### Author:  [@small-lovely-cat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/small-lovely-cat)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2026, 7:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/1 "2026-01-09T07:19:01Z")
When category moderators use review panel and encounters an edited topic/post, the clicking on the edit-history button will result in a dialog showing invalid\_access.
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This commit allows category moderators to view the edit-history in the certain category they moderate, so as to solve this problem, as well as changing the description for the setting `edit_history_visible_to_public` to match this change.
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### Author:  [@small-lovely-cat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/small-lovely-cat)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 8:41am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/2 "2026-07-21T08:41:52Z")
It seems that this is stranding, this may be necessary for management of category moderators, any ideas about that?
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 8:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/3 "2026-07-21T08:54:07Z")
@sam I saw you already engaged with this PR originally, can we reopen it and get it merged afterall?
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### Author:  [@small-lovely-cat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/small-lovely-cat)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/4 "2026-07-21T12:30:06Z")
Seems that zog’s having a more completed version, but it is also closed, not so sure.
Maybe that is more suitable to get merged.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37876](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37876)
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 12:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/5 "2026-07-21T12:30:48Z")
Oh interesting, summoning @zogstrip then for more intell
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2026, 2:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/6 "2026-07-21T14:16:37Z")
Sorry about that. That one fell through the cracks because there was a security issue touching the same code path and I didn’t want to generate noise in the process. I’ve re-opened the PR and updated it.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37876](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/37876)
Will merge once it’s 🟢 and reviewed ✅.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2026, 2:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/fix-make-edit-history-viewable-for-category-moderators-in-the-certain-catergory/393037/7 "2026-07-25T02:18:05Z")