Immediately available is BuddyPress 12.4.0. This maintenance release fixes 4 bugs, mainly to improve the BP Rewrites API we introduced in 12.0.0. We also exceptionally decided to remove the repair tool about the Members last activity in this minor release (we usually do this kind of changes in major releases). For details on all changes, please …

Immediately available is BuddyPress 12.3.0. This maintenance release fixes 7 bugs. The most serious one was happening when a community member requested an email address change from her/his front-end profile: the link to verify the request validity was not generated the right way. This bug is only concerning versions 12.0.0 to 12.2.0. It was reported 12 …

Dear end users & site owners, Please note BP Classic 1.4.0 is now available for upgrade/download. 1.4.0 is a maintenance release of the BuddyPress backwards compatibility Add-on helping you to stay classic so that you can carry on: Only 1 issue has been fixed: the bbPress topics/replies pagination should now behave as expected with BuddyPress 12.0 …

Dear end users & site owners, Please note BP Classic 1.3.0 is now available for upgrade/download. 1.3.0 is a maintenance release of the BuddyPress backwards compatibility Add-on helping you to stay classic so that you can carry on: What about 1.3.0 changes? 4 issues have been fixed: Please upgrade!

Immediately available is BuddyPress 12.2.0. This maintenance release fixes four bugs. One of them was pretty annoying for users first activating BuddyPress with version 12.1.1. In this particular case, the 12.0 deprecated code wasn’t loaded which could cause nasty errors with 3rd party BP plugins / themes not ready yet for the modern BuddyPress (12.0.0 & …

BuddyPress 12.1.1 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release. Please update your BuddyPress as soon as possible. The 12.1.1 release addresses the following minor security issue: This vulnerability was reported privately to the BuddyPress team, in accordance with WordPress’s security policies. Our thanks to the reporter for practicing coordinated disclosure. BuddyPress 12.1.1 also …

We’re very excited to announce the immediate availability of BuddyPress 12.0.0 “Nonno”, named after the excellent pizza restaurant located in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France. Get it now from the WordPress.org plugin repository, or right from your WordPress Dashboard. It took the BuddyPress Team almost a year to finish baking the 100 changes to perfection, write …

The first release candidate (RC1) for BuddyPress 12.0.0 is now available! This version of the BuddyPress software is a development version. Please do not install, run, or test this version of BuddyPress on production or mission-critical websites. Instead, it’s recommended that you evaluate 12.0.0-RC1 on a test server and site. Reaching this phase of the …

Dear end users & site owners, Never heard about BP Classic? You should read the Add-on’s first version announcement post. Please note version 1.2.0 is now available for upgrade/download. What about 1.2.0 changes? 3 issues have been fixed: Many thanks to the contributors who helped BP Classic be ready for the next BP major release (12.0.0) …

Hello BuddyPress contributors! If you haven’t tested our 3 previous beta releases, here’s a fresh opportunity to join the 28 contributors who helped build 12.0.0 so far. Whether you’re a new, regular or advanced user, a theme designer or a plugin author: we really need you to beta test our next major release, please contribute! …

Immediately available is BuddyPress 11.4.0. This maintenance release fixes 1 bug and adds a new Admin Notifications feature to prepare the next BuddyPress major version (12.0.0). For details on the changes, please read the 11.4.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 11.4.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Many thanks to 11.4.0 …

Hello community! We usually build pre-releases for next BuddyPress major versions, this one’s goal is to make sure we can safely publish our next maintenance release (11.4.0). Why? To prepare the release of our next major version (12.0.0), we want to make sure as much as possible WordPress site Administrators acknowledge important informations about it, …

BuddyPress 11.3.2 is now available. This is a security release. All BuddyPress installations should be updated as soon as possible. The 11.3.2 release addresses the following security issue: This vulnerability was reported privately to the BuddyPress team, in accordance with WordPress’s security policies. Our thanks to the reporter for practicing coordinated disclosure. For complete details, visit …

Hello BuddyPress contributors! If you haven’t tested our two first beta releases (👉 please read this post about beta1), please consider testing this third and last beta release. Beta testing is the best way to make sure the final release will fit perfectly into your WordPress / BuddyPress specific configuration. 12.0 is introducing a very …

Immediately available is BP Attachments 1.2.0. This BuddyPress Add-on maintenance release main goal is to fix two annoying issues (one of them is a regression introduced in previous minor release). Please make sure to upgrade asap.

Dear end users & site owners, If you don’t know yet what’s the purpose of BP Classic, we advise you to read the Add-on’s first version announcement post. In short: BP Classic is a BuddyPress Add-on that is being developed and maintained by the official BuddyPress development team. It mainly provides backwards compatibility for BuddyPress 12.0.0 …

Hello BuddyPress contributors! If you haven’t tested our first 12.0.0 beta release (👈 please read this post), here’s another opportunity to help us make sure it will fit perfectly into your WordPress / BuddyPress specific configuration. Beta testing is very important and more then any other BuddyPress major release, we need you all, whether you’re …

Immediately available is BP Attachments 1.1.0. This BuddyPress Add-on maintenance release main goal is to make it ready for the next BuddyPress major release (12.0). If you haven’t read about the important change BuddyPress 12.0.0 will introduce, please read this post about its first beta version.

BuddyPress 11.3.1 is now available. This is a security and maintenance release. All BuddyPress installations should be updated as soon as possible. The 11.3.1 release addresses the following security issue: This vulnerability was reported privately to the BuddyPress team, in accordance with WordPress’s security policies. Our thanks to the reporter for practicing coordinated disclosure. BuddyPress 11.3.1 …

Dear contributors, BP Plugin & BP Theme developers, BuddyPress 12.0.0-beta1 is finally available for testing! 🏄‍♀️ 🏖 You can test BuddyPress 12.0.0-beta1 in 4 ways : The current target for final release is: October 30, 2023. Considering the major change we’re introducing with this release, we decided to plan for a 3 months beta testing …

Dear end-users, site owners, The BP Classic BuddyPress Add-on has been built to provide backwards compatibility for sites that will not be ready yet for the important changes we will introduce in BuddyPress’s next major release, 12.0.0. As we will soon publish the first pre-release version (beta1) of BuddyPress 12.0.0, we thought it was a …

Last but not least! This is the final episode of our post series about the new direction we plan to take regarding the BuddyPress project. If you’re just discovering this series, we advise you to read about the 4 first episodes of it.

This is the number 4 of our post series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. Our first post was about shared our new purpose, the second one explained how we think we can better organize the BuddyPress plugin, and the third one dealt with BuddyPress’ next features. It’s …

Happy… BuddyPress wishes a great birthday to WordPress, and wishes all local WordPress communities to have great celebrations about it. 🎂 Have fun! 🎉

Hello, here‘s the third post of our series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. In our first post we shared with you our new purpose « Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress »; in our second post we talked about how we think we can better organize the BuddyPress plugin. Let’s see how …

Immediately available is BuddyPress 11.2.0. This maintenance release fixes 6 bugs. For details on the changes, please read the 11.2.0 release notes. Update to BuddyPress 11.2.0 today in your WordPress Dashboard, or by downloading from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Many thanks to 11.2.0 contributors  mystichrome, dave.pullig, r-a-y, armaanfromatg, boonebgorges & imath.

Hi, here‘s the second post of our series about the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. In our first post we shared with you our new purpose « Get together safely, in your own way, in WordPress », let’s see how the feedback you shared with us here & there …

Hello! This post is the first in a series of five posts in which we’ll outline the new direction we plan to take regarding plugin maintenance and evolutions. After some introductory words, we‘ll focus on the new BuddyPress purpose that I believe we should adopt for years to come. We haven‘t forgotten that, at the …

The BuddyPress Core Team is very happy to be represented at the Contributor Day the french WordPress community is organizing in Paris on April 20, 2023. Here’s a link to a translated page of the event schedule (Hours are in Central European Summer time).

Today is a very special day for the BuddyPress open source project: 15 years ago, Andy pushed the first code commit on BP Trac. To remember the “whys” & the important “whos” of our early days, I advise you to read (again) the great post John wrote when we reached 10.