Major plugin and theme updates for July 21, 2014

The following plugins will receive major upgrades during the maintenance release on July 21, 2014. The numbers in parentheses represent the major version series for each plugin; on the 21st, the plugin will be upgraded to the latest available version in that series, but no later.

  1. Custom Sidebars (1.6)
  2. FlickrRSS (5.3)
  3. Fourteen Colors (1.1)
  4. Google Forms (0.71)
  5. Invite Anyone (1.3)
  6. Leaflet Maps Marker (3.9)
  7. List Category Posts (0.49)
  8. Post video players (1.133)
  9. Rotating Tweets (1.7)
  10. Subscribe2 (10.10)
  11. WP Retina 2x (2.0)
  12. xili-language (2.14)
  13. Zotpress (5.2)

The following themes will receive major version updates as well:

  1. Cloudy (3.1)
  2. Make (1.1)
  3. Twenty Eleven (1.8)
  4. Twenty Twelve (1.4)
  5. Twenty Thirteen (1.2)
  6. Twenty Fourteen (1.1)

Question or concerns about these releases? Leave a comment below, or contact our team at commons@gc.cuny.edu.

(This post is in the series of “major update release warning posts”, announced in https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2013/09/05/new-release-schedule-and-procedures-document-available/ and described in detail at https://dev.commons.gc.cuny.edu/release-schedule-and-procedures/#major-update-releases.)

Commons 1.2.1

I’ve just released Version 1.2.1 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This is a bugfix release for the Commons, comprising a number of fixes and small improvements. Of note:

  • LaTeX support for MediaWiki (just embed your TeX in <math>TeX</math>
  • Improved support for group invitation autocomplete in newer versions of IE
  • Fixed bugs in WP Flickr Photo Album plugin
  • New WP theme: Erudite
  • New WP plugin: Twitter Blackbird Pie

For full details on the release, see the 1.2.1 milestone.