Type a handle in lowercase and it still finds the person or organization, spelled the way GitHub spells it. The database now keeps one profile per handle, whatever its capitalization.
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mnapoli, who filed the change, pictured in the contributor’s own avatar.
You are adding people to a new org and type a co-maintainer's handle in lowercase, though GitHub spells it with a capital. It lands, listed in the order you typed. No not-found, no wrong profile, no retyping.
Credit goes to mnapoli, who moved the case rule out of a pile of hand-written lookups and into the database. Handles now sit in a column that compares without regard to case, and one unique rule keeps each handle to a single profile, person or organization. That covers profile pages, mentions, organization pages through the API, following an organization, and search rankings. Adding members accepts up to 99 handles and spots the same person written two ways.
One catch. The upgrade merges nothing. If your database already holds @laravel and @Laravel as two profiles, the new unique rule refuses one of them and the upgrade stops rather than picking a winner.
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You are three lines into a commit message and want a rocket on the end. A small smiley now sits in the bottom right corner inside the box. Click it, type rocket into the search field, arrow across the grid eight emoji wide, press Enter, and the rocket lands at your caret with the cursor waiting right after it. Select a word first and the emoji replaces it.
Credit goes to hbenabdallah, who plugged the composers into the picker reactions already use instead of growing a second one. The button hands its emoji back after the popover closes, so focus returns to your text instead of the smiley. Insertion counts the result and respects the box's cap. That cap is 4,000 characters for an issue, 40,000 for a commit or a reply. hbenabdallah also taught Enter to stand down while an input method is composing, including Safari's odd 229 key code, so confirming a candidate no longer picks an emoji by accident.
One catch. At the cap the button just shrugs. The emoji does not go in, nothing flashes a warning, and your caret goes back where it was. Delete a character, then pick again.
The approval page and your device list now name the app that wants your key, not just the machine it runs on. Apps that skip the new field look exactly as they did.
Scroll a profile and the big photo doesn't vanish. It shrinks into the sticky top bar, bringing the name and handle with it. Until then, the bar isn't there at all.
Every user's profile now carries the same ID as the account behind it, just as an organization's already did. Search, mentions, exports and the sitemap now match the two by that ID instead of the GitHub number.
A new message now refreshes open Remotes pages in place, unread counts and all, even while the tab sits in the background. The service worker finally tells the page that something arrived.
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Internals 4
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Features 1
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