Mozilla Discourse release 2018-09-17

[leo (Leo McArdle)]

Since our last set of release notes back in June we’ve pulled in numerous fixes from upstream, all while a new feature has been brewing:

Today I’m pleased to announce support for multiple email addresses in Mozilla Discourse:

With this feature:

• Staff can (once again) use their LDAP aliases to start and reply to topics and PMs in Discourse via email
• Staff and Volunteers can use multiple email addresses to start and reply to topics and PMs in Discourse via email

For example:

If my LDAP alias (leo@mozilla.com) was copied into an email sent to the Reps Leadership group inbox (managed by Discourse) my account (@leo) would be invited to the PM. Before this feature landed, a duplicate account would have been created.

For the full details on how to use this functionality, and what it enables, head to the #meta:faq topic:

How do I manage my email addresses?

Discourse supports multiple email addresses for when you’re using Discourse via email. You can see your current email addresses by heading to your account preferences, and scrolling down to the Email Addresses section: [Screenshot of user's "Email Addresses" preference] Primary Email Here you can see and update your primary email. This is the email address which you’ll receive email notifications from Discourse at, and the one you use to log in. If you set it to the same email address as you…

It’s been a little over 18 months since I first requested this feature upstream, and have worked with upstream over that time to implement the functionality in phases, before working on integrating it with our #iam system.

Much refactoring of code took place in our integration with #iam to make this happen, which will make further integration easier as we move towards a unified profile utility.

Other features and fixes

• Discourse now uses NLX’s signup/login flow which uses language relevant to users signing up as well as those logging in

• We fixed a short-lived bug that meant that users couldn’t update their Mark posts as read when I’m emailed about them preference

• Upstream incorporated unicode 11’s emojis

[david_ross]

omg Unicode 11 I can finally go bald man

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This new capability is fully integrated with Mozilla #iam and previews the opportunities a Central Profile Utility provides to Mozilla’s collaboration systems landscape.

Well done, @leo!