Hi everyone!

Totara Social 2.4 release is out! This release contains a number of improvements, bug fixes, and third-party libraries updates.

Please, note that due to Persona service shutdown announced earlier this year, this release also removes 'browserid' authentication plugin. We would recommend site admins to switch their users to another authentication method before running the upgrade. All users that are left assigned to the Persona authentication method will be switched to a new "No login" authentication method and can be re-assigned to a different method later.

If you would like to continue relying on Persona services and using now unsupported version of 'browserid' plugin, we would suggest, before running the upgrade, to back up this plugin folder located in codebase (/htdocs/auth/browserid) and comment out lines 852-887 in upgrade file in htdocs/lib/db/upgrade.php.

Here is the changelog for Totara Social 2.4:

Release 2.4 (4th February 2016):
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Improvements:
    TS-793    Added additional details to the display of external URLs for status updates
              in the Activity Stream: When possibile to extract the additional information
              out of the URL, status updates will now show the title, description, sitename,
              and a poster image. This will give users a preview of what someone links to
              in their status update.
    TS-806    Added "No login" authentication plugin
    TS-805    Added navigation breadbrumbs to Pages

Database upgrades and API changes:
    TS-806    Removed Persona auth plugin
              - "No login" auth method is added to the site level
              - existing Persona users are switched to the new "No login" auth method
    TS-357    Removed unused BBCode parser library

Third party libraries updates:
    Updated jQuery Placeholder to version 2.3.1
    Updated jQuery library to version 2.2.0
    Updated Modernizr to version 3.3.1
    Updated the ReCaptcha API (Mahara bug #1470705)
    Updated Mobile Detect to version 2.8.19
    Updated jsColor to version 2.0.4

Bug fixes:
    TS-808    Fixed the regular expression not extracting the URL domain name properly when
              checking for spam
    TS-812    Fixed keyboard navigation redirecting to the wrong pages
    TS-690    Made sure title and close button are always visible in help pop-ups
    TS-561    Removed grippie used to resize textarea in favour of built-in browser
              functionality
    TS-809    Fixed JavaScript pagination error on users page in Administration
    TS-135    Fixed code typos in Chat module
    TS-135    Fixed miscellaneous English language typos
    TS-357    Backported Mahara fix for the libxml entity loader (Bug #1340151)