Bravada – CUNY Academic Commons Development Blog

Commons 2.6.8

I’ve just released version 2.6.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release includes the following fixes:

Improved compatibility between the Co-Authors Plus plugin and the Customizr theme
Allow the selection of Site Layout when creating a site to link to an existing group, in that group’s settings panels
Fix incompatibility between Add User modal interface and plain permalinks on secondary sites
Fix bug in Bravada theme that caused fatal errors when generating bylines for certain user types

For complete details, visit the 2.6.8 milestone.

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.6.2 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for November 25, 2025:

Advanced Custom Fields (6.6)
Better Search (4.2)
Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler (8.6)
Blubrry PowerPress (11.14)
Broadcast (51.11)
BuddyPress (14.4)
Co-Authors Plus (3.7)
Constant Contact Forms for WordPress (2.14)
DK PDF (2.1)
Easy WP SMTP (2.12)
Editoria11y Accessibility Checker (2.1)
EmbedPress (4.4)
Events Manager (7.2)
Export WP Page to Static HTML & PDF (5.0)
Featured Images in RSS for Mailchimp & More (1.7)
Feedzy RSS Feeds Lite (5.1)
Flipbox – Awesomes Flip Boxes Image Overlay (2.10)
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (9.9)
Gutenberg (22.0)
Jetpack (15.2)
List category posts (0.93)
LiteSpeed Cache (7.6)
Media Library Assistant (3.30)
MetaSlider (3.102)
MetaSlider Lightbox (2.12)
Ninja Forms (3.13)
Popup Maker (1.21)
Post Timeline (2.4)
Query Monitor (3.20)
Quiz And Survey Master (10.3)
Relevanssi (4.25)
Seriously Simple Podcasting (3.13)
Simple MathJax (2.1)
Simply Static (3.5)
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.70)
Smush (3.22)
TablePress (3.2)
Tag Groups (2.1)
TaxoPress (3.40)
Team Members (5.4)
User Switching (1.11)
WP Accessibility (2.2)
WP Document Revisions (3.7)
WPBot ChatBot for WordPress for Live Support and Lead Generation (7.3)
WordPress Importer (0.9)
Yoast SEO (26.3)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.6.2 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for November 25, 2025:

Ashe (2.262)
Bravada (1.2)
ColorMag (4.1)
Sydney (2.60)
Twenty Fourteen (4.3)
Twenty Sixteen (3.6)
Twenty Twenty-Five (1.3)
Twenty Twenty-One (2.6)

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

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.15 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 23, 2025:

Advanced Custom Fields (6.5)
Better Search (4.2)
Broadcast (51.9)
Constant Contact Forms for WordPress (2.12)
Easy WP SMTP (2.12)
Editoria11y Accessibility Checker (2.1)
EmbedPress (4.3)
Events Manager (7.1)
Export WP Page to Static HTML & PDF (4.3)
Feedzy RSS Feeds Lite (5.1)
Flipbox – Awesomes Flip Boxes Image Overlay (2.10)
Google Analytics for WordPress by MonsterInsights (9.7)
Gutenberg (21.5)
Jetpack (15.0)
LiteSpeed Cache (7.4)
Media Library Assistant (3.28)
Ninja Forms (3.11)
Query Monitor (3.20)
Relevanssi (4.25)
Seriously Simple Podcasting (3.12)
Simple MathJax (2.1)
Simply Static (3.4)
Smush (3.21)
TablePress (3.2)
Tag Groups (2.1)
WP Accessibility (2.2)
WP Document Revisions (3.7)
WPBot ChatBot for WordPress for Live Support and Lead Generation (7.1)
WordPress Importer (0.9)
Yoast SEO (25.8)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.5.15 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 23, 2025:

Ashe (2.260)
Bravada (1.2)
Sydney (2.56)
Twenty Fourteen (4.3)
Twenty Sixteen (3.6)
Twenty Twenty-Five (1.3)
Twenty Twenty-One (2.6)

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

As part of the 2.1.15 release, WordPress will be updated to the latest release series, 6.3.x.

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.15 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 26, 2023:

Advanced Custom Fields (6.2)
Akismet Anti-Spam: Spam Protection (5.2)
Blog2Social: Social Media Auto Post & Scheduler (7.3)
Blubrry PowerPress (11.0)
Broadcast (50.3)
Broken Link Checker (2.2)
BuddyPress (11.3)
BuddyPress Group Email Subscription (4.1)
Categories Images (3.1)
ChatBot (4.8)
Contact Form 7 (5.8)
Custom Post Type UI (1.14)
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 (8.19)
Gravity PDF (6.7)
Gutenberg (16.5)
Jetpack (12.5)
Jetpack Boost (2.0)
Kadence Blocks – Gutenberg Blocks for Page Builder Features (3.1)
Knight Lab TimelineJS (3.9)
List category posts (0.89)
Media Library Assistant (3.10)
MetaSlider (3.37)
Newsletters (4.9)
NextGEN Gallery (3.37)
Query Monitor (3.13)
Seriously Simple Podcasting (2.22)
Share This Image (1.83)
Simple Calendar (3.2)
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle (1.54)
Smash Balloon Custom Facebook Feed (4.2)
Smash Balloon Instagram Feed (6.2)
Smush (3.14)
Subscribe2 (10.41)
Super RSS Reader (5.0)
TaxoPress (3.10)
The Events Calendar (6.2)
WP Grade Comments (1.5)
WP to Twitter (4.0)
WP-PostRatings (1.91)
Webinar and Video Conference with Jitsi Meet (2.3)
Yoast SEO (21.1)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 2.1.15 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for September 26, 2023:

Ashe (2.217)
Author (1.51)
Bravada (1.1)
ColorMag (3.0)
Hello Elementor (2.8)
OceanWP (3.5)
Sydney (2.28)
Twenty Eleven (4.4)
Twenty Fifteen (3.5)
Twenty Fourteen (3.7)
Twenty Ten (3.9)
Twenty Thirteen (3.9)
Twenty Twelve (4.0)
Twenty Twenty-Three (1.2)

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

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.