Welcome to the latest release of MetaFox, version 5.1.9! We’re excited to present a range of enhancements, features, and optimizations designed to elevate your experience with our software. In this release note, we’ll walk you through the key improvements and additions that make MetaFox even more powerful, intuitive, and user-friendly.

Now let’s dive into discovering how MetaFox version 5.1.9 can transform your workflows and streamline your processes.

What’s new in the release?

phpFox Core Updates

UI/UX Improvements 

• Improve Typing Experience: The new Rich Text Editor enhances the typing experience, making content creation smoother and more efficient.
  
  
• Hide Placeholder on Login Page: The Username field on the Login page now hides the placeholder when users fill in saved data, reducing clutter and improving usability.

• Support Profile Popup Positioning: When hovering over User/Page/Group profiles, the profile popup’s positioning is optimized for easier access to profile details.

• Enhance Admin Control: Admins can now navigate the Canceled Members page in AdminCP more effectively with improved visibility of the Feedback column.

• Ensure Color Consistency: Enjoy a visually cohesive experience with improved color consistency of pagination controls on various pages, including Point Settings and Phrases.

• Support Video Playback Control: Take control of your video viewing experience with support for general player button control, offering greater flexibility and customization options.

• Streamline Authentication Management: Managing Two-factor Authentication is now smoother with an improved Turn Off Two-factor Authentication popup.

• Simplify Member Search: Admins can effortlessly locate members in AdminCP with improved Display Name column visibility during member searches.

• Optimize Registration Form Layout: Experience a cleaner layout with improved readability on Registration forms, particularly for forms with fewer than five fields.

• Refine Global Search Wording: Find what you need faster with refined wording on the Global Search box, ensuring a more intuitive search experience.

• Enhance Mobile Commenting: Engage seamlessly on the go! The comment box on feed items now offers improved usability on mobile devices, ensuring a smoother commenting experience.

• User Profile: Scroll back to the top of the profile page instead of opening the user story page when clicking on a sticky avatar icon, providing a more intuitive navigation experience within User Profiles.

Mobile Apps:

• Enhance Sign-In Experience: Display the Previous Sign-In screen instead of the Sign-In screen if the user has previously logged in, ensuring a smoother sign-in process.

• Update React Native Firebase Library: Ensure improved performance and reliability by updating the React Native Firebase library to the latest version. 

• Support the Profile Menu Settings Option: Access and customize profile settings effortlessly with support for the “Profile Menu Settings” page, allowing users to manage preferences and personalize their app experience.

AdminCP

• Members – Show confirm popup when clicking on the Logout All Users button
• Appearances – Themes: Support modifying variant thumbnails.
• Appearances – Should not reload the page after editing the theme variant
• Custom Fields – Use the toggle button instead of text (Yes/No) in the Active column
• Custom Fields –  Optimize the column width in the Manage Custom Fields page.
• Add a warning to remind for Migration from legacy FCM APIs
• Edit text color: Automatically change the color code when the admin points to another place in the Color Picker

phpFox Apps Updates

1. Page

• Enable Scheduled Posts: Empower users to plan and schedule posts in advance with the new support for the Schedule Post feature.

• Enhance Page Info Editing: Streamline the editing experience with an improved layout for the Edit Page Info page.

• Refine Claim Page Process: Enhance the user experience by refining the wording of the success message when resubmitting a claim request.- Improve wording of the privacy when users edit the post on the page
  
  

2. Group

• Enable Custom Group Fields: Personalize group profiles with custom fields.

• Scheduled Posts for Groups: Schedule posts within groups for optimal timing.

• Optimize Similar Groups Order: Enhance group discovery with refined ordering.

• Administrative Tab Control: Enable/disable group tabs for flexible management.

3. Event

• Support Schedule post: Experience the ability to schedule posts within events
• Compatibility with Core v5.1.9

4. Stories

• Enhanced Font Text: Improve text readability when typing on mobile story posts.

• Asynchronous Video Processing: Optimize video upload speed by processing asynchronously.

• Friends-Only Setting: Admins can restrict stories to users’ friends only.

• Mute/Unmute Feature: Users can toggle audio on video stories.

• Improved Create Page: Enhance user experience on the story creation page.

• Privacy Setting Shortcut: Enable users to access privacy settings with a gear button.

• Context Menu Support: Provide context menu options for users with existing stories.
  
  Interested in the Stories App?

5. Marketplace

• Enhanced Listing Section: Improve user interface and experience for map view listings.

• Improved Labeling: Enhance labeling in the Sponsor Settings section for clarity.

• Automatic Decimal Correction: Ensure prices inputted with decimals are rounded to the second decimal place.

• Streamlined Browser Navigation: Enhance the functionality of the browser’s back button on the “View on Map” page.

6. Video

• Enhanced Comment Section: Improve the user interface and experience for comments on video details in mobile apps.

• New Permission Control: Support a new user role permission in AdminCP to manage file uploads and URL sharing.

• Title Removal: Eliminate “Untitled titles for videos posted in the feed.

• Improved Video Detail Page: Enhance the user interface and experience when viewing the video detail page (not the popup).

7. Live Video

• Enhanced Live Video Notification: Improve the user interface and experience for notifications when users start a live video on the page/group.

• Improved Story Sharing: Enhance the user interface and experience when sharing live videos to Stories.

• Popup and Page Viewing Support: Support viewing live videos in both popup mode and page mode for greater flexibility and convenience.
  
  Interested in the Stories App?

8. Reaction

• Manage Reactions: Enable administrators to create or delete reactions directly from the AdminCP for better customization.

• Character Limit Handling: Automatically split characters in the Reaction Label field when it reaches the limit in Manage Reactions.

• Customizable Reaction Icons: Add a setting for administrators to change the reaction icon according to their preferences.

• Improved Warning Messages: Enhance the font color of warning messages when reactions exceed 6 for better visibility.

• Tooltip Reaction Limit: Limit the number of reactions displayed in the tooltip when hovering over the total reactions for improved user experience.

• Non-Reload Reaction Removal: Implement a feature where the page doesn’t reload after users remove a reaction, enhancing efficiency and user interaction.

Other minor improvements for:

• Friends
• Newsletter
• Advertise
• Subscriptions
• Feed
• E-wallet,
• Activity point
• Photo
• Status Background
• Save Items
• Stickers
  

🔰 MetaFox 5.1.9 is an update bringing you closer to an intuitive and feature-rich platform. Explore the detailed improvements in our phpFox 5.1.9 Release Notes for a deeper understanding of the updates.

🔰 The package of phpFox 5.1.9 is available for you to download in our Client Area. To update your phpFox site to version 5.1.9, run the upgrade routine following our Update Instructions. Update today and unlock a world of possibilities with MetaFox! We highly recommend you back up your site and database before updating. And remember to check with 3rd-party experts about the compatibility of all the apps/templates you use.

🔑 For the new MetaFox installation, you can follow the Installation Guide.

🔰 If you are a non-phpFox license holder, don’t wait any longer to purchase a license now and join the ranks of satisfied users benefiting from our cutting-edge platform.

More information about MetaFox features can be found on our page here.