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Published: 08 January 2024

Last Updated: 08 January 2024

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🎉 Your Ultimate Social Experience is Ready For Installation! 🥳

Excitement is in the air as we proudly introduce CB Activity 6.0—a game-changing release that redefines the art of community building! 🚀 Get ready for a revolutionary experience that goes beyond the ordinary and propels your community interactions to new heights.

What's in Store for You: Over 30 Mind-Blowing Features!

Kyle has been working on this release for over a year! The list of new features and major improvements is so long, that this is only a short-list of the best of them:

🎨 Stunning UI Redesign: Say hello to a fresh and modern look! Our complete UI overhaul brings CB Activity in line with the best in social media design, ensuring an intuitive and visually appealing interface.

💬 Enhanced Post Creation: Crafting posts has never been this dynamic! Live previews, quick mentions, and hashtags make your posts come alive, creating a more engaging and interactive state-of-the-art user experience.

🌍 Revamped Location Feature: The new location feature supports built-in maps, automatic location selection, and nearby place searching. Share locations seamlessly, fostering more meaningful community connections. Moreover, google maps and open street maps are natively supported!

🚀 Updated Actions for Accessibility: Actions take center stage with a fresh look! Transformed into a popover format, accessibility-first keyboard navigation and focus handling make interactions smoother and user-friendly.

😍 Reimagined Reactions Popover: Express yourself with flair! A complete rewrite of the reactions popover offers better searching, a favorites system, and accessibility-first navigation support for both Tenor and Giphy.

🤩 New Sticker System: Embrace versatility! Stickers, the new emote system, support images, videos, and custom HTML. Say goodbye to limitations and hello to creative freedom!

🌈 Enhanced Themes for Customization: Themes receive an upgrade with an accessible UI, cleaner previews, and selection options. Customize your community's appearance effortlessly, ensuring a unique and polished look.

📏 Message Limit Indicator: Stay on point effortlessly! The new message limit indicator provides a visual cue as the limit approaches, making post limits easy to manage and enhancing the overall user experience.

📱 Mobile-Friendly Design: We've got your touch controls covered! All buttons and toggles are resized for mobile, optimizing user engagement on the go.

🎉 Redesigned Activity Display: Enjoy a more organized and visually appealing activity feed! Gallery media collapses into cleaner modal grids, offering an improved comment display.

🔍 Expanded Activity Stream Filters: Find and follow with ease! The activity stream filters system now includes search capabilities, allowing for a more personalized and user-centric experience.

🖼️ Robust Post Share Feature: Spread the love! The new post share feature lets users share posts across other sites and repost to their profiles, fostering collaboration and expanding content reach.

📤 Embedding Support: Go beyond boundaries! CB Activity now supports external embedding, allowing users to embed posts on other sites effortlessly.

🔄 Redesigned Dropdown Menus: Enhance interaction with cleaner and more accessible dropdown menus! Increased in size for mobile and aligned with clean icons, these menus ensure an optimal user experience.

🔖 Bookmarking System: Save your favorites! Users can now bookmark posts, creating a built-in saving system for easy access to preferred content.

🛡️ Enhanced Report Functionality: Moderation made easy! The report functionality receives an upgrade with auto-moderation, ensuring a safer community environment with automatic actions based on predefined thresholds.

🔄 Stream Management Interface: Simplify administration tasks! All stream features are now easily managed from a single clean interface, providing a centralized hub for efficient stream management.

🔍 Unified Management of Hidden Items: Manage hidden content with ease! Hidden activity and comments are now streamlined on a single page, improving user control and moderation efficiency.

🔔 Push-Based Notifications: Stay in the loop! Notifications are now Push based, providing a more responsive and reliable notification system.

📐 Standardized Notification Design: Aesthetic consistency is key! The design of notifications is standardized to fit within a single-row layout, ensuring a cohesive and visually pleasing notification display.

🌐 Context Parsing Functionality: Navigate effortlessly! New robust context parsing functionality enhances notification links, providing contextually relevant links and improving overall user navigation.

👍 New Views: Liked and Followed: Manage your interactions with ease! Liked and Followed views offer a quick overview, allowing users to easily manage their preferences and interactions.

👍 There are Even More Features: Check out Kyle's blog on CB Activity 6.0 for screenshots and even more new features and details!

Why Dive into CB Activity 6.0?

1. Revolutionary Upgrade Process: Seamlessly transition from CB Activity 5.0 to 6.0 with our smooth upgrade process, migrating all your current 5.0 data to the new blazing fast 6.0 data storage in a fail-safe way: If your server times out, just re-upgrade again to continue the upgrade migration.

2. Managed Streams: Enjoy enhanced functionality with streams now stored in the database. Explore new possibilities for community interactions with improved accessibility and speed.

3. Built-in Notifications: Say hello to 37 built-in notifications! Keep your community engaged with interactive notifications and replace CB GroupJive Email/PM notifications with CB Activity notifications.

Your Community Journey Starts Now!

We invite you to embark on this exciting journey with CB Activity 6.0. We have thoroughly tested this upgrade-migration process, but as usual, make sure to backup your site before upgrading in all cases.

For complex or customized sites with inline Streams via CB Activity Bot substitutions or Custom activity logging via CB Auto Actions, please read details on these specific cases in Kyle's CB Activity 6.0 RC1 blog.

Check out Kyle's blog on CB Activity 6.0 for more information on upgrade, screenshots and many nice details.

Download CB Activity 6.0 Now and Redefine Community Building Together!

Or take a look at it on our Demo Site running CB Activity 6.0 stable now!

Let's shape the future of community building together and a big applause to Kyle for this amazing CB Add-On!

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Published: 19 December 2023

Last Updated: 19 December 2023

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🎉 Your Ultimate Social Experience is Getting Better and Better! 🥳

We're thrilled to present CB Activity 6.0 RC1, a pivotal release that introduces a groundbreaking feature: the smooth migration of existing CB Activity 5.0 installations to 6.0 RC1 during the upgrade process. This allows you to seamlessly transition your established community to the next level, preserving your data and configurations.

Key Highlights of CB Activity 6.0 RC1 (among over 30 new features):

1. Migration Magic:
   • RC1 introduces a revolutionary upgrade process, enabling existing CB Activity 5.0 installations to smoothly transition to 6.0 RC1, in a fail-safe way. Now you can test drive the latest features on a site clone, offering valuable feedback on bugs in our forum and general experiences in the comments below.
2. Managed Streams:
   • Experience the transformation of streams, now stored in the database for enhanced functionality. Enjoy seamless access and explore new possibilities for community interactions.
3. Built-in Notifications:
   • Say hello to 37 built-in notifications, enriching your community engagement. Stay informed and keep your members engaged with interactive notifications.

Please read Kyle's CB Activity 6.0 RC1 blog post for details regarding this migration, and adjustments that might be needed in very particular configurations.

Your Feedback Matters:

We invite you to be a part of this exciting journey! Test RC1 on a site clone and share your findings on our forum for bug reports and in the comments below for general feedback, especially regarding smooth upgrades from CB Activity 5.0.

Please note that CB Activity 6.0 RC1 should not yet be used on live sites with CB Activity 5.0 already running, as the migration process needs community testing (yes, that's CB Activity 5.0 users, on site clones).

Download CB Activity 6.0 RC1 here: Select the "6.0.0-rc.1+2023-12-18" version from the drop-down versions selector since it's not a stable or nightly release.

Together, let's shape the future of community building..

Stay tuned for the official CB Activity 6.0 release in early January, where over 30 major features will redefine your community engagement.

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Category: News

Published: 12 December 2023

Last Updated: 13 December 2023

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🎉 Community Builder 2.9.1 released: Embracing new PHP 8.3! 🥳

We're excited to announce the release of Community Builder 2.9.1, a significant update that introduces verified support for the latest PHP 8.3 release. With this integration, Community Builder ensures compatibility with the newest advancements in PHP technology. This update also includes an updated and more friendly handling of obsolescence warnings for old unmaintained versions of PHP, MySQL and Joomla, providing more clarity and guidance on maintaining up-to-date server environments.

PHP 8.3 Compatibility and Performance Boost

PHP 8.3, recently released by the PHP development team, brings a host of improvements, including a notable 28% speed increase for Joomla, as benchmarked here.

It's important to note that PHP 8.0 has reached its end of life for security support, and PHP 8.1 is no longer receiving bug-fix maintenance releases. While Linux distributions might offer minimal security maintenance, we strongly recommend selecting an officially supported PHP version (currently 8.3, 8.2 or 8.1) for your site through your hosting panel.

🔗 All our latest CB and CB Add-ons have been tested and run seamlessly on PHP 8.3, ensuring a smooth experience for your Joomla-powered community websites.

Our demo site is already running on PHP 8.3, showcasing the compatibility and stability of Community Builder with the latest PHP release.

Upgrade Now for Peak Performance and Security

👉 Upgrade to Community Builder 2.9.1 and PHP 8.3 today to benefit from these advancements and ensure your community site is running on a secure and efficient PHP environment. Thank you for being a part of the Joomlapolis community, and stay tuned for more updates and improvements!

Note: Always remember to perform a backup before upgrading your Community Builder installation.

Renew Your CB Membership for Ongoing Benefits

Renew your Joomlapolis membership to access the latest features, early releases, and premium support. Your ongoing support enables us to continue delivering top-notch Joomla solutions.

• Discover Community Builder 2.9: Explore the latest features and upgrade now!
• Explore our CB Add-Ons: Find the perfect add-ons for your community site!
• Renew Your Membership: Ensure ongoing benefits and support our work!

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Published: 04 December 2023

Last Updated: 04 December 2023

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🎉 Joomla 5.0.1, 4.4.1 and 3.10.14-elts are released and it's a safe upgrade! 🥳

The Joomla project has released versions 5.0.1, 4.4.1, and 3.10.14-elts, addressing a very-low-probability vulnerability that affects Joomla versions 1.6 to 3.10.12, 4.4.0 and 5.0.0.

This vulnerability is of very low probability, as it requires the site super-administrator to have given to the attacker editing access to the language files, to potentially expose environment variables that may contain sensitive information.

Security Update Instructions:

• Joomla 5.0.1 and 4.4.1: Easily update through the standard built-in Joomla updater.
• Joomla 3.10.14-elts: Consider upgrading your Joomla 3.10 site to Joomla 4.4.1 instead (see below for instructions). If not possible, consider subscribing to the official 18-months Joomla Extended Long-Term Security support program, while planing an upgrade to 4.4.1 and 5.0.1. Visit elts.joomla.org for more details.

Key Improvements in Joomla 5.0.1:

1. Update of TinyMCE Editor to the Latest Version
2. Conditional Dark Mode in Editors
3. Enhanced Information in Custom Fields for Finder Indexing
4. Improvement of Messenger View
5. Several Language and Code Style Improvements
6. CLI Installer Fixes and Improvements
7. Fix SVG Display in Media Manager List View
8. Enhanced Error Handling in Public Folder Installation
9. Correction of Notice in Mail Template
10. Compat-Plugin Loader Addition to API

For a comprehensive list and detailed information, refer to Joomla's official  Joomla 5.0.1 and 4.4.1 announcement.

Discover how Joomla 5.0 can benefit you by exploring the full details on joomla.org/5.

Full upgrade details can be found in the Joomla documentation. We strongly recommend testing the upgrade on a copy of your production site first.

Community Builder Compatibility:

The latest Community Builder 2.9 is fully compatible with Joomla 5.0.1, 4.4.1, and 3.10.14-elts. We encourage all users to upgrade to these latest Joomla versions for improved security and performance.

These updates are considered essential for maintaining a secure Joomla environment, and we recommend that everyone promptly applies these updates.

Renew Your CB Membership and Access Joomla 5-Upgraded Add-Ons

To fully enjoy the benefits of Joomla 5.0 and its compatible add-ons, renew your Joomlapolis membership today. Gain access to the latest add-on nightlies and support our work.

Thank you for your continued support of Joomla and Community Builder.

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Published: 16 November 2023

Last Updated: 12 December 2023

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🎉 Community Builder 2.9 and 32 new CB Add-ons released!! 🥳

Unveiling Community Builder 2.9 and 18 CB Add-On Releases: Embracing Joomla 5.0!

We're excited to announce the release of Community Builder 2.9 and 18 new stable releases of our CB Add-ons. This update ensures compatibility with Joomla 5.0, 4.x, and 3.10 for CB and All our 32 CB Add-Ons,. This significant milestone underscores our commitment to staying at the forefront of web software development. These releases follows four weeks of nightly releases, rigorous testing, and continuous refinement, ensuring a safe and recommended CB 2.9 upgrade.

Joomla 5.0 Compatibility: Paving the Way for the Future

Community Builder 2.9 now runs natively on Joomla 5.0, eliminating the need for the new Joomla 5.0 “compatibility plugin”. This compatibility extends to all latest stable and nightly CB Add-On releases*, ensuring a smooth experience across all active Joomla releases. Transitioning from Joomla 4.x to Joomla 5.x is now a straightforward upgrade, like any minor version upgrade. Just upgrade CB, CB Add-ons, and any other third-party extension before Joomla, ensuring also your usual backup routine.

Discover how Joomla 5.0 can benefit you at joomla.org/5.

CB Add-Ons: Elevating Your Joomla Experience

Out of our 32 CB Add-Ons, 18 needed to be updated to run natively with Joomla 5.0. All others were already Joomla 5.0-compatible. These 18 new stable releases bring not only Joomla 5.0, 4.x and 3.10 compatibility, but also new features.

The new features, among many other improvements, include support for Joomla 5's new schema.org structured data in CB Content Bot (if enabled), PHP-based replacements in CB Replacer Bot, branding support for "X (formerly Twitter)" in CB Connect and enhanced payment gateways support in CB Paid Subscriptions for Stripe, WorldLine Ingenico ePayments (Ogone), and QuickPay.

Benefits of Upgrading to Community Builder 2.9 and Latest CB Add-Ons

Upgrading to Community Builder 2.9 and the latest CB Add-Ons ensures your website's compatibility with the latest Joomla features. Gain also access to a myriad of improvements, including the latest security enhancements, PHP 8.2 compatibility for noticeable speed improvements, and changes reflecting the evolution of web services.

While Community Builder remains free, an active Professional or Developer membership is required to access upgrades for paid CB Add-ons. We believe in the value of our add-ons and the enhanced functionality they bring to your Joomla experience.

A Big Thank You!

We are proud of the strides made with Community Builder 2.9 and the 32 CB Add-Ons within the past weeks and months. All these improvements result from our commitment to continuous enhancements and our unwavering dedication to our vibrant community.

Whether you're a school, a sailing club, a multinational corporation, a national health department, or an NBA team, Community Builder 2.9 and Joomla 5.0 bring you a world of possibilities from just managing your users up to creating large user-centric communities.

We take this opportunity to thank our dedicated team at Joomlapolis and our vibrant community of users. Your feedback, suggestions, and unwavering support have been instrumental in making these releases possible.

As always, we recommend keeping your Joomla and Community Builder installations up to date to benefit from the latest features and security fixes. Regular updates ensure a smooth user experience and help keep your platform secure and efficient.

Looking into the Future

Looking ahead, we are excited about the future of Community Builder and Joomla. We are committed to continuous improvement and are already working on new features and enhancements for future releases.

Join us in celebrating this milestone and experience the new and improved Community Builder 2.9. We are confident that you will appreciate the enhancements and the seamless Joomla 5.0 compatibility.

Remember, Community Builder is more than just software; it's a community. As we celebrate this release, we also celebrate you, our users, for being a part of this incredible journey. Thank you for your continued support, making Community Builder the best Joomla social networking solution.

What's Next?

Ready to explore the future with Community Builder 2.9? Dive into our demo website, seamlessly upgraded from Joomla 4.4 to Joomla 5.0, showcasing the power and stability of the latest releases. For more detailed insights and to upgrade your Community Builder experience, visit our Community Builder page and explore the wide array of CB Add-Ons. If you're not yet a part of our active community, consider subscribing or renewing to one of our memberships for exclusive benefits.

Renew Your CB Membership and Access Joomla 5-compatible Add-Ons

As we embark on this journey of continuous improvement, we invite you to join us in shaping the future of web communities. To fully enjoy the benefits of Joomla 5.0 and its now compatible add-ons, make sure to renew your Joomlapolis membership. Your paid membership allows us to work full-time at full power on Community Builder for 19 years, while keeping it free and open-source. Thank You!

* All our CB Add-Ons run on Joomla 5.0 natively (without the Joomla Compatibility plugin activated), except CB Activity 5.0 which runs on Joomla 5.0 too, but needs the Joomla Compatibility Plugin activated (automatically activated when upgrading a Joomla 4.4 site to 5.0).