Commons 1.7.3

I’ve just released version 1.7.3 of the CUNY Academic Commons. Highlights of this maintenance release:

  • Improved cache validation for home page widgets
  • Improved handling of some Reply By Email errors
  • Fixed formatting of some plain-text emails
  • Fixed bug that prevented editing of the Positions profile widget in some cases
  • Fixed bug that caused new Docs in private groups to be invisible to some members
  • Force CAPTCHAs wherever Contact Form 7 is used
  • Added promotional video to home page

For complete details on the release, visit the 1.7.3 milestone.

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.)

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.)

Major Commons plugin updates scheduled for 2014-2-21

The following plugins will receive major upgrades during the maintenance release on February 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. Contact Form 7 (3.7)
  2. Custom sidebars (1.4)
  3. Gravity Forms PDF Extended (3.3.4)
  4. Jetpack by WordPress.com (2.8)
  5. List category posts (0.43.1)
  6. Page-Links Plus: Single Page (2.1)
  7. Subscribe2 (9.2)
  8. Super RSS Reader (2.5)
  9. The Events Calendar (3.4.1)
  10. User Role Editor (4.9)
  11. WPMU Plugin Stats (2.01)
  12. WP Retina 2x (1.9.2)

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.)

Major Commons plugins updates scheduled for 2013-09-21

(The following post is the first 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.)

The following plugins will receive major updates during the maintenance release on September 21, 2013. The numbers in parentheses represent the major version series for each plugin; on the 21st, the plugin will be updated to the latest available version in that series, but no later.

  • ChartBoot (3.0)
  • Contact Form 7 (3.5)
  • Easy Admin Color Schemes (4.2)
  • Events Manager (5.5)
  • Genesis Simple Hooks (2.0)
  • Jetpack (2.4)
  • Leaflet Maps Marker (3.6)
  • NextGEN Gallery (2.0)
  • Really Simple CAPTCHA (1.7)
  • Redirection (2.3)
  • Rotating Tweets (1.5)
  • ShareThis (7.0)
  • Spam Free WordPress (2.2)
  • ThreeWP Broadcast (1.24)
  • TubePress (3.1)
  • User Role Editor (4.5)
  • WordPress Custom Sidebar (2.3)
  • WordPress Google Form (0.57)
  • WP-Markdown (1.4)
  • WP-PostRatings (1.74)
  • WP Retina 2x (1.6)
  • xili-language, xili-xl-bbp-addon (2.9)

The following themes will receive major updates during the maintenance release on September 21, 2013. The numbers in parentheses represent the major version series for each theme; on the 21st, the theme will be updated to the latest available version in that series, but no later.

  • Minimatica (1.1)

Question or concerns about these releases? Leave a comment below, or contact our team at commons@gc.cuny.edu.