Published on February 9th, 2016 by Mathieu Viet
BuddyPress 2.5.0 Beta 1 is available for testing. You can download the 2.5.0-beta1 zip or get a copy via our Subversion repository. We’d love to have your feedback and testing help.
NB: If you are still using WordPress 3.8, we remind you that BuddyPress 2.5.0 will require at least WordPress 3.9.
A detailed changelog will be part of our official release notes, but, until then, here’s a list of some of our favorite changes. (Check out this report on Trac for the full list.)
- The BP Email API: a new API to manage and customize the content & layout of emails generated by BuddyPress (#6592).
- Post Type Comments tracking (#6482, Codex Page).
- A new companion stylesheet: Twenty Twelve (#6766).
- Emoji support in activity updates, private messages and group descriptions.(#6529)
- New interface that allows administrators to disable the xprofile feature that causes certain words and phrases to be linked to member directory searches (#787).
- A11y: we’ve made great accessibility improvements in our Administration screens.
- Many activity stream improvements and fixes. (#6720, #6793, #6834)
- Tons of under-the-hood & performance improvements. (E.g. #6870)
- Continued coverage of inline code documentation, actions, & filters.
2.5.0 is almost ready, but please do not run it in a production environment just yet. Let us know of any issues you find in the support forums and/or on our development tracker.
Thanks everyone for all your contributions so far; please help us test and polish the 2.5.0 release so it can be as perfect as possible!
BuddyPress 2.4.3 is now available. This is a maintenance release that mainly fixes an issue with the ‘title-tag’ theme support.
Update to BuddyPress 2.4.3 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the wordpress.org plugin repository.
Questions or comments? Check out 2.4.3 changelog, or stop by our support forums or Trac.
BuddyPress 2.4.2 is now available. This is an maintenance and security release, and all BuddyPress installations are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.
An XSS vulnerability in the Groups component was discovered, which affected the Groups administration screen inside the wp-admin area. We thank Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski (vnd) for responsibly disclosing this issue to the BuddyPress team.
We have also made a number of security hardening improvements (which were discovered during a regular audit) to protect against similar vulnerabilities. Last but not least, this release also includes fixes for several other bugs introduced in the 2.4 series.
Update to BuddyPress 2.4.2 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the wordpress.org plugin repository.
Questions or comments? Check out 2.4.2 changelog, or stop by our support forums or Trac.
Hot & Spicy, BuddyPress 2.4.0 “Pietro” is delivered!
Let’s discover the toppings that the team is most proud of in this latest major release.
Drag, Drop, your cover image is awesome!
Built on top of the BuddyPress Attachments API, Cover Images beautify your profile or group header. Thanks to the BuddyPress Theme Compat API, Cover Images should integrate with your Theme in the best way and adapt to your device screen size. If you need some “fine-tuning” of this feature, an in-depth guide is available on our Codex. Should you need further assistance in implementing this feature, just drop by the BuddyPress forums where you’re sure to find BP users able to help you.
Profile fields specific to your member types
Introduced in 2.2.0, the Member Types feature allows developers to categorize the members of their community in any way they choose – say, students and teachers. If your community uses this great feature, you can now specify that profile fields be made available to either one, some, or none of the registered Member Types.
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BuddyPress 2.3.5 is now available.
This is a security release for all previous versions. All BuddyPress installations are strongly encouraged to upgrade immediately.
BuddyPress versions 2.3.4 and earlier are subject to a vulnerability that may allow privilege escalation for logged-in users. We have no evidence that this bug has ever been exploited in the wild, but we’re eager to make sure that it is not.
The vulnerability was discovered and reported by Slava Abakumov, and the fix was prepared by the BuddyPress team. Thanks to Slava for responsibly reporting the issue.
If your WordPress site supports automatic background updates, then your BuddyPress installation should update automatically, probably by the time you’ve read this blog post.
We always encourage users to run the latest version of BuddyPress. But for those sites that cannot update to the 2.3.x series for whatever reason, we’re simultaneously releasing version 2.0.4, 2.1.2, and 2.2.4, which include the fix for the vulnerability. You can download these packages manually from https://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress/developers/.
Questions or comments? Stop by the buddypress.org support forums.
BuddyPress 2.4.0 Release Candidate 1 is now available for testing. Please download the 2.4.0-rc1 zip or get a copy via our Subversion repository. If you are a plugin or theme developer, or are running a BuddyPress powered site with a development environment available, your help testing is greatly appreciated.
A detailed changelog will be part of our official release notes, but check out the 2.4.0 Beta 1 post for the rundown of our favourite changes until then.
Let us know of any issues you find in the support forums and/or on our development tracker.
BuddyPress 2.4.0 Beta 2 is available for testing. Please download the 2.4.0-beta2 zip or get a copy via our Subversion repository. If you are a plugin or theme developer, or are running a BuddyPress powered site with a development environment available, we’d love to have your help with testing.
Some improvements we’re introducing in this release are involving changes to our Template Pack. If you are partially or completely overriding it within your theme, we strongly recommend you to test and get ready to update your templates (if necessary) when 2.4.0 is released. If you are still using WordPress 3.6 or 3.7, we remind you BuddyPress 2.4.0 will require at least WordPress 3.8.
A detailed changelog will be part of our official release notes, but until then, here’s a rundown of some of our favourite changes. (Check out this report on Trac for a more detailed view.)
- Accessibility: we’ve made great improvements about this important topic in our Template Pack.
- Members Type & xProfile fields: you will be able to restrict profile fields to specific member types.
- Cover Images for Members and Groups are arriving in 2.4.0 and they are bringing very nice improvements to our BP Attachment API. Developers, make sure to give a look at this codex page.
- New companion stylesheets: Twenty Thirteen and Twenty Sixteen (to be shipped with WordPress 4.4).
- Groups single items: you can now customise their front page according to the ID/Slug of the Groups or their status thanks to a specific Template Hierarchy.
- Continued object & query cache enhancements.
- Tons of under-the-hood improvements.
- Continued coverage of inline code documentation, actions, & filters.
2.4.0 is almost ready, but please do not run it in a production environment just yet. Let us know of any issues you find in the support forums and/or on our development tracker.
Thanks everyone for all your contributions, and we are excited to release BuddyPress 2.4.0 very soon!
BuddyPress 2.3.4 is now available. This is a maintenance release and all BuddyPress installations are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.
The release fixes a handful of bugs that were introduced in the 2.3 series, and improves support for administration changes made in WordPress 4.3.
Update to BuddyPress 2.3.4 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the wordpress.org plugin repository. Questions or comments? Check out 2.3.4 changelog, or stop by our support forums or Trac.
BuddyPress 2.3.3 is now available. This is an important maintenance and security release for the 2.3 branch of code, and all BuddyPress installations are recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.
BuddyPress Messages, while off by default, is a component that’s frequently enabled to allow members to communicate privately with each other. A vulnerability was responsibly disclosed to the BuddyPress team that could allow members to manipulate a failed private outbound message and inject unexpected output to the browser. This vulnerability was reported by Krzysztof Katowicz-Kowalewski. The BuddyPress team independently discovered and fixed related vulnerabilities with the messages component that could allow for carefully crafted private message content to be rendered incorrectly to the browser.
This release also includes fixes for several other bugs introduced in the 2.3 series, and improves support for administration changes made in WordPress 4.3.
Update to BuddyPress 2.3.3 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the wordpress.org plugin repository.
Questions or comments? Check out 2.3.3 changelog, or stop by our support forums or Trac.
This Saturday August 8th, Brighton (UK) hosts the first-ever European BuddyPress conference — BuddyCamp Brighton! Tickets are still available, so get yours now and check out the schedule.
BuddyCamp Brighton is a friendly one-day conference, like a WordCamp, but as you can guess from the name, BuddyCamp Brighton is a conference focused on BuddyPress.
Tickets are strictly limited, so if you can get down to Brighton, and want to learn more about BuddyPress, don’t hesitate; get your ticket today! See you there!
We have a great group of European speakers who are notable within the BuddyPress community. For example, we have translation volunteers attending, members of the BuddyPress core team, long-term contributors, people who build or run BuddyPress site, BuddyPress plugin developers, and BuddyPress theme developers.
If you want to learn more about BuddyPress and walk away as a power user, or meet many of the team and contributors behind the project, and share your knowledge with other enthusiasts, then BuddyCamp is perfect for you!
