Discourse 2.2.0.beta9 Release Notes

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

  • Fix possible XSS with badges

Plugin improvements

Intercom

Initial release. See Advanced Discourse Intercom for details

Yearly Review

  • Allow the review topic to be published up until the end of Jan 2019
  • Bug fix

WP Discourse

  • Support overriding publishing username
  • Support publishing topic as unlisted
  • Bug fixes

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Introduce ultra_low priority queue
  • Allow calling user destroyer without a transaction

Bug Fixes

  • IE11 layout glitches
  • Don’t override user flair styles in topic map
  • Better legend labels for stacked-charts
  • Incorrect subscription in PostgreSQLFallbackHandler.
  • ForumsController doesn’t need to inherit from ApplicationController.
  • Don’t update User#last_seen_at when PG is readonly take 2.
  • Don’t update User#last_seen_at when PG is in readonly.
  • Avoid throwing an error when processing PG down message.
  • Don’t log request when Discourse is in readonly due to PG.
  • Use ENV values instead of ‘S3Helper.s3_options’ in migrate_to_s3
  • Changing owner of small action post failed
  • Update about/license URLs when updating theme from remote source
  • Ensures visits reports are correcttly differencing mobile/all
  • PostLabel was not working for totals
  • Remove full quotes only from new posts.
  • Correct deprecated theme settings in handlebars templates
  • Correctly import theme assets with spaces in filename
  • Mods weren’t able to see emails in admin user list
  • Keep original subject in emails to staged users
  • Since Ember 3 interceptClick was not working on buffered links
  • Remove old reference and use MiniScheduler::Stat.
  • Text logo does not show up on non ember pages.
  • Refresh “/categories” on logo click
  • Refresh discovery categories on logo click
  • Use ordered_posts for last post check, not the posts relation
  • Do not hide posts automatically when flagged by staff user
  • Navigate to full page search when enter key used in topic
  • Wrap theme javascript inside IIFE to prevent using global namespace
  • Theme settings are referenced in JS by settings, not themeSetting
  • Regression lead to a 404 when trying to filter user posts
  • Avoid rescuing error in login hint initializer.
  • Liked notification consolidation has to account for user like frequency setting.
  • Improve rake emails:test task
  • Rake emails:test to bypass the “STARTTLS required” message
  • Too much j
  • Properly clean out post and user actions on destroy user
  • Sort topics/posts/links in descending order in user summaries
  • Heisentest
  • Ember.warn needs an id
  • Makes click-interceptor working with touchstart
  • Makes whisper state more resilient
  • Only add the trust level name for numeric trust levels
  • Add watching_first_post to NOTIFIABLE_TYPES
  • Tweaking topic footer dropdowns
  • Use GlobalSetting values instead of ENV variables in migrate_to_s3
  • Don’t show liked consolidated notification when frequency is never.
  • Allow liked notifications consolidation to be disabled.
  • Consolidated like notifications links to wrong user on user page.
  • Liked notifications should not be consolidated across multiple users.
  • Profile picture not showing up on user admin page
  • Refresh topic list on logo click
  • Prevent layout changes while images are lazy-loading
  • Tooltip for unlisted topics wasn’t shown in topic list
  • Prefix should precede folder path (follow-up on 10fbb07e)
  • Call method only if it exists
  • Include folder name in prefix for listing files on S3 (follow-up on 3ec38f5a)

UX Changes

  • Invert pikaday png for dark themes
  • We don’t have bulk select on mobile, so we should hide the button
  • Improve button alignment, fix invite header
  • Improve alignment of new post badge on mobile
  • Correct innacurate descriptions for short_title, pwa_config_title_warning
  • Remove unused translations
  • Improving user stream alignment and spacing
  • Badge alignment adjustments
  • Bump up base font size 1px, add smaller text size option
  • Improve short_title SiteSetting description
  • Improve logo setting texts to hint that dimensions are a requirement
  • Normalize all SiteSetting text dimensions to use the ‘512 × 512’ format
  • Larger/Largest font-sizes should be 1px larger on mobile
  • Soften dashboard warning PM
  • Soften the “problems” alert on dashboard
  • Improves dates display in emails
  • Sort admins and moderators by last seen date on /about page
  • Only show active admins and moderators on /about page

Performance

  • Delete potentially large associated tables before user_destroyer.destroy transaction
  • Bulk feature topic users & reset topic counters after an import
  • Delete user and post actions vs destroy on user destroy
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