Great news coming from the BuddyPress blog, Andy Peatling has announced the BuddyPress 1.1 release.

Here are a few highlights of new features and changes.

• One click internal bbPress forum integration allowing you to set up group forums in less than a minute.
• A global forum directory (example) allowing you to easily browse public facing forum posts regardless of the group they are attached to.
• Completely re-written theme handling. One theme now controls all of your installation. No hidden HTML, everything is in the template ready for you to skin.
• Easily create themes that are upgraded automatically when BuddyPress is updated.
• Total site admin control of all content within an installation. Edit user’s profiles, update avatars, mark users as spammers, manage all groups, delete site activity entries.
• Activity streams everywhere. Activity streams can be filtered allowing for feature specific activity streams or adding an activity stream to your custom plugin.
• A new status updates feature is included in BuddyPress 1.1. Actions and filters are included to allow plugin developers to hook into any external service.
• An awesome group extension API allowing developers to easily extend groups and add completely new features.

BuddyPress is moving along quite nicely and picking up great momentum with the both the code and the community. All of us here at WP Vibe really appreciate everything Andy is doing with BuddyPress and are eagerly awaiting the next round of improvements.