At long last! We are proud to announce the release of Flarum v0.1.0-beta.6 today. This is another release on the road to stability, containing a healthy batch of improvements and bug fixes.

New Admin Conveniences

Finally, you can now easily upload a logo to be displayed in your forum's header, straight from your administration panel. You can also upload a favicon for your site, and set custom HTML to be displayed above the header for better integration with your main site's layout. No custom extensions required!

Admin appearance screenshot

You can also thank @datitisev for the ability to configure SMTP settings in the admin panel, without having to install a custom extension or enter them manually into the database.

And @Davis implemented the ability for moderators to view the IP address each post was made by, visible in the post's meta information box:

Post IP address screenshot

Contextual Quote Button

When you highlight text in a post, Flarum will show a convenient Quote button next to the mouse. Click it to pop up the reply box with the text you've selected already pasted in as a quote. Thanks to @sijad for the slick work on this one.

Contextual quote button screenshot

And Much More

  • New "Start discussions without approval" permission to supplement the existing "Reply to discussions without approval" permission
  • New php flarum cache:clear command for easy cache clearing
  • Add an API endpoint for listing tags (GET /api/tags)
  • Many other minor tweaks and fixes

See the full release notes for all of the details.

Updating from Beta 5

  1. Disable 3rd party extensions prior to upgrading.
  2. Run the following command at the root of your Flarum installation: 
    composer update
  3. Navigate to yourforum.com/admin, enter your database password, and sit tight!
  4. Run the command php flarum cache:clear (or manually delete .js and .css files in the assets directory).

If you run into trouble, please start a new discussion in the Support tag and we'll do our best to help you!

What's Next?

We're currently pushing towards a stable version as the highest priority. This will involve some further updates to the extension API, but after that things will finally settle down so devs can write their extensions with confidence. A web installer is also planned for the stable release.

Please understand that we don’t provide release dates for Flarum. We’re still an open source project and are relying on the time of our developers and your contributions to define the development pace. That said, we are expecting the pace to pick up a bit in the coming months as I finish my end-of-year examinations. Stay tuned!

Thank You

Thanks to all of the contributors for this release: Davis, datitisev, JoshyPHP, augiwan, bmalex88, poush, KazeFlame, nielstholenaar, sijad, and anyone else who I've missed!

Thank you to the Flarum staff (@jordanjay29, @luceos, @Dominion, @Kulga, @Digital) who have been moderating and managing the community, despite the lapse in development activity. You guys rock!

Finally, thank you for your ongoing support, donations, and enthusiasm that keeps us going.

    Toby stickied the discussion .

    I'm glad beta6 was born, but I found that description didn't show it.

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      deseven Should do – as far as I can remember, there haven't been any breaking API changes in this release (only deprecations).

      Oops, there are indeed a few breaking changes so third-party extensions are unlikely to work. Sorry I didn't document this.

          Fantastic news! ?

          This should definitely silence a few of the most recent topics being posted about delays in beta.6 and what not. Congratulations @Toby and the rest of the team for your amazing efforts, time and dedication you've all put into Flarum. It isn't going unnoticed of course. I'll update my installation tomorrow after work.

          Onto stable?!

          Toby Disable 3rd party extensions prior to upgrading.

          You mean community extensions that are not a part of the core install?

          I'm not sure what I'm supposed to disable. Pages? Links? MediaEmbed? All that stuff?