XF 2.1 Upgrading from XenForo 2.0 to 2.1 - Potential Issues...

[xydrine]

Hey everyone,

So there's a few features that I really find appealing for my forum in 2.1.

We've been running XF 1.x for over a year now, and about a week ago just upgraded to XenForo 2.0. Obviously this was a HUGE change - even just the addons (we had about 109 active XF 1.x addons enabled pre-upgrade) - and I'm currently in the process of upgrading addons and creating a new theme for our forum for XF 2.0.

I've browsed various XF 2.1-related threads and have done a bunch of research on changes coming to various features/functions in XF 2.1, to the best of my ability.

What I wanted to find out is, for someone like myself who absolutely wants to go to XF 2.1, but doesn't want to wait for it to be released (officially released, not a beta or release candidate), but wants to go forward with theme redesign for XF 2.0 in the mean time (again, going from XF 1.x to 2.0 was a huge change for us so we're running almost everything vanilla at the moment)... what should I know/take into consideration while developing this new theme for XF 2.0/configuring various functions of the forum, knowing that I will be upgrading to XF 2.1 in the near future (once it's officially released)?

Thanks a bunch for the help!

 

[Paul B]

Any style you create for XF2.0 will in general work in XF2.1.

There will be some changes required, but it won't be as drastic a change as XF1 to XF2.

 

[Chris D]

Just get the style designed for XF 2.1 anyway.

The most number of release candidates we've ever released is 3. I'd expect RC2 to be released this week or early next so realistically we're talking weeks rather than months.

 

[xydrine]

Good stuff, good to know!

Thanks a bunch gentlemen!