Hi BuddyPress contributors!
We will soon publish a maintenance release (6.2.0) to prepare BuddyPress to some changes that will introduce WordPress next major release (5.5.0). WordPress 5.5.0 is slated for August 11, and we’d love you to help us use the coming days to make sure your favorite community engine is ready to fully enjoy this new version of WordPress.
BuddyPress 6.2.0 will make sure our BP Email feature is using the 6.0 version of PHPMailer when WordPress 5.5.0 is installed on your site and will carry on using its version 5.2 when your WordPress version is lower (4.8 to 5.4 for the supported versions of our 6.0 branch). For more information about it, please have a look to this ticket.
If you’re a plugin or a theme developer and are extending our BP Email feature, we strongly advise you to test your code with the latest pre-release of WordPress 5.5.0 (eg: 5.5.0-beta3) and BuddyPress 6.2.0-beta1.
WordPress 5.5.0 will also remove the jQuery Migrate library, as BuddyPress uses a lot jQuery, we’ve been checking the impact of this removal. We haven’t found any issue so far, but if you do, please warn us about it commenting this ticket.
A detailed changelog will be part of our official release notes, but, until then, you can check out this report on Trac for the full list of fixes.
You can test the 6.2.0-beta1 pre-release in 2 ways :
- Use the BP Beta Tester plugin.
- Download the 6.2.0 beta release here (zip file).
Thanks in advance for your contributions.
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Hi,
Posting a message in a BP group costs a lot of time. It should be nice if some kind of progress is shown during this time. Some of my user now think that something is wrong, because nothing seems to happen.
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