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Ultimate Member Groups history.

Every release of Ultimate Member Groups is archived here with its changelog, file size, and security scan result. Use the archive to roll back to a stable release or audit what changed between updates.

3 of 3 releases scanned clean
v2.5.1Latest
May 12, 2026504.0 KBScanned
Other
  • *Enhancements**
  • * Improved avatar upload handling with better mime type filtering.
  • * Enhanced security with better input sanitization and validation.
  • * Deprecated unused variables and cleaned up formatting for better maintainability.
  • *Bugfixes**
  • *Templates required update**
  • discussion/legacy/single.php
  • discussion/new.php
  • discussion/single.php
  • tabs/avatar.php
  • tabs/single-group-tabs.php
  • create-group-form.php
  • *Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade**
Improved
  • Refactored group create/update forms.
  • Removed ability to change the group role by the user (group manager role) itself.
Fixed
  • Misplaced `nl2br` calls to preserve content formatting. Moved the `nl2br` function call to ensure proper formatting of post content after embedding and auto-embedding processes.
  • Added User ID to the user card data for proper user actions in the members/invites group tabs.
v2.5.0
December 24, 2025503.9 KBScanned
Other
  • *IMPORTANT: THIS VERSION HAS BACKGROUND DB UPGRADE. PLEASE MAKE SITE'S BACKUP BEFORE UPDATE**
  • *Enhancements**
  • * 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.
  • * 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.
  • *Bugfixes**
  • *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**
  • *Cached and optimized/minified assets(JS/CSS) must be flushed/re-generated after upgrade**
Added
  • Group Discussion Posts/Hashtags list table in wp-admin.
  • Edit Group Discussion Post Edit link to wp-admin.
  • 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.
  • Site Health information.
Improved
  • Updated posting group discussion wall posts and comments.
  • Updated the group members mention in the group discussion wall.
  • Integration with Ultimate Member Extensions_Updater class. Updated packages for integration with Action Scheduler.
  • 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.
  • WPCS enhancements.
Fixed
  • Displaying hidden profiles in the "Send Invites" group tab.
  • Using Activity wall hashtags in groups. Changed taxonomy from `um_hashtag` to `um_groups_discussion_hashtag`. Don't use `um_hashtag` in Groups anymore.
  • Recalculate and assign/un-assign the hashtags during the group discussion post/comment update/deletion.
  • `shorten_string` function to make the Group Discussion post excerpt when words count truncation setting is enabled.
Removed
  • `um_hashtag` taxonomy for Group Discussion posts. Use `um_groups_discussion_hashtag` after 2.5.0 upgrade.
  • `um_groups_insert_post_content_filter` and `um_groups_update_post_content_filter` filter hooks.
  • Using unsecure HTML tags in the post content. It's only possible to use the tags allowed via `wp_kses_post()` function.
  • Obsolete scripts and functions.
  • 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.
  • Using obsolete `_wall_id` in Group Discussion post meta.
v2.4.9Unavailable
December 24, 2025475.9 KBScanned
Fixed
  • General search queries and security enhancements based on UM Core.
  • User display name on comment reply.

Why archive

Sometimes the latest release isn't the one you need. The archive lets you pin Ultimate Member Groups to a known-good version, or roll back while a bug is investigated. Every release stays scanned and reachable.