Version 2.1

Version 2.1 is a major BuddyPress feature release.

For Version 2.1, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 8311, and the Trac revision was 9032. Read the full ticket log here here.

Highlights

• New @mentions interface – type a @ when leaving a status update or commenting on an activity item or blog post, and the new suggestions panel will open.
• Set better passwords with the password strength meter on the registration and user settings pages
• New “URL” XProfile field type
• Continued performance enhancements, particularly on the Members and Groups directories.
• Higher quality translations (automatically fetched by WordPress), courtesy of our translation volunteers; thanks!

User Features

Activity

• When attempting to @-mention someone, open a suggestions panel allowing the user to select the user to mention (#3278)
• Add search support in AJAX “Load More” and “Load Newest” activity actions (#5779)
• Ensure that the ‘Comments’ dropdown filter on the activity directory includes new- and old-style comment activity (#5608)
• Disable calculating the total activity count when fetching activity items by default. The count is not necessary for the majority of use-cases and adds an overall, performance benefit. (#5629)
• Overhaul caching for user last_activity values (#5590)
• Disable activity reply threading if WP comment threading is disabled (#5562)
• Specify logged-in user when getting first name for “What’s new?” activity prompt (#5540)
• Activity dropdown filters are now dynamically generated instead of hardcoded into templates. See new function – bp_activity_show_filters() (#5637)

Administration

• Members admin: Introduce “Extended Profile” tab on a user’s profile. This allows admins to edit various BuddyPress information about a user including XProfile fields, the user’s avatar and their user status in the Dashboard. (#5623)
• Members admin: Allow admins to edit other admin profiles (#5623)
• Groups admin: Add a Permalink row and a “Visit Group” button (r8412)
• Groups admin: Improve logic for adding a user to a group in the Dashboard (#5633)
• Groups admin: Various minor UX improvements (#5645)
• Do not interfere with WordPress sign-up process when the user is created from the blog or the network administration (#5789)

Blogs

• Better slug collision detection when registering a site on a multisite subdirectory install and the root profiles feature is enabled (#5332)
• Updating a blog post will now properly create an excerpt for the activity item instead of using the entire post’s content (#5792)

Core

• Formally deprecate the BuddyBar (#5390)
• Improved image size detection for uploaded avatar images (#5617)
• Rename “Avatar” to “Profile Photo” (#5758)
• For BP buttons, the block_self parameter should not block buttons when inside a members loop on one’s own profile (#5734)
• Remove relational “prev” and “next” links when on a BuddyPress page (#4981)

Friends

• Performance enhancements when querying friendship status in a member loop (#5703)
• On multisite, do not register the Friends widget for non-root blogs (#5512)

General

• Correctly generate pagination links when using AJAX and search terms have been set (#5768)

Groups

• Overhaul access and visibility control for group tabs (#4785)
• Performance enhancements when querying whether a user is banned from a group during a groups loop (#5705)
• Improve private group message for non-members (#5510)
• For the Groups widget, allow max number of groups to work when greater than 20 (#5695)
• Disable group avatars if WordPress’ “Show Avatars” setting is disabled (#5345)
• Rename the frontend group’s “Admin” navigation menu to “Manage” to disambiguate the string (#5782)

Members

• Add password strength meter to registration page (#5775)
• Add username to activation email (#4731)
• Do not render non-existent registration sub-pages (#5772)
• Do not add “new_member” activities if xProfile component is disabled (#5807)

Messages

• For private message notifications, check that thread ID exists before attempting to link to it. Fixes debug notices and incorrect links when a message thread is deleted before notifications are marked as read. (r8616)
• For private message notifications, add singular form for “You have x new private messages” (#5767)
• Don’t make links in message excerpts clickable (#5368)
• Allow users to private message themselves (r8618)

Profiles

• Introduce new “URL” profile field type (#5501)
• Only show the xprofile field group tabs in edit mode if there is more than one field group (#5714)
• Fix redirect when an admin uploads an avatar to another user’s profile (#5580)
• Fix profile fields not rendering if their value is “0” (#5731)

Settings

• When a user attempts to change their email address, the new address requires email verification before the change is applied (#2265)
• Add password strength meter to a user’s settings page (#5775)

Theme

• Better compatibility with themes that load their template content in advanced ways, like Stargazer. (#5418)
• Abort duplicate AJAX requests if “Activity > Load More” button is clicked multiple times in succession (#5546)
• Fix bug where activity comments were not being shown to anonymous users (#5567)
• Fix notice when replying to private group activity updates via AJAX (#5862)

Development, Themes, Plugins

Activity

• Add ability to query activity items by date (#5803)
• In bp_has_activities(), show default to show_hidden=true for members of a group (#2014)
• In bp_get_activity_user_link(), check user properties before attempting to use the function (#5685)
• In bp-legacy, fix oEmbeds not being rendered when the “Read more” item is clicked in the activity stream (#5547)
• Purge activity comment cache when an activity comment is deleted (#5863)
• Clear activity comment cache when adding an activity comment with bp_activity_add() (r8996)
• Introduce bp_activity_delete_url() function (r8685)
• Introduce bp_activity_member_display_name() function (r8975)
• Improvements to bp_activity_user_can_delete() function (r8697)
• In bp_get_activity_comment_permalink(), check that activity comment exists, and fallback on the regular activity permalink if it doesn’t (r8717)
• In bp_activity_user_can_delete() check if user_id is set before comparing current user ID (r8784)
• In bp_activity_can_comment_reply(), check for and allow an empty $comment parameter, and set to bp_activity_current_comment() (r8955)

Administration

• User signups: Allow plugins to add a custom column to the “User > Manage Signups” page (#5678)
• Activity admin: Organize activity action filters by component (r8613)
• XProfile admin: Generate list of xprofile field types that support options for Field Admin, rather than hardcoding (#5691)
• XProfile admin: Add action hooks for plugin developers (#5674)
• XProfile admin: Pass the proper user_id when setting up xprofile meta boxes on the Community Profile Dashboard panel (#5809)
• Groups admin: Use bp_moderate capability to determine whether a group can be deleted (#5348)
• Members admin: Audit admin/bp-members-classes.php (#5654)
• Members admin: Fix notice in `BP_Members_Admin::remove_signups_from_user_query()` method (#5843)

Blogs

• Set default search terms before function params are parsed in bp_has_blogs() (#5660)
• Improvements to bp_blogs_record_existing_blogs() (#5749)
• Improvements to bp_blogs_total_blogs_for_user() (#5815)
• Introduce 'active_format' parameter for bp_get_blog_last_active() (#5392)
• Introduce 'latest_format' parameter for bp_get_blog_latest_post() (#5392)
• Pass parsed parameters to 'bp_has_blogs' filter (#5660)
• Pass parsed parameters to 'bp_blogs_record_activity_content' filter (#5680)
• Add activity meta when recording a blog post or blog comment (#5609)
• Introduce bp_blogs_get_allowed_roles() and bp_get_current_blog_roles() (#5749)
• Use bp_get_total_blog_count_for_user() when setting up blog nav (#5709)
• Fix notice when activating a member with no role on a multisite configuration (#5834)
• Fix warning when updating “Close Comments Days Old” option. (r8763)

Core

• Introduce Suggestions API. This replaces the inline solutions previously used in the Private Messages component and in the Groups admin dashboard and also powers the new activity at-mentions interface. (#3271)
• Untangle some load order and mutual dependency issues between component loaders (#5436)
• Introduce 'no_access_url' parameter to bp_core_new_subnav_item() (#5720)
• Allow bp_register_template_stack() / bp_deregister_template_stack()to be called from class methods (#5671)
• Add new search_wildcard parameter to BP_User_Query (#5769)
• Make sure BP_User_Query returns correct results when search term contains the ampersand character (#5694)
• Refactor all uses of like_escape() to use bp_esc_like(). like_escape() is deprecated in WordPress 4.0. (#5701)
• Fix bug where wp_signups table would not get created on single-site installations when the DO_NOT_UPGRADE_GLOBAL_TABLES define is set (#5745)
• Fix bp_is_current_component_core() to reference BP core components (#5552)
• Fix issues with bp_core_time_since() (#4310)
• Change the default value of bp_disable_profile_sync() to false (#5725)
• Don’t attempt to overload add_root property in bp_core_add_root_component() (#5588)
• When creating directory page mappings, check for and use pages that already exist with a matching slug (#5747)
• More conservative page_template checks in bp_is_current_component() (#5751)
• Add return values for bp_update_option() and bp_delete_option() (#5518)
• Fix issues with redirect link for login / logout links on subdirectory installs (#5737)
• In bp_is_group(), make sure the Groups component is active before trying to get current group (#5871)
• Fix notices when the root profiles feature is enabled (#5241)
• In bp_core_load_template(), only use locate_template for older bp-default themes (r8820)
• Separate out registering and enqueuing of WP Toolbar styling (r8764)
• Add parent and child menu CSS classes to BuddyPress navigation menus (r8659)
• In BP_Component::includes(), ensure dynamic action fires even when $includes array is empty (r8572)
• Fix ability to query for users by letter and also exclude certain users (r8558)
• Prevent debug notices in bp_get_avatar_to_crop_src() when there is no uploaded avatar to crop yet (r8969)
• Officially deprecate bp_avatar_upload_form(). This function has not been used for several years and calls a function that no longer exists (r8971)

General

• Update BuddyPress’ development trunk (buddypress.svn.wordpress.org/trunk) to a Grunt-powered build system (#5160)
• During unit test bootstrap, rework the way the WP tests directory is inferred to support WP_DEVELOP_DIR (#5376)
• For those running BuddyPress’ development trunk, support symlinking the main buddypress directory (#5652)
• Improved Travis CI performance (#5708)
• Remove translation POT file from development trunk (#5621)
• Add .editorconfig file, see http://editorconfig.org/ (#5638)
• i18n: Improvements to strings across all components (#5760, #5767, #5777)
• Various phpDoc improvements (r8479, r8481, r8482, r8483, r8503, r8530, r8533, r8563, r8575, r8576, r8577, r8591, r8698, r8752, r8797, r8798), r9025, r9026)r9027, r9028)
• Various WordPress coding standards (r8439, r8440, r8458, r8459, r8460, r8474, r8645, r8758

Groups

• Introduce 'group_activity' sort order for group member queries (#3430)
• Add support for disabling pagination in BP_Groups_Group::get() by passing per_page=-1 (#5477)
• BP_Group_Extension should automatically handle redirects after the ‘edit’ screen save routine (#5537)
• Introduce bp_group_is_invited() function (#5510)
• Introduce 'bp_groups_get_orderby' and 'bp_groups_get_orderby_converted_by_term' filters to allow group order to be customized in a groups loop (#3161)
• Clean up parsed meta query in BP_Groups_Group::get_meta_query_sql() (#5682, #5824)
• Cache results for `BP_Groups_Member::get_group_administrator_ids()`. This leads to performance enhancements when viewing a group loop and the logged-in user is a member of each group. (#5705)
• Allow empty string to be passed to the 'search_terms' parameter in the bp_group_has_members() loop (#5746)
• Allow group member avatar functions to pass an array of arguments (r8750)
• Fix bug related to the use of the 'compare' operator when querying groups by meta query (#5824)

Members

• Refactor BuddyPress user ID functions to use WordPress’s get_user_by() function instead of direct database queries (#5696)
• Standardize placement of 'bp_get_activity_latest_update_excerpt' filter (#5626)
• Use raw member count, not formatted number, when localizing via _n() in bp_get_members_pagination_count() (#5743)
• Move blog subdomain base functions to the Members component to ensure site registration will work even if the Blogs component is inactive (#5530)
• Properly deprecate original notifications functions out of members component and back into core (r8626, r8627)
• Fix incorrect filter name in bp_get_member_registered() (r8641)
• Allow a custom string to be passed into the 'active_format' parameter in bp_get_member_last_active() (r8748)

Messages

• Introduce bp_get_the_thread_message_css_class() template function (#5238)
• Introduce bp_the_thread_message_sender_id() (r8674)
• Introduce bp_the_thread_message_date_sent() (r8692)
• Introduce bp_message_thread_last_post_date_raw() (r8793)
• Pass userdata variable to message content filters when sending notifications (#5634)
• Fix notices in messages_format_notifications() (#5736)

Notifications

• Allow bp_has_notifications() loop to support all available parameters (#5558)
• Fix inability to limit the maximum number of visible notifications (r8578)
• Introduce bp_the_notification_delete_url() and bp_get_the_notification_delete_url() (r8666)
• Introduce bp_the_notification_mark_read_url() and bp_the_notification_mark_unread_url() (r8667)
• Introduce bp_notifications_get_all_notifications_for_user() (r8744)

Profiles

• Introduce BP_XProfile_Field_Type::display_filter() and implement in BP_XProfile_Field_Type_Datebox class (#5630)
• Introduce BP_XProfile_Field_Type::pre_validate_filter() and implement in URL field type (#5501)
• Introduce bp_the_profile_field_ids() (#5666)
• Fix issue when passing multiple group IDs to the exclude_groups parameter in BP_XProfile_Group::get() (#5649)
• Purge profile group cache when profile groups are reordered (#5860)
• Allow plugin devs to set the option_order parameter in xprofile_insert_field() (#5472)
• Don’t skip filter in BP_XProfile_Field::get_children() when no children are found (#5692)
• When a user’s profile is updated, correctly pass the fields’ previous values to the xprofile_updated_profile action (#5755)
• Add extra arguments to the xprofile_data_value_before_save and xprofile_filtered_data_value_before_save filters (#5742)
• Introduce bp_xprofile_get_groups() procedural wrapper for BP_XProfile_Group::get() (#5657)
• Add state CSS classes to xprofile field visibility elements (#5498, #5238, #5697)
• Add field-specific CSS classes to xprofile field divs in register.php (#5586)
• Add CSS class to xprofile fields indicating whether they are required (#5741)
• In bp_get_the_profile_field_ids(), make sure field group has fields before attempting to pluck ID’s from it (r8933)

Theme

• Remove inline jQuery ScrollTo, Cookie and Querystring scripts and properly enqueue them (#5208)
• Fix invalid HTML markup on step 2 of the “Create Group” form (#5816)
• Fix CSS for form label widths (#5804)
• Remove extraneous colon from registration template (#5656)
• Wrap ‘Everything’ text in em dashes to more appropriately match other default select options (r8452)
• Remove text-zoom override from default responsive theme-compat styling (r8471)