Discourse 2.6.0.beta6 Release Notes

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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.

Plugin improvements

Many plugins

  • Bug fix
    • We’ve patched numerous bugs in many of our plugins
  • Translations
    • We’ve updated the translations in many of our plugins

Solved

  • Do not render solved filter on categories page, there is no topic list to filter!

SAML

  • Add support for multiple IdP certificates

Akismet

  • Mark Akismet posts with a higher score for review
    for forums that filter low/medium/high priority queue, Akismet’s spam filters may get lost. Forcing a higher score ensures that these reviewables will appear in the queue.

OpenID Connect

  • Add support for OIDC RP-initiated logout
  • Support PR-initiated logout post_logout_redirect_uri

Docker Manager

  • Add support for theme auto-update

Discourse Docker

  • Replace the default ImageMagick policy.xml with a file containing some resource limitiations. The intention is to stop exceptionally oversized images (and/or malformed images) from consuming all resources on a system.

Encrypt

  • Ability to permanently destroy the encrypted message

Additional Features and Fixes

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New Features

  • Search filter for searching all PMs on a site for admin
  • Add an API key scopes for handling incoming email.
  • Implement edit functionality for post notices
  • The ability to permanently destroy the private message

Bug Fixes

  • Show better error if no bookmarks found from search
  • Cached badge_count isn’t updated after backfilling badges
  • Modal methods should be wired up in setupTests not in module
  • Selected Tag Group permission shouldn’t change during save
  • Add missing translation for ‘views’ key.
  • Precompile wizard stylesheet
  • In newer embers, it’s triggerKeyEvent not keyEvent
  • Do not allow a tag to be synonym of its own
  • Use the correct key for the receive_emails scopes
  • Remove post-action when a post is permanently deleted
  • IndexCategoryForSearch category_id job exception
  • Disable auto_update for existent themes
  • Save draft when either title or reply is present
  • Inline avatar style for onebox when embedding secure images
  • Show read indicator only for group PMs
  • Disallow editing of remote themes
  • Store Reviewable’s force_review as a boolean.
  • Paste the spreadsheet to the composer
  • Do not optimize animated images in cooked posts
  • Reset category edit page button state
  • Add a way to cancel initialization of new draft
  • Use filters parameter instead of filter for staff action log
  • Add history icon to svg_sprite list
  • Ensure staff can see /tag/none
  • Do not optimize uploaded custom emoji
  • Precompile all plugin and color definition CSS assets
  • Restore (deprecated) ability to overwrite a property
  • Improve failover for multisite clusters
  • When creating linked topics make sure they belong to same category
  • Hide sso email behind a button click and log views
  • Use more specific selector for header
  • Show hidden posts to staff members.
  • Remove duplicate category description
  • Renaming and deleting tags
  • Handle rapid concurrent SSO attempts more gracefully
  • Make secure image onebox check more robust
  • Do not use “max_tags_in_filter_list” setting for showing PM tags
  • Small copy change in wizard
  • Paths with categories and tags were being generated incorrectly
  • Global setting needs to be coerced to float
  • Improve errors when invite to topic fails
  • Do not enable published page if secure media enabled
  • Correct “no tags” route in tag drop-down
  • Trim no-break space in to-markdown
  • Inconsistency in S3 inventory config
  • Include header offset relative to window
  • Update review settings.
  • Limit_topics_per_day should only apply to regular topics
  • Secure_media stripping on lightboxes, non-image links
  • Enqueue PostCreator jobs outside transaction block
  • Group notification level cannot be null
  • Stop bypassing email checks for invite emails
  • Safely skip secure_media steps when it’s not enabled
  • Show error message if user is already silenced or suspended
  • Remove 4 month limit on IgnoredUser records
  • Hide ‘category read only banner’ in categories list page.
  • Make all email subject vars available in notification subjects
  • Make addNavigationBarItem subfolder compatible
  • Disabled action buttons on newly-created category
  • Show an example username in Review Settings
  • Ensure oneboxed secure images which are optimized and also lightboxed optimized images are embedded in email
  • Category drop shows undefined

UX Changes

  • Bottom padding for menu panel on iOS notch devices
  • Only link the icon for site setting history
  • Handle large email addresses on email skipped and bounced tabs
  • Update the invite button label
  • Draft delete button was looking odd on user stream
  • Use appropriate logo on static pages
  • Layout changes to edit category page
  • Add a confirmation dialog for draft deletion
  • Add a link to invites on quick access profile panel
  • Increase the hit area of pinned topics on mobile
  • Add stock suspension reasons to suspend dialog.
  • Increase limit of custom user fields
  • Minor cosmetic fixes to the wizard
  • Show theme git branch for private repositories
  • Remove label and add danger class to remove draft button
  • Truncate long usernames in multi-username notifications
  • Give furigana and other top-overflowing elements a little space
  • Truncate long nav items in dropdown menu
  • Update topic small action post to add link for new linked topic URL
  • Wider canvas buttons in wizard
  • Sort user badges by Gold > Silver > Bronze.
  • When creating linked topic use URL and let onebox work its magic
  • Fix confusing admin UI for color scheme updates
  • Update labels to indicate that invite link will be generated (not copied)

Performance

  • Simplify topic serialization for user summary page
  • Preload topic thumbnails for all topic lists
  • Update index for category in a background job.
  • Introduce aggressive rate limiting for anonymous
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