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Security Updates
This beta includes 1 security fix for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.
Check permissions when autocompleting mentions
Plugin improvements
User Notes
Bug fix
Voting
Bug fixes
Solved
Bug fixes
Patreon
Add optional donation prompt
Bug fixes
OAuth2 Basic
Copy improvement
Data Explorer
Shareable links to reports
Bug fixes
Assign
New category setting to add “unassigned” navigation menu
Order assign list by reverse bump date (previous random)
Bug fixes
Akismet
Bug fixes
Code refactor
Docker Manager
Dependency updates to resolve reported vulnerabilities
Always show link to /admin/upgrade from dashboard
Translator
Bug fix
RSS Polling
Rename from wellfed
Bug fixes
Onebox
Bug fixes
No Bump
Bug fix
Restricted replies
Initial release
WP Discourse
Use unique transient key for DiscourseUtilities::get_discourse_categories. This function returns more data than is stored in the transient that is set for internal use by the plugin.
Fix incorrectly formatted header keys
Zendesk
Bug fix
Styleguide
Add support for new date-time-inputs
Policy
Keep history of policy acceptance
Bug fix
Additional Features and Fixes
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New Features
Load translation overrides without JS eval
Add an “init” method for extra nav items
Allow publishing docker dev either locally or net wide
Fallback to image alt before filename if there’s no title in lightboxes
Create New Topic button on embed with params
Stop updating last_posted_at on users for messages and whispers
Allow sending bulk invites to staged users
Remove attachments and truncate raw field for incoming emails
Add SES spam header to recognised spam headers
Add remembering topic list for group pms
Wiki editors are allowed edit tags for wiki topics.
Include image url in topic serializer
Remember scroll position in private message lists
Remember position in private message lists
Experimental hidden setting for draft backups
Allow staff to use topic_url for customizing email template
Improve honeypot and challenge logic
Use the ‘ugc’ rel attribute alongside ‘nofollow’
Add short site description on login page title
Bug Fixes
Skip invalid URLs when checking for audio/video in search blurbs
Add <img> alt attribute for Summary emails
Tweak restorer spec to make it stableish
Display tags topic list correctly when none is selected for subcategories
Build with prettier for imports
Allow theme translations to be accessed in initializers
FilterQueryParams mutates state that is essentially global
Improve regex used for image sizing controls
On mobile setting active on navItem would not work
Skip composer blur event when switching apps in iOS
Do not update created_at date when resending invites
Do not consider mobile app traffic as crawler visits
No need to pass cache option in onebox
Dropbox videos were not loading
Ensure menu not too tall on desktop only
Prevents whitelisted_generic_onebox_spec to fail with zeitwerk
Update action should be in setting-component mixin
Ensures menu panel is not too tall for screen
TopicQuery doesn’t react well to subcategories without definitions
Do not add personal message link in user menu if they are disabled
Linting
Move makeArray to discourse-common
Missing run import
Do not load plugin CSS/JS assets when disabled
Unread topics not clearing when whisper is last post
Hide muted subcategories for mobile
Enter key on forms submits rather than refresh
Make notification consent banner usable via keyboard and screenreader
Move attachment_css_class constant out of upload-short-url for discourse-markdown-it
Cache Discourse.system_user separately for each multisite tenant
Under some conditions draft would say it was saving when not
Tags can be filtered on categoryId without a q param
Default user preferenced categories are not updating in admin site setting UI.
Prettier on importing mixin
Ensure there’s an excerpt before showing the bio
Correct slug validation
Account for empty uploads directory upon backup restore
Generate category url correctly when slugs are empty
Require q param in /tags/filter/search route
Don’t use ember imports in pretty text
Use modules for Ember.run.debounce hack in testing
Yet more linting fixes
Upserting custom fields using keywords converts the array key to a string
More flaky jobs_base_spec.rb
Flaky jobs_base_spec.rb
Place image scale buttons unconditionally
Close modals on ESC key and clicking outside
Correct error when sending PM to email address
Prefer Category.find_by_slug over Category.find_by(slug: …)
TopicQuery category lookup by slug
Respond to user search correctly when category_id is blank
Theme component setting was not getting updated in the UI
Reload plugin translations in development
When running the wizard and using a custom theme, fallback to the color_scheme name if the base_scheme_id is nil
Allow storage of non unique rows in oauth2_user_infos
Update rack-mini-profiler
Hide muted subcategories
Handle nil case for avatar, just in case
Allow avatar downloads to follow redirects
Broken certificates
Failing build with prettier
Show poll voters in Oneboxed posts.
Check for presence of liked post before creating notification
Rubocop rule on restorer spec
Restore for non-multisite is not raising an error on reconnect step
Backwards compatibility for uncompiled email style css
Do not load group members when user can’t see it.
Should not disable topic inputs while creating new topic.
Wizard tests were broken with new loader
Sortable controller var conflict
Fixed testsuite
Correct path to ImportExport module
Reconnect in restore process connects to correct DB
Notifications are missing under certain conditions
Respect tl3 links no follow setting
Return blank avatar when downloading an avatar is not possible due to file size
Exclude image_url from web_hook_topic_view_serializer
Prevent null-byte searches causing 500 error
Follow redirect returns url if response code is 200
Do not resize xkcd image
Include user id in notification webhook
Load user model when some attributes are missing.
Make category updates slug validation idempotent
Reload only notifications when refreshing notification count
Zeitwerk-related fixes for jobs.
Rate limit and hijack certificate generation.
Add common HTML5 media extensions to onebox audio and video tags
Correct mention autocomplete in new topics in unsecured categories
‘only_hidden_tags_changed?’ method returned ‘true’ even when tags are not changed.
Id is always true since it’s been to_i’d
D-button should default type to button
Fixes plugin generator with zeitwerk
Various fixes to draft system
Update Redis gem to version 4.1.3
Polyfills forEach support on NodeList for IE11
Handle encoded slugs for subcategories
Do not truncate encoded slugs
Display site text overrides for non ‘_MF’ keys
Transform pluralized keys to .other, to check valid interpolation
Update Redis gem to version 4.1.3
Get rid of redis freedom patch
More encoded slug fixes
Do not encode the URL twice
More places do deal with encoded slugs
Handle the nil slug on /categories
Account for nil when looking up subcategories
Correct topic timeline position calculation
Tag cannot be used if it belongs to two tag groups with parent tag
Use the quote generator in the example text
Do not send notification to empty push_url
Do not make notification API call if push_url is blank
Add migrations to fix index on category slugs
Prevents trash button to get focus when submiting input on profile
Respect private_email setting for user invited notification email
Include topic link when inviting existing users to a topic/PM
Correct line count link in GitHub commit onebox
Public_file_server.enabled is false in test
Add unique index to prevent duplicate slugs for categories
Category.find_by_slug
Do not unpin reply box in iOS when selecting Emoji
Remove hiredis gem which is no longer needed
Subcategory permissions validation
Validation of category tree depth
Move notification level only when user posted
Zeitwerk-related fixes for jobs.
Ensure that scheduled jobs are loaded.
‘local_cdn_url’ method should work for local relative urls too.
Allow themes to upload and serve js files
Use upload’s cdn url in composer preview if available.
Allow change password with TOTP
Allows scrolling of search menu panel when showing more results
Remove another broken test
This emoji test was broken too
Flaky tests
Accurate sub_total calculation for reviewable_scores
Properly encoded slugs when configured to
Ensure we remove tempfiles from disk when creating an upload
Show a correct diff when editing consecutive paragraphs
Prevent from creation of duplicated TopicAllowedUsers
Minor Github onebox layout issues
Mobile adjustments for reviewable list
UX Changes
Tag input suggests required tags if none have been selected
Show user email address on “grant admin access” email and UI
Widen tag group name input field and add placeholder text
Convert alert & modal close to buttons for improved accessibility
Applies correct background to <select> on dark themes
Improve quoting on iOS
Fixes regression with iOS composer
Update disabled dropdowns style w/ color variables
Standardize tag display in search menu results
Dashboard links to git commits list instead of git comparison
Make group membership UI clearer
Emphasizes on local-dates being UTC in excerpts
Ensure GitHub onebox info does not wrap unnecessarily
Improve new GitHub onebox rendering in emails
Add newline after closing poll tag for poll builder
Wrap digest email footer in a table for better alignment options
Include metadata in composer link modal search results
Add CSS classes to digest email template to allow for easier styling
Performance
Add a filtered index for banners
Add index to notifications to speed up moving of posts
Stop destroying drafts on client when posting replies
Run expensive clean up uploads less frequently
Cache new users counts in summary emails
Add index on group to category_groups
Add unique index oauth2_user_infos(user_id, provider)
