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Hot on the heels of our XenForo Media Gallery 1.1 announcement, we are now also ready to show what's coming in XenForo Resource Manager 1.2. Resource Manager 1.2, like Media Gallery 1.1, will require XenForo 1.5. Resource tagging As we mentioned in the thread tagging... Resource Tagging, New Reviews and More Continue reading...

Today, we're ready to talk about what's coming in version 1.1 of the XenForo Media Gallery add-on. Updated media tagging Mike said: ↑ We intend on releasing updates to our official add-ons to add support for tagging. Click to expand... So, this one likely isn't going to be much of a surprise. XFMG already includes a content tagging system for media. In XFMG 1.1 we are replacing that system with the same content agnostic system we... Updated Media Tagging, Video Uploads and More Continue reading...

We are happy to announce that XenForo 1.5.0 Beta 1 is now available to all customers with active licenses. XenForo 1.5 includes a number of new features, such as two-step verification, content tagging, floating notices, a responsive admin control panel and more. You can see the full list of new features in the Have You Seen...? forum. This is beta software. It is not officially... XenForo 1.5.0 Beta 1 Released (Unsupported) Continue reading...

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...... Welcome to XenForo 1.5 / Assorted Improvements Continue reading...

The ability to Email Users from the Admin CP based on user search criteria has been part of XenForo since its very first release. In XenForo 1.5 we have enhanced this and added some additional ways of contacting your users. Alert Users View attachment 109696 Using the same search criteria that can be used to email users, you can now mass send Alerts to your users. By default, an alert will appear to be from your own account. Alternatively you... User messaging improvements and welcome contact Continue reading...

Tags are a common method of adding keywords to content to aid searching and discovery. In XenForo 1.5, we're adding support for applying tags to threads, as well as a framework for add-ons to add tags to their own content types. View attachment 109353 Thread tags apply to the thread itself (rather than individual posts), so they are displayed at the top of the thread view, independent of any post. Clicking any tag will take you to a page displaying all content that has that tag... Thread Tagging Continue reading...

Today, we're showing you some exciting changes to Notices that we're bringing to you in XenForo 1.5: Displaying an image View attachment 109236 With the introduction of the above option it is now possible to display an image on a notice. You can either display the current visitor's avatar or provide a path or URL to one: View attachment 109237 This addition should help draw more attention to your notices. [FONT=Trebuchet... [url='https://xenforo.com/community/threads/improvements-to-notices.100174/']Improvements to notices[/url] Continue reading...

Today, we are releasing XenForo 1.4.8. This release addresses two potential security vulnerabilities and fixes a number of bugs found since the release of 1.4.7. We recommend that all customers running XenForo 1.4 upgrade to 1.4.8 or use the attached patch file as soon as possible. The two security issues are XSS vulnerabilities. XSS (Cross Site Scripting) issues allow scripts and malicious HTML to be injected into the page, potentially allowing data theft or unauthenticated access. ... XenForo 1.4.8 Released (Includes Security Fix) Continue reading...

Today, we are releasing XenForo 1.3.7 to address two potential security vulnerabilities. We recommend that all customers running XenForo 1.3 upgrade to 1.3.7 or use the attached patch file as soon as possible. The two issues are XSS vulnerabilities. XSS (Cross Site Scripting) issues allow scripts and malicious HTML to be injected into the page, potentially allowing data theft or unauthenticated access. In the notices system, the name token was not escaped as expected. This could... XenForo 1.3.7 Released (Security Fix) Continue reading...

Today, we are releasing XenForo 1.2.8 to address two potential security vulnerabilities. We recommend that all customers running XenForo 1.2 or earlier upgrade to 1.2.8 or use the attached patch file as soon as possible. The two issues are XSS vulnerabilities. XSS (Cross Site Scripting) issues allow scripts and malicious HTML to be injected into the page, potentially allowing data theft or unauthenticated access. In the notices system, the name token was not escaped as expected.... XenForo 1.2.8 Released (Security Fix) Continue reading...

XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.6 is a maintenance release for our media gallery add-on. We recommend all customers running XenForo Media Gallery to upgrade to 1.0.6 to benefit from increased stability. This release fixes several bugs that were reported following the release of XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.5: Provide more detailed error messages when trying to access deleted gallery content. Display a suitable error if content has no valid IP addresses logged. Ensure guests can view... XenForo Media Gallery 1.0.6 Released Continue reading...

Account security has become a hot topic recently. There are seemingly endless stories about password databases from popular sites being leaked. Because password reuse is common, we've started to see brute force login attempts using these leaked passwords. Maintaining account security has become a big priority. To help this, we've added a few new features. Two-Step Verification Two-step verification, also known as two-factor authentication, requires... Two-Step Verification and Security Improvements Continue reading...

Today we'll be talking about some smaller improvements that we have made in XF 1.5 which have been heavily requested. Ability to disable trophies globally View attachment 108585 The above option appears below the Trophy list in the Admin CP and in the User Options option group which makes it easy to switch off the Trophy system. When disabled, trophies will no longer be awarded, nor will the UI display anything that mentions trophy points.... Miscellaneous improvements Continue reading...