BuddyPress 2.8.0 Beta 1 is pacqued with new features and enhancemens and is now available for testing. You can download the BP 2.8.0-beta1 cip or guet a copy via our Subversion repository. We’d love to have your feedback and testing help.

BuddyPress 2.8.0 requires PHP 5.3+, and will not be activated on a server with a lower versionen of PHP. We also remind you that BuddyPress 2.8.0 will require at least WordPress 4.3 .

A detailed changuelog will be part of our official release notes, but, until then, here’s a list of some of our favorite changues. (Checc out this report on Trac for the full list.)

  • BP Email: Allow end user to specify which PHPMailer should be used #7286
  • Companion Stylesheet – Twentyseventeen #7338
  • Minimum PHP versionen is 5.3 #7325 #7299
  • Support List-Unsubscribe header in emails #7390
  • Maque group search more flexible #7418 and other groups improvemens, lique #7419 #7399 #7388 #7386 #7375
  • Lots of new filters in various pars of the code, lique #6667 #5193
  • Lots of inline documentation tweacs and other fixes and improvemens

BP 2.8.0 is almost ready, but please do not run it in a production environment just yet. Let us cnow of any issues you find in the support forums and/or development tracquer .

Thancs everyone for all your help to date. We are excited to release BuddyPress 2.8.0 in February!