This is the first beta release of 5.1.0 and marks the start of our final testing phase. For now, we recommend using the beta on test communities and waiting until later in the beta process to update production communities.

Key changes include:

• Complete event management.

• Email Drip Campaigns (Professional, Business, Enterprise).

• UI Updates including accessibility and performance improvements.

• Limited Content Views.

• Courses improvements (Creator Plus, Professional, Business, Enterprise).

• Tag restrictions and suggestions.

• Staff Points boost and points per day limits in Achievements.

As well as the usual bug fixes, notable changes include:

• New workflow action to move a record to another category.

• Support BigMarker as a LiveTopic video provider.

• Added timed quest tasks that can only be completed in a specified time frame (Professional and above).

• Opensearch powered Title suggestions on create forms (Forums + Pages)

Key Changes include:

• Support for OpenSearch 2.x and 3.x.

• Refactored OpenSearch/ElasticSearch for improved performance and efficiency.

• OpenSearch/ElasticSearch now support fuzzy matching to return results when search terms may have a typo.

Cloud customers already have this update applied; you may need to run the upgrade process when you next visit your community.

Key changes include:

• New: Pages improvements:

  • Workflow Manager ( Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise )

  • Reusable Blocks

  • Field Templates

  • Status Field

• Updated: Ability to noindex archived topics.

Key changes include:

• New: Achievement action for Profile Completion.

• Updated: User interface accessibility for screen readers.

• Updated: Past events can now be removed from search results.

Key changes include:

• Statistics Improvements

  • Added 'User Visit Frequency' statistic.

  • Added 'User Achievement Points' statistics.

• Refined email layouts**, including dark mode support in supported email clients.

• User interface improvements to navigation dropdowns, mobile menus and tooltips.

** If your email templates or email wrapper template are customised, you will need to revert them to enable these changes.

Key changes include:

• New: Iframely.com Integration for embedding Facebook, Instagram and others.

• Updated: Assignments

  • Added auto-closing after X days.

  • Added daily reminder notifications of open assignments.

Cloud customers already have the security patch.

Key changes include:

• New: Automatically lock large topics and start a new one.

• New: Ability to customise or disable the "Welcome" email when a member registers.

• Updated: Editor QoL improvements.

Key changes include:

• Updated: Dropdown menu system.

• New: Profile Photo Gallery (Team, Business, Enterprise).

• New: Club members auto-follow content areas when they join a Club.

Key changes include:

• Various Editor improvements

  • LaTeX support (Creator, Creator Pro, Team, Business, Enterprise)

  • TipTap v3

  • Draggable quotes, code blocks and images

• New: Basic MailChimp integration.

• New: Auto-lock topics functionality.

• Pages: Ability to set default pages per member group.

Key changes include:

• New: Quests ( Team, Business & Enterprise plans )

• Advert management improvements

• PWA improvements

• Pages rollback feature

Key Changes include:

• Statistic Reporting Updates 

• Cloudflare Turnstile 

This release includes an important security update which resolves a vulnerability with the theme editor.

This issue was reported to us by Egidio Romano from Karma(In)Security. We thank Egidio for reporting this issue to us.