Release on September 10th, 2014.

This is a stable release and is recommended for all users.

You will find the major changes listed below.

• Performance:
  • Build process using Grunt
  • Many JS and CSS files are now bundled together and minified in order to reduce the number and the size of HTTP requests
  • Non essential JS files are now loaded asynchronously
  • All bundled plugins no longer try to load their CSS if they are set to "never" render on a specific blog.
  • Dropped IE7 support + IE8 (or less) users get a warning message in the back office
  • the scroll_wide functionality has been externalized to a plugin so the extra javascript (and CSS) doesn't need to be loaded on site stat don't need it
• Skins:
  • Added support for icon fonts like Font Awesome. See _icons.php.
  • Enhanced PureForums skin.
  • Skins API: the default display_init() features have been changed (and optimized).
  • Enhanced Username Display Settings.
  • Enhanced container discovery. b2evolution will now also find containers placed in generic templates from the /skins directory.
• Widgets:
  • Search widget allows to target a specific collection (not necessarily to current one).
• Plugins:
  • Added Escape Code Plugin
• Back-office
  • Refactored username display settings. Added setting to decide if usernames link to user profiles or to custom URLs.
  • Responsive layout on Dashboard.
• Other
  • Many small bug fixes...