We are pleased to announce the release of SocialEngine PHP 5.7.0! This release adds improvements and addresses bugs posted by members of our community and staff.
The following is a list of fixes and improvements in this release:
Improvements:
Link sharing via iframely has changed. Previously, the default setting was a hosted version of iframely that was hosted by SocialEngine. This option has been removed. The two options still available are iframely API or self host. The settings can be set following this tutorial.
We know that this can be an issue for clients trying to set up self hosting. As such, we reached out to our recommended hosting provider BryZar and they have agreed to provide the iframely hosting for free (shared) or for $2 per month (dedicated). More details on the BryZar iframely hosting can be found in their post at the community. You can also contact BryZar directly to ask questions about this service. You do not need to host your site with BryZar to get the shared or dedicated iframely hosting.
A complete changelog is available for more details about the changes and fixes implemented in this 5.7.0 release. Please view our demo of v5 and explore the new features!
As always we highly encourage all users to do a complete backup of both files and database before performing this upgrade. Please have the backup performed by your host or a developer if you’re not comfortable with performing it yourself. Always check with third party experts for compatibility with any products you use before upgrading.
Important: If you are on version 4.9.4p1 or below, you will need to follow the special steps in the upgrading documents linked below before upgrading and applying the patch mentioned.
You can download your copy of version 5.7.0 from our new client dashboard. For clients still using v4 of the SocialEngine PHP platform, you would need to first purchase the v5 upgrade in order to access the latest version. If you hadn’t requested to be moved to our new dashboard, please contact us.
Fresh installs should follow our installation tutorial or you can order an installation ticket and our team will get it installed in no time! To upgrade from a previous version to 5.7.0, please view our upgrade documentation.
If you find any issues with this release, please let us know by filing a bug report in our Bug Tracker. We’d also like to encourage you to stay connected with the community.
With Great Appreciation,
The SocialEngine Team
New tutorial for how to manage invites, https://socialengine.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SU/pages/1622933505/SE+PHP+-+Manage+Invites
We were informed that some people were not seeing the 5.7 download though they have 5.6.1 in their accounts. We fixed that issue. Please download the 5.7 files if you have them, as well as the plugin files that had updates. Sorry for the inconvenience.
We released a very small patch today just for the core. It is just to add a tutorial for the new "Manage Invites" setting and to remove the SE Hosted option for iframely which was confusing clients. If you don't need the tutorial link in admin and have no issue seeing the SE Hosted setting then there's no need to upgrade as that's all that was fixed. Version 5.7.1. Again, it's just the core and only for those two fixes.
We have also released 5.7.1 of the mobile app plugin. The change log for the above release and this plugin release is found in the same 5.7.0 change log listed in the initial release post of 5.7.0.