Major New Features / Enhancements

• Post Before Registering
• Animated GIFs
• AdminCP Notification Center
• New Email Features:
  • Email Statistics
  • Email Advertisements
  • Unfollow Without Logging In
• SEO Improvements:
  • Improved pagination with page number now in path (rather than query string) and unique page titles for paginated pages.
  • Improved use of canonical tags.
  • Improved handling of empty containers and profiles to reduce soft 404s.
  • Improved JSON-LD markup, adding @id tags and fixing URLs for comments.
  • Removed page output hidden by JavaScript.
• Performance Improvements:
  • Added Lazy Loading for images, which will speed up page rendering.
  • Added HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload.
  • Added support for Brotli compression.
  • Improved default profile photos to use inline SVGs rather than generated images, which will speed up page rendering.
  • Improved browser caching of pages served by the guest page cache, which will reduce the number of requests reaching the server.
  • Improved handing of session data for guests to reduce database reads for guests.
  • Optimized images to reduce file size for faster page rendering.
  • Other minor performance improvements to reduce database queries and fix unnecessary code execution.
• Commerce Store Filters allow customers to filter products by price, review, stock, or custom admin-defined filters.

Core

• Added setting to display user group formatting in more areas (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added less intrusive browser notification prompt in Notifications menu (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added ability to show sidebar blocks to only certain types of devices (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added ability for club owners to reorder the navigation tabs (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added ability for announcements to be linked to an URL or be a title only (see 6 New Micro Features), improved consistency in how announcements are shown in different areas.
• Improved UI for entering time intervals in AdminCP settings (see 6 New Micro Features).
• Added a new Icons & Logos section in the AdminCP which allows providing logos for use when sharing links from the community, adding the community as a home screen app on a mobile device (along with additional settings for a PWA manifest to control certain aspects the community’s behaviour when used in this way), and in Safari’s favourites menus and pinned tabs on macOS.
• Added a new UI for attachments, showing a box with some information about the file, rather than a plain line (see Turbo charging loading speeds).

Removed Features

• Removed EmojiOne-style emojis due to licensing issues.
• Removed Gravatar support due to privacy concerns and performance issues.
• Removed password hashes when downloading a member list from the AdminCP. This is for security, to reduce the ease of obtaining sensitive data if the AdminCP is ever compromised.
• Removed the name of the content (e.g. topic) from the “Next Unread” link which could consume significant server resources on large communities.