We are delighted to announce that XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1 is now available to all customers with active self-hosted licenses. XenForo 2.3 includes a large number of new features and improvements, including:
This is beta software. It is not officially supported.
We do not recommend running it in production.
Please remember that this is beta software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality. We do not recommend running beta software in a production environment, and support is limited at this time to questions here on the community forums.
If you would like to leave us feedback about your experience with XenForo 2.3 we recommend you do that here. From today, should you find any bugs, they should be reported in the Bug reports forum.
Add-ons and custom styles may be broken after upgrading to 2.3. You must test your add-ons thoroughly or look for updates. Be especially careful with add-ons that cover similar features to ones that are added to 2.3; these may conflict with the core XenForo data. If data conflicts are found, they will need to be resolved in a new add-on release or by removing the add-on before upgrading to 2.3.
If you choose to run beta software, it is your responsibility to ensure that you make a backup of your data. We recommend you do this before attempting an upgrade. If in doubt, always do a test upgrade on a copy of your production data.
All customers with active self-hosted licenses may now download the new version from the customer area.
Alongside the release of XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1, we are also releasing updated versions of each of our official add-ons:
Customers with active self-hosted licenses for these add-ons may download the new versions from their customer area.
Please remember that this is beta/preview software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality. We do not recommend or support running beta software in a production environment. Support for beta releases is limited to questions here on the community forums.
- Dark mode and style variants
- Extensive performance improvements
- Featured content
- Image optimization (WebP), client side image resizing and more
- Automation via webhooks
- Sign in with Apple, IndexNow, Full InnoDB and improved MySQL search
- Embed your content anywhere
- Single sign on
- Direct message searching
- ...plus a myriad of developer improvements
This is beta software. It is not officially supported.
We do not recommend running it in production.
Please remember that this is beta software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality. We do not recommend running beta software in a production environment, and support is limited at this time to questions here on the community forums.
If you would like to leave us feedback about your experience with XenForo 2.3 we recommend you do that here. From today, should you find any bugs, they should be reported in the Bug reports forum.
Add-ons and custom styles may be broken after upgrading to 2.3. You must test your add-ons thoroughly or look for updates. Be especially careful with add-ons that cover similar features to ones that are added to 2.3; these may conflict with the core XenForo data. If data conflicts are found, they will need to be resolved in a new add-on release or by removing the add-on before upgrading to 2.3.
If you choose to run beta software, it is your responsibility to ensure that you make a backup of your data. We recommend you do this before attempting an upgrade. If in doubt, always do a test upgrade on a copy of your production data.
All customers with active self-hosted licenses may now download the new version from the customer area.
Download XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1
From the licensed customer area
Alongside the release of XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1, we are also releasing updated versions of each of our official add-ons:
- XenForo Media Gallery 2.3.0 Beta 1
- XenForo Resource Manager 2.3.0 Beta 1
- XenForo Enhanced Search 2.3.0 Beta 1
Customers with active self-hosted licenses for these add-ons may download the new versions from their customer area.
Download official add-ons
From the Licensed Customer Area
Requirements
The following are minimum requirements:- PHP 7.2.0 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
- MySQL 5.7 or newer
- Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.0
- All of the add-ons listed here require XenForo 2.3
Installation and upgrade instructions
Full details for how to install and upgrade XenForo can be found in the XenForo manual. One-click upgrades from XF 2.2 are possible, but you must uncheck the "Only check for stable upgrades" option in Options > Basic options. Once the XF 2.3 upgrade has been complete, the official add-ons should be upgraded as well.Please remember that this is beta/preview software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality. We do not recommend or support running beta software in a production environment. Support for beta releases is limited to questions here on the community forums.
