XenForo 2.2.9 Released​

One-click upgrade to XenForo 2.2.9​

• Fix fatal error when viewing debug page on PHP 8.1
• Revert previous change so that actioning conversation message report still relies on the 'warn' permission.
• Reset file hash when pruning proxied images
• Correctly remove duplicated relations when fetching the user entity within the Member controller
• Ensure there's a breadcrumb to return to the help pages list when modifying a help page
• When a suggested answer only contains an attachment, make sure the suggested schema text isn't blank
• Update various phrases to point to the new location of Google's Developer Console
• Fix an error that could occur when navigating search results after performing an exact match search for users but not providing a value for the username or email
• When registering with a connected provider, correctly redirect to the specified return URL
• When writing before registering but then logging in with an existing account, redirect to the newly created content
• When sending a push notification about a post being merged, avoid rendering the prefix as HTML
• Correctly mark the use_tfa field as a boolean value in the API documentation
• Patch Froala to workaround an issue which prevents "recently used" smilies from being stored as expected.
• Include $template in $params sent to email container templates
• Workaround a potential issue when upgrading from older versions due to new code in newer versions.
• Improve accessibility of inline spoilers.
• Fix Vimeo time-based links and support unlisted videos via the key portion of the URL.
• Append content link and title to report closure alerts.
• Workaround an undefined array key error that may happen during upgrade
• Do not display view count for directly viewed attachments (video and audio).
• When opening a page in an overlay that contains share buttons, override the page URL to the URL of the overlay loaded.
• Update Asia/Novosibirsk timezone to UTC+7
• Adjust job-related type hints to int|float.
• Log payment callbacks that come from an unknown source
• Document where scrolling notices are located
• Implement __isset() in the Finder class
• Make it easier to load additional relations with the search forum user cache
• Improve cross-table data consistency when threads are created
• Allow feed reader entries without a title to fallback to the description, and vice-versa
• Pass referrer through poll creation form
• Default to the first option value for read-only select inputs
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility when logging payment callbacks
• Fix null query parameter handling on the debug page
• Correct the IRR currency precision
• Include a content setter for report entities
• Fix attributes on the registration defaults option not referring to unique inputs
• Don't re-save avatars if the crop positioning hasn't changed
• Redirect to page 1 if a non-number value is passed to the "Go to page" form
• List the events a Stripe webhook endpoint should listen for
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility within the Register controller
• Work around an upstream issue in WinCache
• Always throw an exception when a file fils to copy to an abstracted file path
• Attempt to determine first proxyable favicon when fetching page metadata
• Canonicalize proxied thread cover image URLs
• Prevent search engines from attempting to index thread preview URLs
• Throw an exception when add-on requirement errors or warnings are not arrays
• Update watch notifier getDefaultWatchNotifyData method visibility to match parent class
• Fix route normalization in policy acceptance bypass check
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility in template trim tag/function
• Add response documentation to the POST posts/ API route
• Adjust maximum width of board title in control panel header
• Normalize root breadcrumb URL before checking if it matches the current page
• Make unfurl usage analysis more robust
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility within template filters
• When logging a failed email exception, include the from email in the exception message
• Add embed support for public Spotify playlists
• Make the default cookie same-site behavior configurable
• Always allow top-level categories which are not displayed in the node list to be accessed at their dedicated URL
• Fix article preview text fade not applying to articles without a cover image
• Strip AJAX query params from password confirmation redirects
• Avoid decreasing user message count twice when moving a thread in/out of a forum that does not count messages
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility within the API docs generator
• Fix potential stale recompilation of grouped phrases
• Include some missing entries in the hashes file
• Ensure zlib output compression is disabled to prevent interference with XF output compression
• Hide the article forum snippet length option when using the preview display style
• Correct the description for the user_content_change_init code event description
• Reword the "this_accounts_email_is_already_associated_with_another_member" phrase
• Add option to disable appending a CAPTCHA provider's privacy policy to the site's privacy policy
• Only send certain moderator action alerts when the content is or was visible to the author
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility within the unsharp image mask algorithm
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility within the route filter entity
• Remove stray XF.Element.register() in password_box.js
• Improve PHP 8.1 compatibility when resizing and cropping an image
• When converting tables to utf8mb4, only show the prompt to add fullUnicode to config.php if the value isn't set already

• PAGE_CONTAINER
• alert_user_report_rejected
• alert_user_report_resolved
• attachment_macros
• browser_warning_macros
• core_block.less
• core_datalist.less
• core_menu.less
• core_tab.less
• editor_base.less
• login_password_confirm
• member.less
• message.less
• page_nav
• poll_create
• post_article_macros
• progress_bar.less
• progress_bar_macros
• push_user_post_merge
• push_user_report_rejected
• push_user_report_resolved
• thread_preview
• widget_html

Current requirements​

• PHP 7.0 or newer (PHP 8.0 recommended)
• MySQL 5.5 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
• All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.2.
• Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 2.0.

Installation and upgrade instructions​