I’m proud to introduce you to BuddyPress “La Pino’z” the tenth of our major releases history and the 1st of this year.
Many thanks to our 39 contributors who made this possible. Great work!
Recent Updates
BP Dev-Chat Agenda January 19, 2022
Hi!
!important: BuddyPress 10.0.0 won’t be released today, we first need to fix this « last minute » issue. We’ll decide about the new release date during this meeting.
Our development meeting will happen on January 19 at 19:30 UTC and of course in #BuddyPress. Here’s our agenda:
- #8617: find the best strategy to allow disabling avatar history
- 10.0.0 stable release last tasks.
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
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BuddyPress 10.0.0 Release Candidate
We really need you for a last round of tests! Thanks in advance for your time and contributions.
BP Dev-Chat Agenda January 5, 2022
Hi!
Our development meeting will happen tomorrow on January 5 at 19:30 UTC and of course in #BuddyPress. Here’s our agenda:
- Hello BuddyPress Screen updates, see #8605
- 10.0.0 RC release preparation.
- 10.0.0 stable release tasks repartition.
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
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BuddyPress 9.2.0 is available
HNY everyone,
Please upgrade!
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A new constant to enforce member’s password strength
Starting in BuddyPress 10.0.0, you’ll be able to make sure your members are using a strong password to log in their account. The BuddyPress front-end corresponding action handlers (Registration & General Settings) have been improved to check password strength if the BP_MEMBERS_REQUIRED_PASSWORD_STRENGTH specific PHP constant is defined.
Use a PHP constant to set the password strength level
The JavaScript library WordPress and BuddyPress are using to evaluate the strength of a password has 4 levels : 1 to 4 (from the weakest to the strongest). You can use one of these levels to specify the required members password strength for your site.
In the above screenshot, I’ve added this constant to my /wp-config.php file and chose to force the members to use a strong password.
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy publishing. */
define( 'BP_MEMBERS_REQUIRED_PASSWORD_STRENGTH', 4 );
What happens in the registration form?
Visitors can only register if they are using password having a strength level >= to the one you defined thanks to the PHP constant.
Otherwise, a JavaScript warning will ask them to use a stronger password and if they force the form submission the server will interrupt the registration process and return an error.
The JavaScript warning will happen before the registration form is submitted and the PHP error once it has been submitted. Below are 2 screenshots zooming on these two user feedbacks.
What happens in the Member’s General Settings screen?
It’s very similar 😁. Your members will only be able to change their old password for a new one having a strength level >= to the one you defined thanks to the PHP constant.
This new behavior is available into the two Template Packs that are included into the BuddyPress plugin: BP Nouveau (on the left in the above gallery) and BP Legacy (on the right in the gallery).
PS: all screenshots were made using the Twenty Twenty-Two theme (WordPress 5.9 next default theme).
BP Dev-Chat Summary : December 22, 2021.
- See previously BP Dev Chat summary (December 15, 2021)
- In attendance: @vapvarun @dcavins @im4th
- Slack archive.
A 10.0.0-beta2 before RC
In case you missed it 10.0.0-beta2 was released on December 23. We decided to package this new beta version because @dcavins found a regression about the way custom Group extensions were registered. In short: in case there were more than one Group extension into the loading queue, only the last one were actually registered. @dcavins did a great job identifying the issue, finding the root cause and fixing it. For more information: #8558.
If, as a Plugin author, you are using the Group Extension API, we strongly recommend you to test 10.0.0-beta2.
Other 10.0.0 tickets
- @vapvarun added a patch about #7540. @im4th reviewed it before committing it the day after the dev-chat. Members can now exit from a multi recipients Private Message thread.
- During the chat @im4th said #8474 would stay opened until WordPress 5.9 is released. We’re finding small issues with Full Site Editing the more we test BuddyPress with it. If you’re contributing to WordPress 5.9 beta tests, make sure to test BuddyPress with Twenty Twenty-Two: we need your contributions!
- About #8604 @vapvarun suggested to wait for the first feedbacks about the « richer » logging activities before eventually adapting them according to the context they’re displayed in.
10.0.0 stable release tasks repartition
We need the Hello BuddyPress screen updates to be accomplished before 10.0.0-RC is published. @dcavins already prepared the credit updates, he will write a few lines about Site Membership requests. @vapvarun will also write some lines about logging activities. See #8605.
New 10.0.0 schedule
We’ve postponed the stable release date by 10 days to leave enough time to polyglots contributors to update BuddyPress translations.
- 10.0.0-RC: January 3rd, 2022 👈
- 10.0.0 stable: January 15, 2022 🎯
Open floor
@dcavins & @vapvarun suggested we work on documentation updates for the time of a major release development cycle so that our codex can get some ❤️. Today, a lot of screenshots are outdated and latest improvements about BuddyPress are not necessarily explained there. We decided to give this huge task a 4 to 6 months time frame and why not try to gather some contributors into a BuddyPress documentation team. If you’re interested in being part of such a team: let us know!!!
We’ll also try to make our code reference available on developer.buddypress.org.
Next Dev-Chat
It will happen next year on January 5 at 19:30 UTC in #BuddyPress.
BuddyPress 10.0.0-beta2
Merry Christmas to all!
Beta testing is very important, and we need you all, whether you’re a novice or an advanced user, a theme designer or a plugin author. Please contribute 🙏.
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BP Dev-Chat Agenda December 22, 2021
Hi!
Our development meeting will happen today (December 22 at 19:30 UTC) and of course in #BuddyPress. Here’s our agenda:
- 10.0.0-beta2 or 10.0.0 RC release date.
- 10.0.0 stable release tasks repartition.
If you have specific/additional points you need to discuss about, please share them into the comments area of this post.
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BuddyPress 10.0.0-beta1 is available for your tests!
Finally 😁
Happy Testing 🎮
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