Released on June 3rd, 2017.

Although, this is a beta version of b2evolution 6.9.x, it is pretty safe to run on production (we do it on several sites).

Some features may not be final.

Also available on GitHub.

Changes

In addition to features of 6.9.1-beta:

• New evobar structure;
• Added sorting/display options for search results -- see Search Results Panel;
• Allow to auto-subscribe members to notifications on a collection -- see Subscriptions Panel;
• Widgets:
  • New Free Text Widget;
  • New Item Link Widget to display the "Link to url:" of a post in any desired position (and with any desired CSS class applied);
  • New Spacer Widget;
  • Better support for Menu Link or Button Widget in various containers;
  • The Simple Page List Widget now allows to display only featured (or only non-featured) pages, for more effective menu creation;
• Plugins:
  • The Short Links Plugin now allows to specify optional CSS classes;
  • The Short Links Plugin now allows to specify an optional target;
  • More defaults in the Custom Tags Plugin;
  • Deprecated plugin event CacheObjects;
• Post Editing:
  • Support for new short tags: [coll:name], [coll:shortname];
  • Support for link tags refering to a custom field: [link:url_field], [link:url_field]title[/link], [link:url_field:.class1.class2]title[/link], [link:url_field:.btn.btn-info]Click me![/link], [parent:link:url_field:.btn.btn-info]Click me![/link]
  • Allow direct access to fields in other posts: [parent:field:field_name] (already existed) extended with: [item:123:field:field_name] and [item:item-slug:field:field_name]
  • Support for Content Block with short tags like: [include:123] or [include:slug].
  • Better error validation on custom fields in post edit form;
• Back-Office:
  • Tool to resize images that are already uploaded in the media server;
  • Enhanced IP Range management tool allows to delete conflicting ranges when adding larger ranges that superseed smaller ones;
  • Enhanced country list management;
  • Enhanced setting of Font face + Size + Weight in skins;
  • Require user to make an explicit choice as whether to create demo contents or not when he creates a new collection;
  • Enhanced wordpress importer;
  • Attaching non image/video/audio files will automatically position them as "attachment"
• No more comment form by default on Standalone Pages
• API
  • Cleanup of the REST API or RESTful API;
  • Ajax/API calls from front office (such a loading the comment form) will now be retried 2 times in case of timeout.
• System level changes:
  • More https support in various places;
  • Security fixes;
  • Translation updates;
  • I18n optimization by de-duplicating near duplicates in translatable strings;
  • Enhanced mysqli usage;
  • Code refactoring;
• UI fixes;
• Bug fixes, including:
  • Fixed numbering of meta-comments in case of nested comments;
  • Fixed Register Form when Page Cache is active;
• HTML validation fixes;