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.
- 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 supports the WordPress Block Editor
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::CleanUpUploadsfails 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