Commons 1.18.1

I’ve just released version 1.18.1 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major-update release for plugins and themes. It includes the following fixes:

  • Ensure that CommentPress themes cannot be activated without the CommentPress Core plugin.
  • Fix bug that caused ‘Digital Research Tools’ nav item to appear incorrectly for certain users.
  • Improve messaging about cloning on ‘Create’ page.

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.18.1 milestone.

Commons 1.16.8

I’ve just released version 1.16.8 of the CUNY Academic Commons. This maintenance release is a major-update release for plugins and themes. The release also addresses the following issues:

  • Improvements to the Subject and From fields in email notifications related to group forum posts
  • Fixed bug that could cause slider navigation on Courses directory to be hidden or inaccessible
  • Improved footer navigation on mobile devices
  • New CommentPress-focused theme

For complete details, visit the 1.16.8 milestone.

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 July 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for July 21, 2015:

  • CommentPress Core (3.8)
  • Contact Form 7 (4.2)
  • GD bbPress Attachments (2.3)
  • Google Docs Shortcode (0.3)
  • Google Forms (0.81)
  • List category posts (0.62)
  • Media Library Assistant (2.12)
  • The Events Calendar (3.10)
  • The Events Calendar Category Colors (4.3)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (21.0)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (21.0)
  • WP Retina 2x (3.4)
  • WPtouch Mobile Plugin (3.8)
  • WordPress SEO (2.2)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.5 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for July 21, 2015:

  • Attitude (1.8)
  • Canvas (5.9)
  • Make (1.6)

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 June 21, 2015

The following plugins will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 21, 2015:

  • Better Search (2.0)
  • BuddyPress (2.3)
  • CommentPress Core (3.7)
  • FeedWordPress (2015.514)
  • Google Forms (0.80)
  • List category posts (0.61)
  • News announcement scroll (8.5)
  • NextGEN Gallery by Photocrati (2.1)
  • RSS Multi Importer (3.15)
  • Subscribe2 (10.20)
  • TablePress (1.6)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (19.1)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast Blog Groups (19.1)
  • WP-o-Matic (2.4)
  • xili-language (2.18)
  • xili-xl-bbp-addon (2.18)

The following theme will receive major updates as part of the 1.8.3 release of the CUNY Academic Commons, scheduled for June 21, 2015:

  • Attitude (1.6)
  • Twenty Fifteen (1.2)

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, 2014

The following items will receive major upgrades during the maintenance release on October 21, 2014. The numbers in parentheses represent the major version series for each item; on the 21st, the item will be upgraded to the latest available version in that series, but no later.

Major platform updates:

  1. WordPress (4.0)
  2. BuddyPress (2.1)

Plugins:

  1. Auto-Close Comments, Pingbacks and Trackbacks (1.5)
  2. BWP Google XML Sitemaps (1.3)
  3. CommentPress Core (3.6)
  4. Contact Form 7 (3.9)
  5. Enable Media Replace (3.0)
  6. Fourteen Colors (1.2)
  7. Google Calendar Events (2.0)
  8. Google Forms (0.72)
  9. List Category Posts (0.51)
  10. News Announcement Scroll (8.3)
  11. Newsletters (4.4)
  12. Ninja Forms (2.8)
  13. Subscribe 2 (10.17)
  14. The Events Calendar (3.8)
  15. Theme Check (20140929.1)
  16. User Role Editor (4.17)
  17. WordPress SEO (1.6)
  18. WP-EMail (2.63)
  19. WP-Polls (2.67)
  20. WP-PostRatings (1.79)
  21. WP-Print (2.54)
  22. WP-Sticky (1.51)
  23. WP LaTeX (1.9)

Themes:

  1. Make (1.4)
  2. Sixteen (1.3)
  3. Twenty Eleven (1.9)
  4. Twenty Fourteen (1.2)
  5. Twenty Ten (1.7)
  6. Twenty Thirteen (1.3)
  7. Twenty Twelve (1.5)

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.)