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Khoros Communities 26.4 Release Notes
17 MIN READ26.4 brings the Aurora homepage to life. Members can now react, reply inline, and save content directly from the feed without navigating away, while cross-board posting lets anyone start a discussion from any page in the community. Managers get a safe mode to evaluate Answer Assist quality before enabling it for members. Across Classic and Aurora, the release also delivers security patches, search fixes, and broad editor and stability improvements. New Features Aurora - Early Access Features The features in this section are available in Early Access for Aurora communities. They are behind feature flags and must be manually enabled — contact your Customer Success Manager to begin. Once enabled, all features are fully configurable from the admin panel. Note: Classic users can migrate to Aurora at no cost in 2026. Contact your CSM for detail Cross-Board Posting: Members can now start a post from the homepage or any category or landing page — no more navigating deep into the community structure to find the right board. Start a Discussion CTA — Admins enable a posting button on any page template via the Designer Tool. Button text is configurable (default: "Start a Discussion"). Permission-aware board picker — A searchable flat list showing only boards the user has permission to post on. Private group boards are hidden from non-members. All content types supported — discussions, blog articles, KB articles, ideas, and events. If clicked from within a specific board, that board is pre-selected in the picker. Anonymous users see the button but are redirected to sign-in on click Interactive Social Feed: Aurora's homepage Feed section transforms from a static list of post titles into a living, social feed where members can participate without breaking their browsing flow. Inline comment expansion — Click "See details" on any post to expand and read the latest comments directly in the feed. New/unread comments are surfaced first with clear visual highlighting. Inline replies — Reply to any discussion directly from the homepage feed using the same rich editor and community settings as the full thread view. Full post view — Expand the complete post body within the feed context; navigate to the full thread only when you need deeper engagement. Infinite scroll — The feed auto-loads additional posts as you scroll, with admin-configurable batch sizes and load limits. Admin controls: Enable or disable the interactive feed globally or per board from Admin → Settings → Content Features → Homepage Social Feed. Configure comment display count, infinite scroll batch size, and pilot specific boards before rolling out community-wide. One-click emergency disable option if issues arise Multi-Semantic Reactions: Move beyond a single "Like" and let members express nuanced sentiment. Reaction types include: Need This, Helpful, Insightful, Celebrate, and more — configurable per community. Reaction picker a…515ViewsSign in to react to this post8CommentsOne year in, straight from us.
3 MIN READIt has been a year since IgniteTech acquired Khoros, and I want to talk to you directly. There has been a lot of secondhand talk going around, none of it coming from us, and most of it from people who stand to gain from the telling. Enough of that. If you want to know something about Khoros, come to Khoros. Ask us. We will give it to you straight. Here is where we are. We did not buy Khoros to dress it up and sell it. That is the private equity playbook, and it is not ours. We are privately held, we keep what we acquire, and we run it for the decades, not the quarter. Khoros was losing millions. We made it profitable so it would not go dark. That took painful decisions, and I know some of them affected you. I am not going to gloss over that. It is also why Khoros is still here, on solid ground and able to invest in what comes next. And we have invested. We rebuilt the platform and shipped two AI-native products in under a year. Aurora AI reimagines community for the AI-answer-engine era and closes roughly 30% of community questions that never get a good answer. The brand-new Iris® AI replaces Care and Social Media Management, two products that ran separately for 15 years and never fully integrated. It brings social engagement and brand care into one platform, with publishing, moderating, engaging and analyzing all in one place. No other company offers enterprise community alongside enterprise social and brand care, and large enterprises are switching to us because of it. Everyone else still makes you choose. We have been the gold standard in customer community since Lithium (Khoros’ predecessor) pioneered the category in 2001, and then built the bridge to social when Lithium and Spredfast became one company, because community and social were never meant to live apart. That foundation has powered more than 4,000 community deployments since 2001 and draws 1.8 billion site visits a year. This first year post-acquisition was about putting the house in order. This next stretch is about innovation, building on the platform you count on. We are strengthening the online infrastructure and improving uptime, with faster, sharper incident response when something does go wrong. When we fix something now, we fix the cause, not the symptom. As part of that investment, we are turning on Community Guard for you, free for the next 60 days. It is a new protective layer for an internet that is not just people anymore. Communities like yours get crawled, scraped and hit by bots and automated agents that distort your analytics, consume capacity and put avoidable pressure on the experience. Community Guard catches that traffic before it reaches your community, while keeping the door open for real users and the discovery channels you actually want. The result is a cleaner, steadier community with real protection against bot abuse and traffic spikes. We are turning it on now because it is the right thing to do for our customers. Here is what all of this…ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros Care, Marketing, Flow Release notes - May 15th 2026
5 MIN READHere is a list of the released features and bugfixes from this release period: Marketing (Spredfast) Faster Post Lists for High-Volume Accounts: Fixed a performance issue that caused post lists to time out for accounts with tens of thousands of posts. They now load in seconds Reliable Auto-Labeling: Fixed an issue where auto-labeling failed when label libraries were large, and improved diagnostics for duplicate native LinkedIn posts Threads Token Debugger Restored: Fixed an issue where the Threads token debugger returned 500 errors instead of results Flow RBM Message Delivery Retry: Rich Business Messaging deliveries now automatically retry on transient failures, so brief carrier hiccups no longer lose customer messages or strand conversations in bot mode Reliable Dropdown Menus on Sources Page: Fixed an issue where the Import CSV, Import Sheet, and Add Segment dropdowns intermittently failed on first click Web Channel & Gateway Reliability: Addressed stability issues in the web client channel and gateway services for more reliable real-time messaging Care Faster Tag Sync from Community to Care: Fixed an issue where community board renames and thread title edits required manual intervention to reach Care conversations. They now sync automatically, so agents see the latest titles and tags as they appear in Community TikTok / LinkedIn: Restored Visibility for Hidden Social Replies: Fixed an issue where TikTok and LinkedIn brand replies didn't reflect their hidden/visible state in Care, and where image-only Facebook Messenger messages were dropped during ingestion Facebook / LinkedIn: Brand Mention Ingestion for Personal Account Posts: Fixed an issue preventing Facebook brand mentions from personal accounts from reaching Care, and resolved a defect that made top-level LinkedIn brand mention posts unclickable in Posts columns Real-Time Reply Delivery for Agents: Fixed an issue that occasionally forced agents to refresh the page to see their replies. Replies now appear in conversations immediately Push Next Routing Reliability: Fixed an issue where conversations could get stuck unrouted after a transient indexing failure. Push Next now picks them up automatically once indexing recovers Reliable Bot-to-Agent Handoff: Fixed an issue where new conversations started seconds after an agent closed the prior case inherited stale ownership data. The bot now resumes cleanly and hands off to an agent as expected Accurate Bot-Handoff Queue Priority: Fixed an issue where queue position after a bot handoff didn't reflect the customer's actual wait time. It is now based on the earliest unanswered customer post, restoring expected SLA position Apple Messages for Business: URL Reliability: Fixed an issue where URLs were silently dropped when rich link previews failed. The URL is now sent as plain text fallback, so customers always receive what the agent intended, including in mixed text-and-URL messages Yelp Integra…ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros Communities CDN Change Notice
1 MIN READHello everyone, As part of our ongoing work to improve the performance and stability of Khoros Communities, we'll be migrating our CDN over the next few weeks (exact day/time will be added as Scheduled Maintenance on status.khoros.com). Your community will not be affected The transition is seamless. Your community will remain available throughout the migration process. No action is required on your side. A note on SSL certificates If your community is currently with an AWS-issued certificate, your SSL certificate will change to one issued by Let's Encrypt as part of this migration. This is expected behavior and does not require any configuration changes from your team. Both are publicly trusted CAs, so end users won't see any difference in their user experience. If your community is served through a different provider, the SSL certificate change will not apply to you. Questions? If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to your customer representative.ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros Communities 26.3 Release Notes
12 MIN READ26.3 helps make your community a place members return to. Managers can create branded email templates tied to Orchestrator for end-to-end outreach, while Polls and Clarification Questions improve engagement and answer quality. AI Moderation is more reliable at scale. The release also adds Metric Explorer, plus search upgrades and Zoom event registration. New Features (Aurora - Early Access) Availability: All features in early access are behind feature flags and must be manually enabled by contacting your Customer Success Manager. They are fully configurable from the admin panel once enabled. You may enable select Early Access products. Note: Classic users can migrate to Aurora at no cost in 2026. Contact your CSM for details. Customizable Email Templates Email communications from your community - registration confirmations, notification digests, workflow alerts - have historically required developer involvement to customize. Branding changes, copy updates, or new email types meant filing tickets and waiting. Community managers had no self-service control over one of the most direct channels for bringing members back. What you can do now: Create and manage branded, customizable email templates directly from the admin panel. With full control over content, layout, and branding, no developer dependencies required. Template creation & management Self-service editor for creating and customizing email templates with branding, custom content, and layout control. Organize templates with categories and search for easy management at scale. Customize emails across community communications - including registration, notifications, and workflow-triggered emails. Orchestrator integration Created templates can be accessed directly in Orchestrator automation rules — when a trigger fires (such as User Registers, Solution Accepted, Topic Posted, or Role Granted), the Orchestrator sends your branded template automatically. Visual compatibility indicators show which templates work with which triggers, with placeholder validation against available data. Enablement: All existing community emails continue to function without any changes. To adopt the new system, the Khoros team runs a migration script that generates your templates. You review and sign off on the migrated templates, and only after your approval does the Khoros team activate the new flow. Contact your CSM to begin the process. Proactive Clarification Questions for Answer Assist Helps members get better, faster answers by guiding them to provide the right context upfront without adding friction to the posting experience. Post-publish flow: Posts publish as per the moderation settings. For question-type posts, the system surfaces AI-generated clarification questions in a slide-in panel (desktop) or bottom sheet (mobile). CM-guided generation: Community managers provide example clarification questions to guide the AI. The system then generates both the ques…ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros Communities 26.2 Release Notes [Updated]
4 MIN READThe 26.2 release introduces Aurora AI capabilities for content moderation, automated responses, and workflow orchestration. It also addresses critical security vulnerabilities, delivers search and rich text editor improvements, and resolves stability issues across analytics and content archival. New Features (Aurora — Early Access) Availability: All three features below are in early access behind feature flags — nothing activates automatically. Fully configurable from the admin panel. Contact your Customer Success Manager to enable. Classic customers should reach out to their CSM to discuss migration. AI Moderation + Appeals Automates content moderation decisions based on your community guidelines, configured in plain language. Auto-approve and auto-block: Clear-cut content is handled instantly, reducing manual review volume. Gray-area escalation: Ambiguous content is held for human review rather than auto-actioned. Member appeals: Members can submit structured appeals against moderation decisions, preserving trust without adding moderator workload. Community Language Model (CLM) / Answer Assist Provides AI-generated responses to unanswered community posts after a configurable time threshold has been reached. Community-first response window: You define how long to wait before Answer Assist activates, giving members the first opportunity to respond. Source attribution: Every AI-generated answer cites the specific authors and posts it drew from, keeping community experts visible. Community Orchestrator A rules-based automation engine that triggers actions on community events such as new registrations, first posts, and milestone achievements. Automated workflows: Configure welcome sequences, expert notifications, milestone recognition, and onboarding prompts. Event-driven execution: Actions fire automatically when defined conditions are met — set up once, runs continuously. Bugs & Security Fixes Classic Fixed search autocomplete not returning results when queries contain special characters like trademark symbols or apostrophes. Fixed cursor jumping to the top of the article when applying formatting in Firefox. Fixed message position count displaying incorrectly after submitting inline replies. Fixed missing publish events in bulk data exports for republished content. Fixed Members Online count showing inflated numbers by excluding partially registered users. Fixed search results not sorting correctly by view count. Fixed video sitemap XML validation errors affecting video SEO indexing. Fixed usernames with certain Unicode characters causing registration failures and blank display names. Fixed attachments remaining visible in the editor after sending private message replies. Fixed "Show older messages" causing page reload when clicked after switching threads. Fixed rank-up notifications not being delivered via email or private message. Fixed abuse reports failing when membe…ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros Communities 26.1 Release Notes [Prod Release Date Updated]
4 MIN READThe Khoros Communities 26.1 release delivers critical security patches including RCE vulnerability remediation, extensive accessibility improvements for mobile screen readers, and stability fixes across moderation workflows, content management, and API functionality. Classic Fixed badges being awarded before posts were approved on pre-moderated boards. Fixed anchor links within posts failing to scroll to their target sections. Fixed quoting posts with code samples throwing errors for users with Simple HTML permissions. Fixed top contributors widget displaying users in incorrect order. Fixed Table of Contents button not appearing in blog article editor when enabled. Fixed search autocomplete retaining incorrect selection when cursor moved away quickly. Fixed Accept Solution option missing from Group posts. Fixed solutions leaderboard showing fewer users than configured when role filters were applied. Fixed external video embeds from Brightcove and other providers failing to render. Fixed Vimeo embeds with longer video IDs disappearing after publishing. Fixed "Show older messages" in Private Messages causing page refresh on repeated clicks. Fixed ban edit popup displaying empty for deleted users. Fixed product and tag autocomplete failing with special characters like "/" and "_". Fixed GroupHub subscription status displaying incorrectly after page reload. Fixed admin metrics date range filter returning results outside specified dates. Fixed orphaned HTML appearing in posts when mentioned users were deleted. Added support for .f3z file attachments. Fixed Hi-Labels validation incorrectly triggering when editing attachments or comments. Fixed role filter in Community Analytics throwing errors. Fixed TKB and Blog workflow notification emails not being sent when spam filtering was triggered. Fixed archive search filter counts showing zero despite archived content existing. Fixed user search filter state lost after browser back navigation. Fixed Safari on macOS intermittent failures with sort filters and post actions. Fixed email validation not being enforced during registration, allowing accounts without email addresses. Fixed notifications not being delivered for posts on pre-moderated forums after approval. Fixed Private Messages failing to load for users with certain message history patterns. Changed PDF attachments to use native browser viewer instead of third-party preview. Implemented clipboard content sanitization in rich text editor to prevent XSS attacks. Added accessibility improvements including: visible focus indicators on message links; tooltip text visibility at 200% zoom; proper ARIA attributes for image and video upload modals; keyboard controls for Brightcove video timeline; and corrected form field descriptions for screen readers. Aurora Fixed required custom fields not displaying in Add User form, preventing member creation. Fixed group names exceeding 40 charac…ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros K1, Care, Marketing, Flow Release notes - December 15th 2025
3 MIN READHere is a list of the released features and bugfixes over the last two weeks: Marketing (Spredfast) Enhanced Analytics Data Processing: Fixed critical data processing workflows to ensure analytics reports display accurate metrics and insights without delays Improved Platform Reliability: Addressed stability issues that affected content publishing and analytics workflows during peak usage periods Flow Configurable Search Precision: You can now customize how many documents are analyzed when using AI search reranking, allowing you to balance between search speed and result accuracy based on your needs Faster AI Training Completion: Training jobs now complete significantly faster by running at higher priority, reducing wait times when setting up new AI capabilities Multi-Language Agent Handover: Fixed chatbot prompts that were always in English - the "connect with an agent" suggestion now appears in the same language as the customer's conversation Improved System Responsiveness: Optimized background processes to reduce latency and improve overall platform performance during high-traffic periods Care Instagram: Accurate Ad Content Attribution: Fixed an issue where Instagram ads from other accounts were incorrectly appearing under your brand - ads now correctly filter to show only content owned by your configured Instagram account Instagram:Better Multi-Brand Response Handling: When managing multiple Instagram brand accounts mentioned in a single conversation, the system now correctly identifies and uses all relevant brand tokens for responses, preventing missed reply opportunities TikTok: Correct Response Attribution: TikTok replies are now properly labeled as your brand responses instead of being marked as "External Response" - improving conversation tracking and reporting accuracy LinkedIn: Reliable Comment Deletion: LinkedIn comment deletion now includes verification and automatic retry logic to ensure comments are successfully removed, with clear logging of success or failure status Facebook Messenger: Clean Secure Chat Invitations: Secure chat invitation links sent via Facebook Messenger now display cleanly without showing raw URLs or incorrect "Post edited" labels in the agent timeline Fixed Moderation Column Updates: Posts now automatically disappear from Community Moderation columns after being moderated, instead of remaining visible with a spinning indicator indefinitely Support for Authors Without Profile Pictures: Fixed a critical issue preventing Community posts from authors without profile pictures from appearing in Care - these posts now process correctly and reach your agents Prevent Duplicate Cases: Eliminated race condition that created multiple cases when customers sent rapid messages - now ensures only one case is created per customer conversation, even during high-traffic periods Clearer Integration Connection Errors: Integration connection failures now display helpful error messages …ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros Communities 25.12 Release Notes
5 MIN READThe Khoros Communities 25.12 release delivers extensive accessibility improvements across both Classic and Aurora platforms, critical security fixes, significant search and analytics enhancements, and numerous stability improvements for content management, rich text editing, and API functionality. Classic Applied input sanitization for survey form submissions to ensure data integrity and security. Fixed slide-out navigation menu accessibility violations including improper button element nesting and focus management issues affecting screen readers. Fixed spoiler tags scrolling to page top instead of expanding content on first visit due to script loading latency. Fixed Q&A structured data linking accepted answer URLs to author profiles instead of actual solution posts, improving SEO accuracy. Fixed LiQL query operator "!=" to correctly apply multiple exclusion conditions, allowing users to exclude multiple nodes in a single query. Fixed code snippet syntax highlighting disappearing when editing posts containing li-code elements. Fixed post counter incorrectly decreasing when deleting product idea status updates. Enhanced V2 API error messages to specify which field and content caused validation failures, providing actionable feedback to API consumers. Fixed post approval failures in moderation manager showing false success messages when approving spam in archived threads. Fixed kudos leaderboard displaying empty slots when deleted users were included in rankings. Fixed API errors when querying subscriptions for label objects. Enabled text key scoping for TKB template selection page to support template-specific customization. Fixed API errors when retrieving posts containing malformed CSS classes in HTML content. Optimized settings editor to reduce search reindex latency from 20-90 seconds to under 3 seconds when updating large custom settings. Added comprehensive accessibility improvements including: proper combobox roles for all search and autocomplete fields; ARIA expanded/collapsed states for image upload controls; corrected button roles for file upload and avatar controls; keyboard focus management in settings tabs; screen reader announcements for file upload status messages; and notification settings sections defined as proper headings for navigation. Aurora Fixed critical authorization vulnerability in GraphQL endpoints to properly enforce permission checks for privileged operations. Implemented multi-select functionality for idea status filter in ideas widget, providing filtering parity with Classic Community. Implemented SEO improvements for tag pages including lowercase URLs, updated robots meta tags, and dynamic meta descriptions. Enabled notifications and email alerts for followed tags, resolving "No activity yet" displays despite active content. Fixed image lightbox not opening when clicking images in post replies. Fixed spotlight search bar disappearing for anonymous users when …ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsSecurity Advisory: CVE-2025-66478 (Next.js)
1 MIN READDate: December 4, 2025 Status: Not Affected Summary A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-66478, CVSS 10.0) was recently disclosed affecting Next.js applications using the App Router with React Server Components. Impact Assessment The Aurora platform is not affected by this vulnerability. After a thorough review of our codebase, we have confirmed that our applications use the Next.js Pages Router architecture, which is explicitly excluded from the scope of this vulnerability. According to Vercel's official security advisory, Pages Router applications are not susceptible to this exploit. Actions Taken Despite not being vulnerable, we are proactively updating our Next.js dependency from version 15.1.7 to 15.1.9 as part of our commitment to security best practices and maintaining up-to-date dependencies. References https://github.com/vercel/next.js/security/advisories/GHSA-9qr9-h5gf-34mp https://nextjs.org/blog/CVE-2025-66478 Questions If you have any questions regarding this advisory, please contact your account representative or our support team.ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros K1, Care, Marketing, Flow Release notes - December 1st 2025
3 MIN READKhoros Care Customer Experience Improvements TikTok Response Labeling Enhancement: Agent responses to TikTok conversations are now correctly identified in the conversation timeline, eliminating incorrect "External response" labels that caused confusion for agents Trustpilot Data Recovery: Backfilled missing Trustpilot reviews that failed to process during authentication issues, restoring complete customer review data Community User Avatar Handling: Fixed issue where Community users without profile pictures caused processing failures, ensuring all Community posts are properly delivered to Care Brand Messenger Chat Reliability: Resolved bot response delivery issues in Brand Messenger widget, ensuring consistent message arrival and improved error logging for customer interactions Social Media Authentication & Message Processing: Resolved authentication issues and improved message processing reliability for social media channels, ensuring consistent delivery of customer messages Message Processing Reliability: Improved retry mechanism for failed message processing, reducing message delivery failures Performance & Scalability European Region Performance: Increased capacity in EU region to handle higher load during business hours, improving response times and system stability Proactive System Monitoring: Deployed comprehensive monitoring across US, EU, and APAC regions to validate core platform functionality including agent conversation handling, queue management, agent assist widgets, and dashboard access Admin Console Change Log Navigation: Change Log has been released from Beta and is generally available. User Management Enhancements: Improved batch user processing and cache synchronization to prevent data loss during user management operations Security & Platform Updates Security Enhancements: Deployed security fixes across multiple Care components: Analytics Dashboard: Critical security vulnerability patches Case Management Interface AI/ML Processing System Brand Messenger Chat Backend Publishing Interface: Latest security patches Messaging Authentication Khoros Marketing Platform Improvements Instance Management: Fixed server error that was preventing Marketing instance deprovisioning, improving platform lifecycle management User Moderation: Resolved issue preventing users from being banned in Marketing Inbox, restoring full moderation capabilities Stream Collections: Fixed deletion functionality for stream collections Infrastructure & Performance Social Gateway Updates: Deployed infrastructure improvements for enhanced reliability and performance Advertising Metrics Processing: Improved reliability of advertising metrics data collection by introducing safeguards to prevent processing failures Notification System: Improved stability of the notification system Enhanced Security Protocols: Strengthened database security protocols as part of ong…ViewsSign in to react to this postCommentsKhoros K1, Marketing, Care and Flow release cadence
1 MIN READAs part of our ongoing commitment to reliability and transparency, we have adopted a continuous delivery model for Khoros K1, Care, Spredfast Marketing and Flow. This means improvements, fixes, and enhancements are deployed to production incrementally rather than through large, infrequent releases. This approach minimizes operational risk, accelerates value delivery, and ensures that your environment benefits from the most stable and secure version of our product at all times. We recognize that visibility into product evolution is essential for planning and governance. To provide this transparency, we are introducing a regular changelog where you can review all functional, performance, and stability updates that have been deployed. Each entry will briefly describe what has changed and when, serving as a single source of truth for product updates. Our initial plan is to publish changelog updates on a regular cadence (approximately bi-weekly) on the release notes space, ensuring timely and consolidated communication without excessive notifications. As the product continues to evolve, we may adjust this frequency to align with customer needs and product maturity—always maintaining consistency and clarity in how updates are communicated.ViewsSign in to react to this postComments
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