Major plugin and theme updates for October 24, 2023

The Commons team is working on a release in the upcoming weeks that may change the version number for the October 24, 2023 release to the 2.2.x series. Below, we will refer to it as the 2.1.17 release.

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.17 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 24, 2023:

  • Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection (5.3)
  • Block Visibility (3.1)
  • Broadcast (50.5)
  • Embed Plus YouTube WordPress Plugin (14.2)
  • EmbedPress (3.9)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (8.20)
  • Gutenberg (16.7)
  • Jetpack (12.6)
  • Jetpack Boost (2.1)
  • Media Library Assistant (3.11)
  • Meta Box (5.8)
  • MetaSlider (3.40)
  • NextGEN Gallery (3.41)
  • Otter – Page Builder Blocks & Extensions for Gutenberg (2.4)
  • Restrict Media Library Access (1.2)
  • Seriously Simple Podcasting (2.23)
  • Share This Image (1.85)
  • Simply Static (3.1)
  • SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.55)
  • Table of Contents Plus (2309.0)
  • WP Ajaxify Comments (2.0)
  • WP to Buffer (3.9)
  • Webinar and Video Conference with Jitsi Meet (2.5)
  • Yoast SEO (21.3)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.17 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 24, 2023:

  • Neve (3.7)
  • Sydney (2.29)

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

Major plugin and theme updates for August 22, 2023

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.12 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 22, 2023:

  • Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection (5.2)
  • Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler (7.2)
  • Blubrry PowerPress (10.6)
  • Broadcast (50.1)
  • Broken Link Checker (2.2)
  • BuddyPress Group Email Subscription (4.1)
  • Categories Images (3.1)
  • ChatBot (4.7)
  • EmbedPress (3.8)
  • Enable jQuery Migrate Helper (1.4)
  • Event Tickets (5.6)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (4.6)
  • Glossary (2.2)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (8.18)
  • Gravity PDF (6.6)
  • Gutenberg (16.3)
  • Jetpack (12.4)
  • Jetpack Boost (2.0)
  • Kadence Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Page Builder Features (3.1)
  • Knight Lab TimelineJS (3.9)
  • Media Library Assistant (3.9)
  • MetaSlider (3.33)
  • Newsletters (4.9)
  • NextGEN Gallery (3.37)
  • Query Monitor (3.13)
  • Seriously Simple Podcasting (2.22)
  • Share This Image (1.81)
  • Simple Calendar (3.2)
  • SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.52)
  • Smush (3.14)
  • Subscribe2 (10.41)
  • TaxoPress (3.9)
  • The Events Calendar (6.1)
  • WP Grade Comments (1.5)
  • WP-PostRatings (1.91)
  • Yoast SEO (20.12)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.12 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 22, 2023:

  • Ashe (2.216)
  • Bravada (1.1)
  • ColorMag (3.0)
  • Hello Elementor (2.8)
  • Sydney (2.25)

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

Major plugin and theme updates for August 23, 2022

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.0.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 23, 2022:

  • AMP (2.3)
  • Akismet Anti-Spam (5.0)
  • Bellows Accordion Menu (1.4)
  • Broadcast (48.12)
  • Contact Form 7 (5.6)
  • Elementor (3.6)
  • EmbedPress (3.4)
  • Events Manager (6.0)
  • Export WP Page to Static HTML/CSS (2.1)
  • Folders (2.8)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (8.7)
  • Gravity PDF (6.4)
  • Gutenberg (13.8)
  • Jetpack (11.2)
  • Media Library Assistant (3.1)
  • NextGEN Gallery (3.28)
  • Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags (3.2)
  • Quiz And Survey Master (8.0)
  • Redirection (5.3)
  • Seriously Simple Podcasting (2.15)
  • Share This Image (1.70)
  • SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.38)
  • Smush (3.10)
  • Super RSS Reader (4.6)
  • WP Accessibility (1.9)
  • WP to Twitter (3.6)
  • Wufoo Shortcode Plugin (1.46)
  • Yoast Duplicate Post (4.5)
  • Yoast SEO (19.4)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.0.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for August 23, 2022:

  • Author (1.47)
  • Hello Elementor (2.6)
  • Hemingway (2.3)
  • Radcliffe (2.1)
  • Rowling (2.1)
  • Sydney (2.9)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for October 26, 2021

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.18.21 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 26, 2021:

  • Akismet Anti-Spam (4.2)
  • Bellows Accordion Menu (1.3)
  • Broadcast (47.12)
  • Custom Post Type UI (1.10)
  • Display Eventbrite Events in WordPress (4.2)
  • Events Manager (5.12)
  • Export WP Page to Static HTML/CSS (2.0)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (4.3)
  • Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (8.1)
  • Gutenberg (11.6)
  • Jetpack (10.1)
  • NextGEN Gallery (3.17)
  • Ninja Forms (3.6)
  • Share This Image (1.62)
  • Subscribe2 (10.36)
  • TaxoPress (3.3)
  • Theme Check (20210921.0)
  • WP OAuth Server – CE (4.2)
  • Webinar and Video Conference with Jitsi Meet (1.1)
  • Yoast SEO (17.3)
  • wpDiscuz (7.3)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.18.21 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 26, 2021:

  • ColorMag (2.1)
  • Sydney (1.81)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for March 21, 2017

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.10.14 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for March 21, 2017:

  • Akismet (3.3)
  • Author Avatars List (1.10)
  • Beautiful taxonomy filter (2.2)
  • BuddyPress (2.8)
  • BuddyPress Edit Group Slug (2.0)
  • Contact Form 7 (4.7)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (4.6)
  • Posts in Page (1.3)
  • TablePress (1.8)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (36.0)
  • WP Retina 2x (4.8)
  • Yoast SEO (4.4)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for October 21, 2016

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.9.31 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for October 21, 2016:

  • Akismet (3.2)
  • Alt checker (1.2)
  • Beautiful taxonomy filter (2.1)
  • CommentPress Core (3.9)
  • FooBox Free Image Lightbox (1.1)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (2.4)
  • Geo Mashup (1.9)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (4.3)
  • List category posts (0.70)
  • Ninja Forms (3.0)
  • Plugins List (2.3)
  • PressForward (4.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (34.0)
  • WPtouch Mobile Plugin (4.3)
  • Yoast SEO (3.6)

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

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Major plugin and theme updates for April 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.7.19 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for April 21, 2015:

  • Akismet (3.1)
  • Categories Images (2.5)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (2.2)
  • Google Forms (0.74)
  • Jetpack by WordPress.com (3.4)
  • List category posts (0.58)
  • Meta Slider Lightbox (1.6)
  • Password Protected (2.0)
  • PressForward (3.5)
  • RSS Multi Importer (3.14)
  • The Events Calendar Category Colors (4.1)
  • WP Accessibility (1.4)
  • WP Retina 2x (3.2)
  • WordPress SEO (2.0)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.7.19 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for April 21, 2015:

  • Academica (2.0)
  • Attitude (1.4)
  • Canvas (5.9)

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

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Major Commons plugin updates scheduled for May 21, 2014

The following plugins will receive major upgrades during the maintenance release on May 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. Akismet (3.0)
  2. BuddyPress (2.0)
  3. Contact Form 7 (3.8)
  4. Custom sidebars (1.5)
  5. Invite Anyone (1.2.1)
  6. Random Image (2.0)
  7. Search Everything (8.1)
  8. Subscribe2 (9.4)
  9. TablePress (1.4)
  10. User Role Editor (4.12)
  11. WordPress Front-end Editor (0.10)
  12. WordPress Google Form (0.69)
  13. WP-Markdown (1.5)
  14. WP-PostRatings (1.78)
  15. WP-Print (2.53)
  16. Zotpress (5.1)

In addition, WordPress will be updated to the 3.9 series.

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.)