# Discourse 2.3.0.beta6 Release Notes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-3-0-beta6-release-notes/112839
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-3-0-beta6-release-notes/112839 "2019-03-28T21:35:56Z")
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### Author: ![dax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/dax/32/244677_2.png) [@dax](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dax)
#### Post date: [March 28, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-3-0-beta6-release-notes/112839/2 "2019-03-28T21:35:56Z")

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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](https://hackerone.com/discourse).

- 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

> **Click to expand**
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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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