FUDforum - 2

After nearly 2 months of development FUDforum 2.6.14 is finally out. Aside from the usual bug fixes this release includes a number of important improvements, such as full support for PHP 5.1 and introduction of a PDO database driver support, which enables FUDforum to talk with SQLite in addition to MySQL and PostgreSQL.

In addition to all of the changes in found in RC1 and RC2 there is a small number of modification made since then, a list of which can be found below.

The installer and the upgrade script can be found at their usual locations at:
http://fudforum.org/download.php and all FUDforum users are encouraged to upgrade.
Continue reading "FUDforum 2.6.14 Released"

The 2nd release candidate of 2.6.14 was just published; this release performs the final bit of cleanup, code rearrangement and unification to make usage of PDO as a database interface possible. As of this release it is now possible to install FUDforum with the following PDO drivers: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite in addition to the native MySQL and PostgreSQL interfaces.

Other important changes include fixes that accommodate the PHP 5.1 backwards compatibility (BC) breaks introduced after 5.1.0b1. Also, FUDforum no longer requires temporary tables, making their use optional, which should be welcome news to all the people who don't have the necessary privileges to perform this operation.

The installer and upgrade script are now available online and can be downloaded from:
http://fudforum.org/download.php

The release also includes various minor fixes and improvements, listed below.
Continue reading "FUDforum 2.6.14RC2 Released"

A new version of FUDforum is in the works, 2.6.14. This release is intended to introduce some new functionality as well as address any existing bugs. Some additional work has been done to enable future PDO support. At this time I already have a "beta" PDO driver that works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and partially supports SQLite. I hope to have it in CVS within a release or two.

This version can be downloaded at:
http://fudforum.org/download.php

New Features:

Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Allow resizing of the textarea for message posting.

Added ability to set temporary bans.

Added admin control panel to view all banned users.

Improved performance of threaded topic view list rendering.

Improved png hack for IE, it is now done by PHP.

Better caption for template set on theme editor.

Added unread message indicator for collapsed forums.

Some changes to allow support of PDO database interface.

Added view support to upgrade script.

Improved message storage algorithm
Continue reading "FUDforum 2.6.14RC1 Released"

Finally got around to releasing the next stable release of FUDforum, 2.6.13. For the most part it is the same as RC2, with just a few note worthy changes. The Japanese and Romanian translations were updated, Win32 finally has proper timezone support through a custom subset of timezone values and some more adjustments to the nested category display. The latter seems to have been an ongoing problem throughout the .13 release cycle and I sincerely hope we've finally hammered out all of the possible problems with it.

The upgrade and installation scripts are available at the usual location:
http://fudforum.org/download.php.

On a related note, I am now working on a PDO database driver for the forum. This will allow FUDforum to expand it's database support beyond MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as benefit from an improved API offered by PDO. Many of PDO's convenience functions would significantly simplify the process of retrieving data for certain operations.

Here goes the 1st pre-release of FUDforum 2.6.13. The focus of this release has been stabilization of the code and fine tuning of the previously added features.


Changes:

1. If .htaccess is to be obeyed, make sure $_SERVER is created.
2. When merging topics port the read statuses and notifications from source topics.
3. Don't raise notices during charset conversion.
4. Fixed decoding of messages to plain text for NNTP/Mailing list post backs.
5. Many fixes to nested category display on the front page.
6. Improvements to the captcha code generation.
7. Fixed adding users to primary groups during consistency check.
8. Fixed changing of user logins via admin interface.
9. Corrected building of FUDforum zip archives (install/upgrade).
10. Better handling of SQL server version detection (PostgreSQL 8.0).
11. Fixes to pager generation in PATH_INFO theme.
12. Fixed rebuild of primary PATH_INFO theme during upgrading.
13. Fixed bugs that caused HTML entities to appear in bookmark titles in the PDFs.
14. Added missing URL session id to PDF generation links.
15. Added explanation to message/attachment pruning admin control panel, that better explain the operation.
16. Added option to allow disabling of welcome emails sent on registration.
17. Make SMTP errors be more verbose.
18. Fixed poll displaying in HTML emails.
19. IPB conversion script fixes to prevent query failures on invalid data.
20. Workaround for bug on win32 with temporary file names, this caused problems for avatar uploads in user profiles.
21. Added "how do post messages' FAQ entry.
22. Improved text of "invalid reset key" to mention the possibility of email client automatically opening the URL internally.

The upgrade script can be found here:
http://fudforum.org/download.php?di=108&u=1

This release is the culmination of the RC1-RC3 changes in addition to few small bug fixes added post RC3. These include updates to the Russian translation, better post login redirection logic and splitting of existing topics into new forums.

The install and upgrade scripts are available from: http://fudforum.org/download.php

2.6.12 also addresses a minor security issue inside the error logging code on certain installations running on Apache. Full details of the problem can be found here.

Another small bug fix RC that hopefully brings us yet another step closer to the stable release.

Major Changes Include the following:

• Improved Invision Board conversion script, it now supports 1.3.X versions.
  


• Updates to the Russian translations.
  


• Improved search result format.
  


• Added the ability to generate a PDF archive of private messages.
  


• Added a script that simplifies the process of logging in a user into their FUDforum account from other applications.
  


• Multibyte handling for e-mails.
  


• Slight speed improvements and garbage collection.
  

This release can be downloaded here.

Here goes the first release candidate of the 2.6.12 release, this release includes a fair number of changes and improvements so much testing is needed to ensure everything is working correctly. Among the changes are massive updates and revisions to the Italian translation. Addition of support for non-ascii (htmlencoded) characters in login/alias names. Support for mass topic deletion/moving for administrators and moderators. Several performance improvements and various bug fixes.
The full scope of the changes can be found here.

The new release is available for download at: http://fudforum.org/download.php

A new stable release of FUDforum, 2.6.10 has been released today and is now available download. This release primarily is a a bug fix release with a number of low/medium priority fixes. All existing users of the forum are encouraged to upgrade to this release whenever possible. Full details of the changes can be found in the RC1 - RC3 release announcements on the support forum.

After what seems like months of development a new stable release of FUDforum, 2.6.9 is finally out. This release fixes a fair number of bugs as well as introducing a number of functionality changes. These include series of speed imporvenments for many parts of the forum as well as some optimizations aimed at MySQL 4.1 users specifically. As of 2.6.9 all installation are now capable of generating PDFs based on forum messages thanks to the customized FPFD library bundled with FUDforum. The layout of the PDFs was also improved. All FUDforum users are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

The upgrade and installation scripts can be found here.

I am happy to announce the immediate availability of FUDforum 2.6.8 on which I have been hard at work for the past month or so. This release introduces several improvements that range from nested categories, IF/ELSE logic support in the templating system and a variety of speed enchantments. All users of FUDforum are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

The new release can be downloaded from here: FUDforum Download

While a RC, this non the less is a noteworthy release as it finally introduces the concept of conditional expressions via the IF ELSE END syntax inside the templating language. This means that designers gain greater control over the output logic rather then they did before. It also allowed me to remove many temporary variables that had to store intermediate values of various conditional expression inside the "code" component of the page.

Further details of this release can be found here.

Yey! Yet another stable release of FUDforum is out.

A bit more of e-mail fine tuning, this time aimed at making sure all mail clients can properly parsed encoded e-mails. Updated Chinese & French translations and the English translation undergone major grammatical revisions. The poll can now be position anywhere inside the message via the use of the {POLL} tag. Stricter URL session checks etc... All users are encourages to upgrade.

In an effort to catch up to the Linux kernel version (I can dream, can't I ) just over a week after 2.6.2 release here goes 2.6.3RC1 of FUDforum. While mostly a bug fixing release there are a number of fairly important new features in it as well. Continue reading "2.6.3RC1"

In between getting ready for the next PHP release, flame-war of the day and the usual workload I completely forgot to mention that FUDforum 2.6.2 has been released today, shame on me.
This release is a mix of bug fixes and new features with full details avaliable in the release announcement (final & rc1) and nitpick details in the changelog.