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Version 2.9.0

Version 2.9 is a major BuddyPress feature release.

For Version 2.9, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 11105, and the Trac revision was 11651. Read the full ticket log here here.

Highlights

Edit Group Slug
Allow administrators to change group names and permalinks. Navigate to the Groups screen in the wp-admin dashboard, click on the Edit link under the Group name, and adjust as needed.
Improve accessibility of Extended Profile Fields
Related form fields are grouped together in fieldsets and all interactive form controls are associated with necessary ARIA states and properties.
Send group invitation only once per user
Prevent duplicate group invitations from being sent to a user by double-checking if a group invitation has already been sent to that user.
Tooltips Usable for All Devices
Replaced HTML title attributes with tooltips which provide additional information and visual cues where needed on mouse hover and keyboard focus events.
Better support for private message thread links in emails
Redirect non-authenticated users to the login screen and authenticated users to the message linked.
Compatibility with Bootstrap themes
Removed issues with BuddyPress-generated content being hidden in the Groups loop and Activity comments in Bootstrap themes.
Improve profile image uploads
Fixed issues with uploading in iOS Safari and uploading files with non-ASCII filenames.
URL compatibility for LightSpeed Servers
Audited and changed template link functions to use trailingslashit() where necessary.
Template Packs UI in BuddyPress > Settings
Register your new BuddyPress theme package and allow the user to select which template pack to use.

Changes

Activity

#7490 – Impossible to display older activity comments
#7205 – Adds ‘orderby’ support to Activity queries
#7460 – Remove unwanted code for Index hint
#7538 – Activity: Add <ol>, <ul> and <li> to allowed elements

Administration

#7157 – UI to pick Template Packs

Build/Test Tools

#7028 – Use stylelint to lint SCSS & CSS replacing Ruby Gem scss_lint
#7429 – Update and fix all the NPM things
#7430 – Reverse the order in which the Travis jobs run
#7464 – Get Travis tests working again on PHP 7
#7511 – Remove HHVM from the test matrix on Travis
#7567 – Switch Travis CI environment to Trusty – PHP 5.3 no longer available Sept 2017
#7574 – Update Travis CI build matrix for PHP 7.2

Core

#7544 – Closing PHP tag in various bp-legacy templates
#6831 – Remove remove_node ‘edit’ in bp-core-adminbar.php
#7520 – bp_update_option() => $value should be mixed type, not string (docblocks)
#7537 – Add the current theme compat id to the body class array
#4986 – bp_nav_menu activity favorite filter selection clash with bbPress favorites
#7188 – Remove/Replace title attributes with Tooltips usable in all devices
#7349 – When user is not logged in, he/she clicks email link to view new messages gets 404 page when should get login page
#7416 – Fix for profile image upload on Microsoft Edge breaks iOS Safari and Chrome
#7441 – _bp_rehook_maybe_redirect_404() should check if multisite is enabled
#7448 – Trailing slash needed for URLs for compatibility with LiteSpeed
#7452 – Plugin short descriptions are limited to 150 characters
#7469 – Adding condition check on page delete
#7474 – WordPress version support for BP 2.9
#7484 – Resize member avatar error with cyrillic (not latin) filename
#7532 – BP_Button needs to update $parent_element and $parent_attr
#7563 – Welcome Screen for BP 2.9.0
#7568 – Avoid passing WP_Comment object to is_email() when filtering avatar URL

Emails

#7508 – {{user.site_url}} token not using HTTPS when site is on SSL
#7509 – BP_PHPMailer needs to set the Date header

Extended Profile

#7348 – Accessibility: Group related form elements within fieldsets in Profile > Edit screen
#7424 – filter get_avatar_url to parse URLs from BP avatars
#7439 – xProfile: Update Markup and Styles of User > Extended Profile screen

Friends

#5003 – Removing friend who not a friend shows incorrect message.
#7506 – friends_add_friend() should convert accepted arguments
#7530 – Fetching of ALL users from bp_friends_prime_mentions_results() for non logged in users

Groups

#6014 – Include BP Edit Group Slug into the core
#7397 – groups_send_invites() should allow us to omit sending to users that have already received an invite
#7443 – Hidden groups CSS specificity
#7477 – BP_Groups_Group::group_exists() should be cached.
#7485 – Allow bp_get_group_permalink() to produce HTML links.
#7486 – Improve message after successful group invitation acceptance.
#7493 – Update bp_group_description_excerpt() to accept a $length param
#7494 – Take advantage of BP_Groups_Group magic methods in groups component setup
#7496 – Add ‘slug’ argument to BP_Groups_Group::get().
#7497 – BP_Groups_Group::set_up_admins_and_mods() can fail when users don’t have site role
#7501 – Add “status” parameter to groups_get_groups().
#7513 – bp_group_has_members performs unnecessary query
#7524 – get_group_administrator_ids() & get_group_moderator_ids() should protect against bad parameter.

I18N

#7479 – Strings in readme.txt require constant localisation

Media

#7432 – Test depends on PHP EXIF support; should fail more gracefully when absent

Members

#7516 – bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=Non existing fields’ )

Messages

#7096 – Messages: member page messages are queried for the loggedin user
#7421 – Accessibility: Change sitewide notices “Close” controls to semantic buttons
#7531 – Variables conflict in messages_notification_new_message()

Registration

#7553 – Xprofile field default visibility not honored during POST processing of registration form

Settings

#7546 – General settings form field markup

Templates

#7471 – Twenty Seventeen dark – members listing – Order by drop down text hard to see
#7542 – bp-legacy: Fix “Show all comments” count for activity comments

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