EE 2.3 Released: More than 70 bugs fixed

Yesterday, EllisLab released ExpressionEngine 2.3. It’s another major improvement release that included 70 bug fixes in addition to other tweaks, enhancements and security updates. The update is available now under your “My Purchases” area at ExpressionEngine.com.

The biggest updates were:

• Improved pagination that allows you better control over how you paginate channel entries and their comments.
• Member search tokens, so you can create better searches that return more accurate results.
• Copy and paste custom field tags from the Custom Field Group page (very handy!).

EllisLab also posted two short video overviews of new features. I’ve included them below.

I couldn’t find this in the change log but there is a report on Twitter that EE 2.3 now sets “Automatically turn URLs and email addresses into link?” to No by default. If true (I haven’t tested it yet), that’s great news.

Leevi Graham is reporting that only 5 CodeIgniter files were changed from EE 2.2.2 to EE 2.3. I’m not sure this means anything significant other than the changes in 2.3 were focused on fixing bugs in existing ExpressionEngine code, not altering CodeIgniter to support new EE features and functionality.

The reaction I’ve read on Twitter has been positive so far, without any major issues upgrading from EE 2.2.2. As always, please back up your site files and database before upgrading and don’t upgrade directly on a live server without testing the upgrade on a development server or localhost first.

Have you discovered other improvements or problems with EE 2.3? Let us know.

Video on Pagination Updates

Video on Member Search Tokens