XenForo 2.2.12 UPGRADE 2.2.12

We're pleased to announce the introduction of two new features available in XenForo 2.2.12.

New CAPTCHA provider: Cloudflare Turnstile
In September, Cloudflare Turnstile was announced. You may have noticed that we quickly implemented this into the software and it has been running here now for a little while.

While on the surface this may seem like "just another CAPTCHA" option, we feel that Cloudflare has gotten a lot of things right in its approach to this product that is missing from many other providers including HCaptcha and Google reCAPTCHA. It's a much better experience for your users, respects your users privacy and with XF 2.2.12 also provides more granular logging in the Cloudflare dashboard so you can see analytics about where in the software a CAPTCHA is being used.

We encourage you to read more about Cloudflare Turnstile on their blog and consider signing your site up, for free, right here or if you are an existing Cloudflare user, get started in your Cloudflare dashboard.

Advanced cookie consent system
Starting with XF 2.2.12 you will be able to enable a new "Advanced" cookie consent system. This enables your users to have much more granular control over the specific cookies that are set, the purpose of each cookie and prevents certain cookies from being set at all until explicit consent is given.

As ever, this system is also extendable by add-on developers so that cookies set by an add-on can be appropriately categorised and also require consent before certain functionality is available.

This is not enabled by default and should currently be considered a Beta feature. If you wish to enable it, you can do so by searching for the cookieConsent option in your Admin control panel and setting the option to "Advanced". 

The following public templates have had changes:

• PAGE_CONTAINER
• _help_page_cookies
• _media_site_embed_oembed
• _media_site_legacy_embed
• account_confirm_resend
• account_security
• app.less
• app_inlinemod.less
• approval_queue_macros
• bookmark_macros
• captcha
• captcha_turnstile
• contact_form
• core_bbcode.less
• core_utilities.less
• editor_base.less
• forum_post_quick_thread
• forum_post_thread
• google_analytics
• helper_attach_upload
• login
• lost_password
• misc_cookies
• notice_cookies
• notices.less
• register_form
• report_search
• thread_list_macros
• thread_reply
• thread_view

Where necessary, the merge system within the "outdated templates" page should be used to integrate these changes.

Current requirements
Please note that XenForo 2.2 has higher system requirements than earlier versions.

• The following are minimum requirements:
• PHP 7.0 or newer (PHP 8.0 recommended)
• MySQL 5.5 and newer (Also compatible with MariaDB/Percona etc.)
• All of the official add-ons require XenForo 2.2.
• Enhanced Search requires at least Elasticsearch 2.0.