Ultimate Member Groups Version History

**IMPORTANT: THIS VERSION HAS BACKGROUND DB UPGRADE. PLEASE MAKE SITE'S BACKUP BEFORE UPDATE**

**Enhancements**

* Added: Group Discussion Posts/Hashtags list table in wp-admin.
* Added: Edit Group Discussion Post Edit link to wp-admin.
* Added: Background DB upgrade for the old discussion posts/comments. Since update to 2.5.0 version all your old posts/comments will be upgraded to the new content displaying but keep their original content in the postmeta/commentmeta.
* Added: Site Health information.
* Tweak: Updated posting group discussion wall posts and comments.
  ** Using WordPress native oEmbed providers for the link that can be embedded. Deprecated `_shared_link`, `_video_url`, `_oembed`, `_video_oembed_data` postmeta for the group discussion posts.
  ** Using WordPress native `the_content`, `the_excerpt` and `comment_text` filter hooks to prepare content for displaying.
  ** Using UM core function `UM()->shortcodes()->emotize()` to convert old-style emoji, but for another use WordPress native `convert_smiles()` on the hooks above.
  ** Updated hashtag parsing function to wrap the hashtags to proper UM links.
  ** Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_post_published` arguments.
  ** Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_post_updated` arguments.
  ** Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_published` arguments.
  ** Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_reply_published` arguments.
  ** Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_updated` arguments.
  ** Updated action hooks `um_groups_after_wall_comment_reply_updated` arguments.
  ** Deprecated using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It's only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post()` function.
* Tweak: Updated the group members mention in the group discussion wall.
  ** New filter hooks `um_groups_insert_post_args` and `um_groups_update_post_args` for parsing mentions in the group discussion posts. Deprecated old `um_groups_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_groups_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
  ** New filter hooks `um_groups_insert_comment_args` and `um_groups_update_comment_args` for parsing mentions in the group discussion post comments.
* Tweak: Integration with Ultimate Member Extensions_Updater class. Updated packages for integration with Action Scheduler.
* Tweak: user-wall.php partially migrated to the new template discussion/single.php that has a legacy version for old group discussion posts in the `templates/discussion/legacy/single.php` path.
* Tweak: WPCS enhancements.

**Bugfixes**

* Fixed: Displaying hidden profiles in the "Send Invites" group tab.
* Fixed: Using Activity wall hashtags in groups. Changed taxonomy from `um_hashtag` to `um_groups_discussion_hashtag`. Don't use `um_hashtag` in Groups anymore.
* Fixed: Recalculate and assign/un-assign the hashtags during the group discussion post/comment update/deletion.
* Fixed: `shorten_string` function to make the Group Discussion post excerpt when words count truncation setting is enabled.

**Templates required update**

* discussion/clone.php
* discussion/comment.php
* discussion/comment-reply.php
* discussion/comments.php
* discussion/likes.php
* discussion/new.php
* discussion/user-wall.php
* latest-comments.php

**Deprecated**

* Deprecated: `um_hashtag` taxonomy for Group Discussion posts. Use `um_groups_discussion_hashtag` after 2.5.0 upgrade.
* Deprecated: `um_groups_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_groups_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
* Deprecated: Using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It's only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post()` function.
* Deprecated: Obsolete scripts and functions.
* Deprecated: Old functions to handle the post/comments content, but they are still there to handle the old posts that until upgrade to the new content displaying in DB.
* Deprecated: Using obsolete `_wall_id` in Group Discussion post meta.

**Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade**

* Fixed: General search queries and security enhancements based on UM Core.
* Fixed: User display name on comment reply.