Version 2.3.0

Version 2.3.0 is a major BuddyPress feature release.

For Version 2.3.0, the database version (_bp_db_version in wp_options) was 9848, and the Trac revision was 9912. Read the full ticket log here here.

Highlights

• Upload Profile Pictures with Drag and Drop – You can now drag and drop any image you choose to upload as your profile photo. The interface is mobile-ready and now includes integration with phone or laptop cameras. This is an example of what can be developed using the new Attachments API, the long-awaited foundation for media-related BuddyPress components and features.
• Companion Stylesheets For Themes – Improved styling and integration of BuddyPress components with bundled WordPress themes, Twenty Fifteen and Twenty Fourteen. Codex guide
• Blog Post Activity – BuddyPress now generates better excerpts in the activity stream for posts containing images or other embedded media content.
• Member Type Directories – Create directories of member types on your site using the Member Type API.
• Star Private Messages – Mark important messages in your inbox with a star.
• Notification Meta – Notifications made infinitely more extensible with an additional metadata table.

User Features

Activity

• BuddyPress now generates better excerpts in the activity stream for posts containing images or other embedded media content (#6177)
• Only show “Favorites” nav items if favorites are enabled (#6214)
• Activity Akismet integration requires Akismet v3+ (#6191)

Administration

• Activity admin: Fix loading image when replying to an item in multisite.(#6337)
• XProfile admin: Allow administrators to set a user’s photo using the new Avatars UI (#6290, r9759)
• XProfile admin: Update Profile Fields UI (#6318, #6313, #6315)
• Show the “Are you sure?” prompt in the BuddyPress admin area before deleting specific items (#6317)
• Add <label> element for options on the “Settings > BuddyPress > Components” screen (#6284)

Blogs

• Fix issue when recording a site with no name into BuddyPress (#4852)
• Do not show “New Site” activity filter on single group pages and other instances (#6411)
• Delete cache when editing a site on the “Network Admin > Sites” page (#6365)
• Add CSS 'count' / 'no-count' class to the displayed user’s “Sites” profile nav label (#6207)

Core

• Fix issue when using a WordPress timezone with bp_format_time() (#2693)
• Use protocol-relative URLs for Gravatar (//www.gravatar.com) (#6135)
• Let jCrop set initial crop coordinates on its own (#6282)
• In bp_create_excerpt(), do not strip HTML comments. Fixes issue when using the <!--more--> tag in blog posts. (#3680)
• Add better support for touchscreen devices for the login widget (#6269)

Friends

• Fix issue when attempting to update an existing friendship relationship (#6247)

Groups

• Use new Avatars UI to upload a group’s photo by drag-and-drop (#6290,
  r9757)
• Allow group avatars to be disabled (#4677)

Members

• Introduce member-type-specific Members directories. Plugin developers should view the codex article and the commit message for more info. (#6286)
• Filter return value of wp_registration_url() so it returns the URL of BuddyPress’s register page (#6208)

Messages

• Allow users to star private messages #6331)
• Ensure corresponding notifications are deleted when a message thread is deleted (#6329)
• Cache results when fetching messages and checking message access (#6221)
• Cache results when fetching the recipients of a private message thread (#6220)

Notifications

• Clear cache when updating a notification (#6445)

Profiles

• Use new Avatars UI to upload your photo by drag-and-drop or by taking a photo using your webcam (#6290,
  r9757)
• Fix broken selection of default values for checkboxes, select boxes, and multi-select boxes (#6134)
• Allow field options named '0' to be created (#6443)

Settings

• When a user is changing their password, display an error message if the new password is the same as the current password (#6111)

Theme

• Improved styling and integration with WordPress bundled theme, Twenty Fifteen (#6291)
• Improved styling and integration with WordPress bundled theme, Twenty Fourteen (#6338)
• When loading RTL CSS, do not load the LTR CSS as well (#6200)
• Fix issue when enqueuing additional assets (#5972)

Development, Themes, Plugins

Activity

• Introduce comment_date_recorded_raw() functions for retrieving an unformatted date_recorded value for an activity stream comment (r9824)
• Update bp_activity_thumbnail_content_images to check that height/width attributes exist on <img>
  tags before trying to reference them (#6159)
• Improvements to BP_Activity_Activity::delete() method (#6323)
• When adding an activity, allow arguments to be filtered using bp_parse_args() (#6293)
• Pass $new_content and previous $content variables to 'bp_insert_activity_meta' filter (r9721)
• Pass the user ID of the immediate parent comment author to the 'bp_activity_sent_reply_to_reply_email' (#6375)
• Add hook documentation (r9833)
• Remove usage of extract() in bp_has_activities() (r9536)

Administration

• BuddyPress. The capital P is for ‘Proud’ (#6227)
• Fix <br /> elements in the Dashboard contextual help for Profiles (#6439)

Blogs

• Make sure tracked post types registered using the 'bp_blogs_record_post_post_types' filter will have the same activity tracking arguments as the post post type (#6306)
• Specify a 'directory_title' for the bp-blogs component (#6339)
• Improvements to bp_get_blog_class() function (r9886)
• Beautify bp-blogs-widgets.php (r9469)

Core

• Introduce Attachments API. Developers can view this codex article for more info about the API. (#6278)
• Overhaul avatar code to use new Attachments API (#6290, r9623, r9624)
• Introduce BP_Media_Extractor class. This parses a block of text and extracts info about media contained within it. Developers can view how activity excerpts are generated as an example. (r9619)
• Introduce ability for components to register new features in the BP_Component class. Developers can view how the star private messages feature is implemented as an example. (r9844)
• Introduce bp_core_get_root_option() and use throughout codebase (#6045)
• Introduce 'bp_core_user_get_specific_users_count_sql' and 'bp_core_user_get_specific_users_paged_sql' filters in BP_Core_User::get_specific_users() (#6352)
• Add hook documentation (#5929, r9848)
• Update caret.js to version 0.2.2. This library is used in the @mentions suggestions UI. (r9795)
• Load atwho.js and caret.js in page footer (r9796)
• Do not add a trailing slash to links in bp_core_new_subnav_item() (#6353)
• Improved attribute escaping when outputting subnav link items (r9702)
• Introduce bp_pre_schema_upgrade() and use it to drop old meta_key indexes (r9716)
• Add max index length to meta_key DB indices (r9695)
• Improve AJAX referer determination during URI parsing (#6252)
• Do not let bp_create_excerpt() truncate to empty strings (#6254)
• Undeprecate jquery.scroll-to.js (#6216)
• Add hook documentation (#5940)
• Replace all remaining $bp global touches with buddypress() (#5138)
• Improvements to escaping URLs (#6390, r9802, r9803)
• Beautify /deprecated/2.1.php (r9470)

Friends

• No changes.

General

• Delete buddypress.pot from repository root.  For GlotPress going forward, we will be using:
  plugins.svn.wordpress.org/buddypress/trunk/buddypress.pot (#5621)
• Formalize usage of directory permalinks throughout BuddyPress components (r9466, r9467,
  r9468, r9472)
• Split each component’s classes file, and move each individual class into its own file (#6083)
• Rename component admin files to avoid confusion with non-admin files sharing the same name (#6051)
• Pass additional arguments to all widgets using the 'widget_title' filter (#6222)
• Improved plural forms for localizable strings (#6368)
• HTTPSify all external URLs if applicable (#6184)
• Update bp_setup_current_user() to avoid output warning on the WordPress Customizer screen (#6046)
• Fix strict standards warnings (#5108, #6185)
• Various PHPDoc improvements (r9457, r9461, r9462, r9465, r9712, r9862, r9877)
• Various unit test fixes and improvements (#6009, #6223, #6419, r9483, r9560, r9578,
  r9579, r9580, r9610, r9655, r9797, r9817, r9818)
• Various Grunt improvements (#6263, #6264, #6267, #6351, #6380, r9584, r9902)
• Various JSHint improvements (#6265, #6266)
• Various SVN improvements (#6283, #6409, r9486, r9766)
• Various improvements brought about by Scrutinizer-CI (#5891, r9462, r9637)
• Simplify ABSPATH checks (r9458)
• Capitalization of “JavaScript” where appropriate (#6249)

Groups

• Add hook documentation (#5943)
• Introduce 'groups_action_sort_creation_steps' action (#6232)
• Introduce 'before'/'after' hooks in BP_Groups_Member delete() and remove() methods (#6327)
• Pass template object to ‘loop_start’ and ‘loop_end’ actions in groups template classes (#6228)
• Improve documentation for BP_Group_Extension class (r9798)
• Limit scope of group invitation delete methods in groups_uninvite_user() and groups_reject_invite() (#6209, r9810)
• Use groups_remove_member() instead of groups_uninvite_user() in groups_leave_group() (#6209, r9811)
• Alter groups_remove_member() to allow it to work outside of a single-group context
  may not be true (#6209, r9811)
• Streamline last activity update meta calls (#6158)
• Bug fixes for bp_group_status_message() function(#6319)
• Improvements to bp_get_group_class() function (r9885)
• Remove redundant $_FILES check in bp_get_group_has_avatar() function (#6203)
• Avoid PHP notices when calling groups_delete_groupmeta() on group with no metadata (#6326)

Legacy Forums

• bp_the_topic_post_is_mine() is an amazing function, but it doesn’t need to call itself (r9792)

Members

• Introduce bp_has_member_type() (#6138)
• Introduce bp_remove_member_type() function (#6188)
• Better logic for blog switching when processing member type tax query (r9661)
• Improvements to bp_member_class() function (#6384, r9884)
• Add hook documentation (#5944, #6262, r9669)
• Pass additional arguments to various member avatar filters (#6392)
• Improvements to member widget classes (#6361, #6362, #6363)

Messages

• Introduce bp_get_max_thread_recipients_to_list() function (#6150)
• Introduce messages_get_message_thread_id() function (r9845)
• Add $thread_id parameter to BP_Messages_Thread::get_recipients() (r9752)

Notifications

• Introduce notification metadata table to allow plugin developers to record information about a notification (#6257)
• Support meta queries in bp_has_notifications() stack (r9574)
• Pass the notification object to the 'bp_get_the_notification_description' filter (#6239)

Profiles

• Introduce BP_XProfile_Meta_Query class (r9722)
• Introduce 'bp_xprofile_admin_new_field_additional_settings' action (#6272)
• Introduce 'bp_xprofile_groups' cache group, to replace 'bp' cache group usage (r9676)
• Refactor bp_has_profile() stack to support passing arguments as associative arrays (r9686)
• Improvements to bp_xprofile_update_meta_cache() (r9693)
• Sanitize field options on save (r9719)
• Improve parameter sanitization in xprofile_insert_field() (#6354)
• Process 'is_default_option' properly in xprofile_insert_field() and BP_XProfile_Field::save()(#6137)
• Use self::get() in BP_XProfile_Group::populate() to inherit caching goodness (r9677)
• Move field save() sanitization into filters for consistency between save method & saving via the admin UI. (r9678, r9681)
• Clean up bp_profile_group_tabs() (r9684)
• Remove usage of extract() in bp_has_profile() (r9685)
• Avoid debug notices in BP_XProfile_Field:;admin_validate() method (r9659)
• Remove unused parameter from BP_XProfile_ProfileData::get_data_for_user() (r9674)
• Correct i18n string in bp_profile_last_updated() (r9794)

Settings

• Add missing break to switch statement in bp_settings_action_general() (r9793)

Theme

• Load theme-specific supplementary CSS stylesheet if found. BuddyPress will look for a CSS file called
  {stylesheet}.css, where {stylesheet} is the slug of the current theme or parent theme. This
  will enable theme developers to add custom modifications for BuddyPress without overriding the main bp-legacy buddypress.css stylesheet. (r9694)
• Add improved CSS classes to notification table elements (#6289)
• Add 'sitewide-notices' CSS class to notice loop template (#6424)
• Add styles to new 'warning' message type (#6423)
• Add hook documentation (#5948)
• Send proper page number in AJAX pagination requests (#6394)
• Change placement of invite nonce and submit button in invites-loop.php and send-invites.php templates (#5924)
• Remove nested form on sites directory template (#6427)
• Remove redundant ARIA role="main" declarations from templates (#6456)
• For AJAX private message replies, use the message loop and message loop template functions (#6321)
• Add missing 'bp_messages_inbox_list_header' hook to message loop template (#6328)
• Use bp_member_class() function in message loop template (r9884)
• Streamline toggling of $wp_query properties during theme compatibility (#6153)
• Do not look for minified assets when running from a trunk installation (#6213,
  #6457)
• Use strict comparisons in buddypress.js (r9528)
• Bring window reload code in buddypress.js up to modern standards (r9529)