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We’re very excited to announce the immediate availability of BuddyPress 14.0.0 « Da Lucia », named after the excellent pizza restaurant located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France. Get it now from the WordPress.org plugin repository, or right from your WordPress Dashboard.

This new major version of your site’s community engine introduces around 80 changes mostly working under the hood to improve documentation, code formatting, consistency and the stability of the plugin. Here are five improvements we would like to highlight:

1. There’s a new “BuddyPress constants” panel added to the WordPress Site Health information tool. Use it to check whether you’re using deprecated constants in your custom code or third party BP Plugins/Add-ons. The information in the “BuddyPress” and “BuddyPress constants” panels is also very useful when you need to ask for support.
2. Most BuddyPress Admin screens now have a help tab in their top right corner which includes a link to an updated documentation resource.
3. Whether BuddyPress is installed on a multisite network or on a single site, signups are now managed the exact same way.
4. Speaking of signups, the BP REST API has been improved so that you can now submit values for any xProfile field registered as part of the Signups profile field group.
5. Last but not least, we again offer native support for overriding BuddyPress’s language with your community vocabulary using custom translations.

Take a few minutes to discover all changes reading this release note.

Compared to our previous major version (12.0.0 – the number right after was too intimidating 🐈‍⬛), 14.0.0 is a quieter update. After the huge BP Rewrites API revolution, the humans (us the BP Team) who maintain and support your favorite community plugin needed to catch their breath to get ready for the new round of big changes arriving in 15.0.0.

Let’s keep in mind BuddyPress is an open source project maintained by volunteers giving freely of their time and energy to help you build great WordPress community sites. Don’t hesitate to send us some encouraging words and please consider contributing back to the project.

47 contributors freely gave some of their time & energy to build the 14.0.0 release 😍

ahegyes, Boone Gorges (boonebgorges), chairmanbrando, David Cavins (dcavins), Dion Hulse (dd32), Paul Wong-Gibbs (DJPaul), Andrea Tarantini (dontdream), emaralive, Renato Alves (espellcaste), gingerbooch, Ian Dunn (iandunn), Mathieu Viet (imath), IT Path Solutions (itpathsolutions), jnie, johndawson155, John James Jacoby (johnjamesjacoby), Jose Varghese (josevarghese), KaineLabs Team (kainelabsteam), Lena Stergatou (lenasterg), Christian Wach (needle), Nazmul Hasan Robin (nhrrob), Nifty (niftythree), Nitin Patil (nitinp544), pawelhalickiotgs, perchenet, Pooja Sahgal (poojasahgal), r-a-y, respawnsive, Rosso Digital (roberthemsing), Stephen Bernhardt (sabernhardt), Shail Mehta (shailu25), shawfactor, sjregan, Slava Abakumov (Slaffik), Pierre Sylvestre (strategio), testovac,Varun Dubey (vapvarun),Yagnik Sangani (yagniksangani),Dan Caragea (dancaragea), modelaid, Pieterjan Deneys (nekojonez), Mehraz Morshed (mehrazmorshed), 沈唁 (shenyanzhi), 耗子 (haozi), cyrfer, narolainfotech, Benjamin Zekavica (benjamin_zekavica).

Your feedback

How are you using BuddyPress? Receiving your feedback and suggestions for future versions of BuddyPress genuinely motivates and encourages our contributors. Please share your feedback about this version of BuddyPress on our website.

Let’s meet at « Da Lucia’s » !

BuddyPress is about people! The BuddyPress team is made up of friendly folks from all around the world. We meet online every week during a release cycle but when we manage to meet IRL during a WordCamp, a BuddyCamp or just because we’re around at the same time we absolutely need to celebrate it with a great 🍕. Da Lucia’s will, from now on, be remembered as the great pizza restaurant where @vapvarun & @imath, two members of the BP Team, met IRL for the first time 🤝 😂.

Props @dcavins for his review about this announcement post.