FUDforum 3.0.4

IMPORTANT: Users running FUDforum 3.0.0, FUDforum 3.0.1, FUDforum 3.0.2 or FUDforum 3.0.3 can upgrade to this release. Users on older FUDforum 2.x releases must first upgrade to version 3.0.0 before they can upgrade to subsequent releases.

FUDforum 3.0.4 was released on 15 July 2012. Support for this release ended on 6 October 2013. Users still running 3.0.4 should upgrade their forums to FUDforum 3.0.9 ASAP!

New features

• New option to allow users to edit their own posts, even after someone replied to it (ACP -> Global Settings Manager).
• Karma/user reputation that can be enabled from the Global Settings Manager (by trepstrer).
• Admins can now define who can edit custom profile fields.
• Better cross database backup and restores (i.e: from MySQL to PostgreSQL).
• New IRCbot.plugin for controlling ircbot.php (to announce new topics and replies on IRC).
• New ACP_FOOTER hook. Required for the Swekey plugin.
• Plugins can now define X_check functions that will be executed during consistency runs.
• Better spider detection. For example: 'Google' will now match agent 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot'.
• Added command-line mode to admgeoip.php (by macrule).
• Prevent profile spam (users cannot specify a home page if LINKS_BEFORE_POSTS > 0)
• Update jQuery to version 1.7.2 and jQuery UI to 1.8.19.
• Update FPDF to version 1.7.

Theme changes

• New karma templates added.
• Don't show 'Forgot Password' link when password resets are disabled.

Localization

• Add support for Asturian (ast).
• Add support for Basa Banyumasan (map-bms).
• Add support for Icelandic (is).
• Add support for Maltese (mt).
• Add support for Tamil (ta).
• Add support for Traditional Chinese (xh-hant).
• Language code for Norwegian was changed from "no" to "nb".
• Letter local selection for Luxembourgish and other translation updates.
• Numerous localization updates from http://translatewiki.net.

• 3.0.4 RC2: Add support for Zizaki (diq).

Database changes

• Two new columns added to fud30_users for IPv6 compatibility.

Fixes

• Restore ability to move forums between categories.
• Do not use LightBox for non-image attachments.
• Fix URL for avatar approvals.[1]
• Fix Notice: Undefined offset: 0 in admavatar.php on line 256.[2]
• Fix error: fud_smtp.inc missing when approving users and SMTP server is configured.[3]
• Fix slow query in Message Selector (see "Query taking 2 minutes" @ http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=119149)
• Fix URL to 'Last Message' in the Action List for the PATH_INFO theme @ http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=166520
• Fix Global variables declaration directly into global namespace @ http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&th=120308

• 3.0.4 RC2: Meaningful compiler error messages.
• 3.0.4 RC2: Fix infinite loop when MySQL truncates login/alias names with non-UTF8 chars.

Updating custom themes

If you have customized themes, you may need to apply the changes. For details, see how they are implemented in the default theme:

• Add '{REF: karma_show.tmpl}' to drawmsg.tmpl
• Add 3 new fields to register.tmpl (turing_test1..3)

Credits

• Siebrand Mazeland for helping FUDforum localizers on translatewiki.net and committing translation updates.
• Users trepstrer for the Karma/user reputation patch.
• User macrule for a number of smaller patches.

Several others (please add your name here!)