This weekend I was returning from the Montreal PHP conference, which as usual was a great deal of fun. In fact I was having so much I made back to my hotel room at about 5:30am in the morning, approximately 2 1/2 hours from my scheduled departure time to the train station, needless to say I had very little sleep. The adventure begins right at the checkout, which took about an hour since the hotel had conveniently lost the payment confirmation from the conference organizers. Consequently a great deal of time was spent searching through computer & paper records and eventually leading to an early phone call to Damien Seguy (conference organizer). By the time the problem was resolved it was about 9:00am leaving me with just shy of 40 minutes to get to a train station and board my train. Fortunately, the train station is a mere 15 minute cab drive away and I was able to get to my train just time, giving me ample time to stand in line to board the train. Despite a line up stretching for almost an entire lengt...

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: [list] [] 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. [/list] 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

GoDaddy has announced that they will be giving away 1 year Turbo SSL certificates to qualifying Open Source projects. To find if you are applicable visit their request form at: https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl_opensource.asp Seems like a neat idea that should give all OSS developers an opportunity to test their web applications with genuine SSL certificates and ensure that their applications work properly over https.