Vanilla is proud to present version 2.2

Linc · November 2015

Vanilla 2.2 - the stable gold release - can now be downloaded. The upgrade instructions are in the README.md as part of the download.

Vanilla 2.2 requires PHP 5.3. This is a change from the 2.1 series which only required PHP 5.2. The next release (2.3) will require PHP 5.4. We strongly recommend upgrading to PHP 5.6 as soon as possible. Contact your host and request it if you don't have control over it. It's IMPORTANT!

Critical upgrading notes:

You must follow the normal upgrade process, including running /utility/update.
You CANNOT DOWNGRADE after upgrading because 2.2 contains a change in password hashing that is irreversible. You would lock yourself (and anyone else who's logged in since the upgrade) out of your account by downgrading.
If you are using a locale, please note the naming standard changed in 2.2 so you MUST update your locales as well.

We strongly recommend testing your plugin and theme compatibility in a safe place before upgrading your production forum.

IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE UPGRADING AND NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE START A NEW DISCUSSION. If you are a developer and locate a reproducible issue, please file it on our GitHub tracker, noting your version as 2.2 exactly. We greatly appreciate the assistance.

Support for 2.1 ends immediately. Please upgrade to 2.2 as soon as possible.

Linc · November 2015

What's new in 2.2:

Add Advanced Editor (HTML5 full drag-and-drop WYSIWYG).
Remove cleditor (not secure).
Add Emoji and an Emoji Extender addon to create your own sets.
Add Google+ SSO.
Add Section 508 support (accessibility improvements).
Add support for controllers in plugins.
Add spam checking & more flood control in Conversations.
Upgrade PHP Markdown and split out Vanilla Markdown customizations.
Add the Garden.Community.Manage permission for community managers.
Allow Unicode in mentions and usernames.
Allow using utf8mb4 databases (to allow Unicode emoji characters).
Added support for Twitch.tv, Hitbox.tv, and SoundCloud.
Add new social icons.
Add new class to handle event logging.

What changed since the 2.2 beta:

Multiple important security patches were added. Upgrade immediately!
Full support for MySQL strict mode.
Add configurable Activity page length.
Revert .htaccess ditching the p URL parameter (will return in 2.3 after more testing).
Add version check requiring PHP 5.3 before the bootstrap (provides nice error message).
Fix some PHP 5.3 compatibility issues.
Fix for plugins controllers on Windows.

Fixes, minor additions, and tweaks in 2.2:

Security improvements.
Verify current permission before notifying OP.
Implement MaxRecipients in Conversations.
Allow Messages on registration page.
Check UserID posting to the conversation is actually a member of the conversation.
Add ForeignID to Conversations database table.
Fix pager inconsistencies between discussions and categories.
Update & fix Twitter and Vimeo embeds.
Allow a user to disable the spam model.
Embed blog comments: fix height calculation bug.
Fix category URLs starting with a number.
Refactor the "definitions list" into Javascript.
Add SkipPermissions option to NewDiscussionModule.
Add http_build_url().
Throw a Gdn_Session_End event.
Use redirectUrl() instead of redirect() for SSO redirects.
Allow the controller method to be overridden by a controller’s initialize method.
Fire an installed event for plugins to hook into.
Add SpamModel::disabled().
Remove apostrophes in Gdn_Format::url().
Strip tags with no attributes from user content.
Set additional default permissions for moderators and administrators.
Add Comments.View permission for selective permissions via addon.
Fix bug where the user counts of the wrong user a re-calculated when a different user approves their post via moderation.
Use the X-UA-Device-Force cookie to force a device override.
Only use Garden.HomepageTitle in DefaultController.
Make the mentions URL format overridable.
Allow https serving of jquery.js from Google CDN.
Add the current locale to the smarty variables so that themes can take advantage of it.
Fix performance error in OAuth class check.
Fix home link displaying twice in breadcrumbs.
Add event to registration page.
Add the CategoryModel::filterCategoryPermissions() method.
Allow redirect() to be called before database has been initialized.
Prevent the autoloader from looking into some common non-PHP directories.
Fix up PluralTranslate calls.
Add translatable category names.
Add support for file upload schemes.
Default the character set to UTF-8.
Increase the default conversation recipient display limit to 20.
Update for vBulletin 5.1 & MyBB password hashing.
BanModel: Add AfterSave event for plugins.
Add hasEditProfile() to determine whether or not a user has edit profile options.
Add event to banning.
OpenID Plugin: Make signing in with OpenID optional.
Add support for file upload schemes.
Make YouTube embed work for playlists.
Move site-wide message editing from the Garden.Messages.Manage to community managers.
Move category management from administrators to community managers.
Add emoji rendering.
Use asset() instead of url() for embed script.
Relax the permission requirements for viewing the dashboard.
Updated class.request.php to support non-standard ports.
Refactor PromotedContent module.
Insta-clear notifications when they are clicked.
Add 400 code to MySQL range exceptions.
Add /dba/counts handler.
Fix bug where too many stub discussions are created.
Refactor Gdn_Format::Html() parsing to use new Gdn_Format::htmlFilter() and isHtml() to allow non-magic HTML parsing.
Fix rotation of mobile image uploads.
Fix the redefining of the schema in PermissionModel::define().
Moderation log: Check if user has personal info viewing permissions before displaying ip address.
Refactor the validation object & permission model.
Add CategoryModel::rebuildCategoryTree().
Harmonize charset in htmlspecialchars.
Allow users with the user add/edit permissions to assign certain roles.
Add a hidden Garden.Roles.Manage permission that can be opened up through plugins to manage roles.
Make wall comments bump wall posts and status updates, and fix notifications.
Don’t format wall notifications like wall posts.
YouTube embed fixes: start, hyphens, ids.
Add Gdn_Locale::canonicalize().
Change the default locale from “en-CA” to “en”.
Add support for mentions in brackets: '(@someone)'.
Turn the comment page cache off by default.
Set empty DateOfBirth (0-00-00) to null when saving user.
Don’t convert new tags to lowercase.
Reduce some column lengths.
Differentiate the ways users can be banned so that banning/unbanning a user won’t trample over previous bans.
Reorder the arguments in AssetModel::cssPath().
Improve the Importer with reporting, optimizations, & data fixers.
Update Dashboard news feed, add releases feed.
Replace consolidateArrayValuesByKey() with array_column().
Fix spelling mistake in the Garden.SSO.SyncRoles config setting.
Fix comments not updating the latest post on categories in some cases.
Fix discussion moving not updating category counters & latest post.
Update the Facebook SSO addon.
Add the ValidateUrl() function.
Add nofollow to social logins.
Format Inform Messages excerpt as PlainText.
Remove register link on sign-in form when invitation-only.
Whitelist CSS classes in user content.
Add PermissionModel::resetAllRoles() to end of import.
Add the RoleModel::getDefaultRoles(), getAllDefaultRoles() & getByType() methods.
Localize & encode reCAPTCHA options as JSON.
Remove the /role/defaultroles endpoint.
Add PermissionModel::getRowDefaults().
Add dba/resetpermissions.
Add a date to deprecated().
Improve exception handling to use 401 & 404 views & add traces to them.
formatMeAction() now obeys config.
Add dynamic "lang" attribute to RSS feeds.
Use the correct headline string for private messages.
Fix UserModel::syncUser() so embedded SSO can pass roles.

Coding standards changes made as we adopt (most of) PSR-2:

Change to 4-space indents.
Change to camelCase functions and methods.
Improve inline documentation & copyright notices.
Change to lower case true/false/bool.
Add braces to all if/else statements.

hgtonight · November 2015

Yay!

I'm so excited.

Can't wait to break it.

SimonDEV · November 2015

Just Thanks for That Nice 2.2 Version I'm Just Happy!!

chanh · November 2015

Sound great! Thanks for the effort to get this out.

Clément · November 2015

Thank you for this great work !!

fscn · November 2015

Great stuff guys, thanks!

JoZ3_69 · November 2015

Thanks so much!!!!

ceeray · November 2015

brilliant, thank you!

unixhero · November 2015

"Upgrade was a success"

yeSSSSSSS.

Thank you so much for your work!

phreak · November 2015

Amazing work! Thank you all DEVs and BugSquashers

JasonBarnabe · November 2015

Is the password hashing the only thing that prevents downgrading? I use jsConnect only, so I assume that's not an issue for me.

Linc · November 2015

@JasonBarnabe said:
Is the password hashing the only thing that prevents downgrading? I use jsConnect only, so I assume that's not an issue for me.

Should be. And yes, using jsConnect would circumvent that issue.

But you should also know that downgrading makes the Vanilla gnomes cry.

Dr_Sommer · November 2015

A great ThX to the Devs and the Community...

FerrariSteve · November 2015

Many thanks! Had a bit of trouble on the upgrade, but the issue was two pesky plugins (CloudFlare Support and Logger) and now seems to be up and running smoothly.

gratiafide · November 2015

Upgraded without any obvious hitches, and all plugins seem to be operational. Great work - I love the sleek button bar.

Lopar · November 2015

Wow, thank you! It's tiime to plan some updates…

defilor · November 2015

What do I do when I get the "Something has gone wrong"-screen and there is no debug info despite the plugin being enabled? Upgraded to php 5.5, fresh install to avoid plugin issues, I can get to the dashboard no problem, but not the forum, no matter what I do. Suggestions?

Linc · November 2015

@defilor said:
What do I do when I get the "Something has gone wrong"-screen and there is no debug info despite the plugin being enabled? Upgraded to php 5.5, fresh install to avoid plugin issues, I can get to the dashboard no problem, but not the forum, no matter what I do. Suggestions?

Start a new discussion after following this guide: http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/

CrazyLemon · November 2015

Any link to read on locales standard change? Can i suggest a template en_US locale file in locales folder so we can have a base to work on?

CrazyLemon · November 2015

I'll answer myself about locale. My locale (Slovenian) works as it did on 2.1 so no change there.

And maybe my experience about going from 2.1.13p1 to 2.2 on test env (Ubuntu 14.04 with php 5.5.9) - all went well. I did follow peregrines fool proof tutorial.

Only issues for me are Resized Image Lightbox does not work for some reason, Quotes work but they are in Reactions area and i prefer them in the commentinfo area. Other working plugins are: Add Registration Question, All Viewed, CommentsRSS, Jump to Top, Role Titles, Split/Merge.

P.s. Did anyone upgrade on PHP 5.3? Is there a checkbox in the dashboard do disable file uploads? Or is that only possible by editing config.php?