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Version 2.2

Version 2.2 is a major BuddyPress feature release.

For Version 2.2, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 9181, and the Trac revision was 9441. Read the full ticket log here here.

Highlights

• Introduce Member Types API – Registering member types enables a strict separation of different and explicit types of community members. View the codex article for more information.
• Post Types Activities – Register custom post types so they appear as activity stream items, complete with custom verbiage. View the codex article for more information.
• Message Meta – Private message conversations made infinitely more flexible with an additional metadata table.
• Complex Queries – The Activity and Extended Profiles components now support advanced conditional logic, like nested clauses and multiple operators — A AND ( B OR C ). The Activity component now also supports querying by multiple scopes.
• Cache Improvements – We now properly group and cache several different types of queries and objects, with an emphasis on multisite and multi-network environments.

User Features

Activity

• Add support for post type activity recording. View the codex article for more information. (#5669)
• Mentions: Add better support for responsive devices (#5969)
• Mentions: For performance reasons, do not prime results if the site / user has many users / friends (#5950)
• Ensure parent activity exists before adding an activity comment to it (#5907)
• Allow 'b', 'i', and 'a:title' to be used in activity content (#5835)

Administration

• Add autocomplete support for at-mentions to the admin dashboard’s Visual Editor (#5969)
• Members admin: Fix issue where viewing the “Users” list would highlight the “Your Profile” admin menu item (#5978)
• Members admin: Set better access capabilities (#5932)
• Groups admin: Add better contextual errors when editing a group (#5854)
• XProfile admin: Update title CSS and JS to match WordPress 4.0 standards (r9084)
• Remove redundant “Save” buttons on the “Settings > BuddyPress > Pages” screen (#6044)
• Ensure admin notices look like an error message (#6041)

Blogs

• On Blogs directory, move “Create A Site” link from page title to navigation tab (#6008)
• When un-spamming a user, restore the user’s blog records (#5857)

Core

• Better cache support across multisite and multi-network environments (#5733)
• Theme compatibility: Remove all links from titles of directory and single item pages (r9157)
• Fix issue where a BuddyPress directory is displayed on a page using a custom WordPress page template whose filename matches a BuddyPress component name (#5721)

Friends

• Ensure activity items connected to a friendship are removed when a friendship is cancelled (#6055)

General

• Ensure pagination links are correctly set in case javascript is disabled (#5967)
• Add better support for touchscreen devices on form fields (#5914)

Groups

• Add support for at-mention autocompletion in group activity streams (#5934)
• Enhance usability on a group’s “Send Invites” page (#5509)
• Create an activity item when a group’s details are updated (#5880)
• Include updated name/description in email notification after a group is updated (#5879)
• On Groups Directory, move “Create A Group” link from page title to navigation tab (#6008) – Read how to manage this change for themes
• Show banned members when on a group’s “Manage Members” page (#6013)
• Improvements to the “Edit Group” menu item in the WP Admin Bar (#6002)
• Pagination text for a groups loop with a single group should read “Viewing 1 group” (r9036)

Members

• Refactor member activation URL to better avoid email spam filters. New URL looks like this – example.com/activate/XXX. The older URL format – example.com/activate/?key=XXX – is still supported for backward compatibility. (#5831)
• When validating user signup, use the error message passed by WordPress instead of a generic error (#6007)
• Ensure unspammed users are indeed seen as unspammed on a multisite installation (#5275)
• On Members directory, make sure the AJAX search request is not using the default placeholder as the search term (#5960)
• Move 'new_member' activity items from the Extended Profiles component to the Members component (#5807)

Messages

• Improved UI for managing messages (#6005)
• Add “Read/Unread” links for each message thread (#6005)
• Better message thread bulk management (#6065, #4531)
• Introduce noscript support for bulk actions (#6005)
• Fix oEmbed in private messages (#5990)
• Fix recipient count when there are five or more participants in a private message thread (#5327)
• For the private message delete button, change the link title from 'Delete Message' to 'Delete Conversation' (#5908)
• When a member sends themselves a private message, ensure the appropriate description is displayed (#6087)

Notifications

• Add ability to bulk manage notifications (#5513)

Settings

• Rename the “Settings > Profile” tab to “Settings > Profile Visibility” (#5599)
• Don’t show “Settings > Email” tab when there are no options to set (#5441)
• Better separation of template notices on the user settings page (#6112)

Theme

• If set in the admin dashboard’s “Pages” screen, use a component’s mapped page template as the wrapper template used by BuddyPress (#6065)
• Improve default font sizes for better theme compatibility (#6022)
• Make activity dropdown filter wider for better theme compatibility (#6065)
• Use 'type="email"' for email inputs in registration and settings templates (#5914)
• Ensure template notices are displayed in the Twenty Fifteen theme (#6000)
• Make “no members found” message on group members page more general (#5935)
• Improve styling of widgets with avatars (#5817)
• Re-enable ability to toggle the “Blog Details” block on registration page (#5846)
• Re-enable AJAX functionality for the “Add/Remove” friend button located in the member header (#5826)
• Fix at-mention name population when clicking on a user’s “Public Message” button (#6142)
• Remove BuddyPress-related cookies when clicking on the “Log out” link located in the WordPress Toolbar (#6170)

Development, Themes, Plugins

Activity

• Support multiple scopes in the bp_has_activities() stack (#4988)
• Alter the activity database table’s primary_link column from varchar(255) to text to handle long URLs (primarily for those using unicode) (#5890)
• When redirecting unauthenticated users away from a single activity permalink, make sure the value of the redirect_to parameter is URL-encoded (r9062)
• Ensure the cached activity front page is cleared when an activity item is updated (#6127)
• Ensure activity actions are set when creating activity objects (#6126)
• Ensure that 'count_total' is available in the bp_has_activities() stack (#5915)
• Pass $pag_sql variable to 'bp_activity_get_user_join_filter' filter (r9087)
• Remove duplicate 'bp_get_activity_show_filters' filter (r9133)
• When generating an activity RSS feed, send a HTTP header to disable content type sniffing (r9212)
• Mentions: Update external JS libraries (r9097, r9246)
• Fix notice when an activity is generated for a post with no title (#6119)

Administration

• Activity admin: Avoid a javascript error by making sure the 'postboxes' object is defined (#6050)
• XProfile admin: Add new hooks on main “Profile Fields” screen (#5673)
• XProfile admin: Add new hooks on “Add Field” screen (#5917)
• bp_core_add_admin_notice() function now supports a 'type' parameter (r9171)
• Members admin: Replace the word 'avatar' with 'profile photo' (#6151)
• Introduce bp_core_get_admin_tabs() function (r9205)

Blogs

• Invalidate total blog count when site is deleted (#6062)
• Search consistently against blog title and description in BP_Blogs_Blog::get() (#5858)
• Explicitly declare block_self=false for “Create a Site” button (#6096)
• Apply 'widget_title' filter to Recent Posts widget (#6056)

Core

• Ensure custom language files take precedence over GlotPress language packs (#5887)
• Better detection for false positives in meta SQL filters (r9073)
• When deleting a WP page that is associated with a BuddyPress component, ensure that this page is also deleted from the BP directory page IDs option as well (#5681)
• Properly highlight BuddyPress pages in a WordPress nav or page menu (#5997)
• Suggestions: Move blog checks from the activity component to core (r9243)
• Check cache for count functions that return zero (#6012, r9363)
• Adjust bp_modify_page_title() so that it can be used safely after the 'wp_head' action (#6077)
• Fix issue with passing an invalid pagination value in a URL (#5796)
• Introduce BP_Recursive_Query class (r9253)
• Introduce bp_sort_by_key() helper function (#6047)
• Introduce bp_setup_cache_groups() sub-action, for hooking into and appropriately prioritizing cache group additions (r9312, r9314)
• Introduce bp_form_field_attributes() helper function to output attributes for a given field (r9329)
• Introduce bp_sanitize_pagination_arg() function to sanitize pagination request values (r9410)
• Deprecate bp_core_add_global_group() function (r9313)
• Add method_exists() checks to BP_Loader::setup_actions() to prevent adding actions for methods that may not exist (r9311)
• Use sanitize_key() in bp_get/post_request() functions, to ensure $action is properly formatted (r9346)
• Bring BuddyPress core moderation and blacklist functions up to date with bbPress’s (r9392, r9395, r9396)

Friends

• Only create a single activity item when a friendship is created and ensure that this friendship item is displayed in each user’s personal activity streams (#6040)

General

• Add support for Composer (#5928)
• Add Slack integration to .travis.yml (r9126)
• Various PHPDoc improvements (#5022, #5936, #5938, #5941, #5942, #5944, #5945, #5946, #5947, #5949, #5970, #5986, #6023, #6070, r9037, r9221, r9375)
• Various unit test fixes and improvements (#5910, #5965, #6036, #6129, r9061, r9107, r9117, r9118, r9120, r9137, r9138, r9139, r9140, r9141, r9142, r9164, r9209, r9219, r9233, r9234, r9275, r9281, r9282, r9294, r9295, r9300, r9302, r9317, r9364, r9405)
• Various Grunt improvements (#5962, #6015, #6064, #6104,, r9228)
• Various Travis-CI improvements (#6078, r9081, r9083 , r9237)
• Various improvements brought about by Scrutinizer-CI (#5891, #6097, r9288, r9318, r9351)
• Add additional paths to ignore for .gitignore and svn:ignore (#6017)
• Replace all instances of else if with elseif
• Remove some run-on sentences, also some comma splices, they were kind of annoying, they made BuddyPress more annoying to use, this is much better (#5878)
• Fix typos (#6062)

Groups

• Temporary fix when fetching groups with a complex meta query (r9082)
• Improve how a group’s “Manage” sub-navigation tabs are generated. Tabs are now generated using bp_core_new_subnav_item(). (#5994)
• When fetching total group counts, don’t join against the group members table (#5584)
• In groups invite loop, remove duplicate call to fetch a user’s total friends (#6079)
• Add $user_id parameter to bp_groups_user_can_send_invites() (#6031)
• Fix bug where a group could be created with a user ID of zero (#5983)
• Pass current group ID to BP_Group_Extension::display() class method (#5533)
• Use _n() for translations in bp_get_group_member_count() (r9047)
• After a group is successfully created, clear cookies previously used by the group creation wizard (#5867)
• Add 'group-$group_slug' body CSS class when viewing a group page (#5848)
• Fix wrong parameter usage for groups_delete_membership_request() function (r9309)
• Explicitly declare block_self=false for “Create a Group” button (#6096)

Members

• Introduce Member Types API. View the codex article for more information. (#6006)
• Introduce support for advanced XProfile queries in the bp_has_members() loop (#5839)
• Improve page title when on a member page (#5838)
• Move member-related widgets over from Core (r9323)
• When using the 'meta_key' and 'meta_value' parameters with BP_User_Query, ensure no results are displayed if there are no matches (#5904)
• Use bp_update_user_meta() in place of update_user_meta() to ensure plugins filtering user meta can properly manipulate the data (#5884, #5988)
• Use bp_update_user_meta() in bp_update_user_last_activity() to ensure plugins filtering user meta can properly manipulate a member’s last activity (#5988)
• Fix incorrect registration values when bp_get_signup_allowed() is used in certain cases (#6043)
• Allow multiple CSS classes to be passed to the 'class' argument in bp_core_fetch_avatar() (#6069)
• Pass avatar $params variable to 'bp_core_fetch_avatar_no_grav' filter (#5958)
• Fix PHP notice when cropping an avatar caused by a conflict between the 'w' avatar crop parameter and WP_Query’s 'w' parameter (#5999)
• Fix PHP notice on avatar upload screen after account registration (#5899)

Messages

• Introduce messages meta table to allow plugin developers to record information about a message (#3083)
• Support meta queries in bp_has_message_threads() stack (#6063)
• Grab all message IDs before deleting a message thread (r9184)
• Introduce new actions and filters in the BP_Messages_Thread class (r9165)
• Introduce bp_get_thread_recipients_count() and bp_get_thread_recipients_list() functions (r9095)
• Introduce bp_the_message_thread_mark_unread_url(), bp_the_message_thread_mark_read_url(), bp_message_thread_total_count, bp_message_thread_total_and_unread_count(), and bp_messages_bulk_management_dropdown() functions (r9161)
• Deprecate bp_get_the_thread_recipients() (r9095)
• Update autocomplete JS to better handle long cookie values (#5959)
• Improvements to bp_message_search_form() (#6113)

Notifications

• Use gettext context for “Read” subnav title (#6121)

Profiles

• Introduce support for advanced XProfile queries in the bp_has_members() loop (#5839)
• Switch from dynamically-named cache groups to static-named cache groups (r9336)
• Fix incorrect results when using xprofile_get_field_id_from_name() with a field name that matches an xprofile option value in the database (#6082)

Settings

• Fix PHP notice when changing your email address (#5982)

Theme

• When minified assets have not been built yet, ensure that CSS / JS can be located when running BuddyPress from the /src/ directory (#5963)
• Add 'bp-ajax-message' CSS class to message containers returned in AJAX responses (#5918)
• Prevent variable collision conflicts when using WP’s heartbeat JS (#6003)
• Ensure the 'bp_activity_custom_update' filter defaults to false (#6021)
• Use bp_blog_class() to output row classes in blogs-loop.php template (#5927)
• For member blogs template, use same select ID as the blogs directory template (#5996)
• For member groups template, use same select ID as the groups directory template (#5998)
• For message search form, improve label markup (#6010)
• Add better detection for the group member search field (#6033)

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