XF 1.5 Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements

Welcome to XenForo 1.5. We're now ready to upgrade XenForo.com and start putting the new code through its paces. Following this, we will start the public beta process. All customers with active licenses will be able to download and test the new version. However, please be aware that beta versions are not supported and should not be installed on production sites.

There are still some other assorted improvements coming in XenForo 1.5 that we haven't covered yet, so let's look at those...

Link title conversion

When a post is made, links can automatically be converted to show the title of the page they link to. If enabled, a "simple" link like this:
Code:
[URL]https://xenforo.com/community/[/URL]
Would be automatically converted to:
Code:
[URL="https://xenforo.com/community/"]XenForo Community[/URL]

This process is similar to automatic media embedding. If a link uses something other than the URL as the anchor text, it will not be converted.

Proxy referral tracking

The link and image proxies now log aggregated referrer information:

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This can be used to determine where a particular image or link has been embedded or where it is most popular.

There is one entry per referral URL per image or link URL. This data can be maintained for a shorter amount of time than the base image/link proxy logs:

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Post and profile post edit alerts

XenForo 1.4 introduced author alerts to various post- and thread-related actions. We have already expanded this to similar actions with profile posts in 1.5, but we have also expanded this to cover post and profile post editing:

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These both work similarly to the existing author alert systems.

Bypass spam check permission

Configuring XenForo's content-based spam prevention systems can help cut down on the amount of spam you receive, but they can be triggered by legitimate users. There is now a permission called Bypass spam check that allows you to exempt users from being checked against spam options or databases when they're creating content, regardless of the number of messages they have posted.

This is useful if you have an external or clear signal that the user is legitimate. For example, on XenForo.com, when a user associates their account with their license, we can be pretty sure they're not a spammer.



That sums up the big changes coming in XenForo 1.5. We'll be making tweaks over time based on the feedback we receive. If you have any specific suggestions, please post in the suggestions forum so it can be properly tracked. If you notice any bugs here since the upgrade to XenForo in 1.5, please post in the bugs forum.
 
Top idea with the post edit reason alert.

Great to see a decent selection of new features included for 1.5

Was thinking I'd probably give renewal a miss until 2.0, will likely continue to support through 1.5 now :)
 
It just goes and fetches the title of the page being linked to so that's expected.

On your own boards you would have to modify templates so that board title isn't shown in the <title>.
 
It just goes and fetches the title of the page being linked to so that's expected.

On your own boards you would have to modify templates so that board title isn't shown in the <title>.

Thanks Chris - another quick question: does the censoring filter get applied to the fetched title text or is it just linked as-is?
 
New to the upgrades ... what's the typical timeframe that the beta becomes available to the pub? ... and will we get a notice in our own forum .. or will there be a link posted here? Sorry for being the noob here. :D
 
Use the Watch Forum feature to watch the Announcements forum. That's the best way of getting notifications of new releases, including the beta version.

The time frame varies. It depends somewhat on how smoothly things go being rolled out here and other changes we make based on feedback.

It's not recommended to use Beta software on a live board, though. Do so at your own risk. Beta releases are "Unsupported".

Thanks Chris - another quick question: does the censoring filter get applied to the fetched title text or is it just linked as-is?
The censoring will kick in, as usual, when the thread is loaded. So it will bring the censored word in, but the censor system will censor it :)
 
Best way to get an idea is to look at the Announcements forum. It varies.

But you can see, for example, when XenForo 1.4 Beta 1 was released, compared to Beta 2, Release Candidate stage and the final release, etc.
 
When a post is made, links can automatically be converted to show the title of the page they link to.

You mentioned this was customizable earlier in another thread.

If you post an external link, like so:

Code:
https://www.youtube.com/

It produces:

YouTube

However, if you post an internal link, like so:

Code:
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/welcome-to-xenforo-1-5-assorted-improvements.100565/

It produces:

XF 1.5 - Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements | XenForo Community

Is it possible to make it a bit more simple? Like this:

Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements
 
That page title format actually won't help with what Amaury is suggesting.

The simple answer is "no". We fetch the page title. If the page title is "XF 1.5 - Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements | XenForo Community" then that's what we will display.
 
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