This discussion will be home to all updates related to FreeFlarum (such as new features and extensions added/removed), excluding maintenance and forum outage notifications (for that, please see the [Maintenance Updates](/d/3) discussion and the [FreeFlarum status page](https://status.freeflarum.com)).

Hey everyone! As the snow falls and the jingle bells ring, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas filled with happiness, health, and heartwarming moments. May your holiday season be as wonderful as the communities you've built here! I will be focusing on this forum more in the coming days, as I have more spare time during holidays. Meanwhile, please note that occasional bugs might occur. If that's the case, please report them to me (use the [Questions](/t/questions) tag, or simply e-mail them to me at info@freeflarum.com). The extension requests at GitHub deserve some love too. I will go through them all and let you know of the new additions in this thread too. As time passes, these requests will probably be moved to this forum as well - but more on that later. That's all for now! May you spend the holiday season with your families, friends and your community 🌟

I've temporarily removed the `JeromeGillard/flarum-map` extension, as it is currently incompatible with FoF Upload (a fix was proposed here: https://github.com/JeromeGillard/flarum-map/pull/12)

@"SKevo"#p13 the Map extension was re-added. Moreover, the FoF Spamblock and FoF Stop Forum Spam extensions were removed in favour of [FoF Anti-spam](https://github.com/FriendsOfFlarum/anti-spam). Forum administrators are encouraged to enable this new extension to limit spam at their forum.

The `zequeen/acgembed-remastered` extension was removed from FreeFlarum, along with `sycho/flarum-private-facade` ([ref.](https://github.com/SychO9/flarum-private-facade/issues/3))

Removed the following extensions, because they were marked as abandoned: - `zerosonesfun/direct-links` - `zerosonesfun/flarum-bbcode-button` - `zerosonesfun/flarum-bbcode-iframe` - `zerosonesfun/flarum-featured-card` - `zerosonesfun/flarum-member` If there is a replacement, please create a new extension request (https://github.com/FreeFlarum/freeflarum.com/issues/) Re-added `sycho/flarum-private-facade` (@"SKevo"#p15)

Added `flarum-lang/ukrainian` and updated all extensions to their latest versions. Forums might receive a prompt to upgrade their database. This will be resolved automatically in a few hours, but if you want your forum to be synchronized sooner, please fix it up at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings

Today, at around 16:00 - 17:00 UTC, FreeFlarum has suffered another DDoS attack targetting one specific forum. I was forced to apply mitigation rules from Cloudflare's side, but even with them applied, a small downtime occurred. I apologize for the inconvenience, and will look at how to guard against these type of things more efficiently in the future. I've also noticed that some users abuse the relaxed "limits" on forums per e-mail address and IP. Before, there was a limit of 3 forums per e-mail address, but for some users, that wasn't enough. Because this wasn't a problem before, I've removed this limit. Sadly, I will have to bring these limits back, as there were a bunch of spam forums registered in the last couple of days. These forums will be purged (we will have to review them by hand since not all belong to the same address, so if I mistakenly archive a legit forum, please let me know). Specifically, the limits will be: 3 forums per e-mail and IP. This does not affect existing forum owners (your forums will be kept), but it will mean that you can't register more either. If someone needs more than 3 forums, it will be handled via e-mail (message me and I will create the additional forum for you). Meanwhile, I've also fixed YouTube not embedding videos on forums through iFrame. It seems that was a server-wide FreeFlarum-specific thing, until now.

I have removed inactive forums to free up system resources. Forum creation was limited to 3 forums per email. If your forum got removed by any chance and you'd like to have it back online, please message me at info(at)freeflarum.com

Removed extension `v17development/flarum-third-party-login-only`

Temporarily removed `jeromegillard-map` until [JeromeGillard/flarum-map#16](https://github.com/JeromeGillard/flarum-map/issues/16) is resolved. Added [pipecraft/flarum-ext-id-slug](/d/8)

FreeFlarum Updates

SKevo

Upgraded Flarum to v1.8.7
- Note: all forums must be synchronized, this will take about 2 hours (your forum might prompt you for your “database password”, which you can safely ignore). Visit https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings and click on the fixup button to synchronize your forum instantly, and the prompt should go away. If that’s not the case, message me.

SKevo

Updated all extensions to the latest versions, notably SEO and Blog. Note that forums using these extensions will need to be synced, or else your forum will fail to load (usually takes about 1 - 2 hours, or it can be done immediately by clicking on the fixup button at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings)

SKevo

Added fof/realtimelogin
Updated all extensions to latest version

SKevo

removed the Purify extension until this issue is fixed.

SKevo

Updated all forums to Flarum v1.8.9 and extensions to latest version. Note that all forums must be synced - if you want to remove the prompt for the database password, please click on the “Fixup my forum” button at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings

SKevo

FreeFlarum updated all forums to v1.8.10 to fix CVE-2025-27794.

Note that all forums must be synced - if you want to remove the prompt for the database password, please click on the “Fixup my forum” button at https://freeflarum.com/settings/forum_settings

SKevo

I rented another 100 GB for the backup drive, for a few large forums piling up the storage

SKevo

Replaced blomstra/turnstile with blazite/flarum-turnstile, updated all extensions

SKevo

Replaced ianm/synopsis with fof/synopsis (ref.)

SKevo

Apologies for the inconvenience, as multiple forums were down recently - the disk space was full. The issue should now be fixed by removing some inactive forums (if you have a forum that was removed and you would like to reactivate it, please let me know or e-mail me).

SKevo

Fixed issue with external SMTP settings not sending mail properly (timing out)

SKevo

installed flarum/gdpr instead of blomstra/gdpr
removed abandoned antoinefr/flarum-ext-online extension
updated all extensions

SKevo

I apologize for the downtime that was caused today. The issue was resolved, so all forums should be back up and running.

NB if your forum is reporting 404, it was likely archived for inactivity – in that case, please e-mail me at info@freeflarum.com to have it reactivated

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