Simple Machines Community Forum

Dear Members,

Simple Machines is pleased to announce the official release of the long awaited SMF 2.1.

This release marks the transition of SMF 2.1 into the current stable release of SMF. This means that:

• SMF 2.1 is now the recommended version for use on live production forums. We encourage everyone to start planning for an upgrade to SMF 2.1.
• SMF 2.0 remains supported and will continue to receive security updates for the foreseeable future, but this release officially marks the end of further 2.0 development. We will release a separate announcement for any future changes to SMF 2.0's status.

Notable changes in 2.1

The changes between SMF 2.0.x and SMF 2.1 are too many to count, but here are a few highlights:

• New features for users
  
  • A new WYSIWYG editor, SCEditor (http://www.sceditor.com/)
  • Real-time alerts in addition to email notifications
  • A new default theme with full support for mobile devices
  • Draft messages (you can save & resume later)
  • Mentions using @name syntax
  • Drag & drop attachments
  • Attachments can be embedded directly into post text
• New features for moderators and administrators
  
  • An improved Administrator Control Panel
  • Support for moderator groups, not just individuals
  • Many security enhancements, including support for optional Two Factor Authentication
  • IPv6 support
  • Designed with GDPR support
• New features for modification and theme authors
  
  • A massive expansion of the number of integration hooks available
  • More powerful BBCode possibilities
  • Background tasks
  • New capabilities in the Package SDK (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Category:Package_SDK)

You can learn more about the many new features and changes in SMF 2.1 here (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Differences_between_SMF_2.1_and_SMF_2.0).


How to install a new SMF 2.1 forum

You can install SMF 2.1 using the "Full Install" package from the Download (https://download.simplemachines.org/) page.

Please refer to the Online Manual for more details about installing (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Introduction_to_installing).


How to upgrade to SMF 2.1

You can upgrade to SMF 2.1 from any previous version using the "Large Upgrade" package from the Download (https://download.simplemachines.org/) page.

Be aware that upgrading to SMF 2.1 will remove any modifications you may have installed on your existing SMF forum, and that SMF 2.1 is incompatible with custom themes designed for earlier versions of SMF. You will need to install new versions of those modifications and/or themes after upgrading. Many modifications and themes have already been updated by their authors to support SMF 2.1, but you may wish to check the status of individual modifications or themes before proceeding.

Please refer to the Online Manual for more details about upgrading (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Upgrading).


With this release we'd like to take the opportunity to recognize the effort and dedication of all the people who have volunteered their time to help the SMF project. We would like to thank everyone, past and present, who has contributed to the development of SMF over the past years.

Finally, as always, please do not use this topic for support requests. You will receive a much quicker and better response by asking for help in the SMF 2.1.x Support (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=254.0) board.

Thank you for using SMF!

Regards,
Simple Machines

Congrats team and community!

A huge thank you is in order, to everyone involved over the years! :)

Going for most liked post ever? ;)

Major congratulations to the whole team and everyone who contributed to making SMF 2.1 a reality. Thank you SO much to everyone who contributed for all their amazing and hard work, it's massively appreciated. :) I'm so happy! :) Well done all!

Great job everyone!  8)

Thanks to the entire team and community for all the effort that went into this.

Awesome job guys!  ;D

Thanks guys!

Thanks to everyone who made this happen, great job ;D

That's great, thanks.

Congratulations! It's been a long road, getting from there to here.

Thanks to everyone involved, and long may it continue.

Good work - thank you all.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved! 8)

It took a lot of time, but with the mega effort and dedication from the whole team, this is now a reality.

Very proud of you all. Today is a big day!  8)

HUGE CONGRATS!! Going to work out a plan to upgrade our 19-year old forum soon (going back to the days of YaBB)!

Great job, thank you all for your work.  :)

Wow. Today is definitely a very good day. Congratulation to everyone involved that made this possible. Thank you for all the hard work and dedication you guys and gals put in!
Know that it is recognized and greatly appreciated

Great to see. Well done to everyone involved :)

WOW !
Thanks to EVERYONE for this GREAT SOFTWARE .

Is it really published now?
congratulations

Will the mobile theme be like this?

phone model s10+

(https://i.hizliresim.com/7zpde8w.jpg) (https://www.hizliresim.com/7zpde8w)

Well, I can say it doesn't look like that on my Samsung.

Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 09, 2022, 03:46:14 PMWell, I can say it doesn't look like that on my Samsung.

friends to answer, rotate the screen sideways and press the answer button and keep the screen flat



you can watch the video :
https://youtube.com/shorts/eunm1-OF5z0?feature=share

Thank you google ads ...

Nothing to do with the theme itself

Well done to all the designers, developers, testers and implementors.


(https://i.imgur.com/02h60Yp.jpg)

Everyone involved, you are awesome!  :)

Good to see. :) Now we can start theming the damned thing without moving goalposts. :D

Huge congratz to the team!

Very very nice to see. Congrats to the team and all involved. Great to see it out.

Thank you so much to all the developers and contributors to this great project; and for their persistence notwithstanding the endless "when will 2.1 final be ready" questions (and complaints).

So... when will 3.0 be done?  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D  ;D
(jokes)

Quote from: landyvlad on February 09, 2022, 04:42:57 PMSo... when will 3.0 be done?

You should be banned for that question, lmfao.

I had the release date all screwed up. I thought it was like the 12th, not today bahahaha.

Does this means I should get off my behind and update my themes and release the others? lol

Finally! Great message. Thank you to everyone who contributed to SMF 2.1 and to those who released the stable version. :)

Big milestone. Thanks to everybody involved in realizing SMF 2.1

Quote from: Mick. on February 09, 2022, 04:52:41 PMDoes this means I should get off my behind and update my themes and release the others? lol

Just tell everyone they will be ready when they are ready. :D

Quote from: Antechinus on February 09, 2022, 04:54:39 PM

Quote from: Mick. on February 09, 2022, 04:52:41 PMDoes this means I should get off my behind and update my themes and release the others? lol

Just tell everyone they will be ready when they are ready. :D

Wait a bit longer till web 3.0 hahahaha

I'm glad this just happened. I needed something to post on my own website bahahaha

wohooo!! well done all involved!

Excellent work! 8)

Let's goooooo, well done team!

*sigh*... My excuses for delaying any new features or upgrades have run out now :)

Thanks heaps! Great job and look forward to being on 2.1 proper

Congrats to the team. 

 (https://media0.giphy.com/media/5mBE2MiMVFITS/giphy.gif?cid=ecf05e47a7nrh9b3jay95q28nchlu7der8qwax6n0mrxmswc&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g)

Congrats and Thank you to everyone who made this happen!! :)

Great stuff - Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved!  8)

(https://i.imgflip.com/64myo2.jpg)

Congratulations and thank you everyone. :D

     The James Webb Space Telescope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) took a while to finish. SMF 2.1.0 took a while to finish. We can expect great things from both! Congratulations to the entire SMF development team!

CONGRATULATIONS! Heartfelt!

This will set all the frustrations behind, so take it from me; HEARTFELT!!!

I must really update my signature now :)

Congrats and thanks for all of the hard work! :)

Looks like I've got a ton of theming to do over at Crip Zone! LOL

Have you done "DarkModern" already?

Nope, haven't started anything just yet. Been busy with a new job and a few other things and awaiting for 2.1 to be finalized and see if there are any bugs I need to look out for since 2.1 was just released.

     By the way, the English_pirate (https://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?languages;id=87) Language pack is cute! Someone had fun working that one up!  8)  ;)

Hallelujah. ;D Congratulations and thank you everyone.

Congrats team and community!

Your users from all over the world. Therefore:

Thank you!
شكرا لك!
Շնորհակալություն!
Дзякуй!
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်!
Благодаря ти!
Köszönöm!
Cảm ơn bạn!
Σας ευχαριστώ!
Გმადლობთ!
Tak skal du have!
תודה!
Terima kasih!
Go raibh maith agat!
Þakka þér fyrir!
¡Gracias!
Grazie!
Рақмет сізге!
謝謝！
감사합니다!
Mauruuru koe!
Баярлалаа!
Danke schön!
Dank u!
Takk skal du ha!
متشکرم!
Dziękuję Ci!
Obrigada!
مننه!
Mulțumesc!
Спасибо!
Хвала вам!
توهان جي مهرباني!
Ďakujem!
Hvala vam!
Teşekkürler!
Rahmat!
Дякую!
Salamat!
Kiitos!
Merci!
आपको धन्यवाद!
Děkuju!
Tack!
Tapadh leat!
Dankon!
ありがとう！

Kiitos! ;)

Wow finally! Congratulations and thanks for keeping SMF alive and improved! *thumbs up*

Super! Thank you for this!

Congratulations and Thank you Everyone

(https://i.ibb.co/GvmVjYp/12279198-1171013439594594-6724005299696698505-n.png)

Congratulations.
Can I update from RC4 to Final or needs to use clean install?

You can do a large upgrade, no patch install available though.

Thank you and congratulations to everyone at SMF!

I upgraded my forum from 2.0 to 2.1 RC4 last October and, today, to 2.1 final. Everything went smoothly by using the "Large Upgrade" package and doing a manual copy of files.

Just a simple question - going forward will future 2.1.x updates also have to be applied in the same way?

Quote from: Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen on February 10, 2022, 04:41:09 AMYou can do a large upgrade, no patch install available though.

Thanks, I have done this without any issues. The easiest upgrade so far.   ;)

Quote from: Pogo Stick on February 10, 2022, 04:58:14 AMJust a simple question - going forward will future 2.1.x updates also have to be applied in the same way?

No that's just the routine for RC versions. Any future updates should have patches available :)

Quote from: noquiexis on February 10, 2022, 01:18:01 AMBy the way, the English_pirate (https://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?languages;id=87) Language pack is cute! Someone had fun working that one up!  8)  ;)

I've been using that pack on this site for about a year now. :D

Quote from: noquiexis on February 09, 2022, 10:03:56 PMThe James Webb Space Telescope (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope) took a while to finish. SMF 2.1.0 took a while to finish. We can expect great things from both! Congratulations to the entire SMF development team!

(http://www.arimecibo.com/smf_2_1/avatars/Oxygen/wine.png) (http://www.arimecibo.com/smf_2_1/avatars/Oxygen/wine.png) (http://www.arimecibo.com/smf_2_1/avatars/Oxygen/wine.png)

From the interactions of 1s and 0s to the interactions of protons and electrons there is a large gap, ;-) but yes 2.1 is a good leap forward. 

Great job everyone  ;D

Yeah! Finally! Happy days! Thank you!  :)  :)  :)

Congrats! Impressive to see it live!

Congratulations!
We've been waiting for the final version 2.1 for quite a long time. Thank you for your work.

     A couple of people asked about upgrading from SMF 2.1RC4, so this is only a reminder.
Using Release Candidates! (https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=570377.0)
"It is also important to note that between release candidates, SMF does not release update packages."

     This means the Large Upgrade must be used. The Full Install package is not necessary on an existing SMF2.1RCx installation, and will likely delete your "Settings.php" file, so BACK IT UP!!!

Upgrading (https://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Upgrading)
"Please note that when using the large upgrade, all the mods that you have installed will have their edits to files removed."

     I had a few themes installed on my smf2.1RC4 installation. After the Large Upgrade, they were gone. Apparently, the Large Upgrade package replaced the "Themes" directory ("Folder"), but that is OK. One of the themes did not work as planned, so I may try to re-install that one to see if I messed up.

     Backing up your files before doing a Large Upgrade will allow you to keep, and then re-apply, any file edits that you made.

SSsssuper

thanks

congrats.jpg

I'm guessing you can't do the easy method of installing via the package manager.

An Error Has Occurred!
Package upload failed due to the following error:
"Although the package was downloaded to the server it appears to be empty. Please check the Packages directory, and the "temp" sub-directory are both writable. If you continue to experience this problem you should try extracting the package on your PC and uploading the extracted files into a subdirectory in your Packages directory and try again. For example, if the package was called shout.tar.gz you should:
1) Download the package to your local PC and extract it into files.
2) Using an FTP client create a new directory in your "Packages" folder, in this example you may call it "shout".
3) Upload all the files from the extracted package to this directory.
4) Go back to the package manager browse page and the package will be automatically found by SMF."

This not a patch so you have to download the large upgrade.

Quote from: Sesquipedalian on February 09, 2022, 12:42:51 PMHow to upgrade to SMF 2.1

You can upgrade to SMF 2.1 from any previous version using the "Large Upgrade" package from the Download page.

Quote from: kdmiller on February 10, 2022, 04:51:51 PMI'm guessing you can't do the easy method of installing via the package manager.

An Error Has Occurred!
Package upload failed due to the following error:
"Although the package was downloaded to the server it appears to be empty. Please check the Packages directory, and the "temp" sub-directory are both writable. If you continue to experience this problem you should try extracting the package on your PC and uploading the extracted files into a subdirectory in your Packages directory and try again. For example, if the package was called shout.tar.gz you should:
1) Download the package to your local PC and extract it into files.
2) Using an FTP client create a new directory in your "Packages" folder, in this example you may call it "shout".
3) Upload all the files from the extracted package to this directory.
4) Go back to the package manager browse page and the package will be automatically found by SMF."

Please read the opening post - this isn't a support topic.

I was wondering how long it would take ... (https://i.imgur.com/FfiWcus.gif)

Congratulations!

Quick question, is 2.0.19 the final, last ever release of the 2.0.x with any future releases only being 2.1.x versions?

No. 2.0.x will continue to receive security patches for some time. However, it will not be receiving any new features. Security patches only, and only as necessary.

That said, I would expect to plan in a move to 2.1 at some point in the future. There will come a point that keeping 2.0 running on newer PHP will just get harder and harder to the point of "not worth the hassle", just as with 1.1.

Congratulations! This is amazing. Thank you to everyone's hard work.  8)

Thank you and Congratulations everyone. This is great to see.

If you select php 7.0 while testing the 2.1.1 series, the packages are not installed

That issue is being addressed but as always, this is not the platform for support issues.

Just installed 2.1 after not being an SMF user for a very long time. I just got back into forums again and figured I'd use this new software for my blog's forum.

I think the new version is really nice.

Good work!