# Discourse 2.5.0.beta6 Release Notes

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-5-0-beta6-release-notes/153491
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [June 1, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-5-0-beta6-release-notes/153491 "2020-06-01T18:30:16Z")
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#### Post date: [June 1, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-2-5-0-beta6-release-notes/153491/2 "2020-06-01T18:30:16Z")

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### Security Updates

This beta includes 3 security fix for issues reported by our community and [HackerOne](https://hackerone.com/discourse).

- 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](https://github.com/discourse/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](https://github.com/discourse/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](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-event/149964)
- 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.

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