Announcements

XenForo & Add-ons 2.3.0 Release Candidate 1 Released It's finally here, the first of a series of release candidates for the XenForo 2.3.0 stable release. We still have a bit more work to do and other changes and improvements in the pipeline but at this point the most serious bugs have been tackled and we don't expect many more releases before we can declare it is ready for a stable release. We strongly recommend anyone testing 2.3 during this pre-release period upgrade as each pre-release version is released. More specific details regarding bugs fixed in this release can be found in the resolved bugs forum. This is pre-release software. It is not officially supported. We do not recommend running it in production. Please remember...

XenForo 2.2.16 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability. One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.16 Directly from your admin control panel If you are a XenForo Cloud customer, your upgrade will be scheduled automatically. Some of the changes in XF 2.2.16 include: Fix some issues with xf-dev:class-use-function to better support classes with class attributes and comments, or existing use function declarations. Fix persistent action indicator when using back/forward navigation Add _deleteFromSource method to support performing tasks right before entity deletion Skip logging IPs when...

As we get ever closer to the fabled "release candidate" stage and the eventual stable release, today we are releasing the eighth beta for XenForo 2.3! Nothing particularly noteworthy this week other than a number of bug fixes. We strongly recommend anyone testing 2.3 during this beta period upgrade as each beta version is released. More specific details regarding bugs fixed in this release can be found in the resolved bugs forum. This is beta software. It is not officially supported. We do not recommend running it in production. Please remember that this is beta software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality. We do not recommend running beta software in a production environment, and support is limited at this time to...

Unfortunately it has recently come to our attention that the CAPTCHA previously provided by Solve Media is no longer functional. Initially it seemed like it was just their verification endpoint that was no longer functional, but it now transpires that their CAPTCHA challenges are no longer displaying either. If your site is currently configured to use Solve Media, it is highly likely that new users are currently unable to register an account on your forum. Even if that aspect starts working again, the CAPTCHA will be completely ineffective because verification failures (deliberately) cause the CAPTCHA challenge to pass. If both aspects were to start working again, we are no longer comfortable including their service as part of our...

Welcome to 2.3.0 Beta 7! Since our last release we have been mostly focusing again on bug fixes and stability, though we do have an interesting change to note related to multibyte strings, specifically URL romanization. If available, we now use the intl extension and perform a multi-layered process for normalizing and transliterating strings. This is now much more intelligent as it handles some special cases for certain locales (based on the default language of the forum). We also have a new option for controlling the output of emojis in URLs. You can leave them URL encoded, remove them, or convert them to a string based on the emoji name. This also requires the intl extension. You can see an example of that in the URL below. We...

This week (and a bit) we have been extremely busy working towards that enticing milestone of a stable release. There's still a little while to go with a healthy number of bugs, feedback and other bits in our backlog that we'd like to work through, but each release represents a significant amount of effort and progress towards the end goal. While we have mostly focused on bug fixes and other stability improvements, this has resulted in some notable changes which you should be aware of. We have been deferring this handling to a third party piece of code for a number of years which has done a great job, but after a recent discussion and bug report about it we have decided to modernise this code and bring it into the XF core itself...

Finally, the add-ons have some love ❤️ While there is the usual amount of bug fixes as we work hard to make XenForo 2.3 even more stable, this Beta in particular brings a number of new features to our official add-ons. You can read our recent 'Have you seen...?' thread to find out what's new: XenForo Enhanced Search XenForo Resource Manager XenForo Media Gallery Note in particular, XenForo Enhanced Search has slightly higher minimum requirements than we reported previously. This now requires Elasticsearch 7.2 which was necessary to support the new search suggestions feature for auto-completing searches. You can also now use OpenSearch if you prefer. We strongly recommend anyone testing 2.3 during this beta period upgrade as each...