FUDforum 2.6.5 was released on 30 August 2004. This release is no longer supported. Please upgrade to FUDforum 3.0.0 ASAP.
RC 1
It's been a few week since the last release and it's time to get on the release path once again. 2.6.5 looks to be a mostly maintenance release, however it does have a few new features.
Changes:
- Disable troublesome PNG hack for IE on Macs which is not needed anyway.
- Added optional Turing test for registration system to deter bots.
- Few additional PostgreSQL query fixes.
- Prevent possible warning when reading empty message bodies.
- Various cleanups and code simplifications.
- Only send no-cache headers for registered users.
- Fixed typos in French & Italian translations and updated German & Polish translations.
- Improved performance of search index building for PHP 4.3.0+ systems.
- Fixed handling of MSN address on user info page.
- Move all date formats into a single file.
- Fixed search handling for Windows locales CP* (Russian-1251 and Latvian).
RC 2
Another small bug fix release, that should hopefuly put is in a position to release the 2.6.5 final next week.
Changes:
- Implemented smiley cache, and improved the replacement speed.
- Updated German Help/FAQ.
- Fixed a bug resulting in a loss of some account values.
- Fixed JavaScript warning on the group manager.
- Optimize icon display code.
- Added [del] tag.
- Fixed incorrect file paths inside message compactor.
- Fixed incorrect variable names in French & Italian translations.
- Eliminate separate log for failed handling of file attachments.
- Make sure nntp & mailing list script do not need the sessions file.
- Fixed a theme compiler bug when a variable is immidiately followed by a '.'.
- Moved dates formats out of msg files into common date format holder.
- For messages imported from nttp & mailing list convert foreign charset into the forum's charset whenever possible.
- Fixed possible error on split & merge thread pages where non-name forums are available.
RC 2 (RC3?)
A much overdue 2.6.5RC2 is finally out and hopefully will be soon followed by the final. This release contains only bug fixes with the exception of the newly added Japanese support.
Changes:
- Updated Russian & French translations.
- Corrected install routine for older PHP releases.
- Fixed smiley display on quoting.
- Better handling of multi-line encoded headers for imported messages.
- Fixed decoding bug with nested font tags.
- Fixed theme compiler bugler.
- Fixed file-upload handling for win32.
- Birth date validation for user info page.
- Added IP filter check to registration and fixed it in the remail form.
- Fixed bug with message & topic deletion FUD API.
- Fixes to the sporum conversion script.
Final
After a long delay here is the final version of 2.6.5. Since the RC3 there were a few small fixes that help to ensure that the forum is as stable as possible.
Changes:
- Fixed bug with adding additional headers to mailing list messages.
- Better permission changer that does not use recursive functions and is FC2 safe.
- When creating a new path_info theme copy all files.
- More spforum converter fixes.
- Fixed search functionality for CP* (russian, latvian) UTF8 (japanese) translations.
- Added the ability to download directories in the form of tar archives.
- Always use _ to separate date bits in datadump filename.
- Added an administrator option to disable autocomplete for the login form(s).
- Make sure that attachment removed during message editing, stay removed.
- Print valid XML output when there is no output to RDF query.
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