Discourse 2.2.0.beta6 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 2 security fixes for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.

  • Do not delete avatars uploads when deleting accounts
  • Require groups to be given when inviting to a restricted category.

Plugin improvements

Steam Login

  • Bug fix for FA5
  • Use https for URLs

WordPress Discourse Plugin

Graphviz

  • improve graph image quality

Checklist

  • Bug fix

Solved

  • Bug fix

Docker Manager

  • Bug fix

Assign

  • Bug fixes

Chat Interation

  • Bug fix

SAML

  • Updates for FA5
  • Updates for CSP
  • Bug fixes
  • Do not sync automatic groups

Patreon

  • Do not sync automatic groups
  • Updates for FA5

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Rake task to list users which have been staff in the past month
  • Adds site setting to let quotes on direct replies.
  • Add short_site_description setting to be included in title tag on homepage
  • Polyfill intersection observer for IE11 / iOS Safari
  • Allow connecting associated accounts when two-factor is enabled
  • Activate users invited via email when invite is redeemed
  • Option to use ruby-bbcode-to-md in bulk import script
  • Remove full quotes of direct replies.
  • Improved deprecation warnings
  • Discourse.deprecate can report version
  • Show avatar flair on group, badges and directory pages
  • Show autocomplete when enable_inline_emoji_translation is true.
  • Add support for inline emoji translation.
  • Add ‘Advanced Test’ for admin panel.
  • Filter topic and post web hook events by tags
  • Multisite support for S3 backup store
  • Disable notifications for small actions that are whispers
  • Allow advanced specification of excerpts for posts
  • Do not check consecutive replies for original poster.
  • Allow plugins and themes to extend the default CSP

Bug Fixes

  • Suspicious login detection
  • Only serialize group membership domains for administrators
  • Delete all posts in batches without hijack
  • Incorrect translation key on admin search logs.
  • Apply original margin-bottom to fix position placeholder
  • Define actions on connector class early
  • Incorrect arguments were being passed to Jobs::ClosePoll.
  • Remove slow platform detection from server side
  • Always show filtered site settings
  • Invalidating inactive admin emails should mark them as not active
  • Do not bump topic when removing full quotes.
  • Makes charts more resilient to resizing
  • Sidekiq fails to start if any of the multisite has problems.
  • Support RTL languages in header menu
  • Return authenticated=true when reconnecting
  • Do not convert quote tags to markdown
  • Show every voter only once.
  • URLs containing two # would fail to work
  • Redirect to default homepage when visiting /login
  • Use database to persist metadata during social registration
  • Category-drop initial state was incorrect
  • Don’t double add users to topic allowed users
  • Exec_params needs instrumentation
  • Support connecting GitHub with existing accounts
  • Add missing android icon
  • Prioritize explicit ‘connect’ over matching by email
  • Return 422 instead of 500 for invalid SSO signature
  • Only hide shared draft topics from latest
  • Do not serialize user fields unless they are specified for display
  • Posts would not auto rebake unless gravatar download was enabled
  • Refactor lightbox mobile icon
  • Wizard tries harder to find existing Welcome Topic
  • `UserNotificationsHelper#logo_url’ to work with S3 based uploads.
  • Always allow admins upload selectable avatars.
  • Properly secure poll message bus
  • Ignore query parameters when displaying counter on internal links
  • Do not reset link counts when post is rebaked
  • Method extraction caused push notifications to include incorrect post
  • Variable name typo in subcategory image
  • Clamp integers to prevent ‘PG::NumericValueOutOfRange’ errors
  • Improve avatar loading, and add tests
  • Increase timeout when trying to reload unicorn.
  • Use safe navigation operator throughout statement
  • Topic is nil when first post is being created
  • Use safe navigation operator when looking for avatar URL
  • Tooltip regression in admin dashboard
  • Fixed tests.
  • Raise exception when getting dimensions of missing image
  • Don’t steal focus when text in editor is replaced
  • All multisite upload paths should start with /uploads/default/…
  • Make staff_edit_locks_post work with download_remote_images_to_local
  • Show generic title when quoting off-topic secure category posts
  • Do not store key tracking last seen time indefinitely
  • Lightbox expand icon on mobile
  • Add vkontakte icon alias
  • Log name changes only when the name is actually updated
  • Incoming email matches the wrong user if null bounce key available in db
  • Redis leak when visiting large amounts of topics
  • Jobs::CleanUpUploads fails when value of upload data_type is an empty string.
  • Refactor commit a8c3ca, add test
  • Limit SvgSprite scan to string setting values
  • Refactor ImageSizer.resize
  • Call ImageSizer only if width/height are available
  • Defer flags (only) when handling a flag and deleting replies
  • Prevent minimum_required_tags on category being set to null

UX Changes

  • Removes superfluous posters column header
  • Increase selector specificity so that “inline” lightboxes in quotes don’t get backgrounds
  • Fix cropped image thumbnails
  • Reduce show dismiss… at top of unread/new to 15
  • More consistent category lock and topic-status styles
  • Add styling for updated twitter status icons in onebox
  • Globally dim categories slightly
  • When composer is minimized, let user open composer in regular size instead of full screen
  • Dim visited post info along with title
  • Add missing icons
  • Refactoring topic statuses for consistent icon sizes & colors
  • Make shared drafts behaviour consistent for non-staff users
  • Improve code highlighting diffs for dark themes
  • Show smaller Emojis within some HTML elements
  • Wrap pre element.
  • Truncate long topic tiles to prevent badges and date from wrapping
  • Replace FA5 compress/expand icons
  • Do not restrict width of category image, only height
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