forum Community Forum Update IPB 4.4.0!

[brunyman]

Hi guys, today we had a major forum update from IPB 4.3.6 to 4.4.0.

This new Forum version has a lot of improvements and tweaks, for a detailed list of changes check below:

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What's new in version 4.4.0

 

Major New Features / Enhancements

• Post Before Registering
• Animated GIFs
• AdminCP Notification Center
• New Email Features:
  • Email Statistics
  • Email Advertisements
  • Unfollow Without Logging In
• SEO Improvements:
  • Improved pagination with page number now in path (rather than query string) and unique page titles for paginated pages.
  • Improved use of canonical tags.
  • Improved handling of empty containers and profiles to reduce soft 404s.
  • Improved JSON-LD markup, adding @id tags and fixing URLs for comments.
  • Removed page output hidden by JavaScript.
• Performance Improvements:
  • Added Lazy Loading for images, which will speed up page rendering.
  • Added HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload.
  • Added support for Brotli compression.
  • Improved default profile photos to use inline SVGs rather than generated images, which will speed up page rendering.
  • Improved browser caching of pages served by the guest page cache, which will reduce the number of requests reaching the server.
  • Improved handing of session data for guests to reduce database reads for guests.
  • Optimized images to reduce file size for faster page rendering.
  • Other minor performance improvements to reduce database queries and fix unnecessary code execution.
• Commerce Store Filters allow customers to filter products by price, review, stock, or custom admin-defined filters.

Core

• Added setting to display user group formatting in more areas (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added less intrusive browser notification prompt in Notifications menu (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added ability to show sidebar blocks to only certain types of devices (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added ability for club owners to reorder the navigation tabs (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added ability for announcements to be linked to an URL or be a title only (see 6 New Micro Features), improved consistency in how announcements are shown in different areas.
• Improved UI for entering time intervals in AdminCP settings (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added a new Icons & Logos section in the AdminCP which allows providing logos for use when sharing links from the community, adding the community as a home screen app on a mobile device (along with additional settings for a PWA manifest to control certain aspects the community’s behaviour when used in this way), and in Safari’s favourites menus and pinned tabs on macOS.
• Added a new UI for attachments, showing a box with some information about the file, rather than a plain line (see Turbo charging loading speeds).

Commerce

• Braintree Gateway including support for PayPal (with recurring payments), Venmo, and cards. Deprecates some PayPal features.
• Added ability to target bulk mails to members who have spent certain amounts.
• Added sidebar widgets for best sellers, latest products, product reviews and a featured product.

New Server Requirements: PHP 7.1.0 or higher required (7.3.x now supported). MySQL 5.5.3 or higher requires (5.6.2 recommended).

Removed Features

• Removed EmojiOne-style emojis due to licensing issues.
• Removed Gravatar support due to privacy concerns and performance issues.
• Removed password hashes when downloading a member list from the AdminCP. This is for security, to reduce the ease of obtaining sensitive data if the AdminCP is ever compromised.
• Removed the name of the content (e.g. topic) from the “Next Unread” link which could consume significant server resources on large communities.

 

This forum updated also required a Theme update, changes to the theme are here:

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• Social sign-in icons in the user panel are now spaced evenly
• Padding has been increased on the Guest Terms footer, to prevent text from touching the sides of the browser window
• The sidebar will no longer squash under certain conditions
• Reactions and post buttons will no longer wrap onto multiple lines on tablets when numerous users have reacted. Instead, the reaction text will be truncated
• Added a fix for the “Dropdown Grouped Profile Fields” addon
• Breadcrumbs are no longer shown on the footer of mobiles
• Changed two instances of in_array to \in_array in globalTemplate
• The countdown timer can now be translated
• Upgraded for IPS.Suite 4.4.0 . The mega footer now uses css grid for a more responsive layout.

 

That's it for now! Enjoy!

[ItsHarryFan11]

Yeah it's all cool and all but I still can't upload a photo larger than 0MB.