BuddyPress 1.5 includes improvements to members, activity streams, friendships, user groups, forums, profiles and other components. Over 750 tickets were closed in the 1.5 milestone including 543 bug fixes. The release is now in beta with 5 tickets remaining before the release candidate. The component API makes it easy to create components and handles actions and hooks.

1. Changes in 1.5
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2. COMPONENTS
• Members • Activity Streams
• Friendships • Private Messages
• User Groups • Extended Profiles
• Discussion Forums • User Settings

3. PROGRESS
• 787 tickets closed in 1.5 Milestone
• 543 “bugs” fixed
• Now in second beta
• 5 open tickets until Release Candidate

4. COMPONENT API
• Minimal Code to Create
• Handles All Actions/Hooks
• Custom Post Type Enabled
• Admin Bar Integration

5. FILES & STRUCTURE
• Normalized File Names
• Included by Component API
• More PHPDoc & Inline Doc

6. DOING_IT_RIGHT()
• Full Audit of Action Load Order
• Robust Actions Piggyback WP Core
• Global & Constant Reduction
• Modest Admin Menu Priority

7. OUT WITH THE OLD
• WordPress Admin Bar Integration
• Network Menu Integration
• Default Theme CSS Restructured
• Deprecated (27) Unused Functions

8. NEW XPROFILE INTERFACE

9. DIRECTORY TO PAGE

10. PRETTIER DEFAULT THEME

11. BBPRESS 2.0 FRIENDLY

12. 10 MINUTES WITH 3 J’S
• buddypress.org
• testbp.org
• bpdevel.wordpress.com
• @johnjamesjacoby
• jjj@automattic.com