bbPress 0.9 released
The bbPress team is happy to release bbPress 0.9 for download. This release is important for anyone who integrates bbPress with WordPress and wishes to update to WordPress 2.5.
Primarily this is a compatibility release so that we can continue to provide the same integration levels with WordPress as in the past, however quite a few other improvements have made their way into this version.
Improvements and changes include:
- New installer:
- Creates your bb-config.php file for you when possible.
- Allows for setting up integration with WordPress at install time.
- Supports languages other than English when language translations are available.
- Looks pretty.
- Additional RSS feeds for views.
- A “new topics” RSS feed, available on the front-page and on each forum. This feed only returns the first post from each new topic as it is created, instead of all posts.
- More configurable <title> tag available to themes.
- More secure authentication cookies which are compatible with WordPress 2.5
- Passwords now stored using “phpass” hashing library instead of md5. If you still want to store your passwords as md5 for any reason, there is a plugin here which will do that for you.
- A second core theme called “Kakumei Blue”. This theme demonstrates just how little you need to do to start creating a new theme.
- “General” and “WordPress Integration” options configurable via admin interface.
- Built-in support for Gravatars, implemented in a way that makes 3rd-party avatar plugins much easier to author.
- New “Date and time format” and “Date format” options.
- Akismet and Bozo functionalities have been moved to plugins. Akismet key now enterable via an admin interface.
- Removed “replies” querystring argument (?replies=#) from topic links. If you still want that functionality, there is a plugin here which should emulate it.
- Fixes to use of PHP “glob()” function to avoid errors on hosts that don’t support it.
- Moderators can now manage tags by default.
- Fixes to slug incrementing.
- The old “admin_email” setting is now called “from_email”. This is now the email address that emails from your installation appear to come from.
- “No replies” view is now technically “no replies and greater than 2 hours old”.
- Improvements to the export script towards the integration of an upcoming import script.
- RSS feeds now sent as UTF-8
- Full support for slug-based feeds on forum and topic feeds.
- Keymasters can no longer be demoted by non-keymasters.
- Many other smaller bug and typo fixes.
Installation
We have provided updated and more detailed installation and integration instructions in the documentation.
Upgrading
Upgrade instructions are available in the documentation here.
Dedication
bbPress 0.9 is named “Brubeck” after American Jazz pianist Dave Brubeck. In his early career he often performed with saxophonist Paul Desmond, after whom bbPress 0.8 was named. Brubeck has composed a number of jazz standards many of which employ complex rhythms and unusual time signatures.
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Pingback by bbPress 0.9 final, officially released! « _ck_ says… — April 3, 2008 @ 3:30 am
Hi,
Congratulations.
I just started integrating the ).8 version with WP MU 1.3.3. Would you recommend rather me going with this release? I see that this release has been made compatible more so for WordPress 2.5 but I was wondering if there is anything I should be aware of or concerned for integration with WPMU? Thanks in advance.
Comment by K-IntheHouse — April 3, 2008 @ 4:16 am
I can’t upgrade my bb.I upload the new 0.9 files and remove the old config.php,but it still notice me to remove it again and agin.
So sad………
Comment by dupola — April 3, 2008 @ 4:37 am
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@ K-IntheHouse
You should perhaps wait until WPMU is released with the merged changes from WordPress 2.5
Comment by Sam Bauers — April 3, 2008 @ 5:17 am
@ dupola
You should probably take that problem to the forums, and provide a little more detail and perhaps a link to your site.
The installer will detect your old config.php file if it is in the root of your bbPress installation or the directory above that (i.e. the directory that your bbPress root is in). So make sure you didn’t just move the old config.php file to there. Or there isn’t another file there called config.php
Comment by Sam Bauers — April 3, 2008 @ 5:21 am
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@Sam
This version is really rocking and thus ended my confusion to choose between phpBB3 and bbPress.
The only thing stile left me unimpressed is slug options.
It doesn’t work on wordpress blog where blog URL and wordpress URL are different!
It may have something to do with .htaccess file but as of now its not working!
Comment by Rahul Bansal — April 3, 2008 @ 7:36 am
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@ Rahul Bansal
It almost certainly is a conflict between your WordPress .htaccess file and you bbPress .htaccess file
Ask in the support forums about the best way to resolve this.
Comment by Sam Bauers — April 3, 2008 @ 3:05 pm
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I will download and install later, I like this simple forum.
Comment by Charles Peng — April 3, 2008 @ 3:53 pm
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I am seriously disappointed in the lack of a Wordpress 2.5 interface.
Comment by James — April 3, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
Great job guys. Thanks for all the hard work!
Comment by John — April 3, 2008 @ 5:30 pm
congrats for the great update..open source rocks!
Comment by syamsulariff.com — April 3, 2008 @ 6:22 pm
It says “0.9.0.1″ on the download page now. Did you suddenly notice a sneaky little bug and rush out another version?
Comment by Joshua Goodwin — April 3, 2008 @ 6:31 pm
Congrats!
I will give a try and I will start to love it….. and move with it…
thanks…
Comment by Sykam Raju — April 3, 2008 @ 7:04 pm
Damn…bad Timing. IJust decided to use phpbb.
Didnt konw there was a new version of bbpress in the pipes.
Comment by Paul — April 3, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
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For french people, you can find a french version, translation and documentation here (0.9 include !)
http://bbpress.fr/
Comment by Amaury — April 4, 2008 @ 9:14 am
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@Sam
sure… I will!
Thanks for the help…
Comment by Rahul Bansal — April 4, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
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Just wanted to say thanks very much for developing a forum solution. Everything else out there is so bloated, this is such a relief (i was looking at hours and hours of sorting and cutting out reams of php code). Anyway, thanks again.
Comment by Joe M. — April 5, 2008 @ 2:25 am
An amazing release. Dealt with several of the seo related issues I had. The upgrade went with a few anxious moments, but turned out fine.
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Thanks for putting the Dave Brubeck video up on your site! Truly, a jazz classic…
Honorable mention for the drummer, Joe Morrello, too. I don’t recognize the bass player; but I would probably recognize his name if I heard it.
Again, thanks.
Regards,
Jay Meyers, MSCSE
Comment by Jay M. Meyers, MSCSE — April 11, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
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