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Posted by ezra-g on February 14, 2012 at 3:55am

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Last updated: February 14, 2012 - 03:55

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Official release from tag: 6.x-2.5

Release notes

For up-to-date release notes and documentation, visit https://network.acquia.com/downloads/drupal-commons/6.x-2.5-release-notes.

Commons 2.5 contains product enhancements and security updates. Users are strongly encouraged to apply this security update.

Version announcements

Drupal Core updated

Drupal core is updated to 6.24, which contains bug fixes and important security updates.

Question content type

This release includes a new content type, Question, that allows your users to post questions, and then obtain answers from other users. Users can also vote for their favorite responses, allowing answer validation to be crowd-sourced.

Redesigned site and group homepages

The site homepage and group landing pages have been redesigned based on usability test feedback.

New features

Feature #1419150 by lisarex, ezra-g, laurentc, ay13: Revised group landing page.

Feature #1411684 by lisarex, ezra-g, ay13: New homepage for authenticated users

Feature#1392768 by laurentc, ay13 and ezra-g: Questions + Answers feature and revised Origins theme.

Feature #1436182 by Noyz: Make Origins background image less noisy.

Feature #1412084 by ay13: Origins tweaks followup including pills for tabs.

Feature #1409188 by ezra-g: production drush make script

Bug fixes

Bug #1433032 by Luukyb: Create Question/Answer permissions missing for authenticated users

Bug #1439252 by ezra-g: Activity log and Facebook status messages use different avatar sizes

Bug #1439084 by ay13: Sidebar width and Breadcrumb issues

Bug #1436418 by ezra-g: Commons should install views_content_cache, not just enable it

Bug #1433294 by ezra-g: Missing dependencies from commons_core feature

Bug #1180080 by lightsurge: Date off by one day in dateblock

Bug #1431460 by ay13: Anonymous homepage sidebar width issue

bug #1416568 by ezra-g: New answer group membership is not set

bug #1418968 by ay13: Primary Button styles not applied to Comment button

bug #1415902 by greggles with no assistance from msonnabaum: nested lists with commons_origins look rough

Bug #1407200 by ezra-g and laurentc: Inaccurate description for freetagging fields

Bug #1407250 by ezra-g, laurentc: Fix for user following count

Bug #1407230 by ezra-g: Comment views don't fully enforce node access

Bug #1423144 by ay13: right column background doesn't continue to bottom of the page

Completed tasks

Task #1432340 by webchick: Initial changes to .make file to allow Commons to work with new Drupal.org packaging system

Task #1438896 by ezra-g: Update OG_Features to latest dev release

Task #1418000 by ezra-g: update to Votingapi 6.x-2.x dev.

Task #1425130 by ezra-g: Update core to 6.24

Installing Commons 2.5

For information about how to install Commons 2.5, see Installing Commons on a new server.

Upgrading to Commons 2.5 from Commons 2.x

IMPORTANT: If you're upgrading to Commons 2.5 directly from a Commons 1.7 installation, see the Upgrading to Commons 2.5 from Commons 1.7 section of these release notes.

To upgrade your server to Commons 2.5 from Commons 2.x, complete the following steps:

Preparing for the upgrade

Back up your code (everything in your Drupal root directory) and your database.
Open a web browser, and then log in to your site as the main administrator account.
Place the site in "Off-line" mode. This allows database updates to run without interruption, and without displaying errors to visitors of your site. To change the mode, complete the following steps:
1. In your web browser, open http://site_URL/admin/settings/site-maintenance, where site_URL is the URL of your Commons server.
2. Select the Off-line option.
3. Click Save configuration.

Installing the upgrade

Extract the new Commons tarball and copy the contents into your document root.
In your web browser, open http://site_URL/update.php
Follow the prompts to "Update" your server.
You may see the following failed update from the OG module: ALTER TABLE og_uid ADD INDEX uid (uid)
You can safely ignore this warning.
In your web browser, open the Performance page at http://site_URL/admin/settings/performance, and then click Clear cached data.
Open the Features page at http://site_URL/admin/build/features.
Examine the list of Features, and for each feature with a State of Overridden, revert the feature. To revert a feature, complete the following steps:
1. Click the Overridden link for the feature. A page opens that provides more information about the selected feature.
2. Select all of the checkboxes relating to overridden components on the page.
3. Click Revert components.
Open the Activity Log page at http://site_URL/admin/settings/activity_log, and then click Clear all message caches.
Select the Regenerate Activity tab (http://site_URL/admin/settings/activity_log/regenerate), and then click Regenerate.
Re-enter any customized rules messages you reverted as part of this upgrade procedure on the Triggered rules page (http://site_URL/admin/rules/trigger).

Completing the upgrade and restarting your website

Allow your visitors to access your web site by returning your site to "Online" mode:

In your web browser, open http://site_URL/admin/settings/site-maintenance.
Select the Online option.
Click Save configuration.

If you see errors with the layout of the Commons Origins theme, clear the site cache at http://site_URL/admin/settings/performance and be sure to shift+refresh in your browser.

Upgrading to Commons 2.5 from Commons 1.7

To upgrade your server to Commons 2.5 from Commons 1.7, see the instructions at Upgrading to Commons 2.x from version 1.7.