Xenforo - Forum Software

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Release Xenforo - Forum Software

Compelling Community Platform

There is no better platform upon which to grow your community.

Keep your users involved

Make it easy for your users to get notified with updates that are applicable to them. They'll receive alerts whenever someone replies to them, reacts to one of their posts, and more.
Users can even have notifications pushed to their devices so they can see them without being on your site.

Make sure your users can see the latest updates on your forum with the dedicated "What's new" section or by browsing the news feed to see all of the latest happenings, beyond just the messages being posted.

Let your users react to posts with more than just a like. They could be laughing, surprised, upset, or more. Setup reactions for any sentiment you want, with a custom icon and color for each reaction.
Let reactions contribute to a score to help you identify your most engaging users.

Use XenForo's powerful permission system to control who can access certain areas and features. Create a forum that only project members can access.
Prevent a troublemaker from posting in a specific forum. XenForo can be setup to fit your needs.

XenForo's look and feel can be totally customized to fit your brand. Quickly change the colors and logo to make your site directly from the control panel, no code changes necessary.
Want more control? All of the HTML and CSS can be customized.

XenForo has been built from the ground up to be extended and customized. Our community has released over 1000 add-ons.
Or if you want to build something yourself, you can use our REST API or build your custom functions directly into the
XenForo framework, taking advantage of all of the systems that are built in.​

 

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XenForo 2.2.13 Released
XenForo 2.2.13 is now available for all licensed customers to download.

We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.

In addition to the fixes listed below, we have a few other aces up our sleeves this time around.

Full iOS PWA compatibility with push notification support
iOS 16.4 finally introduced push notifications for iOS devices. To facilitate this, your members need to install your site as a PWA (by utilising the Add to Home Screen feature in Safari). XenForo 2.2.13 now satisfies all of the prerequisites for this to support push notifications which can be enabled by your members once they log in through the PWA and enable push notifications in their Preferences.

The PWA (progressive web app) has now been enhanced with additional gesture based or UI controls, including pull down to refresh and a floating back button.

Structured data metadata improvements

With many thanks to Ryan Levering from Google we have made a number of improvements to structured data metadata. Structured data enriches the pages we output with additional information which enables Google and other search engines to better understand the structure of the information that is rendered. This helps Google provide rich search results and helps provide additional context to users who may find your content during their Google searches.

Support for OAuth authentication for Microsoft 365 business email accounts
Microsoft has deprecated the ability to send emails over SMTP using traditional username/password authentication. This is similar to what Google did a while ago. In light of this we have now added an additional option when setting up either your email transport or automated mail handlers (automated unsubscribe/bounce handling) which will enable you to authenticate with OAuth.

Note: The set up for this is fairly complex, requiring you to set up an Azure Active Directory application within the Azure developer portal. There is a link to the documentation when setting this up.​

 

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We are delighted to announce that XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1 is now available to all customers with active self-hosted licenses.
XenForo 2.3 includes a large number of new features and improvements, including:

Dark mode and style variants
Extensive performance improvements
Featured content
Image optimization (WebP), client side image resizing and more
Automation via webhooks
Sign in with Apple, IndexNow, Full InnoDB and improved MySQL search
Embed your content anywhere
Single sign on
Direct message searching
...plus a myriad of developer improvements

This is beta software. It is not officially supported.
We do not recommend running it in production.

Please remember that this is beta software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality.
We do not recommend running beta software in a production environment, and support is limited at this time to questions here on the community forums.

Add-ons and custom styles may be broken after upgrading to 2.3. You must test your add-ons thoroughly or look for updates. Be especially careful with add-ons that cover similar features to ones that are added to 2.3; these may conflict with the core XenForo data. If data conflicts are found, they will need to be resolved in a new add-on release or by removing the add-on before upgrading to 2.3.

If you choose to run beta software, it is your responsibility to ensure that you make a backup of your data. We recommend you do this before attempting an upgrade. If in doubt, always do a test upgrade on a copy of your production data.

All customers with active self-hosted licenses may now download the new version from the customer area.

Alongside the release of XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1, we are also releasing updated versions of each of our official add-ons:

XenForo Media Gallery 2.3.0 Beta 1
XenForo Resource Manager 2.3.0 Beta 1
XenForo Enhanced Search 2.3.0 Beta 1

As we talk about in today's Have you seen...? thread, the changes in the official add-ons is currently minimal.
There is additional functionality in development which will be added in a future Beta release.

Customers with active self-hosted licenses for these add-ons may download the new versions from their customer area.
Requirements
The following are minimum requirements:

PHP 7.2.0 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
MySQL 5.7 or newer
Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.0
All of the add-ons listed here require XenForo 2.3

Note: Please pay particular attention to the points above in bold as they represent changes to the minimum or planned increases!​