b2evolution 6.10.2
31 August 2018
b2evolution version 6.10.2 is now available.
Upgrading to b2evolution 6.10.2
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What's New in b2evolution 6.10.2
6.10.2
- b2evo can now send notifications to users if they are mentioned through @username in a comment or a post
- Links to remind people to log in instead of posting anonymously
- New UI for quick moderation
- UI improvements for using the back-office on a mobile phone
- Additional UI Improvements
- Bug fixes
- Removed legacy code for supporting old PHP versions (<5.4)
6.10.1
- Minimum required PHP version: 5.4
- Optimized sending of emails by SMTP by opening a single connection to the server when multiple emails need to be sent in a row.
- Better detection of timeouts in scheduled jobs and added back-office settings for several jobs.
- Better handling of widgets dependent on missing plugins.
- Performance enhancements
- Bug fixes
- Privacy: The help page now includes a content block that can summarize key privacy operations likes how to review, change or delete account info.
- Privacy: More aggressive pruning of old session data.
- Privacy: Notification after one year of account inactivity.
- Privacy: Notification emails that used to include an IP address now include a session ID.
- Registration: Added content block allowing to explain how personal data will be used.
- Registration: Complete client side validation of registration form to avoid user frustration.
- Registration: Visitors who comment can now check a box in the Comment Form to get notifications if someone else replies (comments on the same post)
- Registration: Each notification email includes a quick unsubscribe link.
- Registration: logged-in users can also check a box, which produced the same effect as subscribing to comments of a specific post.
- Emailing: Enhanced management screens of Email Lists.
- Emailing: Additional possible filters on the User List.
- Enhanced polls: allow multiple answers, see answers from users...
- UI improvements: Enhanced UI for Post Status Form
- UI improvements: Optimizations for small screens
6.10.0
- Email: Multiple Email Lists / multiple newsletters support
- Email: Enhanced email capture / quick subscription widget
- Email: Enhanced newsletter subscription widget
- Email: [subscribe:...] and [emailcapture:...] short tags to promote email lists/newsletters and get users to subscribe
- Email: New variables to use in email campaigns.
- Email: Users can be tagged with User tags when subscribed through various places as well as when opening emails they receive
- Email: Improved filtering for sending email campaigns to subsets (including tag filtering)
- Email: Track email opens (image loads and link clicks) for all emails (transactional and email campaigns)
- Email: Email stats graph
- Email: Plugin to include buttons into emails
- Email: Better handling of images in emails
- Email: Improved scheduled task to send email campaigns with better error logging.
- Email: Enhanced quick unsubscribe screens + option to resubscribe in case of erroneous click.
- Automation: User can enter multi-step automations.
- Automation: Each step can do an action like test a set of conditions, send an email campaign, start another automation, unsubscribe the user, notify the admin, set/unset user tags, etc.
- Automation: One automation can be tied to multiple email lists. Unsubscribing from one list will stop the automation for that user (configurable).
- Automation: Automations work with a new scheduled task.
- Feature to split a discussion thread (comments) into a new post with some selected comments attached.
- Option to allow visitor posts in forums (a user account will be created automatically)
- Enhanced activity stats widget
- Enhanced videoplug plugin
- Changed Edit entry in evobar to offer more options