July 2026 monthly release

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For more information on all the changes released in 2026.7, check out:

Patch releases for other supported versions have also been released:

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Does this become the current “esr” release or have I misunderstood something?

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Indeed, I can’t figure out what happened. For this update (very urgent due to Cache poisoning/XSS via color scheme cookies · Advisory · discourse/discourse · GitHub) it required a rebuild, but since there was a v2026.1.5 → v2026.1.6 changelog I assumed it would be a minor version bump. But nope, now I’m on v2026.7.0. As far as I know my forum is configured to be on esr :

params:
  db_default_text_search_config: "pg_catalog.english"

  ## Set db_shared_buffers to a max of 25% of the total memory.
  ## will be set automatically by bootstrap based on detected RAM, or you can override
  db_shared_buffers: "2048MB"

  ## can improve sorting performance, but adds memory usage per-connection
  db_work_mem: "40MB"

  ## Reduce max upload size
  upload_size: 1m

  ## Which Git revision should this container use? (default: tests-passed)
  version: esr

I was also rather surprised to see a whole bunch of post update queries like this:

== 20260421061908 AddCoveringIndexOnChatMessagesThreadId: migrating ===========
-- remove_index(:chat_messages, {name: "idx_chat_messages_thread_id_id_user_id_not_deleted", algorithm: :concurrently, if_exists: true})2026-07-28 16:02:43.673 UTC [544] discourse@discourse LOG:  duration: 16903.716 ms  statement: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY "index_posts_on_updated_at_for_localization" ON "posts" ("updated_at" DESC) WHERE deleted_at IS NULL AND user_id > 0 AND locale IS NOT NULL
2026-07-28 16:02:59.214 UTC [544] discourse@discourse LOG:  duration: 15529.318 ms  statement: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY "index_posts_on_updated_at_for_locale_detection" ON "posts" ("updated_at" DESC) WHERE deleted_at IS NULL AND user_id > 0 AND locale IS NULL
2026-07-28 16:03:00.031 UTC [544] discourse@discourse LOG:  duration: 798.943 ms  statement: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY "index_topics_on_updated_at_for_locale_detection" ON "topics" ("updated_at" DESC) WHERE deleted_at IS NULL AND user_id > 0 AND locale IS NULL
2026-07-28 16:03:00.186 UTC [544] discourse@discourse LOG:  duration: 143.500 ms  statement: CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY "index_topics_on_updated_at_for_localization" ON "topics" ("updated_at" DESC) WHERE deleted_at IS NULL AND user_id > 0 AND locale IS NOT NULL
2026-07-28 16:03:01.251 UTC [544] discourse@discourse LOG:  duration: 1051.872 ms  statement: UPDATE posts
	SET raw = regexp_replace(
	  raw,
	  '\\+([_*~|`])(?=[^\]\[]*\]\(upload://)',
	  '\1',
	  'g'
	)
	WHERE id >= 1
	  AND id < 10001
	  AND raw ~ '\\+[_*~|`][^\]\[]*\]\(upload://'
	
2026-07-28 16:03:01.910 UTC [544] discourse@discourse LOG:  duration: 658.965 ms  statement: UPDATE posts
	SET raw = regexp_replace(
	  raw,
	  '\\+([_*~|`])(?=[^\]\[]*\]\(upload://)',
	  '\1',
	  'g'
	)
	WHERE id >= 10001
	  AND id < 20001
	  AND raw ~ '\\+[_*~|`][^\]\[]*\]\(upload://'
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Yes, it is!

This release is a new ESR release, so you moved to it when you updated.

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In the future could this somehow be made less confusing? Maybe it’s just me, but if an update is applied to the ESR branch I’m currently on then I assume it’s because the current major version of that branch is still supported.