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icon6.gif  V3.0.0 Upgrade [message #2601] Wed, 04 November 2009 09:50 Go to next message
  Piasa  UNITED STATES
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Announcement
Over the next few days I will be transitioning to version 3.0 of the FUDforum software. At the same time I will be pruning old links and posts which are no longer valid and moving or combining others. I still have not decided how to archive the old posts, but am inclined to renew Piasa with a new fresh install and link to a virtual forum of old posts, Point to ponder.


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icon6.gif  Re: V3.0.0 Upgrade [message #2602 is a reply to message #2601] Wed, 04 November 2009 09:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
  Piasa  UNITED STATES
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The initial upgrade has been completed although there are still some issues with the theme being upgraded so there may be some changes to your screen as I work on it.


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icon6.gif  Re: V3.0.0 Upgrade [message #2603 is a reply to message #2602] Wed, 04 November 2009 10:46 Go to previous messageGo to next message
  Piasa  UNITED STATES
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For those of you who are interested Version 3.0.0 offers the following changes and improvements over Version 2.8.1


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New requirements:

PHP4 is no longer supported (you've been warned). The new system requirements to run FUDforum are:
* PHP 5.1 or higher
* MySQL 4.1+ or PostgreSQL 8.1+ or SQLite 3.x+

Interface changes:

* A new Quick Reply editor was added with full BBcode and smiley support.
* ATOM and RSS2 syndication was added (in addition to the exiting RDF feed format).
* Quotes are now rendered with a quote icon and semantically correct cite and blockquote tags. Nested quotes are rendered in different colors.
* Code blocks are rendered with "Select all" and "Show/ hide" controls.
* Support for graphical captchas and captcha plugins (to define more advanced or site specific captchas).
* The welcome message now includes an avatar and 5-star rating.
* FUDcode was renamed to BBcode.
* The default forum header now contains a forum description.
* The "generate printable PDF" link was replaced with a PDF icon.
* Twitter integration and layout changes for social networking sites.
* Improve visual display of redirect forums (JanRei).
* Two new themes - forestgreen and slateblue.

New administration features:

* Ability to specify a minimum message length to prevent users from posting empty or very short messages.
* Ability to check for and block creation of duplicate topics.
* Improved plugin support - including on-line configuration and help call-outs. The PREREGISTRATION hook was changed and new default plugins were added.
* Process MIME encoded attachments while importing USENET posts.
* Administrators can now load (or aggregate) XML feeds into the forum.
* Allow importing of mailing list messages from POP3 and IMAP mailboxes.
* SMTP TLS support (one can now, for example, send forum messages through GMail).
* New 'Lock/unlock All Selected' button on the topic listing page.
* Global settings were re-ordered and indexed in the Admin Control Panel.
* The message compactor can now also change the character set of private messages.
* Many other Admin Control Panel improvements (too many to mention them all here).

Internationalization improvements:

* Administrators can import the latest forum translations directly from TranslateWiki.
* English messages were removed from all translations (English is now used in the fall-back chain).
* Support language-specific plural messages. For example "1 Vote" and "2 Votes" instead of "1 Vote(s)"; and "Moderator:" or "Moderators:" instead of "Moderator(s):".
* Message files can now contain comments (mainly to credit translators).
* Single quotes in messages files are now encoded to prevent them from breaking our themes.
* Message editor can now also add messages to message files.
* A new "Help/ FAQ Editor" Admin Control Panel was added.
* Updates to French (by rflores), German (by zwickyy) and Russian (George Nechaev) messages (prior to TranslateWiki migration).
* New languages added (not all 100% completed):
- [br] Breton / Brezhoneg
- [gl] Galician / Galego
- [oc] Occitan / Occitan
- [gsw] Swiss German / Alemannisch
- [el] Greek / Ελληνικά

Database changes:

* Upgrade script now supports upgrading of SQLite databases.
* The installer now supports the MySQLi (MySQL Improved) database driver.
* The command line installer now supports automated MySQLi and PDO database installations.

Fixes:

* Preserve views and topic description when merging threads.
* Restore plugin settings (changing global settings disabled the plug-in system).
* Allow users to login after a theme was removed.
* Tree View doesn't work in Internet Explorer 8.
* Support hosts that disable the syslinks() function.
* Copy the ".path_info" marker when a new template set is created.
* The FUDAPI call, fud_fetch_newest_user() should return something.
* Fix PHP warning when editing sparse themes.
* Prevent display of a confusing '0' if no accounts are pending approval.
* Force charset with AJAX get (tree view messed up non-English messages).
* Unprintable chars after search abstracts (non-English forums).
* Fix URL avatars.
* Specify column list when selecting data to ensure we get it in the right order. This will fix several restore issues.
* Uninstall script will now drop the forum's database tables.
* Some mail sending fixes.
* Many more as can be seen from the change log.

ALSO:
- New translations added for Arabic, Esperanto, Hungarian and Upper Sorbian.
- Remove redundant 'charset' files - inherit them from english.
- Improved locale selection (try to always pick a UTF-8 locale).
- Optimize queries for the forum's XML Feed (faster).
- Support MySQLi (MySQL improved) persistent and socket connections.
- Add forum signature for aggregated feed posts.
- Word-wrap message

[Updated on: Wed, 04 November 2009 13:47]


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icon6.gif  Re: V3.0.0 Upgrade [message #2604 is a reply to message #2603] Wed, 04 November 2009 13:59 Go to previous message
  Piasa  UNITED STATES
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V3.0.0 Upgrade Complete

Or at least as complete as its going to be for right now, since it is still in the experimental stage. The average user will notice little difference since most of the changes affect administrative functions.

The most pronounced difference registered users will see is that the Quick reply button has been done away with in favor of an expand or collapse + or - icon located at the left bottom side of the last message in each thread and that I have reverted back to the colorized traditional buttons.

I will still be moving things around as I tidy up over the next few days.


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