Author: Boone Gorges

Commons 1.13.12

I’ve just released version 1.13.12 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major update release for plugins and themes, and includes fixes for the following:

  • Hotfixes for plugin incompatibilities with new server infrastructure
  • Improved messaging in reply-by-email error messages
  • Improved behavior of group Files filters

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.13.12 milestone.

System maintenance planned for Friday, October 19

The Commons will be undergoing important maintenance on Friday, October 19. We, along with other sites hosted at the CUNY Graduate Center, are migrating part of our server infrastructure, and upgrade which will include updated versions of PHP, MySQL, and other important system software. The migration will take place between 9am and 1pm.

We don’t anticipate that users will experience any downtime during this migration. But if problems do arise during this time, please monitor https://commonsstatus.wordpress.com for updates, and reach out to support@cunycommons.zendesk.com with questions. Thanks for your patience.

Commons 1.13.11

I’ve just released version 1.13.11 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes:

  • The “Try Gutenberg” callout, encouraging users to test out the new WordPress editing tool, Gutenberg.
  • An update to YOURLS, the software powering cuny.is shortlinks.
  • Toolbar-related fixes for the Academica theme.
  • Improvements to invitation email formatting.
  • Improvements to activity items created by non-authenticated blog comments.

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.13.11 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for October 23, 2018

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 23, 2018:

  • Advanced Custom Fields (5.7)
  • Blubrry PowerPress (7.4)
  • Broadcast (43.9)
  • BuddyPress (3.2)
  • Gravity PDF (5.0)
  • Gutenberg (3.9)
  • Instagram Feed (1.10)
  • MetaSlider (3.9)
  • NS Cloner – Site Copier (3.1)
  • Redirection (3.5)
  • User Role Editor (4.46)
  • Yoast SEO (8.3)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 23, 2018:

  • Author (1.32)
  • Basic (Themify) (1.9)
  • Hemingway (1.67)
  • Quadruple Blue (3.4)

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.

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Commons 1.13.10

I’ve just released version 1.13.10 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is also a major update release for themes and plugins. Fixed in this release:

  • Improvements to the registration process to avoid problems with commons username and email address confusion
  • Improvements to the email notification unsubscribing process
  • Removed unneeded “Topic Status” selector from group forum topic creation process

For complete details, visit the 1.13.10 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for September 25, 2018

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.10 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 25, 2018:

  • Add Categories to Pages. (1.1)
  • Author Avatars List (1.16)
  • Beautiful taxonomy filter (2.4)
  • Blubrry PowerPress (7.3)
  • Broadcast (43.8)
  • Custom Sidebars (3.2)
  • Customizer Export/Import (0.8)
  • Elementor (2.2)
  • Event Tickets (4.8)
  • Fourteen Colors (1.5)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (3.0)
  • Google Forms (0.95)
  • Gravity PDF (4.5)
  • Gutenberg (3.7)
  • Imsanity (2.4)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (6.5)
  • Link Library (6.1)
  • List category posts (0.78)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.75)
  • PDF Embedder (3.2)
  • Page Links To (3.0)
  • Query Monitor (3.1)
  • Redirection (3.4)
  • Smush (2.8)
  • The Events Calendar Category Colors (5.3)
  • User Role Editor (4.45)
  • WP Ajaxify Comments (1.6)
  • WP Email Users (1.6)
  • WP Inventory (1.7)
  • WP OAuth Server (3.6)
  • WP Retina 2x (5.4)
  • WPMU Plugin Stats (3.0)
  • Yoast SEO (8.1)
  • YouTube (12.1)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.13.10 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 25, 2018:

  • Author (1.31)
  • Basic (1.8) (Themify)
  • ColorMag (1.3)
  • OneTone (3.0)
  • Sydney (1.52)
  • Twenty Seventeen (1.7)

For more details on major update releases, please visit our release schedule and procedures page.

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Commons 1.13.8

I’ve just released version 1.13.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes:

  • Some fixes for Jetpack connections
  • Fixes for cases where protected content may be posted in blog posts syndicated to the home page
  • Improvements to the registration process to warn against the use of @login.cuny.edu pseudo-email addresses
  • Improvements to the appearance of parts of the invitation modal
  • More consistent display of title data on single forum posts

For more details on the release, visit the 1.13.8 milestone.