XenForo Announcements

We are happy to announce that the 2.0.0 Beta 4 releases of XenForo and our official add-ons are now available to all customers with active licenses. For the most part, this release continues to focus on bug fixes and making adjustments to avoid possible confusion. To this end, the system that controls editing custom thread fields has been changed. It now uses a user group-based system like prefixes (rather than a basic user/moderator editable choice). This should provide more customizability and reduce confusion over who can edit a specific field. If you are upgrading from a previous beta release, please double check the "editable by user groups" value for any custom thread fields you have added. Once again, please pay attention to...

XenForo Media Gallery 1.1.14 is a maintenance release for our media gallery add-on. We recommend all customers running XenForo Media Gallery to upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability. This release fixes several issues: Display the correct default order on the watched albums page. Reduce memory usage while applying a watermark to an image. Fix issue which prevented Metacafe thumbnails from downloading. Add og:image:width and og:image:height properties to the Open Graph metadata. For the full list of bug fixes, see the Resolved Media Gallery Bugs forum. The following templates have been changed: xengallery_category_view xengallery_meta_data XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 1.5.0 or later. Customers with...

XenForo Enhanced Search 1.1.7 is a maintenance release for our search add-on. This release adds support for Elasticsearch 6. If you plan to use to Elasticsearch 6 upon its release, you must use this version of XenForo Enhanced Search or a newer version. Elasticsearch 6 significantly changes how data is indexed compared to previous versions. Indexes upgraded from Elasticsearch 5 to 6 will maintain backwards compatibility with the previous index structure, but any indexes created in Elasticsearch 6 can only be accessed using the new "single type" approach. Add-ons that depend on Elasticsearch or extend XenForo Enhanced Search may need to be modified to take these changes into account. Please ensure you test before upgrading to or...

Keeping with our previous weekly beta release schedule, we are now ready to release our third beta, both of XenForo 2 and the official XenForo 2 add-ons. Generally speaking, this release has focused on fixing bugs and attempting to avoid upgrade issues, both for the core and add-ons. Two of the more significant changes in this area include: The schema manager change system will now identify conflicting tables or columns and rename them instead of stopping with an error. If this happens, an entry will be added to the server error log. The add-on install/upgrade/uninstall system now tracks the last step that was completed. If a user receives an error and later comes back to retry that same action, the action will resume from the first...

One week after the release of XF2 Beta 1, we are now ready to release our second beta, both of XenForo 2 and the official XenForo 2 add-ons. Much attention has been paid to the feedback we've received regarding the upgrade process, and we've worked hard to mitigate various problems that have been reported, so hopefully the upgrade process will be smoother this time around. We've also been busy squishing bugs, and many of the more serious or pressing issues have been resolved. You won't find much in the way of new features in this release, as we are concentrating on getting the code to the point where it can be declared stable rather than adding new stuff, but one exception to this in in the Quick Thread system, where it is now...

We are happy to announce that XenForo 2.0.0 Beta 1 is now available to all customers with active licenses. XenForo 2.0 includes a large number of changes, both to the underlying structure of the code and the exposed features. More details can be found in the have you seen forum. We have previously released a number of developer previews to enable customers and developers to get a first-hand look at the XenForo 2 code, experiment with the new architecture and features, and prepare themselves for the time when XF2 becomes our stable and supported version. The developer previews were invaluable in identifying bugs and usability issues. However, the developer previews were limited in one crucial way -- the upgrade system was disabled in...

Today, we have taken a major step forward in the move to make XenForo 2 our primary, stable and supported platform. While we have run a XenForo 2 demo since November, the main community site has remained on XenForo 1.x during development. After ten public developer previews, we now consider XF2 to be ready for further duties, and therefore we have upgraded our own forums. XenForo 2 represents a significant technological advancement over XenForo 1. The entire software architecture has been rewritten for enhanced efficiency, stability and speed of development. Systems such as XF2's entities provide for easy, rapid, error-proof fetching and manipulation of data, allowing new features and add-ons to be developed with hitherto unseen...