We are happy to announce the release of Flarum v0.1.0-beta.7! ?

What's new?

There's nothing too exciting to talk about here, but we hope you enjoy these changes nonetheless:

  • "Remember Me" is now shown as a checkbox on the login form. Previously it was done automatically and users didn't have a choice.

  • Admins can now manually activate users (Controls → Edit) in case something goes wrong with their activation email. Thanks @renyuneyun!

  • Flarum now requires PHP 5.6+ (as opposed to PHP 5.5.9+ in earlier versions). Please check your PHP version before upgrading.

  • Some little things:

    • Fixed Zend Stratigility 1.3 deprecation error
    • Upgrade to jQuery 3.0
    • Search API for users by group: /api/users?filter[q]=group:admin,mod (thanks to @liji)
    • Use a custom UI for renaming discussions rather than a native browser prompt (thanks to @datitisev)
    • Prevent the last enabled language from being disabled (thanks to @Davis)
    • Images and links are inserted with Markdown syntax when quoting a post (thanks to @clarkwinkelmann)

See the full release notes for more details.

Updating from Beta 6

  1. Check your PHP version with php -v - it must be 5.6.0 or higher to upgrade to Beta 7!
  2. Disable 3rd party extensions prior to upgrading.
  3. Run the following command at the root of your Flarum installation: 
    composer update
  4. Navigate to yourforum.com/admin, enter your database password, and sit tight!
  5. 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 took so long?

Things have admittedly been a little slow since the release of Beta 6 in October last year. Flarum is an open-source project, and at this stage meaningful progress is mostly reliant on the time that @Toby, @Franz and @sijad can put in — which has been limited given their full-time commitments to work and school. We're really thankful for those of you who have contributed in the meantime, and for everyone's patience.

We're working hard on a revised roadmap to get things moving along at a faster pace. Stay tuned for more details about this soon!

Thank you!

Thanks to all of the contributors for this release:
dav-is, datitisev, Luceos, dcsjapan, kirkbushell, Albert221, JoshyPHP, petermein, nielstholenaar, milescellar, zcodes, bogdanteodoru, ahsanity, Zeokat, CDK2020, tpokorra, ssfinney, clarkwinkelmann, janga1997, renyuneyun, oanhnn, liji, krnch, fernsheldon, Ximich, augiwan, poush, bmalex88, opi, binaryoung, wiwatsrt, StoneSoldier, dshoreman, thomaskuntzz, Strobotti, J2TeaM
and anyone else who we've missed!

Thank you to the Flarum staff (@Franz, @jordanjay29, @luceos, @Kulga, @Digital, @Arkinn) who have been managing and supporting the community as development continues.

Finally, thank you for your ongoing support, donations, patience, and enthusiasm ?

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    Good job!

    It's a great great great version but I still want to install without commands. ?

      I'm new to learn flarum. Just update to beta7, and i can't find user list . Can you tell me where is it Toby

          For those using flagrow byobu please await our update, do not disable or uninstall byobu as that will open up private discussions to everyone.

          Our update needs some testing after which we will most likely tag stable for byobu. Follow the extension thread for updates.

            Congrats on the beta 7 update, we couldn't have done it without you guys or any of the many contributors! ?

            Thank you all for this update, I dev some extensions but do not have good php skill to contribute to this development :thumbup:

            Finaly we have the new beta ?

            This is a very neat discussion board and it looks very promising. I've just installed it... will play around and share ideas as I go ?

            Note to everyone. If you have an issue with beta 7, or upgrading it or any other issue ? please search the support tag for related issues or create a new discussion carefully describing the problem.

            Thanks for your patience!

            Can we install it in shared hosting? I read in documentation that it cannot be installed in shared hosting environment because it require SSH access.

            But I read some posts where users were discussing that it can be installed in shared hosting environment.

            Nice work everyone. Welcome to beta.7! ?

            Any progress is good progress.