First released on March 19th, 2016 and then re-released on March 20th, 2016 with a couple additional bug-fixes.
This is a stable release and is recommended for all users.
This release includes fixes for bugs that have been reported on version 6.6.7 as well as a few small improvements.
Also available on GitHub.
Installation
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Our easy Installation Guide will provide step by step instructions to get you started with b2evolution.
Upgrade
If you're running version 5.1.0 or later, feel free to use the Auto-Upgrade Procedure for a quick and automated upgrade.
In any case, all the upgrade options are outlined here: Upgrading an existing installation.
IMPORTANT:
- If you have been using previous v6 beta versions, you should delete the
boostrap_*skin folders before installing this version. Otherwise you will have old files interfering with the new ones. - Many root files are no longer needed in this version and should ideally be deleted from your web server.
- You should use the provided tool to convert your database to UTF-8. Please check Upgrade to b2evolution version 6.x for instructions.
Changes
In addition to features of version 6.6.7-stable:
- Front-office:
- Better cropping tool.
- Enhanced Organization Members widget (better layout, more display and ordering options, don't display non-accepted members...)
- Performance optimizations, including cases where many collections are aggregated.
- Added bozo-validator to some front office forms.
- Back-office:
- Fix quick upload when no attachments on a post yet.
- New collection setting to control locale of new posts
- Removed unused "Large site logo (URL)" in Site settings
- Enhanced existing test-content creation tools
- Added new tool to create sample collections.
- Fixes to sending email though SMTP.
- Small visual cleanups.
- Small visual cleanups.
- Plugins:
- Extended Youtube plugin to recognize more URLs
- Better compatibility for twitter plugin
- Technical:
- Enhanced Automated Install
- A few more skin params for skin developers to control skin displays
- Partial PHP 7 support
- Allow to load Font Awesome without a CDN
- Better detection of APC (Cache).
- Default install now uses better defaultsso as not to fail where
.htaccessis not properly supported
- Many Small Bug fixes.
- Updated code comments in quite a few places.
- Updated language packs