Add missing space to scss style
  • Add missing div start tag
  • Allow_uppercase_posts didn’t work for topic titles
  • Adds a title attribute on value list input
  • Raise if staged user creation failed
  • Convert tag string to array when filtering topic list by tags
  • Safari issue with some emojis
  • Display large/broken image placeholders for image oneboxes
  • Topic admin menu was clipped on short posts due to overflow hidden
  • Redirect users to top when latest is the homepage
  • Generate webhook payloads before destroy events
  • Stop logging every time invalid params are sent
  • Redirect users to SSO client URL after social login
  • Retry sending email in case of temporary issue.
  • Correctly censor strings starting or ending with non-word characters
  • Avoid redirection when not leaving forum.
  • No longer educate users who are editing
  • Edit checks for editing posts with no topic
  • Display errors in single theme pages
  • Move overflow from cooked to parent element to allow for slight overflow of blur/italic/shadow
  • Limit concurrent assets:precompile to number of available cores.
  • unicorn_launcher should shut down unicorn gracefully.
  • Keep files in order when adding multiple uploads
  • Recover public actions (likes) when recovering a post
  • Corrects typo and adds a spec for likes report
  • s3BaseUrl with small s
  • Sync client & server rules regarding tag names.
  • Force enable user PM emails option when user posts to a group by email.
  • Don’t send multiple requests when changing category notification
  • Async reload of locales could result in missing translations
  • Hide Delete Category button while creating a new category
  • Onceoff job to fix missing user profile backgrounds.
  • Close data-preloaded div tag
  • Don’t update user_profile URLs unless upload is persisted.
  • Dashboard test depended on the last month has 31 days
  • Advanced search ordering broken when using tags
  • Correct compilation issues on clang 10
  • Corrected copy on post_edit_time_limit site setting
  • Validate auto_close_hours category setting
  • Make theme import’s public key field readonly
  • Links in TL1 promotion system message for subfolder installs
  • Links in narrative bot messages for subfolder installs
  • Do not revise post if post revision is not present
  • Improved category merging in discourse_merger. Use full paths to look for uniqueness instead of category names.
  • Don’t try to recover an invalid sha1.
  • Correct readonly timeout
  • Avoid race condition when enqueuing job.
  • Do not send tl1 welcome message when a user has the basic user badge
  • Always unpause Sidekiq after backup and restore
  • Backup logs were usually missing the first few lines
  • Use a tmp file in UploadRecovery for local store.
  • In redis readonly raise an exception from DistributedMutex
  • User correct steam placeholder image url
  • UploadRecovery should look at links too.
  • Ensures onSelect/onDeselect are called
  • Do not treat ignore_redirects domains as blacklisted
  • Moving upload to tombstone should update modification time.
  • Tag groups page should only be visible to staff
  • Error because last_id is nil in discourse_merger script
  • Improves themes/components UI on mobile
  • Allowes forcing timezone displayed in local-dates
  • Permit unpinning an unlisted topic.
  • Error in response body to blocked crawlers, showing 500 Internal Server Error with status of 403
  • Don’t block api requests when whitelisted_crawler_user_agents is set
  • Poll modal date selector width

UX Changes

  • Add link to Groups in admin dashboard.
  • Site settings have immediate effect.
  • Make time attribute optional and set default timezones
  • Use dashed underline for local dates
  • Move Recently Used Devices to the bottom.
  • Use local timezone for insert date modal result
  • Do not show ‘Show more’ button if there aren’t more tokens.
  • Changes CSS class added to local dates
  • Prompt for custom invite message was hard to translate
  • Change staff actions logs user label
  • Use ‘trash’ icon instead of ‘times’ for deleting small actions
  • Disable button hover effects on touch devices
  • Category colorpicker restyle
  • Improve custom field layout on signup
  • Make responsive_post_image_sizes a visible site setting
  • When admin is deleted, make it clear in staff action logs when records belong to a deleted user and show their username in the details
  • Label of checkbox site setting needs a span for nested HTML
  • Slightly taller progress bar for mobile
  • Makes reports fade in when loading is done
  • Improve error messages for minimum and maximum username lengths.
  • Confirmation before changing group membership in admin
  • Remove flex basis from first item
  • Correct ordering of username / fullname in UX
  • Updating style of mobile navigation dropdown
  • Improve spacing & alignment for Category edit modal
  • Improve shared_drafts_category description
  • Improve owner_groups text to fit combo-box in a single line
  • Improves topic-title flexbox alignment
  • Remove double scrollbars from backup logs
  • Removes bottom margins from inputs in admin controls
  • Ensure ac-wrap input height matches other inputs
  • Better padding for multi-select items
  • Label alignment for Firefox / IE
  • Select-kit filter input size fix
  • Radio / checkbox inputs margin fix
  • Last-seen input alignment fix
  • Multi-select items alignment fixes
  • General cleanup of inputs, buttons and select elements - part 1
  • Lighter style for category and tag dropdown nav
  • Improvements to admin theme UI

Performance

  • Quit out of the email job quickly if disabled
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