Hello BuddyPress community members!
The first release candidate for BuddyPress 6.0.0 is now available for a last round of testing!
This is an important milestone as we progress toward the BuddyPress 6.0.0 final release date. “Release Candidate” means that we think the new version is ready for release, but with more than 200,000 active installs, hundreds of BuddyPress plugins and Thousands of WordPress themes, it’s possible something was missed.
BuddPress 6.0.0 is slated for release on Thursday, May 14, but we need your help to get there—if you haven’t tried 6.0.0 yet, now is the time!
You can test the 6.0.0-RC pre-release in 4 ways :
- Try the BP Beta Tester plugin.
- Download the release candidate here (zip file).
- Check out our SVN repository:
svn co https://buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk/ - Clone our read-only Git repository:
git clone git://buddypress.git.wordpress.org/
A detailed changelog will be part of our official release note, but you can get a quick overview by reading the post about the 6.0.0 Beta1 release.
Plugin and Theme Developers
Please test your plugins and themes against BuddyPress 6.0.0. If you find compatibility problems, please be sure to post to this specific support topic so we can figure those out before the final release. We strongly advise you to have a look at the 6.0.0 development notes to figure out what to focus on during your testing.
Polyglots, we need you!
Do you speak a language other than English? Help us translate BuddyPress into many languages! This release also marks the string freeze point of the 6.0.0 release schedule. For your information, we are now using WP CLI to generate the buddypress.pot file and you’ll see we’ve paid attention to add translators comments to all the strings needing some.
If you think you’ve found a bug, please let us know reporting it on the support forums and/or on our development tracker.
Thanks in advance for giving the release candidate a test drive!
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Thank you for your contribution to WordPress. Best wishes to BuddyPress 6.0.0!
Thanks a lot <3
Hi from Polyglots.
1. A typo: This release also marks the string freeze point of the 5.0.0 release schedule
2. We do the translation at translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/buddypress/
3. The translation platform doesn’t use your .pot file, but scans the full plugin under plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/trunk/ for strings to be imported. Right now, the “dev” branch seems to be empty. perhaps something happened during last update.
Hi @tobifjellner
Thanks a lot for your comment and for your feedback.
1. I’ve just fixed it 🙂
2.3. I’ve replied on the Polyglots P2 site and on the Polyglot’s slack channel about the issue you’re referring to. I believe it was a GlotPress cache issue that is now resolved.
Thanks in advance for your contributions to the translation of BuddyPress 6.0.0 <3
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