BuddyPress

It's a good example of what a well-used contribution day can deliver.

The BuddyPress team has published the security releases 14.5.3, 12.7.3, and 11.6.3, with patches for the three branches still receiving support.

The following day, a 14.5.4 also arrived, but don't be confused.

According to the notes for that version, it doesn't bring new fixes.

Existing sites stay open unless changed.

The rest is maintenance, mostly in the BuddyPress integration.

Profile actions, group topic routes, activity visibility, and group forum access.

Compatibility with third-party theme package subscription links is also restored.

Yeah.

Unfortunately, they do claim that they integrate with all of the, um, all of the plugins from BuddyPress because they're kind of built on that architecture.

Unfortunately, that's, that may be true.

However, most of those, and I did the research, most of those, uh, plugins are either abandoned or not updated for years or not supported or they're clashing.

We have our own community.

Which, by the way, reminds me, not many, um, community/social networking plugins actually use their own software on their own websites.

BuddyPress doesn't have a community.

They have a forum.

The proposal also asks local WordCamps to adopt it, since they're usually the first point of entry.

BuddyPress 15.0 is delayed until January 19, 2027.

The release has taken longer than expected, and dates had already been moved before.

WordPress 7.2 is scheduled for December 8-10, so this leaves room to test BuddyPress against its stable version without the final release falling in the middle of the holidays.

The plan is a beta on December 15th with feature freeze and a release candidate on January 5th with string freeze, leaving three weeks between the two because of the holidays.

It's the starting point, not a limit.

It is limited to fully generated images and leaves AI editing, such as upscaling or generative fill, for another discussion.

BBPress 2.6.19 is a new security release that applies legacy form passwords to REST API responses and BuddyPress activity, and reinforces access checks for restricted content in feeds, group forms, and other indirect views.

It also hardens moderation and form role permissions, protects the importer's credentials and account management, and improves escaping in profiles and administration.

Among the maintenance fixes are corrections in BuddyPress group forum associations and notifications, in converter cleanup, in imported database passwords, in subscription emails, and in reply position.

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