Discourse 2.2.0.beta8 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 1 security fix for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.

  • Escape title HTML for inline onebox

Plugin improvements

OpenID Connect

  • Option to enable verbose logging of the authentication process

Invite Tokens

  • Allow invite tokens to bypass email verification when redeeming invite
  • Bug fix

Azure-AD

  • Bug fix

Data Explorer

  • UX improvement

Onebox

  • Add support for Twitter cards
  • Bug fixes
  • Enforce aspect ratio to limit post “jumping” as oneboxes load

Backup Uploads to S3

  • Bug fixes

Spoiler Alert

  • Bug fix to support image lazy loading

Cakeday

  • Bug fixes

Chat Integration

  • Bug fix - handle mailto links in slack messages

Assign

  • Bug fixes
  • Add events for assigning and unassigning topics

Yearly Review

WP Discourse

  • Support new WP 5 editor
  • Bug fixes

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Allow staff to select existing message via ID or URL
  • Plugin support for custom icons
  • Allow extending CSP base-uri and object-src
  • Set CSP base-uri and object-src to none
  • Remove option for Google Plus sharing
  • Push post rebake regular task to low priority queue
  • Keep the topic in closed status until the community flags are handled
  • Add support for Twitter cards.
  • Use email_site_title in From of digest emails
  • Include “via <site_name>” in email From header
  • Allow plugins to add custom emoji translations
  • Topic timer for bumping a topic in the future
  • Add S3 etag value to uploads table
  • Add setting to bypass sending redis CLIENT commands
  • Remove global settings for redis sentinels
  • Make auth_redirect param options on user_api_keys
  • Tighter limits on per cluster post rebakes
  • Add rake task that resets ACL on every object in S3
  • Display error message when category restriction is applied for tags
  • Force rebake of all posts with images
  • Store thumbnail algorithm version in optimized image table
  • Allow custom HighlightJS languages

Bug Fixes

  • expandAllPinned was not resetting after visiting a category
  • use Handlebars 4.0.12
  • List staff users within the last month
  • Add meta details for user summary page
  • Do not show PM topics when moving posts to an existing public topic
  • Do not show full name on summary page unless the setting is enabled
  • Fix registration dialog popup for ‘full screen’ social logins
  • CheckEmail was calling itself
  • Previous annotations were broken
  • Show user avatar on User summary page
  • Correct copy for flag_sockpuppets site setting
  • Use correct version when generating file path for optimized image
  • Show title as home logo if title has been set and logo is blank.
  • Use discourse route_for function to check url route
  • Prensence was overlapping with full-screen icon
  • Ember3 regression, uses model as bufferedProperty for badges
  • Add missing “merge selected posts” icon
  • Minor regression when acting on queued post
  • Remove google+ from share_links site setting
  • Add missing copyright icon
  • Remove expired subscription for push notifications
  • Uses compiler version to force rebaking of themes
  • Show lock glyph to a user without permissions to see quote
  • Partial reply key search in email sent logs.
  • Searching email logs by reply key
  • Push notifications didn’t work anymore
  • Multisite DB was leaving old data in test mode
  • Bump onebox version for gfycat aspect ratio fix
  • Apply classes when lazily loading images
  • Match default <code> padding to highlightjs padding
  • Gyfcat onebox should have fixed aspect ratio videos
  • Add topic status to flagged topics list
  • Full page search results are unclickable
  • Do not show Uncategorized in category drop if setting is disabled
  • Ensure ember transitions do not get hijacked by discourse intercept-click
  • Migrate_to_s3 rake task with folder path
  • Enforce a fixed height on generic oneboxed videos
  • Add compatibility for bucket folder paths in migrate_to_s3 task
  • Remove trailing whitespace to fix build
  • Always serve new avatar for previous version
  • Set unique post key for a user outside of transaction.
  • Use absolute URL for twitter:image tag
  • Add more https hosts
  • Properly escape embed url
  • Better accept invite flow when user is invited via a link
  • Improve topic small header alignment in mobile
  • Emojis are hard :shrug:
  • BuildTranslationTree was erroring when translations overlapped (ie. “:-)” and “:-))”)
  • Emoji translations wasn’t working properly when translations overlapped
  • Prevent error when badge has already been awarded
  • Upload method in S3Helper will expect a file object param
  • Image rendered temporarily in wrong position while loading
  • Incorrect CDN URL for site setting uploads when s3 is enabled.
  • Posting without bump raised an error for TL4
  • Trim trailing slash from topic links
  • Show accurate error message based on invite token validity
  • Make full height menu and cloak respect custom headers

UX Changes

  • Use generic label for S3-compatible storage provider
  • Better help text for private invite-only instance
  • Reducing usage of btn-small, simplifying styles
  • Don’t save automatically when resetting site settings in admin page.
  • Close button shouldn’t get :visited color
  • Always scope the composer categories dropdown to current category
  • Search all categories even if category-chooser is scoped to particular category
  • Use default H2 and H3 sizes on user profiles for better hierarchy
  • Tag container should wrap if there’s a large number of tags
  • Moves topic-list excerpts out of category / tag div
  • Default search log index to yearly.
  • No need for margin if participants is first-child
  • Display user and group cards over the small PM header
  • Improve PM small header alignment with recipient avatars
  • Excerpts don’t wrap on IE11
  • Update site setting description to match current function
  • Remove gray background from lightbox

Performance

  • Reduce workload when optimizing images
  • Run sidekiq with nice 5
  • Run ImageMagick conversions with nice 10
  • Index on topic_id for user_histories table
  • Remove image optimization throttling from Sidekiq
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