What's new in QSF Portal 1.5.1
Jan 17, 2011
- Slight rearranging of the forum topics display to save a bit of vertical space.
- Groundwork laid for creating better file comments.
- Added the ability to toggle file approvals on and off (global only).
- Added a file version to the file data.
- Updated the file details screen with a better layout.
- Updated Google Analytics code.
- It is now possible to upload to an otherwise hidden category to allow for one-way submissions.
- Added Akismet filter protection to signature edits. Eat shit spambots.
- Added Akismet filter protection to forum posts. Eat shit again spambots.
- Default number of members displayed per members page raised from 10 to 25.
- Visual update to individual news posts.
- Moved query stats to the board statistics box on the left side.
- Dropped the messagelink and codelink modlets in favor of inline styling for new PMs and files pending approval.
- Updated avatar handling.
- Massive overhaul of the installer system. Dropped unsupported converters. Will bring back if the need arises.
- Added MySQLi support.
- Bugs addressed:
- File permissions module was not setting the security token.
- Fixed BBCode size tags messing up formatting of other tags.
- SECURITY: It was possible to view a category the user did not have permission to see using a direct link.
New in QSF Portal 1.5 (Aug 31, 2010)
- Implementation of a math based captcha to replace the image based system that was filled with deprecated PHP function calls.
- General cleanup of the default skin.
- Dropped Brightcove and Google Video BBCode controls.
- Fatal errors will no longer report the details to the browser.
- Replaced BBCode parser with the code used in Sandbox 2.x due to numerous PHP 5.3 deprecations in the old code.
- Emoticons are now handled on a per-skin basis properly as they should have been.
- Replacements table holding censored words trimmed of unneeded columns only used by emoticons.
- Emoticon management module in the AdminCP has been removed.
- Ashlander 3 has been formally adopted as the official skin.
- Previous news listings at the bottom of the front page moved into a selector box.
- Long awaited preview mode when editing posts.
- Bugs addressed:
- SECURITY: Secunia Advisory SA38783 fixed.
- Security token for permissions update was not provided, causing form submission to fail.
- Category display broken by split() deprecation.
- Language fix for Akismet registration filtering.
- Fixes for broken user lists and corrupted downloads.
- Missing language for required registration cookies.
- A few functions got missed in the cross-site request forgery sweep.
New in QSF Portal 1.4.6 (Mar 29, 2010)
- Removed support for the IE6 pngfix. If you're still using IE6, upgrade.
- Duplicate content discovered by Google Webmasters removed from the skin.
- General optimization of the default skin. Removal of unused files.
- Applied Kiasyn's patch to declutter the forum group permissions menu.
- Bugs addressed:
- SECURITY: Added protection against cross-site request forgery attacks.
- Resolves Secunia Advisory 38783, part 3.
- Bug #192: Clicking on the search link in the files menu led to an infinite nesting loop that would exhaust the PHP memory limit.
- Bug #168: Subscription check causes crash when editing group perms.
- Bug #193: Youtube BBCode tag is not XHTML compliant. Also raised the size of the video preview box to 640x400.
- Bug #194: Forumjump.js uses the wrong URL target.
- Corrected more XHTML validation issues.
New in QSF Portal 1.4.5 (Feb 21, 2010)
- This update contains a critical security fix. All users are advised to update immediately.
- BUG-SECURITY: Secunia Advisory SA32823 fixed.
- Removed all non-English language files from the base package.
- Changed the stats directory name to rss to avoid problems with how some web hosts handle the stats directory name.
- Merged the "users visited" function into the users_online module so it can now be called through a MODLET statement.
- User IP will be added to mail headers delivered through the email form.
- Copyright footers updated for 2010. Non-essential skin change.
- Google Analytics code updated.
- Top of page will now display where a new post, poll, or reply is being made to.
- Akismet filter support has been added to user registration and the email form.