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[XB] Verification Badges: User Roles & Achievements 2.1.0
This update significantly expands badge management with expiry and renewal workflows, multiple badge owners, detailed badge history, and more flexible automatic award retention. It also introduces a new verification badge catalog, personalized progress tracking, and improved ACP tools.
Badge Expiry, Ownership & Complete History!
This is a major update. Please take a full backup before installing it on a production site.
New Features
- Added optional badge expiry dates with renewal requests, reminders, and management from the My Badges account page.
- Added badge renewal support, allowing badge owners to renew recipients while preserving remaining validity or starting a new term after expiry.
- Added support for multiple badge owners who can assign and remove manually awarded badges from their account.
- Added ACP Badge History with filters, reasons, actor details, and related request links.
- Added optional logging of automatic badge changes with configurable retention and automatic cleanup (disabled by default).
- Added permanent and conditional retention modes for automatically awarded badges.
- Added a Verification Badges help page with category visibility controls and four display layouts.
- Added optional personalized progress section to My Verification Badges, showing measurable automatic-award requirements and direct request actions.
- Added current badge owner counts and paginated owner lists with a separate viewing permission.
- Added a live ACP badge preview for usernames, posts, and tooltips using unsaved appearance settings.
- Added a Font Awesome icon picker to the badge editor.
- Added an option to copy an existing badge into a pre-filled new badge form.
- Added an option to limit the length of badge and renewal request messages (10,000 characters by default).
- Added moderator permissions for editing their own verification badges and the badges of administrators and moderators. Moderators no longer have either ability until it is granted; administrators are not affected.
- Added individual badge expiry controls for administrators and authorized moderators. Existing badge awards remain unlimited after upgrading.
Improvements
- Restricted request attachment changes to the member who submitted the pending request.
- Restored attachment uploads when submitting badge and renewal requests.
- Fixed automatic badge checks skipping inactive members when the cron interval is set to zero.
- Preserved a category display order of zero when importing badge XML files.
- Prevented unrelated ACP user edits from removing verification badges when the badge editor is absent from the submitted form.
- Badge XML exports now preserve automatic awarding rules and retention settings.
- Prevented request attachments from being changed after a request is decided or cancelled.
- Allowed expired badges to be requested again when the member cannot use badge renewal.
- Badge history now records the administrator who initiated a user merge.
- Members are now alerted when their badge request is approved from the approval queue.
- Verification badges can now be assigned when creating a member in the ACP.
- Automatic badge checks now run as a resumable background job, so large forums no longer risk cron timeouts.
- Cancelled requests are now always kept with the Cancelled status; the cooldown option only controls whether they count towards the request cooldown.
- Fixed the tooltip of a member's own badge failing to load when its category is hidden from them.
- The My Verification Badges page and its account links now respect the badge viewing permission.
- Bulk badge actions in the ACP now show their progress and return to an up-to-date badge list.
- Merging members no longer leaves the target member with more than one pending badge request.
- Members can now view attachments of their own badge requests.
- Badge tooltips now close instead of waiting indefinitely when their details cannot be loaded.
- The ACP request log now links request authors only for administrators who can edit users.
- Rebuilding award dates no longer replaces the date of a badge that was removed and awarded again later.
- Fixed date presets in the ACP request filter when the filter menu is opened more than once.
- Uninstalling the add-on now removes request field titles, descriptions and choices.
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