Discourse 2.3.0.beta6 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.

  • Properly validate return URL for SSO

Plugin improvements

Assign Plugin

  • FIX: adds auto-route to avoid losing queryParams on successive clicks
  • FIX: ember 3 support
  • FIX: Check if topic is assigned before assigning again

Solved Plugin

  • FIX: Staff users can accept posts in deleted topics
  • FIX: Include the serializer fields only if plugin is enabled

Discourse Oauth2 basic

  • FEATURE: Add site setting to override user email address during login

Akismet Plugin

  • FIX UI and remove #target calls
  • FEATURE: Hide the old akismet review queue when the reviewable api is present
  • FEATURE: Use new plugin API to attach ReviewableAkismetPost type
  • FIX: Added some tests. Tested and fixed some corner cases
  • FEATURE: Calculate system user score
  • FIX: Fetch only one ReviewableAkismetPost
  • FIX: Avoid breaking the build when the reviewable API is not present
  • FIX: ReviewableAKismetPostSerializer needs to be loaded conditionally for backwards compatibility
  • FIX: Add missing reviewable_serializer require_dependency

Canned Replies plugin

  • FIX: Exit initializer earlier when plugin is disabled
  • FIX: ember 3 support
  • FEATURE: Add Ability to Give Groups Access to Canned Replies

Voting Plugin

  • FEATURE: Allow ‘Votes’ as default topic sort order
  • FIX: Don’t use number 1 for quantity one in localization because french and few other languages will use ‘one’ key for zero quantity.

Ad Plugin

  • FIX: wrong size setting being used for post-bottom desktop

Spoiler Alert

  • FIX: Reduce icon jitter in Safari. Sometimes a blurred image would cause SVG icon jitter on scroll, this hack that forces GPU acceleration seems to fix it

Staff Notes

  • UX: Display staff notes popup instead of redirecting to user page

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Add Armenian language
  • Unconditionally update Topic updated_at when posts change in topic
  • Change layout of escaped_fragment_ topic page to table one like live discourse
  • Allow auth providers to define specific icons
  • Unified popover implementation
  • Implements a Well-Know URL for Changing Passwords
  • Improve avatar education link
  • Add scheduled job to purge expired ignored users
  • Locale support for seeded categories and topics
  • Post notices become old after 14 days
  • Clean up inactive users
  • Display notification count in title for logged in users
  • Adding early relase unicode emojis
  • Allow users to fetch a customized manifest on PWA install
  • Updates emoji to latest 12.0 version
  • Add IgnoredUsersSummary daily job
  • Enable experimental Badging API
  • Fetch email from auth provider if current user email is invalid

Bug Fixes

  • Moment.js uses a more specific language code for Armenian
  • Upload.migrate_to_new_scheme undefined error when external image fails to download.
  • Switching composer action shouldn’t trigger abandon popup
  • Re-download hotlinked optimized images
  • Download local images, even if download remote is disabled
  • Staff action records now also accepts action_name as filter
  • Corrects link to moderators_activity report
  • Failed to show details about some bounced emails
  • Check can_create_tags on mini-tag-chooser as tag-chooser
  • Better styling with popover
  • Uses aria-label instead of title as it’s useless with popover
  • Flaky test in reports
  • Send only one post request when changing topic notification level
  • Forcing permissions of seeded categories shouldn’t fail
  • Post blurb incorrect when search contains a phrase match.
  • Destroy optimized image if attempting to migrate to new scheme fails.
  • Skip validation when saving in Upload#migrate_to_new_scheme.
  • More explicit grid layout
  • Remove duplicate site settings and add unique index
  • Make migration resilient against duplicate site settings
  • Dry run broken for uploads:migrate_to_s3.
  • Fixed changing composer mode escaping title
  • Onebox discourse user not respecting enable names
  • Always include custom fields in CategorySerializer
  • Set text for titles in custom push notifications
  • Prevent sending multiple summary emails due to Sidekiq delays
  • Clear unsaved groups when switching user
  • Prevent critical emails bypassing disable, and improve email test logic
  • Destroy OptimizedImage record even if Upload record is invalid.
  • Handle BBCode in migrate_to_s3 task as well.
  • Suppress autocomplete on group filter
  • Rebake lightbox and use short upload urls in migrate_to_s3.
  • Add sassc-rails for plugins using sprockets to compile scss
  • Discourse client should know about Logster (simpler approach)
  • Respect the disable_emails=non-staff site setting correctly
  • Topic with no tags
  • Upload watched words should use UTF-8
  • Destroy optimized images in upload:migrate_to_s3 rake task.
  • Do not update last seen notification ID when forced to enable 2FA.
  • Fixed failing discourse-prometheus-alert-receiver plugin specs
  • Don’t override .is-hidden on mobile
  • Staff should be allowed to ignore users
  • Do not show post notices for bots.
  • Disable buttons when loading more results on full page search.
  • Use same weights for calculating rank and searching for posts.
  • Search spinners hides all results when loading more.
  • Improve UX for second factor enforcement.
  • New account modal too narrow in Safari
  • Login modal too narrow in Safari
  • Use default frame size for Instagram login
  • Don’t push browser state if navigated from root url to home page url and vice versa
  • Don’t redirect incorrectly after full screen login
  • SES webhook wasn’t parsing the message
  • Reindex post for search when post is moved to a different topic.
  • Don’t ignore category in search when using category filters.
  • Seed data classes couldn’t always be found
  • Windows has no country flags
  • Show ‘emails disabled’ to staff users when disabled for non-staff
  • Fixed edit category description redirecting without saving
  • Prettier for lightbox.js
  • Only change content of meta tag
  • Prettified code
  • Made reorder more convenient by clamping the entered number
  • Fixed reorder categories by number not working correctly
  • Respect permalinks starting with “/category”
  • Don’t check system uploads in migrate_to_s3 rake task
  • Bumps emoji cache version
  • Brings back [+ New Topic] btn from share-popup post action
  • Set default returning_users_days to 120.
  • Prevents overflow on emoji picker on mobile
  • Emoji sets were inverted due to unicode order change
  • Use correct emojis for Twitter and Facebook
  • Ensures add/remove btn is shown if you can only invite
  • Use correct sprite path for non-local setups
  • Do not trigger post alerts for empty posts.
  • Update user options in rake task
  • Prevents duplicate error on instragam migration
  • Images:compress rake task
  • Skip create_post_notice when importing
  • Prevents quote shortcut key to show in composer before quote
  • Migrate old null override for upload site settings.
  • Outsourced erb part from emoji.js.es6
  • Topic filters persist when navigating to home page
  • Migrate old blank override for upload site settings.
  • Ruby bench script no longer working
  • Allow banner topic posts to be moved to regular topic (and vice versa)
  • Backwards compatibility for SiteSetting.queue_jobs
  • Failed to detect existing category permalink
  • Optimise querying Post’s serializer ignored attribute
  • Upload#migrate_to_new_scheme should not migrate system uploads.
  • StaticController#favicon reads from disk when using local store.

UX Changes

  • Prevent images and lightboxes from extending outside blockquotes
  • Hide link to incoming email when there is no bounce key
  • Improve mobile search
  • Show spinner during text replacement
  • Inherit badge icon color
  • Indent category badges to indicate sub-categories.
  • Add more tag classes to topic view
  • Add padding to hidden content link
  • Show if webhook is disabled
  • Enabled sorting for more columns in admin user list
  • Better emoji escaping for topic title
  • Use a less technical term (“replace”) for reseeding
  • Improve user profile header layout on mobile
  • Hide mobile header notification badges if title is visible
  • Set color to gray for old post notices.
  • Order categories based on latest activity for all page styles
  • Don’t reload page after saving settings when editing category.
  • Show spinner when searching on full page search.
  • Add tag classes to topics in topics list view
  • Enabled pinch to zoom for lightbox
  • Add instructions to update email when sso_overrides_email is enabled
  • Update brand color, some login adjustments
  • More height for when there are recently used
  • Order categories based on recent activity when using categories_and_latest_topics layout

Performance

  • No need to select entire group just to find name
  • No need to select the full theme just to get color scheme
  • Add index to speed up scopes for UserSecondFactor.
  • Add index to speed up User#number_of_flagged_posts.
  • Reduce number of queries and size of payload when searching.
  • Avoid loading ActiveRecord objects when checking for second factor.
  • N+1 queries admin users pages.
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