Discourse 2.5.0.beta6 Release Notes

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

New features in 2.5.0.beta6

End of IE support

In preparation for the release of Discourse 2.5 later this month, support for IE11 has been disabled by default as of this beta. Support for IE11 will be completely removed in Discourse 2.6.0.beta1.

Discourse is ending support for Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) on June 1, 2020

Why is Discourse dropping IE11 support? From the beginning, Discourse has been built for the future of the internet. Discourse relies on current, evolving web standards as it is developed. Microsoft is no longer updating IE11 to support modern web standards, they are only providing security updates and support. Given the lack of updates, Discourse development has become hindered by IE11. When new features are developed, they frequently require IE-specific code to ensure they work as expected, as…

Update and Homogenize Menu Styling

We’ve gone through all the various menus in Discourse and updated their styling, removing the older, grey “button-like” style used in the past.

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.

[jomaxro (Joshua Rosenfeld)]

Security Updates

This beta includes 3 security fix for issues reported by our community and HackerOne.

• Make find topic by slug adhere to SiteSetting.detailed_404
• Use FinalDestination for topic embeds
• Missing security check prior to redirect

Plugin improvements

Onebox

• Improve Instagram Support

Code Review

• Bug fix

Encrypt

• Bug fix: remove correct user

Graphviz

• Add more detailed error messages
• Bug fixes

Knowledge Explorer

• Improve topic status icon handling

Subscriptions

• Miscellaneous improvements

Patreon

• Bug fix

WP Discourse

• Update wpdc_auto_publish_overridden post metadata when a post is unlinked from Discourse to prevent the plugin from attempting
  to publish updates to the post to Discourse
• Fix issue with the Auto Publish setting for posts that were unlinked from Discourse prior to WP Discourse version 2.0.3
• Add static get_discourse_comments function to allow comments to be displayed without loading the comments template

User Notes

• Bug fix

Solved

• Fix solved colors

Calendar

• Initial release of Discourse Event
  Creating and managing events
• Bug fixes

Font Awesome Pro

• Bug fixes

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

• New plugin outlet under badges page title
• Notify admins about old credentials
• Download remote images even for old posts
• Optionally allow tags in topic tracking state
• Show a detailed 404 page for private topics

Bug Fixes

• Support exporting reports which reference topics
• Correct the misalignment of popover arrows
• Don’t change the button height when spinner appears
• Restore the ability to rebake posts in deleted topics
• Handle files removed between glob and mtime
• z helper doesn’t resolve inside calc
• Topic-admin-popup-menu was overflowing on small screens
• Support IRIs (unicode URIs) when pulling hotlinked images
• Pull hotlinked images even when edited by system users
• Invalidate database theme cache when hostname changes
• Pins down highlight.js to the last commit of the v9 tree
• Don’t rerender whole users page while typing on input.
• Muted tags removed topics with no tags from counts
• Don’t raise an exception if a topic cannot be retrieved
• Allows to define label/title properties for display instead of name
• Sending messages to groups with non-lowercase names
• Broken query if upload id is missing
• Allows to have custom emoji translation without static file
• Add X-Robots-Tag header for check_xhr-covered GET actions, too
• Don’t send digests to users with no primary email
• Correctly set values and defaults for group-form-interaction-fields
• When destroying a draft always ensure saving is done
• Opening cancel draft dialog broke autosave
• Pass current_user to TopicQuery in for categories_and_top_topics
• Updates variables for HTML to use em instead of px in font-size
• Wizard fails to start when default_theme_id is -1
• Wizard previews if color step is excluded
• XML files could be detected as SVG files

UX Changes

• Remove box-shadow from kbd, unify styling
• Fix border radius artifacts on dashboard pills
• Remove the period after “Enable Notifications” button
• Fix inputs alignment in admin/customize/colors
• Position topic admin menu next to wrench
• Make the menu links header within the user panel more flexible
• Better alignment of icons in notifications menu
• Relocate before-topic-list outlet so it shows up on Top as well
• Remove in:unpinned filter from advanced search page.
• Fix activity column display in wizard homepage step
• Remove edit PM button
• More consistent alignment of topic timer’s selected datetimes
• Don’t show the suspension date if the user is permantently suspended.
• Keep focus on input after selecting an autocomplete option
• Do not show redundant user count
• Add spacing between +member_count and “more”
• Rename Priority to score for sorting.

Performance

• Use more efficient query when checking for existence.