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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
News aus der Forenwelt
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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
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...
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Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
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...
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Written by Kier - (Weiterlesen)
XenForo 2.2.13 Released
XenForo 2.2.13 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 fixes listed below, we have a few other aces up our sleeves this time around.
Full iOS PWA compatibility with push notification support
iOS 16.4 finally introduced push notifications for iOS devices. To facilitate...
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XenForo 2.2.12 Released
XenForo 2.2.12 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.
We're pleased to announce the introduction of two new features available in XenForo 2.2.12.
New CAPTCHA provider: Cloudflare Turnstile
In September, Cloudflare Turnstile was announced. You may have noticed that we quickly implemented...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
Today, we are releasing XenForo 2.1.13 to address a potential security vulnerability. We recommend that all customers still running XenForo 2.1 upgrade to 2.1.13 or use the attached patch file as soon as possible.
The issue relates to HTML attribute injection which can be triggered when rendering editor content, such as when a post is edited or quoted.
XenForo extends thanks to security researcher @PaulB, the team at @NamePros and @Xon for reporting the issues.
We...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
Today, we are releasing XenForo 2.2.11 to address a potential security vulnerability. We recommend that all customers running XenForo 2.2 upgrade to 2.2.11 or use the attached patch file as soon as possible.
The issue relates to HTML attribute injection which can be triggered when rendering editor content, such as when a post is edited or quoted.
XenForo extends thanks to security researcher @PaulB, the team at @NamePros and @Xon for reporting the issues.
We recommend...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
Here we go! We're four HYS threads in already and you might be wondering just how many there are left. Well, I can't tell you 😉 But what I can tell you is - we're not even half way through yet! In case you've not yet seen the previous entries, you can check them out here.
As ever, to ensure you're kept up to date, we strongly recommend caressing that "Watch forum" link and make sure you enable email notifications if you haven't done so already 🙂
Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
XenForo 2.2.10 Released
XenForo 2.2.10 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.
This version contains a fix for an issue whereby outgoing requests from the server running XenForo could be tricked into accessing web-accessible resources on the local network. The scope to exploit this issue is limited within the core and...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
Ahh, it seems like only yesterday (as I write this, it was!) we were talking about the fifth in our HYS series for XF 2.1, and already we're onto the sixth, so welcome! In case you've not yet seen the previous entries, (why not?!) you can check them out here.
As ever, to ensure you're kept up to date, we strongly recommend giving that "Watch forum" link a tickle and make sure you enable email notifications if you haven't done so already 🙂
Written by Chris D - (Weiterlesen)
Over the next few weeks, we'll be adding to the Building with XenForo 2 video series, starting today with a look at how to make your custom add-on content taggable!
Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
XenForo 2.2.9 Released
XenForo 2.2.9 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 bug fixes and improvements, we've continued to improve compatibility with PHP 8.1 and added support for self-hosted licenses to more easily sign outgoing emails with DKIM as per this recent suggestion by...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
XenForo PSA: Potential security vulnerability in Elasticsearch and more via Apache Log4j (Log4Shell)
It has come to our attention today that a vulnerability has been discovered in popular Java logging library Log4j 2 which may allow attackers to arbitrarily execute code (remote code execution).
Apache Log4j 2 is bundled with and used in many Java applications including Elasticsearch.
XenForo itself is not directly exploitable, and we are currently investigating whether XenForo Enhanced Search can be used as a vector at all, but this is potentially significant enough that an abundance of...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
XenForo 2.2.8 Released
XenForo 2.2.8 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.
XenForo 2.2.8 brings initial PHP 8.1 support to XenForo. We do not currently recommend upgrading to PHP 8.1 in production but would encourage, where possible, running XF 2.2.8 and PHP 8.1 together on your staging sites/servers if possible...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)
When we announced XenForo Cloud a little while back, we were encouraged by the great feedback we received. Having taken onboard all your comments, we have been hard at work refining our offering to make it an even more compelling proposition, and today we are ready to talk about some of the changes we've implemented.
Faster
Not content with already offering the industry's most capable and responsive infrastructure, we are now using even most powerful underlying hardware with faster...
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Written by XenForo - (Weiterlesen)