XenForo 2.2.2 and Add-ons 2.2.1 Released

XenForo 2.2.2 Released​

Maintenance time! XenForo 2.2.2 has hatched, fledged and is ready to fly the nest directly to your community via one-click upgrade.

In addition to the changes listed below, 2.2.2 has some invisible changes to improve performance, stability and compatibility with the newly released PHP 8, which we look forward to supporting fully in future.

All licensed customers may download new XenForo releases, and in order to to benefit from increased stability offered by this new version, we strongly recommend that all sites running running earlier versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade using the one-click system in their admin control panel.

One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.2​

Directly from your admin control panel

Some of the changes in XF 2.2.2 include:

• Fix opt-in functionality of the entity changelog behavior
• Properly sort columns for forum default sort orders
• Handle heading BB codes without a type option
• Apply base URL to relative notice display images
• Do not escape moderator log list entry action texts after stripping tags
• Catch class load errors when applying session activity details on PHP 7+
• Throw exceptions correctly in the alert API controller.
• Ensure that the "no matches" message in article preview forums always spans the full width.
• When merging posts, force the target post to be visible if it will become the first post of the thread.
• Disable user mention parsing within custom BB codes that disable auto linking or BB code parsing
• When setting a default title for avatars, do not override a custom version
• Use the correct forum type node icon in the sub forum menu/list
• Fix typo that prevents alerts from being marked as unread if a confirmation message is shown.
• Ensure the UI properly respects an explicit request to mark an alert as read or unread when a confirmation message is shown.
• Fix StylePropertyMap entity ParentProperty relation conditional
• Fix dynamic redirects for alert and conversation read state toggles
• Correct a few typos in some CLI commands
• Fix invalid format specifier in error trace argument builder
• Break the phrase import query into chunks to avoid a MariaDB performance regression.
• Fix a MySQL 8.0.22 incompatibility with the 1.x to 2.x upgrade code (related to phrase renames).
• Allow previewing to work when composing entirely in the BB code editor
• Respect API permission bypass when checking alert viewability
• Fix some sort callbacks on PHP 8+
• Fix PHP 8 compatibility in XML utilities
• When a username change request requires moderator approval, log the IP the request was received from.
• Remove user profile banners when banning users with the spam cleaner
• Prevent an error caused by GCM push notification subscriptions.
• When quoting a post, do not include quote tags if they would be empty
• Give MySQL an index hint to improve performance of newest thread API requests (with no other filters)
• Prevent an error in the structured data of questions if the plain text version contains no content
• Fix issue that prevented the RTE from being programmatically focused
• Relax validation of URLs in BB code content as users may submit URLs that are missing URL encoding in some scenarios.
• When a profile banner is applied, ensure that the text stroke applied to the username respects user group-based username CSS modifications.
• Prevent an error when rendering article previews if the thread's first post is not set correctly
• Prevent double URL autolinking when an unfurled URL contains a URL within it.
• Ensure that Facebook embeds are always responsive.
• Fix permission check when removing tags with the tag changer service
• Do not grant the change username permission to the unconfirmed user group when upgrading to 2.2 (from 2.1 or earlier). For existing upgrades, remove the permission from this group explicitly. If you wish to allow unconfirmed users to change their usernames, the permission will need to be explicitly re-added after upgrading to 2.2.2.
• Ensure that the RTE preview tab does not expand unexpectedly if there are no right aligned toolbar icons.
• Fix typo in overlay click options list.
• Ensure that BB code blocks (code, quote, and similar) do not appear behind floated images.
• Prevent an error when fetching a post that contains an embedded video via the API.
• Prevent invalid characters from being displayed in certain cases when highlighting search results.
• When clicking "more options", ensure that thread type-related fields don't come from a saved draft
• Render push templates with the receiver as the visitor
• Apply a content type to the username change entity.
• Ensure that banned users do not receive an activity summary email.
• Fix a situation where the "display children in navigation" option for node-based navigation entries does not work.
• Apply explanation tooltips more consistently to the account header section.
• Allow Google Analytics 4 measurement IDs as well as Universal Analytics property IDs.
• Allow passing through JS options for sticky submit rows
• Provide an option to use the given user's language when calling \XF::asVisitor()
• Ensure post ad positions are retained in article template extensions, and exclude them from appearing in article forums with an expanded display
• Disable auto closing HTML tags in the template modification find and replace inputs.
• When importing from another XF installation, properly rewrite quotes which are missing a member ID

The following public templates have had changes:

• PAGE_CONTAINER
• _help_page_bb_codes
• account_alert_toggle
• account_alerts_mark_read
• attachments.less
• bb_code.less
• codemirror.less
• conversation_mark_unread
• core.less
• core_bbcode.less
• editor.less
• editor_base.less
• fa.css
• font_awesome_setup
• forum_post_thread
• member.less
• member_macros
• member_tooltip
• member_tooltip.less
• member_view
• message.less
• node_list.less
• node_list_forum
• notice_macros
• post_article_macros
• post_macros
• setup_fa.less
• thread_type_fields_poll
• thread_view_type_question

Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.

As always, new releases of XenForo are free to download for all customers with active licenses. You may now upgrade from your admin control panel or grab the new version from the customer area.

Current requirements​

Please note that XenForo 2.2 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.

The following are minimum requirements:

• PHP 7.0 or newer (PHP 7.4 recommended)
• MySQL 5.5 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
• All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.2.
• Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 2.0.

Installation and upgrade instructions​

Full details of how to install and upgrade XenForo can be found in the XenForo 2 Manual. We strongly recommend upgrading directly from within your control panel.

 

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XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.1 Released​

XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.1 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Media Gallery 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.

One-click upgrade to XenForo Media Gallery 2.2.1​

Directly from your admin control panel

Some of the changes in XFMG 2.2.1 include:

• Allow batch media and album actions to be cancelled
• Ensure the date limit disabler is displayed even when media lists are filtered.
• Ensure personal album privacy can be adjusted on album creation.
• When displaying a list of media ordered by date, in some cases it is useful to MySQL to force a particular index hint in order to improve performance.
• Attempt to simplify the ExposureTime value down to a clearer value.
• When inserting EXIF data from mirrored attachments, avoid JSON encoding errors with malformed characters.
• Avoid a race condition when loading lightbox sidebar for media items and closing the lightbox before the sidebar has finished loading.
• If a user has no permission to view comments, only hide comments from the lightbox sidebar and not other elements, such as image metadata.
• Ensure "show more" item in embedded albums has an appropriate default width/height.
• Improves the appearance of embedded gallery audio media items
• When importing from vBGallery, check for duplicate ratings on the target database rather than the source database
• Only display visible and unignored media comments in the latest comments widget
• When unwatermarking images if the original data path cannot be found, remove the watermark flag. Also fallback to the non-original image in some cases in the unlikely event that the original image cannot be found.

The following public templates have had changes:

• xfmg_category_container
• xfmg_category_view
• xfmg_gallery_bb_code.less
• xfmg_media_index
• xfmg_media_lightbox_sidebar
• xfmg_media_view.less
• xfmg_media_view_macros

Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.

XenForo Media Gallery requires XenForo 2.2 or later.

Purchasing​

XenForo Media Gallery can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.

Installation, upgrading and configuration​

Please see our XenForo Media Gallery manual page for more information.

 

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XenForo Resource Manager 2.2.1 Released​

XenForo Resource Manager 2.2.1 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Resource Manager 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.

One-click upgrade to XenForo Resource Manager 2.2.1​

Directly from your admin control panel

Some of the changes in XFRM 2.2.1 include:

• Automatic resource discussion posts made by resource team members should be attributed to the resource owner (like other actions).
• Only allow discussion forums to be set as resource thread forums

XenForo Resource Manager requires XenForo 2.2 or later.

Purchasing​

XenForo Resource Manager can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.

Installation, upgrading and configuration​

Please see our XenForo Resource Manager manual page for more information.

 

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XenForo Enhanced Search 2.2.1 Released​

XenForo Enhanced Search 2.2.1 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo Enhanced Search 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability.

One-click upgrade to XenForo Enhanced Search 2.2.1​

Directly from your admin control panel

Some of the changes in XFES 2.2.1 include:

• Improve collection of error messages from Elasticsearch in certain circumstances.

XenForo Enhanced Search requires XenForo 2.2 or later.

Purchasing​

XenForo Enhanced Search can be purchased with a new license via the purchase page or with an existing license via the customer area.

Installation, upgrading and configuration​

Please see our XenForo Enhanced Search manual page for more information.