Discourse 2.4.0.beta10 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.

Plugin improvements

Calendar

  • Improve Holiday Grouping
  • Multiple UX improvements
  • Add timezone picker
  • Add Google Calendar link
  • Bug fixes

Translator

  • Add Yandex.Translate support

OpenID Connect

  • Respect the email_verified boolean when supplied by IDP
  • Allow parameters to be passed from /auth/oidc to the IDP

GitHub

  • Add support for GitHub issues
  • Bug fix

WP Discourse

  • Fix Open Links in New Tab setting not being applied to Join Discussion link
  • Use WPDISCOURSE_PATH constant when loading plugin files

Yearly Review

  • Exclude read_restricted categories from user stats calculations
  • Spanish support
  • UX improvements
  • Bug fixes

Ad Plugin

  • Support fluid ad size in Google Ad Manager
  • Bug fixes

Chat Integration

  • Include category title and color in Discord payload

Voting

  • UX improvement
  • Bug fix

Policy

  • Bug fix

Teambuild

  • Bug fixes

JWT

  • Bug fix

Styleguide

  • Bug fixes

RSS Polling

  • Bug fix

Signatures

  • Bug fix

SAML

  • Bug fix

Tooltips

  • Bug fix

Code Review

  • Bug fix

Onebox

  • Bug fixes

Encrypt

  • Bug fixes

Assign

  • Bug fixes

Cakeday

  • Bug fixes

Solved

  • Bug fix

Data Explorer

  • Bug fix

User Notes

  • Bug fixes

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Export all types of reports
  • Drop “backup” schema 7 days after restore
  • Secure media allowing duplicated uploads with category-level privacy and post-based access rules
  • Allows to define a dissmiss duration on global notices
  • Add hidden setting to disable configuration of inventory bucket
  • Pass in excluded usernames to user-selector
  • Use new Badging API
  • Add rake task to disable secure media
  • Topic admin menu sticks to bottom on mobile.
  • Allows plugins to add a global notice
  • Allow TL3 promotions for overturned penalties
  • Allow complex post params from plugin
  • Add mybb.ru import script
  • Keyboard shortcut for opening the topic admin menu

Bug Fixes

  • Use new tag routes
  • Workaround limitation in jquery.autoellipsis
  • Higher z-index for usercards in the header
  • Do not extract dates from quotes and Oneboxes
  • Allow the app to generate and accept longer backup codes
  • Incorrect locale in badge granter
  • When tag or category is added notify users that topic was modified
  • Do not error in excerpts when aside tag has no class attribute
  • Make topic query include topics from sub-sub-categories
  • Make category-chooser show all parent categories
  • Users should be able to remove their primary group
  • Don’t override timezone on every visit of profile preferences
  • Don’t cause exceptions due to rename of reply_id column
  • Show PM icon in docked header
  • Applies correct styles to icon and attempts to dry code
  • Do not increase size of emojis in markdown tables
  • Reload the ReviewableScore types when extending flags
  • Include sub-sub-categories in new/unread counts
  • Change additional public uploads to not be secure
  • Groups pagination was broken
  • Change rootNone behavior in category-chooser
  • Add missing translation key for narrative bot Italian locale.
  • Styling for feature topic on profile modal
  • Show error message if the topic deletion fails
  • Correctly wrap image and resize controls inside paragraph
  • Better error message when topic deletion fails
  • Create post notices only for public posts
  • Group membership leak
  • Raised a proper NotFound exception when filtering groups by username with invalid username.
  • Properly filter the groups based on current user visibility when viewing another user’s groups.
  • Spec for groups_controller#index when group directory is disabled for logged in user.
  • Groups_controller.sortable specs to actually test all sorting combinations.
  • Rewrote the “view another user’s groups” specs to test all group_visibility and members_group_visibility combinations.
  • Ensures group-navigation states changes when route changes
  • Ensures secondary menu of user notifications mobile nav reloads
  • Update user-selector excluded usernames after insert
  • Update featured badge ranking when mass-awarding badges
  • Moves back padStart/padEnd to core polyfills
  • Specs with old filename
  • Use CDN for the discourse-internet-explorer
  • Remove padding while composer is saving
  • Ran prettier on user-selector-test
  • Make ‘findBySlugPathWithID’ when URL ends with a slash
  • Prevents url of file from being pasted when pasting file on iOS
  • Don’t log a claimed topic database error during tests
  • Stop logging errors in postgres on reviewable conflict
  • Decompressing lots of small files triggered error
  • Allow users to change title in locales other than English
  • Do not redirect to /auth/* urls after authentication
  • If the admin sso sync has no external ID, don’t throw an error
  • Don’t leak event listeners in user-activity-drafts
  • Allow omniauth confirmation page to pass through GET parameters
  • Add noindex header to user profile pages.
  • Make scrolling to bottom post in topic more consistent
  • Ensure we consistently pick the same topic for bench
  • OnScroll method was not defined on mobile discovery
  • Topic_tracking_state when mute_all_categories_by_default is enabled
  • Only agree with the first post when using the ‘Delete post + replies and agree’ option
  • Cached new topic data should not be deleted after dismiss new
  • New/unread count after dismissing new topics in a regular category
  • Allows scroll on load for discovery topic list
  • Bulk insert to create application requests
  • Bulk insert to create topics
  • No need to create separate user for each topic, post etc.
  • Another bulk_insert of ApplicationRequests
  • Dont create user and topic instances when not neccessary
  • Merge examples with expensive setup into one example
  • MaxMind DB file not downloading correctly
  • Keep ‘rb’ & ‘rp’ tags in html to markdown conversion.
  • Ensure CSP is off for qunit
  • Show uncategorized description on categories page
  • Descriptions were blank for uncategorized in hamburger menu
  • Add a blank poll options validation
  • Don’t give error 500 when invalid date param is given to admin reports
  • Allow underscore in file extension while downloading the uploads.
  • Correctly account for onebox height when lazy loading images
  • Any global notice text can contain HTML
  • Bots accuracy should be zero
  • Allow any protocol in wildcard url checker
  • Avoid superflous logging when mime type is bad
  • Under rare conditions saving a new draft could error temporarily
  • Catch error when unknown COSE algorithm is supplied for Security Key
  • Trigger commands are different for each locale, account for that.
  • Only show admin wrench when there are actions on mobile
  • Don’t display cloak on admin tool when the right wrench is clicked
  • Visual improvements to admin topic menu
  • Use cached MaxMind DB for longer
  • Open a card on click even if the mention has extra elements
  • The ‘reviewed’ status filter should include deleted elements
  • Update topic/post counter correctly when category has zero topics
  • Makes highlighting last viewed topic more resilient
  • Correctly styles pwa consent banner
  • Allows global_notice site setting to contain html
  • Cache_critical_dns was erroring without IPAddr
  • Correctlt styles notification-consent-banner
  • Track correct site setting
  • English and US date/time formats
  • Better error message when forum is in read-only mode
  • Update normalize css from 3.0.1 to 8.0.1
  • Correct description for out of love badge
  • Everyone can see poll results when on_vote and closed
  • Bug when revoking badge as title
  • Category routes model params should decode their URL parts
  • Ensure that we encode a slug only once if slug generation method is encoded
  • Give expanded CSS/HTML editor >`0 height
  • Label helpers on sign up form are not hidden
  • Remove rerenderTriggers
  • Remove full nested quotes on direct reply
  • Show signup input tips and improve spacing
  • Limit requests and include data when reporting deprecated icons

UX Changes

  • Users must confirm when leaving a private group
  • Minor adjustments to choose topic modal
  • Improve appearance of pm title editing
  • Improve appearance of lists and user fields in mobile bios
  • Ensure all generated backup codes are displayed on the screen
  • Return a friendlier error when the CSV is invalid. Added a cancel button to return to the /badges view
  • Update IE11 deprecation warning, and enable by default
  • Communicate the result to the user
  • Center featured topic on mobile profiles
  • Remove reliance on JS for category box links
  • Sub-sub categories in “Boxes with subcategories” + consistency
  • Correct validation message for category search priority
  • TMP fix (CSS revert) until translations are ready for flex
  • Some category page style adjustments for sub-sub categories
  • Do not use avatars as fallback opengraph images for replies
  • Invites#show can’t be requested with json and is not configured properly
  • New bell icons for notification/tracking statuses

Performance

  • Cache ranks for featured badges, to simplify user serialization
  • Reduce DB queries when serializing ignore/mute information
  • Cache ignored and muted user ids in the current_user object
  • Avoid DB queries when checking ignore/mute permission in guardian
  • Cache user badge count in user_stats table
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