Discourse 2.3.0.beta4 Release Notes

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

New features in 2.3.0.beta4

Account for ignored_users when merging two users

This is part of the Ability to ignore a user feature.
When we merge two users, we need to account for merging their list of ignored_users too.

Header based auth for API requests

Now you can also make authenticated API requests by passing the
api_key and api_username in the HTTP header instead of query params.

The new header values are: Api-key and Api-Username.

Here is an example in cURL:

curl -i -sS -X POST "http://127.0.0.1:3000/categories" \
  -H "Content-Type: multipart/form-data;" \
  -H "Api-Key: $API_KEY" \
  -H "Api-Username: system" \
  -F "name=7c1c0ed93583cba7124b745d1bd56b32" \
  -F "color=49d9e9" \
  -F "text_color=f0fcfd"

Allow users to easily track/watch/mute topics via email

If you reply to an email with the word “mute” a topic will be muted
If you reply to an email with the word “track” a topic will be tracked
If you reply to an email with the word “watch” a topic will be watched

These ninja command can help advanced mailing list ex-users, saves a trip
to the website

There is also support for Api-User-Id and Api-User-External-Id
instead of specifying the username along with the key.

Special call-out for new / returning posters.

A banner message appears when a new or a user who hasn’t posted in 2 months posts to encourage those users to continue to post.

2.3.0.beta4 and UX fixes

This release also includes a number of small bug and UX fixes from our 2.3.0.beta3 release. Sites on the beta and tests-passed branches are encouraged to update to resolve these issues, including:

• Missing translations when “en” set as fallbackLocale
• Do not display add/remove participants if you can’t actually do it
• Sanitize theme settings properly before injecting into stylesheets
• Bugs in safari where select-kit is not expanding on iOS
• Fix post notice on mobile
• Text content search warning if more than 50 results

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

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.

Performance

• Remove final N+1 from theme admin page

Plugin improvements

Ad plugin

• Update translations
• resizing of ad units when they’re rendered
• refactor google-dfp-ad component to reduce repetition

Voting

• Update translations
• Bug fix: Do not transfer votes unless the entire topic is merged

Data-Explorer

• Update translations
• Add a default query for a list of topics user is watching/tracking/muted

Azure-Blob-Storage

• Trap exception when failed to move blob to tombstone.

Canned Replies

• Get original poster username from TopicDetails.
• Update translations

Math

• Add KaTeX rendering support

Encrypt

• Bug Fix: Do not open the composer if encryption is disabled.
• Lookup upload URLs.
• Do not retry to decrypt if it failed once.
• Do not run initializers if the plugin is not enabled.
• Ignore composer hooks if not a private message.

Checklist

• prevents checkbox from slightly moving

Prometheus Alert Receiver

• Add firing count to topic titles, and bump when count changes

Calendar

• Bug Fixes
• Faster holiday & event expiration
• Save event details in right order

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

• Skip small actions when counting replies in PMs.
• Add missing S3 regions
• Allow discourse script to skip disabling of emails after restore
• Remove all expired invitations by default
• Create a new message via URL without specifying user or group
• Add about-after-description plugin outlet
• Save ignored usernames in user preferences
• Hide ignored user’s Original Post content
• Defer flags when deleting child replies
• Add plugin html hook to insert html before any other scripts
• Add ignored user list to the User’s preference page
• Optional detailed performance logging for Sidekiq jobs
• Displays groups in menu search

Bug Fixes

• Changed warning css class
• Added test for has_more
• Fixed vanishing select boxes on full search as new content loads
• Ensures tag-groups are used to allow category edit on topics (#7141)
• Make post notices invisible to poster.
• Various improvements to post notices.
• uploads:migrate_to_s3 broken for GlobalSetting using file provider.
• Lightbox wrapper within open details should show.
• GET request didn’t use headers
• Job exception: undefined method `email’ for nil:NilClass
• Add translation to ignore_user_enabled SiteSetting
• Retranspile theme JS when settings YAML changes
• Experimental fix to Ember.ENV.EXTEND_PROTOTYPES rare exception
• Date format and styling for post notices
• Only call ‘unlink’ for tempfiles
• Remove padding from onebox site icon in composer preview
• Add additional rescue for assets:precompile
• Nav-pills not highlighted on user preferences page
• Respect code indentation
• Changed poll age message to upcase
• Loading draft also replaces the recipients
• Return actual errors if PostCreator fails
• NodeBB import details
• Post & topic destroyed hooks not triggering with tag filter
• Failed to save email template with pluralized subject
• Fixed custom emoji circumventing “max emojis in topic title” set…
• WebhookPostSerializer spec failure
• Allow moderators to create categories setting broken
• Fixed editing whispers bumps topic
• Remove ignore user feature from user-card-contents component
• Anonymous user filtering bug in PostView
• Select-kit perf and positioning improvements (#7093)
• Pending counts were not shown on invites tab
• Remove duplicate definition of create_categories.
• Any subcategory permissions are valid if everyone has access to parent category
• /signup and /password-reset direct links were broken
• Error when filtering site settings

UX Changes

• Add a paragraph description on the tags tab of the category settings
• Style adjustments for post notice feature
• Better handling of width and overflow for login/signup
• Post-notice max width on desktop
• Fix post notice on mobile
• Various tweaks to search-menu (#7114)
• Poll style fix, button classes
• More consistent structure for active nav-pill
• Localize date format in “new user of the month” message
• Display error message if no time frame selected in topic status update
• Fix redeemed invite table layout
• Previous positioning was better for the image resizer
• Add slash to mobile category page totals
• Improve layout of invite table
• Limit onebox thumbnail image size in emails
• Make Uncategorized category less confusing
• Don’t concatenate title on “Edit Category” dialog
• Image preview resizer style