We are happy to announce our latest stable release Phorum-5.2.8.
It is a bug fix release over 5.2.7 fixing lots of issues found.
Some new things were put in too.
This includes:
- the rewrite of the bbcode module done through the MySQL-conference this year
- new APIs for Ajax usage and newflags
- some more hooks for better module integration
- updated / new documentation from Andy Taylor - mostly in FAQ and Admin Docs.
You can download it from
our downloads page.
This is the excerpt from the changelog:
2008-07-22 07:23 mmakaay
* Suppress output from the memcache cache layer for cases where
connecting to the memcached server fails. This prevents memcached
problems from breaking the page ("headers already sent".)
Additionally, the inline documentation was updated.
2008-07-18 13:28 mmakaay
* Fixed #772: possible corruption of serialized custom field data
(reported by Jonhoo).
2008-07-15 18:11 brian
* Fix for #731. Strip DESCRIPTION for search page
2008-07-15 18:07 brian
* moving the 5.2.x tags to the 5.2 dir
2008-07-04 16:48 ts77
* use display_name for reporter as suggested by Oliver Riesen
(fixing #761)
2008-07-04 15:49 ts77
* same date formatting in read templates as suggested by Oliver
Riesen (#749)
2008-07-02 18:39 mmakaay
* Fixed an incompatibility between file downloads with the "only
from this forum" restriction, in combination with URI
authentication. Before this fix, access for downloading the image
would be denied, even though the file was downloaded directly from
the forum. # Also a typo-fix-of-the-day change (learned that it is
"existent" :-).
2008-07-01 14:30 mmakaay
* Fixed a compatibility problem between the new BBcode module and
PHP versions prior to 5.1.0. The PHP function
htmlspecialchars_decode() is not available for those versions of
PHP. Thanks to Adam for noticing the problem and for providing a
work-around!
2008-06-25 21:14 ts77
* fixed undefined index in event_logger module (#748, reported by
Oliver Riesen)
2008-06-25 21:07 ts77
* stripped quotes from plain-text forum description as suggested by
Oliver Riesen (#743)
2008-06-25 20:53 ts77
* added line-height for thread options as suggested by Oliver Riesen
(#730)
2008-06-25 20:20 ts77
* made users tz_offset a float value for non-integer timezones
2008-06-17 11:19 mmakaay
* The "Force hiding of email addresses" option is now only
applicable to regular forum users. Administrators and moderators
can always see the email addresses of the users. For moderators,
this can be restricted by setting the PHORUM_MOD_EMAIL_VIEW
constant to false in include/constants.php. Some more fine grained
control for email address displaying will be added to Phorum 5.3.
2008-06-16 10:15 ts77
* quote anonymous authors with their name (fixing #744)
2008-06-16 09:59 ts77
* sort strictly by datestamp to get the recent_post (fixing #755)
2008-06-16 09:32 ts77
* added user's posts to edit screen (readonly), fixing #759
2008-06-16 09:06 mmakaay
* Another fix for #765: UTF-8 byte order markers at the start of
template files are now stripped by include/templates.php.
2008-06-16 08:20 mmakaay
* Fix for #765: catch the output of include files
(include/db/config.php, include/lang/* and
templates/*/settings.tpl) to prevent extra output like UTF-8 byte
order markers from breaking the pages.
2008-06-13 18:28 ts77
* case insensitive search for block tags in html module (fixing
#760)
2008-06-05 00:21 mmakaay
* Implemented some improvements for the Editor Tools module as
suggested by David King (phorum.org user "Optimal") and Oliver
Riesen. The behavior when adding tags using the buttons is now
much better. The textarea won't scroll up anymore if it is
scrolled downwards a bit and the text that was selected previously
to adding the tag will be reselected after adding the tag.
2008-06-03 09:41 mmakaay
* Fixed a bug in handling stale close tags that directly follow
another open or close tag. Thanks to CBiLL for the problem report.
The related error message was: Unsupported operand types in
[..]/bbcode/api.php
2008-06-02 08:09 mmakaay
* Fix for #762: moved pm_sent hook to always trigger the hook after
a sent PM. Before, it would not trigger if the PM mail
notification was disabled.
2008-05-27 20:34 mmakaay
* Improved handling of stale close tags in the text and fixed a PHP
undefined index warning along with it. Thanks to CBiLL for the
problem report.
2008-05-25 22:58 mmakaay
* MFT: # Undefined indexes fixed.
2008-05-25 11:57 mmakaay
* Added the conference 2008 rewrite release of the BBcode module to
the tree.
2008-05-25 09:35 mmakaay
* Added javascript_filter hook (for things like javascript
compression). Added a refresh=1 parameter for javascript.php to
let it ignore the cache.
2008-05-19 15:51 mmakaay
* The javascript.php script automatically loads the Ajax client
code, so modules can be sure that they can make use of it and
don't have to load it specifically. Templates can now contain a
"javascript.tpl", which is loaded in by the javascript.php code
automatically. This corresponds to the way that the CSS code works
(where you can create a "css.tpl").
2008-05-13 03:51 ataylor
* Added File Path block
2008-05-08 15:00 mmakaay
* Added a new API layer for handling JSON data (final goal: Ajax
layer)
2008-05-08 14:56 mmakaay
* Added a new API layer for newflags handling.
2008-05-03 13:53 mmakaay
* Backported the phorum_switch_template() function from trunk to
5.2. This new function makes it possible to switch the active
Phorum template to a template that is stored in any directory.
This is for example useful if a module includes a full Phorum
template, where the template is packaged with the module code.
With this new function, the Phorum can activate the module's
template without the need for the admin to copy the template to
the main templates directory.
2008-04-29 16:41 mmakaay
* Fixed #740: Mark read in folder (classic index) goes back to root
(thanks Oliver!)
2008-04-29 16:03 mmakaay
* Fixed #754: Display name filter was not included in pagination
(thanks Oliver!)
2008-04-29 16:01 mmakaay
* Fixed #738: problems with German help file for smileys module
(thanks Oliver!)
2008-04-29 15:54 mmakaay
* Fixed #757: Fixed typo in hook call for "posting_permissions"
(thanks Alexey)
2008-04-17 15:24 ts77
* use the correct default language for announcement conversion
(fixing #734)
2008-04-03 08:42 mmakaay
* Fixed #735: Added missing backslash in JavaScript code (thanks to
Oliver Riesen)
2008-03-23 00:24 mmakaay
* Fixed spam flagging by SpamAssassin for rule
SUBJECT_NEEDS_ENCODING. This prevents spam flagging of mail in
case the admin uses a name that contains special characters in the
"System Emails From Name" field. Encoding was implemented using
the Quoted-Printable description from RFC 2045.
2008-03-21 11:25 mmakaay
* Fixed spam flagging by SpamAssassin for rule FROM_BLANK_NAME
(From: contains empty name). This prevents spam flagging of mail
in case the admin did not fill in the "System Emails From Name"
field. This resulted in a header like: From: ""
<admin@example.com>
2008-03-21 11:16 mmakaay
* Fixed spam flagging by SpamAssassin for rule MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER
(Message-Id was added by a relay). This prevents spam flagging of
mail messages that are not sent for new message notification (for
those we already generated a Message-Id header).
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