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Hot on the heels of yesterday's XF 2.2.14 release and subsequent patches, we are today making XenForo 2.2.15 available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability, particularly if you already upgraded to XenForo 2.2.14. As of this point, XenForo 2.2.14 and its patches are no longer available for download. We are still planning a final XF 2.2... Read more Continue reading...
XenForo 2.2.14 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability. In addition to the usual slew of bug fixes and improvements, there are a few notable changes in this release. Compatibility with PHP 8.1 and 8.2 Most compatibility issues between PHP 8.1 and 8.2 have been addressed. Remaining issues might trigger E_DEPRECATED... Read more Continue reading...
As we enter the final month of 2023, we can look back on some of the major news from this year and look forward to 2024. XenForo Cloud Our hosted cloud solution continues to delight those who have made the move. During 2023, we have welcomed some big names to the XenForo Cloud system, including BMW Group, Future Publishing and Evolve Media. Both Future and Evolve have migrated their entire forum portfolios, and are now enjoying the high performance, maintenance-free... Read more Continue reading...
If you are using a computer or mobile device using dark mode, and you have been living under a rock for the past several weeks, you might be rather surprised at the appearance of the XenForo Community Forums at this point. On the other hand, if you have been paying attention, you'll understand that we have now upgraded our own forums to XenForo 2.3, which means we are getting ever closer to a public release, while showing our usual confidence in the stability of our products by 'eating our... Read more Continue reading...
As promised, this week we're going to take a quick look at some of the more developer-centric changes coming in XenForo 2.3. If a certain topic interests you more than others, click one of the links below: JavaScript SwiftMailer to Symfony Mail Doctrine Cache to Symfony Cache Updated Emogrifier Registry preload event Native IP conversion methods Support for class strings Updates to <time> tags - short... Read more Continue reading...
We're approaching the conclusion of the 'Have you seen...?' series for XenForo 2.3. While it may seem like a bittersweet moment, we've intentionally saved one of the most exciting revelations until last. In the upcoming weeks, we might delve into a few more miscellaneous changes and improvements and provide a more developer-centric round up. However, our primary goal is to have XenForo 2.3 up and running on XenForo.com by the end of November. Beyond that milestone, we're excited... Read more Continue reading...
This week, we're delighted to introduce a new feature in XenForo 2.3 that enhances the way you can share content on your forum. Plus, we'll show you how easy it is to share any content from your forum to other platforms using our new content embedding feature. Rich previews for content If you're already familiar with URL unfurling, content embedding works similarly. In XenForo 2.2, when you post a link to content on your forum, we perform an HTTP request, download a portion of the... Read more Continue reading...
Due to time constraints and family matters, this is a slightly different HYS to what was planned, but it is still a bumper feast of new features coming in XenForo 2.3. This week we will be mostly focusing on a bunch of smaller new changes and improvements we're no less excited to show you in the near future. This is a somewhat lengthy post so we will say goodbye here and we will see you for more 2.3 goodies next week. Sign in with Apple To join our existing suite of connected account... Read more Continue reading...
In what is probably one of the worst kept secrets in XenForo 'Have you seen...?' history, the eagle eyed amongst you may have picked up on one or two... or three... clues that we may be talking about this soon, and the day has finally arrived! Today we're excited to show you our take on the highly requested webhook implementation in XenForo. For those of you who haven't heard of webhooks before, they are a powerful utility that... Read more Continue reading...
We hope you're enjoying the "Have you seen...?" series for XenForo 2.3 so far. We still have quite a bit more to show you while we work on adding the last finishing touches before we unleash XenForo 2.3 on this very forum. This week we're going to talk about various improvements we have made which are mostly focused around images. Check out the index below to skip to a specific post: Image optimization with WebP support Enhanced image resizing Use... Read more Continue reading...
While the first few 'Have you seen...?' posts for XenForo 2.3 have focused on mostly aesthetic or performance changes, today we are taking the opportunity to talk about one of the first new major pieces of functionality we've been working on. Every release cycle we like to focus on at least one significant feature related to content discovery and 2.3 is no different with the introduction of what we are calling Featured content. "But wait, don't we already have featured... Read more Continue reading...
In today's 'Have you seen...?' entry for XenForo 2.3 we're going to look at how we've zeroed in on enhancing performance, ensuring your community has a swift and seamless experience. We're going to take a deep dive into the advancements we've made and how they stack up against various performance metrics. But, before we get into the individual changes, let's take a quick look at the baseline - this is our current Performance score as calculated by Lighthouse for the XenForo... Read more Continue reading...
Well, here we are with our first Have you seen thread for XenForo 2.3. It's been a long time coming, and for various reasons that we will go into later, it has changed quite a bit from what we had originally intended it to be, but it's finally ready to start showing you what's new. tl;dr: there's a video at the end of this post. Dark mode A lot of the new stuff in XenForo 2.3 is related to performance improvements that won't be immediately apparent on first glance, but... Read more Continue reading...

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