# Discourse Version 3.0

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-3-0/203005
**Category:** Announcements
**Tags:** release-notes
**Created:** [September 8, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-3-0/203005 "2021-09-08T19:39:07Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2021, 7:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-3-0/203005/1 "2021-09-08T19:39:07Z")

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### Focus

- ✅ Customizable sidebar for wider screens

- ✅ Real time chat support

- ✅ New redesigned user menu

- ✅ Refined setup wizard

- ✅ Official support for user status

- ✅ Hotlinked images no longer show up as edits; support for “high security mode” where you never download images

- ✅ Improved instant search UI

- ✅ Reduced instances of “blank page syndrome” @andrei

- ✅ Replace loading spinner UX with less jarring top-docked horizontal progress bar @david: [Horizontal loading slider](https://meta.discourse.org/t/experiment-on-meta-horizontal-loading-slider/177939) (behind a site setting for now)

- ✅ Upon user delete, check for other users at the same IP address and warn; see dev topic 52759 @nbianca

- ✅ Improve prioritization of name of username in the UI and quotes: [Display full name not username when attributing quote or reply](https://meta.discourse.org/t/display-full-name-not-username-when-attributing-quote-or-reply/203533) @isaac

- ✅ [Partial read only mode](https://meta.discourse.org/t/partial-read-only-mode/210401/9)

- ✅ Better CTRL-Z undo support in the composer, see: [Add better undo support when inserting formatted text](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-better-undo-support-when-inserting-formatted-text/214821) @david

- Show password button on signup [Show password (optional)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/show-password-optional/74414) @awesomerobot

- ✅ Warn when sending PMs to users who haven’t been seen in 24 months or longer. [Warn when sending PMs to users who haven't been seen in a long time](https://meta.discourse.org/t/warn-when-sending-pms-to-users-who-havent-been-seen-in-a-long-time/223570) @techAPJ

- ✅ Some 2FA factoring and UX improvements @osama

- ✅ Implement live user status @andrei (emoji + text) - optional

- ✅ New user menu @Osama

- ✅ Core Sidebar - @tgxworld

- ✅ Refined and simplified Wizard - @jordan.vidrine / @techAPJ

### Codename

- [Audion](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-version-2-8/182818) v2.8
- [Nipkow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk) v3.0 ←

### Start date

January 27th, 2022

### Planned release date

January 2023

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