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...

Today, we are releasing XenForo 2.2.17 to address a potential security vulnerability. We recommend that all customers running XenForo 2.2 upgrade to 2.2.17 or use the patch instructions below as soon as possible. Notes: a. XenForo 2.3.1 and above is not affected by this issue. If you are still running XenForo 2.3.0 you should upgrade to the latest release or apply the patch below. b. The few XenForo Cloud customers still running XenForo 2.2 have been patched automatically. The issue relates to a potential redirection exploit using a specially crafted URL. We recommend doing a full upgrade to resolve the issues, but a patch can be applied manually. See below for further details. Applying a patch manually Method 1: manually editing...

Rich text editors are hard. When you drill down into how they actually work, it's a wonder why there are so many of them, and why developers would willingly spend a significant part of their life working on one. At XenForo we have been through ... counts on fingers ... three different rich text editors in our history, so if we're being generous we can at least attest to what a feat of engineering they are and how difficult they can be to get right -- and all we have to do is implement them. That's no easy feat either, though. We have an increasing number of features that we need from an editor, we have a layer of conversion from HTML to BB code (and back again), and we have an overall user base of millions of members across all of our...