BuddyPress 1.2 Release Candidate
The release candidate version of BuddyPress 1.2 is now ready for download and testing (svn link). Thank you to those who have contributed so far, we’ve closed over 125 tickets since we released the beta last week.
We’re almost there, but we still need your help with this final testing phase. We’re looking for testers on both standard WordPress and WordPress MU version 2.9.1 and above. You can also test the release candidate without installing on our testing community site.
As before you can find a list of known issues and a place to post bugs via the BuddyPress Trac installation.
There are also instructions for upgrading test installations from previous versions of BuddyPress on the codex.
Please do not post bugs in the comments as they may be missed.
Update: If you’re upgrading from 1.2 beta then you can simply overwrite your existing BuddyPress files, you do not need to follow the official upgrade instructions.
WelshPixie said:
On February 4, 2010Awesome potatoes – will get to testing it right away
MrMaz said:
On February 4, 2010Good work Andy!
SlaFFik said:
On February 4, 2010Already translated into Russian for our ru_RU community.
So will be testing!
featherodd said:
On February 4, 2010Kick ass! You rock
Erich73 said:
On February 4, 2010Andy, JJJ,
take your time !
Better give it one more week and have it super-stable.
Many thanks for all your efforts !
r-a-y said:
On February 4, 2010Yay says Ray!
Nathan Barry said:
On February 4, 2010Excellent! I’m really looking forward to this release. Thanks to everyone who worked on it!
Ryan said:
On February 4, 2010You guys are on fire! It’s great too see such rapid development on this project.
Michael Kuhlmann said:
On February 4, 2010let the battle of the themes commence! =P
Mike Pratt said:
On February 4, 2010Congrats to @andy and @jjj
cargo said:
On February 5, 2010Very nice!
Doug Daulton said:
On February 5, 2010Currently testing … not finding any new issues.
chipbennett said:
On February 5, 2010Looks good on a (single user) WP/buddyPress test site! Not seeing any issues so far.
James Sloane said:
On February 5, 2010for some reason I can’t unzip this. I also couldn’t unzip the 1.2 Beta either. because of the inclusion of the mac created files it causes an error when i try to unzip the folder using the default windows vista unzip program.
any ideas. would love to test this out.
sorry if i sound like a complete noob
Benny said:
On February 5, 2010If I am upgrading from the 1.2 beta to the 1.2 RC1 can I just replace the buddypress folder in plugins or do I have to follow the upgrade procedure from 1.1 > 1.2?
Thanks
Andy Peatling said:
On February 5, 2010@Benny: If you’re upgrading from 1.2-beta then you can just overwrite the files.
Marcus Hochstadt said:
On February 5, 2010Wow! What a surprise gift… to have BuddyPress ready before WP 3.0 launches!
Just like chipbennett, I haven’t encountered any issue yet — using (single) WP 3.0-alpha — and am very happy to continue playing around with it going forward.
And @James Sloane: I, too, experienced similar issues when opening up Mac-generated ZIP files. Now with Vista Ultimate SP2, however, it works just fine.
David Angel said:
On February 5, 2010Sweetness. Installing now!
Michael Coyle said:
On February 5, 2010Mac Zip files cause errors on Windows, you’ll need to open the zip, delete all the macOS files (these are usually the ones that are 0kb). and then unzip, this will fix the problem.
carolinaforestonline said:
On February 5, 2010This is really moving right along! I am looking forward to trying it out once it gets the bugs out. I have a hyper-local website concept that I am working on, but do not want to get stuck out in the open with components that do not sync. Hope to see development in more themes.
Andy Peatling said:
On February 6, 2010If you’re having problems with the zip you can use the zip link at the bottom of this page:
http://trac.buddypress.org/browser/tags/1.2-rc/
However, you will need to download bbPress separately and drop it into /bp-forums/bbpress/ if you want to use the forums component.
Arthur Freitas said:
On February 6, 2010In the 1.2 Beta, the translations don’t work on the activity stream. This bug is fixed on the RC or the final release?
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Alex said:
On February 6, 2010Is there a way to require login to access the site, including subpages?
i-am-andy said:
On February 6, 2010So let me get this straight, I’m new to Buddy press but have been using Wordpress for a while now. Can this be installed on a standard Wordpress installation??
Andy Peatling said:
On February 6, 2010Yes, you can install the 1.2RC on standard WordPress, but not versions earlier than 1.2. This is not the final version.
Jochen said:
On February 7, 2010works great!
does anyone know if ‘bp_friend_total_for_member’ is gone? doesn’t work anymore
James Sloane said:
On February 7, 2010Thank you Marcus Hochstadt. upgrading to Vista SP2 fixed my unzipping issue.
And thanks to everyone else who offered help. this is exactly why i love the wordpress (buddypress + bbpress) community. everyone is so nice and helpful
Chris said:
On February 7, 2010Andy, thanks for all your efforts thus far. You are doing a great job. Any clue when guys going to improve the interaction between BuddyPress & bbPress (specifically multiple bbPress installs)
Don’t take this the wrong way but this whole ‘Groups’ thing is way more confusing than it needs to be and there doesn’t appear to be a way to make it work with multiple separate bbPress forum installs.
When will there be a way to display folks’ bbPress activity when dealing with multiple bbPress forums? (example, JoeSmith made a forum post in integrated bbPressForum1.com, Sally made a forum post in integrated bbPressForum2.com.)
This problem is KILLING ME!!!
Andy Peatling said:
On February 7, 2010Chris: That will probably never happen since it’s overkill for 99% of people. You should look at writing a plugin extension.
Pavol said:
On February 7, 2010Hi, I am testing latest buddypress with wp 2.9.1 (not MU) and there is no “create new group” link anywhere in frontend. I am using default theme. Did you also encounter this?
Chris said:
On February 8, 2010Thanks Andy…REALLY appreciate your input on how things will develop.
Haha, I would write you a plugin but you would probably want it to actually work
(I’m nowhere near a plugin developer)