Community Builder 2.6.1 can be freely downloaded by all registered members
We just released Community Builder 2.6.1 with 11 new features and 20 bug fixes!
The main new features (full CB 2.6.1 changelog) include:
- Modernized rating fields
- Massively improved speed in front-end and mainly in administration back-end thanks to rewritten Javascript
- Improved integrated private messaging with message read date indication
- better MySQL 8.0 and PHP 8.0 support
- Client-side image resizing for PNG, WEBP and AVIF images
- Improved Joomla 4.0 RC6 support
- Updated advanced warning for obsolete (and soon incompatible) PHP, MySQL and Joomla versions
Community Builder 2.6.1 is a recommended upgrade for all CB sites.
Our demo website has already been updated to Community Builder 2.6.1, so you can see it in action along will all our Joomlapolis add-ons.
As always, you should first test on a cloned environment before upgrading your production site.
Looking ahead to Community Builder 2.7 and 3.0!
Our next release, Community Builder 2.7, will be released shortly after Joomla 3.10 and 4.0 Stable releases, due August 17th. We have already started modernizing our code-base for CB 3.0 as you will see in next CB 2.7 release. This modernization effort will use new features that PHP 7.4 supports. This means that the obsolete PHP 5.6 to 7.3 versions will no longer be supported starting with the next CB 2.7 stable release. The CB 2.7 upgrade/install process will be checking the PHP version as a prerequisite for completion. Similar checking will apply to over 10 years old MySQL versions prior to MySQL 5.6 (revised down from 5 years old expected 5.7.8 version) and to Joomla versions prior to Joomla 3.9.0, released 3 years ago. To avoid any surprises, we have added PHP, MySQL and Joomla obsolete version warnings since CB 2.6.0.
