We’re glad to announce the release of SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.6! This release is mainly focused on significant bug fixes and implementation of anti-spamming technique for Login and Signup. Here is a quick summary of features and bug fixes that have been included in this SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.6 Release:
Features:
- Added some reliable anti-spamming techniques; you will be able to enable them from Admin > Settings > Spam & Banning Tools. Fixes #2542.
Bugfixes:
- Fixed bug with Re-Captcha when SSL is enabled
- Corrected order of forum posts added by Ning Importer. Fixes #2505.
- Fixed bug with adding link to a wall post where image selector was not being displayed.
- Background Mailer Task will run better now and not hang. Fixes #2476.
- Fixed bug where the respective profile field column in field search table was not getting deleted after the deletion of a profile field. Fixes #2437.
- Fixed social network mapping issue when multiple social networks are chosen during signup.
- Fixed bug with menu editor where any custom menu added to Member Edit Profile Navigation was redirecting to Browse Members page.
- Fixed an error showing in the log that would be generated when changing the order of photos in an album
- Fixed bug where bullets added via TinyMCE Editor were not being displayed in blogs.
- Fixed a bug in discussions under Events and Groups where page UI was getting affected in certain cases because of HTML tags not closing after truncation.
A note on upgrading
Please do a complete backup of both the files and the database before initiating the upgrade. If you have opened a support ticket and were given a code change that was applied to some of your files, take extra care to ensure that those are still correctly applied, or contact support and we’ll be able to re-apply them. Please get a developer to help you if you’re not comfortable with the process yourself. We do have an upgrade service available for $150 which you can purchase from our Client Store.
Download
SocialEngine clients can grab the new SocialEngine Self-Hosted 4.8.6 code from their client area.
We’ve also updated Photo Albums, Blogs, Events, and Groups plugins to 4.8.6.
Thanks!
This release included 3 fixes and a new feature that were reported by our amazing community. You can always submit any feature requests or bug reports for SocialEngine Self-Hosted to our public bugs and suggestions tracker.
