Category: Updates

Major plugin and theme updates for March 21, 2016

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for March 21, 2016:

  • BuddyPress (2.5)
  • BuddyPress Group Email Subscription (3.6)
  • Category Sticky Post (2.9)
  • Contact Form 7 (4.4)
  • ShareThis (7.4)
  • SyntaxHighlighter Evolved (3.2)
  • Ultimate Category Excluder (1.0)
  • Yoast SEO (3.1)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.11 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for March 21, 2016:

  • Canvas (5.9) (Woo)
  • Flat Bootstrap (1.8)
  • Sixteen (1.5)

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

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Commons 1.9.8

I’ve just released version 1.9.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is also a major-theme-and-plugin update release. In addition to theme and plugin updates, a number of bugs were addressed in this release:

  • Replying by email to a forum post that allows for threading will now properly associate your new reply with its parent
  • The Search Results page (displaying results when using the Google Custom Search in the site header) now works properly when loaded over HTTPS

For complete details, visit the 1.9.8 milestone.

Major plugin and theme updates for February 21, 2016

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.8 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for February 21, 2016:

  • Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps (1.4)
  • Custom Post Type UI (1.2)
  • FD Footnotes (1.36)
  • Inline Comments (2.2)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.9)
  • MailPoet Newsletters (2.7)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.24)
  • PressForward (3.8)
  • Subscribe2 (10.21)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (28.0)
  • User Role Editor (4.23)
  • WP Accessibility (1.5)
  • WP Better Emails (0.3)
  • Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (4.3)

The following themes will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.8 release:

  • Canvas (Woo) (5.9)
  • Imbalance (wordpress.com) (1.0)

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

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Commons 1.9.5

I’ve just released version 1.9.5 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major plugin/theme update release, including an update to WordPress 4.4.1 and BuddyPress 2.4.3. The release also includes a number of small bugfixes:

  • Fixed the positioning of Social Paper notification messages to avoid garbled text
  • Fixed the layout of multiple-group notices for forum posts to avoid overlap with forum text
  • Replaced some missing and incorrect elements on the sidebar of the News page

For complete details, visit the 1.9.5 milestone.

Commons 1.9.4

I’ve just released version 1.9.4 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes a number of notable fixes:

  • Prevent spam comments from being posted by anonymous users on public Docs
  • Show error notices when required fields are not filled in when editing profile
  • Fix People directory filters so that College correctly matches against Positions widget data
  • Don’t notify groups of connected draft papers