---
title: What's new in Telligent Community 5.0?
kind: blog
description: Are you considering to upgrade your CommunityServer 2008.5 to the newest edition 5.0, now dubbed Telligent Community? Here's a list of differences between the two versions.
words: 214
readingMinutes: 1
created: '2009-06-25T09:35:15.000Z'
updated: '2026-06-27T21:03:45+02:00'
tags:
  - communityserver
  - development
---
## Groups

*   Joinless groups
*   Group wiki
*   Multiple forums, blogs, media/file galleries, and wikis (with advanced functionality)
*   Sub-group hierarchy support
*   Configurable group role permissions
*   Group messages
*   Follow or unfollow groups
*   Quick post functionality with Ajax
*   Highlight featured content
*   Group-driven navigation and browse groups

## Membership

*   Tag myself and find other like-minded people
*   Admin-configurable user profile fields and layout
*   Reply to user status messages
*   Follow user activity

## Blogs

*   Support for multiple images and attachments

## Forums

*   RSS for all forum content in a group
*   Capture forum thread to wiki

## Wikis

*   Add wiki or wiki page to favorites
*   Default wiki for a group and default page for a wiki
*   Wiki editing conflict resolution
*   Capture from forum thread
*   Multi-level table of contents
*   In-page table of contents with anchors and anchor linking
*   Move wikis between groups and sub-groups

## Customization

*   Configurable "widgets" (components) across the site on every page
*   Dynamic theming with widgeted UI
*   Highlighted featured content on site home and group home pages
*   User-configurable dashboard
*   Move wikis between groups and sub-groups
*   Editable key site terms for "group(s)" and "friends(s)"

## Search

*   Word wheel for search results based on what you're typing
*   Search for groups
*   Search by all user profile fields
*   Search results show forum thread status
*   Weighted ranking for answers
*   Advanced search
*   View users by role

## Tools

*   Configurable auto-delete task for activity messages