Community Server 2.1 Service Pack 2 is now available. This is a recommended installation for anyone currently running Community Server 2.1.

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Service Pack 2 contains all Service Pack 1 items. Please note, if you download Community Server 2.1 after this announcement that version of Community Server has already been updated to Service Pack 2.

Below are some of the improvements and fixes included:

User Experience Improvements

• Updated error page text from generic 'Site Unavailable'. We’ve made the default error message a little more friendly, but still recommend updating it with your own content.

Help text clean-up and improvements

• Corrected spelling error in the Error-NotFound.aspx page
• Reviewed Messages.xml for spelling and consistency
• Reviewed Resources.xml for spelling and consistency
• Reviewed Emails.xml for spelling and consistency

Security Improvements

• Fixed potential abuse of Report Post functionality
• Section permissions check after user is removed from a role ignored global/default permissions, which could cause a user's forum subscriptions to be cleared
• Tighter security on MarkAsAnswer in Forums
• Performance Improvements Ensure all Search Barrel stored procedure calls are owner qualified to increase database performance; does not affect Enterprise Search

Feature Enhancements and Bug Fixes

• Added support for the MetaWeblog API newMediaObject method to allow images & files to be saved to a blog from a MetaWeblog client. Requires file system write access.
• Ensure that titles are always HTML encoded in RSS feeds
• Fix: Accessing a member's profile page causes infinite redirect if name includes special characters
• Corrected required ID and nested content duplication issues in the ContentPart control
• Updated EULA text and images for Commercial and Personal editions
• Fix: Profile sidebar was not finding user so it was displaying as anonymous
• Fix: Resource in FileAdmin Control Panel was not being found due to incorrect scoping
• Fix: Blog subscriptions are sending out incorrect/incomplete emails
• Fix: Setting a forum as it's own parent causes site to crash and become unavailable
• Fix: Recent Posts Comment Permalinks url wrong
• Fix: Regex bug in Email formatting