Today, we continue the, uh, trend of weekly beta releases for XenForo 2.3 with Beta 4. This release fixes a number of bugs found since the previous release, and adds support for trending content which you can read about
right here.
In addition to the trending content widget we have also made the following notable changes:
- You can now log in to the admin control panel using your configured passkey.
- Changes to the job queueing system that allows a caller to create jobs with a specified priority.
- Webhook support for user upgrades.
- Separated XF.Cropbox from avatar.js into its own file, crop_box.js.
We strongly recommend anyone testing 2.3 during this beta period upgrade as each beta version is released.
More specific details regarding bugs fixed in this release can be found in the
resolved bugs forum.
This is beta software. It is not officially supported.
We do not recommend running it in production.
Please remember that this is
beta software. It contains known bugs and incomplete functionality.
We do not recommend running beta software in a production environment, and support is limited at this time to questions here on the community forums.
Add-ons and custom styles may be broken after upgrading to 2.3. You must test your add-ons thoroughly or look for updates. Be especially careful with add-ons that cover similar features to ones that are added to 2.3; these may conflict with the core XenForo data. If data conflicts are found, they will need to be resolved in a new add-on release or by removing the add-on
before upgrading to 2.3.
If you choose to run beta software, it is your responsibility to ensure that you
make a backup of your data. We recommend you do this before attempting an upgrade. If in doubt, always do a test upgrade on a copy of your production data.
All customers with active licenses may now download the new version from the customer area.
Requirements
The following are minimum requirements:
- PHP 7.2 or newer
- MySQL 5.7 and newer
- All of the add-ons listed here require XenForo 2.3.
- Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.0
Note: Only the PHP version requirements have changed here. However, even if you're running PHP 7.2 we strongly recommend upgrading to PHP 8.3 at the earliest opportunity for improvements in speed, security and stability. We also recommend MySQL 8.0 (or equivalent).
While there is the usual amount of bug fixes as we work hard to make XenForo 2.3 even more stable, this Beta in particular brings a number of new features to our official add-ons.