Additionally, this release adds support for PHP 8.2 and fixes issues with using Stripe in the AdminCP.

Invision Community 4 will be discontinued on 31st December 2026, with security updates provided until then.

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

Key changes include:

• Added Cloudflare Turnstile CAPTCHA.

Key changes include:

• This release includes an important security update - This issue was reported to us by Egidio Romano from Karma(In)Security. We thank Egidio for reporting this issue to us.

• Added Bluesky embedding and share links.

• Added Postmark integration.

• Downloads: Added permissions to custom fields.

• Backblaze B2 support.

Key changes include:

• Report Center updates.

• Email notification when dormant accounts sign in.

• SEO Improvements.

• Hot Topic updates for Cloud customers.

• Updated share link functionality (click to copy).

• Prepare for v5 - A new AdminCP page to ensure you will be able to use v5.

• Content Spam analysis enabled for all Cloud customers.

This release also improves bruteforce detection for logins and updates to local Stripe payment methods (such as iDEAL, Sofort, Giropay, Bancontact).

New features:

• Pages Databases in Clubs

Key changes include the removal of the AdminCP Marketplace. Please see our announcement here.

Key changes include:

• New Spam Prevention Features
• Introducing Community Hive

We recommend not using the visual language editor until you upgrade.

Key changes include:

• Strengthening Community Trust with Privacy and PII Data Features
• Explore Our New Reporting and Statistical Capabilities

Key changes include:

• Introducing Courses
• Giving you control with Email Bounce Management

Key changes include:

• Gallery, Events & Clubs: Improvements From Your Feedback
• Live Topics
• iPhone notifications, web app and more
• PayPal & Maxmind API updates in Commerce

Key changes include:

• UI Polish
• Downloads updates, GraphQL enhancements and more

Key changes include:

• New Feature: Gallery refresh
• GraphQL support has been expanded. Blog and Documentation are now available.

During the holiday period, our focus is on providing bug fixes and improving stability. Feature updates will resume in February.

During the holiday period, our focus is on providing bug fixes and improving stability.

Key changes include:

• New Feature: Moderating with Personal Alerts
• New Feature: Moderator approval queue now includes a reason why
• Updated: Events update includes additional streaming platforms
• Invision Community now requires a minimum of PHP 8.0

Key changes include:

Updates to the Calendar App (now Events app) to showcase online and offline events

Key changes include:

PHP 8 Marketplace app/plugin Compatibility Scanner (please read before upgrading)
Improvements to marking posts as solutions

Key Changes include:

• Improved search bar UI.
• New ability for topics to be published on a future date.
• Added Rank Progression Chart to AdminCP Statistics

• New Alerts feature
   
• Improvements to the fluid mode per forum view
   
• hCaptcha added as a new CAPTCHA option for use on the Contact Us form and when accepting guest posts
   
• Ability to only log searches from specific member groups
  • Based on client feedback, we implemented the ability to log searches for specific member groups. This is especially useful if your search results stats are skewed by pesky spammers. Now, you can filter that data out. 
  • Three Improvements to Spam Management 
  • Improved spam defense in 4.7 with hCaptcha
     
• New solved/unsolved filter for activity streams
  You can now sort through and stay up-to-date on any solved/unsolved content items by setting up a custom activity stream. This is particularly useful for community support forums where clients and members are searching for solutions to questions that have already been answered. Or, perhaps a developer is in search of questions or problems that are unsolved. You can create a more granular search by inputting more information, like ownership, time period and more.  
  
  
   
• Speed improvements when rebuilding Elastic Search indexes
  • Fixed an issue where the ‘hidden’ content item filter would be ignored for any content type except topics. (In notes below)
  • Fixed an issue where the date parameter for the ‘Edit a topic’ endpoint was not updating topic/post post date. (In notes below) More flexibility when creating webhooks and triggers (continual improvement upon every release).
• Fixes and improvements to our Zapier integration
  • No-code automation with Zapier

Self-hosting platform key changes:

• PHP minimum version increased to 7.4
• Support for PHP 8.1

Cloud platform key changes:

• New product architecture to consolidate existing cloud functionality and to provide forthcoming features
   
• [BETA] "Real time" notices when others are reading and replying to the same topics as you
  • Who’s Typing: We just implemented a live Who’s Typing feature into our own community. If you're quick, you’ll see a member typing a reply in real time when going to submit your own reply at the form located near the bottom of the topic.
    
    
    
    
    Who's Viewing: We implemented a live Who's Viewing feature into topics on our community as well. This may sound familiar to you - we already created a "Recently Browsing" block that shows what members are viewing a topic, however that block was a snapshot over a small chunk of time. The new Who's Viewing feature shows what members are viewing a topic (and when they leave) in the present moment. 
    
    
     
• [BETA] Image processing and moderation
  • We've improved our native search by automatically informing the platform to look for items featured in photos.
    In this example, a member posted a photo of an apple in a topic. Another member searched for the word "apple.” The platform found his image of an apple. The new smart learning technology will identify as many keywords as possible in an image to make searching faster, more efficient and accurate.
    
    
    
     
• [BETA] Sentiment analysis data collection
  •  AI that scores a topic based on how positive, neutral, negative or mixed the replies are from members. For example:
    
    Sentiment: [99.5000] Positive | [0.0000] Negative | [0.5000] Neutral
     
• [BETA] Trending content

Key Changes include: 

• Added a per-forum option to show the forum and any sub-forums as one unified "fluid mode" view.

Key Changes include:

• New 'block submission' feature to blocked words when posting. It will prompt the author to revise their content to remove the offending word.

• Support for IndexNow, a new way to inform search engines of new content.
• New Webhook trigger points.

• SEO improvements with improved crawl efficiency
• New achievement actions for Commerce and Downloads
• Achievement ranks and points added to the member CSV export
• Achievement filters added for bulk mail and group promotion
• New REST API endpoints for reporting and reacting to content
• Audio files now play in-browser
• New emails for when a new rank or badge is earned
• JSON-LD improvement for Pages and Gallery
• New statistic graphs for many areas including: moderator activity, deleted content, reports, warnings, follows, member preferences, spam defense, QA topics, solved topics by forum and achievement badges by member or member group.

Major New Features / Enhancements

- New Front-End Design
- AdminCP Dark Mode
- Site Statistics, Search Insights, and Club Statistics
- Marketplace now built into the AdminCP
- Mobile App for iOS and Android (Beta)
- Zapier Integration for Invision Cloud Communities

In addition to these new enhancements, there are countless other additions and improvements. Check out our product blog to see what we have been up to.

Before Upgrading
Before proceeding with your upgrade, please note that all third party resources are disabled during the upgrade process. We strongly recommend ensuring that all of your installed applications, plugins and themes have Invision Community 4.5 compatible updates available to allow continued use. 

Please see the full release notes for other important changes, feature removals and deprecations.

Major New Features / Enhancements

- New Front-End Design
- AdminCP Dark Mode
- Site Statistics, Search Insights, and Club Statistics
- Marketplace now built into the AdminCP
- Mobile App for iOS and Android (Beta)
- Zapier Integration for Invision Cloud Communities

In addition to these new enhancements, there are countless other additions and improvements. Check out our product blog to see what we have been up to.

Before Upgrading
Before proceeding with your upgrade, please note that all third party resources are disabled during the upgrade process. We strongly recommend ensuring that all of your installed applications, plugins and themes have Invision Community 4.5 compatible updates available to allow continued use. 

Please see the full release notes for other important changes, feature removals and deprecations.