Available immediately is bbPress 2.0 RC 5 “Can we have a pool, dad?” edition. Thanks to a few last minute contributions we were able to fix some theme compatibility issues, BuddyPress Activity stream issues, and Email subscription issues. We’re pretty confident this is the final release-candidate before launch, so please update your existing installations and let us know how it’s going in the support forums.
We’re confident you can use RC 5 on a live site without sinking the ship, but please let us know if it springs any leaks in your installation. If you’re a developer or site administrator, report any oddities over at our trac.
Here are some of the changes in RC 5:
- Improved theme compatibility
- Improved BuddyPress Activity stream behavior
- Improved Subscription email sending
- API tweaks for plugin authors
@johnjamesjacoby Please include a “Integration with BuddyPress” after “Integration with WordPress” on https://bbpress.org/documentation/installation/ with the basic steps (Settings…) needed to have bbpress integrated with BuddyPress. Thanks a lot.
Will the old hidden forums plugin work with this? If so, I’ll try it out, if not I’d like to know. Thanks.
Hidden forums are now in core. No need for a plugin.
>> “We’re confident you can use RC5 on a live site without sinking the ship”
If you’re so confident, convert the official bbPress forum site over to RC before you release it
Already answered this. See previous comment.
BB 2.0 is looking good! Great work!
Small bug report here — forums wont allow me to change my password? Anywho-
Using;
BB 2.0 RC5
WP 3.2.1
BP 1.2.10
Trying to integrate BP and BB together. BB RC5 installs correctly but does not want to sync. In order to sync, BP offers to use A) existing installation, or B) create new installation of bbpress.
If you choose to use existing installation, the buddypress setup assistant asks that you enter the path to bb-config.php. bb-config.php does not exist in thew new RC, and was not created after installation of the BB 2.0 RC5 plugin. I grabbed a copy of bb-config.php from a previous bbpress download and uploaded into the plugins/bbpress, set this as the path in buddypress, and everything was good to go.
This process may cause confusion upon release.
Thanks for everything you have done, appreciate everyones hard work to make this happen.
BuddyPress needs to be updated to make this more clear. It will be before 1.5 is released.
bbPress 2.0 doesn’t work for Group Forums yet. It will in the next versions.
When I @mention a user in the forums with Buddypress also installed, the notification of the @mention says ‘User mentioned you in an activity update’ and links to the activity page instead of the forum posts itself.
Also could you PLEASE, please, please implement a reply button on each forum posts that automatically fills the reply forum with the user’s @username? This would make it easy, plus when using Buddypress many users change their display names so people won’t be able to find the right @username to use.
Great to hear that the new bbPress and the new just coming out BuddyPress will be somewhat more compatible in the activity stream. Finally both are getting closer to the new release, Thanks bbPress Team.
@bbPress Dev’s
Instead of keep kicking out RC’s … why not just convert the existing official forum site at bbpress.org/forums over to this new code base PRIOR to the release.?
That way we can all collectively squash bugs before this final release.
It will happen sooner than later.
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>> “We’re confident you can use RC 5 on a live site without sinking the ship”
Though you’re not confident enough to switch the official forum site over to it prior to final release.
Not a matter of confidence – it’s about moving hundreds of thousands of posts incrementally in the entire .org installation.
If you want to volunteer to develop bbPress for a while, I’ll switch to moving the data over. 🙂
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Great. and looks awesome.
The activity stream integration is awesome! Does anyone know if there will be integration with buddypress notifications in the near future? (i.e. if a user posts on a thread that you’ve posted on, a notification will show up in the admin bar). That would be the icing on the cake!
Is there any possibility to not show private/hidden forums (and its topics/reply) in rss? Now anyone can read private/hidden forums just by http://domain.com/forum/rss
This should have been fixed in the 2.0 release, but I’ll take a closer look to make sure.