A long time ago, in a forum not particularly far, far away (may the fourth be with you), we produced a series of videos showing off how easy it was to build rich pages with XenForo's templates and javascript framework.
While many of the principles demonstrated in these videos remain a key part of XenForo 2, most of the syntax employed by XenForo 1 back then has changed, and there are many more tools at your disposal, like entities and command-line functions.
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Here at XenForo, we like to keep our development environments up-to-date and as useful as possible, and from time to time we include some of our findings in our online documentation.
Recently, we've published an easy setup guide for a Windows-based development environment and now we've added both a guide for building a very flexible macOS-based system and instructions for setting-up a similar multi-PHP...
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Participation. It's the life blood of a forum, and once you have a group of dedicated members creating and discussing content, your forum will flourish.
But there's a barrier to entry when it comes to participation. When a new visitor stumbles upon your forum from a search engine, they may read the content that piqued their interest and then feel inclined to add their own thought-provoking response, but at that point they are confronted with the dreaded
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Today we're happy to announce the next step towards a stable and supported release of XenForo 2.2 by moving onto the "release candidate" stage. We recommend that all customers running previous 2.2 versions upgrade to this release.
This release is similar to the previous betas, but indicates that we are now a step closer to the stable 2.2.0 release. This is still considered a pre-release version, so we do not recommend running it in production and ticket support for this version is not yet...
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Today we continue the release candidate stage of XenForo 2.2 with Release Candidate 2. We recommend that all customers running previous 2.2 versions upgrade to this release.
This release is similar to the previous betas, but indicates that we are now a step closer to the stable 2.2.0 release. This is still considered a pre-release version, so we do not recommend running it in production and ticket support for this version is not yet available.
More specific details regarding bugs fixed in...
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Today, after a refreshingly short beta and release candidate phase, we are excited to announce that XenForo 2.2.0 is now prepared, seasoned, baked and served, replacing XenForo 2.1.11 as our primary supported XenForo version.
This release adds a collection of great new features to XenForo, including the ability to repurpose forums as article repositories, a new way to encourage guest users to register, a progressive web app and a completely redesigned rich text editor. Check out the...
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To mark the tenth anniversary of the first public XenForo release, we are today announcing an exciting new joint venture with our friends at Audentio.
In the near future, we'll be conducting a series of webinars, designed to offer insights into community setup and management with XenForo, to impart detailed knowledge about XenForo features and how best to use them, and to discuss the various challenges involved in running a successful community...
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Today, we are releasing XenForo 2.1.12 to address two potential security vulnerabilities. We strongly recommend that all customers running XenForo 2.1 upgrade to 2.1.12 or use the attached patch file as soon as possible.
The 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 extends thanks to security researcher Vincent ibn Winnie for...
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XenForo 2.2.1 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.
Most importantly, this release fixes two potential security vulnerabilities in XenForo.
The 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...
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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...
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The edited recording of XenForo Insights Episode 2 is now available to view, and information regarding how to join the next episode live is available on the XenForo Insights page.
The next episode, covering the topic of monetization, will be at 9am CST / 3pm GMT on Thursday, January 21 2021 via Zoom.
Full details of the upcoming episode and links to view past episodes are...
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XenForo 2.2.3 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.
One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.3
Directly from your admin control panel
In addition to the usual bug fixes and improvements, there is a database schema change which, in some circumstances, may take time to perform. If you are running a version of...
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The edited recording of XenForo Insights Episode 3, the subject of which was Monetization, is now available to view:
XenForo Insights
Here, you will find recordings of all our previous Insights webinars
xenforo.com
We'll post details of the next episode here soon.
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The next XenForo Insights episode, covering the topic of community management, will be at 9am CST / 3pm GMT on Thursday, February 25th 2021 via Zoom.
These are the details for the webinar:
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XenForo 2.2.4 Released
Exactly ten years and a day since the very first stable release of XenForo, we are happy to present a new release to increase the reliability and performance of XenForo.
XenForo 2.2.4 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.
One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.4
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The next XenForo Insights episode, continuing the topic of community management, will be at 9am Central / 3pm UK time on Friday, April 2nd 2021 via Zoom.
Please do come and join us live on Friday 2nd if you can, but if you can't, you can catch up with what's been discussed when the episode is published to YouTube, as episode 4 now has.
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The next XenForo Insights episode, on the topic of All Things Add-on, will be at 9am Central / 3pm UK time on Thursday, May 6th 2021 via Zoom.
Please do come and join us live on Thursday 6th if you can.
In the meantime, you can now digest Episode 5 - Community Management Part 2 at your leisure.
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XenForo 2.2.5 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 release changes the default CAPTCHA method from reCAPTCHA to hCaptcha. If you were using the default CAPTCHA settings, you will automatically be switched over to hCaptcha. If you provided your own reCAPTCHA keys or chose a different CAPTCHA method, your existing CAPTCHA...
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For many years, XenForo has used reCAPTCHA as its default CAPTCHA provider to help mitigate spam and bot actions without requiring our customers to go through additional configuration. However, we have recently been informed that restrictions may be placed on the reCAPTCHA key included in XenForo. This may lead to CAPTCHAs not being enforced or failing to validate.
If you have not changed the default CAPTCHA method, to avoid disruption, we urge customers to take one of the actions below to...
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The next XenForo Insights episode, on the subject of Communicating with your users, will be live at 9am Central | 3pm UK | 1400 UTC on Thursday, June 24th 2021 via Zoom.
Please do come and join us live on Thursday 24th if you can.
Episode 6 - All Things Add-on is now available to view at our usual YouTube channel.
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