Dolphin.Pro 7.2 Released - Powerful, Beautiful, Mobile.
After two years of “service” updates and 6 months of feature development and testing, the new Dolphin.Pro 7.2 FINAL is released and is available for immediate download.
What's New in Dolphin.Pro 7.2
This is a major feature-update. Dolphin.Pro now ships with a new mobile-friendly design template (EVO); support of "retina" content and interface images; new file-manager integration (Moxiemanager) ; Homepage Timeline; TinyMCE 4 and hundreds of other improvements. Business-savvy web-masters will appreciate support of recurring (subscription) payments, PayPal Pro and payments on Join Form.
On the fun side, we now have an emoji-sporting Shoutbox that can be placed on any page, history in Chat, new homepage Splash, new Photo-Album previews with swipe, Profile Covers, photos cropping, and Timeline with cool new updates look.
Dolphin.Pro is now faster, more stable and more secure. CSS/JS caching has been enhanced, all known security issues addressed and 162 reported bugs fixed.
The list of most notable new features:
- Updated Timeline on site Homepage
- Responsive (mobile-friendly) layout
- Retina images support
- Special (full width) column in Pages Builder
- Profile page cover
- Moxiemanager for TinyMCE
- New HTML5-based files uploader
- Recurring/subscription payments
- Payments on Join Form
- HTML5 history API in Forum - no more links with hash (#) in the URL
- Unified loading indicator
- New confirmation popup
- New photo album cover
- New homepage splash
- Mobile reCaptcha
- New streamlined login/join form popup
- Admin actions in the user side
- Social sharing meta info
- TinyMCE 4 integration
- Shoutbox can be added almost anywhere now
- Emoji support in Shoutbox and Simple Messenger
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Embed.ly integration for autoconverting links
- Better images resizing with Intervention Image
- Photos cropping functionality
- Photos "set as avatar" action
- Version number is moved to the separate file for easier upgrades
- PayPalPro integration
- CSS/JS caching improvements - faster site loading
- Module installation improvements - automatic permissions changing via FTP
- New DNSBL lists - more spammers filtered
- Command line tool for Dolphin installation
- Fallback to the default (usually "en") if no translation found in other languages
- Photos module is used for avatars by default
- History in Chat
- Older than 14 days dates are converted to absolute dates instead of relative
- Comments count for blog snippets
- New Profile Timeline display effects
If you are have a site powered by Dolphin.Pro 7.1.6 and want to update to 7.2, please wait a few more days for an upgrade pack and instructions. We are working on it right now and anticipate one "beta" before it's ready. We really appreciate your patience! It is out goal to help you update without any issues and we are taking time to prepare proper tools for it.
If you are launching a new site, we strongly recommend using Dolphin.Pro 7.2 - the new stable version, which will be officially supported from now on.
If you encounter any issues, please post to Bugs & Issues forum. If you have any technical difficulties and need help - ask in Technical Questions forum.
Note, that we are currently offering 7.2 Online Demo at the http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin720rc/ link. Our main Online Demowill be updated within a day or two.
Stay tuned for further announcements about licensing, memberships, development schedule and 15th birthday of Boonex.
