It's time to party like it's 2022 2023 2024! Today we are very pleased (and relieved) to announce the stable release of XenForo 2.3.0 and our official add-ons. It has been a long time coming so we thank you for your patience and support.
There are a myriad of new features and improvements. Here's a brief overview of our favourites:
Prior to upgrading, ensure you have updated add-ons and styles downloaded and be sure to follow the specific developer/designer's instructions and guidance when upgrading those.
It may also be worth scheduling your upgrade at times where we have more staff available. While XenForo staff are generally available outside of these hours, responses are much quicker during the hours of Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm UK time (currently BST / UTC+1).
Please note that XenForo 2.3 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.
The following are minimum requirements:
There are a myriad of new features and improvements. Here's a brief overview of our favourites:
- Style variants with Dark mode
- Improved performance
- Featured content
- Image optimization
- Automation with webhooks
- SSO with OAuth2
- Passwordless logins with passkeys
- Trending content
Prior to upgrading, ensure you have updated add-ons and styles downloaded and be sure to follow the specific developer/designer's instructions and guidance when upgrading those.
It may also be worth scheduling your upgrade at times where we have more staff available. While XenForo staff are generally available outside of these hours, responses are much quicker during the hours of Monday - Friday 9am to 5pm UK time (currently BST / UTC+1).
General upgrade guidance
Note that 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.General upgrade guidance
Note that 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.Xenforo 2.3.4 updates
- Include embed.php in hashes.json
- Fix error thrown when feed entry is missing an ID
- Use AbstractCollection for type hint on addContentToBookmarks method
- Fix deprecated usage of str_replace with API scopes
- Improve PHP 8.4 compatibility
- Output hsla in the color picker when an alpha channel is present
- Ensure URLs are valid when analyzing image usage
- Coerce nestable group to a number before peforming strict comparison
- Gracefully handle guest username and style variation containing invalid UTF-8
- Attempt to work-around abysmal Firefox form field retention heuristics
- Gracefully handle when an avatar cannot be processed
- Allow changing style variation when the previously selected style is forced to the default style
- Increase date input width further to accomodate Firefox icon clipping
- Fix editor autofocus behavior when in BBCode mode
- Add a note about some permissions not being applicable to guests
- Fix triggering Facebook embeds for document
- Fix calculation of local load time from navigation timing API
- Fix behavior of preview buttons
- Consider read-only number-box inputs as disabled
- Make required and recommended function checks more robust
- Allow null unique ID when enqueuing a job later
- Make report creation notifications easier to extend
- Attempt to work around aggressive Firefox auto-complete heuristics when editing a user
- Fix broken JS handlers when loading comments via AJAX
- Fix an issue with editing newly translated phrases
- Split ExifReader library out of attachment manager bundle
- Attempt to work around aggressive Firefox auto-complete heuristics on control panel index
- Fix number input buttons when step is set to any
- Fix some icon usage analysis issues when editing and deleting editor drop-downs and BBCodes
- Only record icon usage for active BBCodes and editor dropdowns
- Omit itemid microdata attribute when there is no valid user
- Ensure all control panel functionality is covered by permissions
- Handle invalid multiquote input more gracefully
- Attempt to avoid featured content carousel pager text overlap
- Only try to remove double quotes from URL strings once
- Set default color picker color to white instead of transparent
- Fix some issues with the JS icon renderer and BBCode previews
- Handle invalid session IDs more gracefully
- Do not mark unhidden usernames as aria-hidden
- Fix direction of back arrow on RTL languages
- Improve text node handling in XF.setupHtmlInsert
- Ignore Thumbs.db in style archive validator
- Fix structured list icon end cell padding
- Fix an issue with deferred resize event listener after autofocus
- Skip any file duplicates when importing banned emails
- Mark multiple consecutive asterisks as an invalid term word on MySQL full-text searches
- Make the default table collation configurable
- Fix calculation of report closure notifiable users
- Ensure PayPal products are created with a unique ID.
The following public templates have had changes:
- PAGE_CONTAINER
- approval_queue_macros
- carousel.less
- core_input.less
- fancybox.less
- helper_attach_upload
- lightbox.less
- message_macros
- profile_post_macros
- structured_list.less
Current requirements
Please note that XenForo 2.3 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.
The following are minimum requirements:
- PHP 7.2 or newer (PHP 8.3 recommended)
- MySQL 5.7 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
- All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.3.
- Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 7.2.