Have you seen...?

Welcome back to our Have you seen...? series for XenForo 2.4! The code reviews are coming in thick and fast as we complete our planned features so there should be plenty to show you over the coming weeks. Part of our process for this and previous releases has involved looking at the amazing pool of developer talent that we have in this community and considering how we can work with those developers to bring those features to the core. And that's the focus of this time where we'll be taking a look at the Chunked Uploads add-on by @JulianD which, starting with XenForo 2.4, will become a core feature. But first... We have decided to accelerate our plans to modernise the minimum version of PHP that is supported by XenForo. While we had...

PWA Improvements Hot on the heels of the improvements announced earlier this week, we have another set of improvements to show you today, again, courtesy of @digitalpoint! This time we'll be focusing on some improvements to Progressive Web Apps which some of you will be familiar with if you're already using the [DigitalPoint] PWA add-on. Web app manifest editing We've been rocking a web app manifest for a while now but starting with XenForo 2.4 you will be able to modify the web app manifest using the new additionalWebAppManifest option: In addition to adding additional properties, you can also override existing ones. There are various resources which document compatible (and experimental!) options. { "name": "XF 2.4"...

Automatic feature expiry When curating content, sometimes it can take time to manage the list of featured content effectively to ensure it stays fresh for your visitors, and part of that is the inevitable time where perhaps content is no longer noteworthy and needs to be "unfeatured". You can, of course, do this manually but, now, you don't have to. For new and existing features in the "Customize" section you can now select "Unfeature after..." and specify the number of days the content should be featured for. Don't want to specify this manually? No problem. We now have a dedicated option group in the admin control panel: Within you will find, amongst other options, the default feature length, allowing you to set it once and all...