1 Geeklog History/Changes:
7 - "Refine search" lost the status of the "Titles Only" checkbox [Dirk]
8 Note: This fix requires a change in search/searchform.thtml
9 - Improved display of the "Sort by" and "Show n results" dropdowns on the
10 search results page (feature request #0000910) [Sami, LWC]
11 - The search results page used HTML <br> tags even when XHTML was requested
12 (bug #0001022, patch provided by taca)
13 - Fixed wrong path reported in case of a missing 'data' directory (reported by
14 Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
15 - When a plugin returns 0 items for its entry in the Admins Block, don't display
16 that as 'N/A' (bug #0001025) [Dirk]
17 - Fixed a bug in the Group Editor that didn't let you add groups to other groups
18 unless your $_TABLES['groups'] happened to be called "groups" (bug #0000998)
21 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
25 - When URL rewriting is enabled, return rewritten URLs for search results [Dirk]
29 - Fixed use of wrong CSS class for the entries for the What's New block [Tom]
35 - The user's time zone selection (from My Account) is actually used now [Dirk]
36 - Modernized the "timezone hack", made the config option a dropdown, and moved
37 all timezone-related code into a new TimeZoneConfig class [Dirk]
38 - Fixed an old bug that could cause SQL errors when a user changed their "Show
39 & hide boxes" settings [Dirk]
40 - Searching by author threw an error on PHP 4 (bug #0001008) [Dirk]
41 - Moved the functionality of the toinnodb.php script into the Database Backups
43 - Added an option to optimze tables to the Database Backups admin panel [Dirk]
44 - Added a notice about the expiry time for the security token (and the potential
45 loss of changes) to most editors. This is meant as an intermediate step
46 until we get around to updating the editors and provide a more user friendly
48 - Fixed display of text excerpt for search results on PHP 4 (bug #0001004)
50 - The comment speed limit was being ignored (bug #0001003) [Dirk]
51 - Added an icon to make the plugin update option somewhat more obvious [Dirk]
52 (icon "stock_update-data.png" taken from Gnome 2.18 icon theme set by
53 AMAZIGH Aneglus, released under the GPL)
54 - Allow bigger values for a topic's Sort Order field (feature request #0001011)
56 - When a Story Admin did not have permission to edit a story, Geeklog threw a
57 "call to a member function on a non-object" error when trying to display a
58 proper "access denied" message (reported by Chase and Cesar) [Dirk]
59 - Allow external apps to contribute to search results (feature request #0000985)
61 - Remember current sort/limit in search results (bug #0001007) [Sami]
62 - Don't display the comment form for a story when comments aren't enabled for it
64 - Fixed a long-standing quirk of the submission handling where the "Submissions"
65 entry in the Admins Block wasn't updated after accepting / rejecting a
67 - Fixed creation of multiple plugin groups in plugin autoinstall [Randy, Dirk]
68 - Added new option $_CONF['article_comment_close_enabled'] to enable/disable
69 automatically closing stories for comments after a certain amount of days
70 (bug #0000959). Changed handling of comment_expire field in gl_stories such
71 that 0 means the story is always open for comments [Dirk]
72 - The "Admin Group" checkbox in the Group Editor didn't work (bug #0000995,
73 reported & fix provided by Tsuchi)
74 - Setting $_CONF['article_comment_close_days'] to a high value (to work around
75 bugs with the "Disable Comments" option in 1.6.0) may result in values outside
76 of the range of the year dropdown for that option, in which case it reverted
77 to the previous(!) year and caused comments to be closed immediately [Dirk]
78 - When viewing your own profile page, you now get an "edit" link that take you
79 to "My Account" [Dirk]
80 - Additional checks in "Mail Story to a Friend", "Send mail to user", and
81 "Mail Users" dialogs to make sure users don't enter email addresses into the
82 name fields (bug #0000992) [Dirk]
83 - Added an option to send a copy to self to the "Mail Story to a Friend" dialog
84 and made the look of this and the "Send mail to user" dialogs more consistent
86 - Display the number of stories in the current topic in the Topic Editor
87 (feature request #0000806) [Dirk]
88 - Call CUSTOM_userCheck from admin/user.php (bug #0000925) [Dirk]
89 - You can now have one featured story per topic (feature request #0000750,
90 patch provided by Tom Homer)
91 - Changing the Post Mode in Advanced Editor mode selected the wrong tab
92 (bug #0000980, patch provided by dengen)
93 - Made the former $cc parameter for COM_mail an optional array of additional
94 email headers (using a string for that parameter still works as CC:) [Dirk]
95 - Fixed reply notification for the very first comment (bug #0000973)
97 - When an anonymous commenter left a name, use it in the comment notification
98 email (bug #0000960) [Dirk]
99 - Removed the CSRF token from all links to edit a comment. We only need it in
100 the actual comment editor and it caused problems on the moderation page [Dirk]
101 - For anonymous comments, use the anonymous user's name from the database, not
102 from the language file (cf. bug #0000960) [Dirk]
103 - The session and password cookies are now created with the HttpOnly flag set
104 to make it somewhat harder to read them from JavaScript (requires browser
106 - Fixed visibility of the "Send Ping" links in the Story Admin's list of stories
107 and the Story Options block [Dirk]
108 - The install script was switching back to English in some upgrade scenarios
109 (bug #0000969, patch provided by taca)
110 - Added a workaround to not lose the XMLSitemap priorities for Locales where
111 the comma is used as the decimal separator [Dirk]
112 - Keep track of actual upper/lowercase spelling of plugin names in the
113 XMLSitemap plugin [mystral-kk, Dirk]
114 - Added support for a CUSTOM_renderMenu function when rendering the top menu
115 (feature request #0000845) [Dirk]
116 - In the install script, always open db-config.php and siteconfig.php in
117 binary mode to avoid EOL character mixup on Windows (bug #0000730) [Dirk]
118 - Avoid SQL error with certain db dumps during migration (bug #0000955) [Dirk]
119 - Plugin migration was only called when the plugin also needed an upgrade
120 (bug #0000947) [Dirk]
121 - The Migrate option in the install script now also works on an existing
122 database (feature request #0000945) [Dirk]
123 - Comment notifications used the phrase "Read the full article" when pointing
124 to the new comment post (bug #0000940) [Dirk]
125 - Send correct content type and character set header in the install script
126 (bug #0000964, patch provided by taca)
127 - The "Remember Me For" option under My Account did not recognize the "(don't)"
128 option any more (bug #0000961) [Dirk]
129 - Send a notification when a comment goes into the submission queue [Dirk]
130 - Added a link back to the story to the "Mail Story to a Friend" form [Dirk]
131 - Only list [code], [raw] tags when story.* permissions are required [Dirk]
132 - [page_break] was not listed when all HTML was allowed for Root users [Dirk]
133 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
134 - When an error occurs in bigdump.php (during migration) keep the selected
135 language when sending the user back to migrate.php (bug #0000943) [Dirk]
136 - Use COM_getUserDateTimeFormat, i.e. the user's preferred format, for
137 displaying the date and time in search results [Dirk]
138 - When disabling a feed, delete the feed file [Dirk]
139 - Moved leftover hard-coded text from admin/sectest.php to the language files
141 - When creating Pingback excerpts, convert the other site's content to our
142 site's character set, when necessary [Dirk]
143 - New function COM_getTextContent converts HTML into continuous text. Used for
144 a more accurate "read more" count for articles and to improve the text
145 excerpts for search results and pingbacks [Dirk]
146 - Use COM_numberFormat to format the number of registered and anonymous users
147 displayed in the Who's Online block [Dirk]
148 - Use $LANG_ADMIN['na'] instead of hard-coding 'N/A' in several places [Dirk]
149 - For Remote Users, display their service name in the User Editor [Dirk]
151 Calendar Plugin 1.1.1
153 - Keep track of the user id for submitted events (bug #0000993) [Dirk]
154 - Reintroduced {event_begin_anchortag} and {event_end_anchortag} variables
156 - The number of hits for an event was reset when editing the event [Dirk]
157 - When cloning an event, the number of hits for the clone should be 0 [Dirk]
158 - Avoid triggering a false spam report when submitting an event with the default
159 "http://" entry for the link still in place (bug #0000946) [Dirk]
163 - Display the number of links in the current category in the Category Editor.
164 Note: Does not (yet) count links in sub-categories [Dirk]
165 - Link titles in autotags showed up with backslashes before quotes (bug
170 - Fixed display of the Polls block when it only contained polls not visible
171 for anonymous visitors (bug #0000996) [Dirk]
172 - When upgrading from Geeklog 1.5.2, the length of the poll IDs was not extended
173 to 40 characters - only fresh installs of Geeklog 1.6.0 and upgrades from
174 older versions worked correctly (cf. feature request #0000754) [Dirk]
175 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
176 - Introduced [poll:], [poll_vote:], and [poll_result:] autotags, allowing to
177 embed polls where autotags are allowed, provided by Tom Homer
179 Static Pages Plugin 1.6.1
181 - Certain types or all Static Pages can now be excluded from the search results
182 (feature request #0000979, provided by Tom Homer)
183 - New and updated Static Pages are now listed in the What's New block
184 (feature request #0000908, provided by Tom Homer)
185 - Fresh installs of the plugin in Geeklog 1.6.0 accidentally used a wrong name
186 for the plugin's admin group. Silently fix that during the upgrade [Dirk]
187 - Made the list of pages sortable by author (feature request #0000978) [Dirk]
188 - List available autotags in the static pages editor [Dirk]
189 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
192 Aug 30, 2009 (1.6.0sr2)
195 This release addresses the following security issue:
196 - Unauthorized file uploads were possible through FCKeditor.
197 Uploaded files still had to go through FCKeditor's filter, so it was not
198 possible to upload scripts (and the integrity of the Geeklog site as such was
199 not in danger). There were, however, reports that this was used to host
201 This update prevents use of the upload feature when FCKeditor is disabled and
202 disables it for anonymous users. It also doesn't allow uploading of archive
203 files any more. Furthermore, you need some sort of "edit" permission now to
204 be able to upload files through FCKeditor (this is meant as an interim
205 measure - we will probably introduce a separate "upload" permission in future
208 Not security-related:
209 - Fixed installation using InnoDB tables [Dirk]
210 - Links plugin: Fixed wrong function name in the autoinstall.php file
212 - Fixed an SQL error (due to a missing global declaration; not exploitable) when
213 the commentcode field was auto-updated (reported by Jokke_K) [Dirk]
215 This release also includes updated Hebrew (provided by LWC) and German language
219 Jul 30, 2009 (1.6.0sr1)
222 This release addresses the following security issues:
223 - Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to
224 email a story to a friend.
225 - The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that
226 it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to
229 Not security-related:
230 - Fixed an SQL error (due to a non-initialized variable; not exploitable) when
231 the story submission queue was off (reported by Dieter Thomas) [Dirk]
232 - Fixed calls to a nonexistent function COM_outputMessageAndAbort (should have
233 been COM_displayMessageAndAbort) [Dirk]
239 Geeklog 1.6.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
240 the 2008 Google Summer of Code:
242 + Site migration support and easier plugin installation, by Matt West
243 + Improved search, by Sami Barakat
244 + Comment moderation and editable comments, by Jared Wenerd
246 Changes since 1.6.0rc2:
247 - Updated language file for formal German, provided by Markus Wollschläger
248 - Updated Japanese language file and documentation, provided by the
252 Jul 12, 2009 (1.6.0rc2)
255 Changes since 1.6.0rc1:
256 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.4.1 [Dirk]
257 - Fixed advanced search not using start and end dates (bug #0000924, patch
259 - Fixed auto-detection of table prefix during migration when the SQL dump
260 contained CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS requests (bug #0000922) [Dirk]
261 - When an error occurs in bigdump.php (during migration) send the user back to
262 migrate.php (bug #0000919) [Dirk]
263 - Fixed warning in migration script when no backups are available (bug #0000918,
264 patch provided by hiroron)
266 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
267 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
268 - Updated Japanese language files and documentation, provided by the
272 Jun 28, 2009 (1.6.0rc1)
275 Changes since 1.6.0b3:
276 - Fixed include path for db-config.php in bigdump.php (bug #0000915) [Dirk]
277 - Improved detection of UTF-8 database dumps in migration (bug #0000916) [Dirk]
278 - Fixed typos in the install script (bugs #0000913 and #0000914) [Dirk]
281 Jun 21, 2009 (1.6.0b3)
284 Changes since 1.6.0b2:
285 - Fixed IE6 and Safari compatibility issue with sort and limit combo boxes in
286 search results (part of bug #0000874) [Sami]
287 - Fixed HTML in the Configuration (bug #0000907) [Dirk]
288 - Added a more prominent reminder to remove the install script [Dirk]
289 - Made the link to a comment's parent object from the comment bar work properly
291 - Allow searching by topic (without a query string) again (reported by Markus
293 - Fixed handling of $_CONF['comment_close_rec_stories'] (bug #0000899) [Dirk]
294 - Improved selection of text portion displayed in search results [Dirk]
295 - Fixed an error that occured after deleting a trackback [Dirk]
296 - Replace autotags in search results (bug #0000887) [Dirk]
297 - Don't insist on an email address when editing a Remote User (bug #0000885)
299 - Added a config option to send an X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP header to prevent
300 "clickjacking" (requires browser support) [Dirk]
301 - Prevent XSS in the install script (reported independently by Nemesis and MaXe)
303 - Removed old plugin API function plugin_commentsupport from the Calendar,
304 Polls, and Static Pages plugins [Dirk]
306 - Updated Japanese language files and Japanese documentation,
307 provided by the Geeklog.jp group
311 - Fixed leap year check [Sean Clark]
315 - Implemented PLG_getCommentUrlId [Dirk]
316 - Update polls comments when changing a poll's ID so the comments don't become
317 orphaned (part of bug #0000901) [Dirk]
321 - Another attempt to fix a compatibility issue with PHP 4 (parse error)
323 - Implemented PLG_getCommentUrlId [Dirk]
324 - Update static pages comments when changing a page's ID so the comments don't
325 become orphaned (part of bug #0000901) [Dirk]
326 - When deleting a static page, also delete its comments (bug #0000901) [Dirk]
330 - Add the Polls plugin to the sitemap by default (part of bug #0000898) [Dirk]
331 - When manually adding or removing plugins, automatically add/remove
332 corresponding entries for priority and frequency (part of bug #0000898) [Dirk]
335 May 31, 2009 (1.6.0b2)
338 Changes since 1.6.0b1:
339 - Various fixes to the new search (work in progress) [Sami]
340 - The list of Comment Submissions now tries to provide a link to a comment's
341 parent object (article, poll, ...). If not available, it displays an excerpt
342 from the comment [Dirk]
343 - Plugin comments lost their type when being saved in the comment submission
344 queue (they were treated as comments on stories) [Dirk]
345 - SQL errors now trigger the standard error handler ("Unfortunately, an error
346 has occurred ..."). Details are available in error.log, as usual [Tony, Dirk]
347 - Removed the $_CONF['search_no_data'] config option and moved the text to the
348 language files (bug #0000873) [Dirk]
349 - All bundled plugins now include a check to see if they support the DBMS the
350 site is running on [Dirk]
351 - A fresh install didn't check if the bundled plugins are compatible with the
352 Geeklog version about to be installed [Dirk]
353 - Users couldn't change their password or delete their account (reported by
355 - Fixed plugin postinstall from the install script [Dirk]
356 - Made COM_createImage recognize https:// URLs (bug #0000881) [Dirk]
357 - Fixed notices in the config class (reported by tgc and others) [Dirk]
358 - Fixed empty entries in the "Type" dropdown on the Advanced Search page.
359 Requires an updated search/searchform.thtml template (part of bug #0000874)
360 - Ensure PLG_templateSetVars (and therefore CUSTOM_templateSetVars) is called
361 properly when the "Skip Preview" option is disabled (bug #0000880) [Dirk]
362 - Fixed handling of multi-byte encoded texts when limiting the content of feed
363 entries to a certain amount of characters (reported by alank) [Dirk]
364 - Added a verbose logging option to the search class and make it default to off
366 - lib-custom.php was missing from the 1.6.0b1 tarball
368 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Juan Pablo Novillo
372 - Display a message when a plugin comment is queued [Dirk]
373 - If you knew a poll's ID, you could find out the poll's title even if you did
374 not have access to the poll [Dirk]
375 - Fixed (mostly) blank page when calling up a non-existing poll ID (reported
380 - Display a message when a plugin comment is queued [Dirk]
381 - Fixed handling of "entire page" centerblocks in a multi-language environment:
382 Need to allow one per language (reported by Norbert Ortmann) [Dirk]
383 - Fixed a typo that prevented the [staticpage:] autotag from working [Dirk]
387 - Added an option to exclude plugins from inclusion in the sitemap. Defaults
388 to the Links plugin [Dirk]
389 - Remove sitemap files when uninstalling the plugin [Dirk]
390 - Don't include Links in the sitemap.xml automatically [Dirk]
391 - Fixed "missing argument 2" error when changing config options (reported by
392 Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
395 May 1, 2009 (1.6.0b1)
398 - New XMLSitemap plugin that creates a XML sitemaps file as supported by all
399 major search engines, provided by mystral-kk
400 - Don't allow to add/remove users to/from the All Users and Logged-in Users
401 groups via the group editor (bugs #0000863 and #0000864) [Dirk]
402 - Cosmetic changes to the form to add/remove users to/from groups, for
403 consistency with the other admin panels [Dirk]
404 - Document where CUSTOM_templateSetVars is actually called from (bug #0000862)
406 - Added option to search by titles only (feature request #0000840) [Sami]
407 - The "Plugins" entry in the Admins Block now displays the number of enabled
408 plugins (previously included the disabled plugins) [Dirk]
409 - Added a config option to enable/disable automatically turning URLs in text
410 postings into clickable URLs [Dirk]
411 - Changed some default settings [Dirk]:
412 * Webservices are now disabled
413 * Cronjob emulation is off
414 * Default sort for topics is alphabetically
415 * Default comment mode is nested
416 These settings are _not_ changed when upgrading from an earlier version.
417 - Experimental: Compress HTML output before sending it to the browser (disabled
418 by default; has to be supported by both the browser and the webserver) [Dirk]
419 - Added canonical link for article directory [Dirk]
420 - Moved hard-coded texts from admin/sectest.php to the language files (bug
422 - Added an option to send a copy of the email to a user to self (feature request
423 #0000771, based on a patch by Roshan Singh)
424 - COM_checkList would use the table name for the name of the checkbox array in
425 the HTML(!). Added a new parameter for the name (pointed out by Bookoo in
426 the exploit for usersettings.php, cf. Geeklog 1.5.2sr4) [Dirk]
427 - Fixed wrong use of COM_allowedHTML and COM_checkHTML in plugins: Functions
428 were called without specific permissions, so they defaulted to 'story.edit'.
429 I.e. as a Story Admin, you could use the admin_html set in events, but as a
430 Calendar admin, you could not ... (bug #0000785) [Dirk]
431 - Added missing finish() calls for some templates, e.g. header.thtml
432 (bug #0000855) [Dirk]
433 - Moved documentation to docs/english so that it can be translated
434 (feature request #0000770) [Dirk]
435 - New plugin API function PLG_pluginStateChange [Dirk]
436 - Fixed dropdown for the "censor mode", which has more than the two options
437 offered previously (bug #0000692) [Mike, Maciej Cupial]
438 - Slightly faster template class (feature request #0000760, patches provided
439 by dengen and mystral-kk)
440 - Use a more efficient implementation of Story::hasContent (bug #0000858, patch
441 provided by Maciej Cupial)
442 - Make sure formerly optional config items can be disabled (bug #0000846) [Dirk]
443 - New plugin API function PLG_getDocumentationUrl (feature request #0000848)
445 - Fresh installs + MySQL only: Changed some tinyint fields that are only used
446 as flags to tinyint(1) from tinyint(3) (bug #0000857)
447 - Fixed one of the predefined date format strings (bug #0000854)
448 - Replace Wiki-style formatting in the Daily Digest and when emailing a story
449 to a friend (bug #0000837, patch provided by Pawel Szczur)
450 - New plugin API function PLG_configChange (feature request #0000694) [Dirk]
451 - Fixed layout of Batch Add and Batch Admin options of the User Manager [Dirk]
452 - On a login failure, the user registration form showed up even when new user
453 registration was disabled (bug #0000843)
454 - The Wiki-style format broke national special characters, e.g. Japanese and
455 German umlauts (bug #0000823) [Dirk]
456 - Introduced new plugin API function PLG_migrate [Dirk]
457 - Allow switching the DOCTYPE from the Configuration. Requires a theme that
458 uses {doctype} instead of a hard-coded DOCTYPE declaration (feature request
460 - The notification email about new user submissions didn't include information
461 about the remote service used (if any) [Dirk]
462 - Define {xmlns} when using XHTML for XHTML compliance. Updated header.thtml
463 and article/printable.thtml template files to include that variable [Dirk]
464 - Fixed wrong use of '&' when sending a trackback (bug #0000825)
465 - Removed incomplete PDF generator (never enabled in any shipped version) [Dirk]
466 - Fixed a problem with words being merged together in newsfeeds when the article
467 was written with CR as the line separator [Dirk]
468 - Made url rewriting work on setups that only set $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']
470 - Fixed duplicate plugin entries when a plugin has more than one entry for the
471 admin or user menu (bug #0000820)
472 - {contributedby_user} and {contributedby_fullname} weren't set in the story
473 templates (bug #0000821) [Dirk]
474 - Reinstated old definitions of the {start_contributedby_anchortag},
475 {end_contributedby_anchortag}, and {contributedby_author} variables, i.e. the
476 two anchortag variables are set again and _author contains the name only (bug
478 - Auto-deleting a story didn't delete trackbacks for that story [Dirk]
479 - Ensure consistent template variable names for the Permission Editor [Dirk]
480 - Added new permission 'group.assign', now required to be able to assign a user
481 to a group. Part of the Group Admin (not User Admin) permissions by default
482 (feature request #0000190) [Dirk]
483 - Raised minimum required PHP version to PHP 4.3.0 and removed all workarounds
484 that ensured compatibility with PHP 4.1.0 [Dirk]
485 - Added a filename mask config option for the names of the database backups
487 - Removed $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack. Use COM_siteHeader('menu', $pagetitle)
489 - Added canonical link for articles [Dirk]
490 - Moved hard-coded "Reminders" column title to the language file (bug #0000817)
491 - Hide archive option radiobutton from the story editor when no archive topic
492 is defined (feature request #0000807) [Dirk]
493 - Display group names with an uppercase first letter everywhere [Dirk]
494 - Added an ISO 8601-ish format to the gl_dateformats table [Dirk]
495 - Let users with user.mail permissions only email groups that they are in
497 - Gave the Groups and User editors a facelift. Requires a new template file,
498 admin/lists/inline.thtml [Dirk]
499 - Introduced list of "advanced HTML" tags that are allowed when FCKeditor is
500 enabled. Needed for images (bug #0000757) [Blaine]
501 - Add new permissions plugin.install and plugin.upload for more fine-grained
502 control to the plugin admin panel (bug #0000637) [Dirk]
503 - Introduced new plugin API function PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
504 - Changed API for PLG_itemSaved to make it simpler and easier to use [Dirk]
505 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.4 [Blaine]
506 - Usersettings.php - can not change password when custom membership is enabled.
507 Modified CUSTOM_userCheck to return both a error message string and Error
508 code. Updated users.php and usersettings,php (bug #0000776) [Blaine]
509 - Implemented extended API for PLG_getItemInfo [mystral-kk, Dirk]
510 - Fixed inconsistencies and various small mistakes when displaying "Access
511 denied" messages on the admin pages [Dirk]
512 - Added a print.css stylesheet to be used by the printable template files
513 (feature request #0000766) [Dirk]
514 - Re-introduced the path hints in the install script when it can't find
516 - Added a note about the max. dimensions of a userphoto in the About You pane
517 of a user's My Account page (feature request #0000629) [Dirk]
518 - Display a message when no topics exist and don't let the user enter the story
519 editors (bug #0000738) [Dirk]
520 - Added a configuration option to control the JPEG quality (Feature request
523 - Updated Hebrew language file for the install script, provided by LWC
524 - New Serbian (Latin) language files, provided by Aleksandar Scepanovic
528 - Added migration support [Dirk]
529 - Removed extra double quote from upcoming events block (bug #0000827)
530 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
531 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
535 - Added migration support [Dirk]
536 - Added category default permissions [Dirk]
537 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
538 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
539 - Introduced function LINKS_getCategorySQL and fixed visibility of link
540 categories in the Top 10 Links list and site statistics [Dirk]
541 - Added an option to allow opening external links in a new window (feature
542 request #0000693). Use with care, please [Dirk]
543 - Only external links are marked with class="ext-link" [Dirk]
547 - Added migration support [Dirk]
548 - Set the page title when viewing a poll [Dirk]
549 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
550 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
551 - Extended length of poll IDs to 40 characters (feature request #0000754) [Dirk]
555 - Added migration support [Dirk]
556 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
560 - Added migration support [Dirk]
561 - The printable.thtml template file now uses the {xmlns} variable [Dirk]
562 - Added canonical link [Dirk]
563 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
564 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
565 - The printable.thtml template file uses the HTML Strict doctype and print.css
567 - Display "successfully saved" and "successfully deleted" messages, just like
568 every other plugin and built-in function does (bug #0000644) [Dirk]
571 Jul 30, 2009 (1.5.2sr5)
574 This release addresses the following security issues:
575 - Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to
576 email a story to a friend.
577 - The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that
578 it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to
582 Apr 18, 2009 (1.5.2sr4)
585 This release addresses the following security issue:
587 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted another SQL injection exploit,
588 targetting an old bug in usersettings.php. As with the previous issues, this
589 allowed an attacker to extract the password hash for any account and is fixed
593 Apr 13, 2009 (1.5.2sr3)
596 This release addresses the following security issue:
598 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted another SQL injection exploit, this
599 time targetting the webservices API. As with the previous issue, this allowed
600 an attacker to extract the password hash for any account and is fixed with this
603 Not security-related:
604 - Re-introduced function get_SPX_Ver in the install script, which is still
605 needed when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by Sheila) [Dirk]
608 Apr 4, 2009 (1.5.2sr2)
611 This release addresses the following security issue:
613 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted an SQL injection exploit for glFusion
614 that also works with Geeklog. This issue allowed an attacker to extract the
615 password hash for any account and is fixed with this release.
618 Mar 30, 2009 (1.5.2sr1)
621 This release addresses the following security issue:
623 Fernando Munoz reported a possible XSS in the query form on most admin panels
624 that we are fixing with this release (bug #0000841).
630 - The default replacement text for censored text was supposed to read
631 "censored", not "censormode" [Dirk]
632 - Fixed problem with extra backslashes appearing in a story's title during the
633 story preview when magic_quotes_gpc = On (bug #0000790) [Mike, Dirk]
634 - Added missing page title when viewing a single comment [Dirk]
635 - Sort groups in the group dropdowns non-case sensitive [Dirk]
636 - Display a message when sending the email to report an abusive comment failed
638 - Display a message when sending the email for a new password failed [Dirk]
640 - Updated Estonian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Artur Räpp
641 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
645 - Fixed parse error when saving a static page (reported by greenteagod). This
646 problem was only introduced in 1.5.2rc1 [Dirk]
649 Jan 24, 2009 (1.5.2rc1)
652 - Fixed various issues with COM_makeClickableLinks (bug #0000767, #0000793,
654 - The comment submission form didn't show the user's full name when
655 $_CONF['show_fullname'] was enabled [Dirk]
656 - Comments were always showing the username, even when $_CONF['show_fullname']
657 was enabled (reported and patch provided by mystral-kk, bug #0000800)
658 - Fixed story preview losing the story when the sid already existed (bug
660 - Fixed wrong use of str_replace in STORY_extractLinks (bug #0000794) [Dirk]
661 - Added "Send Pings" to the Story Options block (if enabled and allowed for the
663 - Don't let the user enable plugins when there's no functions.inc for the
665 - When the install script can't find db-config.php, that message was always
666 displayed in English, i.e. you could not change the language for that screen
668 - When upgrading from a Geeklog version prior to 1.5.0, the plugin config.php
669 files are no longer renamed [Dirk]
670 - Admin lists allowed non-sortable columns to be sortable (reported and patch
671 provided by hiroron, bug #0000791)
672 - Fixed STORY_getItemInfo - need to check the draft flag and for a publish date
673 in the future [mystral-kk, Dirk]
674 - Fixed wrong use of COM_isAnonUser in COM_getPermSQL (since 1.5.0) [Dirk]
675 - When calling COM_getYearFormOptions with a $startoffset parameter, the list
676 of years was off by one (bug #0000783; patch provided by hiroron)
677 - Fixed updating feeds after changing topic permissions (bug #0000779) [Dirk]
678 - The security token was missing from the trackback editor template file
679 (reported and patch provided by hiroron, bug #0000778)
680 - Removed rel="tag" from topic links in lib-story.php as that would indicate a
681 Microformat with a slightly different meaning [Dirk]
682 - Don't include X-Originating-IP header in emails sent from the site's admin
683 area (bug #0000701) [Dirk]
684 - Check if COM_errorLog exists before using it in the config class (for possible
685 problems during installation, bug #0000768) [Dirk]
686 - Fixed filling out the Site Email / No-Reply Email fields in the install
687 script, which was overwriting the correct values from config.php during
688 upgrades (bug #0000759) [Dirk]
689 - Set language direction in templates for printable versions of articles and
690 static pages. Also set $LANG_DIRECTION to 'ltr' now if the language file does
691 not already define it (bug #0000762) [Dirk]
692 - Removing an element from the middle of the censorlist caused the censoring
693 to act up (bug #0000763) [Dirk]
694 - Saving a story tried to update a feed of type 'geeklog' instead of 'article'
695 (reported by Tom Homer)
696 - Delete a feed's file when deleting a feed (bug #0000758) [Dirk]
697 - When using gdlib, use imagecopyresampled instead or imagecopyresized to scale
698 images. This should result in better image quality (part of Feature request
700 - The {start_storylink_anchortag} variable in the story templates was missing
701 a '>' (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
702 - Display a "Service" column in the Admin's list of users when remote auth is
704 - Introduced new function COM_showMessageText to display a free-form text in a
705 "System Message" box (feature request #0000676) [Dirk]
706 - Introduced new function COM_showMessageFromParameter for easy and consistent
707 display of messages passed in the URL, including plugin messages (second
708 attempt to fix bug #0000618) [Dirk]
709 - Display confirmation message when emailing a story (feature request #0000689)
711 - Implemented new function COM_renderWikiText to convert wiki-formatted text
712 to (X)HTML (feature request #0000643) [Dirk]
713 - Added support for CUSTOM_formatEmailAddress and CUSTOM_emailEscape functions
714 (feature request #0000727) [Dirk]
715 - Fixed 'cookiedomain' being reported as changed in the Configuration
716 (bug #0000638) [Dirk]
717 - Reverted fix for bug #0000618 (COM_showMessage automatically picking up a
718 'plugin' parameter) as it's causing problems when displaying more than one
719 message on the same page [Dirk]
720 - Added missing check for allowed IP addresses in downloader class
721 (bug #0000709) [Dirk]
722 - Force a refresh after uninstalling a plugin so that the plugin's entry
723 disappears from the Admins block [Dirk]
724 - Fixed an issue with story expiry dates on PHP 4/Windows (reported by zeb)
727 - Updated Hebrew language file for the install script and Spam-X plugin,
729 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
730 - Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
731 - Updated Slovenian language file for the Links plugin, provided by gape
735 - Fix for calendar plugin - unable to add personal event [Blaine]
736 - Make {event_url} available in eventdetails.thtml [Dirk]
740 - Missing parentheses my have resulted in incorrect search results [Dirk]
741 - Added urlencoded versions of {link_actual_url} and {link_name} [Dirk]
742 - Prevent overwriting existing links when changing the link ID [Dirk]
746 - Lowered the default number of questions per poll to 5 and the number of
747 answers per question to 8 to avoid running into Suhosin's default
748 post.max_vars limit (for new installs only) [Dirk]
749 - Fixed SQL error when poll questions contained single quotes (bug #0000756)
751 - Fixed handling of poll IDs in Polls editor (bug #0000753) [Dirk]
755 - The owner of a static page changed to the user who last edited it
756 (bug #0000777) [Dirk]
757 - Fixed call to WS_makeId when sp_id was longer than STATICPAGE_MAX_ID_LENGTH
758 (found by Marc Maier) [Dirk]
765 - Fixed protection against direct execution in various include files which may
766 have failed on non-case sensitive file systems (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
767 - Saving a story as someone other than the owner will revert the story to your
768 ownership. (bug #0000742) [Mike]
769 - Fixed searching for non-installed plugins when open_basedir restrictions are
770 in effect (bug #0000741)
771 - Fix for first change of password issue (bug #0000724) [Mike]
772 - Fixed failure to switch language with new query highlighting URLs
773 (bug #0000733) [Dirk]
774 - Fixed bug with HTML Encoding of default comment title for articles
775 (bug #0000737) [Mike]
776 - Fixed another case where a duplicate of a story submission was left in the
777 submission queue after approving the story [Mike]
778 - Fixed problem with the MySQL class not recognizing UTF-8 when the character
779 set name was written in uppercase (bug #0000731) [Dirk]
781 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
782 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
783 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
784 - Updated Slovenian language files, provided by gape
787 Sep 7, 2008 (1.5.1rc1)
790 - Added missing slash in the install script (bug #0000715) [Dirk]
791 - CSRF token not passed to draft list (bug #0000726) [Ted Powell]
792 - If root debugging is enabled, hide anything in the array stack that has a key
793 containing 'cookie' or 'pass'. And added option to override this.
794 (bug #0000722) [Mike]
795 - Prevent direct execution of the FCKeditor upload script (reported by t0pP8uZz) [Dirk]
796 - Renamed the "Restore" option in the Configuration to "Enable" [Dirk]
797 - Provided better error handling for database backups (bug #0000714) [Mike]
798 - Provided auto-detection of -left and -right overrides for any given block
799 template. This allows any block to auto-style to left and right for themes
800 without the need for the theme to work it out, or talk to the database.
801 ("Bug" #0000684) [Mike]
802 - Fixed handling of corrupted config value db entries, e.g. after importing
803 Calendar event_types with the wrong character set (bug #0000690) [Dirk]
804 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in the Configuration (bug #0000710)
806 - Story image upload: Only add a link to the unscaled image if such an image
807 actually exists [Dirk]
808 - Removed unused code from lib-story.php [Dirk]
809 - COM_siteFooter no-longer creates two sets of right blocks. (bug #0000698)
811 - Microsummaries work in topics, reported by Joe. [Mike]
812 - Added DB_checkTableExists and changed INST_checkTableExists to use it. [Mike]
813 - Changed REPLACE INTO for DB_save for MSSQL compat [Mike]
814 - Re-introduced function get_SP_Ver in the install script, which is still needed
815 when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by libexec) [Dirk]
816 - Fixed issue where you can post a comment to an unpublished story (bug
817 #0000705) [mystral-kk/Mike]
818 - Fixed make clickable links with quotes (bug #0000691) plus truncated long
820 - Fixed table prefix issues with constraints (bug #0000702) [Mike/Sami]
821 - Fixed error when attempting to highlight a search query that contained a
823 - Updated FCKeditor to v2.6.3 [Blaine]
824 - Moved remove() (config JavaScript) to gl_cfg_remove (bug #0000681) [Mike]
825 - Change for CUSTOM_usercreate to support passing in $batchimport,
826 set true if called via the Admin->Users Batch_Add [Blaine]
827 - Fix for date formatting in RSS fields (bug #0000696) [mystral-kk]
828 - A small tweak to the Professional theme's commentbar to make the "Post a
829 comment" option easier to find [Dirk]
830 - Renamed the syndication feed type "geeklog" to "article" since that's what
831 they are nowadays [Dirk]
832 - New option "All Frontpage Stories" for article feeds: skip stories that have
833 the "Show only in topic" option set (feature request #0000652) [Dirk]
834 - If there is a feed for a topic, there will now be a "Subscribe to ..." option
835 in the Story Options block for every story for that topic (feature request
837 - Cop-out fix for bug #0000671: Don't display the icon for external links when
838 the text direction is 'rtl' (e.g. Hebrew) [Dirk, Mike]
839 - Keep letter case intact when highlighting a search query string (patch
840 provided by Sami Barakat)
841 - Provide nicer URLs to story search results when URL rewriting is enabled
842 (bug #0000665, based on a patch by Sami Barakat) [Dirk]
843 - Better support for plugin messages (bug #0000618) [Blaine]
844 - Introduced new variable {page_title_and_site_name} for header.thtml so that
845 we can have "Site Name - Site Slogan" in the frontpage's title again [Dirk]
846 - Fixed SQL error(s) for story submissions by users with story.submit but no
847 further Story Admin permissions (reported by Orion) [Dirk]
848 - End a user's session when they are being banned [Dirk]
849 - Signatures in HTML-formatted comments weren't XHTML compliant [Dirk]
850 - Minor cleanups in style.css - no actual layout changes (bug #0000683) [Dirk]
851 - Allow creation of banned users, i.e. ban the user on account creation [Dirk]
852 - Minor improvements in the error handling, e.g. preventing Geeklog from
853 creating error.log files outside the logs directory [Dirk]
854 - Send a HTTP status code 503 "Service Unavailable" when the site is disabled
856 - Hide the database password when the database backup failed and we're logging
857 the mysqldump command [Dirk]
858 - Disable OpenID login when new registrations are disabled [Dirk]
859 - Allow to unset Configuration options again after they have been "restored",
860 i.e. enabled (bug #0000664) [Dirk]
861 - Adopted hack to allow multilingual blocks (bug #0000626) [Dirk]
862 - Fixed SQL error in story submissions (reported by Chase) [Mike]
863 - Stories with a publishing date in the future and stories with the draft flag
864 set were accessible if you knew their story id (bug #0000678) [Mike]
865 - Enabled siteconfig.php to override database config in core, primarily for
866 rootdebug. [bug 0000673] [Mike]
867 - Allow remote users to use the webservices (bug #0000640). Due to the
868 authentication method it is not possible for OpenID users to use the
869 webservices. Other remote users will have to use username@servicename for
870 their username when logging in through the webservices [Dirk]
871 - Fix to template.class to better handle full path being passed in [Blaine]
872 - Updated PLG_uninstall to supress errors for table drop. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
873 - Fixed INST_checkTableExists for MS SQL Support. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
874 - Hardcode an ltr div around HTML tags in the allowed html tag list. Plus minor
875 HTML compliance issues. [bug 0000669] [Mike]
876 - Plaintext stories have nl2br applied in syndication feeds to provide correct
877 formatting in feed readers. [bug 0000662] [Mike]
878 - Changed SEC_createToken so that it will only return one token per page
879 (effectively making it a singleton). This fixes the problem of not being able
880 to delete comments when you also have trackbacks for the same article
882 - Approving a story submission by saving it from the Admin's story editor left
883 a duplicate in the submission queue, unless you changed the story ID at the
884 same time [Dirk, Mark Evans]
885 - Fixed user submission queue (reported by greenteagod) [Dirk]
887 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
891 - Fixed <brXHTML> tags in the German language files for the Calendar [Dirk]
892 - Fixed date comparison ("End date is before start date.", bug #0000703) [Dirk]
893 - Fixed Admin delete links in day and week view (bug #0000680) [Dirk]
894 - Search for an event's "author" didn't work [Dirk]
895 - Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
896 day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums) (really) [Mike]
900 - Fixed passing the category on multi-page link lists [Dirk]
901 - Fixed new category silently overwriting an existing category if they had the
902 same id (part 2 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
903 - Fixed SQL error when trying to change a category id to an already existing id
904 (part 1 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
908 - For multi-question polls, make the "Vote" button read "Start Poll" in the
909 polls block (bug #0000633) [Dirk]
910 - Fixed display of "Results" link while a poll is open [Dirk]
914 - Menu entries were not language-aware (in multi-language setups), i.e. all the
915 menu entries were always displayed (bug #0000713) [Dirk]
916 - Removed unused 'config_data' entry from the plugin uninstall function
917 (bug #0000666) [Dirk]
918 - Fixed printer friendly version of a static page not working when url_rewrite
919 is enabled (bug #0000661) [Dirk]
922 June 15, 2008 (1.5.0)
925 Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
926 the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
928 + New user-friendly install script by Matt West
929 + New Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron Blankstein
930 + New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. Iyer
932 Changes since 1.5.0rc2:
933 - Users that used a different theme than the site default would see the site
934 switch temporarily back to the site's default theme when changing a config
935 option. This was a side effect of the fix for bug #0000648 [Dirk]
936 - In a tradeoff between security and convenience, we decided to go with
937 security: The install script will no longer display the database credentials
938 from db-config.php. The downside is that you will have to enter them again
939 when doing a database upgrade or re-running the install (reported by Mark
941 - Links plugin: The word "Root" wasn't taken from the language file for the page
942 title of the public list of links (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
943 - Fixed remaining places where the Admin panels had inconsistent layouts:
944 Calendar list of events, Polls editor (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
946 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
947 - Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
948 - Some Korean language files had a mixture of CR/LF and LF as line separators
949 (bug #0000655) [Dirk]
952 June 8, 2008 (1.5.0rc2)
955 Changes since 1.5.0rc1:
956 - Hide the | separator for static pages with page format "blank page" (reported
957 by Tetsuko Komma) [Dirk]
958 - Hardcoded all URL entry fields in the templates and the date selection in the
959 calendar plugin to dir="ltr" (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
960 - Fixed handling of UTF-8 languages in the install script (reported by Tetsuko
962 - Ensure consistent display of the admin lists (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
963 - Sanitize the language in the install help (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
964 - Moved the hard-coded CSS for the System Message to the stylesheet [Dirk]
965 - Added a workaround for the Yulup Atompub client that sometimes sends Text
966 nodes within XHTML nodes [Dirk]
967 - Made the Install / Upgrade buttons in the install script a bit wider to
968 provide more space for the Japanese and German translations [Dirk]
969 - Fixed bug #0000647: All modifications of usersettings should go through
970 CUSTOM_usercheck [Blaine]
971 - Removed hard-coded <ul> tags from the functions for the Admin, User, and
972 Topics blocks. Added new blockheader-list.thtml, blockfooter-list.thtml
973 template files for those blocks [Blaine]
974 - Removed the fake {blockid} for the block templates as it was actually derived
975 from the block title, resulting in layout changes when you changed the block
976 title. It also didn't work properly with non-ASCII languages. Updated
977 style.css and the block templates accordingly [Blaine]
978 - Fixed setting the site's default language and default theme (bugs #0000646
979 and #0000648) [Aaron, Dirk]
980 - The bundled plugins don't need to read their config.php any more. This also
981 avoids confusion if renaming the old config.php failed during the upgrade
983 - Fixed SQL error in the Mail Utility when using the option to override user
984 settings (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
985 - Fixed problems with the text direction in the install script (reported by LWC)
988 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
989 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
990 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Takahiro Kambe, Tetsuko Komma,
991 and the Geeklog.jp group
992 Note: Only the UTF-8 versions of the Japanese language files are supported
993 from now on. The euc-jp versions have been removed from the distribution.
994 - Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
995 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
998 May 25, 2008 (1.5.0rc1)
1001 Changes since 1.5.0b2:
1002 - Fixed story date/time when using the timezone hack (bug #0000639) [Dirk]
1003 - Fixed MS SQL upgrade [Mike]
1004 - Added code to beautify the language names in the install script [Dirk]
1005 - Ensure the "After Saving ..." options work as advertised [Dirk]
1006 - Fixed handling of empty form submission and display of error messages in the
1007 batch user import [Dirk]
1008 - Fixed text for the account reminder emails [Dirk]
1009 - Display value in the "Months since registration" column on the Batch User
1010 Admin screen without decimals again (as in 1.4.1) [Dirk]
1011 - Removed unused poll-vote, poll-vote-results classes from the Professional
1012 theme's stylesheet; added empty required-field, missing-field classes for
1013 future use (cf. bug #0000635) [Dirk]
1015 - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
1016 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
1017 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
1021 - Fixed missing ] in the headline of the day and week view [Dirk]
1022 - Fixed the template for the personal event editor (extra <td> tag) [Dirk]
1023 - Bugfix: In some cases, personal events would end up in the submission queue
1024 for site events [Dirk]
1025 - Fixed "Delete old entries" option (delete checkboxes were missing) [Dirk]
1028 May 20, 2008 (1.5.0b2)
1031 Changes since 1.5.0b1:
1032 - {story_title} is now available in the article.thtml template file [Dirk]
1033 - Bugfix: When saving a (new) topic with one or more required fields missing,
1034 don't go back into the topic editor as that would cause a confusing "access
1035 denied" message [Dirk]
1036 - Hard-coded the text direction as "ltr" for some input fields and the date/time
1037 selection in the story editor (bug #0000150). Also removed "text-align:left"
1038 for the HTML body from the Professional theme's style sheet as it interferes
1039 with the ability to switch the text direction (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1040 - Removed references to config.php from the documentation, some READMEs, and
1041 some source files (bug #0000627) [Dirk]
1042 - Don't include the (internal) 'subgroup' and 'fieldset' entries in the $_CONF
1044 - COM_numberFormat wouldn't handle decimals correctly (bug #0000624) [Dirk]
1045 - Make sure the XHTML constant is defined if the theme doesn't already define
1046 it (bug #0000622) [Dirk]
1047 - Fixed invalid <brXHTML> tags in some language files (bug #0000621) [Dirk]
1048 - The URL sent in a user registration notification contained an & where it
1049 should have been a simple & [Dirk]
1051 - Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
1055 - Fixed the "Validate Links" link from the list of categories [Dirk]
1059 - Bugfix: When saving a (new) poll with one or more required fields missing,
1060 don't go back into the polls editor as that would cause a confusing "access
1061 denied" message [Dirk]
1062 - Renamed 'open' column in the gl_polltopics table to 'is_open' as "open" is
1063 a reserved keyword in MS SQL server [Matt]
1064 - Fixed duplicate sort_order value in the Polls config [Dirk]
1065 - Cosmetic changes in the Polls topic and results (bug #0000625) [Dirk]
1069 - Moved the print and edit icons to the bottom of a static page in the default
1070 staticpage.thtml template file. Also removed the icons from the default
1071 centerblock.thtml template file and defined the {lastupdate} and {hits}
1072 variables there (bug #0000628) [Dirk]
1073 - Removed an extra } from the Static Pages staticpage.thtml template file
1074 (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
1078 May 5, 2008 (1.5.0b1)
1081 - Updated FCKeditor to v2.6 [Blaine]
1082 - LDAP remote authentication module, provided by Jessica Blank / MTV Networks
1083 - The {lang_attribute} can only properly be set in a multi-language setup
1084 (bug #0000616) [Dirk]
1085 - Removed Blogger remote authentication option. Blogger.com have changed their
1086 authentication process, so this module no longer works.
1087 - Emails sent from Geeklog now have an X-Originating-IP header to help track
1088 spam or abuse [Dirk]
1089 - The topic editor allowed you to enter topic IDs with more than 20 characters
1090 (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
1091 - Ease restriction that email addresses have to be unique: Remote accounts can
1092 have non-unique addresses, on-site accounts can't [Dirk]
1093 - Bug: Email user form doesn't display correctly with " in subject when sending
1094 is failed due to incomplete fields. [Mike]
1095 - Bugs: Ensure that site_url, site_admin_url, layout_url and xhtml available to
1096 all templates. [Mike]
1097 - Support for [raw][/raw] tag in HTML post mode. All the benefits of code and
1098 pre, with none of the ugly styling. [Mike]
1099 - Added an Atom self-link to RSS feeds. Sounds odd, but it is recommended by
1100 <http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MissingAtomSelfLink.html> [Mike]
1101 - Improved support for podcasts in portal blocks and fixed an error where REALLY
1102 long syndication feeds could blow portal blocks up. [Mike]
1103 - Only use the multi-byte string functions when the current character set is
1104 UTF-8 (reported by Rick78) [Dirk]
1105 - COM_hit() is now called from COM_siteFooter() instead of doing the UPDATE SQL
1106 directly (reported by Joe Mucchiello) [Dirk]
1107 - New function SEC_encryptPassword() to be used when we have to encrypt a
1108 password. This is only a wrapper for md5() for now but should it make easier
1109 for us to use some other method in the future [Dirk]
1110 - Incorporated patches by Joe Mucchiello for places in the code where the
1111 template library was used incorrectly.
1112 - By defining the constant XHTML as ' /', themes can now be XHTML compliant
1113 (patches provided by dengen from geeklog.jp)
1114 - Added batch admin feature to send out account reminders [Blaine]
1115 - Hide "Create Account" link in the story submission form when new account
1116 registration has been disabled (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
1117 - Updated COM_startBlock to set a unique {blockid} template variable [Blaine]
1118 - Fixed checking of "Show Admin lists" in Group Admin when going to 2nd page of
1120 - Created new function for Admin-Menu display and removed that functionality
1121 from ADMIN_list-functions. [Oliver]
1122 - Fixed missing N/A display when no plugin version number was available
1123 (reported by Machinari) [Dirk]
1124 - Avoid division by zero error when $_CONF['limitnews'] == 0
1125 (reported by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
1126 - Bugfix: Atom always assumes 0.3 and doesn't handle article dates. (Reported by
1127 mystral-kk on the forums). [Mike]
1128 - Added OpenID 1.1 support, provided by Choplair
1129 - Pass site_name into story templates so advanced linking to items like digg.com
1130 can be templated cross-site. [Mike]
1131 - Revamped DB Backups option. It now lists all backups (all .sql files), and
1132 lets you download and delete backups from there [Dirk]
1133 - Fixed checking for errors when sending Pingbacks or Pings [Mike, Dirk]
1134 - When receiving a Pingback, optionally create an excerpt from the text of the
1135 site that sent the Pingback [Dirk]
1136 - Portal blocks now use the HTTP Last-Modified and ETag headers to only request
1137 feeds when they have changed [Dirk]
1138 - The {read_more_class} variable now contains class="story-read-more-link" (if
1139 defined) for consistency with the class name used in {readmore_link} [Dirk]
1140 - Changed the Security Check to only check if any Root users have their password
1141 as "password" [Dirk]
1142 - Made admin/sectest.php recognize 403 status codes (reported by THX100) [Dirk]
1143 - All plugin API's, where not doing very, very plugin specific activities now
1144 call a matching CUSTOM_ function. [Mike]
1145 - Integrated support for passing parameters to phpblock functions (Patch #643 by
1146 Joe Mucchiello) [Mike]
1147 - Fixed numerous HTML errors in admin pages [Oliver]
1148 - Added a missing blank between the day's name and the date in the Older Stories
1149 block (reported by Jeruvy's girlfriend, via IRC) [Dirk]
1150 - fixed bug [#648] sending new password email returns "Ok" message although
1151 it fails when SMTP Server cannot be reached [Oliver]
1152 - Need to include parameters in the URL when sending Pingbacks, e.g. to
1154 - When sending Pingbacks, also search for <link rel="pingback"> if the linked
1155 site does not send an X-Pingback header [Dirk]
1156 - When sending Pingbacks for a story that had identical link texts for different
1157 URLs, only the last of those links was pinged [Dirk]
1158 - Implemented new Autouninstall for plugins. Plugins runs a function that passes
1159 a specific array to a core function that removes all given element of the
1160 plugin. The function inside the plugin can handle aditional removals that
1161 the core code cannot [Oliver]
1162 - Fixed search by date in Calendar (reported and patch provided by Jeffrey Hare)
1163 - Only allow autotags in normal blocks (bug #653) [Dirk]
1164 - Added {story_topic_image_no_align} and {story_anchortag_and_image_no_align}
1165 in stories so that you have access to the topic image without the alignment
1166 (feature request #410) [Dirk]
1167 - Show autotags in story editor to Admin even if all HTML is allowed [Oliver]
1168 - Allow comments to be closed, i.e. display the existing comments but don't
1169 accept any new ones [Dirk]
1170 - Introduced COM_getCharset which returns the currently used character set (to
1171 avoid code duplication). It should be save to simply use $LANG_CHARSET in
1172 most cases, though [Dirk]
1173 - Added optional Wikitext postmode for stories [Oliver]
1174 - Added optional noreply-email address option to config.php to prevent
1175 spammers retrieving the admin's email address from registering online [Oliver]
1176 - Added support for "Microsummaries" to index.php.
1177 See (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries) [Mike]
1178 - Story "Rewrite" - significant re-structure of story code to fix all issues
1179 with posting HTML special characters etc. [Mike]
1180 - Added ability to have Body Text in user submitted stories. To deactivate,
1181 edit layout\theme\submit\submitstory.thtml and submitstory_advanced.thtml
1183 - fixing the dimension-resizing of uploaded images. If an image would be within
1184 the max width after resizing, the max height might still be off. This is
1185 solved with the new code. [Oliver]
1186 - Removed tzcode table and started using PEAR::Date instead since all timezone
1187 information is stored in there. [Oliver]
1188 - Added timezone selector to preferences page [Oliver]
1189 - Fixed COM_getLangSQL() to escape the underscore character '_' which happens
1190 to be a wildcard character when used with LIKE. In a multi-language setup,
1191 this may accidentally display unwanted items (reported by Kenji Ito) [Dirk]
1192 - Addressed problems with the text direction (ltr/rtl) and the hard-coded
1193 English text in admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1194 - Due to a language file change, the login form in users.php ("Try Logging in
1195 Again") now asked for a "new password" (reported by Laugh) [Dirk]
1196 - Remove the "Are you secure?" (getBent) block from the database as its
1197 functionality has been moved to admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1198 - Added config option what should be displayed after user saving [Oliver]
1199 - Added config option what should be displayed after story saving [Oliver]
1200 - Images in articles (inc. topic icon) aligned with float [Oliver]
1202 - New Czech language file for the Calendar and Links plugins, provided
1204 - New Danish language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by dirtyjensen
1205 - Updated Dutch language files, provided by Ronald Edelschaap
1206 - New Dutch language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by John van Gaal
1207 - Updated French Canadian language files for Geeklog and the Static Pages plugin
1208 and new language files for the Calendar, Links, and Polls plugins, provided
1209 by Jean-Francois Allard
1210 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1211 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1212 by the Geeklog Japanese group
1213 - New Korean language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
1214 by Tetsuko Komma and Kim Younghie
1215 - Updated Spanish (UTF-8) language file and new Spanish (UTF-8) language files
1216 for all the plugins, provided by Jose R. Valverde
1218 Calendar plugin (1.0.2)
1220 - Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
1221 day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums)
1222 - Fixed deleting events submissions from the Events editor [Dirk]
1223 - The global $_STATES has been removed from Geeklog. The state in an event's
1224 details is now a simple text entry field.
1225 - The form to add an event to the personal calendar was missing the site footer
1226 (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
1227 - Fixed Calendar feeds: The first parameter to the getFeedContent function is
1228 the feed's ID, not the feed limit (bug #659) [Dirk]
1229 - Highlight search queries [Dirk]
1230 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1231 - Added Batch-Delete functionality [Oliver]
1232 - Added config option what should be displayed after event saving [Oliver]
1234 Links plugin (2.0.0)
1236 - Fixed deleting link submissions from the Links editor (didn't work in at least
1237 all 1.4.x versions) [Dirk]
1238 - Added owner_id field to submissions to record submitter and align with
1239 stories behavior [Oliver]
1240 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1241 - Added "Report Broken Link" function [Oliver]
1242 - Added Link Verification to Link Admin [Oliver]
1243 - Added config option what should be displayed after link saving [Oliver]
1244 - Added Link sub-category options [Euan]
1246 Polls plugin (2.0.1)
1248 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1249 - Added Support for multiple questions grouped into a survey [Oliver]
1250 - Added Support for closing polls [Oliver]
1251 - Added Support for hiding poll results of open polls [Oliver]
1252 - Added config option what should be displayed after event poll [Oliver]
1254 Spam-X plugin (1.1.1)
1256 - Fixed the "edit" modules not working with the French language files (reported
1258 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1259 - Fixed an error with the SLV module when $_CONF['site_url'] was empty
1260 (reported by AA6QN) [Dirk]
1261 - Added support for blocking entire IP ranges, using either CIDR notation or
1262 simple x.x.x.x-y.y.y.y ranges [Dirk]
1264 Static Pages plugin (1.5.0)
1266 - Bugfix: In a multi-language setup, we need to be able to see all topics for
1267 the centerblock option [Dirk]
1268 - Bugfix: Allow the static pages "page format" setting to override
1269 $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] (reported by Simon Lord) [Dirk]
1270 - New Static pages Autotag: staticpage_content to return the contents of a
1271 static page instead of a link to a static page [Oliver]
1272 - Now using a template to display static pages [Oliver]
1273 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1274 - The static pages editor was looking for the advanced editor template in the
1275 wrong place, due to an uninitialized variable (reported by k74) [Dirk]
1276 - Allow static pages to replace tags also on PHP-generated content [Oliver]
1277 - Added config option what should be displayed after page saving [Oliver]
1278 - Added comments feature [Oliver]
1281 Dec 31, 2006 (1.4.1)
1284 - Changed the default character set in config.php back to iso-8859-1 [Dirk]
1285 - Removed display of the site URL from admin/sectest.php. On sites not installed
1286 in the webroot, it did not display the site's actual URL, which only causes
1287 confusion (reported by Dazzy) [Dirk]
1288 - Fixed conflict between the Spam-X DeleteComment and SLVreport action
1289 modules which prevented the count of deleted spams from being incremented
1291 - Fixed max. allowed length for a user's homepage (128) and location (96) in the
1292 preferences/profile.thtml template file (reported by burjans) [Dirk]
1293 - Fixed page title after a successful batch import of users (which read "Error")
1295 - Back in Geeklog 1.4.0, a counter was added to the Spam-X plugin to count all
1296 deleted spam posts. The counter was only added in fresh installs of 1.4.0,
1297 though, but not when upgrading from an earlier version. Fixed that [Dirk]
1298 - In lists created from the Links and Calendar plugins, use "links-new-plugin"
1299 as the CSS class name [Oliver]
1301 - Updated Estonian language file, provided by Artur Räpp
1302 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Alexander Yurchenko
1303 - New Russian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Alexander
1305 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
1308 Dec 17, 2006 (1.4.1rc1)
1311 - Improved handling of UTF-8 feeds (feature request #631) [Mike, Dirk]
1312 - Fixes for the remaining MS SQL issues (bugs #620, #621, #622, #624)
1313 [Randy Kolenko, Dirk]
1314 - Initialize SQL request arrays to prevent PHP errors (e.g. with static pages),
1315 reported by ldfoo [Dirk]
1316 - Escape the '#' sign in spam checks since we're using it as the separator
1317 character for the regexp [Dirk]
1318 - Mark Evans provided a set of patches that let plugins hook into the user
1319 registration, story and comment submission as well as the contact user and
1320 email story forms. These hooks can be used to add CAPTCHAs to those forms,
1321 but may also come in handy for other plugin applications.
1322 Also modified several template files to include a {captcha} variable to ease
1323 installation of Mark's CAPTCHA plugin.
1324 - Update the timestamp for the last run of PLG_runScheduledTask before calling
1325 the function to minimize the risk of the call being triggered more than once
1327 - In a multi-language setup, allow one static page per language to take over
1328 the index page (bug #625) [Dirk]
1329 - sectest.php didn't perform the test for the install script and default
1330 passwords on some setups (reported by Christian Weiske) [Dirk]
1331 - Fixed "delete account" option (reported by Paul Lelgemann) [Dirk]
1332 - Fixed counting of comments in several places where comments were counted
1333 without taking the type of the parent object into account (e.g. when a story
1334 and a poll happened to use the same id, their comment counts would have been
1336 - Editing a story did reset the trackback count (reported by T. Marquez) [Dirk]
1337 - In the admin's story editor, set the debug option for the image upload only
1338 when $_CONF['debug_image_upload'] = true (thus avoiding the "Warning: File #x
1339 on the HTML form was empty" messages in error.log) [Dirk]
1340 - Renamed [calendar:] autotag back to [event:] for backward compatibility. It
1341 also makes more sense this way, since it does provide a link to an event, not
1342 a link to a calendar (bug #619) [Dirk]
1343 - Need to check if field 'etids' is NULL (for MySQL 4) for the Daily Digest
1345 - Removed the outer table from the layout and merged several style declarations
1346 into the body-tag declaration [Oliver]
1347 - The spam check for comment posts did not include the comment title (reported
1349 - When multi-language support is enabled, allow language-specific overrides
1350 of the locale settings, e.g. $_CONF['date_en'] and $_CONF['date_de'] to
1351 overwrite $_CONF['date'] depending on the current language [Dirk]
1352 - When installing the Geeklog database using InnoDB tables, create a
1353 'database_engine' entry in gl_vars, so that plugins know to use InnoDB for
1354 their tables. Updated the bundled plugins to act accordingly [Dirk]
1355 - DB_query will now (optionally) accept an array of SQL request strings from
1356 which it will pick the one applicable for the currently used database type
1358 - Provide some more meta information in header.thtml [Dirk]
1359 + added optional {lang_id} variable and lang attribute
1360 + added a hreflang attribute to the feed links
1361 + added <link rel="home">, <link rel="search">, <link rel="contents"> links
1362 (via the {rel_links} variable)
1363 - COM_isFrontpage has been deprecated, as it had its return values inverted
1364 (returns false when on the site's index page). Use COM_onFrontpage instead
1366 - Fixed check for new stories from archive topic [Dirk]
1367 - Call PLG_templateSetVars() from STORY_renderArticle() so we can have custom
1368 variables in the story templates [Dirk]
1370 - Updated Chinese language files (traditional and simplified), provided by
1372 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1373 by the Geeklog Japanese group
1374 - Updated Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251, KOI8-U, and UTF-8 encoding)
1375 for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
1378 Nov 5, 2006 (1.4.1b2)
1381 - Fixed potential SQL injection in the story editor preview (required Story
1382 Admin permissions) [Dirk]
1383 - Added multi-language support in static pages centerblocks and search [Dirk]
1384 - When cloning a static page, keep the original's "wrap in a block" setting
1386 - Spam-X stats: Removed MT-Blacklist entry, added SLV whitelist entry [Dirk]
1387 - Don't add empty "No Title" links in portal blocks when the feed has less than
1388 the configured max. number of entries (bug #610) [Dirk]
1389 - Added support for COM_mail to use a parm for a CC: distribution list [Blaine]
1390 - Fixed bug #603, hardcoded mysql_error() [Oliver]
1391 - Fixed bug #604, delete trackbacks of a story when story is deleted [Oliver]
1392 - Allow users to switch the language again, even when the default character set
1393 is not UTF-8. It is, however, not possible to mix UTF-8 and other charsets.
1394 Also, "UTF-8" is not displayed in the language dropdown any more [Dirk]
1395 - Corrected SQL for group counting in Admin menu for root admin to fix bug #573
1397 - Properly encode non-ASCII characters in email headers (subject, names),
1398 loosely based on patch #489 and code from Cal Henderson's book [Dirk]
1399 - Removed the Calendar styles and moved them to a dedicated file in the
1400 plugin's directory [Oliver]
1401 - Sorted all stylesheet definitions alphabetically and split semantics and
1403 - When making a topic the archive topic, update all existing stories in that
1404 topic to "archived" status (and likewise revert that status if the topic
1405 loses its archive topic status) [Dirk]
1406 - Don't count archived stories as new stories in the What's New block [Dirk]
1407 - Moved the defines for STORY_ARCHIVE_ON_EXPIRE and STORY_DELETE_ON_EXPIRE to
1408 lib-story.php (from config.php) where they make more sense [Dirk]
1409 - COM_getPermSQL was using the current user's group information when called for
1410 another user. In Geeklog, this only happens for the Daily Digest, though
1412 - When comments are disabled for a story, don't show any existing comments in
1413 the What's New block, in search results or via comment.php (bug #597) [Dirk]
1414 - When trackbacks are disabled for a story, don't list any existing trackbacks
1415 in the What's New block [Dirk]
1416 - In the Admin's User Editor, disabled the checkboxes for the All Users,
1417 Logged-in Users, and Remote Users groups to prevent accidental change of
1418 group membership [Dirk]
1419 - When deleting a topic, also delete all Trackbacks attached to stories in that
1420 topic and update the Older Stories block and the feeds [Dirk]
1421 - Fixed approve / delete of draft stories from moderation.php [Dirk]
1422 - Strip blanks from the name of a PHP block function when saving a PHP block
1424 - Fixed / added multi-language support in the article directory, What's New
1425 block, and the search for stories and comments [Dirk]
1426 - Fixed an SQL error when changing a story's ID [Dirk]
1427 - Call SET NAMES 'utf8' when using UTF-8 as the site's character set (with
1428 MySQL), as pointed out by several people [Dirk]
1429 - Removed wrong parameter when calling up the comment form again when the
1430 comment's title was missing. This bug existed for both story and polls
1431 comments. (bug #591) [Dirk]
1432 - Users who were only in the Syndication Admin group didn't have access to
1433 Command and Control (moderation.php) [Dirk]
1434 - For Block, Group, Polls, Story and Topic Admins only display the number of
1435 the respective entries they can actually see (instead of the number of all
1436 entries, e.g. topics, in the system) [Dirk]
1437 - Fixed highlighting parse error when the search term contained an apostrophe
1439 - Improved (and subsequently fixed) Pingback spam detection which now also uses
1440 the $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] settings [Dirk]
1441 - directory.php was still using $LANG30 instead of $LANG_MONTH (bug #583) [Dirk]
1442 - When upgrading the database from 1.4.0, only update those plugins that are
1443 actually installed (disabled or not) [Dirk]
1444 - CSS Changes to support better scaling of Font size - using browser Text-Size
1445 adjustment. Removed many extra font-size declarations. [Blaine]
1446 - Don't allow viewing of a Banned user profile unless user admin [Blaine]
1447 - Only call CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler when custom_registration is enabled
1449 - Fixed SQL error with some older MySQL versions when calling up the Batch User
1450 Delete option [Oliver]
1451 - Comments always displayed the comment author's full name, even when
1452 $_CONF['show_fullname'] was set to 0 [Dirk]
1453 - Fixed 404 (caused by a request for a file named '(none)') in the user profile
1454 display when a user doesn't have a userphoto [Dirk]
1456 - New Estonian language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
1458 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1459 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1460 by the Geeklog Japanese group
1461 - New Russian language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Pavel Kovalenko
1462 - Updated Slovenian language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1467 - Created a dedicated stylesheet file and include the file only if the URL
1468 contains the word 'calendar' [Oliver]
1469 - Tweaked the Calendar search result listing: Removed the Event Description
1470 (usually too long for the result listing), replaced Location (which is only a
1471 part of the address and not very helpful) with Event Type, minimized Date &
1472 Time display for events lasting only one day (don't list date twice) [Dirk]
1476 - Renamed classes block-vote-results to poll-vote-results and block-vote to
1478 - Removed duplicate "Other" entry from the Link submission form [Dirk]
1479 - In the Admin's list of links, only display an edit icon for links that the
1480 current user can actually edit (they did get a proper error message when
1481 trying to edit such a link, though) [Dirk]
1482 - Don't return the number of links in the links submission queue if the
1483 current user does not have links.moderate permissions [Dirk]
1484 - Filter out special characters from link IDs. They were properly escaped
1485 before storing them in the database but caused problems when using them
1489 Sep 17, 2006 (1.4.1b1)
1492 - Changes to templates and CSS to remove deprecated HTML (align= and valign=)
1493 Removed un-used CSS declarations, redundant font-family declarations
1494 Removed use of font-size percentage and used more acceptable EM units [Blaine]
1495 - Don't display an "edit" link in a story if the current user doesn't have
1496 edit permissions for the story's topic (bug #558) [Dirk]
1497 - Added a new script to check the site's security (admin/sectest.php). This
1498 replaces the "get bent" PHP block, but also performs additional checks [Dirk]
1499 - Created a Batch Delete function for users that easily identifies inactive or
1500 old users and allows mass-deletion of those [Oliver]
1501 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.3.1 [Blaine]
1502 - Added ability to filter out Admin related groups on the Group Admin page
1503 Allows users to easily see only user groups. When editing non-core groups,
1504 You can select if this group is an Admin Group [Blaine]
1505 - Added ability to multi-select submission queue items on the moderation page
1506 and delete them all at once [Blaine]
1507 - Always make "Submissions" the first entry in the Admins Only block to keep
1508 the correspondence between the other entries and the icons on the moderation
1509 page undisturbed (and because it's an important entry) [Dirk]
1510 - Fixed 'emailstoriesperdefault' config option (bug #553) [Dirk]
1511 - Added support for Microsoft SQL Server, provided by Randy Kolenko
1512 - Introduced $_CONF['disallow_domains'] as a blacklist of domain names that are
1513 not allowed for new users during signup. Both 'disallow_domains' and
1514 'allow_domains' can also contain regular expressions [Dirk]
1515 - Introduced DB_lockTable / DB_unlockTable to encapsulate the LOCK / UNLOCK
1516 requests when updating the comments table [Dirk]
1517 - Fixed bug: [#540] Blocking the last Root user or yourself should not be
1519 - Fixed bug: [#546] The phrase "Story Stats" is hardcoded [Oliver]
1520 - Added a spam check to the email user form [Dirk]
1521 - Use the same piece of code to compare plugin version numbers in lib-admin.php
1522 and admin/plugins.php to avoid the "update" button not appearing for some
1523 version numbers (bug #542) [Dirk]
1524 - Re-implemented $_CONF['allow_domains'] whitelist (when the user submission
1525 queue is enabled) that was inexplicably missing from 1.4.0 [Dirk]
1526 - Merged User Preferences and Account information into one page, like the
1527 Story editor with tabs etc. [Blaine, Oliver]
1528 - Tried to make "3 new stories in the last 1 day" sound less awkward by going
1529 back one unit, i.e. "3 new stories in the last 24 hours", in the What's New
1530 block (likewise for 1 week, 1 month, etc.) [Dirk]
1531 - Introduced config options to set the default for the story's draft flag
1532 and frontpage option (feature request #163) [Dirk]
1533 - Introduced $_CONF['hide_main_page_navigation'] to hide the "Google paging"
1534 from index.php (may be useful for some layouts) [Dirk]
1535 - Allow (optional) usage of autotags in "normal" blocks (can be enabled /
1536 disabled per block) [Dirk]
1537 - Introduced a {story_counter} variable in the story templates. It's 0 on the
1538 article page and in previews, but 1 for the first story, 2 for the second,
1539 etc. on the index page (per page, i.e. starts with 1 again on the second page)
1541 - Require that users enter their current password when changing their password,
1542 email address or "Remember me for" setting. Redesigned the Account Information
1543 page and added a note about this requirement. [Dirk]
1544 - Prevent accidental banning of users when the Admin edits a user's information
1545 using a theme that wasn't updated for Geeklog 1.4.0+ [Dirk]
1546 - $_CONF['show_fullname'] now works as expected, i.e. when setting it to = 1,
1547 a user's full name will be displayed everywhere in Geeklog instead of the
1548 username (assuming the users entered their full name) [Dirk]
1549 - Fixed a bug in the article directory where December was not listed when no
1550 stories had been posted in that month (reported by Kino and Ivy of geeklog.jp)
1551 - Replace Geeklog's [imageX] tags before extracting the What's Related links
1552 from a story to prevent the (verbatim) tag to show up in the block [Dirk]
1553 - Update story ids in the gl_trackback table when a story's id is changed [Mike]
1554 - Implemented new plugin API function, PLG_spamAction, to perform the spam
1555 actions in case spam has been detected through some other means (e.g.
1556 trackbacks from sites that don't link back to us) [Dirk]
1557 - Implemented new plugin API function, plugin_enablestatechange_, to inform
1558 plugins when they are about to be enabled / disabled (Patch #405) [Dirk]
1559 - Support backslashes in comment and submissions in HTML mode [Mike]
1560 - Added breadcrumb functionality to the navbar class (v1.1) [Blaine]
1561 - Enhancements to navbar templates and CSS for a more 3D TAB'ed look [Blaine]
1562 - Changed several <table>s to <div>s + CSS in the Professional theme [Oliver]
1563 - Introduced generic function to delete a user's photo to avoid code
1564 duplication and slightly different error handling in various places [Dirk]
1565 - Made the new user registration form remember the user's input so that they
1566 don't have to retype everything in case of an error [Dirk]
1567 - In the Admin's user list, banned users are indicated by striked-through
1568 entries (based on a hack by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
1569 - Added new setting $_CONF['onlyrootfeatures']. This is for sites where two or
1570 more story admins can feature stories that the other admins cannot see. The
1571 setting prevents that one admin does not see that there is another recent
1572 story featured and sets one by himself, "stealing" the feature from the other.
1573 - Changed "Reply"-button to "Post a comment" [Oliver]
1574 - Implemented an error handler to supress all PHP level errors and display a
1575 much more userfriendly error text to the end user. Prevents all path exposure,
1576 prevents "white error page" mystery debugging fun. [Mike]
1577 - Full sweep of all code for $_REQUEST/$_GET/$_POST and $_COOKIE use. Made sure
1578 that COM_applyFilter, or other safe usage is made of the variables. [Mike]
1579 - Added an option to hide the "No News To Display" message on the index page
1580 (new config option $_CONF['hide_no_news_msg']) [Dirk]
1581 - Added an option to check if the sites sending trackbacks are actually linking
1582 to our site (see $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] in config.php) [Dirk]
1583 - Made it impossible to save two syndication feeds with identical filenames
1585 - Stories with comments/trackbacks disabled, do not show comment/trackback
1586 url in RSS feeds [Mike]
1587 - Added email confirmation fields for new user and usersettings [Oliver]
1588 - Allow changing of group ownership for "gldefault" blocks. Requires a change
1589 in admin/block/defaultblockeditor.thtml to enable the group dropdown. On a
1590 fresh install, all the blocks (with the exception of "Are you secure?") are
1591 now owned by the Block Admin group [Dirk]
1592 - Users created by a User Admin should not be queued for approval, even when
1593 $_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1 [Dirk]
1594 - Introduced 'syndication.edit' permission and 'Syndication Admin' group so
1595 that access to the Content Syndication panel no longer requires 'Root'
1597 - For the "Submissions" entry in the Admins Only block, only count story and
1598 event submissions when the current user has story.moderate or event.moderate
1599 permissions, respectively [Dirk]
1600 - On admin/moderation.php, list the stories that have their draft flag set only
1601 when the current user has story.edit permission [Dirk]
1602 - Fixed empty lines in a Group Admin's list of groups when that Group Admin
1603 was not a member of all groups [Dirk]
1604 - Renamed the misnamed CUSTOM_runSheduledTask function (in lib-custom.php) to
1605 CUSTOM_runScheduledTask. Don't forget to make that change in your copy of
1606 lib-custom.php if you're using that functionality! [Dirk]
1607 - Improved error log contents when unable to acquire a feed reader for a portal
1609 - Extended plugin API for feed extensions to include feed id and the topic (for
1610 adding topic/feed specific data) [Mike]
1611 - Don't attempt to rename a non-existing user photo when
1612 $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is enabled (reported and fix suggested by
1613 Yusuke Sakata) [Dirk]
1614 - Made changes to ensure compatibility with MS SQL, as suggested by
1615 Randy Kolenko [Dirk]
1616 - The "last login date" column in the Admin's list of users now uses
1617 $_CONF['shortdate'] so that it includes the year [Dirk]
1618 - Fixed batch user import (which set all imported users to status "Awaiting
1619 Authorization" instead of "Awaiting Activation") [Mike]
1620 - Fixed admin lists google paging for use in static pages etc. [Oliver]
1621 - Added support for a custom login error handler function,
1622 CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler [Blaine]
1623 - Format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 / 2068 / 2616, i.e.
1624 "Geeklog/1.4.1" when trying to detect a Trackback URL [Dirk]
1625 - Made the search option on the Admin pages behave like the site search, i.e.
1626 it doesn't require you to pad queries with '*' any longer [Dirk]
1627 - In story search results, show/hide the "Author" and "Views" columns based on
1628 the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] and $_CONF['hideviewscount'] settings [Dirk]
1629 - Introduced $_CONF['title_trim_length'] to make the max. title length of items
1630 in the What's New block configurable (feature request #525). Also implemented
1631 a new function COM_truncate (based on a patch by Yusuke Sakata) that properly
1632 handles truncation of multi-byte text strings if the mb_ functions are
1634 - Added a JavaScript confirmation box to most delete buttons/links. If you'd
1635 rather not have such a confirmation, use {delete_option_no_confirmation}
1636 instead of {delete_option} in the admin templates [Dirk]
1637 - Fixed RSS Feed parser to create RFC 822 dates in en_GB or en_US locale as per
1639 - Removed obsolete "do not use spaces" warning from user editor (bug #530)
1641 - Show fullname/username according to config.php settings in stories [Oliver]
1642 - Added possibility to change the css-class for admin list headers and fields
1644 - Added unified new style class to stats.php/style.css to have all lists on
1645 the page look the same [Oliver]
1646 - Added multi-language support, based on earlier works by Euan McKay and LWC.
1647 Also see http://wiki.geeklog.net/wiki/index.php/Multi-Language_Support
1648 - Changed the default path for topic icons to /images/topics [Dirk]
1649 - Fixed an SQL error when calling up the Admin's list of stories without any
1651 - Removed the public_html/portal.php script, as it is no longer needed [Dirk]
1652 - Remove uninstalled plugins from the global $_PLUGINS array immediately
1653 (just in case the array would be used to trigger any actions) [Dirk]
1654 - The "Topic" column in the list of feeds was empty for feeds that are only
1655 linked from a topic page [Dirk]
1656 - Only use the mb_substr workaround in the calendar when the current character
1657 set is UTF-8 (bug #524) [Dirk]
1658 - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when listing the members of a group (bug #527)
1660 - When emailing a story, don't include the text "Comment on this story at ..."
1661 when comments have been switched off for that story [Dirk]
1662 - Fixed wrong wording of some of the "access denied" messages when trying to
1663 access Admin panels without proper privileges [Dirk]
1664 - Fixed display of Admin block for users that only had certain Admin privileges
1667 - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
1668 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1669 The Hebrew language file was also renamed to hebrew_utf-8.php for consistency
1670 with the other UTF-8 language files.
1671 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
1673 Calendar plugin (1.0.0)
1675 - Bugfix: Replace autotags in the event description [Dirk]
1676 - Added an option to switch between 24 hour and 12 hour am/pm mode for entering
1677 and editing events [Dirk]
1678 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
1679 feeds and blocks when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
1680 - Added calendar plugin initial version [Oliver]
1682 Links plugin (1.0.1)
1684 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
1685 feeds when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
1686 - Changed the english language file from "Web Resources" to "Links"
1687 - Fixed hard-coded link to the "admin" directory when editing a link (reported
1688 by Ronnie Rigl) [Dirk]
1689 - Optimized SQL requests for the plugin's What's New section [Dirk]
1690 - Re-introduced {button_links} header variable [Dirk]
1691 - Added an option to hide the Top Ten Links on the first page [Dirk]
1692 - Made the page title on the Web Resources page more informative by adding the
1693 category and page number [Dirk]
1694 - The edit icon (only visible for Links Admins) now uses the same image type
1695 as the current theme (was previously hardcoded to "edit.gif") [Dirk]
1696 - Hide the "Web Resources" link from the menu when login is required to see
1697 the links (for consistency with the Polls plugin) [Dirk]
1698 - Added a title attribute to the links on the site stats page that contains
1699 the link's actual URL [Dirk]
1700 - Fixed site link in search results which wasn't using portal.php [Dirk]
1701 - The Admin's search option now also searches the link description [Dirk]
1702 - Removed extra <small> tags from the What's New section (bug #526) [Dirk]
1704 Polls plugin (1.1.0)
1706 - Fixed call to undefined function polllist when calling up a non-existing
1708 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable the poll
1709 block when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
1710 - Fixed search [Dirk]
1711 - Added a remark field for polls answers [Oliver]
1712 - Re-introduced {button_polls} header variable [Dirk]
1713 - Added an option to hide the link to the polls from the menu (for consistency
1714 with the Links plugin) [Dirk]
1715 - Fixed poll URLs on the site stats page [Dirk]
1716 - Remove the polls block when uninstalling the Polls plugin (another part of
1719 Spam-X plugin (1.1.0)
1721 - Added SLV (Spam Link Verification) modules [Dirk]
1722 - The MT-Blacklist modules are not being shipped with Geeklog any longer. The
1723 MT-Blacklist entries are removed from the database during the upgrade [Dirk]
1724 - Allow special characters (e.g. backslashes) in the Admin modules (e.g. the
1725 Personal Blacklist module) [Dirk]
1726 - Moved spam actions to plugin_spamaction_spamx API function [Dirk]
1727 - Fixed potential problems with the checkforSpam function's return code in case
1728 of unusual configurations (e.g. $_CONF['spamx'] = 0) [Dirk, Tom Willet]
1729 - Made the plugin's internal log flag a proper config option. So you can now
1730 disable logging to spamx.log from the plugin's config.php [Dirk]
1731 - Mass delete by IP now uses stored IP address [Mike]
1733 Static Pages plugin (1.4.3)
1735 - Make sure autotags are replaced even when execution of PHP code is disabled
1736 (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1737 - Added a help URL for the block display of static pages [Oliver]
1738 - Added ability in staticpage editor to enable/disable Advanced Editor mode
1739 so you can use FCKeditor and then if need basic html edit mode [Blaine]
1740 - Fixed default sorting order for the list of static pages [Dirk]
1741 - Allow to show/hide update date/time and hits [Oliver]
1742 - When creating a new page, don't set the default group ownership to the Static
1743 Page Admin group if the current user is not a member of that group. Instead,
1744 pick a group with staticpages.edit permission that the user is a member of
1746 - Fixed paging for the list of static pages (bug #528) [Dirk]
1749 January 8, 2008 (1.4.0sr6)
1752 MustLive pointed out a possible XSS in the form to email an article to a
1753 friend that we're fixing with this release.
1756 July 23, 2006 (1.4.0sr5-1)
1759 This release fixes display problems in the comment preview that were only
1760 introduced in Geeklog 1.4.0sr5 (as a result of the fix for the XSS).
1762 The complete 1.4.0sr5-1 tarball also includes the following language files:
1764 - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
1765 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1766 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
1769 July 16, 2006 (1.4.0sr5)
1772 JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
1773 fixing with this release.
1776 June 30, 2006 (1.4.0sr4)
1779 Two exploits have been released by "rgod" for insecure Geeklog installations
1780 and for a bug in the "mcpuk" file manager that we've been shipping as part of
1781 FCKeditor in all 1.4.0 releases.
1783 - Some of the files outside of the public_html directory were not protected
1784 against direct execution. If Geeklog was installed such that those files were
1785 accessible from a URL (which has always been strongly discouraged in the
1786 installation instructions) then those files could be used to load and
1787 execute malicious code from a remote server.
1789 More information: http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/so-called-exploit
1791 In this release, we've added the missing execution prevention for all files
1792 outside of public_html. We would still, however, suggest that you fix your
1793 Geeklog install if the files outside of public_html are accessible from a URL.
1795 - The "mcpuk" file manager that we've integrated into FCKeditor allowed the
1796 upload of arbitrary PHP code (even if FCKeditor was disabled in Geeklog's
1797 config.php). Depending on your webserver's configuration, it was then possible
1798 to execute that uploaded code.
1801 http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/exploit-for-fckeditor-filemanager
1803 The file manager has been removed from this release. You will therefore no
1804 longer be able to upload files, e.g. images, through FCKeditor. Future
1805 versions of Geeklog will ship with an updated version of FCKeditor and its
1806 included file manager.
1809 May 28, 2006 (1.4.0sr3)
1812 The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
1815 - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
1816 - Possible XSS in getimage.php
1817 - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
1818 e.g. the Professional theme
1820 An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
1824 Mar 5, 2006 (1.4.0sr2)
1829 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
1830 anyone to log in as any user.
1831 - HTML was not stripped from the Location field in a user's profile.
1834 Feb 19, 2006 (1.4.0sr1)
1839 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
1840 Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
1841 file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
1845 - Fixed bug in page-break combined with url rewrite (bug #521) [Oliver]
1846 - Fixed Story [page_break] showing only intro on first page [Oliver]
1847 - Fixed install script for the Spam-X plugin which was trying to include an SQL
1848 file that doesn't exist - and wasn't needed (part of bug #520) [Dirk]
1850 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1851 - New Russian language files for the Links and Polls plugins, provided by
1852 Volodymyr V. Prokurashko
1853 - Fixed Static pages dutch language file [Oliver]
1854 - New Polish language file for the Links plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
1855 - Added UTF-8 English versions of the Links, Polls, Static Pages, and Spam-X
1856 language files [Dirk]
1857 - Added all UTF-8 Language files for core [Oliver]
1863 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks [Dirk]
1864 - Added missing navbar images - used for CSS based buttons as part of the
1865 standard Plugin CSS [Blaine]
1866 - Set options in FCKConfig to have Firefox browsers by default not using the
1867 <span> and font tags to format Bold and Italic [Blaine]
1868 - Fixed another bug in google pagination of admin-lists [Oliver]
1869 - Fixed "wrap static page in a block" and "exit type" options in the static
1870 page editor. Also link to the "rewritten" URL from the list of static pages
1871 when URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
1872 - Fixed JavaScript error in the Admin's story editor (bug #479) [Dirk]
1873 - Fixed hard-coded paths in the check.php script and added tests for missing
1874 directories (reported by Markus Wollschlaeger) [Dirk]
1875 - A humble attempt to add some semantics [Dirk]
1876 + Added rel="category tag" to a story's topic link
1877 + Added rel="self bookmark" for a comment's permalink
1878 - Cosmetics: Moved the number of links per category out of the actual link to
1880 - On MySQL 5, the drop-down list of link categories presented to a user when
1881 submitting a new link came out wrong (while the one in the Admin's link
1882 editor worked just fine). Moved the working code into a new function in the
1883 plugin's functions.inc and changed the code to use it in both cases now [Dirk]
1884 - Fixed an SQL error when the "length of entries" field in the Feed Editor was
1886 - Fixed date and time defaulting to the current date and time when creating
1887 a new event as an Admin user (adding a workaround for changes of strtotime()
1888 behavior in PHP 5) [Dirk]
1889 - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when creating a new topic (bug #517) [Dirk]
1890 - In HTTP requests, format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 /
1891 2068 / 2616, i.e. "Geeklog/1.4.0" [Dirk]
1893 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakata
1894 - Updated Ukrainian (Windows-1251) language file, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
1897 Jan 22, 2006 (1.4.0rc2)
1900 - header.thtml now specifies the CSS Class Declaration to use for the body.
1901 This addresses the issue with FCKeditor when displayed, its CSS was
1902 over-riding the main site <body> tag and the site margin padding was being
1904 - Removed CSS for the Forum plugin from style.css [Blaine]
1905 - Fixed "Cannot modify header ..." message when logging in from the admin
1906 pages (reported by Samuel M. Stone). This also fixes confusing intermittent
1907 displays during the login (e.g. only some of the "Command and Control" icons
1908 showing up, messages about missing permissions flashing up) [Dirk]
1909 - Removed Geeklog version number from feed files due to security concerns
1910 (pointed out by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
1911 - Login through the admin pages didn't work with register_globals=off [Dirk]
1912 - Fixed admin lists so pagination works also in static pages [Oliver]
1913 - Pass GeekLog as user agent when fetching RSS feeds [Mike]
1914 - Made the image upload work with out-of-the-box PHP 5 configurations [Dirk]
1915 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in Pingbacks [Dirk]
1916 - Fixed Spam-X Mass Delete Trackback Spam module to update the story's trackback
1917 count when deleting trackbacks [Dirk]
1918 - Fixed a possible SQL error when saving a block (reported by BDUB) [Dirk]
1919 - Fixed story titles in the What's New block when they contained HTML entities
1920 (entities where sometimes cut off and/or encoded twice) [Dirk]
1921 - Fixed a typo in all the plugin install script which set the group description
1922 to "grp_desc" instead of $grp_desc (found by Ingo Schaefer) [Dirk]
1923 - Improved autodetect of Trackback URLs [Dirk]
1924 - The submit story form was not selecting the advanced Editor if user was not
1925 logged in or did not have Story Editor permissions [Blaine]
1926 - Added missing CSS class name "list-feed" for portal blocks [Dirk]
1927 - Fixed user submission queue (reported by Andrew Lawlor) [Dirk]
1928 - Fixed handling of integer fields in the Admin's story editor (reported by
1929 Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
1930 - Fixed handling of checkboxes in the static pages editor (reported by
1931 Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
1932 - Fixed SQL error when saving a static page that had had more than 1000 hits
1933 (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
1934 - Removed visible table border from advanced comment editor form [Blaine]
1935 - Moved some hard-coded text strings from the advanced editor into the
1936 language files [Blaine]
1938 - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
1939 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
1942 Dec 31, 2005 (1.4.0rc1)
1945 - Added support for Advanced Editor in the Add Comment Feature [Blaine]
1946 - Fixed SQL error in search on MySQL 5 (fix suggested by dariball) [Dirk]
1947 - Added trackback.php and pingback.php to the included robots.txt [Dirk]
1948 - Added a few more calls to COM_numberFormat all over the place (links and polls
1949 plugins, Admins Only block, ...) [Dirk]
1950 - Fixed test for a Geeklog 1.3.9 database in the install script [Dirk]
1951 - When emailing a story, make sure all fields are filled in [Dirk]
1952 - Don't lose the current topic selection when a Story Admin uses the Contribute
1954 - Fixed highlighting of search query in comments when register_globals = off
1956 - When the entries in the Admin's block are not sorted, make sure the icons in
1957 Command and Control are in the same order as the block entries [Dirk]
1958 - Allow topic icons to be uploaded to and retrieved from a 'topics' directory
1959 outside of the document root [Dirk]
1960 - Added a workaround to produce abbreviated day names in the calendar for UTF-8
1961 language files (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
1962 - The Spam-X plugin now uses the same "universal" install script as the other
1963 three preinstalled plugins [Dirk]
1964 - Added more allowable HTML tags and attributes if Advanced_Editor enabled
1965 config.php setting [Blaine]
1966 - Added logic to detect if Javascript was not enabled and Advanced Editor was
1968 User will be prompted with alert and able to use the default editor [Blaine]
1969 - Changed spam handling for Trackbacks and Pingbacks to check for spam on the
1970 unfiltered Trackback/Pingback content [Dirk]
1971 - When editing a link submission with a new link category (i.e. the submitter
1972 selected "other" and entered a non-existing category), make sure that new
1973 category actually shows up in the links editor [Dirk]
1974 - In the Admin's list of stories, show the display name of the topic (i.e. the
1975 same as in the Topics block) instead of the topic ID [Dirk]
1976 - Hide the edit icon in the Admin's list of stories when the current user
1977 doesn't have edit access to a story (since they only got a note saying they
1978 can't edit that story anyway) [Dirk]
1979 - Fixed alternating row colors in admin lists if one row has no data [Oliver]
1980 - Made it impossible to switch off blocks if there is no access [Oliver]
1981 - Fixed handling of items in the submission queues (it was only possible to
1982 approve / delete the first item in a queue) [Dirk]
1983 - Grant users with 'plugin.edit' permission access to the plugin editor [Dirk]
1984 - Changed admin-lists 'default-filter' to require 'AND' [Oliver]
1985 - Fixed admin lists for events & static pages for non-root users [Oliver]
1986 - Fixed invalid language string in submit.php [Oliver]
1987 - Fixed problems with the query highlighting code escaping double quotes [Dirk]
1988 - In the list of plugins, display only the plugin's current version number as
1989 long as it's in sync with the code version or the plugin hasn't implemented
1990 the chkVersion API function [Dirk]
1991 - Limit length of a new user's username to 16 characters in the
1992 admin/user/edituser.thtml template file [Dirk]
1993 - Don't display the current user's userphoto when creating a new user in
1994 admin/user.php [Dirk]
1995 - Fixed sanity checks in USER_addGroup and USER_delGroup [Trinity, Dirk]
1996 - Allowed the Links-entry from the top menu to be hidden by config.php in links
1998 - Fixed small HTML validation issues with adv. editor and admin lists [Oliver]
1999 - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
2000 have the correct story/topic permissions. [Vinny]
2001 - Send the character set as an HTTP header from COM_siteHeader now [Oliver]
2002 - Fixed updating Links feeds [Mike]
2003 - Corrected RSS handling of GUID or LINK [Mike]
2004 - Fixed date format in Atom feeds [Mike]
2005 - Fixed loss of sort setting when browsing the user list [Oliver]
2006 - Fixed block title of the site stats (reported by Tom Willet) [Dirk]
2007 - Fixed an SQL error when approving the default story submission ("Are you
2008 secure?") after a fresh install (reported by suvi) [Dirk]
2009 - Fixed warnings that exposed the full path to Geeklog when attempting SQL
2010 injections on the advanced search [Mike]
2011 - The "Mail Users" icon was missing from Command and Control [Dirk]
2012 - In Command and Control, show the Trackback icon only when at least one of the
2013 Trackback, Pingback, or Ping features is enabled (in addition to 'story.ping'
2014 permissions for the current user) [Dirk]
2015 - Replaced the delete_event.gif icon (in layout/professional/images/icons) with
2016 a PNG, since the Professional theme uses PNGs now and the icon wouldn't show
2018 - The block around the list of backups was missing the title [Dirk]
2019 - Don't emit the Trackback and Pingback headers when trackbacks have been
2020 disabled for a story [Dirk]
2021 - Introduced {lang_trackback_comments_no_link} (in trackback/trackback.thtml)
2022 so that you can have an article page entirely without links back to itself
2023 (for picky spiders such as the one for Google News) [Dirk]
2024 - Call COM_refresh when creating a user with usersubmission = 1 [Mike]
2025 - Fixed sorting of Trackbacks in the What's New block [Dirk]
2026 - The search by author or by date switched to searching for everything on
2027 page 2 of the results [Dirk]
2028 - For the Links plugin, the "last x days" text in the What's New block was
2030 - Fixed an SQL error when creating new blocks [Mike]
2031 - The feed reader will now also follow redirects [Mike]
2033 - Updated Chinese traditional and simplified language files, and new Chinese
2034 language files for the Links, Polls, and Static Pages plugins, provided by
2036 - German language files now exist in 4 combinations (formal / informal German,
2037 ISO-8859-15 / UTF-8 encoding) for Geeklog, the Links, Polls and Static Pages
2039 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
2040 - New Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251) for Geeklog and all four plugins,
2041 provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
2042 - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
2043 Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych
2046 Nov 20, 2005 (1.4.0b1)
2049 - Introduced {start_storylink_anchortag} and {end_storylink_anchortag} template
2050 variables in the story and commentbar template files which only produce a
2051 link to the story when not on article.php, thus avoiding links back to the
2052 article page itself, which the spider for Google News doesn't seem to like
2053 (feature request #486) [Dirk]
2054 - Added a workaround for image uploads using GD when ImageCreateTrueColor is
2055 not available (patch #468) [Dirk]
2056 - Allow a subject to be passed as a parameter for the "contact user" form
2057 (based on patch #497) [Dirk]
2058 - Added support for right-to-left languages (based on patch #488) [Dirk]
2059 - Update Feeds and Older Stories block when changing topic settings [Dirk]
2060 - Added a hits counter to events and added a Top Ten Events section to the
2062 - Introduced $_CONF['show_topic_icon'], i.e. the default setting whether to
2063 show topic icons or not [Dirk]
2064 - The "Older Stories" block now only lists articles that appeared on the
2065 frontpage (i.e. have not been set to "Show only in topic", bug #408) [Dirk]
2066 - Fixed problems with query highlighting in stories scrambling links in
2067 autotags (bug #492) [Dirk]
2068 - Group names are now unique (as they should have been from the beginning). The
2069 install script takes care of existing duplicate group names when upgrading
2070 to 1.4.0 (bug #367) [Dirk]
2071 - Allow for more topic IDs in the user's preferences (bug #490) [Dirk]
2072 - Replace autotags in the Daily Digest (bug #484) [Dirk]
2073 - Explicitly link to /docs/index.html for the documentation link in the Admin's
2074 block (bug #504) [Dirk]
2075 - Added an option to enable / disable trackbacks per story (just like you can
2076 enable / disable comments per story) [Dirk]
2077 - Changed COM_optionList to check for language arrays which override the text
2078 strings that are embedded in the database (for comment mode, featured story,
2079 post mode, etc.) Bug #227 [Dirk]
2080 - Fixed Bug #174 -- quotes in titles are no longer double htmlentized [Vinny]
2081 - The default permissions for new objects (stories, topics, blocks, etc.) can
2082 now be set in config.php (feature request #90) [Dirk]
2083 - Added an "Active users" entry to the site statistics. If Geeklog is configured
2084 to track a user's last login, this will display the number of users who
2085 logged into the site during the last 4 weeks. Otherwise, it displays the
2086 number of user accounts with status = 3 (i.e. have logged into their account
2087 at least once and haven't been banned) [Dirk]
2088 - Introduced a new plugin API function so that the plugin's summary (e.g.
2089 number of items) can be properly integrated with the "Site Stats" section.
2090 Modified stats/sitestatistics.thtml, removed stats/stats.thtml, added
2091 stats/singlesummary.thtml template files [Dirk]
2092 - Introduced a generic function, USER_getPhoto, which provides the user's photo,
2093 if available. The function also supports getting the user's avatar from
2094 gravatar.com (if enabled in config.php) [Dirk]
2095 - The texts in the What's New block ("x new stories in the last y hours",
2096 "last 2 weeks", etc.) now properly reflect the actual settings of the
2097 $_CONF['newXXXinterval'] variables (bug #390) [Oliver, Dirk]
2098 - Introduced a method to signal a forced update for feeds in case the content
2099 of one of the feed entries has changed - so far, we only checked if entries
2100 had been added or removed (bug #277) [Dirk]
2101 - Added $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] option which, if set = true, will display
2102 right-side blocks on all pages (also addresses feature request #31) [Dirk]
2103 - Fixed bug #454, SQL error when reading comments. [Vinny]
2104 - Leave off the "page=1" parameter on the "Google paging" navigation bar for
2105 links that point back to the first page [Dirk]
2106 - The default feed for a new site is now in RSS 2.0 format and named
2107 "geeklog.rss" [Mike, Dirk]
2108 - Added time of the day to the name of the database backups to allow several
2109 backups a day [Oliver]
2110 - When the search returns no results, the search form is now pre-populated
2111 with the last search query, so that it can be changed easily. On successful
2112 searches, a "refine search" link will appear that also takes you back to a
2113 pre-populated search form (to refine your search, obviously) [Dirk]
2114 - Changed search to only return a certain amount of hits per page, thus
2115 avoiding timeouts on servers where the script execution time is limited
2117 A new config variable, $_CONF['num_search_results'], defines the number of
2118 search results to be returned per page (and per type). The search form also
2119 includes a drop-down menu where this can be changed for every search.
2120 Plugins will have to indicate if they support this "paged" search. Otherwise,
2121 Geeklog will fake the paging for the plugin, so that the plugin does a full
2122 search for every page, but Geeklog will only display the hits for the current
2123 page (such a plugin can therefore still cause a timeout until it is changed
2124 to support "paged" searching).
2125 - Added a permanent link to comments (in the professional theme) [Vinny]
2126 - Added new icons for the admin sections and made sure each admin section
2127 now has an icon in admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
2128 The new icons have been taken from the Gnome project (some of them modified
2129 by Jakub Steiner). They are released under the GPL.
2130 - Introduced global variable $_IMAGE_TYPE that specifies the image type to
2131 use. Defaults to 'gif'. Themes can override it to use other images types,
2132 e.g. PNG, for all images [Dirk]
2133 - Added option to upload topic icons (Feature Request #415, Patch #423),
2134 provided by Alford Deeley (machinari)
2135 - Changed the Admin's "Command and Control" center such that there is an icon
2136 for every entry in the Admin's block [Dirk]
2137 - Removed duplicate code for creating a "topic SQL" query in moderation.php
2138 (use COM_getTopicSQL instead) [Dirk]
2139 - Added the ability to allow users to login via defined remote services (ships
2140 with Blogger and LiveJournal support) [Mike]
2141 - Added the ability to ban users, and to tell when a user has logged in at least
2143 - Added edit-icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & alternating row colors
2144 in admin menus for groups, syndication, staticpages, trackback
2145 (where not yet done) [Oliver]
2146 - Added function to allow user-defined scaling of images in articles by using
2147 [unscaledX] instead of [imageX] [Oliver]
2148 - Removed $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] option - use $_CONF['show_fullname']
2150 - Fixed bug where extra slashes appeared when previewing comments [Vinny]
2151 - Removed the "lastvisit" cookies, as they are obviously not used [Dirk]
2152 - Removed redundant changepwd-button & code from /admin/user.php (Bug #9)
2154 - Added new feature to insert a feed-links into header depending on topic, to
2155 be chosen from /admin/syndication.php in the form of
2156 <link rel="alternate" type="application/{format}+xml" ....> [Oliver]
2157 - Added options to google-Navigation so it can be used by plugins and work with
2158 url-rewriting (feature request #315). [Oliver]
2159 - Userlist now also shows Registration Date and if $_CONF['lastlogin']= true it
2160 shows the last login date instead. [Oliver]
2161 - Added option in config.php to hide "Viewed: x" line with
2162 $_CONF['viewscountline'] just as the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] [Oliver]
2163 - Added function COM_numberFormat to format displayed numbers with custom
2164 decimal & thousand - separators and fixed decimal places if necessary
2165 Includes the respecitve 3 new config.php values in locale section.
2166 (Feature Request #298) [Oliver]
2167 - Default Blocks showed always in all Topics before. Now you can choose to show
2168 them in All/only one topic/only on homepage like other blocks (feature #326)
2170 - A Story can now break over several pages in the body-text. The tag
2171 [page_break] will split the bodytext in pieces that can be opened with the
2172 std. COM_printPageNavigation. Introtext is removed for pages>1 [Oliver]
2173 - Added field for old password check in /usersettings.php (bug #230) [Oliver]
2174 - Added password confirmation to /admin/user.php and /usersettings.php
2176 - Made the alternating row colors in the Admin's trackback functions compatible
2177 with the scheme used in other places (list of users, etc.). Also changed the
2178 list of weblog directory services so that editing is now done by clicking on
2179 the number of the service [Dirk]
2180 - Stories are no longer forced to be featured _and_ on frontpage (bug #362)
2182 - Changed links locations in User-list, added user-photo indicator [Oliver]
2183 - Don't update a story's date any more when unchecking the 'draft' flag
2185 - Don't use "rewritten" URLs in the static pages editor any more (bug #403).
2186 Also updated the list of static pages to use alternating colors for the
2188 - Use "\r\n" when sending trackback pings (bug #407) [Dirk]
2189 - Allow autotags to optionally have a space after the tag name [Blaine]
2191 [story:20040101093000103 here] or [story: 20040101093000103 here]
2192 - Fixed inconsistent use of {site_url} and {layout_url} in some of the
2193 professional theme's admin template files - using {layout_url} everywhere
2194 now when referring to icons (bug #395) [Dirk]
2195 - Event titles containing quotes were cut off at the first quote in the event
2196 editor, i.e. both the admin's event editor and the editor for personal events.
2198 - Modified PLG_templateSetVars API to also check for a custom function [Blaine]
2199 Users can now set header template using CUSTOM_templatesetvars()
2200 - Added new CSS declarations as recommened CSS for plugins [Blaine]
2201 - Added a basic scheduler Plugin API plugin_runScheduledTask [Blaine]
2202 Interval is set in config.php - $_CONF['cron_schedule_interval']
2203 - Enhanced the Group Admin interface display [Blaine]
2204 - Enhanced the User Admin display and made the headings sortable [Blaine]
2205 - Geeklog will now properly handle html special characters (such as quotes and
2206 ampersands) in comment titles (bug #174) [Vinny]
2207 - Hide 'edit' option for articles in preview (bug #347) [Dirk]
2208 - Changed admin/user.php to use file() for the batch import [Dirk]
2209 - Implemented pinging weblog directory services like blo.gs and weblogs.com
2210 (Feature Request #35). By default, we ping pingomatic.com [Dirk]
2211 - Complete overhaul of the Plugin Comment API to reduce the likelyhood of
2212 plugins introducing security problems. Older plugins that use the comment
2213 API will no longer work. [Vinny]
2214 - Refactored Comment code out of lib-common.php and into lib-comment.php, also
2215 some changes to comment.php [Vinny]
2216 - Introduced a 'story.ping' permission that enables users to send Pings,
2217 Pingbacks, and Trackbacks for a story (or plugin item). Members of the Story
2218 Admin group have that permission by default.
2219 - Overhauled install script: It will now abort the installation if the minumum
2220 requirements (PHP 4.1.0, MySQL 3.23.2) are not met. It also displays a warning
2221 message if register_long_arrays is off (PHP 5 only, bug #360). Another
2222 warning message is displayed if "public_html" is part of the URL.
2223 When upgrading, it now tries to identify the Geeklog version that was used
2224 previously (only really works for versions 1.3.8 - 1.3.11) [Dirk]
2225 - Fixed date in comment preview (bug #370) [Dirk]
2226 - Incorporated the new syndication framework for reading and writing feeds of
2227 different formats (RSS, RDF, Atom), provided by Michael Jervis (patch #352).
2228 This contribution also addresses Task #19 ("RSS import class") and Feature
2229 Request #67 ("Limiting number of entries in RSS feeds").
2230 Please note that the feed writer classes, system/classes/*.feed.class.php,
2231 are now obsolete and can be removed. Please also note this adds new PEAR
2232 package requirements for Net_URL and HTTP_Request.
2233 - Added support for sending and receiving trackback comments (Feature Request
2234 #34) Also implemented Pingback support in pretty much the same way. Once
2235 received, Geeklog treats Trackbacks and Pingbacks the same and stores them
2236 in the gl_trackback table. [Dirk]
2237 Both can be switched off in config.php: $_CONF['trackback_enabled'] = false;
2238 and $_CONF['pingback_enabled'] = false;
2239 - Added a new script, directory.php, that implements a date-based listing of
2240 all the stories on a site [Dirk]
2241 A link to the directory is available as a new option, 'directory', for the
2242 $_CONF['menu_elements'] config variable, so that it can be added to the menu.
2243 - The column headline for event search results was not displayed [Dirk]
2244 - Added logos to syndication feeds. [Mike]
2245 - Added config option to disable new accounts (Patch #426 from Alford Deeley)
2247 - Alphabet Sort on Admin Menu and C&C Block [Mike]
2249 - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
2250 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
2252 - New Farsi (Persian) language file for the static pages plugin,
2257 - Added ID-editor and Autotags-feature [link: ... ] [Oliver]
2258 - Added Category-Specific Feeds [Oliver]
2259 - Added Edit-Icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & etc for admin menu [Oliver]
2260 - Moved links functionality into a plugin [Trinity, Oliver]
2264 - Polls moved to a plugin [Trinity]
2268 - The LogView module now automatically truncates the Spam-X logfile to 100KB
2270 - The IP Blacklist module now supports regular expressions [Mike]
2271 - Added a Mass Delete module for Trackback comments [Dirk]
2272 - Added an "admin override" option, so that postings by members of the 'spamx
2273 Admin' group will not be checked for spam [Dirk]
2276 July 16, 2006 (1.3.11sr7)
2279 JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
2280 fixing with this release.
2283 May 28, 2006 (1.3.11sr6)
2286 The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
2289 - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
2290 - Possible XSS in getimage.php
2291 - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
2292 e.g. the Professional theme
2294 An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
2298 Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.11sr5)
2303 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
2304 anyone to log in as any user.
2307 Feb 19, 2006 (1.3.11sr4)
2312 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
2313 Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
2314 file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
2315 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks
2318 Dec 12, 2005 (1.3.11sr3)
2323 - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
2324 have the correct story/topic permissions (reported by LWC) [Vinny]
2325 - Fixed a path disclosure in case someone tampered with the start date or end
2326 date in advanced search (reported by r0t3d3Vil) [Mike]
2327 Feeding malformed dates to the search caused a warning message to be displayed
2328 that disclosed the path to the Geeklog install on the server. It was NOT
2329 possible to use this for SQL injections.
2333 - Fixed the problems (introduced in 1.3.11sr2) editing static pages when
2334 $_CONF['url_rewrite'] = true (bug #491) [Dirk]
2335 - The "Reply" button didn't work when viewing individual comments [Vinny]
2336 - Fixed the definition of the 'expire' field (in table gl_stories), which
2337 caused an SQL error when doing a fresh install on MySQL 5
2338 (reported by Johannes) [Dirk]
2340 - Fixed and updated the Hebrew language file [LWC, Dirk]
2341 - New Ukrainian language file (Windows-1251), provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
2342 - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
2343 Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych
2346 Oct 9, 2005 (1.3.11sr2)
2349 This release provides security enhancements and better spam protection
2350 originally developed for Geeklog 1.3.12. It also addresses a few bugs where
2351 the bugfix could be integrated with a reasonable amount of work (other bugfixes
2352 will have to wait for the 1.3.12 release).
2354 Security and Spam protection:
2356 - Added speedlimit to login attempts, defaults to allowing three tries in a
2357 five minute period. [Vinny]
2358 See new config options $_CONF['login_attempts'] and $_CONF['login_speedlimit']
2359 - Changed the spam handling to update the speed limit when spam is detected
2360 (i.e. handle spam posts as if they were successful posts and make the
2361 submitter wait for the speed limit to expire). Also send a 403 "Forbidden"
2362 HTTP response code when displaying the "spam detected" message [Dirk]
2363 To quote RFC2616: "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is
2364 refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD
2366 - Filter linefeeds in the To:, From:, and Subject: fields of an email in
2368 - When a new user account is created and the user submission queue is enabled
2369 in config.php, ensure that the user is properly "queued" even in the
2370 unlikely event that the account creation fails halfway through (reported by
2372 - When $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = 1, hide the links to the "email
2373 story" form from anonymous users [Dirk]
2374 - When emailing a story, check the user's message that is sent with the story
2376 - Added a robots.txt file to the distribution. By default, it excludes
2377 comment.php, submit.php, and the docs directory from being spidered [Dirk]
2378 - Added a spam check to the user profile [Dirk]
2379 - Story, event, and link submissions are now also checked for spam [Dirk]
2380 - This release also includes the Spam-X plugin version 1.0.2
2382 Please note that MT-Blacklist (used by Spam-X) has recently been discontinued.
2383 For the time being, we provide the last version of the blacklist for download
2384 from geeklog.net (the Spam-X plugin as included in this release is configured
2385 to get it from there for the initial import). There will, however, be no
2386 updates the blacklist. For details, please see
2387 http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/mt-blacklist-discontinued
2391 - Fixed an error message thrown up by PHP 5.0.5 or later when viewing the
2392 article page (bug #483) [Dirk]
2393 - Fixed bug with topic-specific blocks not showing up on the article page when
2394 URL rewriting was enabled (bug #401) [Dirk]
2395 - Fixed missing site header when trying to submit an event without required
2396 fields. Also fixed that it would redirect you to the story submission form
2397 then (bug #409) [Dirk]
2398 - Make sure {menu_elements} is rendered using the menuitem_none.thtml template
2399 when no menu elements are to be displayed (bug #378) [Dirk]
2400 - Quote names in email addresses as soon as they contain any non-alphanumeric
2401 characters (apart from the blank). This also addresses bug #368 [Dirk]
2402 - Allow single quotes in passwords (bug #396, also previously reported as
2403 bug #349 / #996354) [Dirk]
2404 - When $_CONF['profileloginrequired'] was set to 1, the actual message that
2405 you have to log in before being able to see a user profile was not wrapped
2406 in the Geeklog framework (reported by Sean C) [Dirk]
2407 - Fix: Made a story's archive/expire date work with the timezone hack [Dirk]
2408 - COM_applyFilter will now accept negative numbers if the isnumeric parameter
2409 is true. Needed to fix problems with pollbooth.php (and others) [Vinny]
2410 - Upgraded included kses class to version 0.2.2 which fixes problems with
2411 Japanese and Thai characters (among other things), thus addressing bugs #94
2413 - Fixed SQL error when using the [staticpage:] autotag (bug #373) [Dirk]
2414 - Added a missing stripslashes call to remove backslashes when a topic's name
2415 was displayed in the index page's title (bug #369) [Dirk]
2416 - Link tags are now translated in printer friendly mode (Bug #411) [Mike]
2417 - Removed the <meta name="ROBOTS"> entry from the Professional theme's
2418 header.thtml as "INDEX,FOLLOW" is the default anyway. For finer control,
2419 we now ship a robots.txt [Dirk]
2423 - Don't check for auto-archived stories when no archive topic has been
2425 - Added support for a custom_usercheck function. Custom registration code that
2426 requires certain information can now abort the creation of a new account if
2427 that information is missing. The function is called after Geeklog has checked
2428 that the username and email address of the new user are okay (valid and not
2429 in the database yet), but before the user has been added to the database
2431 - Saved one SQL request for a story's printable view [Dirk]
2435 - Made sure all language files refer to Geeklog's [image] tags as [imageX],
2436 [imageX_right], and [imageX_left] (bug #381) [Dirk]
2438 - New Catalan language file, provided by an anonymous user
2439 - New Russian (UTF-8) language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
2440 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
2441 - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by MzOzD
2442 - Updated Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
2443 - Updated Japanese (UTF-8) language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
2444 - Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho
2445 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
2447 - New Japanese (UTF-8) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
2449 - Updated Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
2451 - Updated Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
2455 Aug 21, 2005 (Spam-X plugin 1.0.2)
2458 - Changed the display name of the plugin to "Spam-X" to avoid potential
2459 confusion with the email spam filter of the same name.
2460 "SpamX" is a registered trademark of Hendrickson Software Components.
2461 - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the poster
2463 - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the
2464 spamvertised site [Tom Willet]
2465 - Added a new module to filter posts based on characteristics of the HTTP header
2467 - Fixed the Mass Delete Spam Comments module [Tom Willet]
2468 - The Spam-X plugin's examine modules run the post through html_entity_decode()
2469 now in case the spammers try to obfuscate their posts by using HTML entities
2471 - The Mail Admin action module now also reports the HTTP headers of the post
2472 that triggered the spam filter [Dirk]
2473 - Added a simple stats function (reports the number of posts deleted as spam,
2474 and - to the Spam-X Admin only - the number of entries for each module) [Dirk]
2475 - Implemented an update function for the plugin [Dirk]
2477 - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
2478 - New Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
2479 - New Spanish language file, provided by vivi1123
2482 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.11sr1)
2485 This release addresses the following security issue:
2487 Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
2488 be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.
2491 Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.11)
2494 Geeklog 1.3.11 addresses the following security issues:
2496 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
2497 were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
2498 These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
2499 disabled it in config.php.
2500 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
2501 leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
2502 3. The links for the What's Related block were created from the unfiltered story
2503 text, opening the possibility of XSS attacks (reported by Vincent Furia).
2507 - Added a missing stripslashes() call for the topic name in the What's Related
2508 block (bug #351) [Dirk]
2509 (affected file: system/lib-story.php)
2510 - Fixed problems in the story editor when editing plain-text posts with
2511 uploaded images (bug #356) [Dirk]
2512 (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
2513 - When changing a story ID, update the story ID in any comments to that story,
2514 too (bug #357) [Dirk]
2515 (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
2516 - Fixed handling of autotags that started with the same substring, e.g. for
2517 2 tags 'mytag' and 'mytagtwo', the second tag would not be recognized
2518 (reported by Dr. Shakagee) [Dirk]
2519 (affected file: system/lib-plugins.php)
2520 - Fixed caching of $_GROUPS [Dirk]
2521 (affected files: system/lib-security.php, public_html/lib-common.php)
2522 - Made a minor optimization to save one SQL request when displaying the comment
2523 bar for anonymous users [Dirk]
2524 (affected file: public_html/lib-common.php)
2525 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
2526 (affected file: language/slovenian.php)
2529 Dec 22, 2004 (1.3.11rc1)
2532 - Fixed "archive" option being activated too early on certain non-featured
2533 stories (bug #345) [Blaine]
2534 - Added missing handling of autotags in static pages being displayed as center
2535 blocks (reported by Jill) [Dirk]
2536 - Fixed size of the 'sid' field in the gl_comments table. It should be 40
2537 characters, to be able to hold the long story IDs introduced in 1.3.10
2538 (reported by Douglas Santos) [Dirk]
2539 - When using mogrify (ImageMagick) to resize uploaded images, the name of the
2540 image is now enclosed in double quotes instead of single quotes, which
2541 caused the command to fail on Windows [Dirk]
2542 - The emails sent from the Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action now also include
2543 the IP address of the spam poster [Dirk]
2544 - SEC_getFeatureGroup() should not overwrite $_GROUPS if not operating on the
2545 current user (bug #331) [Dirk]
2546 - Introduced a {camera_icon} variable in story and comment templates that
2547 displays the little camera icon if the author has uploaded a user photo, just
2548 like in the Who's Online block (suggested by Laurence Whitworth) [Dirk]
2549 - The parent link in top-level comments took the user to the homepage rather
2550 than to the article page (bug #346) [Vinny]
2551 - Stories submitted for the archive topic will automatically be saved with
2552 frontpage = 0 when approved, i.e. only be displayed in the topic [Dirk]
2553 - Avoid emitting an extra <br> tag after the last section in the What's New
2554 block (bug #330) [Dirk]
2555 - Update comment count in Older Stories block when a new comment is posted
2556 (bug #317). Also optimized the code to collect the contents of the Older
2557 Stories block [Dirk]
2558 - Fixed extra <br> being emitted in the calendar for events that aren't
2559 visible for the current user (bug #268) [Dirk]
2560 - (Event) Admins can now delete events directly from the calendar's day and
2561 week views (just like events in the personal calendar) [Dirk]
2562 - Fixed usersettings.php so that it displays the "benefits" message again when
2563 called up by an anonymous user. Also made it go to the user's preferences
2564 when called without a 'mode' parameter [Dirk]
2565 - Added {layout_url} to the available theme variables in the submission forms.
2566 Also added {separator} for those who prefer correct spelling ;-) [Dirk]
2567 - More parameter filtering and permission checks in submit.php [Dirk]
2568 - Fixed over-zealous parameter filtering in links.php which prevented
2569 categories with apostrophes from working [Dirk]
2570 - Fixed broken URLs when editing a plain-text story that contained uploaded
2571 images (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
2572 - The PEAR classes that ship with Geeklog actually require PHP 4.2.x now.
2573 However, the missing functions in older PHP versions (minimum requirement
2574 for Geeklog itself is now PHP 4.1.0) are provided by the PEAR PHP_Compat
2575 package, which we will have to ship with Geeklog from now on. Added the
2576 necessary code to lib-common.php to load PHP_Compat, if required [Dirk]
2577 Many thanks to Tom Willet for providing a test setup.
2578 - Fixed "quick add form" for personal events, so that it stores the new event
2580 - Fixed handling of 12am/pm in events, event submissions, and when passing the
2581 time from the calendar to the event submission forms [Dirk]
2582 - Improved handling of personal events / personal calendar, especially for
2583 (Event) Admins [Dirk]
2584 - Fixed What's Related links when magic_quotes_qpc = on [Vinny, Dirk]
2585 - Fixed use of an undefined variable $U in COM_showBlocks and warning messages
2586 for undefined array indexes in COM_getCurrentURL (reported by irawen) [Dirk]
2587 - Allow empty search query strings so that the "More by <author>" and "More
2588 from <topic>" options work again [Dirk]
2589 - When deleting a poll, also delete any comments to that poll [Dirk]
2590 - Delete comments and story images when deleting stories from a deleted topic
2592 - When deleting a story, added an extra check for type='article' when deleting
2593 the story's comments [Dirk]
2594 - Set current user as the owner when cloning an event (bug #338) [Dirk]
2595 - Start time, end time, and event location weren't copied over when adding a
2596 site event to the personal calendar (bug #336) [Dirk]
2597 - Fixed wrong use of htmlentities() on comment title (bug #335) [Dirk]
2598 - Changed "read more" word count so that it ignores HTML tags (bug #333) [Dirk]
2600 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
2601 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Ko de Pree.
2602 - Updated Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin,
2603 provided by Ko de Pree.
2604 - New French language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Alain Ponton.
2607 Nov 28, 2004 (1.3.10)
2610 - Allow omission of the link text for the [story:], [event:], and [staticpage:]
2611 autotags. Geeklog will then use the title (of the story / event / static page)
2612 as the link text [Dirk]
2613 (affected files: system/lib-plugins.php, plugins/staticpages/functions.inc)
2615 - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
2618 Nov 21, 2004 (1.3.10rc3)
2621 - Changed wording of the error message if the "backups" directory is not
2623 - Fixed comments for the DB_result (in lib-database.php) and dbResult
2624 (in mysql.class.php) functions (bug #320) [Dirk]
2625 - Display a success message when using the "changepw" option in admin/user.php
2627 - When changing a username, make sure to change the name of the user's photo,
2628 too (bug #321) [Dirk]
2629 - Links in "plain text" stories and comments are now made clickable (i.e.
2630 enclosed in <a> tags) when the post is saved instead of when it's displayed,
2631 as in the previous release candidates. This also fixes bug #308. [Dirk]
2632 - Added $_CONF['disable_autolinks'] config option to disable autolinks [Dirk]
2633 - Removed ViewBlacklist.Admin.class.php from the Spam-X plugin [Tom Willet]
2634 - Overhauled handling of personal events [Dirk]:
2635 + Fixed deleting personal events (again).
2636 + The upcoming events block now links to the event details of personal
2637 events (just like it already did for site events).
2638 + Added stricter checks for permissions, user IDs, and the personal calendars
2639 being activated in the first place.
2640 - Added a check for allow_url_fopen if reading a (RSS) feed fails and report it
2641 in error.log if it is off [Dirk]
2642 - When deleting a story (automatically), make sure we're only deleting comments
2643 belonging to that story (i.e. added a check for type = 'article') [Dirk]
2644 - Added {event_type}, {lang_event_type}, and {edit_icon} in all the themes'
2645 calendar/eventdetails.thtml template file [Dirk]
2646 - Fixed some URLs in the calendar (missing slash) [Dirk]
2647 - Comment IDs don't have to be numeric (in comment.php) [Vinny]
2648 - The Static Pages plugin now takes $_CONF['showfirstasfeatured'] into account
2649 when displaying static pages in center blocks (reported by eyecravedvd) [Dirk]
2650 - Forgot to declare $_CONF as global when fixing bug #301 (bug #302) [Dirk]
2652 - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
2653 - Updated Japanese language files (euc-jp and UTF-8), provided by Yusuke Sakata
2654 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
2655 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
2656 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero
2657 - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg
2660 Oct 24, 2004 (1.3.10rc2)
2663 - Fixed plugin update function [Blaine]
2664 - Set the target encoding in Geeklog's RSS parser (bug #301) [Dirk]
2665 - Set the {topic_icon} variable to an empty string for the "Home" link in the
2666 Topics block (reported by jhwhite) [Dirk]
2667 - Fixed News Box Configuration, i.e. the ability to disable blocks [Vinny]
2668 - In the story template files, the number of comments now only is a link when
2669 there actually is a comment on the story [Dirk]
2670 - Hard-coded the English word 'delete' in the URLs to delete a comment [Dirk]
2671 - For the list of a user's recent comments, use 'mode=view' to link directly
2672 to a comment now [Dirk]
2673 - Fixed comment id in comment notification emails [Dirk]
2674 - Fixed display of the number of static pages that the user has access to (in
2675 the Admin Block) [Dirk]
2676 - COM_makeClickableLinks did not recognize links with the 'http:' at the
2677 start of a line [Dirk]
2678 - Re-introduced <br> between plugin sections in the What's New block, pretty
2679 much reverting the change suggested by feature request #292 [Dirk]
2680 - Introduced function COM_formatEmailAddress that creates a (more or less)
2681 RFC(2)822 compliant email address from a name and an address [Dirk]
2682 This function is now used for formatting the site address, as well as for
2683 addresses entered by the user in profiles.php and admin/mail.php.
2684 - The Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action didn't send any email notifications,
2685 since the call to COM_mail was commented out ... [Dirk]
2686 - admin/mail.php and admin/group.php use the complete URL to the script in
2687 the <form action="..."> now (instead of relying on PHP_SELF) [Dirk]
2688 - Fixed parse error in the Dutch language file (reported by NeoNecro) [Dirk]
2689 - Allow the dot '.' in IDs (in addition to letters, digits, the dash, and the
2693 Oct 17, 2004 (1.3.10rc1)
2695 - Added new functionality to [autotags] - New plugin API's added [Blaine]
2696 - Added [autotag] hooks for stories [Blaine]
2697 - When a plugin had its icon only in the admin directoy, the plugin editor
2698 did not find it and displayed a generic icon instead [Dirk]
2699 - In admin/mail.php, apply htmlspecialchars() on the email addresses before
2700 displaying them, as the '<foo@example.com>' part will be interpreted as
2701 HTML by some browsers (pointed out by LWC) [Dirk]
2702 - When using gdlib for image resizing, GIF images were converted to PNG, but
2703 Geeklog was still trying to display the GIF (reported by Tom Willet). Since
2704 the LZW patent has now expired (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw),
2705 it is safe to use GIF images again, so the PNG conversion was dropped [Dirk]
2706 - Fixed link to the Anonymous user's profile in comment/thread.thtml [Dirk]
2707 - Added Location field to the user profile [Blaine]
2708 - In the light of bug #293, removed all variable names from the language files,
2709 leaving only the $_CONF config variables [Dirk]
2710 - Fixed an error message when plugins didn't return an array from
2711 plugin_getmenuitems_xxx (reported by computerade) [Dirk]
2712 - When sending emails from the admin/mail.php, some user's names weren't set
2713 in their email address (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
2714 - Removed an extra <br> from before and between data provided by plugins in
2715 the What's New block (feature request #292) [Dirk]
2716 - When creating a new user from admin/user.php, don't determine the uid before
2717 actually creating the database entries to avoid race conditions / collisions
2718 with other user accounts created at the same time (bug #243) [Dirk]
2719 Also took the opportunity to refactor and move the almost identical code
2720 from users.php and admin/user.php into a new function USER_createAccount in
2721 system/lib-user.php.
2722 - usersettings.php was missing a default case for unsupported values of 'mode'
2723 (bug #287). This only displayed a blank page and was not exploitable [Dirk]
2724 - Fixed hard-coded default group names in the Admin sections (e.g. when a user
2725 had story.edit permissions but was not in the Story Admin group, any new
2726 story created by that user would default to being owned by the Story Admin
2727 group nonetheless) [Dirk]
2728 - Introduced new plugin API functions plugin_user_changed_xxx and
2729 plugin_group_changed_xxx to inform plugins when a user's information
2730 (profile or settings) or a group (new, edit, delete) has been changed [Dirk]
2731 - COM_checkHTML and COM_allowedHTML now accept an additional parameter in form
2732 of a comma-separated list of permissions. If the current user has at least
2733 one of those permissions, they are assumed to be an "Admin" and the functions
2734 will use the $_CONF['admin_html'] list of HTML tags for them (bugs #114 and
2736 - COM_allowedHTML now has an option to only return the list of allowed HTML
2737 tags without the "Allowed HTML" text (bug #118) [Dirk]
2738 - For the poll block, always use the block title stored in the database (bug
2740 - It is now again possible to have a different number of stories per page
2741 for individual topics. Users have to set their preferred number of stories
2742 per page to 0 (zero) in their preferences, though, as the user preferences
2743 will always override this setting (bug #190) [Dirk]
2744 - The Professional theme, kindly provided by Victor B. Gonzalez, is our new
2746 - In the calendar's day and week view, event permissions weren't checked
2747 properly, so that some events were displayed to user who shouldn't have
2748 been able to see them (reported by Willem Jan) [Dirk]
2749 - Don't update a story's hit counter as long as the draft flag is set or the
2750 publishing date is in the future (feature request #282) [Dirk]
2751 - Introduced new function COM_sanitizeID() to filter special characters out of
2752 user-editable IDs as used for stories, polls, topics, and static pages (also
2753 fixes bug #181). Allowed characters are letters a-z (both upper and lower
2754 case), digits 0-9, the dash '-', and the underscore '_' [Dirk]
2755 - The Upcoming Events block didn't use the help URL, even if it was set
2756 (reported by Wolfgang M. Schmitt) [Dirk]
2757 - Geeklog now comes with Tom Willet's Spam-X plugin pre-installed. The plugin
2758 now stores the blacklists in the database and uses a new plugin API
2759 function to filter comment posts [Tom Willet, Tony, Blaine, Dirk]
2760 - Plugins can now offer their own tags to allow easy linking to their content.
2761 These tags take the form [name:id link text], where 'name' is a name
2762 associated with the plugin, 'id' is a unique id referring to one of the
2763 objects under the plugin's control, and 'link text' is text used in the <a>
2764 tag that Geeklog creates from these tags.
2765 Built-in tags are [story:] to link to a story and [event:] to link to an
2766 event [Blaine, Dirk]
2767 Example: [story:email-bug About the email bug] would be translated into
2768 <a href="http://example.com/article.php/email-bug">About the email bug</a>
2769 - portal.php now sends a 301 HTTP status code for the links instead of a 302.
2770 While a 302 status code would actually make more sense, Google does have a
2771 tendency to list search results with the URL of the portal script but with
2772 the content of the linked site, thus giving the impression that the content
2773 is actually located on another site. Sending a 301 avoids this problem [Dirk]
2774 - Group Admins should not even see the groups of which they are not a member
2776 - Prevent Group Admins from listing the members of a group unless they are a
2777 member of that group themselves [Dirk]
2778 - Introduced $_CONF['left_blocks_in_footer'] config option that makes the
2779 {left_blocks} variable available in footer.thtml (disabling it in header.thtml
2780 at the same time). This is really only useful for two-column layouts where
2781 you want the side blocks in the right column [Dirk]
2782 - Polls linked from the stats page now display the result of the poll instead
2783 of letting the user vote on them (feature request #267) [Dirk]
2784 - In the Admin's list of events and stories, don't list items for which the
2785 Admin doesn't have read access (bug #269). [Dirk]
2786 - Story IDs are now editable (just like the IDs of static pages). [Dirk]
2787 Important: Update the story editor template (admin/story/storyeditor.thtml)!
2788 - Fixed a bug that reset every user's password request as soon as some user
2789 changed their account information (bug #265) [Dirk]
2790 - Added support for URL rewriting to portal.php [Dirk]
2791 - The links for the What's Related block are stored in the 'related' field in
2792 the gl_stories table again. Parsing the story for links every time it is
2793 rendered uses too much CPU power (with apologies to groklaw.net) [Dirk]
2794 - Added theme variable {story_link} to commentbar.thtml to link back to original
2795 story the comments are derived from. [Vinny]
2796 - Introduced new file system/lib-story.php for story-related functions and
2797 moved COM_article, COM_whatsRelated, COM_extractLinks, as well as the code
2798 to delete article images into that file (functions were renamed accordingly:
2799 STORY_renderArticle, STORY_whatsRelated, STORY_extractLinks) [Dirk]
2800 - Fixed URLs to userphotos and story images when $_CONF['path_images'] had been
2801 changed (but was still inside of $_CONF['path_html']) [Dirk]
2802 - Added a script to convert an existing database to InnoDB tables (if the MySQL
2803 version supports them): admin/install/toinnodb.php [Dirk]
2804 - Added missing closing </a> tag in story search results (bug #260) [Dirk]
2805 - Added a second parameter to function COM_makeList that is used as a CSS
2806 class name in the list it returns (use {list_class_name} to get the actual
2807 class name, and {list_class} to get class="classname"). Changed the existing
2808 calls to COM_makeList to include class names, so that you can now use the
2809 following class names in your stylesheet to style lists: list-feed,
2810 list-new-comments, list-new-links, list-new-plugins, list-older-stories,
2811 list-personal-events, list-site-events, list-story-options, list-whats-related
2812 (the names should be self-explanatory) [Dirk]
2813 - Moved the docs directory to public_html/docs and added a link to it from the
2814 Admin's block (can be switched off in config.php by setting the new option
2815 $_CONF['link_documentation'] = 0) [Dirk]
2816 - Replaced 'ppmtojpeg' with 'pnmtojpeg' when using NetPBM for scaling
2817 uploaded JPEG images (bug #257) [Dirk]
2818 - Added a check (and a warning message) for PHP 4.1.0 to the install script,
2819 as that is our new minimum requirement [Dirk]
2820 - Rewrote install/success.php and added a link to install/check.php [Dirk]
2821 - Added the 'data' and 'pdfs' directory to install/check.php [Dirk]
2822 - Integrated the "welcome email hack": If the file 'welcome_email.txt' exists
2823 in the 'data' directory, the contents of that file are sent out as the
2824 welcome email to new users (instead of the hard-coded welcome message) [Dirk]
2825 - Introduced a 'data' directory ($_CONF['path_data'], defaulting to
2826 /path/to/geeklog/data) and use it for the batch user import, as Geeklog's
2827 base directory may not be writable on some setups (bug #77) [Dirk]
2828 - Sort list of older polls by date (newest first) and added paging [Dirk]
2829 - Make sure the old userphoto is deleted when uploading a new one (bug #228).
2830 So far, the old photo was not removed when the file type changed (e.g. from
2831 .gif to .jpg) [Dirk]
2832 - Don't assume the uploaded file in usersettings.php is always the userphoto -
2833 it may in fact belong to a plugin (bug #179). This bug prevented plugins from
2834 uploading their own files through the plugin API [Dirk]
2835 - Fixed repeating events in the personal calendar's day view (bug #232) [Dirk]
2836 - COM_siteHeader() now accepts a page title (to go between the page's
2837 <title>...</title> tags) as the second parameter, replacing the
2838 $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack (which still works but should be avoided) [Dirk]
2839 - In the site's page title, replace the site slogan with more meaningful
2840 information, where possible, e.g. "Submit a Story" on the story submission
2841 form, "Search Results", etc. (feature request #95) [Dirk]
2842 - Fixed deleting events from the personal calendar (bug #199) [Dirk]
2843 - Carry over the date and time from the calendar when Admins add a new event
2845 - Don't display "Site Events" headline in the Upcoming Events block when
2846 personal calendars are off (feature request #151) [Dirk]
2847 - Removed hard-coded am/pm formatted hours from the calendar's day view
2848 (calendar/dayview/dayview.thtml) and replaced them with {xx_hour} variables,
2849 where 'xx' is 0-23, which will be replaced with the hours formatted
2850 according to the $_CONF['timeonly'] config variable [Dirk]
2851 - Themes can now use a couple of CSS class names to style the small calendar (of
2852 the previous and next month) in month view: .smallcal, .smallcal-headline,
2853 .smallcal-week-even, .smallcal-week-odd, .smallcal-week-empty,
2854 .smallcal-day-even, .smallcal-day-odd, and .smallcal-day-empty [Dirk]
2855 - Improvements to the Story Archive Feature, UI tweaks, Language Extraction,
2856 Added new field to the topics table. Admin now sets the archive topic in
2857 the Topic Editor. Only one topic can be used - logic enforced. [Blaine]
2858 - Don't emit the <br><br> in article.php when the story's body text is empty
2859 (based on patch #147, provided by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
2860 - Set {article_url} variable when displaying the story in article.php [Dirk]
2861 - Fixed missing </select> tags for the comment display mode and sort order
2862 drop-down menus in usersettings.php (patch #255, provided by machinari) [Dirk]
2863 - Hard-coded the names of the pseudo image tags in story.php, i.e. they are
2864 always [imageX], [imageX_left], and [imageX_right] now, independent of
2865 the current language file (bug #139) [Dirk]
2866 - Added the Auto-Archive Management feature. Optionally allows the Story Editor
2867 to archive or delete a story when the expire date is reached [Blaine]
2868 - Improved the commentbar to logically support comments viewed from comment.php
2870 - Removed a bug in comment.php that allowed a story/comment mismatch during
2871 display. This was not exploitable. [Vinny]
2872 - Integrated the timezone hack to compensate for time differences when your
2873 webserver is located in another timezone (original timezone hack by Yew Loong,
2874 with additions by "Joe" as well as several other geeklog.net users) [Dirk]
2875 - The calendar can now be configured so that the week starts on either a
2876 Sunday or a Monday - see new config variable $_CONF['week_start']
2877 (based on a patch by bond_anton) [Dirk]
2878 - Sort the admin's list of events by date (newest first). Also added paging,
2879 a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
2880 theme changes in admin/event/eventlist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
2881 - Incorporated a patch provided by Drago Goricanec to sort the Admin's user
2883 - Introduced 2 config options for the Who's Online block:
2884 - $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] will display the user's full name,
2885 - $_CONF['whosonline_anonymous'] does not display the names of registered
2886 users to anonymous visitors of the site.
2887 Both options are disabled by default [Dirk]
2888 - Added support for single quotes and nested tags to COM_extractLinks [Vinny]
2889 - The admin_html and user_html are now merged recursively (bug #240) [Vinny]
2890 - Remove colons from email addresses, as they have a special meaning,
2891 according to RFC(2)822, that we didn't intend (bug #6) [Dirk]
2892 - Fixed compilation of regexp if the search query ended or started with a
2893 space (the resulting error message would also expose the path to article.php),
2895 - Sort the admin's list of polls by date (newest first). Also added paging,
2896 a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
2897 theme changes in admin/poll/polllist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
2898 - Added paging to the plugin editor (for more than 25 installed plugins).
2899 A {google_paging} variable is needed in admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml for
2900 the paging links to show up [Dirk]
2901 - Emails sent from the Admin's mail form (admin/mail.php) were always sent
2902 with the site name and site email address, even if you entered something else
2903 in the form. Also made admin/mail/mailform.thtml slightly less ugly [Dirk]
2904 - When deleting a topic, keep the blocks assigned to that topic (bug #247).
2905 They're assigned to 'all topics' and disabled, but kept around now. The same
2906 applies for topic feeds, which weren't handled at all before [Dirk]
2907 - Make sure upload errors for user photos and story images are displayed in a
2908 Geeklog block, not on a blank screen [Dirk]
2909 - Fixed description of DB_insertId() in lib-database.php and dbInsertId() in
2910 mysql.class.php: The functions take a resource, describing the opened link to
2911 the database, not a record set (pointed out by lgonze on IRC). [Dirk]
2912 - Plugins are now getting the key type passed to their search function, so that
2913 they can perform a search for "exact phrase", "all of these words", or
2914 "any of these words" as selected from the search form. [Dirk]
2915 - Use URL rewriting for the link to a story's printer-friendly version, when
2916 activated (bug #201) [Dirk]
2917 - Resizing an image didn't work when the image height exceeded the max. height
2918 but the image width was still below the max. width (bug #242) [Dirk]
2919 - Keeping the unscaled image when using GDlib didn't work (bug #197) [Dirk]
2920 - Added a workaround for the Zeus webserver so that blocks marked "homeonly"
2921 properly appear there (bug #244) [Dirk]
2922 - Previewing a story submission from admin/story.php before saving it left the
2923 original story submission in the submission queue while also adding it as a
2924 new story. This has been fixed now [Dirk]
2925 - Added {article_url} variable for article/printable.thtml so that we can
2926 print the proper URL to the article if URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
2927 - Added filtering for the $order parameter in article.php [Dirk]
2928 - Added {link_actual_url} variable in links.php, holding the actual URL of
2929 a link (not Geeklog's redirect URL via portal.php). Updated template
2930 file links/linkdetails.thtml in all default themes to use {link_actual_url}
2931 in a title attribute for the links [Dirk]
2932 - The event description now honors linefeeds to allow some basic text
2934 - Escape all PCRE special characters in the code to highlight search query
2935 words (bug #200). Also moved the code to its own function, COM_highlightQuery,
2936 in lib-common.php [Dirk]
2937 - The contents and order of the menu entries, i.e. of the {menu_elements}
2938 variable in header.thtml, is now configurable in config.php (new config
2939 variable $_CONF['menu_elements']). It also includes an option to add custom
2940 entries by implementing a function CUSTOM_menuEntries() that returns the
2941 additional entries [Dirk]
2942 - Use an UPDATE request when increasing the number of times a story has been
2944 - When an error occurs while creating a backup, the complete command line
2945 used to call mysqldump is now added to error.log [Dirk]
2946 - Added 'view' mode to allow links directly to a single comment (and optionally
2947 its children) in comments.php. [Vinny]
2948 - Added a few variables to be used in the eventdetails.thtml template file:
2949 {event_state_name} (full name of the state), {event_state_only} and
2950 {event_state_name_only} (abbreviated and full state name without the comma),
2951 {event_edit} (link to edit the event, if allowed for the current user),
2952 {edit_icon} (same, but with the edit icon instead of a text link),
2953 {lang_event_type} and {event_type} for the event type [Dirk]
2954 - Registered users can now report abusive comments to the site admin (inspired
2955 by Feature Request #171, which actually requested this for the forums).
2956 Requires new text strings in the language files and a new template file,
2957 comment/reportcomment.thtml [Dirk]
2958 - Bugfix: New users created through the batch import didn't get the email with
2959 their password [Dirk]
2960 - Moved function to create and send a password to lib-user.php to avoid having
2961 identical code in users.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
2962 - Added {topic_image} variable (available in the topicoption.thtml and
2963 topicoption_off.thtml template files) so that you can use topic images in
2964 the Topics block (feature request #152) [Dirk]
2965 - COM_undoSpecialChars() now also handles (bug #192) [Dirk]
2966 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in [code] sections (bug #159) [Dirk]
2967 - Added an option to look up IP addresses (new variable $_CONF['ip_lookup'] in
2968 config.php, pointing to a service that does IP address lookups) [Dirk]
2969 - Fixed problems with the database backup when there were spaces in the path to
2970 the backups directory (bug #185). [Dirk]
2971 - Added email notification for new comments (feature request #155) [Dirk]
2972 - Added tracking of IP addresses of comment posters (as suggested by Michael
2974 - Altered COM_article to improve performance by reducing queries. [Vinny]
2975 - Reduced DB queries in COM_showTopics to improve performance. [Vinny]
2976 - Cached enabled plugins to reduce db queries and improve performance. [Vinny]
2977 - Fixed SEC_inGroup not using $_GROUPS cache in several instances. [Vinny]
2978 - mysql.class.php now only runs mysql_connect once per page load. [Vinny]
2979 - The "Google paging" now has additional links to jump to the first and last
2980 page (patch provided by Niels Leenheer). [Dirk]
2981 - Introduced function COM_makeClickableLinks to turn URLs in text-only posts
2982 into clickable links (i.e. it's adding <a> tags around URLs). [Dirk]
2983 - Changed the comment insert, delete, display algorithms for improved
2984 efficiency. They now use a modified preorder tree traversal method. [Vinny]
2985 - Comment limit now applies to all the comments displayed, not just the top
2986 level comments. [Vinny]
2987 - Added pagination ability to comments ({pagenav} template variable in
2988 startcomment.thtml). [Vinny]
2989 - Fixed typo in timer.class.php that broke the ->restart() function. [Vinny]
2990 - Make sure the database backup files are always sorted by (last modified) date
2991 (found & fixed by Alexander Schmacks). [Dirk]
2992 - Make sure the user's preferred comment limit is used when changing the
2993 comment display via the comment bar (bug #176). [Vinny]
2994 - When URL rewriting is activated, the "rewritten" URLs are now also used
2995 in all (RSS) feeds containing links to articles. [Dirk]
2996 - Experimental: On a fresh install, use InnoDB tables (instead of MyISAM) if
2997 the MySQL version running on the server supports them (usually as of
2998 MySQL 4.0). This should avoid locks on tables where hit counters and the
2999 actual data are stored in the same table, e.g. stories (suggested by
3000 Marc Von Ahn). [Dirk]
3001 - Fixed bug in the install script when upgrading from 1.3.8 or earlier:
3002 Check to see if the static pages plugin is installed before attempting to
3003 update its tables (reported by Rob Griffiths). [Dirk]
3004 - Implemented a change to DB_fetchArray, suggested by Niels Leenheer:
3005 Geeklog will now, by default, only return associative array indices. In case
3006 the numeric indices are needed, a new (optional) second parameter for
3007 DB_fetchArray has to be set to "true". [Dirk]
3008 - Removed extra quotes in SQL statements in admin/block.php to ensure
3009 compatibility with old MySQL versions (reported by Elmer Masters). [Dirk]
3010 - In admin/database.php, if the is_executable function is not available (e.g.
3011 on Windows), do at least a file_exists to check if the mysqldump executable
3012 exists in the path given in config.php. [Dirk]
3013 - Introduced function COM_getTopicSQL which returns part of an SQL request to
3014 check for a user's topic access [Dirk]
3015 (This was actually introduced in 1.3.9sr1 but missing from the changelog)
3019 - New Bosnian language file, provided by Kenan Hodzic
3020 - Updated Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic
3021 - New Indonesian language file, provided by Piotr Sobis
3022 - Updated Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen
3024 Static Pages Plugin 1.4.1
3025 -------------------------
3026 - Added a printable version for static pages (based on a concept by
3027 Jannetta S Lewis). Requires a new template file, printable.thtml, located
3028 in the static pages' template directory [Dirk]
3029 - Added support for autolinks and provide a [staticpage:] autotag [Dirk]
3030 - Added an option to sort the static pages that are added to a site's menu
3031 (see {plg_menu_elements} in header.thtml) by id, label, title, or date [Dirk]
3032 - The block templates used to wrap a static page in a block can now be
3033 overridden, using '_staticpages_block' and '_staticpages_centerblock' as the
3034 index for the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE array [Dirk]
3035 - The plugin now checks for template files in the current theme's directory
3036 (layout/THEMENAME/staticpages) first before using the default template files
3037 from plugin/staticpages/templates [Dirk]
3038 - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
3039 user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
3040 pages that are for anonymous users only [Dirk]
3041 This change was actually supposed to be in Static Pages 1.4 (Geeklog 1.3.9),
3042 but somehow didn't make it ...
3043 - For center blocks, ignore the "blank page" setting, unless it's for a page
3044 that is supposed to replace the entire frontpage (bug #234) [Dirk]
3045 - The static pages editor doesn't display a "delete" button for new and
3046 cloned pages any more (since, obviously, you can't delete what hasn't been
3047 saved yet ...). [Dirk]
3048 - Bugfix: Fresh installs of Geeklog 1.3.9 only allowed 20 characters for the
3049 static page ID, while installs upgraded from an earlier version allowed up
3050 to 40 characters [Dirk]
3051 - New Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho.
3054 Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.9sr5)
3057 This release addresses the following security issues:
3059 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
3060 anyone to log in as any user.
3061 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
3062 Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
3063 file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
3064 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks
3067 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.9sr4)
3070 This release addresses the following security issue:
3072 Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
3073 be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.
3076 Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.9sr3)
3079 This release addresses 2 security issues:
3081 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
3082 were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
3083 These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
3084 disabled it in config.php.
3085 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
3086 leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
3089 Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.9sr2)
3092 This release addresses 2 security issues:
3094 - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
3095 variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
3096 using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
3097 - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
3098 posting had been switched off [Dirk]
3099 This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
3100 went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
3103 Non-security related fixes:
3105 - Fixed lib-plugins.php to be compatible with PHP 5 [Dirk]
3106 - Includes updated PEAR packages to resolve email problems some users were
3107 having (especially with safe_mode being on).
3110 Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.9sr1)
3113 This release addresses the following security issues:
3115 - It was possible to post anonymous comments, even when anonymous comment
3116 posting had been switched off in config.php [Vinny, Dirk]
3117 - Added additional speed limit checks for comments and submissions [Vinny]
3118 - It was still possible to read the comments to stories, even when the user
3119 didn't have access to the story's topic (provided they knew the story id)
3121 - If none of the topics were visible for anonymous users, the site's index
3122 page may still have displayed some stories for anonymous users, depending on
3123 the stories' permissions [Vinny, Dirk]
3124 - Users still got Daily Digest emails for topics from which they had been
3125 removed (bug #178) [Dirk]
3126 - It was possible to subscribe to the Daily Digest for all topics, even if the
3127 user did not have access to certain topics [Dirk]
3128 - Don't list stories or comments in the user profile if the current user isn't
3129 allowed to see the topics they were posted under (bug #208) [Dirk]
3131 Non-security related fixes:
3133 - Fixed an SQL error in COM_showTopics if users excluded topics in their
3134 preferences (reported by Rob Young) [Dirk]
3135 - Fixed sporadic "Duplicate entry '...' for key 1." messages in error.log
3136 (caused by the handling of pseudo-session ids for anonymous users) [Dirk]
3137 - Fixed incorrect author names in Daily Digest (bug #207) [Dirk]
3138 - The plugin_profileblocksedit_<plugin-name> Plugin API function wasn't working
3139 due to a missing piece of code in usersettings.php [Dirk]
3140 - COM_extractLinks will now ignore anchor tags that do not contain "href"
3144 Mar 14, 2004 (1.3.9)
3147 - Custom Registration function hook to custom_useredit added in the edituser()
3148 when creating a new user from the admin screen. The custom function was not
3149 being called if this was a new user [file: admin/user.php].
3150 - Fixed wrong use of DB_count in COM_showPoll in lib-common.php. This may have
3151 prevented people from voting on other polls once they voted on any poll on
3152 a site [file: lib-common.php].
3154 - Updated Danish language file, provided by ZooN.
3155 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel (please note that this
3156 file was made for 1.3.8-1 and is missing a few of the texts added in 1.3.9).
3159 Mar 7, 2004 (1.3.9rc3)
3162 - Fixed call to CUSTOM_mail and added a sample implementation in
3163 lib-custom.php (commented out by default).
3164 - Made an attempt to recover from duplicate session ids for anonymous users.
3165 - Adding new topics always resulted in a "Please fill in the Topic ID and Topic
3166 Name fields" error message, even if you did fill in both fields (this bug was
3167 only introduced in 1.3.9rc2).
3168 - Filter out backslashes.
3169 - Comment titles were cut off at the first single or double quote (when
3170 submitting a new comment).
3171 - The text string $LANG04[89] in all language files must be enclosed in
3172 double quotes, not single quotes.
3174 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
3175 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
3176 - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
3178 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Denis Kuznetsov.
3179 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
3180 - Included UTF-8 versions of the Croatian and Japanese language files,
3181 provided by Samuel Stone.
3184 Feb 29, 2004 (1.3.9rc2)
3187 - The new Admin interface for handling blocks (introduced in 1.3.9rc1) will
3188 renumber the block order in steps of 10, which can lead to order numbers
3189 > 255 if you have many blocks. Changed the 'blockorder' field in the
3190 "gl_blocks" table from TINYINT to SMALLINT to compensate.
3191 If you are upgrading from 1.3.9rc1, you will need to run the following SQL
3194 ALTER TABLE gl_blocks CHANGE blockorder blockorder smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1';
3196 Replacing "gl_blocks" with the proper table name, if you are using a table
3197 prefix other than 'gl_'. This step is not necessary when upgrading from 1.3.8
3198 or earlier versions.
3199 - The Group Admin restrictions introduced in 1.3.9rc1 didn't even let the
3200 Admin assign unassigned features to groups (e.g. there was no way to add
3201 the staticpages.PHP feature to the Static Page Admin group on a fresh
3203 - When normal users tried to submit an event, they were redirected to the
3204 story submission form (this bug was only introduced in 1.3.9rc1).
3205 - Cosmetic changes in the beautifying of language names (in the user's
3207 - Fixed COM_extractLinks to work with links that follow [IMAGE] tags and more
3208 generally handle the extraction of links better and more efficiently.
3209 - If a function CUSTOM_mail() exists, it will be called instead of COM_mail(),
3210 to allow users to implement their own function to send emails, if necessary.
3211 - The Static Pages plugin now supports the "exact phrase", "all of these words",
3212 and "any of these words" search options.
3213 - Included a simplified custom registration example and made the naming
3214 convention for the custom registration functions more consistent.
3215 - Fixed display problems with comments in nested and threaded mode.
3216 Please note that the template file comment/comment.thtml has changed (again)
3218 - Don't rely on the Who's Online block being active when handling sessions
3219 for anonymous users.
3220 - Removed some unused code that handled the obsolete "layout" blocks.
3221 - Try to guess the correct path separator when running on PHP < 4.3.0.
3222 - When upgrading from a pre-1.3.9 install, the install script choked on
3223 single quotes in the site name or site slogan.
3224 - More parameter filtering.
3226 - Included UTF-8 versions of the English, German, Finnish, and Chinese
3227 (traditional and simplified) language files, provided by Samuel Stone.
3228 - Added new Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic.
3229 - Added new Finnish language file, provided by Jussi Josefsson.
3230 - Added new Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
3231 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Wim Niemans.
3234 Feb 16, 2004 (1.3.9rc1)
3237 - Use COM_getYearFormOptions() etc. for the event submission form in
3238 submit.php, thus avoiding duplicated code.
3239 - Plugins can now add their new entries to the What's New block by implementing
3240 the new plugin_whatsnewsupported and plugin_getwhatsnew API functions.
3241 This section can be enabled/disabled with the new $_CONF['hidenewplugins']
3243 - When a user is deleted, make sure we assign any objects that require Admin
3244 access (blocks, topics, ...) to a user from the Root group.
3245 - Slightly revamped the install script and made it catch (or silently ignore)
3246 the most popular problems with the path to Geeklog ...
3247 - Removed the hard-coded from {welcome_msg} and added it to the
3248 header.thtml of the Classic, XSilver, and Yahoo themes (the other themes
3249 either look fine without it or didn't use {welcome_msg} anyway).
3250 - Added a missing stripslashes() call for link titles returned from a search.
3251 - Fixed bug when highlighting search queries that contained a '*' (reported
3253 - Fixed a bug/typo introduced in 1.3.8-1sr4 that prevented you from deleting
3254 story submissions from the Admin's story editor (reported by James Bothe).
3255 - Changed all url fields in the database to hold up to 255 characters per URL.
3256 Please note that the template files in most themes will limit the max.
3257 number of characters to 96 or 128 characters. See docs/theme.html for more
3258 information on how to update the themes.
3259 - Fixed problems batch-importing users with single quotes in their names
3261 - The permissions for the "Group Admin" group have been changed such that
3262 members of that group now only have access to groups of which they themselves
3263 are a member of. When creating new groups, the rights (permissions) to chose
3264 from are also limited to those that the Group Admin users have themselves.
3265 These changes should make the Group Admin group more useful.
3266 Note: Group admins can still see all the existing groups and who is a member
3268 - Fixed search class so that the simplified and the advanced search return
3269 the same results (as long as none of the advanced options are used).
3270 - Added new config variable $_CONF['allowed_protocols'] which lets you specify
3271 the protocols that are allowed to be used in a link (feature request #109).
3272 Note: The kses class has a hard-coded list of allowed protocols to which
3273 the above will be added. It is currently not possible to remove any of the
3274 predefined protocols.
3275 - Introduced variable {allowed_menu_elements} in header.thtml which only
3276 includes those menu elements that the current user is allowed to use
3277 (i.e. honoring the $_CONF['XXXloginrequired'] settings).
3278 - COM_accessLog() now logs the user's uid and IP address automatically.
3279 - The option to stay logged in for 1 year has been removed and an option to
3280 not stay logged in (after the session has expired) has been added.
3281 - Fixed display of default blocks in the user preferences.
3282 - If the user chose not to see certain topics (by selecting them from the
3283 "Excluded Items" list in the preferences) then don't list those topics in
3285 - After saving your account information, you are now redirected to your
3286 profile page, so that you can see your changes as they would be displayed
3287 for other users of the site.
3288 - Integrated Vincent Furia's patches to use Geeklog's URL rewriting for links
3289 to stories (i.e. article.php).
3290 - In the story templates, you can now use {article_url} as the URL to the
3291 article.php with the current story (e.g. for a "link to this story" link).
3292 - There is a new file, system/lib-user.php, for user-related code that is
3293 used by usersettings.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php.
3294 - All template files that let you enter a URL are now using {max_url_length}
3295 for the maxlength attribute.
3296 - Access to admin/mail.php is now granted to all users with 'user.mail'
3297 permissions (previously, users with that permission without being in the
3298 'Mail Admin' group would see the "Mail Users" entry in the Admin block but
3299 were refused access to it).
3300 - The list of group names in the Mail Users form is now sorted alphabetically.
3301 - Any unauthorized attempts to access the admin pages are now properly logged
3303 - Fixed problems when resizing userphotos for user names that have spaces in
3304 them (reported by Per on geeklog-users).
3305 - Now accomodate strict webhosts who don't allow file uploads to the standard
3306 image directory, you can now set a new configuration variable,
3307 $_CONF['path_images'] to point to a directory outside of your webtree where
3308 article images and user profile pictures will be saved and served from.
3309 - Don't append a '-' to the page title if $_CONF['site_slogan'] is empty
3310 (feature request #88).
3311 - COM_getMonthFormOptions() now always lists the month names instead of only
3312 the numbers. COM_getYearFormOptions() also lists the previous year.
3313 - Changed admin/event.php to use the COM_getMonthFormOptions() etc. functions
3314 from lib-common.php, thus avoiding duplicated code.
3315 - In the calendar/calendar.thtml template file, you can now use {start_block}
3316 and {end_block} to wrap the calendar in a block.
3317 - Fixed a few display problems in case of errors in calendar_event.php. Also
3318 made calendar.php display messages sent from calendar_event.php.
3319 - Make sure the custom registration form is properly called from all relevent
3321 - Single quotes are now silently stripped from topic IDs (bug #113).
3322 - Fixed search displaying all the links for an empty search string, e.g. when
3323 searching for "more from" some user (bug #87).
3324 - Fixed link from search results that contained a '/' (bug #115).
3325 - Comments from a story that has been marked as "draft" are no longer returned
3326 from a search (bug #128).
3327 - The Admin's link list now uses "google paging", 50 links per page (bug #104).
3328 Note: Requires a change in the admin/link/linklist.thtml template file.
3329 - (Block)Admins can now change the order of blocks and enable / disable blocks
3330 directly from the Admin's list of blocks (based on a concept by stratosfear).
3331 - An alternative interface to adding (multiple) users to a group is now
3332 available from the Admin's list of groups. This feature requires JavaScript.
3333 - Fixed display of permissions in the "Access" column of the Admin's list of
3334 stories (didn't take Topic permissions into account).
3335 - Fixed handling of "0" as a poll answer (bug #73).
3336 - Added a check and warning message in admin/moderation.php if register_globals
3338 - Changed function COM_isEmail() to use PEAR::Mail/RFC822 to check for valid
3340 - Added an edit icon to each theme (images/edit.gif). Variable {edit_icon} can
3341 be used as an alternative to {edit_link}, i.e. as an icon that Story Admins
3342 can click on to edit a story.
3343 - You can now enable debug messages (to error.log) for the image upload by
3344 setting $_CONF['debug_image_upload'] = true in config.php.
3345 - When deleting a group, delete all references to that group from the
3346 group_assignments table (bug #50). The install script will remove any
3347 orphaned entries when upgrading the database to 1.3.9.
3348 - The option to delete comments was only available to users in the Root group
3349 (e.g. Admin). Since comments don't have permissions, comments can now be
3350 deleted by users with Story Admin permissions for the story they are
3351 commenting on (or Poll Admin permissions for comments on polls; bug #27).
3352 - Display a generic (and localised) error message when there is a problem
3353 importing an (RSS) feed - details will be available in error.log. Also checks
3354 for empty (but existing) feeds now.
3355 - When the user submission queue is activated, you now have an "edit" link
3356 that takes you to the Admin's user editor (the profile link is now on the
3357 username). Contributed by Ed Magin.
3358 - COM_siteHeader() now uses output buffering for the eval(), preventing the
3359 header from being output directly.
3360 Note: This may require changes in 3rd party scripts, e.g. the Geeklog/Gallery
3362 - The install script will set the 'date' field for links to sensible values
3363 now (reconstructed from the date that's encoded in the link id).
3364 - The author exclusion list in the preferences is now a (multi-select) listbox.
3365 - A proper error message is now displayed if the Admin creates a new user or
3366 changes an existing account with an email address that already exists (that
3367 test was already introduced in 1.3.8-1 but the error message was confusing),
3368 thus closing bug #24. Also checks for valid email addresses now.
3369 - You can now use {author_fullname} and {author_photo} variables in comment
3370 templates (feature request #35).
3371 - Remove extra backslashes from new links in What's New block (bug #59).
3372 - The [code] tag is now displayed in the list of allowed HTML tags.
3373 - Image upload can now use the GD library (contributed by Rob Coenen).
3374 If possible, GIF images will be converted to PNGs during upload. However,
3375 some versions of the GD library may not allow to read GIF images at all.
3376 - Geeklog now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails.
3377 In config.php, you can select whether emails should be sent via PHP's mail()
3378 function, sendmail, or SMTP.
3379 - Introduced /path/to/geeklog/system/pear as the directory to hold the PEAR
3380 packages used by Geeklog. Currently, those are PEAR, Mail, Net_SMTP, and
3381 Net_Socket. These packages will be included in the releases from now on.
3382 - Introduced function COM_mail(). From now on, all Geeklog email will be sent
3383 from this function (instead of using PHP's mail() function directly).
3384 - When users try to register with an empty username or invalid email address,
3385 make sure we're displaying a custom registration form (if one exists) when
3386 displaying the error message (part 1 of bug #57).
3387 - Prevent users from registering with an empty username (bug #56).
3388 - Use $_CONF['emailstoriesperdefault'] when batch-adding users. Until now,
3389 new users were subscribed to the Daily Digest automatically (bug #55).
3390 - Added an 'edit' link to links/linkdetails.thtml, so that (Link) Admins can
3391 edit links easily (contributed by Euan McKay).
3392 - What's Related applied COM_checkHTML() on the entire block instead of on the
3393 individual items, thus stripping out HTML from the template file (bug #52).
3394 - Words from a search query are now properly highlighted in comments when the
3395 words occured only in the comments (but not in the story).
3396 - Integrated Vincent Furia's new comment code to use templates for comments
3397 (instead of hard-coded HTML).
3398 New template files: comment/comment.thtml, comment/thread.thtml.
3399 Updated: comment/startcomment.thtml
3400 - New Admin interface for content syndication (RSS feeds etc.). This lets you
3401 create feeds for all the stories and per topic as well as for links and
3402 (upcoming) events. Plugins can also provide feeds (through extensions of the
3403 Plugin API). Additional feed formats (other than RSS 0.91) can be implemented
3404 as new classes (xxx.feed.class.php).
3405 Includes new admin/syndication template directory.
3406 - Don't display the "delete" button in the Admin's Event editor when we're
3407 editing a new event (reported by Simon Lord).
3409 Static Pages Plugin 1.4
3410 -----------------------
3412 - It is now possible to disable the use of PHP in static pages entirely by
3413 setting $_SP_CONF['allow_php'] = 0 in the static pages' config.php file.
3414 If you don't plan on using PHP in static pages, it is recommended that you
3415 do that as an additional security measure.
3416 - You can now use "plain PHP" code in a static page, i.e. it doesn't need to
3417 be written such that it returns all output in a 'return' statement. The
3418 PHP checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown menu offering "do not execute
3419 PHP", "execute PHP (return)" [that's the old way], and "execute PHP" [new].
3420 - The ID of a static page can now have up to 40 characters.
3421 - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
3422 user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
3423 pages that are for anonymous users only.
3424 - The option to wrap static pages in a block can now be applied to each page
3425 individually. $_SP_CONF['in_block'] is only used as the default setting
3427 - Static pages to be displayed after the featured story (in a center block) are
3428 now displayed even if there is no featured story (after the static pages to
3429 be displayed at the top of the page).
3430 - Static pages are not wrapped in a block when the page format is set to "blank
3432 - Added a "Cancel" button in the static pages editor.
3433 - Bugfix: Depending on the permission settings, the "Edit" link was sometimes
3434 displayed for users without them having edit permissions for the static page.
3435 It wasn't possible to edit the page, though, but the link shouldn't have
3436 been there in the first place.
3437 - For security reasons, the Static Page Admin group does not include
3438 'staticpages.PHP' permissions by default any more.
3439 - When a user is deleted, static pages created by that user can now either be
3440 deleted or assigned to a Root user (see $_SP_CONF['delete_pages'] option).
3442 Please see docs/staticpages.html for details.
3445 Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr6)
3448 This release addresses 2 security issues:
3450 - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
3451 variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
3452 using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
3453 Note: german.php was not affected and is therefore not included.
3455 - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
3456 posting had been switched off [Dirk]
3457 This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
3458 went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
3462 Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr5)
3465 This release fixes a bug due to which it was possible to post anonymous
3466 comments even when anonymous comment posting had been switched off in
3469 To upgrade from Geeklog 1.3.8-1sr4 to 1.3.8-1sr5, simply upload the included
3470 comment.php, replacing the file of the same name on your webserver.
3473 January 26, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr4)
3476 This release addresses the following security issues:
3478 1. It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to
3479 become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).
3480 2. Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it
3481 possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the
3482 user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object
3484 3. It was possible to delete other people's personal events if you knew the
3486 4. It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user
3487 did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).
3488 5. Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone's account settings
3489 (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted
3490 link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
3491 6. The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection
3492 (reported by Jelmer).
3493 7. It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by
3495 8. It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment
3496 preview (reported by Jelmer).
3499 December 5, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr3)
3502 This release addresses the following security-related issues:
3504 1. As "dr.wh0" pointed out, the category field for link submissions was not
3505 filtered at all. Although you probably can't cause too much harm with
3506 those 32 characters, this has now been fixed.
3507 2. Vincent Furia found that the restrictions for the form to email users
3508 could be circumvented and could even be used to spam users.
3509 In addition to fixing theses issues, there is now also a speed limit
3510 on that form (defaults to the speed limit for story submissions).
3511 3. There was a way to post comments anonymously even when posting for
3512 anonymous users had been disabled.
3513 4. It was possible to post comments under someone else's username.
3516 October 14, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr2)
3519 Jouko Pynnonen found a way to trick the new "forgot password" feature,
3520 introduced in 1.3.8, into letting an attacker change the password for _any_
3521 account. This release addresses this issue - there were no other changes.
3523 The only thing you need to do is to replace the file users.php on your site
3524 with the file that comes with this tarball. It's suggested that you change
3525 the version number in your config.php to '1.3.8-1sr2' afterwards.
3527 Please note that only Geeklog 1.3.8, 1.3.8-1, and 1.3.8-1sr1 are affected,
3528 as this feature did not exist in earlier versions.
3531 October 12, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr1)
3534 This release is intended to address some of the security issues reported in
3535 September and early October 2003.
3537 1. Includes Ulf Harnhammar's kses HTML filter to address possible Javascript
3538 injections and CSS defacements.
3540 When upgrading from an earlier version, please make sure to copy over the
3541 $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays from the included
3542 config.php to your own copy of that file.
3544 2. While almost all of the alleged SQL injection issues could not be
3545 reproduced, this release includes an update to the MySQL class to not
3546 report SQL errors in the browser any more (but only in Geeklog's error.log).
3547 This will avoid disclosing any sensitive information as part of the error
3550 Please note that at the moment we do NOT recommend to use Geeklog with
3551 MySQL 4.1 (which, at the time of this writing, is in alpha state and should
3552 not be used on production sites anyway).
3554 An upcoming release of Geeklog will address the remaining SQL issues,
3555 including any problems with MySQL 4.1.
3557 Other fixes (not security-related):
3558 - When trying to guess the value of $_CONF['cookiedomain'], we need to remove
3559 the port number from the URL, if there is one (bug #75).
3560 - The full 1.3.8-1sr1 tarball also includes updated French (Canada) and
3561 Turkish language files.
3564 August 9, 2003 (1.3.8-1)
3567 - When upgrading, the install script will now default the version selection to
3568 the last version in the list (currently: 1.3.7) instead of the first one
3570 - Don't allow HTML in static page titles (bug #26).
3571 - Display the search form again if the query returned no results.
3572 - Make sure we're not attempting to send a Daily Digest email to Anonymous.
3573 - Prevent admin from changing a user's email address to one that's already used
3574 by someone else (bug #24). The error message you get when you try this may
3575 be confusing, though ("The username you tried saving already exists.") since
3576 I don't want to introduce new texts in the language file at this point. To
3578 - Fixed a problem with the cookie timeout: When a user edited his/her profile
3579 for the first time, the cookie timeout defaulted to 1 hour, while the default
3580 in config.php was usually much longer (default: 1 week). So after editing
3581 their profile for the first time, users didn't stay logged in as long as
3582 before (unless they noticed that and changed the cookie timeout accordingly
3584 - Fixed problems in the install script when trying to find out the MySQL
3586 - Fixed a problem collecting links for the What's Related block when the article
3587 contained (uploaded) images.
3588 - Words from a search query are now hightlighted in comments as well.
3589 - You can now use variables {rss_url} and {rdf_file} in both the site header
3590 and footer. Both variables hold the URL to the RSS feed.
3591 - Fixed an occassional "call to member function of non-object" error message
3593 - Make sure the RSS feed and Older Stories block are updated when a story is
3595 - The language selection will only list files that end in .php and do not
3597 - Fixed links to a user's comments from the Last 10 Comments block in the user
3599 - Removed '&query=' from links in search results if the query was empty.
3600 - Anonymous users couldn't use the advanced search even if
3601 $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] was not set.
3602 - Fix to disallow access to the extended search for anonymous users (i.e.
3603 $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] works again as it did in 1.3.7)
3604 - Fixed search by date.
3605 - Template variable {uid_value} was always empty in the user's profile edit
3606 form (in usersettings.php).
3608 - New French (Canada) language file, provided by Jean-Francois Allard.
3609 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by W. Niemans.
3610 - Updated Bulgarian language file, provided by Vassil Simeonov and Itso Banov.
3611 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero.
3613 - New French (Canada) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
3614 Jean-Francois Allard.
3615 - New Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by W. Niemans.
3618 July 17, 2003 (1.3.8)
3621 - Added Blaine's sample code for the custom registration to lib-custom.php
3622 (there's also an accompanying sample template file, memberdetail.thtml).
3623 - "No new links" wasn't displayed in the What's New block when you didn't
3624 have any links in the database or when the current user didn't have access
3625 to any of them (reported by krove).
3626 - Applied a patch by Tatsumi Imai to fix problems with Japanese characters
3627 when editing polls (bug #17).
3628 - Hide those story submissions from moderators that don't have access to the
3630 - Use $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PATH_INFO'] instead of $PATH_INFO for the url_rewrite
3631 feature, since the latter doesn't seem to work on some setups (reported by
3634 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
3635 - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
3639 July 6, 2003 (1.3.8rc2)
3642 - When failing to delete an image for a story (from the Admin's story editor),
3643 only log this problem in the error.log but don't abort the script (reported
3645 - When editing a story that used double quotes in the title, the title was cut
3646 off after the first quote sign.
3647 - Story Admins could edit stories in a topic they didn't have access to, if
3648 they somehow found out the story id.
3649 - When $_CONF['listdraftstories'] was enabled, moderation.php listed all stories
3650 that had the "draft" flag set without checking for topic permissions (this
3651 option was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1).
3652 - For Story Admins, the Admin menu may have listed a greater number of stories
3653 than the user actually had access to (didn't check for topic permissions).
3654 - Fixed "Google paging" on the Admin's list of stories when the current user
3655 didn't have access to all the topics (paging was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1).
3656 - Try to prevent "illegal access" messages in error.log, caused by the plugin
3657 page looking for uninstalled plugins.
3658 - Upcoming events (in the block of the same name) are now sorted by start date
3659 and start time, which makes more sense than the old start date, end date
3660 sort order (reported by Peter Sieradzki).
3661 - Fixed description of function DB_count() in lib-database.php (reported by
3663 - Changed the "getBent" block to test the real admin directory in case it has
3664 been renamed (bug #762881).
3665 - Saving the user profile also saved the privacy options, setting them all to
3666 "off" (reported by Dwight Trumbower).
3667 - Check the topic permissions when doing a search on stories and comments.
3668 - Check the topic permissions when displaying the new stories and comments in
3669 the What's New block.
3670 - Need to use date_sub() in the SQL request for the display=new mode on the
3671 index page to ensure compatibility with old versions of MySQL (reported by
3673 - New users created manually from the Admin's User menu were assigned a
3674 random password, even when the Admin entered one (reported by TechFan).
3675 This bug was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1.
3676 - The printer-friendly version of a story in HTML format should not call
3677 nl2br() on the story text (bug #762636).
3678 - When attempting to edit a submission, check that it still exists in the
3679 submission queue (since another Admin could already have handled it),
3680 avoiding an SQL error (reported by Simon Lord).
3682 - New language file for formal German (addressing the user as "Sie" instead of
3683 "Du"), provided by Philip Sack.
3684 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65.
3685 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata.
3686 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
3687 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero.
3688 - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg.
3690 - New formal German language file for the Static Pages plugin.
3691 - New Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by quess65.
3692 - New Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Yusuke
3694 - New Swedish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Markus Berg
3697 June 29, 2003 (1.3.8rc1)
3700 - Fixed SQL error when using quotes in a group description.
3701 - Fixed bug where blocks assigned to a topic disappeared when viewing articles.
3702 - Add new Plugin API PLG_getHeaderCode, Used to return JS Functions or other
3703 Header Meta Tags required by the plugin. Added new variable {plg_headercode}
3704 to the template header.thtml files.
3705 - New search: You can search for the exact phrase, all of the words, or any of
3706 the words from the query. Search words are highlighted in stories. Also,
3707 results in stories and comments are listed separately.
3708 - Added new block "Privacy Options" to the Preferences:
3709 + chose to receive email from admins and/or other users
3710 + chose to show up in Who's Online block
3711 (Feature requests #609758 and #609759)
3712 - New config option $_CONF['hide_author_exclusion'] to hide the author
3713 exclusion list from the user's preferences (useful e.g. when it's a rather
3714 long list but hardly used by the users of your site).
3715 - Added tracking of users lastlogin to the userinfo table.
3716 New $_CONF['lastlogin'] added to config.php - SESSION SETTINGS area
3717 - Added an option in admin/group.php to list all the users belonging to a group.
3718 - Added adminoption_off.thtml template file (for current entry in the Admin
3719 menu) and topicoption.thtml and topicoption_off.thtml files (for entries in
3720 the Topics/Sections menu).
3721 - Geeklog will not accept topic ids containing spaces any more.
3722 - Added new config option $_CONF['allow_account_delete'] to allow users to
3723 delete their account (from their Account Information page).
3724 - Posts (stories and comments) from deleted users will now be reassigned to
3726 - Removed the Geeklog version number from the footer of the default themes.
3727 Instead, the version number is now displayed in the headline of the "Command
3728 and Control" block (moderation.php) and next to the "GL Version Test" entry
3729 in the Admin's functions block.
3730 - New Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen.
3731 - Introduced new config.php variable $_CONF['mysqldump_options'] that holds
3732 additional options to be used when Geeklog calls mysqldump to do a backup
3734 - Added a check for an existing email address in the user's profile so that
3735 users can't change their email address to one that's already in use for
3737 - Pick up the 'postmode' default setting for the Admin's story editor.
3738 - Stories in the Daily Digest are now sorted by date (newest first, as on the
3740 - Changed handling of plugin comments slightly: Plugins will have to do the
3741 'delete' operation on their comments on their own now since Geeklog can't
3742 possibly know which (if any) permissions are needed to delete a comment.
3743 The 'id' parameter in the call to plugin_handlecomment_<type> will now
3744 always be the comment id.
3745 - In another attempt to solve the various issues regarding "www vs. non-www"
3746 URLs and related login problems:
3747 + Made sure all setcookie() calls use all 6 parameters
3748 + Try to guess the correct value for $_CONF['cookiedomain'] if it isn't set
3749 + Removed the redirection attempt from index.php
3750 - When requesting a new password for your account, you can now enter either
3751 your username or the email address you used to register with the site.
3752 - Added a speed limit for requests for a new password (defaults to 5 minutes
3754 - The commentspeedlimit and submitspeedlimit tables have been replaced with a
3755 general speedlimit table and three new functions operating on it have been
3756 introduced (in lib-common.php). The new table has a 'type' field, so plugins
3757 could easily implement their own speed limits.
3758 - Introduced new "forgot password" functionality: When requesting a new password
3759 for an account, the user will now receive an email with a link that s/he has
3760 to click on. It will take the user to a form where s/he can enter a new
3761 password (a unique id is contained in the URL and checked when entering the
3762 new password, thus preventing misuse). The old password remains valid until a
3763 new password is entered from this form, so the email can simply be ignored in
3764 case the user didn't request a new password (cf. Feature Request #567979).
3765 - Removed unused commentheader.thtml file from all default themes.
3766 - Fixed the redirect after posting a comment to a poll (should return to the
3767 poll, not to the index page).
3768 - You can now "clone" events, i.e. make a copy of an existing event. This comes
3769 in handy if you have a lot of similar events (e.g. repeating events).
3770 Template files admin/event/eventlist.thtml and admin/event/listitem.thtml
3771 need to be updated or the "clone" option will not show up ...
3772 - Fixed a bug in the Admin's poll editor which let you enter more than
3773 $_CONF['maxanswers'] answers for a poll. You may need to adjust your setting
3774 of $_CONF['maxanswers'] or you may lose an answer when editing such a poll
3775 (found & fixed by Tom Willet).
3776 - Moved hard-coded HTML for the poll block and poll results to new template
3778 - When the theme uses a replacement function for COM_siteHeader and/or
3779 COM_siteFooter, we need to pass it the same parameter that the replaced
3780 function was being called with.
3781 - Fixed "Last 10 comments by user" in the user's profile which was missing the
3783 - When a new user registers, we need to check for a valid email address
3784 first (before searching the database to see if that address is already in use)
3785 - You are now taken back to the moderation page after editing a story submission
3786 - Fixed 'previous' link on the Admin's list of stories. Alternatively, you can
3787 now use {google_paging} there (requires a change in the template).
3788 - Added -Q option to the mysqldump call when doing a database backup. This will
3789 enclose database names in quotes and thus prevent problems with special
3790 characters in table names as used by some plugins (bug #712901).
3791 - Set the max length of the input field for the event URL to 128 characters
3792 (was 96) in the default themes (other themes may need adjusting).
3793 - Fixed localisation of the date of all-day events in the event details.
3794 - Added missing {event_location} variable in calendar/eventdetails.thtml
3796 - Fixed display of events spanning several days in the personal calendar.
3797 - Moved hard-coded HTML for the login form in the User Functions block to a new
3799 - The Sections block now uses the useroption.thtml and the new
3800 useroption_off.thtml template files for the list of topics. You can also use
3801 $_CONF['hide_home_link'] to hide the "Home" link from the Sections block.
3802 - New config option $_CONF['keep_unscaled_image'] allows you to keep the
3803 original, unscaled image after upload (in stories only, for now). The smaller,
3804 scaled image will be used as a thumbnail and link to the original image
3805 (based on code provided by Alexander Schmacks).
3806 - In admin/database.php:
3807 + Made sure we really display the last 10 backups (fix by Alexander Schmacks)
3808 + Display total number of backups in the directory
3809 + Moved hard-coded HTML for the list of backups to template files
3810 + Replaced $PHP_SELF with $_CONF['site_admin_url']/database.php since
3811 $PHP_SELF seems to cause problems in some environments
3812 - You can now make one topic the default topic. The topic selection in the
3813 story submission form will then default to this topic.
3814 - When clicking on the "contribute" link from the topic index page, the new
3815 story will now default to the topic you just viewed.
3816 This only works with themes that use the {menu_elements} variable in
3817 header.thtml. Other themes can use the new variable {current_topic} which
3818 holds '&topic=<topicid>' when a topic is selected (and is empty otherwise).
3819 - Integrated Vincent Furia's improvements for COM_exportRDF. You can now use
3820 $_CONF['rdf_limit'] to limit the number of stories in the RDF file by
3821 setting this to a number (e.g. 10) or a number of hours (e.g. 24h).
3822 $_CONF['rdf_storytext'] lets you add the story's introtext to the RDF feed.
3823 Also fixed a bug with un-escaped special characters in the feed's title.
3824 - Added paging to the list of Static Pages (for more than 50 pages).
3825 - Fixed problem with the Older Stories block disappearing when it was edited
3826 (e.g. moved from left to right), bug #670673.
3827 - Fixed "late" update of portal blocks (bug #681855).
3828 - Fixed mixing of comments from different plugins, found & fixed by Alan McKay.
3829 - A theme can provide its own functions to render the site header and footer
3830 (this is not a new feature). Geeklog now expects those functions to be named
3831 <themename>_siteHeader and <themename>_siteFoote, respectively. Until now,
3832 it was, however, looking for the wrong function names ...
3833 - Added the piece of code that is needed to make the Theme Tester work to
3834 lib-common.php (won't do anything without the Theme Tester block).
3835 - Fixed SQL query for displaying new comments in the What's New block, provided
3836 by Marc Von Ahn (with some help from Rob Griffiths).
3837 - Changes to make Geeklog install and work again on old versions of MySQL
3838 (e.g. MySQL 3.22). Special thanks to Markus Guske for providing the fixes
3839 for the What's New block and for testing the new install.
3840 - Feb 13/03: (Blaine) Added new Plugin function to support Center Blocks
3841 Included call to PLG_showCenterblock in index.php
3842 - The user's signature is now appended to messages sent to another user.
3843 - Feb 6/03: (Blaine) Added support for custom user registration and account
3844 profile: Added hooks to users.php, usersettings.php and admin/user.php and
3845 new $_CONF parm to enable
3846 Developer is responsible for code to handle new form processing, account
3847 record save, update and delete.
3848 - The list of blocks now includes a column indicating whether the block is
3849 enabled or disabled (will need changes in admin/block/listblocks.thtml and
3850 listitem.thtml template files of custom themes).
3851 - Variable {rdf_url} (available in footer.thtml) holds the URL of the RDF file.
3852 - What's Related block is now created dynamically.
3853 - Top Ten Commented Stories didn't count comments on stories submitted by
3854 anonymous users (found & fixed by Laurence Whitworth).
3855 - Allow users to change their username if $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is
3857 - Jan 18/03: (Blaine) Corrected problem in mysql.class.php where the checks in
3858 dbdelete, dbchange, dbcount and dbcopy for a passed value of 0 were not
3859 sufficient. If the parameter was 0 - it was assuming it was empty.
3860 Consequence: The dbdelete would delete all records or dbcount would return
3862 - Display Preferences and Comment Preferences have been merged. There is now
3863 only one option, Preferences, in the User Functions block.
3864 - Hard-coded HTML for the Display Preferences, Comment Preferences, and
3865 Account information has been moved to template files (new "preferences"
3868 Static Pages Plugin 1.3
3869 -----------------------
3870 - Integrated (and extended) the Static Pages plugin 1.2 (originally started by
3871 Phill Gillespie and later supported by Tom Willet). This "combined" version
3872 is now called Static Pages 1.3.
3873 Use Geeklog's install script to upgrade from any previous version (1.1 or 1.2)
3874 - Supports the use of PHP in static pages.
3875 - You can now edit the ID of a static page to create more readable URLs like
3876 http://yoursite/staticpages/index.php?page=about
3877 In combination with Geeklog's $_CONF['url_rewrite'] option, the URL can even
3878 look like http://yoursite/staticpages/index.php/page/about
3879 - You can now "clone" static pages, i.e. make a copy of an existing page.
3880 - Removed the "static pages on frontpage" hack and changed the plugin to use
3881 the new Center Block API instead:
3882 A static page can now be displayed on the top of the front page, on the
3883 bottom, or after the featured story. It can also replace the front page
3884 entirely. Instead of using special label names (like "frontpage"), the
3885 display mode and position can now be selected from drop-down menus in the
3886 static pages editor.
3888 Please see docs/staticpages.html for details.
3891 January 26, 2004 (1.3.7sr5)
3894 This release addresses the following security issues:
3896 1. It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to
3897 become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).
3898 2. Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it
3899 possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the
3900 user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object
3902 3. It was possible to delete other people's personal events if you knew the
3904 4. It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user
3905 did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).
3906 5. Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone's account settings
3907 (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted
3908 link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
3909 6. The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection
3910 (reported by Jelmer).
3911 7. It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by
3913 8. It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment
3914 preview (reported by Jelmer).
3917 December 5, 2003 (1.3.7sr4)
3920 This release addresses the following security-related issues:
3922 1. As "dr.wh0" pointed out, the category field for link submissions was not
3923 filtered at all. Although you probably can't cause too much harm with
3924 those 32 characters, this has now been fixed.
3925 2. Vincent Furia found that the restrictions for the form to email users
3926 could be circumvented and could even be used to spam users.
3927 3. There was a way to post comments anonymously even when posting for
3928 anonymous users had been disabled.
3929 4. It was possible to post comments under someone else's username.
3932 October 12, 2003 (1.3.7sr3)
3935 This release is intended to address some of the security issues reported in
3936 September and early October 2003.
3938 1. Includes Ulf Harnhammar's kses HTML filter to address possible Javascript
3939 injections and CSS defacements.
3941 When upgrading from an earlier version, please make sure to copy over the
3942 $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays from the included
3943 config.php to your own copy of that file.
3945 2. While almost all of the alleged SQL injection issues could not be
3946 reproduced, this release includes an update to the MySQL class to not
3947 report SQL errors in the browser any more (but only in Geeklog's error.log).
3948 This will avoid disclosing any sensitive information as part of the error
3951 Please note that at the moment we do NOT recommend to use Geeklog with
3952 MySQL 4.1 (which, at the time of this writing, is in alpha state and should
3953 not be used on production sites anyway).
3955 An upcoming release of Geeklog will address the remaining SQL issues,
3956 including any problems with MySQL 4.1.
3959 May 26, 2003 (1.3.7sr2)
3964 1. It was possible to obtain valid session ids for every account (reported by
3966 2. Using Internet Explorer, it was possible to upload an image with embedded
3967 PHP code and execute it (reported by SCAN Associates).
3968 3. Story permissions could override topic permissions, resulting in the display
3969 of stories to users who shouldn't have access to them (reported by Andrew
3971 Note: This was already fixed with the new index.php, released 2003-05-15.
3972 4. Added a warning in config.php that adding any of the following tags to the
3973 list of allowable HTML can make the site vulnerable to scripting attacks:
3974 <img> <span> <marquee> <script> <embed> <object> <iframe>
3975 (pointed out by Joat Dede)
3977 - Fixed the bug in several of the admin areas (blocks, events, links, polls,
3978 stories, topics) where admins without root access got a message stating
3979 that they did not have the proper permissions when trying to save an object.
3980 - Fixed a typo in lib-sessions.php that caused the creation of unnecessary
3981 sessions (pointed out by Kobaz).
3982 - Fixed malformed cookie (used $_CONF['site_url'] instead of
3983 $_CONF['cookiedomain']) in lib-sessions.php, found & fixed by Jon Evans.
3984 - Fixed a bug that prevented certain right blocks from showing up when there
3985 were no stories for a topic.
3986 - The "Google paging" on the index page may have displayed the wrong number
3987 of pages for users who disabled topics in their display preferences.
3989 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Claudio.
3990 - Updated French language file, provided by Jaques.
3991 - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by Access-=-Denied Networks
3992 - Updated Spanish and Spanish (Argentina) language files,
3993 provided by Fernando Bernardini
3994 - New Portuguese language file, provided by Mario Seabra
3995 - New Bulgarian language file, provided by lachko
3996 - New Turkish language file, provided by Sinan Ussakli
3997 - New Slovenian language file, provided by gape
3998 - New Slovak language file, provided by Rado
3999 - New Romanian language file, provided by Dan Gheorghitza
4000 - New Chinese language file (gb2312 encoding), provided by Crocodile King
4001 - New Czech language file, provided by Hermes Trismegistos
4004 January 13, 2003 (1.3.7sr1)
4009 1. Javascript code could be used in the homepage link of a user's profile
4010 (reported by Jin Yean Tan).
4011 2. Javascript code could be injected in several URLs so that these could then
4012 be used for a cross-site scripting attack (reported by Jin Yean Tan).
4013 3. Anybody could delete comments, provided they knew the comment id.
4014 4. A StoryAdmin could manipulate any story, even if permissions should have
4015 prevented that. The same applied to Admins for links, events, polls, topics,
4016 and blocks (reported by Kobaz).
4018 - The new user notification email was always sent out, even if 'user' was not
4019 listed in $_CONF['notification'].
4020 - In admin/database.php, added a check to test if function is_executable() is
4021 available (since it is not available on Windows).
4022 - {copyright_notice} in the site's footer (footer.thtml) will now use the
4023 current year for the copyright notice. You can override this by setting
4024 $_CONF['copyrightyear'] to the year you want.
4025 Also, new variables {lang_copyright} and {current_year} as well as {site_name}
4026 and {site_slogan} are now available in footer.thtml so that you can build a
4027 customised copyright notice from them.
4028 - Fixed incomplete links to search results from poll comments.
4029 - Fixed wrong link to the week view from the last week of the month view.
4030 - Fixed bug where links was not using the date field - being stored as null.
4031 - Fixed image resizing when using ImageMagick.
4032 - Added the actual and max. image dimensions in the error message that is
4033 displayed when an image exceeds the max. image dimensions and no imagelib
4035 - The Admin menu will now be displayed for users which have Admin access to
4036 a plugin but not to a core Geeklog Admin feature.
4037 - The redirect in index.php (when a site is called up with a URL other than
4038 the one configured in $_CONF['site_url']) now checks for the existence of
4039 $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_HOST']. Also, the server name comparison is done
4040 case-insensitive now.
4041 - New config option $_CONF['emailstoriesperdefault']: Set to 1 if new users
4042 should be subscribed to the daily digest automatically. Defaults to 0 (no
4043 automatic subscribtion), thus restoring the behaviour of Geeklog prior to
4045 - Removed some unused / outdated files (include and etc directories)
4046 - Updated URLs to point to www.geeklog.net and lists.geeklog.net instead of the
4047 now outdated places on Sourceforge.
4048 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by R.F. van der Veen
4049 - New Danish language files (for Geeklog and for the Static Pages plugin),
4050 provided by Steen Broelling
4053 December 16, 2002 (1.3.7)
4056 - In all Admin editors, the hard-coded default group permissions have been
4057 changed from 3 (read/write) to 2 (read-only).
4058 - Make sure an error message is displayed when a StoryAdmin tries to edit a
4059 story s/he does not have access to.
4060 - Hide topics from the Admin's list of stories that the current (Story)Admin
4062 - Tom Willet found a problem in admin/user.php that sometimes mangled user
4063 names, especially on sites hosted on sourceforge.net.
4064 - Fixed an SQL error when using single quotes in a block title.
4065 - When updating events in the master calendar, make sure copies of such events
4066 in the personal calendars are updated as well (including deleting them when
4067 the original event is removed from the master calendar).
4068 - Fixed PRIMARY KEY for table personal_events, so that more than one user can
4069 add an event to his/her personal calendar.
4071 - New Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by Access-=-Denied Networks
4072 - New Spanish language file, provided by LeChuck
4073 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
4074 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
4075 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
4078 December 3, 2002 (1.3.7rc1)
4081 - Modifed savesubmission() to better handle Plugin return - Bug ID 642106
4082 - Modified Comment Plugin API Comment call - PLG_handlePluginComment now passes
4083 $operation to indicate a 'save' or 'delete'.
4084 - Fixed problems with the portal.php redirect for links (bug #579221).
4085 - Fixed a problem when uploading images with certain versions of Opera.
4086 - When deleting a topic, also remove stories for that topic from the submission
4088 - Added a redirect in index.php when the site was called up with the "wrong"
4089 URL (i.e. not the one that has been set in $_CONF['site_url']), thus
4090 fixing the "www vs. non-www" problem where people showed up in Who's Online
4091 but did not get the User Functions block.
4092 - The topic selection in the daily digest now defaults to "on" for all topics,
4093 i.e. when the daily digest is activated ($_CONF['emailstories'] = 1) and
4094 a user has not selected any topics yet, s/he will receive a digest for all
4095 topics. This ensures that new topics are automatically added to the daily
4096 digest (bug #573305).
4097 - Fixed a permission problem with the daily digest where users could get a
4098 digested version of a story they didn't have access to.
4099 - Fixed permission problems in the statistics where story titles, links, and
4100 events where listed even when the current user did not have access to them.
4101 - Added the Top Ten Links to the links page (only when links are displayed
4103 - When sending emails, Geeklog now uses \r\n in the mail headers which should
4104 resolve problems under Windows.
4105 - Resolved a couple of stripslashes() issues.
4106 - The static pages plugin can now be uninstalled using the "delete" option
4107 from the plugin editor. Note that this will only remove the plugin's tables
4108 and data from the database, not remove any files.
4109 - Added a simple email notification when a new story, link, or event has been
4110 submitted or a new user has registered. See $_CONF['notification'] for details
4111 - Added a separate set of config variables for the max. dimensions of user
4112 photos ($_CONF['max_photo_width'] etc.).
4113 - Fixed a problem when resizing GIF images using the netpbm tools.
4114 - Check the topic permissions when presenting a list of topics in the Admin
4115 story editor (since the StoryAdmin may not have access to all topics).
4116 - Removed the Normal / Archive / Refreshing drop down menus from the admin
4117 story and poll editors since they're not used anyway.
4118 - In the links section, do not display link categories when the current user
4119 does not have access to the links in those categories (bug #612869).
4120 - Fixed problems when using quotes in the title of an HTML-formatted comment
4121 (including confusing error messages and wrong speed limit alerts).
4122 - Changed the way how Geeklog checks if it's currently displaying the site's
4123 front page, thus fixing the problem with disappearing "homeonly" blocks.
4124 - Fixed double line spacing in HTML-formatted comments and [code] sections when
4125 running on PHP 4.2.0 and up.
4126 - Fixed problems with slashes and HTML entities in emails sent out by Geeklog
4127 (Send story to friend, daily digest, Admin mail utility).
4128 - Added new config variable 'showfirstasfeatured' which, when set to 1, will
4129 render the first story on _any_ page like it was a featured story.
4130 - Added admin/plugins/newpluginlist.thtml and newlistitem.thml template files
4131 for the list of plugins not installed yet. These files are optional, i.e.
4132 the list will be formatted using hard-coded HTML when they don't exist.
4133 - Removed unused template file admin/plugins/installform.thtml.
4134 - The plugin menu will now list all plugins which exist in the file system
4135 but haven't been installed (yet) with a link to their install script for
4136 easy installation (based on code provided by Blaine Lang).
4137 - New plugin API function PLG_callCommentForm() and improvements for the use of
4138 comments in plugins, provided by Blaine Lang.
4139 - The Older Stories block did not take stories into account which were to be
4140 published in the future. Therefore, the block sometimes listed stories that
4141 were still on the first index page.
4142 - Added variable {contributedby_photo} (user photo of story author) for use in
4144 - Users couldn't disable display of the Older Stories block in their preferences
4145 - The contents of the Older Stories block was deleted whenever you changed it
4146 (e.g. moving it from the left to the right column).
4147 - The static pages editor displayed a blank page when the title and/or content
4148 field of a new static page were not filled in (will display an error message
4150 - Implemented fixes for plugins using the submission queue, suggested by
4152 - Following the link "X stories in last 24 hours" from the What's New block
4153 will now display only the new stories on the index page.
4154 - When $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] = 2, the search is completely blocked
4155 for anonymous users (1 will only block the advanced search).
4156 - Added a check to test for a valid date format when searching by date.
4157 - Added $_CONF['skip_preview'] to allow submission of comments and stories
4158 without previewing (defaults to off).
4159 - Search queries with less than 3 characters are now rejected to reduce server
4161 - (Event)Admins couldn't add events directly to their personal calendar
4162 (found & fixed by Kenn Osborne).
4163 - Fixed a nasty bug in SEC_inGroup() (in lib-security.php) that let a user
4164 admin change the password of a root user, so that effectively every user
4165 admin could become a root user ...
4166 - Topics are now sorted alphabetically by the topic name instead of by topic id.
4167 - Added several new variables which can be used in the story template files.
4168 - New config options $_CONF['dateonly'] and $_CONF['timeonly'] which hold the
4169 format string for day + month (to be used in the Upcoming Events and Older
4170 Stories blocks) and the time (to be used for event details).
4171 - Fixed calls to unknown function printErrorMsgs in the file upload class.
4172 - New options in config.php:
4173 $_CONF['upcomingeventsrange'] = no. of days to look ahead for upcoming events
4174 $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = disallow "send story be email" for
4176 $_CONF['hideemailicon'], $_CONF['hideprintericon'] = hide email / printer
4177 icon from stories (and from Story Options block)
4178 $_CONF['hidenewstories'], $_CONF['hidenewcomments'], $_CONF['hidenewlinks'] =
4179 hide new stories / comments / links from What's New block
4180 - User photos are now resized according to the image dimensions in config.php
4181 (if an imagelib is configured - otherwise images exceeding those dimensions
4183 - Added a check for the proper permissions on the admin page of the Static
4185 - Plugins can now return "false" (or an empty array) from
4186 plugin_cclabel_<plugin-name> so that the plugin's icon does not show up
4187 in moderation.php if the user does not have the proper access rights for the
4188 plugin. Changed the Static Pages plugin to do exactly that.
4189 - Fixed problems when using multiple [code] ... [/code] sections.
4190 - PHP blocks which return an empty string are not displayed any more. This
4191 allows PHP blocks to "hide" themselves.
4192 - Searching for links caused an SQL error on installs that were upgraded
4193 from Geeklog 1.1 (missing "date" field in links table). However, links don't
4194 use that field anyway, so searching by date was removed (the "date" field
4195 will be added when upgrading the database to 1.3.7).
4196 Also, the search results are now sorted by link title.
4197 - The calendar displayed an empty last week (in month view) for some months,
4199 - COM_pollResults() will not use the side block templates when called from
4200 pollbooth.php (thus allowing different block layouts for the poll results
4201 in a side block and in pollbooth.php).
4202 - Allow for theme-based topic icons by using the $_THEME_URL variable as the
4203 base directory for topic icons (if that variable is set).
4204 - Fixed display (or lack thereof) of $ signs in portal blocks.
4205 - lib-common.php didn't use $_CONF['path_language'] to include the default
4207 - What's Related block
4208 + content is now set for all user submitted stories (previously, links where
4209 only added in stories submitted by the Admin or user submissions edited by
4211 + block is not displayed when it's empty
4212 + now uses COM_makeList() (i.e. the list.thtml and listitem.thtml template
4213 files) instead of hard-coded <li> tags
4214 - The What's Related and Story Options blocks can now be used independent of
4215 each other in the article/article.thtml template file - use {whats_related},
4216 {story_options} or {whats_related_story_options}.
4217 - Theme authors can now use the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE "hack" for the What's Related
4218 and Story Options blocks as well (using 'whats_related_block' and
4219 'story_options_block' as the block names).
4220 - Fixed the "noboxes" feature where all blocks (with the exception of the
4221 section, login / user functions, and admin blocks) are hidden.
4222 - Changed admin/link/listitem.thtml so that the URLs in the Admin's list of
4223 links are clickable.
4224 - Fixed an SQL error when calling search.php and there were no stories and no
4225 comments in the system.
4226 - Fixed an SQL error in the user profile when there were no stories and no polls
4228 - Fixed date bug when previewing stories to be posted around the noon hour in
4229 the admin story editor.
4230 - Added sanity checks in admin/story.php to prevent possible loss of stories
4231 when using an incomplete language file (or manipulating the URL).
4232 - Fixed a variable in admin/plugins/editor.ththml of the Smooth Blue theme.
4233 - Fixed a typo and a grammatical error in english.php
4234 - Fixed problems with the "static page as frontpage" hack:
4235 + will now check if the static pages plugin is installed and enabled
4236 + uses sp_format (i.e. display blocks as specified in the static pages editor)
4237 + added a missing stripslashes() call
4238 New: When you have $_SP_CONF['in_block'] == 1 and the label of the static
4239 page is neither empty nor "nonews" then that label is used as the block title
4240 for the static page.
4241 - The "userevent" table is back in lib-database.php. Geeklog doesn't use this
4242 table any more, but the name is needed when upgrading from old versions.
4245 - New Chinese language file (Big 5 encoding), provided by Jacky Chan
4246 - New Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg
4247 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by R. F. van der Veen
4248 - Updated French language file, provided by Florent Guiliani
4249 - The German language file now uses the proper national special characters
4250 (umlauts) instead of HTML entities.
4251 _ New Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
4252 - New Spanish language file for the Static Pages Plugin, provided by gorka
4255 September 20, 2002 (1.3.6)
4257 - Images in stories can now be resized automatically during upload, provided
4258 you have either ImageMagick or netpbm installed. See the image settings in
4259 config.php for details.
4260 - If you create a static page with the title "Frontpage" then the content of
4261 this static page will be displayed above the first story on the front page
4262 of your site. If you additionally set the label of this static page to
4263 "nonews", then the static page will completeley replace the news on the front
4265 You may want to wrap static pages in a block - set $_SP_CONF['in_block'] = 1;
4266 in /path/to/geeklog/plugins/staticpages/config.php
4267 - A user assigned only to the Mail Admin group wasn't able to use the "Mail
4269 - The filter to disable Javascript onXXX events also changed certain links in
4270 HTML postings. This should be fixed now.
4271 - The poll uses a POST instead of a GET request now to at least prevent
4272 primitive manipulation attempts ...
4273 - Events on the same day were displayed in the order they were entered, not
4274 in the order they were scheduled (occured in day, week, and month view).
4275 - The user function and admin blocks weren't using the proper templates when
4276 the theme was using the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE trick, as outlined in
4277 <http://www.geeklog.net/article.php?story=20020429092841722>.
4278 - When the first character of the content of a block is a '<' it is now
4279 assumed that the block contains HTML and nl2br() is not applied to the
4280 block content. This allows proper HTML usage and even the use of Javascript
4282 - Sanity checks have been added to the admin editors (including the editor
4283 for static pages) to prevent possible damage to the database in case of
4284 incomplete translations (language files) or invalid IDs.
4285 - The delete button in the plugin editor, which was unused since the removal
4286 of the automated plugin install (in Geeklog 1.3.4), will now cause a function
4287 plugin_uninstall_<plugin name> to be called. This allows plugins to uninstall
4288 themselves (if possible).
4289 - The author's name was missing from emailed stories. Also changed it so that
4290 the author's name is only included when $_CONF['contributedbyline'] == 1.
4291 The daily digest now also includes the author's name.
4292 - Fixed the "1054: Unknown column 'deleted' in 'where clause'" SQL error that
4293 some people were getting when logging out.
4294 - Submitted stories will now pick up the permissions from the topic they were
4295 posted under (instead of using default permissions).
4296 - Added new features story.submit, link.submit, event.submit which, when
4297 assigned to a group, allow members of that group to post directly (skipping
4298 the submission queue) even when the submissione queue is active.
4299 - Fixed issues with backslashes in block titles, as suggested by Neil Darlow.
4300 - The page navigation is now wrapped in a <div class="pagenav"> so that it
4301 can be formatted by a theme using CSS.
4302 Because of this change, the template files admin/user/userslist.thtml and
4303 links/links.thtml had to be changed, because they wrapped the page navigation
4305 - Submission of links and events by anonymous users failed when the link
4306 submission queues were switched off.
4307 - Anonymous users were able to submit comments even when $_CONF['loginrequired']
4309 - Fixed a search bug introduced in 1.3.6rc1 when searching by author.
4310 - When updating from an earlier version, the install script will no longer try
4311 to rename the staticpage table when no prefix is used in the database.
4312 - PLG_getUserOptions() will no longer return empty menu options.
4313 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
4314 - Changed some wording in the German language file
4315 - Fixed spelling errors in the English language file
4318 August 28, 2002 (1.3.6rc1)
4320 - Problems with using the dollar sign in stories, comments, and their titles
4322 - Fresh installations now have a "Are you secure?" block pre-installed
4323 that only the Admin can see and which does some (very simple) tests whether
4324 the site is secure or not.
4325 - Fixed the page navigation in (admin's) user list.
4326 - Using the preview in the admin story editor will now keep the topic icon
4327 and the time will not revert from pm to am any more.
4328 - The links section now includes a list of the link categories at the top.
4329 The list of links is now also separated into pages (10 links per page by
4330 default, configurable in config.php).
4331 To get back the old (pre-1.3.6) style of the links section, just set both
4332 $_CONF['linkcols'] and $_CONF['linksperpage'] (in config.php) to 0.
4333 These changes are based on code provided by Tom Willett.
4334 - Fixed the SQL syntax for some requests ("count(*) AS count" instead of
4335 "count(*) count") which seems to have caused problems with some (older)
4337 - A proper error message is now displayed when attempting to use "Mail Users"
4338 but not filling out all the fields.
4339 - Editing a portal block shouldn't make it disappear any more ...
4340 - The somewhat random order of poll answers has been fixed.
4341 - The site can be disabled by setting $_CONF['site_enabled'] = false; in
4342 config.php. $_CONF['site_disabled_msg'] can either contain a message to be
4343 displayed in that case or a URL (has to start with http:) to which all
4344 requests will be redirected.
4345 - Fixed various access rights / privacy issues where users could see (but
4346 not access) information even when they shouldn't ...
4347 + Search returns only those stories, comments, links, and events to which the
4348 user has the proper access rights
4349 + What's New block counts stories and comments according to access rights
4350 now (this should also fix the problems some people had when New Comments
4351 were not displayed for anonymous users). New Links also take access rights
4353 + Upcoming events are only visible to those with the proper rights.
4354 + Topics are not available for submissions without proper rights.
4355 + Topic selection in the user preferences also follows access rights.
4356 + "Last 10 comments" (and the new "Last 10 stories too, of course) in profile
4357 takes proper rights into account
4358 - Story display and paged navigation weren't working properly when some stories
4359 were only accessible to certain users.
4360 - Fixed a bug where users weren't able to use the site when their theme had
4361 been removed (until they cleared their cookies).
4362 - New installations now have only two default accounts: The Admin account (as
4363 before) and a Moderator account that has access to the story, links, and
4364 events submission queues.
4365 - The Older Stories block should work again.
4366 - The submission queues for stories, links, events, and users can now be
4367 switched off separately (in config.php), i.e. items submitted by users will
4368 then be visible to everybody immediately.
4369 - The database backup is more verbose now, especially when there are problems
4370 (changes provided by Blaine Lang).
4371 - Fixed a bug where the admin's user photo overwrote a user's photo when the
4372 admin was editing the user's account information.
4374 + Could not create new groups when using a non-english language file.
4375 + Once you've added one group to another (by checking off an option from
4376 the "Security Groups" list), there was no way to uncheck it again.
4377 + The message after saving/deleting a group said that the topic(!) had been
4379 - Changes in search:
4380 + Should be faster now.
4381 + Search by date did not work (mostly because the date format recommended to
4382 be used in a search is really YYYY-MM-DD and not MM-DD-YYYY).
4383 + List of authors is now sorted by username.
4384 + Search results for links are now routed via portal.php, too, so that the
4385 links are counted when clicked.
4386 + When no results are returned for a search, then the search form will now
4387 be displayed below that message again.
4388 - The static pages plugin uses the table prefix now (databases created with
4389 Geeklog 1.3.5 or older need to be upgraded).
4390 - A user submission queue has been added. When activated in config.php
4391 ($_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1;), new users will not get their password
4392 emailed until they are approved by an admin.
4393 You can, however, let users from certain domains be approved automatically
4394 by adding their domain names to the comma-separated list of domains in
4395 $_CONF['allow_domains'].
4396 - Fixed problems with quotes in poll question and answers.
4397 - The default value for the number of stories per page for a new user is now
4398 taken from $_CONF['limitnews'] (was hard-coded to 10).
4399 - The user profile has been extended to include
4400 + last 10 stories by that user
4401 + total number of stories and comments posted by that user
4402 + link to search for all postings by that user
4403 - The title of an article is now displayed in the page title (again).
4404 - New configuration option $_CONF['allow_user_language'] to allow / prevent
4405 to change the language. When set to 0, the option to switch the language
4406 is hidden from the user preferences.
4407 - The message "You have successfully logged out" should not show up any more
4408 when you log out and log in again.
4409 - The blocks stating that the search returned no results (e.g. for links) are
4410 now switched off by default but can be switched on again with the new
4411 configuration variable $_CONF['showemptysearchresults'].
4412 - Fixed the list of authors in the search form (did not list all authors).
4413 - Fixed search results for links and events: They always displayed only one
4414 result, even when there where more hits. Also, when searching for authors,
4415 no hits amongst the links and events will be returned (since they have
4417 - In the admin menu, the count of available submissions is now displayed
4418 according to the admin's access rights (e.g. don't count story submissions
4419 for someone who's only a link admin).
4420 - Links in the What's New block are now counted when clicked (for the site
4422 - Fixed a stray "(N/A)" that would show up in the admin menu for admins which
4423 were not static pages admins.
4424 - You can now block anonymous users from accessing any part of a Geeklog site
4425 or you can block them from certain parts, e.g. block anonymous access to the
4426 calendar (via a new set of XXXloginrequired flags in config.php).
4427 Please note that $_CONF['loginrequired'] is now used to require login to all
4428 areas. To require login for submissions, use $_CONF['submitloginrequired'].
4429 - New RDF/RSS parser, provided by Roger Webster. This should now properly
4430 import even those RDF feeds which Geeklog previously refused to display.
4431 - Updated language files:
4432 + Italian, provided by quess65
4433 + Japanese, provided by Yusuke Sakata
4434 + Polish, provided by Robert Stadnik
4435 - Various fixes for the consistent use of $_CONF['site_admin_url'] instead of
4436 $_CONF['site_url']/admin, provided by Gene Wood.
4437 - The static pages plugin can now wrap static pages in a block
4438 (available as an option in staticpages.cfg)
4439 - You can now use [code] ... [/code] in stories and comments (HTML formatted
4440 only) to mark portions of the text as containing code of any form (HTML, PHP,
4441 any other programming language). Geeklog will then reproduce this section
4442 verbatim, i.e. not interpreting any special characters in that section.
4443 - Fixed type pulldown menu in search when more than one plugin was used.
4444 - Signatures in comments are working again.
4445 - The daily digest uses $_CONF['shortdate'] now
4446 - New configuration variable $_CONF['emailstorieslength'] to specify the length
4447 of stories sent in the daily digest: 0 = only the title and a link to the
4448 story are included, 1 = entire introtext is included (default), any other
4449 number = cut off text after that amount of characters.
4450 - The selection of the user theme is now hidden from the user's preferences
4451 when 'allow_user_themes' is turned off in config.php
4452 - The links "Add To My Calendar" are now hidden when personal calendars are
4453 turned off in config.php
4454 - Fixed a bug where the number of submissions was displayed in the sections
4455 block even when that was turned off.
4456 - New variable $_CONF['adminhtml'] allows (Story)Admin to use a wider variety
4457 of HTML tags than the ordinary user.
4458 - Fixed COM_exportRDF so that only articles that anonymous users have access to
4460 - Search: User drop down only shows users that have posted a comment or a story.
4461 - Fixed bug with double quotes in title of story submission.
4462 - The upcoming events block uses the list templates now.
4463 - The story option block uses the list templates now.
4464 - The (Event)Admin could not delete events (delete button was missing).
4465 - The calendar class reverted to using the english day and month names as
4466 soon as you called setCalendarMatrix().
4467 - Added {edit_link} in story templates in Classic theme.
4468 - All admin editors have the save / cancel / delete buttons at the bottom now.
4469 - The link to the plugin homepage did not work from the plugin editor.
4470 - Added $_CONF['default_charset'] in config.php and $LANG_CHARSET in the
4471 language files to specify a character set to be used for the web pages (use
4472 {charset} in header.thtml) and email sent by Geeklog.
4473 - Changes in the themes and the admin editors, moving lots of hard-coded
4474 english texts to the language files.
4475 This affects most of the files in the admin and calendar directories within
4476 the themes directories.
4477 - The static pages plugin will now pick the language automatically, based on
4478 the user / default setting for the language. Currently, only English and
4479 German language files are included.
4480 - New variables that can be used in footer.thtml: {execution_textandtime},
4484 July 8, 2002 (1.3.5sr2)
4486 - New installation instructions (now back in docs/install.html).
4487 Please note that some of the other documentation may be out of date ...
4488 - Display of stories in older stories block was off by one day.
4489 - Number of guest users in Who's online block should now be reset properly.
4490 - Added some scripts in admin/install to help with the installation:
4491 + info.php just does a phpinfo()
4492 + check.php will check the file and directory permissions
4493 + configinfo.php will display the contents of config.php
4494 Note: It is now even more important that you remove the install directory
4495 after the installation went through (or at least block read access to this
4497 - Disable all onXXX Javascript events in HTML postings (stories and comments).
4498 - Fill in user name and email address when writing an email to a user (via
4499 the 'send email' form from the user profile).
4500 - Make sure that the first comment to a story has the 'title' field filled in
4501 (previously, only comments to comments took over the title).
4502 - Cut off the subject at the first linefeed when sending email to a user,
4503 thus preventing the injection of additional email headers.
4504 - Added a test for register_globals=off in the install script (and display a
4505 warning if it is off). Also added a hint what the current path is and tries
4506 to guess the /path/to/geeklog.
4507 - Fixed the "12pm bug": Posting a story between 12 and 1 pm would result in
4508 the story being posted with a date in 1969.
4509 - Use mysql_connect() instead of mysql_pconnect() in MySQL class.
4510 - The redirect after submitting a story always went to /index.php
4511 - HTML tags are now stripped out of search queries.
4512 - Removed the logging of all search queries to error.log.
4513 - Fixed a wrong link from personal events in the upcoming events block.
4514 - The "Home" link in the section block was not active on pages > 1. It was,
4515 however, always active on the home page when the Geeklog site was not
4516 located in the DocumentRoot.
4519 June 10, 2002 (1.3.5sr1)
4521 - This release addresses security issues recently discovered by the people at
4522 olympos.org. These issues allow for the injection of malicious javascript
4523 code (which could be used to access the admin's cookie) and the injection
4524 of MySQL code which could be used to access and even damaged the database
4525 (under certain circumstances). Details will be available in a report on
4526 the Bugtraq list shortly after this release is out.
4527 - The following bugs from the 1.3.5 release have also been fixed:
4528 + missing field 'emailfromadmin' in userprefs table (fresh installs only)
4529 + fixed a typo that prevented the page navigation from working
4530 + fixed batch user import
4531 + fixed logo size and path to search in XSilver theme
4532 + optimized size of image files in XSilver theme
4533 + fixed path to search in Clean theme
4536 April 24, 2002 (1.3.5)
4538 - Change installation so that server configuration is manual, DB configuration is scripted
4539 - Search page now properly generates the right link to search comments
4540 - Comments to polls now show up in whats new block
4541 - You can now specify the order the poll results show up in in config.php. You can either sort by
4542 voteorder (highest number of votes -> lowest) or by the order they were saved in admin/poll.php
4543 - You can now move /admin somewhere else in web tree. This should help out folk where ISP's use /admin
4544 for their administration stuff.
4545 - if you go to submit.php as an admin we will try to send you to the admin/ page for the type of thing you
4546 are trying to submit (e.g. story, link, event)
4547 - fixed calendar.php so month view now shows events spanning multiple days on months other than the current
4548 - admin/event.php now saves am/pm and allday properly
4549 - PollAdmin group can now properly add a new poll.
4550 - fixed SEC_getUserGroups() so that it always returns an array even if no groups are returned (e.g.
4552 - fixed moderation.php so post mode is saved properly from storysubmission to story table.
4553 - killed 1064 bug in admin/event.php
4554 - set error_reporting() so uninitialized variables don't show up (common in poorly configured PHP installs)
4555 - gldefault blocks now actually use permissions assigned to them in admin/block.php
4556 - Added all sorts of shit to english.php. Translators will need to really take their time
4558 - Added $_CONF['maximagesperarticle'] to config.php
4559 - install.php was reworked a bit for upcoming release
4560 - lib-common.php has changed. can't even begin to note all the changes there
4561 - admin/user.php has a very simple batch import utility. You can now create multiple
4562 accounts by importing a tab-delimited file. See that page for file format specs
4563 - story.php was reworked a bit to be simplified and to correctly do paging (old
4564 paging feature had a bug where one article would never show up.
4565 - admin/user.php now allows for paging and searching. Check it out, you'll see what I mean ;-)
4566 - blocks can now be disabled in admin/block.php
4567 - added support for images in articles
4568 - complete overhauled upload.class.php for ease of use, better security, better logging
4569 and for use in putting images in articles.
4570 - fixed bug in users.php that allows accounts with same email addresses yet different
4571 usernames to be created.
4572 - New strings in english.php (and german.php):
4573 $LANG02: 15 (moved from calendar_event.php)
4574 $LANG04: 74, 75, 76 (moved from usersettings.php)
4575 $LANG08: 31, 32, 33, 34 (moved from lib-common.php)
4576 These strings need to be added to the other language files!
4577 - Fixed user selection of emailed topics (usersettings.php) and removed the
4578 hard coded texts for the daily digest from lib-common.php (again).
4579 - Slightly changed display of event block: The type of event is no longer
4580 underlined and the event date is displayed as 03-Apr etc.
4581 - Added Russion Translation
4582 - Fixed bug #531483 where $_CONF['commentsloginrequired'] was set to 'on' or
4583 'off' instead of '1' or '0'.
4584 - Fixed bug #529621 and added the variable layout_url in COM_endBlock in
4586 - (Sort of) fixed bug #530142: {geeklog_blocks} is now set to an empty string
4588 - Fixed bug #531018: {contributedby_use} had an 'r' too many in lib-common.php
4589 - There have been lots of minor changes in the themes so that they now contain
4590 valid HTML. Nearly all those change fall into one of the following categories:
4591 + changed '&' in URLs to '&'
4592 + added alt="" to <img> tags
4593 + changed the script tags to <script type="text/javascript">
4594 + changed the DOCTYPE to HTML 4.01 (there is a bug in the HTML 4.0
4595 specification which prevents the use of 'name' attributes in forms).
4596 + added '#' signs in front of colour values (mostly in the Classic theme)
4597 These kinds of changes have also been applied to index.php and lib-common.php
4598 - During those changes for valid HTML, some typos were corrected:
4599 + Classic/header.thtml: added a missing <b> before {welcome_message}
4600 + Classic/storytext.thtml: added a missing 'n' in {end_contributedby_anchortag}
4601 + Yahoo/header.thml referred to a non-existent file "spec.gif"
4602 + Yahoo/footer.thml: there was an extra quote after align="right"
4603 + Digital_Monochrom/admin/plugins/editor.thml: file was missing - copied
4604 over from the Classic theme)
4605 + Digital_Monochrom/footer.thtml: added a missing ';' after  
4606 - admin/install/install.php had two <body> tags but was missing the </head>
4610 - Fixed broken older stories block (lib-common.php)
4611 - Fixed problems with saving rights to a group in admin/group.php (admin/group.php)
4612 - Fixed bug in admin/user that would reset user's settings when admin made a change (admin/user.php)
4613 - Fixed bug in index.php. There were two FOR loops, one nested inside the other both interating
4614 on the variable $i. This caused problems only for users who went into display preferences and
4615 selected only the topics they wanted to get articles for (index.php)
4616 - Fixed bug in story admin that would prevent the date edit from prepopulating right when admin hit
4617 the preview button (admin/story.php)
4618 - Modified admin/plugin.php to reflect change in how plugins are installed. Because of platform
4619 dependance issues, all plugins will have a simple but manual installation process. This should
4620 work across all platforms. (admin/plugin.php, layout/Yahoo/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml,
4621 layout/Classic/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml, layout/Digital_Monochrome/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml)
4622 - Alter the database to force all stories to show on the frontpage by default. This will make the
4623 moderation of articles work as expected. Before if you approved an article it would show up only
4624 in the topic and not on the frontpage (mysql_tableanddata.sql, table.sql, mysql_1.3.3_to_1.3.4.sql)
4628 - Admins can now manually edit the publish date of an article. This include the ability
4629 to set the date for a time in the future. In that case the article is completely
4630 ignored by COM_exportRDF, stats.php, search.php and the email digest
4631 - Rudimentary support for database backups (one per day at most). There is no restore
4632 capability at this time.
4633 - Modified the display preference so we store the blocks a user doesn't want to see instead
4634 of the ones they do want to see. This will allow any new block to show up by default as
4636 - Removed hardcoded english from COM_emailUserTopics
4637 - Fixed minor security bug with whats new block. It would display items the user didn't have access too (however, if they click them they would correctly get the access denied message)
4638 - Topic administration page now default the group to 'Topic Admin' properly
4639 - Topic administration now save anonymous permissions properly
4643 - Removed some outdated themes (hence the 1.3.2-1 version number)
4647 - Added Canadian French, German and Polish translations
4648 - Fixed bug that kept front page with multiple polls from working right
4649 - Added missing help field to block table
4650 - Added block to usersettings where user can pick topics to receive articles for in an
4652 - Fixed bug with the contact link in the header of some themes
4653 - Fixed bug that caused the admin block to disappear
4654 - Fixed bug that caused save of story as admin to go to http://someurl/draft_flag
4655 - Fixed bad relative paths in calendar
4656 - block type now defaults properly when showing prepopulated data
4660 - Two security fixes, one major one. This release addes a users MD5 password to a cookie that is checked when using the permanent cookie. Prior to this you could change the permanent cookie to any user and get their access rights. Second security fix addresses an orphaned group_assignments record that, one new Geeklog installations, would give the very first user to register with the site access to the GroupAdmin and UserAdmin groups
4661 - In admin/block.php you can now specify the URL to a help file. This is usefully in providing site help to your users
4662 - Many bugfixes to the calendar in both the UI and the administration
4663 - Added who's online block
4664 - Fixed bug that was keeping users registration date from being saved.
4665 - Fixed bugs in usersettings.php that keep user options from saving
4666 - Added two database indexes that really speed things up
4667 - Coded some performance-related enhancements
4668 - Fixed bug that kept user-defined themes from working
4669 - Fixed bug in links.php that caused the first link category to report over and over
4670 - Started updating some of the documents
4674 - Added user-defined themes via PHPLib's template class library
4675 - Update the Geeklog security model from numeric Security Levels to a *nix-like model that
4676 can be used by plugins
4677 - Added support for plugins. Plugins can be downloaded from http://geeklog.sourceforge.net and uploaded and installed remotely or manually
4678 - Updated most places where dates are used to use the user-defined format in their display preferences
4679 - Updated session management to use a long-term cookie that is fully configurable. If desired, users can specify how long their long-term cookie will persist for.
4680 - Update blocks so that admins can specify the side and order a block shows up on.
4681 - Seperated common.php into the following libraries: lib-database.php, lib-common.php, lib-sessions.php lib-security.php
4682 - Started moving Geeklog to use PHP's OO features with the addition of a timer class, a calendar class, a MySQL database class.
4683 - Fixed bug with output of Geeklog RDF file that allowed story drafts to be included.
4684 - Updated most of the codebase to use the Geeklog Coding Standard (a subset of the PEAR standard).
4689 - Updated configuration documentation
4690 - Added the ability for article author's username to be hidden (via 'contributedbyline' option in config.php)
4691 - Fixed a bug with the Google-like paging feature where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
4692 - Fixed a bug which caused slashes to appear before apostrophes in the older stuff block and in the search results
4693 - Fixed overlapping/bad HTML in index.php and common.php
4694 - Fixed the bug in the sections block that showed submission cue numbers to non-logged in people
4695 - Added workaround for problem where users (after following link in e-mail after registration) would still see the login page after logging in
4696 - Created phrase IDs for previously hard-coded English in common.php and story.php
4697 - Fixed a bug which caused draft stories to be counted as new stories in the What's New block
4698 - Fixed a bug with the upcoming events block where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
4704 - Added in support for plugins and has been test for *nix and *should* work for windows
4710 - Added the ability for admins to save drafts of stories
4711 - Fixed a bug with in calendar_event.php when adding event to user calendar
4712 - Fixed a bug with the search bar in header.php
4717 - a few minor bug fixes
4718 - Added google-like paging feature
4719 - fixed all references to newsgeeks to point to geeklog.org
4720 - when you login when on users.php you are routed to index.php when successfully logged in
4721 instead of back to users.php
4725 - Released 1.2 stable.
4726 - Added personalized calendars
4727 - Fixed a number of bugs from 1.2b
4728 - Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibility issues
4729 - Added alt_header.php which is the same as header.php minus the left hand side
4734 - Released 1.2b. Changes are below:
4735 -Fixed security error in usersettings.php with PGP key
4736 -Now allows posts that don't go to front page
4738 -Whether the count of stories and submissions shows up in the Sections block is driven in config.php
4739 -Add ability to sort topics in Section block by number or alpha (specified in config.php)
4740 -Renamed header.inc and footer.inc to have the php extension to avoid letting nosy people see the code
4741 -Added field called limitnews to topics table. This is the same as limitnews in the config.php but applys to only that topic (i.e. you can control the number of stories that show up in each topic
4742 -changed userindex.maxstories to default to null. This is so that the order of precedence for the number for articles that show up will be 1) userindex.maxstories 2) topic.limitnews 3) $CONF["limitnews"]
4743 -added config variable called $CONF["minnews"] which specifies the minimum number of stories per page regardless of topic (i.e. it overrides topics.limitnews)
4744 -an anonymous user can now email a story to a friend and they can enter some text to accompany the message
4745 -fixed bug that allowed users to post comments to non-existent articles through article.php
4746 -added the Get Geeklog Articles in Your Mailbox feature. This is dependent on cron and a shelled php script. This can be turned off in the config file
4747 -session management has been improved
4748 -moved "appears on homepage" setting on poll administraction screen to the top of the form to
4749 keep from having to scroll down all the way.
4750 -Added messages to various user actions (i.e. notification that submission was sent, confirmation that user data was saved, etc)
4751 -Added Upcoming events block
4752 -Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibilities
4753 -added account creation date to user table along with other useful information (aim, yim, etc)
4754 -added email gl users/admins feature
4755 -fixed checkhtml function so that strings to gain extra spaces
4756 -added file custom_code.php. This is where admins should put all custom code (not addon code). GL admins should never touch common.php moving forward
4757 -added version checking system to let admins check for current version
4758 -added $CONF["OS"] for use by Geeklog Addons (Use PHP OS variable). It represents the operating system that Geeklog is running on and is useful for producing useful error messages should a user be trying to use an addon that is OS specific
4762 ---------------------------------------
4764 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.1 out the door!
4769 - Date in moderation now shows the correct
4771 - Maxstories now counts a feature as a story.
4772 - Saving user information now returns you the
4778 - Fixed comment post mode preview bug.
4779 - If a block is empty, it will not be displayed.
4780 - Fixed a user creation error.
4781 - Fixed the submission scripts to add and remove
4782 slashes in all the right places.
4787 - Added a limit check to index.php to ensure stories
4789 - If block order is between 1 and 9 it is a default
4790 block. Anything greater than 9 will not be displayed
4791 without the user configuring thier settings for it.
4792 - Added bolding to the display preferences screen for
4798 - If a user sets maxstories to less than 5, max stories
4800 - If a story id and poll id are the smae they will
4801 share comments and the poll will be displayed on the
4802 stories article page.
4803 - Poll results box is now linked to comments.
4804 - Added stripslashes to the links description.
4805 - Made HTML the default posting format.
4806 - Updated the user authentication to address a login bug.
4807 - Added a 404 script.
4808 - Updated the admin user editor to create all the new
4809 user tables when creating a user.
4810 - Updated the What's Releated function to better parse
4812 - Updated comment functions to update the comment counter
4814 - Finished the addition of a "smart" style sheet! It will
4815 now format the font size according to the users browser
4821 - Updated some missing to language in english.php.
4822 Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
4823 - Updated the stats script.
4824 - Added post modes, the user can now select plain
4826 - Added user preferences for date format.
4831 - Fixed a few more issues surronding the
4832 $CONF["site_url"] placement. Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
4833 - Added sig to user accounts.
4834 - Added a system hit counter
4835 - Fixed a poll comment bug.
4836 - Comments can now be enabled on a per story basis.
4837 - Comments can now be enabled on a per poll basis.
4842 - Fixed the // uri issue.
4843 - Fixed a few issues surronding the $CONF["site_url"]
4845 - Began work on new user customization system!
4846 - Index Configuration
4847 - Comment Configuration
4848 - Story Configuation
4849 - User Configuration
4850 - Fixed the link submission script so it now
4856 - Updated the email story to a friend to use the
4858 - Fixed the "More by author" search links from the
4860 - Fixed the article editor to be able to delete
4862 - Fixed translation issues by adding two more
4863 strings to english.php. Added $LANG01[61] and
4865 - Fixed a formating error on the links page.
4866 - Fixed the admin user editor to allow blanking
4867 on non-essential fields.
4868 - Removed moderation option from config. If you
4869 want an unmoderated site there are better
4870 applications out there like UBB and FreeLinks.
4871 - Updated the user profile page to put all
4872 descriptors at the top of the cell for the
4873 about and PGP key boxes.
4874 - Updated INSTALL.HTML
4879 - Olderstuff() will now parse special charactors.
4880 - Fixed the admin story editor to properly parse
4881 the special charactors in the text for editing.
4882 - Fixed article() to stripslashes from the title.
4887 - Fixed a logout bug effecting Netscape users.
4888 - Fixed a change password bug effecting Netscape
4890 - Fixed references to speck.gif, spec.gif was
4891 referenced incorrectly.
4892 - Fixed the story submission to correctly
4893 record the user instead of Anonymous.
4894 - Added multiple previews when submitting a
4896 - Update to english.php
4897 - Updated the blockparser to use str_replace()
4898 instead of strtr(). The use of strtr() was
4899 causing issues on some platforms using
4900 earlier versions of PHP4.
4901 - Added a sample httpd.conf Apache configuration
4902 file to the distribution.
4903 - Updated INSTALL.HTML
4909 - Fixed a bug in the database upgrade scripts.
4911 RELEASE!!! 1.0!!! - August 29, 2000
4912 ------------------------------------
4914 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.0 out the door!
4919 - Fixed a bug in the command and control center
4920 which didn't allow the display to be completely
4921 updated after a batch moderation.
4926 - Completed the command and control center
4928 - Completed new search engine.
4929 - Fixed language display bug in story submission
4935 - Fixed a login bug that occoured under FreeBSD.
4940 - Fixed a bug that allowed anyone logged in to
4946 - Fixed a nasty delete everything bug with the
4948 - Continued with search engine update.
4953 - Fixed a bug with the link counter.
4954 - Reworked the olderstuff block.
4955 - Updated the search engine.
4956 - Fixed the speed limit warnings so they show the
4957 number of seconds since the last post.
4958 - Updated the index page to show date of last
4964 - Cleaned out now defuct class settings.
4965 - Comments can now be set to force login to post.
4966 - Block list is now sorted by type
4967 - Email forms updated.
4968 - Fixed the no from info bug in the password email.
4969 - Fixed the topic editor background bug.
4970 - Postions of the olderstuff and poll blocks is now
4972 - Olderstuff block can now be turned off.
4973 - Olderstuff block now shows 2x the news limit.
4974 - Updated the install instructions.
4979 - Modified the polls, you can now set then maximum
4980 number of possible answers in config.php.
4981 - Fixed edit link bug.
4982 - Updared english.php for the new admin files.
4983 - Modified the cookies to have a configurable
4984 expiration time for users and admins. This can
4985 be set in config.php.
4990 - Reworked the default interface.
4991 - Fixed numerous bugs.
4996 - Began moving portions of the HTML in to blocks
4997 - Updated the english.php file.
5002 - Updated how polls are shown.
5003 - Updated the poll adminstration interface, this was
5004 the last old piece of code to be re-worked.
5009 - Completed new submission forms.
5010 - Completed added base path to all references.
5011 - Completed scripts for user account creation.
5012 - Completed comment intergration with user
5014 - Added comment posting speed limit.
5020 - Completed new story editor and managment
5022 - Completed database widgets.
5023 - Began work on reworking the poll editor
5025 - Removed the following functions that have
5032 - Removed the following array used to set
5033 premissions in older versions
5035 - Began work on intergrating comments with
5041 - More work on user accounts and database
5043 - Minor cosmetic fixes.
5044 - Began re-working the administration forms.
5049 - More work on new submission engine and
5051 - Implemented submission speed limit.
5056 - Added command and contol center to admin and
5057 moderate submissions.
5058 - Added ability for users to submit links.
5059 - Added ability for users to submit events.
5060 - Began intergrating user accounts.
5061 - Began intergration of a help system.
5066 - Created new database function templates. Began
5067 updating all the scripts to use these new
5070 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.5!!! - August 3, 2000
5071 ----------------------------------------
5073 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.5 BETA out the door!
5078 - Getting ready for 0.5 release!!
5079 - Parent links no longer show up on top level
5081 - Story moderation now show the "new story" button
5082 even if no stories exist.
5083 - Story contribution preview now displays the date
5085 - Comment preview now displays the date correctly.
5086 - Made the log path configurable.
5087 - Fixed false "no stories" error in index.php.
5088 - Fixed the topic highlighting in showtopics.
5089 - Fixed comments so that the posting and delete
5090 work properly again.
5091 - Events (calander) now properly parses special
5093 - Links now properly parses special charactors.
5094 - Mail to a friend should work better now.
5099 - Moved all date functions to using strftime and
5100 locale settings for display of dates and times
5101 in local languages and formats. These are also
5102 configurable in the config.php file.
5107 - Finished move admin strings to english.php.
5112 - Added the featured article functionality.
5113 - Fixed a special charactors problem in the
5114 comments, you can now use special charactors.
5115 - Made some changes to the email story function
5116 to provide a statement on this isn't spam!
5117 - Added parent function to comments.
5122 - Began moving strings from the admin files in to
5124 - Finished up printable story and email story
5126 - More minor bug fixes to the comment engine.
5131 - Fixed encoding bugs in comments. Slashes are now
5132 being stripped properly.
5133 - Fixed the comment control bar, the title and
5134 number of comments are now showing up correctly.
5135 - Fixed the url encoding in the reply links. The
5136 title of a reply now copies over in to the form.
5137 - Bought more vodka! The vodka shortage is over!
5138 - Adjusted the comment spacing.
5139 - Began to add the printable story and email story
5145 - Added comment count to olderstuff block.
5146 - Reworked the polls for better display
5147 - Worked more on the comment engine, all comment
5148 modes (none, flat, threaded, nested) work at
5149 one level or another. This is really shaping up
5150 well and we have unchained the monkies from
5151 their typewriters... But no novel yet...
5152 - Out of vodka and can't buy any more since it is
5153 illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays in Georgia.
5158 - Changed password functions to use md5, crypt()
5159 is becoming to unreliable. Running the dat
5161 <editor problems, change log for 0.4.1.2 - 0.4.1.1 lost>
5163 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.4.1!!! - July 19, 2000
5164 -----------------------------------------
5166 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.1 BETA out the door!
5171 - RDF fetch bug fixed. The rdfimport routine was
5172 not correctly identifying if the file open didn't
5174 - Poll Dispaly bug fixed. Poll wouldn't display if
5175 there wern't at least two user defined blocks.
5176 - Added word count to the read more display.
5177 - Move all strings for public side functions to
5178 a resource bundle called english.php. Geeklog can
5179 now be translated. If you do translate Geeklog
5180 please send me your resource file! Great thanks
5181 goes to Mischa Polivanov for his work on this
5183 - When moderating a story, it now returns you to
5184 the submissions que when your done.
5186 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.4.0!!! - July 8, 2000
5187 ----------------------------------------
5189 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.0 BETA out the door!
5194 - Update the poll to restrict votes by IP. This
5195 function only creates a table of IP addresses
5196 pollids and timestamps, votes are NOT tracked!
5197 Addresses are deleted after an admin specified
5198 peroid of time set with the config.php variable
5199 $CONF["polladdresstime"].
5200 - Added $CONF["pollcookietime"] to config.php to
5201 allow you to set the amount of time the poll
5202 cookies will exist for the user.
5203 - Changed poll to only show a % in the smaller
5204 index window. Graphs are now only on the full
5205 view of the results.
5206 - Added SQL query interface for admins. This was
5207 added for those that don't have shell access or
5208 shell access isn't alaways avaiable for
5209 troubleshooting. Be VERY careful with this!
5210 - Fixed a really nasty bug with the RDF import
5211 HTTP calls! This was causing the server to
5212 lock up under certian circumstances.
5213 - Update showblocks() to now order polls and
5214 olderstuff as well. Here's the new method:
5215 - show blockoder = 0 to 1
5217 - show blockorder = 2
5219 - show remaining blocks
5220 - Reworked the calendar layout a bit.
5221 - Added two new doc files dbschema.html and
5222 dbschema.png to document the database.
5227 - New admin menu as well as more admin checks
5228 in editing of stories and blocks. In stories
5229 only the owner or someone with a seclev of 200
5230 or higher can edit a story. Blocks seclev's
5231 are now being enforced.
5233 - Access logging is now working! It reports on
5234 admin access and illegal operations in
5236 - Found some more bugs released to stricter PHP
5237 syntax guidelines in blocks.php and users.php.
5239 - Added the beginings for threaded comments, but
5240 it is NOT working yet.
5241 - Refined different aspects of the database, this
5242 is going to be the bigest DB update script yet!
5243 - Calendar has been rewored as events, since I can
5244 see Security Geeks using this functionality for
5245 things other than a calendar. Hmm, what is he
5247 - Adding CSS references where needed when I find
5253 - Added additional security checks for admins
5254 as well as adding additional admin tracking.
5255 - REMOVAL: function isAdmin() is being removed.
5256 - Created a new story format and parser. The
5257 story text is now broken in to two blocks, an
5258 introtext block and bodytext block. Introtext
5259 is all that is displayed on the index page.
5260 Both introtext and bodytext are displayed on
5261 an article page. There are many other neat
5262 things that have changed to go along with this,
5263 too many to mention! An example is "read more"
5264 is only displayed when there is data in bodytext.
5265 - Added comment and poll stats to the stats page.
5267 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.3.0!!! - July 3, 2000
5268 ----------------------------------------
5270 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.3.0 BETA out the door!
5275 - Fixed poll division by zero error. (xix)
5276 - Added the calander. This also involved adding
5277 lines to config.php and style.css.
5278 - Added next a previous links to the stories list.
5279 Security Geeks has almost 2000 stories now. We
5280 needed a better way to view this information
5281 without killing the SQL server!
5282 - Fixed a parsing bug on the contrib form. (richpav)
5283 - Fixed a bug in which votes were not being saved
5284 if the first answer has 0 votes in the poll
5290 - Fixed a rouge <xmp> tag in contrib.php.
5291 - Added a new function to check email addresses.
5292 - Fixed a problem with the checking of <a href=>
5294 - Moved more of the layout to CSS. Giving some
5295 though to creating a CSS editor for the site.
5296 - Added additional error checking on submissions.
5297 - Evaluated the security of the file layout, file
5298 premissions, cookies and made some minor changes
5299 - Added the RDF import capibilty to the blocks.
5300 Woo-hoo! Half way there to 0.3.0!
5301 - Fixed a bunch of function calls that are now
5302 considered errors in PHP 4.0.1pl2 (richpav)
5304 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.2.1!!! - July 1, 2000
5305 ----------------------------------------
5307 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.1 BETA out the door!
5308 The bugs fixed here are pretty signifant. This
5309 has none of the 0.3.0 features.
5314 - Cleaned up the all of the PHP scripts and added
5315 missing ;'s. (macole)
5316 - Fixed some table layouts for comment and story
5322 - Fixed an bug in the story submit functions. It
5323 seems addslashes was droped when putting in the
5324 content checking. It's back now!
5325 - Added a line to display the allowable HTML in the
5326 story editor and submission form.
5328 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.2.0!!! - June 29, 2000
5329 -----------------------------------------
5331 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.0 BETA out the door!
5336 - Bugs Found Score: Women:28 Men:13
5337 - Security hole regarding user cookies. The
5338 user cookie contined the site key, this 33%
5339 is part of the information needed to forge
5340 a admin site key. This has been fixed.
5341 - Also fixed a problem in the user cookie where
5342 some of Jason's (the other Jason) info for
5343 his site was coded in there.
5344 - Added the ability to specify your own salt
5345 value for the encryptor.
5346 - Added filters that are admin configurable to
5347 strip out unwanted HTML tags and key words.
5348 These options are configurable in the
5350 - Blocks are now topic aware.
5351 - Change sid to char(20) in the database tables
5352 stories and comments. This was in order to
5353 create compatibilty between stories, comments
5356 - Added a blockorder field to the blocks table. You
5357 can now modify the display order of blocks.
5358 - Fixed a bug in the link generation in stats.php.
5359 - Changed the description field in the links
5360 tables from varchar(255) to text to allow for
5361 longer descriptions.
5362 - Preview now uses article() function. Shows a
5364 - Fixed a bug in comment.php that still may the
5365 user type in a user name email even if if the
5366 anonymous option was chosen. It never actually
5367 saved the info, just asked for it. Now it no
5373 - Correct setting of a user cookie in comment.php,
5374 contrib.php and profile.php. The cookie was not
5375 being set to remember a users infomation if they
5377 - Fixed the CSS layout for the comment bar, this
5378 wasn't working properly under Netscape.
5379 - Fixed an error in the change password function. It
5380 was displaying a error even when the change was
5382 - Made total votes a caculated field in the poll
5383 editor, this is also a easy way to reset the count
5384 in the case of SQL errors.
5385 - Fixed topic sorting bug, topics sort themselves now.
5386 This also involved a change to the config.php file
5387 in which $CONF["topicssort"] was changed to
5389 - Added feature to track which admin moderated a
5390 story and posted it to the site.
5392 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.1.0!!! - June 27, 2000
5393 -----------------------------------------
5395 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.1.0 BETA out the door!
5400 - Added the ability to delete comments. NOTE: I do
5401 not plan on the abilty to edit comments. Just
5402 a personal thing, thats all.
5407 - Created search engine that searched stories,
5409 - Update comments and how they are displayed.
5410 - Created new form for submitting comments.
5411 - Enhansed a bunch of the forms.
5412 - Removed some obsolete stuff, cleaned things up a bit.
5413 - Added some additional error checking to submits. Also
5414 moved all error checking to the server side. I was
5415 testing the use of JavaScript but too many people
5416 like to turn it off! I know I do! :-)
5421 - Squashed 23 bugs with the help of my wife! Now if
5422 only Frank would get his bug reports in!
5423 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5425 - Cleaned PHP procedures out of inc files.
5426 - Updated and tested SQL statements to refelct DB
5428 - DB changes frozen for release and the beta testers
5434 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5436 - Figgin problem with polls deleting themselves seems
5438 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5440 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5442 - Created interface for moderation, editing and posting
5443 of stories by admin. This worked out well!
5448 - Finished up additions to the datebase, need to change
5449 the forms now so the site can use the new fields.
5450 Some of the new feilds are for future use as well.
5451 - Added descriptions to the Links page.
5452 - Fixed the search page so its now formated correctly.
5453 - Finished up the pollbooth functions (edit and delete).
5454 - Optimized some of the HTML in the scripts, further
5460 - Created a new layout format using all external CSS
5461 calls. Let the client do the work!
5462 - Finished moving configuration to config.php
5463 - Weeded out some functions in common.php. Move
5464 functions that are only used by one script to that
5465 script. Combined other similar functions in to one
5466 function. Smaller... Faster... More Stable!
5467 - Only 6 more items on the to do list for 0.1.0.0
5472 - Created admin functions for the pollbooth. Seems the
5473 other authors on the site don't like hand entering SQL!
5474 I don't like them having shell accounts! -grin-
5475 - Update the Header feild in the Stories block to be a
5476 little bigger. This should let wordy authors emblish
5478 - Created a more robust errorlog routine. Now has the
5479 options of output to a log, the screen or both!
5484 - Created a pollbooth for voting. All user functions are
5485 in pollbooth.php. There are no admin functions yet as I
5486 just love hand entering SQL!
5491 - Optimizations made to the SQL connections and calls. Too
5492 much done here to talk about, but part of it was moving
5493 the site configuration to a flat file. These changes
5494 should decrease the usage of the SQL server a great deal.
5495 This took up most of my day.
5496 - Variable usage optimizations. Made many, many chnages in
5497 the way variables were being used. This should result in
5498 cleaner, faster code that _may_ use a little less memory?
5499 Hey, if I can save 2k per hit, thats a big deal! :-)
5500 - Updated all code and tested to ensure php4 compatibility.
5501 So from now on only php4 will be run on the Geeks web
5502 servers. So I changed all the extentions and links from
5503 .php3 to .php to mark this moment.
5504 - Restructured the directory layout so I can implement some
5505 new security settings on the files. Hmmm, I bet you
5506 wondering "what is this mad-man thinking?"
5511 - Initial announcement, running this new code on the Geeks
5513 - Special thanks to Jason Hines and phpWebLog! His work
5514 inspired much of my efforts! Unfortunatly phpWebLog is
5515 taking a different direction that the Geeks sites needed.
5516 However, all the code I am writing here will be published
5517 in the hopes that Jason and others may find these functions
5518 useful. If you looking for a weblog software that is cool,
5519 configurable and supported by someone I would recommend you
5520 check out http://phpweblog.org and party on dudes!