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BuddyPress 3.0 will require WordPress 4.5 or greater. See https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/7618 and https://codex.buddypress.org/getting-started/wordpress-version-compatibility/.
BP 2.9.2 is now available: https://buddypress.org/2017/11/buddypress-2-9-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
Today sees BP 2.9.0 move to the final testing phase Release Candidate 1.
This is the last chance to test out this release and report back any issues found before final release in approximately two weeks time.
Any issues found can be reported to our trac ticket home , or raised on the support forum.
For a full list of commits see 2.9 tickets A full changelog will be available when we release the final version.
You can download the plugin to test from the WP repo BP 2.9.0-RC1 or grab a copy from our SVN repo.
A reminder to all theme developers that there are changes to template markup that could effect layouts and ask that they check their themes carefully, the changes are listed below along with changelog links; again any issues or problems please report as soon as possible to the BP trac or slack channel.
Template changes
In this release there are a number of improvements to templates that add a level of improved a11y performance and markup changes for better semantics & Standards.
Theme authors may want to pay particular attention to changes to profile field visibility links and the profile field descriptions where significant markup changes are made that effect positioning of these elements – changesets for these are r11617 & r11618
Nouveau – new template pack
If you’re looking for Nouveau as we mentioned in the beta2 announcement we have delayed the release of this new template pack to ensure it receives as much code checking & refinement as possible and we’ll be looking to probably package this as it’s own release shortly after 2.9 is released.
We thank you in advance for all testing and reports and it need not be mentioned but please don’t run Beta or RC releases in a production environment only on test installs.
Regards,
The BuddyPress team.
Note: Per hnla’s BP 2.9 beta 2 announcement, bp-nouveau inclusion to core was moved to BP 3.0
Commits included tackling various tickets & help from dcavins, slaFFix, mercime, r-a-y, and DJPaul:
bp-nouveau folder from the plugin to the bp-templates dir in core, with a temp register template pack array added to core. He has successfully run Nouveau under BP as opposed to as a plugin. This was a nice proof of concept check that didn’t show any massive issues.
From left to right: Laurens Offereins (Offereins), Slava Abakumov (slaffik), Boone B Gorges (boonebgorges), Mathieu Viet (imath), and Henry Wright (henry.wright). BuddyPress team members pose in front of “Pietro”, the BP 2.4.0 release pizza place. (Photo courtesy of Mathieu Viet)
Slack logs:
June 21: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBYUG/p1498072419097887
June 28: https://wordpress.slack.com/messages/C02RQBYUG/p1498676590270915
July 5: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBYUG/p1499281475578336
Updates from @hnla on the work done during June 1-14:
args defaulting some to button from the default anchors.
button element type and fetch the wp_nonce according to data attr or href so we can allow switching in templates of elements without losing Ajax functionality.
aria-labels on navigational elements, added updated color vars to pass 4.5:1 color contrast checks, and we added ARIA state changes to button elements along with attendant JS & Ajax adjustments to toggle them.
data attr string nonce name for uniformity.
@hnla: “We need to think about #7157 UI to pick Template Packs and how we can tackle that.
“We are pushing onwards and upwards but we do still need the community to start to wade in running any checks in general, or picking up tickets where they can. I’ll be trying to move tickets around a bit in the projects card screens.
“There’s an interesting ticket re: new custom homepage for Groups/User. There’s discussion on how these pages could have custom content manipulated/added. Perhaps someone might like to look at that and see what they can come up with? It would be pretty much an open book to play with https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs/issues/19
“Under ‘General Tasks’ we have a number of tickets of a ‘bug’ or ‘enhancement’ label, some are relatively straightforward & we could do with any help to grab a few of those and tackle.
https://github.com/buddypress/next-template-packs/projects/1
“I would like one of the lead devs to step up at some point and offer some thoughts on how we approach two fundamental requirements, those being implementation of the dashboard selection of template packs and the second being looking at the principle loader file in the plugin root next-templates-packs.php with a view to how this is re-factored to serve as a means of doing the necessary template registration, especially if additional template packs are provided either as plugin or in core.”
Fix for profile image upload on Microsoft Edge breaks iOS Safari and Chrome (#7416) @r-a-y has committed fix in trunk.
Use bp_get_admin_url() in XProfile instead of hard-coded links (#7536) @JohnPBloch has submitted patch. @johnjamesjacoby will be testing this in the multitude of environment setups that we support.
Plugin short descriptions are limited to 150 characters (#7452) @johnjamesjacoby will handle this.
Use JOIN rather than Subquery on user search (#7452) @r-a-y requests feedback from lead dev.
Only load component action and screen code when we’re on the component’s page (#7218) @r-a-y has patch. @boonebgorges has posted feedback and @r-a-y has responded in ticket.
When searching on the activity page, you cannot search using an author’s name (#3889) Ticket has been punted to future release.
Trailing slash needed for URLs for compatibility with LiteSpeed (#7448) @r-a-y has patc. @johnjamesjacoby has posted feedback and @r-a-y has responded in ticket.
`bp_member_profile_data( ‘field=Non existing fields’ )` (#7516) @r-a-y has committed fix to trunk.
Messages are not deleted from DB, when user is deleted (#7523) @r-a-y has patch. @johnjamesjacoby has posted feedback.
Slack logs:
June 7: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBYUG/p1496862133456977
June 14: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBYUG/p1497466925349980
@hnla gave an update of the work done for the past two weeks:
arg functions to better check and switch the url nonces from href to data attr depending on element selection.
Remove `remove_node` ‘edit’ in `bp-core-adminbar.php` (#6831) @tw2113 has committed patch to trunk.
Remove/Replace `title` attributes with Tooltips usable in all devices (#7188) Screenshots on Mac OS for latest patches posted by @dcavins. Feedback from @hnla. @r-a-y recommended using `data-bp-tooltip` instead of `data-title`. @mercime will refresh patch and commit.
Only load component action and screen code when we’re on the component’s page (#7218) @r-a-y has patch. @boonebgorges has posted feedback.
Don’t show the sorting box and the meta information (#7312) Related: #6754.
When user is not logged in, in he/she clicks email link to view new messages gets 404 page when should get login page (#7349) @r-a-y has committed a couple of patches fixing redirection issue and adding notices. Has new patch for `visibility` and `redirection` updates.
Fix for profile image upload on Microsoft Edge breaks iOS Safari and Chrome (#7416) @r-a-y has patch. Needs iOS user to test. Update: @mrjarbenne has tested patch and the issue still exists on Mobile Safari on iOS.
Resize member avatar error with cyrillic (not latin) filename (#7484) @r-a-y has patch. @boonebgorges: “I’d have to spend more time with it to understand in greater depth, but at a glance it looks like a clever fix.”
`bp_group_has_members` performs unnecessary query (#7513) @dcavins has patch. Dev feedback requested.
Messages are not deleted from DB, when user is deleted (#7523) @r-a-y has refreshed patch based on discussion during dev chat.
Counter for “All” tab for activity and groups table (#7526) @bhargavbhandari90 has patch. @r-a-y will review the patch.
Fetching of ALL users from `bp_friends_prime_mentions_results()` for non logged in users (#7530) @r-a-y has committed patch to trunk.
Slack logs:
May 24: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBYUG/p1495652618137375
May 31: https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/C02RQBYUG/p1496257388695772
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