ByDan Knauss
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The second release candidate for BuddyPress 5.0.0 is now available for testing. Recent improvements include the way BP REST API Controllers are loaded inside BuddyPress component classes.
BuddyPress 7.2.0 is now out. This maintenance release mainly fixes bugs that surface when the BP Nouveau Template Pack is used with the Twenty Twenty-One core theme.
BuddyPress 2.3 has been released, and it’s called “Livio”, after the famous Tuscan restaurant. BuddyPress 2.3’s biggest feature is an attachments API that powers the new avatar interface. In the release post, Mathieu Viet calls the attachments API, “the long-awaited foundation for media-related BuddyPress components and features.” 2.3 includes a number of other features, but the…
If you use BuddyPress, check out the BuddyPress Default Data plugin which recently released a new (1.2) version. BPDD will create lots of users, messages, friends, connections, groups, topics, activity items, and profile data. This is very useful for testing, kind of like FakerPress but for BuddyPress.
If you are a BuddyPress developer, please consider helping out by testing these BuddyPress WP-CLI commands.
John Jacoby has provided an update on bbPress 2.6. Two features — bbPress as Post Comments and Forums as Taxonomies — are being bumped to 2.7 so that 2.6 won’t be held back. Not exactly the best news, but there’s still been good progress for bbPress. Updates don’t come around as often as updates on WordPress…
BuddyPress 7.0.0 “Filippi” is out! New features include a UI for Member and Group types, new blocks, REST API improvements, and WP CLI support. ✨
