BuddyPress 1.5 – Beta 1
July 29, 2011 in News
Wait… 1.5? What happened to 1.3? Or 1.4 for that matter?
You see… BuddyPress 1.2 was released on February 16, 2010. We’ve shipped 9 point releases since then, but it’s been over 17 months since a major release of BuddyPress has come through the tubes.
We do our best to mirror the WordPress development cycles as closely as possible – maybe a little too closely. Back in 2004, WordPress went through a growth spurt of its own, going 9 months between major releases (also between versions 1.2 and 1.5) so we are doing the same, and skipping ahead to 1.5 ourselves.
Here are the stats we’re using to justify the version inflation:
- 792 tickets closed
- 494 confirmed bug fixes
- 2,161 total code changes since 1.2 was released
The similarities between BuddyPress and WordPress development symbolize the nature of developing something totally new and exciting, so we think it’s fitting to bump our version number in a similar fashion.
Because of the volume of changes internally, we’re packaging up a developer beta so plugin authors have time to review our changes, report bugs, and give everyone a few weeks to tie up any loose ends that are left.
If you are a BuddyPress plugin author, now is your time to help us help you, and check out all the work that’s gone into making the next version of BuddyPress faster, more efficient, more secure, and easier to code against.
If you are a user or a designer, check out the changes to the BP Default theme. We’ve done our best to turn it into a theme you want to use, and have it still show off all the features too.
If you are neither (or both) of those things, you can help by documenting the codex. We’re trying to do our part by writing the phpDoc as we go, and if you can help move some of that into the codex, it helps everyone!
As always, please DO NOT run BuddyPress Beta software on your live production site. There are going to be quirks with existing plugins, and we will be updating code rapidly as bug reports come in. Install BuddyPress 1.5 on a local installation or a test site, and let us know if you find anything that isn’t working the way it should. We are hoping the beta period will only last a few weeks, with a release in August.
You can download BuddyPress 1.5 Beta 1 today, from the bottom of our Trac page. Happy Testing!
mhh said on July 29, 2011
‘We are hoping the beta period will only last a few weeks, with a release in August.’
Wait! What?! What are you going to release in August? 1.3 is near but, 1.5?!!
enderandrew said on July 29, 2011
Congrats on this release!
Ron said on July 29, 2011
Congrats to the team.
Does this release integrates WP with buddypress stream? That is, if someone comments on a WP blog (multiuser network WP) within buddypress stream does it show up in the actual blog comments? Will ir be possible to “Like” like in wordpress.com from buddypress stream ?
Thanks again to the great, great BP team.
Paul Gibbs said on July 29, 2011
Ron — There’s no “like” functionality in core. Blog comments on multisite will show up in the Activity Stream if you enable the Blogs component in the Setup, they always have.
Daniel Koskinen said on July 29, 2011
Paul, I think Ron means whether activity stream comments will show up as comments of the actual blog post. Say if you publish a blog post, and I comment on the activity stream item relating to that, will that comment also end up below the original post?
Frederic Sidler said on July 29, 2011
Great work and happy to see you guys are following WordPress closely.
Is there a place where a demo is set up with the latest release of BuddyPress?
Anointed said on July 29, 2011
whooohooo does that mean we gain post-types for bp?
LOL
r-a-y said on July 29, 2011
@DevTeam- We should also mirror WP and have release names
See my suggestion – http://is.gd/qcfcwM
@Frederic- Check out the Test Drive site – http://testbp.org
@anointed – Not quite there yet
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As John states, do not use on production sites! Please test on a local environment and post bug reports on Trac.
Laurent said on July 29, 2011
Featuring bbPress 2.0, right ?
Paul Gibbs said on July 29, 2011
BuddyPress 1.5 has no special integration for bbPress 2.0.
Simon said on July 29, 2011
need a demo to get the latest bp
linusf said on July 29, 2011
Is there a current list of changes posted somewhere?
Harsh Agrawal said on July 29, 2011
Congrats team. Though an update after long but it’s good that you skipped couple of version and brought a major change.
Paul Gibbs said on July 29, 2011
Frederic – there’s a demo you can play around with on http://testbp.org/
megainfo said on July 29, 2011
Nice! i will try it
nexia said on July 29, 2011
hum, as all other components of the WordPress core are upgraded, i would expect BP to be upgraded as well, not just version number uprised…
fully integrated theme, bbPress 2.0 merge, etc… looks like i’ll pass on this. always hard to have to deal with the whole “not working together because we use the core, but we do things different”…
Alan said on July 29, 2011
This is immediately giving me a fatal error on a fresh WordPress installation
Warning: require(…../wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/bp-core-wpabstraction.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in …../wp-content/plugins/1.5-beta-1/bp-loader.php on line 68
Mika Epstein (Ipstenu) said on July 29, 2011
… I … I ….
HAPPY SYSADMIN DAY IS HERE!
Seriously, I am so effin’ happy with this! Is it stable ‘enough’ to put on a live site, would you say? Cause I totally wanna test this out full bore!
scribu said on July 29, 2011
JJJ, I know this post is oriented at people that already follow BP development closely, but could you post a general overview of the major changes in BP 1.5?
Klajdi Hena said on July 29, 2011
I’m testing this right now, and I gotta say, it’s freaking awesome….
Good job guys!
@mercime said on July 29, 2011
BP 1.5 it is. Gonna test it now
Stephen said on July 29, 2011
Is there a changelist for 1.5? What are the major new features?
Sadr said on July 29, 2011
Congratulations, and many thanks for all the hard work.
I can’t seem to make new posts on the buddypress.org forum (pressing ‘post new topic’ on any board in the support section takes me to a link like this, where the post box does not load:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/installing-buddypress/forum/#post-new
I wanted to post about my first test. I tried running BuddyPress on a local multisite install, but it failed, returning this warning:
Warning: require(C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu\wp-content\plugins\buddypress 1.5\bp-loader.php on line 82
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0011 675376 {main}( ) ..\plugins.php:0
2 0.4636 31142880 require( ‘C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu\wp-admin\plugins.php’ ) ..\plugins.php:16
3 0.4706 31419392 plugin_sandbox_scrape( ) ..\plugins.php:148
4 0.4713 31467936 include( ‘C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu\wp-content\plugins\buddypress 1.5\bp-loader.php’ ) ..\plugins.php:146
( ! ) Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu/wp-content/plugins/buddypress/bp-core/admin/bp-core-update.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php\pear’) in C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu\wp-content\plugins\buddypress 1.5\bp-loader.php on line 82
Call Stack
# Time Memory Function Location
1 0.0011 675376 {main}( ) ..\plugins.php:0
2 0.4636 31142880 require( ‘C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu\wp-admin\plugins.php’ ) ..\plugins.php:16
3 0.4706 31419392 plugin_sandbox_scrape( ) ..\plugins.php:148
4 0.4713 31467936 include( ‘C:\wamp\www\wordpress-mu\wp-content\plugins\buddypress 1.5\bp-loader.php’ ) ..\plugins.php:146
That’s a clean multisite install with just one secondary site made with it. Also tested successfully with BP 1.2.9, which was of course disabled before trying the 1.5 Beta. Will test on a normal install later when I have time.
Boone Gorges said on July 29, 2011
Sadr – The problem is that you’ve installed in a folder called ‘buddypress 1.5′. It needs to be called ‘buddypress’.
alanchrishughes said on July 29, 2011
lol, someone better write a ticket for that
Ronia said on July 30, 2011
@ Paul gibbs
You cannot reply/comment to a blog post from activity stream so that it get showed under that blog post in the WP blog, what you can do is reply to the activity stream teaser of the blog post. This is confusing and broken to the user.
What I meant was this
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/how-to-and-troubleshooting/forum/topic/really-how-to-hack-and-fix-the-broken-and-odd-workflow-quickly/
alanchrishughes said on July 30, 2011
The new feature to rename and url members, activity, groups, etc is great, but when renaming groups for instance, everything else still refers to it as groups.
Paul Gibbs said on July 30, 2011
ronia, I’ve replied on the post you linked to.
CelticWarrior72 said on July 30, 2011
Nice work Paul and team. I can’t wait to dive into this new version. What are the chances of us seeing asymmetric follow (Twitter-style) vs. symmetric friending (Facebook-style) being integrated into Buddypress? I’ve found Andy Peatling’s original BP-Follower plugin to be very useful for interests oriented sites that require follower/following, but it hasn’t been updated in a long time. It’s be awesome to be able to switch between friending or following at the dashboard.
Mr.Bishop said on July 31, 2011
I’ll put in my +1 for getting the proper BuddyPress / bbPress plugin integration going.
Great work on all of this though guys, its definitely incredibly exciting.
alanchrishughes said on August 1, 2011
Buddypress Template doesn’t seem to work with 1.5. Comments/activity don’t post.
imjscn said on August 1, 2011
I’m in, but how we keep following bp 1.5 updating? Come back to check this post, or… ?
Paul Gibbs said on August 1, 2011
@alanchrishughes, the Template Pack plugin does need to be updated, but we can’t do that until 1.5 is out
alanchrishughes said on August 1, 2011
True.
As far as my first post about renaming pages, I think you can go through and manually change all the references to the old names, but some of the urls still say “group.”
Marko said on August 1, 2011
I need to develop my first buddypress installation and I was wondering what is the best thing to do?
Develop for 1.2.9 or 1.5? No clue when 1.5 will be released but I do wonder how the compatibility works through this versions.
Paul Gibbs said on August 2, 2011
@CelticWarrior72 – Hi. Most likely in a future release of BuddyPress. And that’s a near future release, not future as in “two years’ time” future
I am pretty certain that the BP-Follower plugin will be updated for BP 1.5, as we use it on this site 
Paul Gibbs said on August 2, 2011
@alanchrishughes Easier to have that discussion on the forums re: renaming slugs. It should be possible.
Paul Gibbs said on August 2, 2011
Marko – go for 1.5. It’ll be out soon.
CelticWarrior72 said on August 3, 2011
Paul, that’s awesome news. I also had the good fortune to meet John Jacoby at WordCamp here in Chicago a few days ago and he had some great thinking for the future of the follow function. I’m working on a project for the music community where follow/following is 100% the way to go (as are many interests based communities). Thanks for sticking with BuddyPress. The era of social platforms has only just started…
spiceywithrice said on August 8, 2011
BP creators… thankyou thankyou thankyou
as @scribu mentioned… a features list would be AWESOME and would also help categorize feedback on the many aspects of the new BP foundation.
also as @imjscn mentioned… are there any plans to provide updating functionality as new version are released right in the plug-in update window?
Looking forward to providing feedback, specially when it comes to implementing custom post types and custom taxonomies into the groups… (oops did I use those dirty words in the BP forumn
Alan said on August 18, 2011
I think beta’s for both Buddypress and Buddypress Template should come out at the same time since you can’t test anything without BPT.