# Discourse 2.2.0.beta6 Release Notes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-2-0-beta6-release-notes/104280
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [December 14, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-2-0-beta6-release-notes/104280 "2018-12-14T17:25:36Z")
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### Author: ![jomaxro](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jomaxro/32/126216_2.png) [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2018, 5:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-2-0-beta6-release-notes/104280/2 "2018-12-14T17:25:36Z")

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### Even more!

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](https://hackerone.com/discourse).

- 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

- Updated to support WordPress 5.0  
See [WP Discourse now supports the WordPress Block Editor](https://meta.discourse.org/t/wp-discourse-supports-the-wordpress-block-editor/103856)

### 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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