Major plugin and theme updates for December 22, 2025

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.6.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for December 22, 2025:

  • Advanced Custom Fields (6.7)
  • Advanced Views Lite (3.8)
  • Akismet Anti-spam: Spam Protection (5.6)
  • Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler (8.7)
  • Blubrry PowerPress (11.15)
  • Constant Contact Forms for WordPress (2.15)
  • DK PDF (2.2)
  • Draw Attention (2.1)
  • Easy WP SMTP (2.13)
  • Embed Plus for YouTube Gallery (0.0)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (9.10)
  • Gutenberg (22.2)
  • Jetpack (15.3)
  • MetaSlider (3.103)
  • MetaSlider Lightbox (2.20)
  • Newsletters (4.12)
  • Seriously Simple Podcasting (3.14)
  • Smash Balloon Instagram Feed (6.10)
  • TaxoPress (3.41)
  • WP-ShowHide (1.6)
  • WPBot ChatBot for WordPress for Live Support and Lead Generation (7.5)
  • Yoast SEO (26.5)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.6.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for December 22, 2025:

  • Ashe (2.263)
  • Neve (4.2)
  • Sydney (2.63)
  • Twenty Eleven (5.0)
  • Twenty Fifteen (4.1)
  • Twenty Fourteen (4.4)
  • Twenty Nineteen (3.2)
  • Twenty Seventeen (4.0)
  • Twenty Sixteen (3.7)
  • Twenty Ten (4.5)
  • Twenty Thirteen (4.5)
  • Twenty Twelve (4.7)
  • Twenty Twenty (3.0)
  • Twenty Twenty-Five (1.4)
  • Twenty Twenty-Four (1.4)
  • Twenty Twenty-One (2.7)
  • Twenty Twenty-Two (2.1)

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

Commons 2.6.0

I’ve just released version 2.6.0 of the CUNY Academic Commons. Version 2.6.0 is one of our twice-yearly “feature releases”, which introduce new functionality to the Commons, in contrast to the bug fixes and smaller improvements introduced in twice-monthly “maintenance releases”. Included in 2.6.0:

  • Improved richness and consistency for email notifications generated by various actions throughout the Commons
  • Improvements to the site creation process, to increase reliability when cloning and during template copying
  • Improvements to the “threading” settings for group forums
  • Fixed a bug that caused Courses to appear in the directory even after the corresponding site was deleted
  • Added the ability to add external links to a group library without sending email notifications to the group

For complete details, visit the 2.6.0 milestone.