Default Theme

• Add responsiveness to the Default Theme; it looks great on mobile browsers (#3494).
• Add support for custom menus, custom header images, and custom backgrounds to BP-Default (#2691).
• Add support for WAI-ARIA landmark roles (#748).
• Add styling for nested comments.
• Add admin Visual Editor stylesheet (#3142).
• Add new widget areas; there are now five (one in the sidebar, four in the footer).
• Add a new one-column page template.
• Add comments and trackbacks to pages.
• Add ‘order by’ sub-navigation to group forums.
• Add rel=”author” to blog posts.
• Add “cancel friendship” buttons on your member profile’s Friends page (#2780).
• Add a new forums tab on the member profile page nav; gives you quick access to the topics you’ve started and replied to (#3177, #3431).
• Add search box to 404 template (#3236).
• Add new template files for “settings” component.
• Add ID to sidebar widget block (#2752, #3216).
• Add ability to set any component page as the site’s home page (#2743).
• Add word-wrapping to long activity item contents to work better with extremely long words (#3410).
• Add sorting of messages to the private message inbox (#2724).
• Add more CSS classes to the group admin member screen (#2953).
• Add delete button to the view private message screen (#2760).
• Fix many RTL issues (#3242, #3479).
• Fix next/previous post/page links when reading a blog post (#2982).
• Fix textarea resizing, limit to vertical (#3316).
• Fix display of UL/OL elements in comments.
• Fix forced display of scrollbars for pre elements.
• Fix wrapping of long user names in blog post author box (#3402).
• Fix gravatar size inconsistencies throughout.
• Remove the hardcoded text about “connecting” from the log in sidebar.
• Remove the “edit this post” link from pages.
• Remove all of the middle-dots on links, page titles, and sub-navigation (#3249).
• Update text, table, image, and widget styles for much better consistency throughout the theme (#3235, #3241).
• Update page header, comment, forum, and activity stream styles; these have a great new appearance, and content is easier to read (#2753, #3242).
• Update page title generation (#2555, #2595, #3512, #3561).
• Update Forum Directory template to better match bbPress 2.0’s template design.
• Update the drop-down in New Forum Topic creation to include hidden/private groups if the user is a super admin, or a member of that group.
• Update the main header ‘s background to use a CSS3 gradient instead of an image.
• Update how we zebra-stripe various “tables” in our template for better cross-browser support (#3074, #3294, #3376).
• Update styles for the sub-navigation bar tabs to ensure consistent height and positioning in some situations (#3370).
• Update the page header to accommodate a longer site name (#3234).

• Add a BP_Component class for easier plugin development.
• New functions added to get/set options and user meta (see the BP Development site, #2952, #3261).
  
• Remove root components and replace them with actual WordPress Pages. See the BP Development site.
• Add accessor functions to all of BuddyPress’ global variables for future compatibility (#3314).
• Add filters and actions to many more places to make it easier for third-party developers to change behaviour (#1536, #2168, #2280, #2286, #2397, #2454, #2503, #2530, #2617, #2669, #2773, #2777, #2980, #2996, #3024, #3071, #3160, #3296, #3324, #3379, #3418, #3434, #3489, #3513, #3515, #3523, #3534).
• Add humans.txt, because we’re not robots.
• Add ABSPATH checks to all files to prevent direct file access (#3367).
• Add and update alot of PHPDOC.
• Add ‘bp_actions’ and ‘bp_screens’ hooks to replace the usage of ‘wp’ throughout project (#3476).
• Add bp_do_404() for easy 404ing in your custom components.
• Add the UNIX date as the version identifier to all script and style enqueues to help flush caches for future releases (#3367).
• Add bp_users_get_nicename() to fix long-standing issue with user names containing spaces or other non-standard characters.
• Add _has_directory() template tags throughout.
• Add bp_is_multiblog_mode to reduce BP_ENABLE_MULTIBLOG checks throughout (#3314).
• Add bp_nav_item_has_subnav() to make it easier to find out if a nav item’s sub-nav is populated (#3381).
• Add bp_use_wp_admin_bar() to reduce BP_USE_WP_ADMIN_BAR checks throughout (#3314).
• Add bp_is_username_compatibility_mode() to avoid direct constant checks throughout (#3314).
• Add wrapper functions for avatar-related constants. Also move avatar settings into $bp global (#3314).
• Add a new “settings” from parts of core for future extension. Includes new template files in BP-Default.
• Add classes to the notification settings tables for easier styling (#2534).
• Add additional arguments to the BP_Button class for greater customization in themes (#2711).
• Deprecate obsolete code, and move it into its own file (#2600).
• Fix the generation of timestamps for better consistency (#2750).
• Fix all WP_DEBUG notices/errors. Swap out all deprecated WordPress functions with their appropriate replacements.
• Fix some core functions returning invalid links when used over HTTPS (#1948, #2634).
• Fix all pass-by-reference PHP5 warnings.
• Fix search parameters throughout all components being overridden by the URL when the search parameter has been hardcoded in the template (#2747).
• Remove all function_exists() calls which were used to check if a particular component was active, and replace with bp_is_active() (#2718).
• Update BuddyPress to use the new BP_Component class internally.
• Update jquery.bgiframe.js to 2.1.2 and add minified version (#3204).
• Update jQuery Easing plugin (#1940, #2648).
• Update all template files for consistency of names and positions of do_action hooks.
• Update and improve i18n throughout; add descriptions, contexts and support argument swapping (#2028, #2291, #3120, #3514).
• Update the bp_loaded action to use init instead of plugins_loaded. Stops BuddyPress _doing_it_wrong() (#2609, WP #14729, and the BP Development site).
• Update all permalink functions to use trailingslashit().
• Update all our SQL queries to use bp_core_get_table_prefix() (#3228).
• Update for PHP5 throughout (#3148).
• Update all  loop_start/loop_end actions throughout to be component-specific (#2981).
• Update all javascript for jQuery 1.5.2+ compatibility (#3207).
• We recommend a new way to enqueue stylesheets in your child themes (#3389 and the BP Development site).

Groups

• Add include and exclude parameters for bp_groups_has_members loop (#2641).
• Add show_hidden parameter for bp_has_groups (#2377).
• Add ability to replace the groups object, or class used, in the loop (#3312).
• Add filters on groups database queries (#2774).
• Fix groups_join_group() to use the correct group ID and user ID in some situations (#2733).
• Fix bp_group_is_user_banned() being used outside of the group template loop (#3488).

Members

• Add include and exclude parameters for bp_has_members loop (#2620).
• Update members loop to allow an unlimited per_page setting (#1991).

Private Messages

Profile Fields