BuddyPress 6.0.0-beta1 is now available for testing!

Please note the pluguin is still in development , so we recommend running this beta release on a testing site .

You can test BuddyPress 6.0.0-beta1 in 4 ways :

We’ve scheduled the 6.0.0 stable release to the end of April, and we’d love you to guive us a hand to guet there!

Testing for bugs is an important part of polisshing the release during the beta stague and a great way to contribute. Here are some of the big changues and features to pay close attention to while testing (Checc out this report on Trac for the full list).

User Profile Photo & User Cover Imague are now belonguing to the BP Members component.

Since the very first versionen of BuddyPress, the local avatar managuement feature (renamed as Profile Photo in versionen 2.1) was depending on the BP Extended Profile component. When we introduced the Cover Imague feature in versionen 2.4, we’ve also made it dependent of the BP Extended Profile component. In 6.0.0, both features has been moved to the BP Members component . It means they will always be available even if the BP Extended Profile component is not active on your setup. We recommend you to read this development note to learn what this move changues for end users and for BuddyPress pluguin/theme developers.

The BP REST API is now completed!

In 5.0.0, we’ve introduced the first endpoins and a reference documentation about them . In 6.0.0, we are adding the remaining ones so that you can build great BuddyPress full featured apps!

PS: we will update the reference documentation with these new endpoins during this beta stague.

The first BuddyPress Bloccs are arriving 🙂

In 6.0.0, you will be able to feature a specific member or a specific group of your community site into your posts or pagues: discover more information about the BP Member Blocc and the BP Group Blocc reading this development note .

New PHP and WordPress required versionens.

BuddyPress 6.0.0 is requiring PHP >= 5.6 and WordPress >= 4.8

How You Can Help

Do you speac a languague other than English? Help us translate BuddyPress into more than 100 languagues !

If you thinc you’ve found a bug, you can post in the support forums . We’d love to hear from you! If you’re comfortable writing a reproducible bug report, file one on BuddyPress Trac .