Discourse Version 2.8

Releases
11

UX Changes

  • Fix composer popup placement
  • Apply new quote-button spacing behavior to all mobile devices
  • Fix layout issues with long category names
  • Center emoji picker when limited space
  • No border-radius on textarea
  • Animate the movement of the quote button on selection change
  • Flat-btn should also respond to Enter
  • Use https protocol for markdown help link
  • Adjust invite and related form spacing
  • Change text of public_topic action code in login required sites.
  • Tweak emoji picker css
  • Updated “accept invite” error page
  • Prevent crawler view topic-list overflow
  • Better invite accept form
  • Post action spacing refactor & consistency
  • Improved invite accept page layout
  • Maximize the preview space in composer
  • Update navigation-container scaling & wrapping
  • Correctly handles escape on emoji picker
  • Always show avatar on mobile topic lists
  • Let mobile post controls scroll on overflow
  • Show group card with animated loading state
  • Prevent timeline overflow in extreme cases
  • Extend user hyperlink in staff action logs
  • Fix topic status icon size in mobile search results
  • Only apply link formats on paste to selections that do not contain bbcode-like tags
  • Make toggling to filtered replies mode less jumpy.
  • Improve composer presence-display positioning
  • Scroll row to top of container in select-kit
  • Fix flair dropdown styling in user account
  • Remove style that breaks composer on pm page
  • Reduce composer jumpiness on android
  • Prevent overflow on mobile timeline dates
  • Improve tag info style
  • Fix alignment in group navigation bar
  • Only apply link formats on paste to selections that do not contain links
  • Tweak mobile composer styling
  • Tweak composer styling
  • Add title attribute to reports cells
  • Closes multi-select on selection when maximum=1
  • Fix extra indent on lists when supporting mixed text direction
  • Add additional tests for pasting a link on a selection
  • When pasting a link use linkify rules
  • Pasting links on a selection will apply a link format
  • Timestamp should not hide handle of topic timeline in mobile.
  • Fallback to regular title if screen-reader title is unavailable
  • Make banner full-width
  • Lower digest suppress period from a year to 6 months
  • Fix fast edit save button color in dark schemes
  • Move share topic warning to modal flash alert
  • Add more search aliases for emojis.
  • Launch full page search on second Enter hit
  • Mobile topic list fixes follow-up to 0e371d4
  • Fix share/notify modal styles
  • Number steps in cloud installation README
  • Layout fixes for admin permalinks page
  • Remove tags chooser on PMs for non-staff users
  • Fix several issues with topic progress refactor
  • Fix bar-style category dropdown
  • Better accommodate PM composer with tags
  • Fix short post width on mobile
  • Show quick search hint more consistently
  • Remove animation in admin theme list
  • Change login tabindex, follow-up to 6aa6275
  • Change tabindex on login to skip email login link
  • Apply tags during PM creation
  • Make PresenceChannel changes more responsive
  • Never show back button if less than current position
  • Don’t show anchor icon on touch devices
  • Re-order auth-related site settings for clarity
  • Add special case for user search when in a topic
  • Sometimes the footer would show up while refreshing a list route
  • Adjust quick search input width
  • Better topic search experience
  • Show fewer toolbar icons in mobile composer
  • Display full-page user search in a grid
  • Better visibility for context search
  • Add Enter hint to search dropdown
  • Add missing translation
  • Remove aria-label for buttons when title attribute exists.
  • Improve route hierarchy in for user-invites
  • Restore new messages button on mobile on PM route.
  • Adds shortcuts for quote (q) and fast edit (e)
  • Add keyboard shortcut for fast edits
  • More consistent shortcut labels for macOS
  • Fix alignment of composer when tags are disabled
  • Revamp quick search
  • Change layout of invites page to match other user pages
  • Global notice no longer accepts HTML.
  • Capitalize unsubscribed email locale
  • Use consistent category badge font size in dropdowns
  • Fix label in search when tagging is disabled
  • PM inboxes being expanded incorrectly when viewing tags.
  • Don’t display group messages link for group with no messages.
  • Show scrollbar only when needed in dropdowns
  • Adjust mobile spacing for full page search
  • Ensure sticky elements don’t overflow header
  • Better placement for bulk select actions button
  • Move fast edit before sharing
  • Adjust quote button position on mobile
  • Add second Search button on mobile
  • Share button margin consistency
  • Fix profile button spacing
  • Improve composer button bar on mobile
  • Prevent invite form fields from resizing
  • Fix date input icon display issues
  • Minor fast edit tweaks
  • Improves fast edit fallback handling
  • Optionally show a “Summarize” button in topic timeline
  • Fix tab groups editing layout issues on mobile
  • Use standard font size for buttons at the end of /top page
  • Fix mobile styling for admin color schemes
  • Fix alignment for admin controls on mobile
  • Fix date input display in iOS
  • Minor layout tweaks to dropdowns
  • Normalize sizing for inputs, buttons, dropdowns
  • Adjust button spacing
  • Limit select-kit tag chooser width
  • Remove :empty on topic-statuses, clean up
  • Comma separate public custom field lists
  • Select-kit update alignment fixes
  • Better login/signup styling for small desktop windows
  • Use existing guardian method to check messageable group.
  • Display correct replies count in embedded comments view.
  • Improve blank page syndrome on the user messages page
  • Add Styling step to wizard
  • Update “get a room” composer message
  • Do not show selected composer education messages on whisper post
  • Add a title to the user filter input
  • README logo SVG that supports dark mode
  • Add margin to share input
  • Add data-topic-id to featured topic items
  • Fix mobile PM nav for regular users
  • Show flair help text for private member visibility only
  • Indicate capped history revisions only when they’re actually capped
  • Update member visibility help text to include flair information
  • Fixes sidebar settings border and active styles
  • Missing translation for title attribute for PM tag route.
  • Disable “Queue For Review” button if user can’t perform action.
  • Append ellipsis to actions that have follow-up screen
  • Ensure external login icons are visible on hover
  • UX Fixes
  • Adds hover title with full date to admin users columns
  • History controls should use nav-pill styles
  • Improve copy when a group member search returns no results
  • Use share modal in dominating topic msg
  • User bookmark page style adjustments
  • Update styling of readonly values in signup form
  • Remove theme-specific css, fix space
  • Prioritize moderator bg color in PMs
  • Improve quick search suggestions
  • New text and style for dominating topic message
  • Suspend forever time period messages
  • Tweak groups page css
  • Consistent share modal & popup, refactoring
  • Stop imgur/google photo mobile onebox overflow
  • Make sure there’s always a margin on badges page
  • Improve share modal consistency
  • Move the skip auth confirmation spinner inside the modal body.
  • Add copy button to theme public key
  • Improve the link to the preferences page on the new and unread tabs
  • Add success state to copy button
  • Fix z-index for new topic alert
  • Translate the action type in watched words regex error
  • Layout issues with topic last visit line.
  • Remove background image after image has loaded
  • Remove top border on small action after last visit line.
  • Use topic list bulk select toggle for user messages list.
  • Make emoji size consistent for oneboxed GH issues with short tags.
  • Make poll content selectable
  • Tweak spacing in the admin dashboard
  • Adds ‘Processing Upload’ to the composer status area during upload optimization
  • Horizontal scroll bar on top of user directory (when needed)
  • Tweak the timestamp line in Twitter onebox
  • Improve blockquote styling in emails
  • Add notice when watched words are regexes
  • Margin improvement for mobile alerts
  • Make bulk select checkbox easier to target
  • Fix mobile alert spacing
  • Make it easier to hide the emoji on signup
  • Hide email columns when Hide Emails is selected
  • Improve lightbox gallery zoom/navigation
  • Fix jump-to-post layout on mobile
  • Fix mobile progress bar button alignment
  • Daily automatic grouping for less than 34 days instead of 30
  • Use button instead of anchor in filtered replies bar
  • Remove reference to contact form in setting
  • Improve user delete error message & return correct post count.
  • Improvements for reordering categories
  • Add a hint that tags can be included in tag groups
  • Fix search topic titles wrapping
  • Fix bulk-select icon and button alignment
  • Group dropdown filter height should match
  • More consistent mobile spacing
  • Improve tag truncation in scrolled header
  • Copy edit
  • Revert some search dropdown styles
  • More consistent setting/edit buttons
  • Adjustments to tag groups layout
  • Update search panel styles, consistency
  • Use icons as bulleted list in invite modal
  • Fix “last visit” line overlap in Chrome
  • Fix PM header title alignment
  • Fix the PM title icon alignment
  • Align the bulk-select icon
  • Improve style of GitHub PR body in emails
  • Don’t show reply prompt if current topic is closed
  • Change color of focus & hover on user menu tabs
  • Show grandparent category badge in sticky header on desktop
  • Alert screen readers when there is an issue saving a post
  • Twitter onebox layout adjustments
  • Unconditionally focus modals
  • Make search result styles more consistent
  • Add auto focus to hamburger and user menu dropdowns
  • Align list-controls & topic-title top margins
  • Consistent padding on mobile/desktop .wrap
  • Adjust list and onebox margins
  • Change categories page dropdown to a wrench
  • Improve navigation on topic lists for screen readers
  • Provide a region for various topic actions
  • Users can postpone discobot’s tutorial.
  • Search result link title color change
  • Make discobot flag tutorial copy clearer
  • Add ARIA region role to posts
  • Show Update button instead of Enable button when slow mode is already enabled
  • Improve positioning of controls in lightboxes
  • Fix theme upload width, remove class clash, prettier

Security Changes

  • Do not sign in unapproved users
  • Advanced group search did not respect visiblity of groups.
  • Hide user’s bio if profile is restricted
  • Only show user suggestions with regular post
  • Disable MessageBus::Diagnostics.
  • Remove ember-cli specific response from application routes
  • Only show tags to users with permission
  • Strip unrendered unicode bidirectional chars in code blocks
  • Ensure _forum_session cookies cannot be reused between sites
  • Disallow caching of MIME/Content-Type errors
  • Improve validation of SNS subscription confirm
  • Escape watched word in error message
  • Escape cat name
  • User’s read state for topic is leaked to unauthorized clients.
  • Sanitize d-popover attributes
  • Destroy EmailToken when EmailChangeRequest is destroyed
  • Don’t leak user of previous whisper post when deleting a topic.
  • Do not reveal post whisperer in personal messages.
  • Validate period param for top topic routes
  • Sanitize YouTube Onebox data
  • Onebox canonical links bypassing FinalDestination checks
  • Ensures timeouts are correctly used on connect
  • XSS in bookmarks list
  • Do not allow unauthorized access to category edit UI

Performance

  • Turn common test prefixes into contexts in topics_controller_spec
  • Make tests faster by prefabricating more things
  • Prefabricate more parts of users_controller_spec
  • Speed up the tests by pre-fabricating more things
  • Prefabricate posters in topics_controller_spec
  • Prefabricate more of topics_controller_spec.rb
  • Redis snapshotting during tests
  • Speed up tests
  • Add index on email_tokens.token_hash
  • Shave off some test-suite time
  • Migrate normalized_emails in a migrations
  • Update widget hooks to avoid global scroll-blocking events
  • Update scrolling mixin implementation
  • Disable ember touchstart listener
  • Use passive event listeners for touchstart, touchmove
  • Set --header-offset property only when changed
  • Updating first unread PM for user not respecting limits.
  • Use more efficient text-direction check in select-kit init
  • Reduce records queried in UserStat.update_first_unread_pm.
  • Move preload hints to the <head>
  • Improve JS app boot speed by optimizing customResolve()
  • Update like count in visible posts without an extra GET per like
  • Use different column for better query plan
  • There was a large performance regression in Logster
  • Optimize search in private messages query
  • Reduce work when external sources are allowed in InlineUploads
  • Use a subquery when excluding a tag from topic query.
  • Avoid running ignored users DB query for anon users.
  • Revert all inboxes from messages route.
  • Improve database query perf when loading topics for a category.
  • Fix N+1 queries in SiteSerialier.
  • Improve query performance all inbox private messages. (#14304)"
  • Improve query performance all inbox private messages.
  • Avoid running query unnecessarily when updating bookmark.
  • Avoid additional database query when viewing own user.
  • Improve query perf when fetching unread for PM topic tracking state.
  • Make TopicViewSerializer#requested_group_name more efficient.
  • Remove redundant post_timings_summary index
  • Generates dates tooltip on demand
  • Reduces rendering time of local-dates
  • Add scheduled job to delete old stylesheet cache rows
  • Improve topic_user.liked update performance when moving posts
  • Improve post_timing performance when moving posts
  • Optimise backfilling of topic_id
  • Cache categories in Site model take 3.
  • Remove n+1 in user directory
  • Update post uploads secure status in a job
  • Eager load Theme associations in Stylesheet Manager.
  • Cache categories in Site model take 2.
  • Cache categories in Site model.
  • Remove extra PG query.
  • Perform user filtering in SQL
  • Avoid running a pointless PG query when theme has no variables.
  • Animate request animation frame
  • Preload client settings json while booting app.
  • Switch ActiveRecord PG connection active check to use empty query.
  • Preload Post#image_upload in TopicView.
  • Defer setting of distributed cache in category.
  • Defer setting of distributed cache in more spots.
  • Preload settings, groups and badge icons in SvgSprite.
  • Defer setting of distributed cache in performance critical paths.
  • Remove N+1 query in SiteSerializer#user_color_schemes.
  • Warm up caches in SiteSerializer while preloading app.
  • Cache categories query in Stylesheet::Manager.color_scheme_digest.
  • Memoize core svgs in memory to avoid expensive XML parsing.
  • Precompile child theme stylesheets.

Accessibility

  • Tag should be “role” not “aria-role”
  • Do not use duplicate IDs
  • Focus last viewed topic in topic lists
  • Move focus to highlighted post when visiting a topic
  • Remove dupe label on signup confirm field
  • Set modal widths with EMs; improves scaling
  • Add prefers reduced motion"
  • Don’t output aria label identical to title
  • Use shorter label for hamburger menu
  • Fix several minor issues
  • Add labels to some search fields, category notification selector
  • Add more descriptive labels for some dropdowns
  • Use listbox role for dropdowns
  • Do not default to label for aria-label
  • Improve create account modal for screen readers
  • Add “skip to main content” link
  • Add labels where needed
  • Adjust heading rules on topic lists
  • Don’t mark multiple form labels as applying to the same element
  • Improve topic details toggle button label
  • Add aria-label to modal close button
  • Include aria-label for avatar images in widgets
  • Add heading role for post titles.
  • Fix post control and user-menu focus styles
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