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author Dirk Haun <dirk@haun-online.de>
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     1 Geeklog History/Changes:
     2 
     3 Nov 1, 2009 (1.6.1b1)
     4 -----------
     5 
     6 - Fixed an old bug that could cause SQL errors when a user changed their "Show
     7   & hide boxes" settings [Dirk]
     8 - Searching by author threw an error on PHP 4 (bug #0001008) [Dirk]
     9 - Moved the functionality of the toinnodb.php script into the Database Backups
    10   admin panel [Dirk]
    11 - Added an option to optimze tables to the Database Backups admin panel [Dirk]
    12 - Added a notice about the expiry time for the security token (and the potential
    13   loss of changes) to most editors. This is meant as an intermediate step
    14   until we get around to updating the editors and provide a more user friendly
    15   solution. [Dirk]
    16 - Fixed display of text excerpt for search results on PHP 4 (bug #0001004)
    17   [Dirk]
    18 - The comment speed limit was being ignored (bug #0001003) [Dirk]
    19 - Added an icon to make the plugin update option somewhat more obvious [Dirk]
    20   (icon "stock_update-data.png" taken from Gnome 2.18 icon theme set by
    21   AMAZIGH Aneglus, released under the GPL)
    22 - Allow bigger values for a topic's Sort Order field (feature request #0001011)
    23   [Dirk]
    24 - When a Story Admin did not have permission to edit a story, Geeklog threw a
    25   "call to a member function on a non-object" error when trying to display a
    26   proper "access denied" message (reported by Chase and Cesar) [Dirk]
    27 - Allow external apps to contribute to search results (feature request #0000985)
    28   [Sami]
    29 - Remember current sort/limit in search results (bug #0001007) [Sami]
    30 - Don't display the comment form for a story when comments aren't enabled for it
    31   (bug #0000994) [Dirk]
    32 - Fixed a long-standing quirk of the submission handling where the "Submissions"
    33   entry in the Admins Block wasn't updated after accepting / rejecting a
    34   submission [Dirk]
    35 - Fixed creation of multiple plugin groups in plugin autoinstall [Randy, Dirk]
    36 - Added new option $_CONF['article_comment_close_enabled'] to enable/disable
    37   automatically closing stories for comments after a certain amount of days
    38   (bug #0000959). Changed handling of comment_expire field in gl_stories such
    39   that 0 means the story is always open for comments [Dirk]
    40 - The "Admin Group" checkbox in the Group Editor didn't work (bug #0000995,
    41   reported & fix provided by Tsuchi)
    42 - Setting $_CONF['article_comment_close_days'] to a high value (to work around
    43   bugs with the "Disable Comments" option in 1.6.0) may result in values outside
    44   of the range of the year dropdown for that option, in which case it reverted
    45   to the previous(!) year and caused comments to be closed immediately [Dirk]
    46 - When viewing your own profile page, you now get an "edit" link that take you
    47   to "My Account" [Dirk]
    48 - Additional checks in "Mail Story to a Friend", "Send mail to user", and
    49   "Mail Users" dialogs to make sure users don't enter email addresses into the
    50   name fields (bug #0000992) [Dirk]
    51 - Added an option to send a copy to self to the "Mail Story to a Friend" dialog
    52   and made the look of this and the "Send mail to user" dialogs more consistent
    53   [Dirk]
    54 - Display the number of stories in the current topic in the Topic Editor
    55   (feature request #0000806) [Dirk]
    56 - Call CUSTOM_userCheck from admin/user.php (bug #0000925) [Dirk]
    57 - You can now have one featured story per topic (feature request #0000750,
    58   patch provided by Tom Homer)
    59 - Changing the Post Mode in Advanced Editor mode selected the wrong tab
    60   (bug #0000980, patch provided by dengen)
    61 - Made the former $cc parameter for COM_mail an optional array of additional
    62   email headers (using a string for that parameter still works as CC:) [Dirk]
    63 - Fixed reply notification for the very first comment (bug #0000973)
    64   [dengen, Dirk]
    65 - When an anonymous commenter left a name, use it in the comment notification
    66   email (bug #0000960) [Dirk]
    67 - Removed the CSRF token from all links to edit a comment. We only need it in
    68   the actual comment editor and it caused problems on the moderation page [Dirk]
    69 - For anonymous comments, use the anonymous user's name from the database, not
    70   from the language file (cf. bug #0000960) [Dirk]
    71 - The session and password cookies are now created with the HttpOnly flag set
    72   to make it somewhat harder to read them from JavaScript (requires browser
    73   support) [Dirk]
    74 - Fixed visibility of the "Send Ping" links in the Story Admin's list of stories
    75   and the Story Options block [Dirk]
    76 - The install script was switching back to English in some upgrade scenarios
    77   (bug #0000969, patch provided by taca)
    78 - Added a workaround to not lose the XMLSitemap priorities for Locales where
    79   the comma is used as the decimal separator [Dirk]
    80 - Keep track of actual upper/lowercase spelling of plugin names in the
    81   XMLSitemap plugin [mystral-kk, Dirk]
    82 - Added support for a CUSTOM_renderMenu function when rendering the top menu
    83   (feature request #0000845) [Dirk]
    84 - In the install script, always open db-config.php and siteconfig.php in
    85   binary mode to avoid EOL character mixup on Windows (bug #0000730) [Dirk]
    86 - Avoid SQL error with certain db dumps during migration (bug #0000955) [Dirk]
    87 - Plugin migration was only called when the plugin also needed an upgrade
    88   (bug #0000947) [Dirk]
    89 - The Migrate option in the install script now also works on an existing
    90   database (feature request #0000945) [Dirk]
    91 - Comment notifications used the phrase "Read the full article" when pointing
    92   to the new comment post (bug #0000940) [Dirk]
    93 - Send correct content type and character set header in the install script
    94   (bug #0000964, patch provided by taca)
    95 - The "Remember Me For" option under My Account did not recognize the "(don't)"
    96   option any more (bug #0000961) [Dirk]
    97 - Send a notification when a comment goes into the submission queue [Dirk]
    98 - Added a link back to the story to the "Mail Story to a Friend" form [Dirk]
    99 - Only list [code], [raw] tags when story.* permissions are required [Dirk]
   100 - [page_break] was not listed when all HTML was allowed for Root users [Dirk]
   101 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
   102 - When an error occurs in bigdump.php (during migration) keep the selected
   103   language when sending the user back to migrate.php (bug #0000943) [Dirk]
   104 - Use COM_getUserDateTimeFormat, i.e. the user's preferred format, for
   105   displaying the date and time in search results [Dirk]
   106 - When disabling a feed, delete the feed file [Dirk]
   107 - Moved leftover hard-coded text from admin/sectest.php to the language files
   108   [Dirk]
   109 - When creating Pingback excerpts, convert the other site's content to our
   110   site's character set, when necessary [Dirk]
   111 - New function COM_getTextContent converts HTML into continuous text. Used for
   112   a more accurate "read more" count for articles and to improve the text
   113   excerpts for search results and pingbacks [Dirk]
   114 - Use COM_numberFormat to format the number of registered and anonymous users
   115   displayed in the Who's Online block [Dirk]
   116 - Use $LANG_ADMIN['na'] instead of hard-coding 'N/A' in several places [Dirk]
   117 - For Remote Users, display their service name in the User Editor [Dirk]
   118 
   119 Calendar Plugin 1.1.1
   120 ---------------
   121 - Keep track of the user id for submitted events (bug #0000993) [Dirk]
   122 - Reintroduced {event_begin_anchortag} and {event_end_anchortag} variables
   123   in event.php [Dirk]
   124 - The number of hits for an event was reset when editing the event [Dirk]
   125 - When cloning an event, the number of hits for the clone should be 0 [Dirk]
   126 - Avoid triggering a false spam report when submitting an event with the default
   127   "http://" entry for the link still in place (bug #0000946) [Dirk]
   128 
   129 Links Plugin
   130 ------------
   131 - Display the number of links in the current category in the Category Editor.
   132   Note: Does not (yet) count links in sub-categories [Dirk]
   133 - Link titles in autotags showed up with backslashes before quotes (bug
   134   #0000986) [Dirk]
   135 
   136 Polls Plugin
   137 ------------
   138 - Fixed display of the Polls block when it only contained polls not visible
   139   for anonymous visitors (bug #0000996) [Dirk]
   140 - When upgrading from Geeklog 1.5.2, the length of the poll IDs was not extended
   141   to 40 characters - only fresh installs of Geeklog 1.6.0 and upgrades from
   142   older versions worked correctly (cf. feature request #0000754) [Dirk]
   143 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
   144 - Introduced [poll:], [poll_vote:], and [poll_result:] autotags, allowing to
   145   embed polls where autotags are allowed, provided by Tom Homer
   146 
   147 Static Pages Plugin 1.6.1
   148 -------------------
   149 - Certain types or all Static Pages can now be excluded from the search results
   150   (feature request #0000979, provided by Tom Homer)
   151 - New and updated Static Pages are now listed in the What's New block
   152   (feature request #0000908, provided by Tom Homer)
   153 - Fresh installs of the plugin in Geeklog 1.6.0 accidentally used a wrong name
   154   for the plugin's admin group. Silently fix that during the upgrade [Dirk]
   155 - Made the list of pages sortable by author (feature request #0000978) [Dirk]
   156 - List available autotags in the static pages editor [Dirk]
   157 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
   158 
   159 
   160 Aug 30, 2009 (1.6.0sr2)
   161 ------------
   162 
   163 This release addresses the following security issue:
   164 - Unauthorized file uploads were possible through FCKeditor.
   165   Uploaded files still had to go through FCKeditor's filter, so it was not
   166   possible to upload scripts (and the integrity of the Geeklog site as such was
   167   not in danger). There were, however, reports that this was used to host
   168   malware.
   169   This update prevents use of the upload feature when FCKeditor is disabled and
   170   disables it for anonymous users. It also doesn't allow uploading of archive
   171   files any more. Furthermore, you need some sort of "edit" permission now to
   172   be able to upload files through FCKeditor (this is meant as an interim
   173   measure - we will probably introduce a separate "upload" permission in future
   174   Geeklog versions).
   175 
   176 Not security-related:
   177 - Fixed installation using InnoDB tables [Dirk]
   178 - Links plugin: Fixed wrong function name in the autoinstall.php file
   179   (bug #0000954)
   180 - Fixed an SQL error (due to a missing global declaration; not exploitable) when
   181   the commentcode field was auto-updated (reported by Jokke_K) [Dirk]
   182 
   183 This release also includes updated Hebrew (provided by LWC) and German language
   184 files.
   185 
   186 
   187 Jul 30, 2009 (1.6.0sr1)
   188 ------------
   189 
   190 This release addresses the following security issues:
   191 - Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to
   192   email a story to a friend.
   193 - The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that
   194   it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to
   195   view it on the site.
   196 
   197 Not security-related:
   198 - Fixed an SQL error (due to a non-initialized variable; not exploitable) when
   199   the story submission queue was off (reported by Dieter Thomas) [Dirk]
   200 - Fixed calls to a nonexistent function COM_outputMessageAndAbort (should have
   201   been COM_displayMessageAndAbort) [Dirk]
   202 
   203 
   204 Jul 19, 2009 (1.6.0)
   205 ------------
   206 
   207 Geeklog 1.6.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
   208 the 2008 Google Summer of Code:
   209 
   210 + Site migration support and easier plugin installation, by Matt West
   211 + Improved search, by Sami Barakat
   212 + Comment moderation and editable comments, by Jared Wenerd
   213 
   214 Changes since 1.6.0rc2:
   215 - Updated language file for formal German, provided by Markus Wollschläger
   216 - Updated Japanese language file and documentation, provided by the
   217   Geeklog.jp group
   218 
   219 
   220 Jul 12, 2009 (1.6.0rc2)
   221 ------------
   222 
   223 Changes since 1.6.0rc1:
   224 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.4.1 [Dirk]
   225 - Fixed advanced search not using start and end dates (bug #0000924, patch
   226   provided by dengen)
   227 - Fixed auto-detection of table prefix during migration when the SQL dump
   228   contained CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS requests (bug #0000922) [Dirk]
   229 - When an error occurs in bigdump.php (during migration) send the user back to
   230   migrate.php (bug #0000919) [Dirk]
   231 - Fixed warning in migration script when no backups are available (bug #0000918,
   232   patch provided by hiroron)
   233 
   234 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
   235 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
   236 - Updated Japanese language files and documentation, provided by the
   237   Geeklog.jp group
   238 
   239 
   240 Jun 28, 2009 (1.6.0rc1)
   241 ------------
   242 
   243 Changes since 1.6.0b3:
   244 - Fixed include path for db-config.php in bigdump.php (bug #0000915) [Dirk]
   245 - Improved detection of UTF-8 database dumps in migration (bug #0000916) [Dirk]
   246 - Fixed typos in the install script (bugs #0000913 and #0000914) [Dirk]
   247 
   248 
   249 Jun 21, 2009 (1.6.0b3)
   250 ------------
   251 
   252 Changes since 1.6.0b2:
   253 - Fixed IE6 and Safari compatibility issue with sort and limit combo boxes in
   254   search results (part of bug #0000874) [Sami]
   255 - Fixed HTML in the Configuration (bug #0000907) [Dirk]
   256 - Added a more prominent reminder to remove the install script [Dirk]
   257 - Made the link to a comment's parent object from the comment bar work properly
   258   for plugins [Dirk]
   259 - Allow searching by topic (without a query string) again (reported by Markus
   260   Wollschläger) [Dirk]
   261 - Fixed handling of $_CONF['comment_close_rec_stories'] (bug #0000899) [Dirk]
   262 - Improved selection of text portion displayed in search results [Dirk]
   263 - Fixed an error that occured after deleting a trackback [Dirk]
   264 - Replace autotags in search results (bug #0000887) [Dirk]
   265 - Don't insist on an email address when editing a Remote User (bug #0000885)
   266   [Dirk]
   267 - Added a config option to send an X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP header to prevent
   268   "clickjacking" (requires browser support) [Dirk]
   269 - Prevent XSS in the install script (reported independently by Nemesis and MaXe)
   270   [Dirk]
   271 - Removed old plugin API function plugin_commentsupport from the Calendar,
   272   Polls, and Static Pages plugins [Dirk]
   273 
   274 - Updated Japanese language files and Japanese documentation,
   275   provided by the Geeklog.jp group
   276 
   277 Calendar plugin
   278 ---------------
   279 - Fixed leap year check [Sean Clark]
   280 
   281 Polls plugin
   282 ------------
   283 - Implemented PLG_getCommentUrlId [Dirk]
   284 - Update polls comments when changing a poll's ID so the comments don't become
   285   orphaned (part of bug #0000901) [Dirk]
   286 
   287 Static Pages plugin
   288 -------------------
   289 - Another attempt to fix a compatibility issue with PHP 4 (parse error)
   290   [Ben, Dirk]
   291 - Implemented PLG_getCommentUrlId [Dirk]
   292 - Update static pages comments when changing a page's ID so the comments don't
   293   become orphaned (part of bug #0000901) [Dirk]
   294 - When deleting a static page, also delete its comments (bug #0000901) [Dirk]
   295 
   296 XMLSitemap plugin
   297 -----------------
   298 - Add the Polls plugin to the sitemap by default (part of bug #0000898) [Dirk]
   299 - When manually adding or removing plugins, automatically add/remove
   300   corresponding entries for priority and frequency (part of bug #0000898) [Dirk]
   301 
   302 
   303 May 31, 2009 (1.6.0b2)
   304 ------------
   305 
   306 Changes since 1.6.0b1:
   307 - Various fixes to the new search (work in progress) [Sami]
   308 - The list of Comment Submissions now tries to provide a link to a comment's
   309   parent object (article, poll, ...). If not available, it displays an excerpt
   310   from the comment [Dirk]
   311 - Plugin comments lost their type when being saved in the comment submission
   312   queue (they were treated as comments on stories) [Dirk]
   313 - SQL errors now trigger the standard error handler ("Unfortunately, an error
   314   has occurred ..."). Details are available in error.log, as usual [Tony, Dirk]
   315 - Removed the $_CONF['search_no_data'] config option and moved the text to the
   316   language files (bug #0000873) [Dirk]
   317 - All bundled plugins now include a check to see if they support the DBMS the
   318   site is running on [Dirk]
   319 - A fresh install didn't check if the bundled plugins are compatible with the
   320   Geeklog version about to be installed [Dirk]
   321 - Users couldn't change their password or delete their account (reported by
   322   Tom Homer) [Dirk]
   323 - Fixed plugin postinstall from the install script [Dirk]
   324 - Made COM_createImage recognize https:// URLs (bug #0000881) [Dirk]
   325 - Fixed notices in the config class (reported by tgc and others) [Dirk]
   326 - Fixed empty entries in the "Type" dropdown on the Advanced Search page.
   327   Requires an updated search/searchform.thtml template (part of bug #0000874)
   328 - Ensure PLG_templateSetVars (and therefore CUSTOM_templateSetVars) is called
   329   properly when the "Skip Preview" option is disabled (bug #0000880) [Dirk]
   330 - Fixed handling of multi-byte encoded texts when limiting the content of feed
   331   entries to a certain amount of characters (reported by alank) [Dirk]
   332 - Added a verbose logging option to the search class and make it default to off
   333   [Dirk]
   334 - lib-custom.php was missing from the 1.6.0b1 tarball
   335 
   336 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Juan Pablo Novillo
   337 
   338 Polls plugin
   339 ------------
   340 - Display a message when a plugin comment is queued [Dirk]
   341 - If you knew a poll's ID, you could find out the poll's title even if you did
   342   not have access to the poll [Dirk]
   343 - Fixed (mostly) blank page when calling up a non-existing poll ID (reported
   344   by scarecrow) [Dirk]
   345 
   346 Static Pages plugin
   347 -------------------
   348 - Display a message when a plugin comment is queued [Dirk]
   349 - Fixed handling of "entire page" centerblocks in a multi-language environment:
   350   Need to allow one per language (reported by Norbert Ortmann) [Dirk]
   351 - Fixed a typo that prevented the [staticpage:] autotag from working [Dirk]
   352 
   353 XMLSitemap plugin
   354 -----------------
   355 - Added an option to exclude plugins from inclusion in the sitemap. Defaults
   356   to the Links plugin [Dirk]
   357 - Remove sitemap files when uninstalling the plugin [Dirk]
   358 - Don't include Links in the sitemap.xml automatically [Dirk]
   359 - Fixed "missing argument 2" error when changing config options (reported by
   360   Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
   361 
   362 
   363 May 1, 2009 (1.6.0b1)
   364 -----------
   365 
   366 - New XMLSitemap plugin that creates a XML sitemaps file as supported by all
   367   major search engines, provided by mystral-kk
   368 - Don't allow to add/remove users to/from the All Users and Logged-in Users
   369   groups via the group editor (bugs #0000863 and #0000864) [Dirk]
   370 - Cosmetic changes to the form to add/remove users to/from groups, for
   371   consistency with the other admin panels [Dirk]
   372 - Document where CUSTOM_templateSetVars is actually called from (bug #0000862)
   373   [Dirk]
   374 - Added option to search by titles only (feature request #0000840) [Sami]
   375 - The "Plugins" entry in the Admins Block now displays the number of enabled
   376   plugins (previously included the disabled plugins) [Dirk]
   377 - Added a config option to enable/disable automatically turning URLs in text
   378   postings into clickable URLs [Dirk]
   379 - Changed some default settings [Dirk]:
   380   * Webservices are now disabled
   381   * Cronjob emulation is off
   382   * Default sort for topics is alphabetically
   383   * Default comment mode is nested
   384   These settings are _not_ changed when upgrading from an earlier version.
   385 - Experimental: Compress HTML output before sending it to the browser (disabled
   386   by default; has to be supported by both the browser and the webserver) [Dirk]
   387 - Added canonical link for article directory [Dirk]
   388 - Moved hard-coded texts from admin/sectest.php to the language files (bug
   389   #0000716) [Dirk]
   390 - Added an option to send a copy of the email to a user to self (feature request
   391   #0000771, based on a patch by Roshan Singh)
   392 - COM_checkList would use the table name for the name of the checkbox array in
   393   the HTML(!). Added a new parameter for the name (pointed out by Bookoo in
   394   the exploit for usersettings.php, cf. Geeklog 1.5.2sr4) [Dirk]
   395 - Fixed wrong use of COM_allowedHTML and COM_checkHTML in plugins: Functions
   396   were called without specific permissions, so they defaulted to 'story.edit'.
   397   I.e. as a Story Admin, you could use the admin_html set in events, but as a
   398   Calendar admin, you could not ... (bug #0000785) [Dirk]
   399 - Added missing finish() calls for some templates, e.g. header.thtml
   400   (bug #0000855) [Dirk]
   401 - Moved documentation to docs/english so that it can be translated
   402   (feature request #0000770) [Dirk]
   403 - New plugin API function PLG_pluginStateChange [Dirk]
   404 - Fixed dropdown for the "censor mode", which has more than the two options
   405   offered previously (bug #0000692) [Mike, Maciej Cupial]
   406 - Slightly faster template class (feature request #0000760, patches provided
   407   by dengen and mystral-kk)
   408 - Use a more efficient implementation of Story::hasContent (bug #0000858, patch
   409   provided by Maciej Cupial)
   410 - Make sure formerly optional config items can be disabled (bug #0000846) [Dirk]
   411 - New plugin API function PLG_getDocumentationUrl (feature request #0000848)
   412   [Dirk]
   413 - Fresh installs + MySQL only: Changed some tinyint fields that are only used
   414   as flags to tinyint(1) from tinyint(3) (bug #0000857)
   415 - Fixed one of the predefined date format strings (bug #0000854)
   416 - Replace Wiki-style formatting in the Daily Digest and when emailing a story
   417   to a friend (bug #0000837, patch provided by Pawel Szczur)
   418 - New plugin API function PLG_configChange (feature request #0000694) [Dirk]
   419 - Fixed layout of Batch Add and Batch Admin options of the User Manager [Dirk]
   420 - On a login failure, the user registration form showed up even when new user
   421   registration was disabled (bug #0000843)
   422 - The Wiki-style format broke national special characters, e.g. Japanese and
   423   German umlauts (bug #0000823) [Dirk]
   424 - Introduced new plugin API function PLG_migrate [Dirk]
   425 - Allow switching the DOCTYPE from the Configuration. Requires a theme that
   426   uses {doctype} instead of a hard-coded DOCTYPE declaration (feature request
   427   #0000745) [Dirk]
   428 - The notification email about new user submissions didn't include information
   429   about the remote service used (if any) [Dirk]
   430 - Define {xmlns} when using XHTML for XHTML compliance. Updated header.thtml
   431   and article/printable.thtml template files to include that variable [Dirk]
   432 - Fixed wrong use of '&amp;' when sending a trackback (bug #0000825)
   433 - Removed incomplete PDF generator (never enabled in any shipped version) [Dirk]
   434 - Fixed a problem with words being merged together in newsfeeds when the article
   435   was written with CR as the line separator [Dirk]
   436 - Made url rewriting work on setups that only set $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']
   437   (bug #0000816)
   438 - Fixed duplicate plugin entries when a plugin has more than one entry for the
   439   admin or user menu (bug #0000820)
   440 - {contributedby_user} and {contributedby_fullname} weren't set in the story
   441   templates (bug #0000821) [Dirk]
   442 - Reinstated old definitions of the {start_contributedby_anchortag},
   443   {end_contributedby_anchortag}, and {contributedby_author} variables, i.e. the
   444   two anchortag variables are set again and _author contains the name only (bug
   445   #0000821) [Dirk]
   446 - Auto-deleting a story didn't delete trackbacks for that story [Dirk]
   447 - Ensure consistent template variable names for the Permission Editor [Dirk]
   448 - Added new permission 'group.assign', now required to be able to assign a user
   449   to a group. Part of the Group Admin (not User Admin) permissions by default
   450   (feature request #0000190) [Dirk]
   451 - Raised minimum required PHP version to PHP 4.3.0 and removed all workarounds
   452   that ensured compatibility with PHP 4.1.0 [Dirk]
   453 - Added a filename mask config option for the names of the database backups
   454   [Dirk]
   455 - Removed $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack. Use COM_siteHeader('menu', $pagetitle)
   456   instead [Dirk]
   457 - Added canonical link for articles [Dirk]
   458 - Moved hard-coded "Reminders" column title to the language file (bug #0000817)
   459 - Hide archive option radiobutton from the story editor when no archive topic
   460   is defined (feature request #0000807) [Dirk]
   461 - Display group names with an uppercase first letter everywhere [Dirk]
   462 - Added an ISO 8601-ish format to the gl_dateformats table [Dirk]
   463 - Let users with user.mail permissions only email groups that they are in
   464   themselves [Dirk]
   465 - Gave the Groups and User editors a facelift. Requires a new template file,
   466   admin/lists/inline.thtml [Dirk]
   467 - Introduced list of "advanced HTML" tags that are allowed when FCKeditor is
   468   enabled. Needed for images (bug #0000757) [Blaine]
   469 - Add new permissions plugin.install and plugin.upload for more fine-grained
   470   control to the plugin admin panel (bug #0000637) [Dirk]
   471 - Introduced new plugin API function PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
   472 - Changed API for PLG_itemSaved to make it simpler and easier to use [Dirk]
   473 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.4 [Blaine]
   474 - Usersettings.php - can not change password when custom membership is enabled.
   475   Modified CUSTOM_userCheck to return both a error message string and Error
   476   code. Updated users.php and usersettings,php  (bug #0000776) [Blaine]
   477 - Implemented extended API for PLG_getItemInfo [mystral-kk, Dirk]
   478 - Fixed inconsistencies and various small mistakes when displaying "Access
   479   denied" messages on the admin pages [Dirk]
   480 - Added a print.css stylesheet to be used by the printable template files
   481   (feature request #0000766) [Dirk]
   482 - Re-introduced the path hints in the install script when it can't find
   483   db-config.php [Dirk]
   484 - Added a note about the max. dimensions of a userphoto in the About You pane
   485   of a user's My Account page (feature request #0000629) [Dirk]
   486 - Display a message when no topics exist and don't let the user enter the story
   487   editors (bug #0000738) [Dirk]
   488 - Added a configuration option to control the JPEG quality (Feature request
   489   #0000720) [Dirk]
   490 
   491 - Updated Hebrew language file for the install script, provided by LWC
   492 - New Serbian (Latin) language files, provided by Aleksandar Scepanovic
   493 
   494 Calendar plugin
   495 ---------------
   496 - Added migration support [Dirk]
   497 - Removed extra double quote from upcoming events block (bug #0000827)
   498 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
   499 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
   500 
   501 Links plugin
   502 ------------
   503 - Added migration support [Dirk]
   504 - Added category default permissions [Dirk]
   505 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
   506 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
   507 - Introduced function LINKS_getCategorySQL and fixed visibility of link
   508   categories in the Top 10 Links list and site statistics [Dirk]
   509 - Added an option to allow opening external links in a new window (feature
   510   request #0000693). Use with care, please [Dirk]
   511 - Only external links are marked with class="ext-link" [Dirk]
   512 
   513 Polls plugin
   514 ------------
   515 - Added migration support [Dirk]
   516 - Set the page title when viewing a poll [Dirk]
   517 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
   518 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
   519 - Extended length of poll IDs to 40 characters (feature request #0000754) [Dirk]
   520 
   521 Spam-X
   522 ------
   523 - Added migration support [Dirk]
   524 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
   525 
   526 Static Pages plugin
   527 -------------------
   528 - Added migration support [Dirk]
   529 - The printable.thtml template file now uses the {xmlns} variable [Dirk]
   530 - Added canonical link [Dirk]
   531 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
   532 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
   533 - The printable.thtml template file uses the HTML Strict doctype and print.css
   534   now [Dirk]
   535 - Display "successfully saved" and "successfully deleted" messages, just like
   536   every other plugin and built-in function does (bug #0000644) [Dirk]
   537 
   538 
   539 Jul 30, 2009 (1.5.2sr5)
   540 ------------
   541 
   542 This release addresses the following security issues:
   543 - Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to
   544   email a story to a friend.
   545 - The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that
   546   it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to
   547   view it on the site.
   548 
   549 
   550 Apr 18, 2009 (1.5.2sr4)
   551 ------------
   552 
   553 This release addresses the following security issue:
   554 
   555 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted another SQL injection exploit,
   556 targetting an old bug in usersettings.php. As with the previous issues, this
   557 allowed an attacker to extract the password hash for any account and is fixed
   558 with this release.
   559 
   560 
   561 Apr 13, 2009 (1.5.2sr3)
   562 ------------
   563 
   564 This release addresses the following security issue:
   565 
   566 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted another SQL injection exploit, this
   567 time targetting the webservices API. As with the previous issue, this allowed
   568 an attacker to extract the password hash for any account and is fixed with this
   569 release.
   570 
   571 Not security-related:
   572 - Re-introduced function get_SPX_Ver in the install script, which is still
   573   needed when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by Sheila) [Dirk]
   574 
   575  
   576 Apr 4, 2009 (1.5.2sr2)
   577 -----------
   578 
   579 This release addresses the following security issue:
   580 
   581 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted an SQL injection exploit for glFusion
   582 that also works with Geeklog. This issue allowed an attacker to extract the
   583 password hash for any account and is fixed with this release.
   584 
   585 
   586 Mar 30, 2009 (1.5.2sr1)
   587 ------------
   588 
   589 This release addresses the following security issue:
   590 
   591 Fernando Munoz reported a possible XSS in the query form on most admin panels
   592 that we are fixing with this release (bug #0000841).
   593 
   594 
   595 Feb 8, 2009 (1.5.2)
   596 -----------
   597 
   598 - The default replacement text for censored text was supposed to read
   599   "censored", not "censormode" [Dirk]
   600 - Fixed problem with extra backslashes appearing in a story's title during the
   601   story preview when magic_quotes_gpc = On (bug #0000790) [Mike, Dirk]
   602 - Added missing page title when viewing a single comment [Dirk]
   603 - Sort groups in the group dropdowns non-case sensitive [Dirk]
   604 - Display a message when sending the email to report an abusive comment failed
   605   [Dirk]
   606 - Display a message when sending the email for a new password failed [Dirk]
   607 
   608 - Updated Estonian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Artur Räpp
   609 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
   610 
   611 Static Pages plugin
   612 -------------------
   613 - Fixed parse error when saving a static page (reported by greenteagod). This
   614   problem was only introduced in 1.5.2rc1 [Dirk]
   615 
   616 
   617 Jan 24, 2009 (1.5.2rc1)
   618 ------------
   619 
   620 - Fixed various issues with COM_makeClickableLinks (bug #0000767, #0000793,
   621   #0000796) [Sami]
   622 - The comment submission form didn't show the user's full name when
   623   $_CONF['show_fullname'] was enabled [Dirk]
   624 - Comments were always showing the username, even when $_CONF['show_fullname']
   625   was enabled (reported and patch provided by mystral-kk, bug #0000800)
   626 - Fixed story preview losing the story when the sid already existed (bug
   627   #0000789) [Dirk]
   628 - Fixed wrong use of str_replace in STORY_extractLinks (bug #0000794) [Dirk]
   629 - Added "Send Pings" to the Story Options block (if enabled and allowed for the
   630   current user) [Dirk]
   631 - Don't let the user enable plugins when there's no functions.inc for the
   632   plugin [Dirk]
   633 - When the install script can't find db-config.php, that message was always
   634   displayed in English, i.e. you could not change the language for that screen
   635   [Dirk]
   636 - When upgrading from a Geeklog version prior to 1.5.0, the plugin config.php
   637   files are no longer renamed [Dirk]
   638 - Admin lists allowed non-sortable columns to be sortable (reported and patch
   639   provided by hiroron, bug #0000791)
   640 - Fixed STORY_getItemInfo - need to check the draft flag and for a publish date
   641   in the future [mystral-kk, Dirk]
   642 - Fixed wrong use of COM_isAnonUser in COM_getPermSQL (since 1.5.0) [Dirk]
   643 - When calling COM_getYearFormOptions with a $startoffset parameter, the list
   644   of years was off by one (bug #0000783; patch provided by hiroron)
   645 - Fixed updating feeds after changing topic permissions (bug #0000779) [Dirk]
   646 - The security token was missing from the trackback editor template file
   647   (reported and patch provided by hiroron, bug #0000778)
   648 - Removed rel="tag" from topic links in lib-story.php as that would indicate a
   649   Microformat with a slightly different meaning [Dirk]
   650 - Don't include X-Originating-IP header in emails sent from the site's admin
   651   area (bug #0000701) [Dirk]
   652 - Check if COM_errorLog exists before using it in the config class (for possible
   653   problems during installation, bug #0000768) [Dirk]
   654 - Fixed filling out the Site Email / No-Reply Email fields in the install
   655   script, which was overwriting the correct values from config.php during
   656   upgrades (bug #0000759) [Dirk]
   657 - Set language direction in templates for printable versions of articles and
   658   static pages. Also set $LANG_DIRECTION to 'ltr' now if the language file does
   659   not already define it (bug #0000762) [Dirk]
   660 - Removing an element from the middle of the censorlist caused the censoring
   661   to act up (bug #0000763) [Dirk]
   662 - Saving a story tried to update a feed of type 'geeklog' instead of 'article'
   663   (reported by Tom Homer)
   664 - Delete a feed's file when deleting a feed (bug #0000758) [Dirk]
   665 - When using gdlib, use imagecopyresampled instead or imagecopyresized to scale
   666   images. This should result in better image quality (part of Feature request
   667   #0000720) [Dirk]
   668 - The {start_storylink_anchortag} variable in the story templates was missing
   669   a '>' (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
   670 - Display a "Service" column in the Admin's list of users when remote auth is
   671   activated [Dirk]
   672 - Introduced new function COM_showMessageText to display a free-form text in a
   673   "System Message" box (feature request #0000676) [Dirk]
   674 - Introduced new function COM_showMessageFromParameter for easy and consistent
   675   display of messages passed in the URL, including plugin messages (second
   676   attempt to fix bug #0000618) [Dirk]
   677 - Display confirmation message when emailing a story (feature request #0000689)
   678   [Dirk]
   679 - Implemented new function COM_renderWikiText to convert wiki-formatted text
   680   to (X)HTML (feature request #0000643) [Dirk]
   681 - Added support for CUSTOM_formatEmailAddress and CUSTOM_emailEscape functions
   682   (feature request #0000727) [Dirk]
   683 - Fixed 'cookiedomain' being reported as changed in the Configuration
   684   (bug #0000638) [Dirk]
   685 - Reverted fix for bug #0000618 (COM_showMessage automatically picking up a
   686   'plugin' parameter) as it's causing problems when displaying more than one
   687   message on the same page [Dirk]
   688 - Added missing check for allowed IP addresses in downloader class
   689   (bug #0000709) [Dirk]
   690 - Force a refresh after uninstalling a plugin so that the plugin's entry
   691   disappears from the Admins block [Dirk]
   692 - Fixed an issue with story expiry dates on PHP 4/Windows (reported by zeb)
   693   [Mike]
   694 
   695 - Updated Hebrew language file for the install script and Spam-X plugin,
   696   provided by LWC
   697 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
   698 - Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
   699 - Updated Slovenian language file for the Links plugin, provided by gape
   700 
   701 Calendar plugin
   702 ---------------
   703 - Fix for calendar plugin - unable to add personal event [Blaine]
   704 - Make {event_url} available in eventdetails.thtml [Dirk]
   705 
   706 Links plugin
   707 ------------
   708 - Missing parentheses my have resulted in incorrect search results [Dirk]
   709 - Added urlencoded versions of {link_actual_url} and {link_name} [Dirk]
   710 - Prevent overwriting existing links when changing the link ID [Dirk]
   711 
   712 Polls plugin
   713 ------------
   714 - Lowered the default number of questions per poll to 5 and the number of
   715   answers per question to 8 to avoid running into Suhosin's default
   716   post.max_vars limit (for new installs only) [Dirk]
   717 - Fixed SQL error when poll questions contained single quotes (bug #0000756)
   718   [Dirk]
   719 - Fixed handling of poll IDs in Polls editor (bug #0000753) [Dirk]
   720  
   721 Static Pages plugin
   722 -------------------
   723 - The owner of a static page changed to the user who last edited it
   724   (bug #0000777) [Dirk]
   725 - Fixed call to WS_makeId when sp_id was longer than STATICPAGE_MAX_ID_LENGTH
   726   (found by Marc Maier) [Dirk]
   727  
   728 
   729 
   730 Sep 22, 2008 (1.5.1)
   731 ------------
   732 
   733 - Fixed protection against direct execution in various include files which may
   734   have failed on non-case sensitive file systems (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
   735 - Saving a story as someone other than the owner will revert the story to your
   736   ownership. (bug #0000742) [Mike]
   737 - Fixed searching for non-installed plugins when open_basedir restrictions are
   738   in effect (bug #0000741)
   739 - Fix for first change of password issue (bug #0000724) [Mike]
   740 - Fixed failure to switch language with new query highlighting URLs
   741   (bug #0000733) [Dirk]
   742 - Fixed bug with HTML Encoding of default comment title for articles
   743   (bug #0000737) [Mike]
   744 - Fixed another case where a duplicate of a story submission was left in the
   745   submission queue after approving the story [Mike]
   746 - Fixed problem with the MySQL class not recognizing UTF-8 when the character
   747   set name was written in uppercase (bug #0000731) [Dirk]
   748 
   749 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
   750 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
   751 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
   752 - Updated Slovenian language files, provided by gape
   753 
   754 
   755 Sep 7, 2008 (1.5.1rc1)
   756 -----------
   757 
   758 - Added missing slash in the install script (bug #0000715) [Dirk]
   759 - CSRF token not passed to draft list (bug #0000726) [Ted Powell]
   760 - If root debugging is enabled, hide anything in the array stack that has a key
   761   containing 'cookie' or 'pass'. And added option to override this.
   762   (bug #0000722) [Mike]
   763 - Prevent direct execution of the FCKeditor upload script (reported by t0pP8uZz)  [Dirk]
   764 - Renamed the "Restore" option in the Configuration to "Enable" [Dirk]
   765 - Provided better error handling for database backups (bug #0000714) [Mike]
   766 - Provided auto-detection of -left and -right overrides for any given block
   767   template. This allows any block to auto-style to left and right for themes
   768   without the need for the theme to work it out, or talk to the database.
   769   ("Bug" #0000684) [Mike]
   770 - Fixed handling of corrupted config value db entries, e.g. after importing
   771   Calendar event_types with the wrong character set (bug #0000690) [Dirk]
   772 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in the Configuration (bug #0000710)
   773   [Sami, Dirk]
   774 - Story image upload: Only add a link to the unscaled image if such an image
   775   actually exists [Dirk]
   776 - Removed unused code from lib-story.php [Dirk]
   777 - COM_siteFooter no-longer creates two sets of right blocks. (bug #0000698)
   778   [Mike]
   779 - Microsummaries work in topics, reported by Joe. [Mike]
   780 - Added DB_checkTableExists and changed INST_checkTableExists to use it. [Mike]
   781 - Changed REPLACE INTO for DB_save for MSSQL compat [Mike]
   782 - Re-introduced function get_SP_Ver in the install script, which is still needed
   783   when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by libexec) [Dirk]
   784 - Fixed issue where you can post a comment to an unpublished story (bug
   785   #0000705) [mystral-kk/Mike]
   786 - Fixed make clickable links with quotes (bug #0000691) plus truncated long
   787   urls. [Sami]
   788 - Fixed table prefix issues with constraints (bug #0000702) [Mike/Sami]
   789 - Fixed error when attempting to highlight a search query that contained a
   790   slash [Dirk]
   791 - Updated FCKeditor to v2.6.3 [Blaine]
   792 - Moved remove() (config JavaScript) to gl_cfg_remove (bug #0000681) [Mike]
   793 - Change for CUSTOM_usercreate to support passing in $batchimport, 
   794   set true if called via the Admin->Users Batch_Add [Blaine]
   795 - Fix for date formatting in RSS fields (bug #0000696) [mystral-kk]
   796 - A small tweak to the Professional theme's commentbar to make the "Post a
   797   comment" option easier to find [Dirk]
   798 - Renamed the syndication feed type "geeklog" to "article" since that's what
   799   they are nowadays [Dirk]
   800 - New option "All Frontpage Stories" for article feeds: skip stories that have
   801   the "Show only in topic" option set (feature request #0000652) [Dirk]
   802 - If there is a feed for a topic, there will now be a "Subscribe to ..." option
   803   in the Story Options block for every story for that topic (feature request
   804   #0000154) [Dirk]
   805 - Cop-out fix for bug #0000671: Don't display the icon for external links when
   806   the text direction is 'rtl' (e.g. Hebrew) [Dirk, Mike]
   807 - Keep letter case intact when highlighting a search query string (patch
   808   provided by Sami Barakat)
   809 - Provide nicer URLs to story search results when URL rewriting is enabled
   810   (bug #0000665, based on a patch by Sami Barakat) [Dirk]
   811 - Better support for plugin messages (bug #0000618) [Blaine]
   812 - Introduced new variable {page_title_and_site_name} for header.thtml so that
   813   we can have "Site Name - Site Slogan" in the frontpage's title again [Dirk]
   814 - Fixed SQL error(s) for story submissions by users with story.submit but no
   815   further Story Admin permissions (reported by Orion) [Dirk]
   816 - End a user's session when they are being banned [Dirk]
   817 - Signatures in HTML-formatted comments weren't XHTML compliant [Dirk]
   818 - Minor cleanups in style.css - no actual layout changes (bug #0000683) [Dirk]
   819 - Allow creation of banned users, i.e. ban the user on account creation [Dirk]
   820 - Minor improvements in the error handling, e.g. preventing Geeklog from
   821   creating error.log files outside the logs directory [Dirk]
   822 - Send a HTTP status code 503 "Service Unavailable" when the site is disabled
   823   [Dirk]
   824 - Hide the database password when the database backup failed and we're logging
   825   the mysqldump command [Dirk]
   826 - Disable OpenID login when new registrations are disabled [Dirk]
   827 - Allow to unset Configuration options again after they have been "restored",
   828   i.e. enabled (bug #0000664) [Dirk]
   829 - Adopted hack to allow multilingual blocks (bug #0000626) [Dirk]
   830 - Fixed SQL error in story submissions (reported by Chase) [Mike]
   831 - Stories with a publishing date in the future and stories with the draft flag
   832   set were accessible if you knew their story id (bug #0000678) [Mike]
   833 - Enabled siteconfig.php to override database config in core, primarily for
   834   rootdebug. [bug 0000673] [Mike]
   835 - Allow remote users to use the webservices (bug #0000640). Due to the
   836   authentication method it is not possible for OpenID users to use the
   837   webservices. Other remote users will have to use username@servicename for
   838   their username when logging in through the webservices [Dirk]
   839 - Fix to template.class to better handle full path being passed in [Blaine]
   840 - Updated PLG_uninstall to supress errors for table drop. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
   841 - Fixed INST_checkTableExists for MS SQL Support. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
   842 - Hardcode an ltr div around HTML tags in the allowed html tag list. Plus minor
   843   HTML compliance issues. [bug  0000669] [Mike]
   844 - Plaintext stories have nl2br applied in syndication feeds to provide correct
   845   formatting in feed readers. [bug 0000662] [Mike]
   846 - Changed SEC_createToken so that it will only return one token per page
   847   (effectively making it a singleton). This fixes the problem of not being able
   848   to delete comments when you also have trackbacks for the same article
   849   [Mike, Dirk]
   850 - Approving a story submission by saving it from the Admin's story editor left
   851   a duplicate in the submission queue, unless you changed the story ID at the
   852   same time [Dirk, Mark Evans]
   853 - Fixed user submission queue (reported by greenteagod) [Dirk]
   854 
   855 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
   856 
   857 Calendar plugin
   858 ---------------
   859 - Fixed <brXHTML> tags in the German language files for the Calendar [Dirk]
   860 - Fixed date comparison ("End date is before start date.", bug #0000703) [Dirk]
   861 - Fixed Admin delete links in day and week view (bug #0000680) [Dirk]
   862 - Search for an event's "author" didn't work [Dirk]
   863 - Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
   864   day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums) (really) [Mike]
   865 
   866 Links plugin
   867 ------------
   868 - Fixed passing the category on multi-page link lists [Dirk]
   869 - Fixed new category silently overwriting an existing category if they had the
   870   same id (part 2 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
   871 - Fixed SQL error when trying to change a category id to an already existing id
   872   (part 1 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
   873 
   874 Polls plugin
   875 ------------
   876 - For multi-question polls, make the "Vote" button read "Start Poll" in the
   877   polls block (bug #0000633) [Dirk]
   878 - Fixed display of "Results" link while a poll is open [Dirk]
   879 
   880 Static Pages plugin
   881 -------------------
   882 - Menu entries were not language-aware (in multi-language setups), i.e. all the
   883   menu entries were always displayed (bug #0000713) [Dirk]
   884 - Removed unused 'config_data' entry from the plugin uninstall function
   885   (bug #0000666) [Dirk]
   886 - Fixed printer friendly version of a static page not working when url_rewrite
   887   is enabled (bug #0000661) [Dirk]
   888 
   889 
   890 June 15, 2008 (1.5.0)
   891 -------------
   892 
   893 Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
   894 the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
   895 
   896 + New user-friendly install script by Matt West
   897 + New Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron Blankstein
   898 + New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. Iyer
   899 
   900 Changes since 1.5.0rc2:
   901 - Users that used a different theme than the site default would see the site
   902   switch temporarily back to the site's default theme when changing a config
   903   option. This was a side effect of the fix for bug #0000648 [Dirk]
   904 - In a tradeoff between security and convenience, we decided to go with
   905   security: The install script will no longer display the database credentials
   906   from db-config.php. The downside is that you will have to enter them again
   907   when doing a database upgrade or re-running the install (reported by Mark
   908   Evans) [Dirk]
   909 - Links plugin: The word "Root" wasn't taken from the language file for the page
   910   title of the public list of links (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
   911 - Fixed remaining places where the Admin panels had inconsistent layouts:
   912   Calendar list of events, Polls editor (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
   913 
   914 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
   915 - Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
   916 - Some Korean language files had a mixture of CR/LF and LF as line separators
   917   (bug #0000655) [Dirk]
   918 
   919 
   920 June 8, 2008 (1.5.0rc2)
   921 ------------
   922 
   923 Changes since 1.5.0rc1:
   924 - Hide the | separator for static pages with page format "blank page" (reported
   925   by Tetsuko Komma) [Dirk]
   926 - Hardcoded all URL entry fields in the templates and the date selection in the
   927   calendar plugin to dir="ltr" (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
   928 - Fixed handling of UTF-8 languages in the install script (reported by Tetsuko
   929   Komma) [Dirk]
   930 - Ensure consistent display of the admin lists (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
   931 - Sanitize the language in the install help (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
   932 - Moved the hard-coded CSS for the System Message to the stylesheet [Dirk]
   933 - Added a workaround for the Yulup Atompub client that sometimes sends Text
   934   nodes within XHTML nodes [Dirk]
   935 - Made the Install / Upgrade buttons in the install script a bit wider to
   936   provide more space for the Japanese and German translations [Dirk]
   937 - Fixed bug #0000647: All modifications of usersettings should go through
   938   CUSTOM_usercheck [Blaine]
   939 - Removed hard-coded <ul> tags from the functions for the Admin, User, and
   940   Topics blocks. Added new blockheader-list.thtml, blockfooter-list.thtml
   941   template files for those blocks [Blaine]
   942 - Removed the fake {blockid} for the block templates as it was actually derived
   943   from the block title, resulting in layout changes when you changed the block
   944   title. It also didn't work properly with non-ASCII languages. Updated
   945   style.css and the block templates accordingly [Blaine]
   946 - Fixed setting the site's default language and default theme (bugs #0000646
   947   and #0000648) [Aaron, Dirk]
   948 - The bundled plugins don't need to read their config.php any more. This also
   949   avoids confusion if renaming the old config.php failed during the upgrade
   950   [Dirk]
   951 - Fixed SQL error in the Mail Utility when using the option to override user
   952   settings (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
   953 - Fixed problems with the text direction in the install script (reported by LWC)
   954   [Dirk]
   955 
   956 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
   957 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
   958 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Takahiro Kambe, Tetsuko Komma,
   959   and the Geeklog.jp group
   960   Note: Only the UTF-8 versions of the Japanese language files are supported
   961   from now on. The euc-jp versions have been removed from the distribution.
   962 - Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
   963 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
   964 
   965 
   966 May 25, 2008 (1.5.0rc1)
   967 ------------
   968 
   969 Changes since 1.5.0b2:
   970 - Fixed story date/time when using the timezone hack (bug #0000639) [Dirk]
   971 - Fixed MS SQL upgrade [Mike]
   972 - Added code to beautify the language names in the install script [Dirk]
   973 - Ensure the "After Saving ..." options work as advertised [Dirk]
   974 - Fixed handling of empty form submission and display of error messages in the
   975   batch user import [Dirk]
   976 - Fixed text for the account reminder emails [Dirk]
   977 - Display value in the "Months since registration" column on the Batch User
   978   Admin screen without decimals again (as in 1.4.1) [Dirk]
   979 - Removed unused poll-vote, poll-vote-results classes from the Professional
   980   theme's stylesheet; added empty required-field, missing-field classes for
   981   future use (cf. bug #0000635) [Dirk]
   982 
   983 - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
   984 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
   985 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
   986 
   987 Calendar plugin
   988 ---------------
   989 - Fixed missing ] in the headline of the day and week view [Dirk]
   990 - Fixed the template for the personal event editor (extra <td> tag) [Dirk]
   991 - Bugfix: In some cases, personal events would end up in the submission queue
   992   for site events [Dirk]
   993 - Fixed "Delete old entries" option (delete checkboxes were missing) [Dirk]
   994 
   995 
   996 May 20, 2008 (1.5.0b2)
   997 ------------
   998 
   999 Changes since 1.5.0b1:
  1000 - {story_title} is now available in the article.thtml template file [Dirk]
  1001 - Bugfix: When saving a (new) topic with one or more required fields missing,
  1002   don't go back into the topic editor as that would cause a confusing "access
  1003   denied" message [Dirk]
  1004 - Hard-coded the text direction as "ltr" for some input fields and the date/time
  1005   selection in the story editor (bug #0000150). Also removed "text-align:left"
  1006   for the HTML body from the Professional theme's style sheet as it interferes
  1007   with the ability to switch the text direction (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
  1008 - Removed references to config.php from the documentation, some READMEs, and
  1009   some source files (bug #0000627) [Dirk]
  1010 - Don't include the (internal) 'subgroup' and 'fieldset' entries in the $_CONF
  1011   arrays [Dirk]
  1012 - COM_numberFormat wouldn't handle decimals correctly (bug #0000624) [Dirk]
  1013 - Make sure the XHTML constant is defined if the theme doesn't already define
  1014   it (bug #0000622) [Dirk]
  1015 - Fixed invalid <brXHTML> tags in some language files (bug #0000621) [Dirk]
  1016 - The URL sent in a user registration notification contained an &amp; where it
  1017   should have been a simple & [Dirk]
  1018 
  1019 - Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
  1020 
  1021 Links plugin
  1022 ------------
  1023 - Fixed the "Validate Links" link from the list of categories [Dirk]
  1024 
  1025 Polls plugin
  1026 ------------
  1027 - Bugfix: When saving a (new) poll with one or more required fields missing,
  1028   don't go back into the polls editor as that would cause a confusing "access
  1029   denied" message [Dirk]
  1030 - Renamed 'open' column in the gl_polltopics table to 'is_open' as "open" is
  1031   a reserved keyword in MS SQL server [Matt]
  1032 - Fixed duplicate sort_order value in the Polls config [Dirk]
  1033 - Cosmetic changes in the Polls topic and results (bug #0000625) [Dirk]
  1034 
  1035 Static Pages plugin
  1036 -------------------
  1037 - Moved the print and edit icons to the bottom of a static page in the default
  1038   staticpage.thtml template file. Also removed the icons from the default
  1039   centerblock.thtml template file and defined the {lastupdate} and {hits}
  1040   variables there (bug #0000628) [Dirk]
  1041 - Removed an extra } from the Static Pages staticpage.thtml template file
  1042   (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
  1043 
  1044 
  1045 
  1046 May 5, 2008 (1.5.0b1)
  1047 -----------
  1048 
  1049 - Updated FCKeditor to v2.6 [Blaine]
  1050 - LDAP remote authentication module, provided by Jessica Blank / MTV Networks
  1051 - The {lang_attribute} can only properly be set in a multi-language setup
  1052   (bug #0000616) [Dirk]
  1053 - Removed Blogger remote authentication option. Blogger.com have changed their
  1054   authentication process, so this module no longer works.
  1055 - Emails sent from Geeklog now have an X-Originating-IP header to help track
  1056   spam or abuse [Dirk]
  1057 - The topic editor allowed you to enter topic IDs with more than 20 characters
  1058   (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
  1059 - Ease restriction that email addresses have to be unique: Remote accounts can
  1060   have non-unique addresses, on-site accounts can't [Dirk]
  1061 - Bug: Email user form doesn't display correctly with " in subject when sending
  1062   is failed due to incomplete fields. [Mike]
  1063 - Bugs: Ensure that site_url, site_admin_url, layout_url and xhtml available to
  1064   all templates. [Mike]
  1065 - Support for [raw][/raw] tag in HTML post mode. All the benefits of code and
  1066   pre, with none of the ugly styling. [Mike]
  1067 - Added an Atom self-link to RSS feeds. Sounds odd, but it is recommended by
  1068   <http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MissingAtomSelfLink.html> [Mike]
  1069 - Improved support for podcasts in portal blocks and fixed an error where REALLY
  1070   long syndication feeds could blow portal blocks up. [Mike]
  1071 - Only use the multi-byte string functions when the current character set is
  1072   UTF-8 (reported by Rick78) [Dirk]
  1073 - COM_hit() is now called from COM_siteFooter() instead of doing the UPDATE SQL
  1074   directly (reported by Joe Mucchiello) [Dirk]
  1075 - New function SEC_encryptPassword() to be used when we have to encrypt a
  1076   password. This is only a wrapper for md5() for now but should it make easier
  1077   for us to use some other method in the future [Dirk]
  1078 - Incorporated patches by Joe Mucchiello for places in the code where the
  1079   template library was used incorrectly.
  1080 - By defining the constant XHTML as ' /', themes can now be XHTML compliant
  1081   (patches provided by dengen from geeklog.jp)
  1082 - Added batch admin feature to send out account reminders [Blaine]
  1083 - Hide "Create Account" link in the story submission form when new account
  1084   registration has been disabled (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
  1085 - Updated COM_startBlock to set a unique {blockid} template variable [Blaine]
  1086 - Fixed checking of "Show Admin lists" in Group Admin when going to 2nd page of
  1087   results [Oliver]
  1088 - Created new function for Admin-Menu display and removed that functionality
  1089   from ADMIN_list-functions. [Oliver]
  1090 - Fixed missing N/A display when no plugin version number was available
  1091   (reported by Machinari) [Dirk]
  1092 - Avoid division by zero error when $_CONF['limitnews'] == 0
  1093   (reported by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
  1094 - Bugfix: Atom always assumes 0.3 and doesn't handle article dates. (Reported by
  1095   mystral-kk on the forums). [Mike]
  1096 - Added OpenID 1.1 support, provided by Choplair
  1097 - Pass site_name into story templates so advanced linking to items like digg.com
  1098   can be templated cross-site. [Mike]
  1099 - Revamped DB Backups option. It now lists all backups (all .sql files), and
  1100   lets you download and delete backups from there [Dirk]
  1101 - Fixed checking for errors when sending Pingbacks or Pings [Mike, Dirk]
  1102 - When receiving a Pingback, optionally create an excerpt from the text of the
  1103   site that sent the Pingback [Dirk]
  1104 - Portal blocks now use the HTTP Last-Modified and ETag headers to only request
  1105   feeds when they have changed [Dirk]
  1106 - The {read_more_class} variable now contains class="story-read-more-link" (if
  1107   defined) for consistency with the class name used in {readmore_link} [Dirk]
  1108 - Changed the Security Check to only check if any Root users have their password
  1109   as "password" [Dirk]
  1110 - Made admin/sectest.php recognize 403 status codes (reported by THX100) [Dirk]
  1111 - All plugin API's, where not doing very, very plugin specific activities now
  1112   call a matching CUSTOM_ function. [Mike]
  1113 - Integrated support for passing parameters to phpblock functions (Patch #643 by
  1114   Joe Mucchiello) [Mike]
  1115 - Fixed numerous HTML errors in admin pages [Oliver]
  1116 - Added a missing blank between the day's name and the date in the Older Stories
  1117   block (reported by Jeruvy's girlfriend, via IRC) [Dirk]
  1118 - fixed bug [#648] sending new password email returns "Ok" message although
  1119   it fails when SMTP Server cannot be reached [Oliver]
  1120 - Need to include parameters in the URL when sending Pingbacks, e.g. to
  1121   Serendipity [Dirk]
  1122 - When sending Pingbacks, also search for <link rel="pingback"> if the linked
  1123   site does not send an X-Pingback header [Dirk]
  1124 - When sending Pingbacks for a story that had identical link texts for different
  1125   URLs, only the last of those links was pinged [Dirk]
  1126 - Implemented new Autouninstall for plugins. Plugins runs a function that passes
  1127   a specific array to a core function that removes all given element of the
  1128   plugin.  The function inside the plugin can handle aditional removals that
  1129   the core code cannot [Oliver]
  1130 - Fixed search by date in Calendar (reported and patch provided by Jeffrey Hare)
  1131 - Only allow autotags in normal blocks (bug #653) [Dirk]
  1132 - Added {story_topic_image_no_align} and {story_anchortag_and_image_no_align}
  1133   in stories so that you have access to the topic image without the alignment
  1134   (feature request #410) [Dirk]
  1135 - Show autotags in story editor to Admin even if all HTML is allowed [Oliver]
  1136 - Allow comments to be closed, i.e. display the existing comments but don't
  1137   accept any new ones [Dirk]
  1138 - Introduced COM_getCharset which returns the currently used character set (to
  1139   avoid code duplication). It should be save to simply use $LANG_CHARSET in
  1140   most cases, though [Dirk]
  1141 - Added optional Wikitext postmode for stories [Oliver]
  1142 - Added optional noreply-email address option to config.php to prevent
  1143   spammers retrieving the admin's email address from registering online [Oliver]
  1144 - Added support for "Microsummaries" to index.php.
  1145   See (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries) [Mike]
  1146 - Story "Rewrite" - significant re-structure of story code to fix all issues
  1147   with posting HTML special characters etc. [Mike]
  1148 - Added ability to have Body Text in user submitted stories. To deactivate,
  1149   edit layout\theme\submit\submitstory.thtml and submitstory_advanced.thtml
  1150     [Mike]
  1151 - fixing the dimension-resizing of uploaded images. If an image would be within
  1152   the max width after resizing, the max height might still be off. This is
  1153   solved with the new code. [Oliver]
  1154 - Removed tzcode table and started using PEAR::Date instead since all timezone
  1155   information is stored in there. [Oliver]
  1156 - Added timezone selector to preferences page [Oliver]
  1157 - Fixed COM_getLangSQL() to escape the underscore character '_' which happens
  1158   to be a wildcard character when used with LIKE. In a multi-language setup,
  1159   this may accidentally display unwanted items (reported by Kenji Ito) [Dirk]
  1160 - Addressed problems with the text direction (ltr/rtl) and the hard-coded
  1161   English text in admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
  1162 - Due to a language file change, the login form in users.php ("Try Logging in
  1163   Again") now asked for a "new password" (reported by Laugh) [Dirk]
  1164 - Remove the "Are you secure?" (getBent) block from the database as its
  1165   functionality has been moved to admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
  1166 - Added config option what should be displayed after user saving [Oliver]
  1167 - Added config option what should be displayed after story saving [Oliver]
  1168 - Images in articles (inc. topic icon) aligned with float [Oliver]
  1169 
  1170 - New Czech language file for the Calendar and Links plugins, provided
  1171   by Ondrej Rusek
  1172 - New Danish language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by dirtyjensen
  1173 - Updated Dutch language files, provided by Ronald Edelschaap
  1174 - New Dutch language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by John van Gaal
  1175 - Updated French Canadian language files for Geeklog and the Static Pages plugin
  1176   and new language files for the Calendar, Links, and Polls plugins, provided
  1177   by Jean-Francois Allard
  1178 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  1179 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  1180   by the Geeklog Japanese group
  1181 - New Korean language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
  1182   by Tetsuko Komma and Kim Younghie
  1183 - Updated Spanish (UTF-8) language file and new Spanish (UTF-8) language files
  1184   for all the plugins, provided by Jose R. Valverde
  1185 
  1186 Calendar plugin (1.0.2)
  1187 ---------------
  1188 - Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
  1189   day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums)
  1190 - Fixed deleting events submissions from the Events editor [Dirk]
  1191 - The global $_STATES has been removed from Geeklog. The state in an event's
  1192   details is now a simple text entry field.
  1193 - The form to add an event to the personal calendar was missing the site footer
  1194   (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
  1195 - Fixed Calendar feeds: The first parameter to the getFeedContent function is
  1196   the feed's ID, not the feed limit (bug #659) [Dirk]
  1197 - Highlight search queries [Dirk]
  1198 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
  1199 - Added Batch-Delete functionality [Oliver]
  1200 - Added config option what should be displayed after event saving [Oliver]
  1201 
  1202 Links plugin (2.0.0)
  1203 ------------
  1204 - Fixed deleting link submissions from the Links editor (didn't work in at least
  1205   all 1.4.x versions) [Dirk]
  1206 - Added owner_id field to submissions to record submitter and align with
  1207   stories behavior [Oliver]
  1208 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
  1209 - Added "Report Broken Link" function [Oliver]
  1210 - Added Link Verification to Link Admin [Oliver]
  1211 - Added config option what should be displayed after link saving [Oliver]
  1212 - Added Link sub-category options [Euan]
  1213 
  1214 Polls plugin (2.0.1)
  1215 ------------
  1216 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
  1217 - Added Support for multiple questions grouped into a survey [Oliver]
  1218 - Added Support for closing polls [Oliver]
  1219 - Added Support for hiding poll results of open polls [Oliver]
  1220 - Added config option what should be displayed after event poll [Oliver]
  1221 
  1222 Spam-X plugin (1.1.1)
  1223 -------------
  1224 - Fixed the "edit" modules not working with the French language files (reported
  1225   bye Joe) [Dirk]
  1226 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
  1227 - Fixed an error with the SLV module when $_CONF['site_url'] was empty
  1228   (reported by AA6QN) [Dirk]
  1229 - Added support for blocking entire IP ranges, using either CIDR notation or
  1230   simple x.x.x.x-y.y.y.y ranges [Dirk]
  1231 
  1232 Static Pages plugin (1.5.0)
  1233 -------------------
  1234 - Bugfix: In a multi-language setup, we need to be able to see all topics for
  1235   the centerblock option [Dirk]
  1236 - Bugfix: Allow the static pages "page format" setting to override
  1237   $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] (reported by Simon Lord) [Dirk]
  1238 - New Static pages Autotag: staticpage_content to return the contents of a
  1239   static page instead of a link to a static page [Oliver]
  1240 - Now using a template to display static pages [Oliver]
  1241 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
  1242 - The static pages editor was looking for the advanced editor template in the
  1243   wrong place, due to an uninitialized variable (reported by k74) [Dirk]
  1244 - Allow static pages to replace tags also on PHP-generated content [Oliver]
  1245 - Added config option what should be displayed after page saving [Oliver]
  1246 - Added comments feature [Oliver]
  1247 
  1248 
  1249 Dec 31, 2006 (1.4.1)
  1250 ------------
  1251 
  1252 - Changed the default character set in config.php back to iso-8859-1 [Dirk]
  1253 - Removed display of the site URL from admin/sectest.php. On sites not installed
  1254   in the webroot, it did not display the site's actual URL, which only causes
  1255   confusion (reported by Dazzy) [Dirk]
  1256 - Fixed conflict between the Spam-X DeleteComment and SLVreport action
  1257   modules which prevented the count of deleted spams from being incremented
  1258   [Dirk]
  1259 - Fixed max. allowed length for a user's homepage (128) and location (96) in the
  1260   preferences/profile.thtml template file (reported by burjans) [Dirk]
  1261 - Fixed page title after a successful batch import of users (which read "Error")
  1262   [Dirk]
  1263 - Back in Geeklog 1.4.0, a counter was added to the Spam-X plugin to count all
  1264   deleted spam posts. The counter was only added in fresh installs of 1.4.0,
  1265   though, but not when upgrading from an earlier version. Fixed that [Dirk]
  1266 - In lists created from the Links and Calendar plugins, use "links-new-plugin"
  1267   as the CSS class name [Oliver]
  1268 
  1269 - Updated Estonian language file, provided by Artur Räpp
  1270 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Alexander Yurchenko
  1271 - New Russian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Alexander
  1272   Yurchenko
  1273 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
  1274 
  1275 
  1276 Dec 17, 2006 (1.4.1rc1)
  1277 ------------
  1278 
  1279 - Improved handling of UTF-8 feeds (feature request #631) [Mike, Dirk]
  1280 - Fixes for the remaining MS SQL issues (bugs #620, #621, #622, #624)
  1281   [Randy Kolenko, Dirk]
  1282 - Initialize SQL request arrays to prevent PHP errors (e.g. with static pages),
  1283   reported by ldfoo [Dirk]
  1284 - Escape the '#' sign in spam checks since we're using it as the separator
  1285   character for the regexp [Dirk]
  1286 - Mark Evans provided a set of patches that let plugins hook into the user
  1287   registration, story and comment submission as well as the contact user and
  1288   email story forms. These hooks can be used to add CAPTCHAs to those forms,
  1289   but may also come in handy for other plugin applications.
  1290   Also modified several template files to include a {captcha} variable to ease
  1291   installation of Mark's CAPTCHA plugin.
  1292 - Update the timestamp for the last run of PLG_runScheduledTask before calling
  1293   the function to minimize the risk of the call being triggered more than once
  1294   (bug #628) [Dirk]
  1295 - In a multi-language setup, allow one static page per language to take over
  1296   the index page (bug #625) [Dirk]
  1297 - sectest.php didn't perform the test for the install script and default
  1298   passwords on some setups (reported by Christian Weiske) [Dirk]
  1299 - Fixed "delete account" option (reported by Paul Lelgemann) [Dirk]
  1300 - Fixed counting of comments in several places where comments were counted
  1301   without taking the type of the parent object into account (e.g. when a story
  1302   and a poll happened to use the same id, their comment counts would have been
  1303   messed up) [Dirk]
  1304 - Editing a story did reset the trackback count (reported by T. Marquez) [Dirk]
  1305 - In the admin's story editor, set the debug option for the image upload only
  1306   when $_CONF['debug_image_upload']  = true (thus avoiding the "Warning: File #x
  1307   on the HTML form was empty" messages in error.log) [Dirk]
  1308 - Renamed [calendar:] autotag back to [event:] for backward compatibility. It
  1309   also makes more sense this way, since it does provide a link to an event, not
  1310   a link to a calendar (bug #619) [Dirk]
  1311 - Need to check if field 'etids' is NULL (for MySQL 4) for the Daily Digest
  1312   (bug #595) [Dirk]
  1313 - Removed the outer table from the layout and merged several style declarations
  1314   into the body-tag declaration [Oliver]
  1315 - The spam check for comment posts did not include the comment title (reported
  1316   by Laugh) [Dirk]
  1317 - When multi-language support is enabled, allow language-specific overrides
  1318   of the locale settings, e.g. $_CONF['date_en'] and $_CONF['date_de'] to
  1319   overwrite $_CONF['date'] depending on the current language [Dirk]
  1320 - When installing the Geeklog database using InnoDB tables, create a
  1321   'database_engine' entry in gl_vars, so that plugins know to use InnoDB for
  1322   their tables. Updated the bundled plugins to act accordingly [Dirk]
  1323 - DB_query will now (optionally) accept an array of SQL request strings from
  1324   which it will pick the one applicable for the currently used database type
  1325   [Vinny, Dirk]
  1326 - Provide some more meta information in header.thtml [Dirk]
  1327   + added optional {lang_id} variable and lang attribute
  1328   + added a hreflang attribute to the feed links
  1329   + added <link rel="home">, <link rel="search">, <link rel="contents"> links
  1330     (via the {rel_links} variable)
  1331 - COM_isFrontpage has been deprecated, as it had its return values inverted
  1332   (returns false when on the site's index page). Use COM_onFrontpage instead
  1333   from now on [Dirk]
  1334 - Fixed check for new stories from archive topic [Dirk]
  1335 - Call PLG_templateSetVars() from STORY_renderArticle() so we can have custom
  1336   variables in the story templates [Dirk]
  1337 
  1338 - Updated Chinese language files (traditional and simplified), provided by
  1339   Samuel M. Stone
  1340 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  1341   by the Geeklog Japanese group
  1342 - Updated Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251, KOI8-U, and UTF-8 encoding)
  1343   for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
  1344 
  1345 
  1346 Nov 5, 2006 (1.4.1b2)
  1347 -----------
  1348 
  1349 - Fixed potential SQL injection in the story editor preview (required Story
  1350   Admin permissions) [Dirk]
  1351 - Added multi-language support in static pages centerblocks and search [Dirk]
  1352 - When cloning a static page, keep the original's "wrap in a block" setting
  1353   [Dirk]
  1354 - Spam-X stats: Removed MT-Blacklist entry, added SLV whitelist entry [Dirk]
  1355 - Don't add empty "No Title" links in portal blocks when the feed has less than
  1356   the configured max. number of entries (bug #610) [Dirk]
  1357 - Added support for COM_mail to use a parm for a CC: distribution list [Blaine]
  1358 - Fixed bug #603, hardcoded mysql_error() [Oliver]
  1359 - Fixed bug #604, delete trackbacks of a story when story is deleted [Oliver]
  1360 - Allow users to switch the language again, even when the default character set
  1361   is not UTF-8. It is, however, not possible to mix UTF-8 and other charsets.
  1362   Also, "UTF-8" is not displayed in the language dropdown any more [Dirk]
  1363 - Corrected SQL for group counting in Admin menu for root admin to fix bug #573
  1364   [Oliver]
  1365 - Properly encode non-ASCII characters in email headers (subject, names),
  1366   loosely based on patch #489 and code from Cal Henderson's book [Dirk]
  1367 - Removed the Calendar styles and moved them to a dedicated file in the
  1368   plugin's directory [Oliver]
  1369 - Sorted all stylesheet definitions alphabetically and split semantics and
  1370   classes [Oliver]
  1371 - When making a topic the archive topic, update all existing stories in that
  1372   topic to "archived" status (and likewise revert that status if the topic
  1373   loses its archive topic status) [Dirk]
  1374 - Don't count archived stories as new stories in the What's New block [Dirk]
  1375 - Moved the defines for STORY_ARCHIVE_ON_EXPIRE and STORY_DELETE_ON_EXPIRE to
  1376   lib-story.php (from config.php) where they make more sense [Dirk]
  1377 - COM_getPermSQL was using the current user's group information when called for
  1378   another user. In Geeklog, this only happens for the Daily Digest, though
  1379   (bug #594) [Dirk]
  1380 - When comments are disabled for a story, don't show any existing comments in
  1381   the What's New block, in search results or via comment.php (bug #597) [Dirk]
  1382 - When trackbacks are disabled for a story, don't list any existing trackbacks
  1383   in the What's New block [Dirk]
  1384 - In the Admin's User Editor, disabled the checkboxes for the All Users,
  1385   Logged-in Users, and Remote Users groups to prevent accidental change of
  1386   group membership [Dirk]
  1387 - When deleting a topic, also delete all Trackbacks attached to stories in that
  1388   topic and update the Older Stories block and the feeds [Dirk]
  1389 - Fixed approve / delete of draft stories from moderation.php [Dirk]
  1390 - Strip blanks from the name of a PHP block function when saving a PHP block
  1391   [Dirk]
  1392 - Fixed / added multi-language support in the article directory, What's New
  1393   block, and the search for stories and comments [Dirk]
  1394 - Fixed an SQL error when changing a story's ID [Dirk]
  1395 - Call SET NAMES 'utf8' when using UTF-8 as the site's character set (with
  1396   MySQL), as pointed out by several people [Dirk]
  1397 - Removed wrong parameter when calling up the comment form again when the
  1398   comment's title was missing. This bug existed for both story and polls
  1399   comments. (bug #591) [Dirk]
  1400 - Users who were only in the Syndication Admin group didn't have access to
  1401   Command and Control (moderation.php) [Dirk]
  1402 - For Block, Group, Polls, Story and Topic Admins only display the number of
  1403   the respective entries they can actually see (instead of the number of all
  1404   entries, e.g. topics, in the system) [Dirk]
  1405 - Fixed highlighting parse error when the search term contained an apostrophe
  1406   (bug #590) [Dirk]
  1407 - Improved (and subsequently fixed) Pingback spam detection which now also uses
  1408   the $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] settings [Dirk]
  1409 - directory.php was still using $LANG30 instead of $LANG_MONTH (bug #583) [Dirk]
  1410 - When upgrading the database from 1.4.0, only update those plugins that are
  1411   actually installed (disabled or not) [Dirk]
  1412 - CSS Changes to support better scaling of Font size - using browser Text-Size
  1413   adjustment. Removed many extra font-size declarations. [Blaine]
  1414 - Don't allow viewing of a Banned user profile unless user admin [Blaine]
  1415 - Only call CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler when custom_registration is enabled
  1416   (bug #584) [Blaine]
  1417 - Fixed SQL error with some older MySQL versions when calling up the Batch User
  1418   Delete option [Oliver]
  1419 - Comments always displayed the comment author's full name, even when
  1420   $_CONF['show_fullname'] was set to 0 [Dirk]
  1421 - Fixed 404 (caused by a request for a file named '(none)') in the user profile
  1422   display when a user doesn't have a userphoto [Dirk]
  1423 
  1424 - New Estonian language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
  1425   by Artur Räpp
  1426 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  1427 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  1428   by the Geeklog Japanese group
  1429 - New Russian language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Pavel Kovalenko
  1430 - Updated Slovenian language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  1431   by gape
  1432 
  1433 Calendar plugin
  1434 ---------------
  1435 - Created a dedicated stylesheet file and include the file only if the URL
  1436   contains the word 'calendar' [Oliver]
  1437 - Tweaked the Calendar search result listing: Removed the Event Description
  1438   (usually too long for the result listing), replaced Location (which is only a
  1439   part of the address and not very helpful) with Event Type, minimized Date &
  1440   Time display for events lasting only one day (don't list date twice) [Dirk]
  1441 
  1442 Links plugin
  1443 ------------
  1444 - Renamed classes block-vote-results to poll-vote-results and block-vote to
  1445   poll-vote [Oliver]
  1446 - Removed duplicate "Other" entry from the Link submission form [Dirk]
  1447 - In the Admin's list of links, only display an edit icon for links that the
  1448   current user can actually edit (they did get a proper error message when
  1449   trying to edit such a link, though) [Dirk]
  1450 - Don't return the number of links in the links submission queue if the
  1451   current user does not have links.moderate permissions [Dirk]
  1452 - Filter out special characters from link IDs. They were properly escaped
  1453   before storing them in the database but caused problems when using them
  1454   (bug #565) [Dirk]
  1455 
  1456 
  1457 Sep 17, 2006 (1.4.1b1)
  1458 ------------
  1459 
  1460 - Changes to templates and CSS to remove deprecated HTML (align= and valign=)
  1461   Removed un-used CSS declarations, redundant font-family declarations
  1462   Removed use of font-size percentage and used more acceptable EM units [Blaine]
  1463 - Don't display an "edit" link in a story if the current user doesn't have
  1464   edit permissions for the story's topic (bug #558) [Dirk]
  1465 - Added a new script to check the site's security (admin/sectest.php). This
  1466   replaces the "get bent" PHP block, but also performs additional checks [Dirk]
  1467 - Created a Batch Delete function for users that easily identifies inactive or
  1468   old users and allows mass-deletion of those [Oliver]
  1469 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.3.1 [Blaine]
  1470 - Added ability to filter out Admin related groups on the Group Admin page
  1471   Allows users to easily see only user groups. When editing non-core groups,
  1472   You can select if this group is an Admin Group [Blaine]
  1473 - Added ability to multi-select submission queue items on the moderation page
  1474   and delete them all at once [Blaine]
  1475 - Always make "Submissions" the first entry in the Admins Only block to keep
  1476   the correspondence between the other entries and the icons on the moderation
  1477   page undisturbed (and because it's an important entry) [Dirk]
  1478 - Fixed 'emailstoriesperdefault' config option (bug #553) [Dirk]
  1479 - Added support for Microsoft SQL Server, provided by Randy Kolenko
  1480 - Introduced $_CONF['disallow_domains'] as a blacklist of domain names that are
  1481   not allowed for new users during signup. Both 'disallow_domains' and
  1482   'allow_domains' can also contain regular expressions [Dirk]
  1483 - Introduced DB_lockTable / DB_unlockTable to encapsulate the LOCK / UNLOCK
  1484   requests when updating the comments table [Dirk]
  1485 - Fixed bug: [#540] Blocking the last Root user or yourself should not be
  1486   possible [Oliver]
  1487 - Fixed bug: [#546] The phrase "Story Stats" is hardcoded [Oliver]
  1488 - Added a spam check to the email user form [Dirk]
  1489 - Use the same piece of code to compare plugin version numbers in lib-admin.php
  1490   and admin/plugins.php to avoid the "update" button not appearing for some
  1491   version numbers (bug #542) [Dirk]
  1492 - Re-implemented $_CONF['allow_domains'] whitelist (when the user submission
  1493   queue is enabled) that was inexplicably missing from 1.4.0 [Dirk]
  1494 - Merged User Preferences and Account information into one page, like the
  1495   Story editor with tabs etc. [Blaine, Oliver]
  1496 - Tried to make "3 new stories in the last 1 day" sound less awkward by going
  1497   back one unit, i.e. "3 new stories in the last 24 hours", in the What's New
  1498   block (likewise for 1 week, 1 month, etc.) [Dirk]
  1499 - Introduced config options to set the default for the story's draft flag
  1500   and frontpage option (feature request #163) [Dirk]
  1501 - Introduced $_CONF['hide_main_page_navigation'] to hide the "Google paging"
  1502   from index.php (may be useful for some layouts) [Dirk]
  1503 - Allow (optional) usage of autotags in "normal" blocks (can be enabled /
  1504   disabled per block) [Dirk]
  1505 - Introduced a {story_counter} variable in the story templates. It's 0 on the
  1506   article page and in previews, but 1 for the first story, 2 for the second,
  1507   etc. on the index page (per page, i.e. starts with 1 again on the second page)
  1508   [Dirk]
  1509 - Require that users enter their current password when changing their password,
  1510   email address or "Remember me for" setting. Redesigned the Account Information
  1511   page and added a note about this requirement. [Dirk]
  1512 - Prevent accidental banning of users when the Admin edits a user's information
  1513   using a theme that wasn't updated for Geeklog 1.4.0+ [Dirk]
  1514 - $_CONF['show_fullname'] now works as expected, i.e. when setting it to = 1,
  1515   a user's full name will be displayed everywhere in Geeklog instead of the
  1516   username (assuming the users entered their full name) [Dirk]
  1517 - Fixed a bug in the article directory where December was not listed when no
  1518   stories had been posted in that month (reported by Kino and Ivy of geeklog.jp)
  1519 - Replace Geeklog's [imageX] tags before extracting the What's Related links
  1520   from a story to prevent the (verbatim) tag to show up in the block [Dirk]
  1521 - Update story ids in the gl_trackback table when a story's id is changed [Mike]
  1522 - Implemented new plugin API function, PLG_spamAction, to perform the spam
  1523   actions in case spam has been detected through some other means (e.g.
  1524   trackbacks from sites that don't link back to us) [Dirk]
  1525 - Implemented new plugin API function, plugin_enablestatechange_, to inform
  1526   plugins when they are about to be enabled / disabled (Patch #405) [Dirk]
  1527 - Support backslashes in comment and submissions in HTML mode [Mike]
  1528 - Added breadcrumb functionality to the navbar class (v1.1) [Blaine]
  1529 - Enhancements to navbar templates and CSS for a more 3D TAB'ed look [Blaine]
  1530 - Changed several <table>s to <div>s + CSS in the Professional theme [Oliver]
  1531 - Introduced generic function to delete a user's photo to avoid code
  1532   duplication and slightly different error handling in various places [Dirk]
  1533 - Made the new user registration form remember the user's input so that they
  1534   don't have to retype everything in case of an error [Dirk]
  1535 - In the Admin's user list, banned users are indicated by striked-through
  1536   entries (based on a hack by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
  1537 - Added new setting $_CONF['onlyrootfeatures']. This is for sites where two or
  1538   more story admins can feature stories that the other admins cannot see. The
  1539   setting prevents that one admin does not see that there is another recent
  1540   story featured and sets one by himself, "stealing" the feature from the other.
  1541 - Changed "Reply"-button to "Post a comment" [Oliver]
  1542 - Implemented an error handler to supress all PHP level errors and display a
  1543   much more userfriendly error text to the end user. Prevents all path exposure,
  1544   prevents "white error page" mystery debugging fun. [Mike]
  1545 - Full sweep of all code for $_REQUEST/$_GET/$_POST and $_COOKIE use. Made sure
  1546   that COM_applyFilter, or other safe usage is made of the variables. [Mike]
  1547 - Added an option to hide the "No News To Display" message on the index page
  1548   (new config option $_CONF['hide_no_news_msg']) [Dirk]
  1549 - Added an option to check if the sites sending trackbacks are actually linking
  1550   to our site (see $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] in config.php) [Dirk]
  1551 - Made it impossible to save two syndication feeds with identical filenames
  1552   [Oliver]
  1553 - Stories with comments/trackbacks disabled, do not show comment/trackback
  1554   url in RSS feeds [Mike]
  1555 - Added email confirmation fields for new user and usersettings [Oliver]
  1556 - Allow changing of group ownership for "gldefault" blocks. Requires a change
  1557   in admin/block/defaultblockeditor.thtml to enable the group dropdown. On a
  1558   fresh install, all the blocks (with the exception of "Are you secure?") are
  1559   now owned by the Block Admin group [Dirk]
  1560 - Users created by a User Admin should not be queued for approval, even when
  1561   $_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1 [Dirk]
  1562 - Introduced 'syndication.edit' permission and 'Syndication Admin' group so
  1563   that access to the Content Syndication panel no longer requires 'Root'
  1564   permissions [Dirk]
  1565 - For the "Submissions" entry in the Admins Only block, only count story and
  1566   event submissions when the current user has story.moderate or event.moderate
  1567   permissions, respectively [Dirk]
  1568 - On admin/moderation.php, list the stories that have their draft flag set only
  1569   when the current user has story.edit permission [Dirk]
  1570 - Fixed empty lines in a Group Admin's list of groups when that Group Admin
  1571   was not a member of all groups [Dirk]
  1572 - Renamed the misnamed CUSTOM_runSheduledTask function (in lib-custom.php) to
  1573   CUSTOM_runScheduledTask. Don't forget to make that change in your copy of
  1574   lib-custom.php if you're using that functionality! [Dirk]
  1575 - Improved error log contents when unable to acquire a feed reader for a portal
  1576   block. [Mike]
  1577 - Extended plugin API for feed extensions to include feed id and the topic (for
  1578   adding topic/feed specific data) [Mike]
  1579 - Don't attempt to rename a non-existing user photo when
  1580   $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is enabled (reported and fix suggested by
  1581   Yusuke Sakata) [Dirk]
  1582 - Made changes to ensure compatibility with MS SQL, as suggested by
  1583   Randy Kolenko [Dirk]
  1584 - The "last login date" column in the Admin's list of users now uses
  1585   $_CONF['shortdate'] so that it includes the year [Dirk]
  1586 - Fixed batch user import (which set all imported users to status "Awaiting
  1587   Authorization" instead of "Awaiting Activation") [Mike]
  1588 - Fixed admin lists google paging for use in static pages etc. [Oliver]
  1589 - Added support for a custom login error handler function,
  1590   CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler [Blaine]
  1591 - Format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 / 2068 / 2616, i.e.
  1592   "Geeklog/1.4.1" when trying to detect a Trackback URL [Dirk]
  1593 - Made the search option on the Admin pages behave like the site search, i.e.
  1594   it doesn't require you to pad queries with '*' any longer [Dirk]
  1595 - In story search results, show/hide the "Author" and "Views" columns based on
  1596   the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] and $_CONF['hideviewscount'] settings [Dirk]
  1597 - Introduced $_CONF['title_trim_length'] to make the max. title length of items
  1598   in the What's New block configurable (feature request #525). Also implemented
  1599   a new function COM_truncate (based on a patch by Yusuke Sakata) that properly
  1600   handles truncation of multi-byte text strings if the mb_ functions are
  1601   available [Dirk]
  1602 - Added a JavaScript confirmation box to most delete buttons/links. If you'd
  1603   rather not have such a confirmation, use {delete_option_no_confirmation}
  1604   instead of {delete_option} in the admin templates [Dirk]
  1605 - Fixed RSS Feed parser to create RFC 822 dates in en_GB or en_US locale as per
  1606   the RFC spec [Mike]
  1607 - Removed obsolete "do not use spaces" warning from user editor (bug #530)
  1608   [Dirk]
  1609 - Show fullname/username according to config.php settings in stories [Oliver]
  1610 - Added possibility to change the css-class for admin list headers and fields
  1611   [Oliver]
  1612 - Added unified new style class to stats.php/style.css to have all lists on
  1613   the page look the same [Oliver]
  1614 - Added multi-language support, based on earlier works by Euan McKay and LWC.
  1615   Also see http://wiki.geeklog.net/wiki/index.php/Multi-Language_Support
  1616 - Changed the default path for topic icons to /images/topics [Dirk]
  1617 - Fixed an SQL error when calling up the Admin's list of stories without any
  1618   topics [Dirk]
  1619 - Removed the public_html/portal.php script, as it is no longer needed [Dirk]
  1620 - Remove uninstalled plugins from the global $_PLUGINS array immediately
  1621   (just in case the array would be used to trigger any actions) [Dirk]
  1622 - The "Topic" column in the list of feeds was empty for feeds that are only
  1623   linked from a topic page [Dirk]
  1624 - Only use the mb_substr workaround in the calendar when the current character
  1625   set is UTF-8 (bug #524) [Dirk]
  1626 - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when listing the members of a group (bug #527)
  1627   [Dirk]
  1628 - When emailing a story, don't include the text "Comment on this story at ..."
  1629   when comments have been switched off for that story [Dirk]
  1630 - Fixed wrong wording of some of the "access denied" messages when trying to
  1631   access Admin panels without proper privileges [Dirk]
  1632 - Fixed display of Admin block for users that only had certain Admin privileges
  1633   [Dirk]
  1634 
  1635 - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
  1636 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  1637   The Hebrew language file was also renamed to hebrew_utf-8.php for consistency
  1638   with the other UTF-8 language files.
  1639 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
  1640 
  1641 Calendar plugin (1.0.0)
  1642 ---------------
  1643 - Bugfix: Replace autotags in the event description [Dirk]
  1644 - Added an option to switch between 24 hour and 12 hour am/pm mode for entering
  1645   and editing events [Dirk]
  1646 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
  1647   feeds and blocks when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
  1648 - Added calendar plugin initial version [Oliver]
  1649 
  1650 Links plugin (1.0.1)
  1651 ------------
  1652 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
  1653   feeds when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
  1654 - Changed the english language file from "Web Resources" to "Links"
  1655 - Fixed hard-coded link to the "admin" directory when editing a link (reported
  1656   by Ronnie Rigl) [Dirk]
  1657 - Optimized SQL requests for the plugin's What's New section [Dirk]
  1658 - Re-introduced {button_links} header variable [Dirk]
  1659 - Added an option to hide the Top Ten Links on the first page [Dirk]
  1660 - Made the page title on the Web Resources page more informative by adding the
  1661   category and page number [Dirk]
  1662 - The edit icon (only visible for Links Admins) now uses the same image type
  1663   as the current theme (was previously hardcoded to "edit.gif") [Dirk]
  1664 - Hide the "Web Resources" link from the menu when login is required to see
  1665   the links (for consistency with the Polls plugin) [Dirk]
  1666 - Added a title attribute to the links on the site stats page that contains
  1667   the link's actual URL [Dirk]
  1668 - Fixed site link in search results which wasn't using portal.php [Dirk]
  1669 - The Admin's search option now also searches the link description [Dirk]
  1670 - Removed extra <small> tags from the What's New section (bug #526) [Dirk]
  1671 
  1672 Polls plugin (1.1.0)
  1673 ------------
  1674 - Fixed call to undefined function polllist when calling up a non-existing
  1675   poll [Dirk]
  1676 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable the poll
  1677   block when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
  1678 - Fixed search [Dirk]
  1679 - Added a remark field for polls answers [Oliver]
  1680 - Re-introduced {button_polls} header variable [Dirk]
  1681 - Added an option to hide the link to the polls from the menu (for consistency
  1682   with the Links plugin) [Dirk]
  1683 - Fixed poll URLs on the site stats page [Dirk]
  1684 - Remove the polls block when uninstalling the Polls plugin (another part of
  1685   bug #520) [Dirk]
  1686 
  1687 Spam-X plugin (1.1.0)
  1688 -------------
  1689 - Added SLV (Spam Link Verification) modules [Dirk]
  1690 - The MT-Blacklist modules are not being shipped with Geeklog any longer. The
  1691   MT-Blacklist entries are removed from the database during the upgrade [Dirk]
  1692 - Allow special characters (e.g. backslashes) in the Admin modules (e.g. the
  1693   Personal Blacklist module) [Dirk]
  1694 - Moved spam actions to plugin_spamaction_spamx API function [Dirk]
  1695 - Fixed potential problems with the checkforSpam function's return code in case
  1696   of unusual configurations (e.g. $_CONF['spamx'] = 0) [Dirk, Tom Willet]
  1697 - Made the plugin's internal log flag a proper config option. So you can now
  1698   disable logging to spamx.log from the plugin's config.php [Dirk]
  1699 - Mass delete by IP now uses stored IP address [Mike]
  1700 
  1701 Static Pages plugin (1.4.3)
  1702 -------------------
  1703 - Make sure autotags are replaced even when execution of PHP code is disabled
  1704   (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
  1705 - Added a help URL for the block display of static pages [Oliver]
  1706 - Added ability in staticpage editor to enable/disable Advanced Editor mode
  1707   so you can use FCKeditor and then if need basic html edit mode [Blaine]
  1708 - Fixed default sorting order for the list of static pages [Dirk]
  1709 - Allow to show/hide update date/time and hits [Oliver]
  1710 - When creating a new page, don't set the default group ownership to the Static
  1711   Page Admin group if the current user is not a member of that group. Instead,
  1712   pick a group with staticpages.edit permission that the user is a member of
  1713   [Dirk]
  1714 - Fixed paging for the list of static pages (bug #528) [Dirk]
  1715 
  1716 
  1717 January 8, 2008 (1.4.0sr6)
  1718 ---------------
  1719 
  1720 MustLive pointed out a possible XSS in the form to email an article to a
  1721 friend that we're fixing with this release.
  1722 
  1723 
  1724 July 23, 2006 (1.4.0sr5-1)
  1725 -------------
  1726 
  1727 This release fixes display problems in the comment preview that were only
  1728 introduced in Geeklog 1.4.0sr5 (as a result of the fix for the XSS).
  1729 
  1730 The complete 1.4.0sr5-1 tarball also includes the following language files:
  1731 
  1732 - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
  1733 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  1734 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
  1735 
  1736 
  1737 July 16, 2006 (1.4.0sr5)
  1738 -------------
  1739 
  1740 JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
  1741 fixing with this release.
  1742 
  1743 
  1744 June 30, 2006 (1.4.0sr4)
  1745 -------------
  1746 
  1747 Two exploits have been released by "rgod" for insecure Geeklog installations
  1748 and for a bug in the "mcpuk" file manager that we've been shipping as part of
  1749 FCKeditor in all 1.4.0 releases.
  1750 
  1751 - Some of the files outside of the public_html directory were not protected
  1752   against direct execution. If Geeklog was installed such that those files were
  1753   accessible from a URL (which has always been strongly discouraged in the
  1754   installation instructions) then those files could be used to load and
  1755   execute malicious code from a remote server.
  1756 
  1757   More information: http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/so-called-exploit
  1758 
  1759   In this release, we've added the missing execution prevention for all files
  1760   outside of public_html. We would still, however, suggest that you fix your
  1761   Geeklog install if the files outside of public_html are accessible from a URL.
  1762 
  1763 - The "mcpuk" file manager that we've integrated into FCKeditor allowed the
  1764   upload of arbitrary PHP code (even if FCKeditor was disabled in Geeklog's
  1765   config.php). Depending on your webserver's configuration, it was then possible
  1766   to execute that uploaded code.
  1767 
  1768   More information:
  1769   http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/exploit-for-fckeditor-filemanager
  1770 
  1771   The file manager has been removed from this release. You will therefore no
  1772   longer be able to upload files, e.g. images, through FCKeditor. Future
  1773   versions of Geeklog will ship with an updated version of FCKeditor and its
  1774   included file manager.
  1775 
  1776 
  1777 May 28, 2006 (1.4.0sr3)
  1778 ------------
  1779 
  1780 The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
  1781 security issues:
  1782 
  1783 - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
  1784 - Possible XSS in getimage.php
  1785 - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
  1786   e.g. the Professional theme
  1787 
  1788 An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
  1789 submissions.
  1790 
  1791 
  1792 Mar 5, 2006 (1.4.0sr2)
  1793 -----------
  1794 
  1795 Security issues:
  1796 
  1797 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
  1798   anyone to log in as any user.
  1799 - HTML was not stripped from the Location field in a user's profile.
  1800 
  1801 
  1802 Feb 19, 2006 (1.4.0sr1)
  1803 ------------
  1804 
  1805 Security issues:
  1806 
  1807 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
  1808   Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
  1809   file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
  1810 
  1811 Bugfixes:
  1812 
  1813 - Fixed bug in page-break combined with url rewrite (bug #521) [Oliver]
  1814 - Fixed Story [page_break] showing only intro on first page [Oliver]
  1815 - Fixed install script for the Spam-X plugin which was trying to include an SQL
  1816   file that doesn't exist - and wasn't needed (part of bug #520) [Dirk]
  1817 
  1818 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  1819 - New Russian language files for the Links and Polls plugins, provided by
  1820   Volodymyr V. Prokurashko
  1821 - Fixed Static pages dutch language file [Oliver]
  1822 - New Polish language file for the Links plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
  1823 - Added UTF-8 English versions of the Links, Polls, Static Pages, and Spam-X
  1824   language files [Dirk]
  1825 - Added all UTF-8 Language files for core [Oliver]
  1826 
  1827 
  1828 Feb 5, 2006 (1.4.0)
  1829 ------------
  1830 
  1831 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks [Dirk]
  1832 - Added missing navbar images - used for CSS based buttons as part of the
  1833   standard Plugin CSS [Blaine]
  1834 - Set options in FCKConfig to have Firefox browsers by default not using the
  1835   <span> and font tags to format Bold and Italic [Blaine]
  1836 - Fixed another bug in google pagination of admin-lists [Oliver]
  1837 - Fixed "wrap static page in a block" and "exit type" options in the static
  1838   page editor. Also link to the "rewritten" URL from the list of static pages
  1839   when URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
  1840 - Fixed JavaScript error in the Admin's story editor (bug #479) [Dirk]
  1841 - Fixed hard-coded paths in the check.php script and added tests for missing
  1842   directories (reported by Markus Wollschlaeger) [Dirk]
  1843 - A humble attempt to add some semantics [Dirk]
  1844   + Added rel="category tag" to a story's topic link
  1845   + Added rel="self bookmark" for a comment's permalink
  1846 - Cosmetics: Moved the number of links per category out of the actual link to
  1847   the category [Dirk]
  1848 - On MySQL 5, the drop-down list of link categories presented to a user when
  1849   submitting a new link came out wrong (while the one in the Admin's link
  1850   editor worked just fine). Moved the working code into a new function in the
  1851   plugin's functions.inc and changed the code to use it in both cases now [Dirk]
  1852 - Fixed an SQL error when the "length of entries" field in the Feed Editor was
  1853   left empty [Dirk]
  1854 - Fixed date and time defaulting to the current date and time when creating
  1855   a new event as an Admin user (adding a workaround for changes of strtotime()
  1856   behavior in PHP 5) [Dirk]
  1857 - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when creating a new topic (bug #517) [Dirk]
  1858 - In HTTP requests, format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 /
  1859   2068 / 2616, i.e. "Geeklog/1.4.0" [Dirk]
  1860 
  1861 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakata
  1862 - Updated Ukrainian (Windows-1251) language file, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
  1863 
  1864 
  1865 Jan 22, 2006 (1.4.0rc2)
  1866 ------------
  1867 
  1868 - header.thtml now specifies the CSS Class Declaration to use for the body.
  1869   This addresses the issue with FCKeditor when displayed, its CSS was
  1870   over-riding the main site <body> tag and the site margin padding was being
  1871   affected [Blaine]
  1872 - Removed CSS for the Forum plugin from style.css [Blaine]
  1873 - Fixed "Cannot modify header ..." message when logging in from the admin
  1874   pages (reported by Samuel M. Stone). This also fixes confusing intermittent
  1875   displays during the login (e.g. only some of the "Command and Control" icons
  1876   showing up, messages about missing permissions flashing up) [Dirk]
  1877 - Removed Geeklog version number from feed files due to security concerns
  1878   (pointed out by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
  1879 - Login through the admin pages didn't work with register_globals=off [Dirk]
  1880 - Fixed admin lists so pagination works also in static pages [Oliver]
  1881 - Pass GeekLog as user agent when fetching RSS feeds [Mike]
  1882 - Made the image upload work with out-of-the-box PHP 5 configurations [Dirk]
  1883 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in Pingbacks [Dirk]
  1884 - Fixed Spam-X Mass Delete Trackback Spam module to update the story's trackback
  1885   count when deleting trackbacks [Dirk]
  1886 - Fixed a possible SQL error when saving a block (reported by BDUB) [Dirk]
  1887 - Fixed story titles in the What's New block when they contained HTML entities
  1888   (entities where sometimes cut off and/or encoded twice) [Dirk]
  1889 - Fixed a typo in all the plugin install script which set the group description
  1890   to "grp_desc" instead of $grp_desc (found by Ingo Schaefer) [Dirk]
  1891 - Improved autodetect of Trackback URLs [Dirk]
  1892 - The submit story form was not selecting the advanced Editor if user was not
  1893   logged in or did not have Story Editor permissions [Blaine]
  1894 - Added missing CSS class name "list-feed" for portal blocks [Dirk]
  1895 - Fixed user submission queue (reported by Andrew Lawlor) [Dirk]
  1896 - Fixed handling of integer fields in the Admin's story editor (reported by
  1897   Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
  1898 - Fixed handling of checkboxes in the static pages editor (reported by
  1899   Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
  1900 - Fixed SQL error when saving a static page that had had more than 1000 hits
  1901   (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
  1902 - Removed visible table border from advanced comment editor form [Blaine]
  1903 - Moved some hard-coded text strings from the advanced editor into the
  1904   language files [Blaine]
  1905 
  1906 - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
  1907 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
  1908 
  1909 
  1910 Dec 31, 2005 (1.4.0rc1)
  1911 ------------
  1912 
  1913 - Added support for Advanced Editor in the Add Comment Feature [Blaine]
  1914 - Fixed SQL error in search on MySQL 5 (fix suggested by dariball) [Dirk]
  1915 - Added trackback.php and pingback.php to the included robots.txt [Dirk]
  1916 - Added a few more calls to COM_numberFormat all over the place (links and polls
  1917   plugins, Admins Only block, ...) [Dirk]
  1918 - Fixed test for a Geeklog 1.3.9 database in the install script [Dirk]
  1919 - When emailing a story, make sure all fields are filled in [Dirk]
  1920 - Don't lose the current topic selection when a Story Admin uses the Contribute
  1921   link [Dirk]
  1922 - Fixed highlighting of search query in comments when register_globals = off
  1923   [Dirk]
  1924 - When the entries in the Admin's block are not sorted, make sure the icons in
  1925   Command and Control are in the same order as the block entries [Dirk]
  1926 - Allow topic icons to be uploaded to and retrieved from a 'topics' directory
  1927   outside of the document root [Dirk]
  1928 - Added a workaround to produce abbreviated day names in the calendar for UTF-8
  1929   language files (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
  1930 - The Spam-X plugin now uses the same "universal" install script as the other
  1931   three preinstalled plugins [Dirk]
  1932 - Added more allowable HTML tags and attributes if Advanced_Editor enabled
  1933   config.php setting [Blaine]
  1934 - Added logic to detect if Javascript was not enabled and Advanced Editor was
  1935   enabled.
  1936   User will be prompted with alert and able to use the default editor [Blaine]
  1937 - Changed spam handling for Trackbacks and Pingbacks to check for spam on the
  1938   unfiltered Trackback/Pingback content [Dirk]
  1939 - When editing a link submission with a new link category (i.e. the submitter
  1940   selected "other" and entered a non-existing category), make sure that new
  1941   category actually shows up in the links editor [Dirk]
  1942 - In the Admin's list of stories, show the display name of the topic (i.e. the
  1943   same as in the Topics block) instead of the topic ID [Dirk]
  1944 - Hide the edit icon in the Admin's list of stories when the current user
  1945   doesn't have edit access to a story (since they only got a note saying they
  1946   can't edit that story anyway) [Dirk]
  1947 - Fixed alternating row colors in admin lists if one row has no data [Oliver]
  1948 - Made it impossible to switch off blocks if there is no access [Oliver]
  1949 - Fixed handling of items in the submission queues (it was only possible to
  1950   approve / delete the first item in a queue) [Dirk]
  1951 - Grant users with 'plugin.edit' permission access to the plugin editor [Dirk]
  1952 - Changed admin-lists 'default-filter' to require 'AND' [Oliver]
  1953 - Fixed admin lists for events & static pages for non-root users [Oliver]
  1954 - Fixed invalid language string in submit.php [Oliver]
  1955 - Fixed problems with the query highlighting code escaping double quotes [Dirk]
  1956 - In the list of plugins, display only the plugin's current version number as
  1957   long as it's in sync with the code version or the plugin hasn't implemented
  1958   the chkVersion API function [Dirk]
  1959 - Limit length of a new user's username to 16 characters in the
  1960   admin/user/edituser.thtml template file [Dirk]
  1961 - Don't display the current user's userphoto when creating a new user in
  1962   admin/user.php [Dirk]
  1963 - Fixed sanity checks in USER_addGroup and USER_delGroup [Trinity, Dirk]
  1964 - Allowed the Links-entry from the top menu to be hidden by config.php in links
  1965   [Oliver]
  1966 - Fixed small HTML validation issues with adv. editor and admin lists [Oliver]
  1967 - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
  1968   have the correct story/topic permissions. [Vinny]
  1969 - Send the character set as an HTTP header from COM_siteHeader now [Oliver]
  1970 - Fixed updating Links feeds [Mike]
  1971 - Corrected RSS handling of GUID or LINK [Mike]
  1972 - Fixed date format in Atom feeds [Mike]
  1973 - Fixed loss of sort setting when browsing the user list [Oliver]
  1974 - Fixed block title of the site stats (reported by Tom Willet) [Dirk]
  1975 - Fixed an SQL error when approving the default story submission ("Are you
  1976   secure?") after a fresh install (reported by suvi) [Dirk]
  1977 - Fixed warnings that exposed the full path to Geeklog when attempting SQL
  1978   injections on the advanced search [Mike]
  1979 - The "Mail Users" icon was missing from Command and Control [Dirk]
  1980 - In Command and Control, show the Trackback icon only when at least one of the
  1981   Trackback, Pingback, or Ping features is enabled (in addition to 'story.ping'
  1982   permissions for the current user) [Dirk]
  1983 - Replaced the delete_event.gif icon (in layout/professional/images/icons) with
  1984   a PNG, since the Professional theme uses PNGs now and the icon wouldn't show
  1985   up otherwise [Dirk]
  1986 - The block around the list of backups was missing the title [Dirk]
  1987 - Don't emit the Trackback and Pingback headers when trackbacks have been
  1988   disabled for a story [Dirk]
  1989 - Introduced {lang_trackback_comments_no_link} (in trackback/trackback.thtml)
  1990   so that you can have an article page entirely without links back to itself
  1991   (for picky spiders such as the one for Google News) [Dirk]
  1992 - Call COM_refresh when creating a user with usersubmission = 1 [Mike]
  1993 - Fixed sorting of Trackbacks in the What's New block [Dirk]
  1994 - The search by author or by date switched to searching for everything on
  1995   page 2 of the results [Dirk]
  1996 - For the Links plugin, the "last x days" text in the What's New block was
  1997   missing [Dirk]
  1998 - Fixed an SQL error when creating new blocks [Mike]
  1999 - The feed reader will now also follow redirects [Mike]
  2000 
  2001 - Updated Chinese traditional and simplified language files, and new Chinese
  2002   language files for the Links, Polls, and Static Pages plugins, provided by
  2003   Samuel M. Stone
  2004 - German language files now exist in 4 combinations (formal / informal German,
  2005   ISO-8859-15 / UTF-8 encoding) for Geeklog, the Links, Polls and Static Pages
  2006   plugins [Dirk]
  2007 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
  2008 - New Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251) for Geeklog and all four plugins,
  2009   provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
  2010 - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
  2011   Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych
  2012 
  2013 
  2014 Nov 20, 2005 (1.4.0b1)
  2015 ------------
  2016 
  2017 - Introduced {start_storylink_anchortag} and {end_storylink_anchortag} template
  2018   variables in the story and commentbar template files which only produce a
  2019   link to the story when not on article.php, thus avoiding links back to the
  2020   article page itself, which the spider for Google News doesn't seem to like
  2021   (feature request #486) [Dirk]
  2022 - Added a workaround for image uploads using GD when ImageCreateTrueColor is
  2023   not available (patch #468) [Dirk]
  2024 - Allow a subject to be passed as a parameter for the "contact user" form
  2025   (based on patch #497) [Dirk]
  2026 - Added support for right-to-left languages (based on patch #488) [Dirk]
  2027 - Update Feeds and Older Stories block when changing topic settings [Dirk]
  2028 - Added a hits counter to events and added a Top Ten Events section to the
  2029   site stats [Dirk]
  2030 - Introduced $_CONF['show_topic_icon'], i.e. the default setting whether to
  2031   show topic icons or not [Dirk]
  2032 - The "Older Stories" block now only lists articles that appeared on the
  2033   frontpage (i.e. have not been set to "Show only in topic", bug #408) [Dirk]
  2034 - Fixed problems with query highlighting in stories scrambling links in
  2035   autotags (bug #492) [Dirk]
  2036 - Group names are now unique (as they should have been from the beginning). The
  2037   install script takes care of existing duplicate group names when upgrading
  2038   to 1.4.0 (bug #367) [Dirk]
  2039 - Allow for more topic IDs in the user's preferences (bug #490) [Dirk]
  2040 - Replace autotags in the Daily Digest (bug #484) [Dirk]
  2041 - Explicitly link to /docs/index.html for the documentation link in the Admin's
  2042   block (bug #504) [Dirk]
  2043 - Added an option to enable / disable trackbacks per story (just like you can
  2044   enable / disable comments per story) [Dirk]
  2045 - Changed COM_optionList to check for language arrays which override the text
  2046   strings that are embedded in the database (for comment mode, featured story,
  2047   post mode, etc.) Bug #227 [Dirk]
  2048 - Fixed Bug #174 -- quotes in titles are no longer double htmlentized [Vinny]
  2049 - The default permissions for new objects (stories, topics, blocks, etc.) can
  2050   now be set in config.php (feature request #90) [Dirk]
  2051 - Added an "Active users" entry to the site statistics. If Geeklog is configured
  2052   to track a user's last login, this will display the number of users who
  2053   logged into the site during the last 4 weeks. Otherwise, it displays the
  2054   number of user accounts with status = 3 (i.e. have logged into their account
  2055   at least once and haven't been banned) [Dirk]
  2056 - Introduced a new plugin API function so that the plugin's summary (e.g.
  2057   number of items) can be properly integrated with the "Site Stats" section.
  2058   Modified stats/sitestatistics.thtml, removed stats/stats.thtml, added
  2059   stats/singlesummary.thtml template files [Dirk]
  2060 - Introduced a generic function, USER_getPhoto, which provides the user's photo,
  2061   if available. The function also supports getting the user's avatar from
  2062   gravatar.com (if enabled in config.php) [Dirk]
  2063 - The texts in the What's New block ("x new stories in the last y hours",
  2064   "last 2 weeks", etc.) now properly reflect the actual settings of the
  2065   $_CONF['newXXXinterval'] variables (bug #390) [Oliver, Dirk]
  2066 - Introduced a method to signal a forced update for feeds in case the content
  2067   of one of the feed entries has changed  - so far, we only checked if entries
  2068   had been added or removed (bug #277) [Dirk]
  2069 - Added $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] option which, if set = true, will display
  2070   right-side blocks on all pages (also addresses feature request #31) [Dirk]
  2071 - Fixed bug #454, SQL error when reading comments. [Vinny]
  2072 - Leave off the "page=1" parameter on the "Google paging" navigation bar for
  2073   links that point back to the first page [Dirk]
  2074 - The default feed for a new site is now in RSS 2.0 format and named
  2075   "geeklog.rss" [Mike, Dirk]
  2076 - Added time of the day to the name of the database backups to allow several
  2077   backups a day [Oliver]
  2078 - When the search returns no results, the search form is now pre-populated
  2079   with the last search query, so that it can be changed easily. On successful
  2080   searches, a "refine search" link will appear that also takes you back to a
  2081   pre-populated search form (to refine your search, obviously) [Dirk]
  2082 - Changed search to only return a certain amount of hits per page, thus
  2083   avoiding timeouts on servers where the script execution time is limited
  2084   (bug #274) [Dirk]
  2085   A new config variable, $_CONF['num_search_results'], defines the number of
  2086   search results to be returned per page (and per type). The search form also
  2087   includes a drop-down menu where this can be changed for every search.
  2088   Plugins will have to indicate if they support this "paged" search. Otherwise,
  2089   Geeklog will fake the paging for the plugin, so that the plugin does a full
  2090   search for every page, but Geeklog will only display the hits for the current
  2091   page (such a plugin can therefore still cause a timeout until it is changed
  2092   to support "paged" searching).
  2093 - Added a permanent link to comments (in the professional theme) [Vinny]
  2094 - Added new icons for the admin sections and made sure each admin section
  2095   now has an icon in admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
  2096   The new icons have been taken from the Gnome project (some of them modified
  2097   by Jakub Steiner). They are released under the GPL.
  2098 - Introduced global variable $_IMAGE_TYPE that specifies the image type to
  2099   use. Defaults to 'gif'. Themes can override it to use other images types,
  2100   e.g. PNG, for all images [Dirk]
  2101 - Added option to upload topic icons (Feature Request #415, Patch #423),
  2102   provided by Alford Deeley (machinari)
  2103 - Changed the Admin's "Command and Control" center such that there is an icon
  2104   for every entry in the Admin's block [Dirk]
  2105 - Removed duplicate code for creating a "topic SQL" query in moderation.php
  2106   (use COM_getTopicSQL instead) [Dirk]
  2107 - Added the ability to allow users to login via defined remote services (ships
  2108   with Blogger and LiveJournal support) [Mike]
  2109 - Added the ability to ban users, and to tell when a user has logged in at least
  2110   once [Mike]
  2111 - Added edit-icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & alternating row colors
  2112   in admin menus for groups, syndication, staticpages, trackback
  2113   (where not yet done) [Oliver]
  2114 - Added function to allow user-defined scaling of images in articles by using
  2115   [unscaledX] instead of [imageX] [Oliver]
  2116 - Removed $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] option - use $_CONF['show_fullname']
  2117   instead [Dirk]
  2118 - Fixed bug where extra slashes appeared when previewing comments [Vinny]
  2119 - Removed the "lastvisit" cookies, as they are obviously not used [Dirk]
  2120 - Removed redundant changepwd-button & code from /admin/user.php (Bug #9)
  2121   [Oliver]
  2122 - Added new feature to insert a feed-links into header depending on topic, to
  2123   be chosen from /admin/syndication.php in the form of
  2124   <link rel="alternate" type="application/{format}+xml" ....> [Oliver]
  2125 - Added options to google-Navigation so it can be used by plugins and work with
  2126   url-rewriting (feature request #315). [Oliver]
  2127 - Userlist now also shows Registration Date and if $_CONF['lastlogin']= true it
  2128   shows the last login date instead. [Oliver]
  2129 - Added option in config.php to hide "Viewed: x" line with
  2130   $_CONF['viewscountline'] just as the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] [Oliver]
  2131 - Added function COM_numberFormat to format displayed numbers with custom
  2132   decimal & thousand - separators and fixed decimal places if necessary
  2133   Includes the respecitve 3 new config.php values in locale section.
  2134   (Feature Request #298) [Oliver]
  2135 - Default Blocks showed always in all Topics before. Now you can choose to show
  2136   them in All/only one topic/only on homepage like other blocks (feature #326)
  2137   [Oliver]
  2138 - A Story can now break over several pages in the body-text. The tag
  2139   [page_break] will split the bodytext in pieces that can be opened with the
  2140   std. COM_printPageNavigation. Introtext is removed for pages>1 [Oliver]
  2141 - Added field for old password check in /usersettings.php (bug #230) [Oliver]
  2142 - Added password confirmation to /admin/user.php and /usersettings.php
  2143   (bug #230) [Oliver]
  2144 - Made the alternating row colors in the Admin's trackback functions compatible
  2145   with the scheme used in other places (list of users, etc.). Also changed the
  2146   list of weblog directory services so that editing is now done by clicking on
  2147   the number of the service [Dirk]
  2148 - Stories are no longer forced to be featured _and_ on frontpage (bug #362)
  2149   [Oliver]
  2150 - Changed links locations in User-list, added user-photo indicator [Oliver]
  2151 - Don't update a story's date any more when unchecking the 'draft' flag
  2152   (bug #400) [Dirk]
  2153 - Don't use "rewritten" URLs in the static pages editor any more (bug #403).
  2154   Also updated the list of static pages to use alternating colors for the
  2155   rows [Dirk]
  2156 - Use "\r\n" when sending trackback pings (bug #407) [Dirk]
  2157 - Allow autotags to optionally have a space after the tag name [Blaine]
  2158   Valid tags are:
  2159   [story:20040101093000103 here] or [story: 20040101093000103 here]
  2160 - Fixed inconsistent use of {site_url} and {layout_url} in some of the
  2161   professional theme's admin template files - using {layout_url} everywhere
  2162   now when referring to icons (bug #395) [Dirk]
  2163 - Event titles containing quotes were cut off at the first quote in the event
  2164   editor, i.e. both the admin's event editor and the editor for personal events.
  2165   (bug #399) [Dirk]
  2166 - Modified PLG_templateSetVars API to also check for a custom function [Blaine]
  2167   Users can now set header template using CUSTOM_templatesetvars()
  2168 - Added new CSS declarations as recommened CSS for plugins   [Blaine]
  2169 - Added a basic scheduler Plugin API plugin_runScheduledTask  [Blaine]
  2170   Interval is set in config.php - $_CONF['cron_schedule_interval']
  2171 - Enhanced the Group Admin interface display [Blaine]
  2172 - Enhanced the User Admin display and made the headings sortable [Blaine]
  2173 - Geeklog will now properly handle html special characters (such as quotes and
  2174   ampersands) in comment titles (bug #174) [Vinny]
  2175 - Hide 'edit' option for articles in preview (bug #347) [Dirk]
  2176 - Changed admin/user.php to use file() for the batch import [Dirk]
  2177 - Implemented pinging weblog directory services like blo.gs and weblogs.com
  2178   (Feature Request #35). By default, we ping pingomatic.com [Dirk]
  2179 - Complete overhaul of the Plugin Comment API to reduce the likelyhood of
  2180   plugins introducing security problems.  Older plugins that use the comment
  2181   API will no longer work. [Vinny]
  2182 - Refactored Comment code out of lib-common.php and into lib-comment.php, also
  2183   some changes to comment.php [Vinny]
  2184 - Introduced a 'story.ping' permission that enables users to send Pings,
  2185   Pingbacks, and Trackbacks for a story (or plugin item). Members of the Story
  2186   Admin group have that permission by default.
  2187 - Overhauled install script: It will now abort the installation if the minumum
  2188   requirements (PHP 4.1.0, MySQL 3.23.2) are not met. It also displays a warning
  2189   message if register_long_arrays is off (PHP 5 only, bug #360). Another
  2190   warning message is displayed if "public_html" is part of the URL.
  2191   When upgrading, it now tries to identify the Geeklog version that was used
  2192   previously (only really works for versions 1.3.8 - 1.3.11) [Dirk]
  2193 - Fixed date in comment preview (bug #370) [Dirk]
  2194 - Incorporated the new syndication framework for reading and writing feeds of
  2195   different formats (RSS, RDF, Atom), provided by Michael Jervis (patch #352).
  2196   This contribution also addresses Task #19 ("RSS import class") and Feature
  2197   Request #67 ("Limiting number of entries in RSS feeds").
  2198   Please note that the feed writer classes, system/classes/*.feed.class.php,
  2199   are now obsolete and can be removed. Please also note this adds new PEAR
  2200   package requirements for Net_URL and HTTP_Request.
  2201 - Added support for sending and receiving trackback comments (Feature Request
  2202   #34) Also implemented Pingback support in pretty much the same way. Once
  2203   received, Geeklog treats Trackbacks and Pingbacks the same and stores them
  2204   in the gl_trackback table. [Dirk]
  2205   Both can be switched off in config.php: $_CONF['trackback_enabled'] = false;
  2206   and $_CONF['pingback_enabled'] = false;
  2207 - Added a new script, directory.php, that implements a date-based listing of
  2208   all the stories on a site [Dirk]
  2209   A link to the directory is available as a new option, 'directory', for the
  2210   $_CONF['menu_elements'] config variable, so that it can be added to the menu.
  2211 - The column headline for event search results was not displayed [Dirk]
  2212 - Added logos to syndication feeds. [Mike]
  2213 - Added config option to disable new accounts (Patch #426 from Alford Deeley)
  2214   [Mike]
  2215 - Alphabet Sort on Admin Menu and C&C Block [Mike]
  2216 
  2217 - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
  2218 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
  2219 
  2220 - New Farsi (Persian) language file for the static pages plugin,
  2221   provided by Hesam.H
  2222 
  2223 Links plugin 1.0.0
  2224 ------------
  2225 - Added ID-editor and Autotags-feature [link: ... ] [Oliver]
  2226 - Added Category-Specific Feeds [Oliver]
  2227 - Added Edit-Icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & etc for admin menu [Oliver]
  2228 - Moved links functionality into a plugin [Trinity, Oliver]
  2229 
  2230 Polls plugin 1.0.0
  2231 ------------
  2232 - Polls moved to a plugin [Trinity]
  2233 
  2234 Spam-X plugin 1.0.3
  2235 -------------
  2236 - The LogView module now automatically truncates the Spam-X logfile to 100KB
  2237   [Tom Willet]
  2238 - The IP Blacklist module now supports regular expressions [Mike]
  2239 - Added a Mass Delete module for Trackback comments [Dirk]
  2240 - Added an "admin override" option, so that postings by members of the 'spamx
  2241   Admin' group will not be checked for spam [Dirk]
  2242 
  2243 
  2244 July 16, 2006 (1.3.11sr7)
  2245 -------------
  2246 
  2247 JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
  2248 fixing with this release.
  2249 
  2250 
  2251 May 28, 2006 (1.3.11sr6)
  2252 ------------
  2253 
  2254 The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
  2255 security issues:
  2256 
  2257 - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
  2258 - Possible XSS in getimage.php
  2259 - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
  2260   e.g. the Professional theme
  2261 
  2262 An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
  2263 submissions.
  2264 
  2265 
  2266 Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.11sr5)
  2267 -----------
  2268 
  2269 Security issue:
  2270 
  2271 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
  2272   anyone to log in as any user.
  2273 
  2274 
  2275 Feb 19, 2006 (1.3.11sr4)
  2276 ------------
  2277 
  2278 Security issues:
  2279 
  2280 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
  2281   Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
  2282   file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
  2283 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks
  2284 
  2285 
  2286 Dec 12, 2005 (1.3.11sr3)
  2287 ------------
  2288 
  2289 Security issues:
  2290 
  2291 - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
  2292   have the correct story/topic permissions (reported by LWC) [Vinny]
  2293 - Fixed a path disclosure in case someone tampered with the start date or end
  2294   date in advanced search (reported by r0t3d3Vil) [Mike]
  2295   Feeding malformed dates to the search caused a warning message to be displayed
  2296   that disclosed the path to the Geeklog install on the server. It was NOT
  2297   possible to use this for SQL injections.
  2298 
  2299 Bugfixes:
  2300 
  2301 - Fixed the problems (introduced in 1.3.11sr2) editing static pages when
  2302   $_CONF['url_rewrite'] = true (bug #491) [Dirk]
  2303 - The "Reply" button didn't work when viewing individual comments [Vinny]
  2304 - Fixed the definition of the 'expire' field (in table gl_stories), which
  2305   caused an SQL error when doing a fresh install on MySQL 5
  2306   (reported by Johannes) [Dirk]
  2307 
  2308 - Fixed and updated the Hebrew language file [LWC, Dirk]
  2309 - New Ukrainian language file (Windows-1251), provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
  2310 - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
  2311   Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych
  2312 
  2313 
  2314 Oct 9, 2005 (1.3.11sr2)
  2315 -----------
  2316 
  2317 This release provides security enhancements and better spam protection
  2318 originally developed for Geeklog 1.3.12. It also addresses a few bugs where
  2319 the bugfix could be integrated with a reasonable amount of work (other bugfixes
  2320 will have to wait for the 1.3.12 release).
  2321 
  2322 Security and Spam protection:
  2323 
  2324 - Added speedlimit to login attempts, defaults to allowing three tries in a
  2325   five minute period.  [Vinny]
  2326   See new config options $_CONF['login_attempts'] and $_CONF['login_speedlimit']
  2327 - Changed the spam handling to update the speed limit when spam is detected
  2328   (i.e. handle spam posts as if they were successful posts and make the
  2329   submitter wait for the speed limit to expire). Also send a 403 "Forbidden"
  2330   HTTP response code when displaying the "spam detected" message [Dirk]
  2331   To quote RFC2616: "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is
  2332   refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD
  2333   NOT be repeated."
  2334 - Filter linefeeds in the To:, From:, and Subject: fields of an email in
  2335   COM_mail [Dirk]
  2336 - When a new user account is created and the user submission queue is enabled
  2337   in config.php, ensure that the user is properly "queued" even in the
  2338   unlikely event that the account creation fails halfway through (reported by
  2339   LWC) [Dirk]
  2340 - When $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = 1, hide the links to the "email
  2341   story" form from anonymous users [Dirk]
  2342 - When emailing a story, check the user's message that is sent with the story
  2343   for spam [Dirk]
  2344 - Added a robots.txt file to the distribution. By default, it excludes
  2345   comment.php, submit.php, and the docs directory from being spidered [Dirk]
  2346 - Added a spam check to the user profile [Dirk]
  2347 - Story, event, and link submissions are now also checked for spam [Dirk]
  2348 - This release also includes the Spam-X plugin version 1.0.2
  2349 
  2350 Please note that MT-Blacklist (used by Spam-X) has recently been discontinued.
  2351 For the time being, we provide the last version of the blacklist for download
  2352 from geeklog.net (the Spam-X plugin as included in this release is configured
  2353 to get it from there for the initial import). There will, however, be no
  2354 updates the blacklist. For details, please see
  2355 http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/mt-blacklist-discontinued
  2356 
  2357 Bugfixes:
  2358 
  2359 - Fixed an error message thrown up by PHP 5.0.5 or later when viewing the
  2360   article page (bug #483) [Dirk]
  2361 - Fixed bug with topic-specific blocks not showing up on the article page when
  2362   URL rewriting was enabled (bug #401) [Dirk]
  2363 - Fixed missing site header when trying to submit an event without required
  2364   fields. Also fixed that it would redirect you to the story submission form
  2365   then (bug #409) [Dirk]
  2366 - Make sure {menu_elements} is rendered using the menuitem_none.thtml template
  2367   when no menu elements are to be displayed (bug #378) [Dirk]
  2368 - Quote names in email addresses as soon as they contain any non-alphanumeric
  2369   characters (apart from the blank). This also addresses bug #368 [Dirk]
  2370 - Allow single quotes in passwords (bug #396, also previously reported as
  2371   bug #349 / #996354) [Dirk]
  2372 - When $_CONF['profileloginrequired'] was set to 1, the actual message that
  2373   you have to log in before being able to see a user profile was not wrapped
  2374   in the Geeklog framework (reported by Sean C) [Dirk]
  2375 - Fix: Made a story's archive/expire date work with the timezone hack [Dirk]
  2376 - COM_applyFilter will now accept negative numbers if the isnumeric parameter
  2377   is true. Needed to fix problems with pollbooth.php (and others) [Vinny]
  2378 - Upgraded included kses class to version 0.2.2 which fixes problems with
  2379   Japanese and Thai characters (among other things), thus addressing bugs #94
  2380   and #119 [Dirk]
  2381 - Fixed SQL error when using the [staticpage:] autotag (bug #373) [Dirk]
  2382 - Added a missing stripslashes call to remove backslashes when a topic's name
  2383   was displayed in the index page's title (bug #369) [Dirk]
  2384 - Link tags are now translated in printer friendly mode (Bug #411) [Mike]
  2385 - Removed the <meta name="ROBOTS"> entry from the Professional theme's
  2386   header.thtml as "INDEX,FOLLOW" is the default anyway. For finer control,
  2387   we now ship a robots.txt [Dirk]
  2388 
  2389 Improvements:
  2390 
  2391 - Don't check for auto-archived stories when no archive topic has been
  2392   defined yet [Dirk]
  2393 - Added support for a custom_usercheck function. Custom registration code that
  2394   requires certain information can now abort the creation of a new account if
  2395   that information is missing. The function is called after Geeklog has checked
  2396   that the username and email address of the new user are okay (valid and not
  2397   in the database yet), but before the user has been added to the database
  2398   [Dirk]
  2399 - Saved one SQL request for a story's printable view [Dirk]
  2400 
  2401 Language files:
  2402 
  2403 - Made sure all language files refer to Geeklog's [image] tags as [imageX],
  2404   [imageX_right], and [imageX_left] (bug #381) [Dirk]
  2405 
  2406 - New Catalan language file, provided by an anonymous user
  2407 - New Russian (UTF-8) language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
  2408 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  2409 - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by MzOzD
  2410 - Updated Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
  2411 - Updated Japanese (UTF-8) language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
  2412 - Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho
  2413 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
  2414 
  2415 - New Japanese (UTF-8) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  2416   Yusuke Sakata
  2417 - Updated Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  2418   Marcello Teodori
  2419 - Updated Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  2420   Yusuke Sakata
  2421 
  2422 
  2423 Aug 21, 2005 (Spam-X plugin 1.0.2)
  2424 ------------
  2425 
  2426 - Changed the display name of the plugin to "Spam-X" to avoid potential
  2427   confusion with the email spam filter of the same name.
  2428   "SpamX" is a registered trademark of Hendrickson Software Components.
  2429 - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the poster
  2430   [Tom Willet]
  2431 - Added  a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the
  2432   spamvertised site [Tom Willet]
  2433 - Added a new module to filter posts based on characteristics of the HTTP header
  2434   [Dirk]
  2435 - Fixed the Mass Delete Spam Comments module [Tom Willet]
  2436 - The Spam-X plugin's examine modules run the post through html_entity_decode()
  2437   now in case the spammers try to obfuscate their posts by using HTML entities
  2438   [Tom Willet, Dirk]
  2439 - The Mail Admin action module now also reports the HTTP headers of the post
  2440   that triggered the spam filter [Dirk]
  2441 - Added a simple stats function (reports the number of posts deleted as spam,
  2442   and - to the Spam-X Admin only - the number of entries for each module) [Dirk]
  2443 - Implemented an update function for the plugin [Dirk]
  2444 
  2445 - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
  2446 - New Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
  2447 - New Spanish language file, provided by vivi1123
  2448 
  2449 
  2450 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.11sr1)
  2451 -----------
  2452 
  2453 This release addresses the following security issue:
  2454 
  2455 Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
  2456 be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.
  2457 
  2458 
  2459 Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.11)
  2460 ------------
  2461 
  2462 Geeklog 1.3.11 addresses the following security issues:
  2463 
  2464 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
  2465    were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
  2466    These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
  2467    disabled it in config.php.
  2468 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
  2469    leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
  2470 3. The links for the What's Related block were created from the unfiltered story
  2471    text, opening the possibility of XSS attacks (reported by Vincent Furia).
  2472 
  2473 Bugfixes:
  2474 
  2475 - Added a missing stripslashes() call for the topic name in the What's Related
  2476   block (bug #351) [Dirk]
  2477   (affected file: system/lib-story.php)
  2478 - Fixed problems in the story editor when editing plain-text posts with
  2479   uploaded images (bug #356) [Dirk]
  2480   (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
  2481 - When changing a story ID, update the story ID in any comments to that story,
  2482   too (bug #357) [Dirk]
  2483   (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
  2484 - Fixed handling of autotags that started with the same substring, e.g. for
  2485   2 tags 'mytag' and 'mytagtwo', the second tag would not be recognized
  2486   (reported by Dr. Shakagee) [Dirk]
  2487   (affected file: system/lib-plugins.php)
  2488 - Fixed caching of $_GROUPS [Dirk]
  2489   (affected files: system/lib-security.php, public_html/lib-common.php)
  2490 - Made a minor optimization to save one SQL request when displaying the comment
  2491   bar for anonymous users [Dirk]
  2492   (affected file: public_html/lib-common.php)
  2493 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
  2494   (affected file: language/slovenian.php)
  2495 
  2496 
  2497 Dec 22, 2004 (1.3.11rc1)
  2498 ------------
  2499 
  2500 - Fixed "archive" option being activated too early on certain non-featured
  2501   stories (bug #345) [Blaine]
  2502 - Added missing handling of autotags in static pages being displayed as center
  2503   blocks (reported by Jill) [Dirk]
  2504 - Fixed size of the 'sid' field in the gl_comments table. It should be 40
  2505   characters, to be able to hold the long story IDs introduced in 1.3.10
  2506   (reported by Douglas Santos) [Dirk]
  2507 - When using mogrify (ImageMagick) to resize uploaded images, the name of the
  2508   image is now enclosed in double quotes instead of single quotes, which
  2509   caused the command to fail on Windows [Dirk]
  2510 - The emails sent from the Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action now also include
  2511   the IP address of the spam poster [Dirk]
  2512 - SEC_getFeatureGroup() should not overwrite $_GROUPS if not operating on the
  2513   current user (bug #331) [Dirk]
  2514 - Introduced a {camera_icon} variable in story and comment templates that
  2515   displays the little camera icon if the author has uploaded a user photo, just
  2516   like in the Who's Online block (suggested by Laurence Whitworth) [Dirk]
  2517 - The parent link in top-level comments took the user to the homepage rather
  2518   than to the article page (bug #346) [Vinny]
  2519 - Stories submitted for the archive topic will automatically be saved with
  2520   frontpage = 0 when approved, i.e. only be displayed in the topic [Dirk]
  2521 - Avoid emitting an extra <br> tag after the last section in the What's New
  2522   block (bug #330) [Dirk]
  2523 - Update comment count in Older Stories block when a new comment is posted
  2524   (bug #317). Also optimized the code to collect the contents of the Older
  2525   Stories block [Dirk]
  2526 - Fixed extra <br> being emitted in the calendar for events that aren't
  2527   visible for the current user (bug #268) [Dirk]
  2528 - (Event) Admins can now delete events directly from the calendar's day and
  2529   week views (just like events in the personal calendar) [Dirk]
  2530 - Fixed usersettings.php so that it displays the "benefits" message again when
  2531   called up by an anonymous user. Also made it go to the user's preferences
  2532   when called without a 'mode' parameter [Dirk]
  2533 - Added {layout_url} to the available theme variables in the submission forms.
  2534   Also added {separator} for those who prefer correct spelling ;-) [Dirk]
  2535 - More parameter filtering and permission checks in submit.php [Dirk]
  2536 - Fixed over-zealous parameter filtering in links.php which prevented
  2537   categories with apostrophes from working [Dirk]
  2538 - Fixed broken URLs when editing a plain-text story that contained uploaded
  2539   images (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
  2540 - The PEAR classes that ship with Geeklog actually require PHP 4.2.x now.
  2541   However, the missing functions in older PHP versions (minimum requirement
  2542   for Geeklog itself is now PHP 4.1.0) are provided by the PEAR PHP_Compat
  2543   package, which we will have to ship with Geeklog from now on. Added the
  2544   necessary code to lib-common.php to load PHP_Compat, if required [Dirk]
  2545   Many thanks to Tom Willet for providing a test setup.
  2546 - Fixed "quick add form" for personal events, so that it stores the new event
  2547   directly now [Dirk]
  2548 - Fixed handling of 12am/pm in events, event submissions, and when passing the
  2549   time from the calendar to the event submission forms [Dirk]
  2550 - Improved handling of personal events / personal calendar, especially for
  2551   (Event) Admins [Dirk]
  2552 - Fixed What's Related links when magic_quotes_qpc = on [Vinny, Dirk]
  2553 - Fixed use of an undefined variable $U in COM_showBlocks and warning messages
  2554   for undefined array indexes in COM_getCurrentURL (reported by irawen) [Dirk]
  2555 - Allow empty search query strings so that the "More by <author>" and "More
  2556   from <topic>" options work again [Dirk]
  2557 - When deleting a poll, also delete any comments to that poll [Dirk]
  2558 - Delete comments and story images when deleting stories from a deleted topic
  2559   (bug #339) [Dirk]
  2560 - When deleting a story, added an extra check for type='article' when deleting
  2561   the story's comments [Dirk]
  2562 - Set current user as the owner when cloning an event (bug #338) [Dirk]
  2563 - Start time, end time, and event location weren't copied over when adding a
  2564   site event to the personal calendar (bug #336) [Dirk]
  2565 - Fixed wrong use of htmlentities() on comment title (bug #335) [Dirk]
  2566 - Changed "read more" word count so that it ignores HTML tags (bug #333) [Dirk]
  2567 
  2568 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
  2569 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Ko de Pree.
  2570 - Updated Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin,
  2571   provided by Ko de Pree.
  2572 - New French language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Alain Ponton.
  2573 
  2574 
  2575 Nov 28, 2004 (1.3.10)
  2576 ------------
  2577 
  2578 - Allow omission of the link text for the [story:], [event:], and [staticpage:]
  2579   autotags. Geeklog will then use the title (of the story / event / static page)
  2580   as the link text [Dirk]
  2581   (affected files: system/lib-plugins.php, plugins/staticpages/functions.inc)
  2582 
  2583 - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
  2584 
  2585 
  2586 Nov 21, 2004 (1.3.10rc3)
  2587 ------------
  2588 
  2589 - Changed wording of the error message if the "backups" directory is not
  2590   writable [Dirk]
  2591 - Fixed comments for the DB_result (in lib-database.php) and dbResult
  2592   (in mysql.class.php) functions (bug #320) [Dirk]
  2593 - Display a success message when using the "changepw" option in admin/user.php
  2594   [Dirk]
  2595 - When changing a username, make sure to change the name of the user's photo,
  2596   too (bug #321) [Dirk]
  2597 - Links in "plain text" stories and comments are now made clickable (i.e.
  2598   enclosed in <a> tags) when the post is saved instead of when it's displayed,
  2599   as in the previous release candidates. This also fixes bug #308. [Dirk]
  2600 - Added $_CONF['disable_autolinks'] config option to disable autolinks [Dirk]
  2601 - Removed ViewBlacklist.Admin.class.php from the Spam-X plugin [Tom Willet]
  2602 - Overhauled handling of personal events [Dirk]:
  2603   + Fixed deleting personal events (again).
  2604   + The upcoming events block now links to the event details of personal
  2605     events (just like it already did for site events).
  2606   + Added stricter checks for permissions, user IDs, and the personal calendars
  2607     being activated in the first place.
  2608 - Added a check for allow_url_fopen if reading a (RSS) feed fails and report it
  2609   in error.log if it is off [Dirk]
  2610 - When deleting a story (automatically), make sure we're only deleting comments
  2611   belonging to that story (i.e. added a check for type = 'article') [Dirk]
  2612 - Added {event_type}, {lang_event_type}, and {edit_icon} in all the themes'
  2613   calendar/eventdetails.thtml template file [Dirk]
  2614 - Fixed some URLs in the calendar (missing slash) [Dirk]
  2615 - Comment IDs don't have to be numeric (in comment.php) [Vinny]
  2616 - The Static Pages plugin now takes $_CONF['showfirstasfeatured'] into account
  2617   when displaying static pages in center blocks (reported by eyecravedvd) [Dirk]
  2618 - Forgot to declare $_CONF as global when fixing bug #301 (bug #302) [Dirk]
  2619 
  2620 - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
  2621 - Updated Japanese language files (euc-jp and UTF-8), provided by Yusuke Sakata
  2622 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
  2623 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
  2624 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero
  2625 - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg
  2626 
  2627 
  2628 Oct 24, 2004 (1.3.10rc2)
  2629 ------------
  2630 
  2631 - Fixed plugin update function [Blaine]
  2632 - Set the target encoding in Geeklog's RSS parser (bug #301) [Dirk]
  2633 - Set the {topic_icon} variable to an empty string for the "Home" link in the
  2634   Topics block (reported by jhwhite) [Dirk]
  2635 - Fixed News Box Configuration, i.e. the ability to disable blocks [Vinny]
  2636 - In the story template files, the number of comments now only is a link when
  2637   there actually is a comment on the story [Dirk]
  2638 - Hard-coded the English word 'delete' in the URLs to delete a comment [Dirk]
  2639 - For the list of a user's recent comments, use 'mode=view' to link directly
  2640   to a comment now [Dirk]
  2641 - Fixed comment id in comment notification emails [Dirk]
  2642 - Fixed display of the number of static pages that the user has access to (in
  2643   the Admin Block) [Dirk]
  2644 - COM_makeClickableLinks did not recognize links with the 'http:' at the
  2645   start of a line [Dirk]
  2646 - Re-introduced <br> between plugin sections in the What's New block, pretty
  2647   much reverting the change suggested by feature request #292 [Dirk]
  2648 - Introduced function COM_formatEmailAddress that creates a (more or less)
  2649   RFC(2)822 compliant email address from a name and an address [Dirk]
  2650   This function is now used for formatting the site address, as well as for
  2651   addresses entered by the user in profiles.php and admin/mail.php.
  2652 - The Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action didn't send any email notifications,
  2653   since the call to COM_mail was commented out ... [Dirk]
  2654 - admin/mail.php and admin/group.php use the complete URL to the script in
  2655   the <form action="..."> now (instead of relying on PHP_SELF) [Dirk]
  2656 - Fixed parse error in the Dutch language file (reported by NeoNecro) [Dirk]
  2657 - Allow the dot '.' in IDs (in addition to letters, digits, the dash, and the
  2658   underscore) [Dirk]
  2659 
  2660 
  2661 Oct 17, 2004 (1.3.10rc1)
  2662 ------------
  2663 - Added new functionality to [autotags] - New plugin API's added  [Blaine]
  2664 - Added [autotag] hooks for stories  [Blaine]
  2665 - When a plugin had its icon only in the admin directoy, the plugin editor
  2666   did not find it and displayed a generic icon instead [Dirk]
  2667 - In admin/mail.php, apply htmlspecialchars() on the email addresses before
  2668   displaying them, as the '<foo@example.com>' part will be interpreted as
  2669   HTML by some browsers (pointed out by LWC) [Dirk]
  2670 - When using gdlib for image resizing, GIF images were converted to PNG, but
  2671   Geeklog was still trying to display the GIF (reported by Tom Willet). Since
  2672   the LZW patent has now expired (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw),
  2673   it is safe to use GIF images again, so the PNG conversion was dropped [Dirk]
  2674 - Fixed link to the Anonymous user's profile in comment/thread.thtml [Dirk]
  2675 - Added Location field to the user profile [Blaine]
  2676 - In the light of bug #293, removed all variable names from the language files,
  2677   leaving only the $_CONF config variables [Dirk]
  2678 - Fixed an error message when plugins didn't return an array from
  2679   plugin_getmenuitems_xxx (reported by computerade) [Dirk]
  2680 - When sending emails from the admin/mail.php, some user's names weren't set
  2681   in their email address (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
  2682 - Removed an extra <br> from before and between data provided by plugins in
  2683   the What's New block (feature request #292) [Dirk]
  2684 - When creating a new user from admin/user.php, don't determine the uid before
  2685   actually creating the database entries to avoid race conditions / collisions
  2686   with other user accounts created at the same time (bug #243) [Dirk]
  2687   Also took the opportunity to refactor and move the almost identical code
  2688   from users.php and admin/user.php into a new function USER_createAccount in
  2689   system/lib-user.php.
  2690 - usersettings.php was missing a default case for unsupported values of 'mode'
  2691   (bug #287). This only displayed a blank page and was not exploitable [Dirk]
  2692 - Fixed hard-coded default group names in the Admin sections (e.g. when a user
  2693   had story.edit permissions but was not in the Story Admin group, any new
  2694   story created by that user would default to being owned by the Story Admin
  2695   group nonetheless) [Dirk]
  2696 - Introduced new plugin API functions plugin_user_changed_xxx and
  2697   plugin_group_changed_xxx to inform plugins when a user's information
  2698   (profile or settings) or a group (new, edit, delete) has been changed [Dirk]
  2699 - COM_checkHTML and COM_allowedHTML now accept an additional parameter in form
  2700   of a comma-separated list of permissions. If the current user has at least
  2701   one of those permissions, they are assumed to be an "Admin" and the functions
  2702   will use the $_CONF['admin_html'] list of HTML tags for them (bugs #114 and
  2703   #118) [Dirk]
  2704 - COM_allowedHTML now has an option to only return the list of allowed HTML
  2705   tags without the "Allowed HTML" text (bug #118) [Dirk]
  2706 - For the poll block, always use the block title stored in the database (bug
  2707   #205) [Dirk]
  2708 - It is now again possible to have a different number of stories per page
  2709   for individual topics. Users have to set their preferred number of stories
  2710   per page to 0 (zero) in their preferences, though, as the user preferences
  2711   will always override this setting (bug #190) [Dirk]
  2712 - The Professional theme, kindly provided by Victor B. Gonzalez, is our new
  2713   default theme now.
  2714 - In the calendar's day and week view, event permissions weren't checked
  2715   properly, so that some events were displayed to user who shouldn't have
  2716   been able to see them (reported by Willem Jan) [Dirk]
  2717 - Don't update a story's hit counter as long as the draft flag is set or the
  2718   publishing date is in the future (feature request #282) [Dirk]
  2719 - Introduced new function COM_sanitizeID() to filter special characters out of
  2720   user-editable IDs as used for stories, polls, topics, and static pages (also
  2721   fixes bug #181). Allowed characters are letters a-z (both upper and lower
  2722   case), digits 0-9, the dash '-', and the underscore '_' [Dirk]
  2723 - The Upcoming Events block didn't use the help URL, even if it was set
  2724   (reported by Wolfgang M. Schmitt) [Dirk]
  2725 - Geeklog now comes with Tom Willet's Spam-X plugin pre-installed. The plugin
  2726   now stores the blacklists in the database and uses a new plugin API
  2727   function to filter comment posts [Tom Willet, Tony, Blaine, Dirk]
  2728 - Plugins can now offer their own tags to allow easy linking to their content.
  2729   These tags take the form [name:id link text], where 'name' is a name
  2730   associated with the plugin, 'id' is a unique id referring to one of the
  2731   objects under the plugin's control, and 'link text' is text used in the <a>
  2732   tag that Geeklog creates from these tags.
  2733   Built-in tags are [story:] to link to a story and [event:] to link to an
  2734   event [Blaine, Dirk]
  2735   Example: [story:email-bug About the email bug] would be translated into
  2736   <a href="http://example.com/article.php/email-bug">About the email bug</a>
  2737 - portal.php now sends a 301 HTTP status code for the links instead of a 302.
  2738   While a 302 status code would actually make more sense, Google does have a
  2739   tendency to list search results with the URL of the portal script but with
  2740   the content of the linked site, thus giving the impression that the content
  2741   is actually located on another site. Sending a 301 avoids this problem [Dirk]
  2742 - Group Admins should not even see the groups of which they are not a member
  2743   (bug #280) [Dirk]
  2744 - Prevent Group Admins from listing the members of a group unless they are a
  2745   member of that group themselves [Dirk]
  2746 - Introduced $_CONF['left_blocks_in_footer'] config option that makes the
  2747   {left_blocks} variable available in footer.thtml (disabling it in header.thtml
  2748   at the same time). This is really only useful for two-column layouts where
  2749   you want the side blocks in the right column [Dirk]
  2750 - Polls linked from the stats page now display the result of the poll instead
  2751   of letting the user vote on them (feature request #267) [Dirk]
  2752 - In the Admin's list of events and stories, don't list items for which the
  2753   Admin doesn't have read access (bug #269). [Dirk]
  2754 - Story IDs are now editable (just like the IDs of static pages). [Dirk]
  2755   Important: Update the story editor template (admin/story/storyeditor.thtml)!
  2756 - Fixed a bug that reset every user's password request as soon as some user
  2757   changed their account information (bug #265) [Dirk]
  2758 - Added support for URL rewriting to portal.php [Dirk]
  2759 - The links for the What's Related block are stored in the 'related' field in
  2760   the gl_stories table again. Parsing the story for links every time it is
  2761   rendered uses too much CPU power (with apologies to groklaw.net) [Dirk]
  2762 - Added theme variable {story_link} to commentbar.thtml to link back to original
  2763   story the comments are derived from. [Vinny]
  2764 - Introduced new file system/lib-story.php for story-related functions and
  2765   moved COM_article, COM_whatsRelated, COM_extractLinks, as well as the code
  2766   to delete article images into that file (functions were renamed accordingly:
  2767   STORY_renderArticle, STORY_whatsRelated, STORY_extractLinks) [Dirk]
  2768 - Fixed URLs to userphotos and story images when $_CONF['path_images'] had been
  2769   changed (but was still inside of $_CONF['path_html']) [Dirk]
  2770 - Added a script to convert an existing database to InnoDB tables (if the MySQL
  2771   version supports them): admin/install/toinnodb.php [Dirk]
  2772 - Added missing closing </a> tag in story search results (bug #260) [Dirk]
  2773 - Added a second parameter to function COM_makeList that is used as a CSS
  2774   class name in the list it returns (use {list_class_name} to get the actual
  2775   class name, and {list_class} to get class="classname"). Changed the existing
  2776   calls to COM_makeList to include class names, so that you can now use the
  2777   following class names in your stylesheet to style lists: list-feed,
  2778   list-new-comments, list-new-links, list-new-plugins, list-older-stories,
  2779   list-personal-events, list-site-events, list-story-options, list-whats-related
  2780   (the names should be self-explanatory) [Dirk]
  2781 - Moved the docs directory to public_html/docs and added a link to it from the
  2782   Admin's block (can be switched off in config.php by setting the new option
  2783   $_CONF['link_documentation'] = 0) [Dirk]
  2784 - Replaced 'ppmtojpeg' with 'pnmtojpeg' when using NetPBM for scaling
  2785   uploaded JPEG images (bug #257) [Dirk]
  2786 - Added a check (and a warning message) for PHP 4.1.0 to the install script,
  2787   as that is our new minimum requirement [Dirk]
  2788 - Rewrote install/success.php and added a link to install/check.php [Dirk]
  2789 - Added the 'data' and 'pdfs' directory to install/check.php [Dirk]
  2790 - Integrated the "welcome email hack": If the file 'welcome_email.txt' exists
  2791   in the 'data' directory, the contents of that file are sent out as the
  2792   welcome email to new users (instead of the hard-coded welcome message) [Dirk]
  2793 - Introduced a 'data' directory ($_CONF['path_data'], defaulting to
  2794   /path/to/geeklog/data) and use it for the batch user import, as Geeklog's
  2795   base directory may not be writable on some setups (bug #77) [Dirk]
  2796 - Sort list of older polls by date (newest first) and added paging [Dirk]
  2797 - Make sure the old userphoto is deleted when uploading a new one (bug #228).
  2798   So far, the old photo was not removed when the file type changed (e.g. from
  2799   .gif to .jpg) [Dirk]
  2800 - Don't assume the uploaded file in usersettings.php is always the userphoto -
  2801   it may in fact belong to a plugin (bug #179). This bug prevented plugins from
  2802   uploading their own files through the plugin API [Dirk]
  2803 - Fixed repeating events in the personal calendar's day view (bug #232) [Dirk]
  2804 - COM_siteHeader() now accepts a page title (to go between the page's
  2805   <title>...</title> tags) as the second parameter, replacing the
  2806   $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack (which still works but should be avoided) [Dirk]
  2807 - In the site's page title, replace the site slogan with more meaningful
  2808   information, where possible, e.g. "Submit a Story" on the story submission
  2809   form, "Search Results", etc. (feature request #95) [Dirk]
  2810 - Fixed deleting events from the personal calendar (bug #199) [Dirk]
  2811 - Carry over the date and time from the calendar when Admins add a new event
  2812   (bug #132) [Dirk]
  2813 - Don't display "Site Events" headline in the Upcoming Events block when
  2814   personal calendars are off (feature request #151) [Dirk]
  2815 - Removed hard-coded am/pm formatted hours from the calendar's day view
  2816   (calendar/dayview/dayview.thtml) and replaced them with {xx_hour} variables,
  2817   where 'xx' is 0-23, which will be replaced with the hours formatted
  2818   according to the $_CONF['timeonly'] config variable [Dirk]
  2819 - Themes can now use a couple of CSS class names to style the small calendar (of
  2820   the previous and next month) in month view: .smallcal, .smallcal-headline,
  2821   .smallcal-week-even, .smallcal-week-odd, .smallcal-week-empty,
  2822   .smallcal-day-even, .smallcal-day-odd, and .smallcal-day-empty [Dirk]
  2823 - Improvements to the Story Archive Feature, UI tweaks, Language Extraction,
  2824   Added new field to the topics table. Admin now sets the archive topic in
  2825   the Topic Editor. Only one topic can be used - logic enforced. [Blaine]
  2826 - Don't emit the <br><br> in article.php when the story's body text is empty
  2827   (based on patch #147, provided by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
  2828 - Set {article_url} variable when displaying the story in article.php [Dirk]
  2829 - Fixed missing </select> tags for the comment display mode and sort order
  2830   drop-down menus in usersettings.php (patch #255, provided by machinari) [Dirk]
  2831 - Hard-coded the names of the pseudo image tags in story.php, i.e. they are
  2832   always [imageX], [imageX_left], and [imageX_right] now, independent of
  2833   the current language file (bug #139) [Dirk]
  2834 - Added the Auto-Archive Management feature. Optionally allows the Story Editor
  2835   to archive or delete a story when the expire date is reached [Blaine]
  2836 - Improved the commentbar to logically support comments viewed from comment.php
  2837   [Vinny]
  2838 - Removed a bug in comment.php that allowed a story/comment mismatch during
  2839   display.  This was not exploitable.  [Vinny]
  2840 - Integrated the timezone hack to compensate for time differences when your
  2841   webserver is located in another timezone (original timezone hack by Yew Loong,
  2842   with additions by "Joe" as well as several other geeklog.net users) [Dirk]
  2843 - The calendar can now be configured so that the week starts on either a
  2844   Sunday or a Monday - see new config variable $_CONF['week_start']
  2845   (based on a patch by bond_anton) [Dirk]
  2846 - Sort the admin's list of events by date (newest first). Also added paging,
  2847   a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
  2848   theme changes in admin/event/eventlist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
  2849 - Incorporated a patch provided by Drago Goricanec to sort the Admin's user
  2850   list by uid [Dirk]
  2851 - Introduced 2 config options for the Who's Online block:
  2852   - $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] will display the user's full name,
  2853   - $_CONF['whosonline_anonymous'] does not display the names of registered
  2854     users to anonymous visitors of the site.
  2855   Both options are disabled by default [Dirk]
  2856 - Added support for single quotes and nested tags to COM_extractLinks [Vinny]
  2857 - The admin_html and user_html are now merged recursively (bug #240) [Vinny]
  2858 - Remove colons from email addresses, as they have a special meaning,
  2859   according to RFC(2)822, that we didn't intend (bug #6) [Dirk]
  2860 - Fixed compilation of regexp if the search query ended or started with a
  2861   space (the resulting error message would also expose the path to article.php),
  2862   (bug #251) [Dirk]
  2863 - Sort the admin's list of polls by date (newest first). Also added paging,
  2864   a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
  2865   theme changes in admin/poll/polllist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
  2866 - Added paging to the plugin editor (for more than 25 installed plugins).
  2867   A {google_paging} variable is needed in admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml for
  2868   the paging links to show up [Dirk]
  2869 - Emails sent from the Admin's mail form (admin/mail.php) were always sent
  2870   with the site name and site email address, even if you entered something else
  2871   in the form. Also made admin/mail/mailform.thtml slightly less ugly [Dirk]
  2872 - When deleting a topic, keep the blocks assigned to that topic (bug #247).
  2873   They're assigned to 'all topics' and disabled, but kept around now. The same
  2874   applies for topic feeds, which weren't handled at all before [Dirk]
  2875 - Make sure upload errors for user photos and story images are displayed in a
  2876   Geeklog block, not on a blank screen [Dirk]
  2877 - Fixed description of DB_insertId() in lib-database.php and dbInsertId() in
  2878   mysql.class.php: The functions take a resource, describing the opened link to
  2879   the database, not a record set (pointed out by lgonze on IRC). [Dirk]
  2880 - Plugins are now getting the key type passed to their search function, so that
  2881   they can perform a search for "exact phrase", "all of these words", or
  2882   "any of these words" as selected from the search form. [Dirk]
  2883 - Use URL rewriting for the link to a story's printer-friendly version, when
  2884   activated (bug #201) [Dirk]
  2885 - Resizing an image didn't work when the image height exceeded the max. height
  2886   but the image width was still below the max. width (bug #242) [Dirk]
  2887 - Keeping the unscaled image when using GDlib didn't work (bug #197) [Dirk]
  2888 - Added a workaround for the Zeus webserver so that blocks marked "homeonly"
  2889   properly appear there (bug #244) [Dirk]
  2890 - Previewing a story submission from admin/story.php before saving it left the
  2891   original story submission in the submission queue while also adding it as a
  2892   new story. This has been fixed now [Dirk]
  2893 - Added {article_url} variable for article/printable.thtml so that we can
  2894   print the proper URL to the article if URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
  2895 - Added filtering for the $order parameter in article.php [Dirk]
  2896 - Added {link_actual_url} variable in links.php, holding the actual URL of
  2897   a link (not Geeklog's redirect URL via portal.php). Updated template
  2898   file links/linkdetails.thtml in all default themes to use {link_actual_url}
  2899   in a title attribute for the links [Dirk]
  2900 - The event description now honors linefeeds to allow some basic text
  2901   formatting [Dirk]
  2902 - Escape all PCRE special characters in the code to highlight search query
  2903   words (bug #200). Also moved the code to its own function, COM_highlightQuery,
  2904   in lib-common.php [Dirk]
  2905 - The contents and order of the menu entries, i.e. of the {menu_elements}
  2906   variable in header.thtml, is now configurable in config.php (new config
  2907   variable $_CONF['menu_elements']). It also includes an option to add custom
  2908   entries by implementing a function CUSTOM_menuEntries() that returns the
  2909   additional entries [Dirk]
  2910 - Use an UPDATE request when increasing the number of times a story has been
  2911   emailed [Dirk]
  2912 - When an error occurs while creating a backup, the complete command line
  2913   used to call mysqldump is now added to error.log [Dirk]
  2914 - Added 'view' mode to allow links directly to a single comment (and optionally
  2915   its children) in comments.php.  [Vinny]
  2916 - Added a few variables to be used in the eventdetails.thtml template file:
  2917   {event_state_name} (full name of the state), {event_state_only} and
  2918   {event_state_name_only} (abbreviated and full state name without the comma),
  2919   {event_edit} (link to edit the event, if allowed for the current user),
  2920   {edit_icon} (same, but with the edit icon instead of a text link),
  2921   {lang_event_type} and {event_type} for the event type [Dirk]
  2922 - Registered users can now report abusive comments to the site admin (inspired
  2923   by Feature Request #171, which actually requested this for the forums).
  2924   Requires new text strings in the language files and a new template file,
  2925   comment/reportcomment.thtml [Dirk]
  2926 - Bugfix: New users created through the batch import didn't get the email with
  2927   their password [Dirk]
  2928 - Moved function to create and send a password to lib-user.php to avoid having
  2929   identical code in users.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
  2930 - Added {topic_image} variable (available in the topicoption.thtml and
  2931   topicoption_off.thtml template files) so that you can use topic images in
  2932   the Topics block (feature request #152) [Dirk]
  2933 - COM_undoSpecialChars() now also handles &nbsp; (bug #192) [Dirk]
  2934 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in [code] sections (bug #159) [Dirk]
  2935 - Added an option to look up IP addresses (new variable $_CONF['ip_lookup'] in
  2936   config.php, pointing to a service that does IP address lookups) [Dirk]
  2937 - Fixed problems with the database backup when there were spaces in the path to
  2938   the backups directory (bug #185). [Dirk]
  2939 - Added email notification for new comments (feature request #155) [Dirk]
  2940 - Added tracking of IP addresses of comment posters (as suggested by Michael
  2941   Jervis) [Dirk]
  2942 - Altered COM_article to improve performance by reducing queries. [Vinny]
  2943 - Reduced DB queries in COM_showTopics to improve performance. [Vinny]
  2944 - Cached enabled plugins to reduce db queries and improve performance. [Vinny]
  2945 - Fixed SEC_inGroup not using $_GROUPS cache in several instances. [Vinny]
  2946 - mysql.class.php now only runs mysql_connect once per page load.  [Vinny]
  2947 - The "Google paging" now has additional links to jump to the first and last
  2948   page (patch provided by Niels Leenheer). [Dirk]
  2949 - Introduced function COM_makeClickableLinks to turn URLs in text-only posts
  2950   into clickable links (i.e. it's adding <a> tags around URLs). [Dirk]
  2951 - Changed the comment insert, delete, display algorithms for improved
  2952   efficiency. They now use a modified preorder tree traversal method. [Vinny]
  2953 - Comment limit now applies to all the comments displayed, not just the top
  2954   level comments. [Vinny]
  2955 - Added pagination ability to comments ({pagenav} template variable in
  2956   startcomment.thtml). [Vinny]
  2957 - Fixed typo in timer.class.php that broke the ->restart() function. [Vinny]
  2958 - Make sure the database backup files are always sorted by (last modified) date
  2959   (found & fixed by Alexander Schmacks). [Dirk]
  2960 - Make sure the user's preferred comment limit is used when changing the
  2961   comment display via the comment bar (bug #176). [Vinny]
  2962 - When URL rewriting is activated, the "rewritten" URLs are now also used
  2963   in all (RSS) feeds containing links to articles. [Dirk]
  2964 - Experimental: On a fresh install, use InnoDB tables (instead of MyISAM) if
  2965   the MySQL version running on the server supports them (usually as of
  2966   MySQL 4.0). This should avoid locks on tables where hit counters and the
  2967   actual data are stored in the same table, e.g. stories (suggested by
  2968   Marc Von Ahn). [Dirk]
  2969 - Fixed bug in the install script when upgrading from 1.3.8 or earlier:
  2970   Check to see if the static pages plugin is installed before attempting to
  2971   update its tables (reported by Rob Griffiths). [Dirk]
  2972 - Implemented a change to DB_fetchArray, suggested by Niels Leenheer:
  2973   Geeklog will now, by default, only return associative array indices. In case
  2974   the numeric indices are needed, a new (optional) second parameter for
  2975   DB_fetchArray has to be set to "true". [Dirk]
  2976 - Removed extra quotes in SQL statements in admin/block.php to ensure
  2977   compatibility with old MySQL versions (reported by Elmer Masters). [Dirk]
  2978 - In admin/database.php, if the is_executable function is not available (e.g.
  2979   on Windows), do at least a file_exists to check if the mysqldump executable
  2980   exists in the path given in config.php. [Dirk]
  2981 - Introduced function COM_getTopicSQL which returns part of an SQL request to
  2982   check for a user's topic access [Dirk]
  2983   (This was actually introduced in 1.3.9sr1 but missing from the changelog)
  2984 
  2985 Language files
  2986 --------------
  2987 - New Bosnian language file, provided by Kenan Hodzic
  2988 - Updated Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic
  2989 - New Indonesian language file, provided by Piotr Sobis
  2990 - Updated Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen
  2991 
  2992 Static Pages Plugin 1.4.1
  2993 -------------------------
  2994 - Added a printable version for static pages (based on a concept by
  2995   Jannetta S Lewis). Requires a new template file, printable.thtml, located
  2996   in the static pages' template directory [Dirk]
  2997 - Added support for autolinks and provide a [staticpage:] autotag [Dirk]
  2998 - Added an option to sort the static pages that are added to a site's menu
  2999   (see {plg_menu_elements} in header.thtml) by id, label, title, or date [Dirk]
  3000 - The block templates used to wrap a static page in a block can now be
  3001   overridden, using '_staticpages_block' and '_staticpages_centerblock' as the
  3002   index for the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE array [Dirk]
  3003 - The plugin now checks for template files in the current theme's directory
  3004   (layout/THEMENAME/staticpages) first before using the default template files
  3005   from plugin/staticpages/templates [Dirk]
  3006 - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
  3007   user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
  3008   pages that are for anonymous users only [Dirk]
  3009   This change was actually supposed to be in Static Pages 1.4 (Geeklog 1.3.9),
  3010   but somehow didn't make it ...
  3011 - For center blocks, ignore the "blank page" setting, unless it's for a page
  3012   that is supposed to replace the entire frontpage (bug #234) [Dirk]
  3013 - The static pages editor doesn't display a "delete" button for new and
  3014   cloned pages any more (since, obviously, you can't delete what hasn't been
  3015   saved yet ...). [Dirk]
  3016 - Bugfix: Fresh installs of Geeklog 1.3.9 only allowed 20 characters for the
  3017   static page ID, while installs upgraded from an earlier version allowed up
  3018   to 40 characters [Dirk]
  3019 - New Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho.
  3020 
  3021 
  3022 Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.9sr5)
  3023 -----------
  3024 
  3025 This release addresses the following security issues:
  3026 
  3027 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
  3028   anyone to log in as any user.
  3029 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
  3030   Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
  3031   file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
  3032 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks
  3033 
  3034 
  3035 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.9sr4)
  3036 -----------
  3037 
  3038 This release addresses the following security issue:
  3039 
  3040 Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
  3041 be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.
  3042 
  3043 
  3044 Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.9sr3)
  3045 ------------
  3046 
  3047 This release addresses 2 security issues:
  3048 
  3049 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
  3050    were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
  3051    These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
  3052    disabled it in config.php.
  3053 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
  3054    leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
  3055 
  3056 
  3057 Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.9sr2)
  3058 -----------
  3059 
  3060 This release addresses 2 security issues:
  3061 
  3062 - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
  3063   variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
  3064   using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
  3065 - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
  3066   posting had been switched off [Dirk]
  3067   This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
  3068   went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
  3069   posting.
  3070 
  3071 Non-security related fixes:
  3072 
  3073 - Fixed lib-plugins.php to be compatible with PHP 5 [Dirk]
  3074 - Includes updated PEAR packages to resolve email problems some users were
  3075   having (especially with safe_mode being on).
  3076 
  3077 
  3078 Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.9sr1)
  3079 -----------
  3080 
  3081 This release addresses the following security issues:
  3082 
  3083 - It was possible to post anonymous comments, even when anonymous comment
  3084   posting had been switched off in config.php [Vinny, Dirk]
  3085 - Added additional speed limit checks for comments and submissions [Vinny]
  3086 - It was still possible to read the comments to stories, even when the user
  3087   didn't have access to the story's topic (provided they knew the story id)
  3088   [Vinny, Dirk]
  3089 - If none of the topics were visible for anonymous users, the site's index
  3090   page may still have displayed some stories for anonymous users, depending on
  3091   the stories' permissions [Vinny, Dirk]
  3092 - Users still got Daily Digest emails for topics from which they had been
  3093   removed (bug #178) [Dirk]
  3094 - It was possible to subscribe to the Daily Digest for all topics, even if the
  3095   user did not have access to certain topics [Dirk]
  3096 - Don't list stories or comments in the user profile if the current user isn't
  3097   allowed to see the topics they were posted under (bug #208) [Dirk]
  3098 
  3099 Non-security related fixes:
  3100 
  3101 - Fixed an SQL error in COM_showTopics if users excluded topics in their
  3102   preferences (reported by Rob Young) [Dirk]
  3103 - Fixed sporadic "Duplicate entry '...' for key 1." messages in error.log
  3104   (caused by the handling of pseudo-session ids for anonymous users) [Dirk]
  3105 - Fixed incorrect author names in Daily Digest (bug #207) [Dirk]
  3106 - The plugin_profileblocksedit_<plugin-name> Plugin API function wasn't working
  3107   due to a missing piece of code in usersettings.php [Dirk]
  3108 - COM_extractLinks will now ignore anchor tags that do not contain "href"
  3109   (bug #183) [Vinny]
  3110 
  3111 
  3112 Mar 14, 2004 (1.3.9)
  3113 ------------
  3114 
  3115 - Custom Registration function hook to custom_useredit added in the edituser()
  3116   when creating a new user from the admin screen. The custom function was not
  3117   being called if this was a new user [file: admin/user.php].
  3118 - Fixed wrong use of DB_count in COM_showPoll in lib-common.php. This may have
  3119   prevented people from voting on other polls once they voted on any poll on
  3120   a site [file: lib-common.php].
  3121 
  3122 - Updated Danish language file, provided by ZooN.
  3123 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel (please note that this
  3124   file was made for 1.3.8-1 and is missing a few of the texts added in 1.3.9).
  3125 
  3126 
  3127 Mar 7, 2004 (1.3.9rc3)
  3128 -----------
  3129 
  3130 - Fixed call to CUSTOM_mail and added a sample implementation in
  3131   lib-custom.php (commented out by default).
  3132 - Made an attempt to recover from duplicate session ids for anonymous users.
  3133 - Adding new topics always resulted in a "Please fill in the Topic ID and Topic
  3134   Name fields" error message, even if you did fill in both fields (this bug was
  3135   only introduced in 1.3.9rc2).
  3136 - Filter out backslashes.
  3137 - Comment titles were cut off at the first single or double quote (when
  3138   submitting a new comment).
  3139 - The text string $LANG04[89] in all language files must be enclosed in
  3140   double quotes, not single quotes.
  3141 
  3142 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
  3143 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
  3144 - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  3145   Robert Stadnik
  3146 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Denis Kuznetsov.
  3147 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
  3148 - Included UTF-8 versions of the Croatian and Japanese language files,
  3149   provided by Samuel Stone.
  3150 
  3151 
  3152 Feb 29, 2004 (1.3.9rc2)
  3153 ------------
  3154 
  3155 - The new Admin interface for handling blocks (introduced in 1.3.9rc1) will
  3156   renumber the block order in steps of 10, which can lead to order numbers
  3157   > 255 if you have many blocks. Changed the 'blockorder' field in the
  3158   "gl_blocks" table from TINYINT to SMALLINT to compensate.
  3159   If you are upgrading from 1.3.9rc1, you will need to run the following SQL
  3160   request manually:
  3161 
  3162       ALTER TABLE gl_blocks CHANGE blockorder blockorder smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1';
  3163 
  3164   Replacing "gl_blocks" with the proper table name, if you are using a table
  3165   prefix other than 'gl_'. This step is not necessary when upgrading from 1.3.8
  3166   or earlier versions.
  3167 - The Group Admin restrictions introduced in 1.3.9rc1 didn't even let the
  3168   Admin assign unassigned features to groups (e.g. there was no way to add
  3169   the staticpages.PHP feature to the Static Page Admin group on a fresh
  3170   1.3.9rc1 install).
  3171 - When normal users tried to submit an event, they were redirected to the
  3172   story submission form (this bug was only introduced in 1.3.9rc1).
  3173 - Cosmetic changes in the beautifying of language names (in the user's
  3174   preferences).
  3175 - Fixed COM_extractLinks to work with links that follow [IMAGE] tags and more
  3176   generally handle the extraction of links better and more efficiently.
  3177 - If a function CUSTOM_mail() exists, it will be called instead of COM_mail(),
  3178   to allow users to implement their own function to send emails, if necessary.
  3179 - The Static Pages plugin now supports the "exact phrase", "all of these words",
  3180   and "any of these words" search options.
  3181 - Included a simplified custom registration example and made the naming
  3182   convention for the custom registration functions more consistent.
  3183 - Fixed display problems with comments in nested and threaded mode.
  3184   Please note that the template file comment/comment.thtml has changed (again)
  3185   since 1.3.9rc1!
  3186 - Don't rely on the Who's Online block being active when handling sessions
  3187   for anonymous users.
  3188 - Removed some unused code that handled the obsolete "layout" blocks.
  3189 - Try to guess the correct path separator when running on PHP < 4.3.0.
  3190 - When upgrading from a pre-1.3.9 install, the install script choked on
  3191   single quotes in the site name or site slogan.
  3192 - More parameter filtering.
  3193 
  3194 - Included UTF-8 versions of the English, German, Finnish, and Chinese
  3195   (traditional and simplified) language files, provided by Samuel Stone.
  3196 - Added new Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic.
  3197 - Added new Finnish language file, provided by Jussi Josefsson.
  3198 - Added new Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
  3199 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Wim Niemans.
  3200 
  3201 
  3202 Feb 16, 2004 (1.3.9rc1)
  3203 ------------
  3204 
  3205 - Use COM_getYearFormOptions() etc. for the event submission form in
  3206   submit.php, thus avoiding duplicated code.
  3207 - Plugins can now add their new entries to the What's New block by implementing
  3208   the new plugin_whatsnewsupported and plugin_getwhatsnew API functions.
  3209   This section can be enabled/disabled with the new $_CONF['hidenewplugins']
  3210   config variable.
  3211 - When a user is deleted, make sure we assign any objects that require Admin
  3212   access (blocks, topics, ...) to a user from the Root group.
  3213 - Slightly revamped the install script and made it catch (or silently ignore)
  3214   the most popular problems with the path to Geeklog ...
  3215 - Removed the hard-coded &nbsp; from {welcome_msg} and added it to the
  3216   header.thtml of the Classic, XSilver, and Yahoo themes (the other themes
  3217   either look fine without it or didn't use {welcome_msg} anyway).
  3218 - Added a missing stripslashes() call for link titles returned from a search.
  3219 - Fixed bug when highlighting search queries that contained a '*' (reported
  3220   by wlparks).
  3221 - Fixed a bug/typo introduced in 1.3.8-1sr4 that prevented you from deleting
  3222   story submissions from the Admin's story editor (reported by James Bothe).
  3223 - Changed all url fields in the database to hold up to 255 characters per URL.
  3224   Please note that the template files in most themes will limit the max.
  3225   number of characters to 96 or 128 characters. See docs/theme.html for more
  3226   information on how to update the themes.
  3227 - Fixed problems batch-importing users with single quotes in their names
  3228   (bug #141).
  3229 - The permissions for the "Group Admin" group have been changed such that
  3230   members of that group now only have access to groups of which they themselves
  3231   are a member of. When creating new groups, the rights (permissions) to chose
  3232   from are also limited to those that the Group Admin users have themselves.
  3233   These changes should make the Group Admin group more useful.
  3234   Note: Group admins can still see all the existing groups and who is a member
  3235   of those groups.
  3236 - Fixed search class so that the simplified and the advanced search return
  3237   the same results (as long as none of the advanced options are used).
  3238 - Added new config variable $_CONF['allowed_protocols'] which lets you specify
  3239   the protocols that are allowed to be used in a link (feature request #109).
  3240   Note: The kses class has a hard-coded list of allowed protocols to which
  3241   the above will be added. It is currently not possible to remove any of the
  3242   predefined protocols.
  3243 - Introduced variable {allowed_menu_elements} in header.thtml which only
  3244   includes those menu elements that the current user is allowed to use
  3245   (i.e. honoring the $_CONF['XXXloginrequired'] settings).
  3246 - COM_accessLog() now logs the user's uid and IP address automatically.
  3247 - The option to stay logged in for 1 year has been removed and an option to
  3248   not stay logged in (after the session has expired) has been added.
  3249 - Fixed display of default blocks in the user preferences.
  3250 - If the user chose not to see certain topics (by selecting them from the
  3251   "Excluded Items" list in the preferences) then don't list those topics in
  3252   the Topics block.
  3253 - After saving your account information, you are now redirected to your
  3254   profile page, so that you can see your changes as they would be displayed
  3255   for other users of the site.
  3256 - Integrated Vincent Furia's patches to use Geeklog's URL rewriting for links
  3257   to stories (i.e. article.php).
  3258 - In the story templates, you can now use {article_url} as the URL to the
  3259   article.php with the current story (e.g. for a "link to this story" link).
  3260 - There is a new file, system/lib-user.php, for user-related code that is
  3261   used by usersettings.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php.
  3262 - All template files that let you enter a URL are now using {max_url_length}
  3263   for the maxlength attribute.
  3264 - Access to admin/mail.php is now granted to all users with 'user.mail'
  3265   permissions (previously, users with that permission without being in the
  3266   'Mail Admin' group would see the "Mail Users" entry in the Admin block but
  3267   were refused access to it).
  3268 - The list of group names in the Mail Users form is now sorted alphabetically.
  3269 - Any unauthorized attempts to access the admin pages are now properly logged
  3270   in access.log.
  3271 - Fixed problems when resizing userphotos for user names that have spaces in
  3272   them (reported by Per on geeklog-users).
  3273 - Now accomodate strict webhosts who don't allow file uploads to the standard
  3274   image directory, you can now set a new configuration variable,
  3275   $_CONF['path_images'] to point to a directory outside of your webtree where
  3276   article images and user profile pictures will be saved and served from.
  3277 - Don't append a '-' to the page title if $_CONF['site_slogan'] is empty
  3278   (feature request #88).
  3279 - COM_getMonthFormOptions() now always lists the month names instead of only
  3280   the numbers. COM_getYearFormOptions() also lists the previous year.
  3281 - Changed admin/event.php to use the COM_getMonthFormOptions() etc. functions
  3282   from lib-common.php, thus avoiding duplicated code.
  3283 - In the calendar/calendar.thtml template file, you can now use {start_block}
  3284   and {end_block} to wrap the calendar in a block.
  3285 - Fixed a few display problems in case of errors in calendar_event.php. Also
  3286   made calendar.php display messages sent from calendar_event.php.
  3287 - Make sure the custom registration form is properly called from all relevent
  3288   places (bug #57).
  3289 - Single quotes are now silently stripped from topic IDs (bug #113).
  3290 - Fixed search displaying all the links for an empty search string, e.g. when
  3291   searching for "more from" some user (bug #87).
  3292 - Fixed link from search results that contained a '/' (bug #115).
  3293 - Comments from a story that has been marked as "draft" are no longer returned
  3294   from a search (bug #128).
  3295 - The Admin's link list now uses "google paging", 50 links per page (bug #104).
  3296   Note: Requires a change in the admin/link/linklist.thtml template file.
  3297 - (Block)Admins can now change the order of blocks and enable / disable blocks
  3298   directly from the Admin's list of blocks (based on a concept by stratosfear).
  3299 - An alternative interface to adding (multiple) users to a group is now
  3300   available from the Admin's list of groups. This feature requires JavaScript.
  3301 - Fixed display of permissions in the "Access" column of the Admin's list of
  3302   stories (didn't take Topic permissions into account).
  3303 - Fixed handling of "0" as a poll answer (bug #73).
  3304 - Added a check and warning message in admin/moderation.php if register_globals
  3305   is "off".
  3306 - Changed function COM_isEmail() to use PEAR::Mail/RFC822 to check for valid
  3307   email addresses.
  3308 - Added an edit icon to each theme (images/edit.gif). Variable {edit_icon} can
  3309   be used as an alternative to {edit_link}, i.e. as an icon that Story Admins
  3310   can click on to edit a story.
  3311 - You can now enable debug messages (to error.log) for the image upload by
  3312   setting $_CONF['debug_image_upload'] = true in config.php.
  3313 - When deleting a group, delete all references to that group from the
  3314   group_assignments table (bug #50). The install script will remove any
  3315   orphaned entries when upgrading the database to 1.3.9.
  3316 - The option to delete comments was only available to users in the Root group
  3317   (e.g. Admin). Since comments don't have permissions, comments can now be
  3318   deleted by users with Story Admin permissions for the story they are
  3319   commenting on (or Poll Admin permissions for comments on polls; bug #27).
  3320 - Display a generic (and localised) error message when there is a problem
  3321   importing an (RSS) feed - details will be available in error.log. Also checks
  3322   for empty (but existing) feeds now.
  3323 - When the user submission queue is activated, you now have an "edit" link
  3324   that takes you to the Admin's user editor (the profile link is now on the
  3325   username). Contributed by Ed Magin.
  3326 - COM_siteHeader() now uses output buffering for the eval(), preventing the
  3327   header from being output directly.
  3328   Note: This may require changes in 3rd party scripts, e.g. the Geeklog/Gallery
  3329   integration.
  3330 - The install script will set the 'date' field for links to sensible values
  3331   now (reconstructed from the date that's encoded in the link id).
  3332 - The author exclusion list in the preferences is now a (multi-select) listbox.
  3333 - A proper error message is now displayed if the Admin creates a new user or
  3334   changes an existing account with an email address that already exists (that
  3335   test was already introduced in 1.3.8-1 but the error message was confusing),
  3336   thus closing bug #24. Also checks for valid email addresses now.
  3337 - You can now use {author_fullname} and {author_photo} variables in comment
  3338   templates (feature request #35).
  3339 - Remove extra backslashes from new links in What's New block (bug #59).
  3340 - The [code] tag is now displayed in the list of allowed HTML tags.
  3341 - Image upload can now use the GD library (contributed by Rob Coenen).
  3342   If possible, GIF images will be converted to PNGs during upload. However,
  3343   some versions of the GD library may not allow to read GIF images at all.
  3344 - Geeklog now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails.
  3345   In config.php, you can select whether emails should be sent via PHP's mail()
  3346   function, sendmail, or SMTP.
  3347 - Introduced /path/to/geeklog/system/pear as the directory to hold the PEAR
  3348   packages used by Geeklog. Currently, those are PEAR, Mail, Net_SMTP, and
  3349   Net_Socket. These packages will be included in the releases from now on.
  3350 - Introduced function COM_mail(). From now on, all Geeklog email will be sent
  3351   from this function (instead of using PHP's mail() function directly).
  3352 - When users try to register with an empty username or invalid email address,
  3353   make sure we're displaying a custom registration form (if one exists) when
  3354   displaying the error message (part 1 of bug #57).
  3355 - Prevent users from registering with an empty username (bug #56).
  3356 - Use $_CONF['emailstoriesperdefault'] when batch-adding users. Until now,
  3357   new users were subscribed to the Daily Digest automatically (bug #55).
  3358 - Added an 'edit' link to links/linkdetails.thtml, so that (Link) Admins can
  3359   edit links easily (contributed by Euan McKay).
  3360 - What's Related applied COM_checkHTML() on the entire block instead of on the
  3361   individual items, thus stripping out HTML from the template file (bug #52).
  3362 - Words from a search query are now properly highlighted in comments when the
  3363   words occured only in the comments (but not in the story).
  3364 - Integrated Vincent Furia's new comment code to use templates for comments
  3365   (instead of hard-coded HTML).
  3366   New template files: comment/comment.thtml, comment/thread.thtml.
  3367   Updated: comment/startcomment.thtml
  3368 - New Admin interface for content syndication (RSS feeds etc.). This lets you
  3369   create feeds for all the stories and per topic as well as for links and
  3370   (upcoming) events. Plugins can also provide feeds (through extensions of the
  3371   Plugin API). Additional feed formats (other than RSS 0.91) can be implemented
  3372   as new classes (xxx.feed.class.php).
  3373   Includes new admin/syndication template directory.
  3374 - Don't display the "delete" button in the Admin's Event editor when we're
  3375   editing a new event (reported by Simon Lord).
  3376 
  3377 Static Pages Plugin 1.4
  3378 -----------------------
  3379 
  3380 - It is now possible to disable the use of PHP in static pages entirely by
  3381   setting $_SP_CONF['allow_php'] = 0 in the static pages' config.php file.
  3382   If you don't plan on using PHP in static pages, it is recommended that you
  3383   do that as an additional security measure.
  3384 - You can now use "plain PHP" code in a static page, i.e. it doesn't need to
  3385   be written such that it returns all output in a 'return' statement. The
  3386   PHP checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown menu offering "do not execute
  3387   PHP", "execute PHP (return)" [that's the old way], and "execute PHP" [new].
  3388 - The ID of a static page can now have up to 40 characters.
  3389 - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
  3390   user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
  3391   pages that are for anonymous users only.
  3392 - The option to wrap static pages in a block can now be applied to each page
  3393   individually. $_SP_CONF['in_block'] is only used as the default setting
  3394   for new pages.
  3395 - Static pages to be displayed after the featured story (in a center block) are
  3396   now displayed even if there is no featured story (after the static pages to
  3397   be displayed at the top of the page).
  3398 - Static pages are not wrapped in a block when the page format is set to "blank
  3399   page" (bug #60).
  3400 - Added a "Cancel" button in the static pages editor.
  3401 - Bugfix: Depending on the permission settings, the "Edit" link was sometimes
  3402   displayed for users without them having edit permissions for the static page.
  3403   It wasn't possible to edit the page, though, but the link shouldn't have
  3404   been there in the first place.
  3405 - For security reasons, the Static Page Admin group does not include
  3406   'staticpages.PHP' permissions by default any more.
  3407 - When a user is deleted, static pages created by that user can now either be
  3408   deleted or assigned to a Root user (see $_SP_CONF['delete_pages'] option).
  3409 
  3410 Please see docs/staticpages.html for details.
  3411 
  3412 
  3413 Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr6)
  3414 -----------
  3415 
  3416 This release addresses 2 security issues:
  3417 
  3418 - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
  3419   variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
  3420   using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
  3421   Note: german.php was not affected and is therefore not included.
  3422 
  3423 - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
  3424   posting had been switched off [Dirk]
  3425   This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
  3426   went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
  3427   posting.
  3428 
  3429 
  3430 Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr5)
  3431 -----------
  3432 
  3433 This release fixes a bug due to which it was possible to post anonymous
  3434 comments even when anonymous comment posting had been switched off in
  3435 config.php.
  3436 
  3437 To upgrade from Geeklog 1.3.8-1sr4 to 1.3.8-1sr5, simply upload the included
  3438 comment.php, replacing the file of the same name on your webserver.
  3439 
  3440 
  3441 January 26, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr4)
  3442 ----------------
  3443 
  3444 This release addresses the following security issues:
  3445 
  3446 1. It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to
  3447    become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).
  3448 2. Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it
  3449    possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the
  3450    user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object
  3451    was known.
  3452 3. It was possible to delete other people's personal events if you knew the
  3453    event ID.
  3454 4. It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user
  3455    did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).
  3456 5. Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone's account settings
  3457    (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted
  3458    link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
  3459 6. The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection
  3460    (reported by Jelmer).
  3461 7. It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by
  3462    Jelmer).
  3463 8. It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment
  3464    preview (reported by Jelmer).
  3465 
  3466 
  3467 December 5, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr3)
  3468 ----------------
  3469 
  3470 This release addresses the following security-related issues:
  3471 
  3472 1. As "dr.wh0" pointed out, the category field for link submissions was not
  3473    filtered at all. Although you probably can't cause too much harm with
  3474    those 32 characters, this has now been fixed.
  3475 2. Vincent Furia found that the restrictions for the form to email users
  3476    could be circumvented and could even be used to spam users.
  3477    In addition to fixing theses issues, there is now also a speed limit
  3478    on that form (defaults to the speed limit for story submissions).
  3479 3. There was a way to post comments anonymously even when posting for
  3480    anonymous users had been disabled.
  3481 4. It was possible to post comments under someone else's username.
  3482 
  3483 
  3484 October 14, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr2)
  3485 ----------------
  3486 
  3487 Jouko Pynnonen found a way to trick the new "forgot password" feature,
  3488 introduced in 1.3.8, into letting an attacker change the password for _any_
  3489 account. This release addresses this issue - there were no other changes.
  3490 
  3491 The only thing you need to do is to replace the file users.php on your site
  3492 with the file that comes with this tarball. It's suggested that you change
  3493 the version number in your config.php to '1.3.8-1sr2' afterwards.
  3494 
  3495 Please note that only Geeklog 1.3.8, 1.3.8-1, and 1.3.8-1sr1 are affected,
  3496 as this feature did not exist in earlier versions.
  3497 
  3498 
  3499 October 12, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr1)
  3500 ----------------
  3501 
  3502 This release is intended to address some of the security issues reported in
  3503 September and early October 2003.
  3504 
  3505 1. Includes Ulf Harnhammar's kses HTML filter to address possible Javascript
  3506    injections and CSS defacements.
  3507 
  3508    When upgrading from an earlier version, please make sure to copy over the
  3509    $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays from the included
  3510    config.php to your own copy of that file.
  3511 
  3512 2. While almost all of the alleged SQL injection issues could not be
  3513    reproduced, this release includes an update to the MySQL class to not
  3514    report SQL errors in the browser any more (but only in Geeklog's error.log).
  3515    This will avoid disclosing any sensitive information as part of the error
  3516    message.
  3517 
  3518    Please note that at the moment we do NOT recommend to use Geeklog with
  3519    MySQL 4.1 (which, at the time of this writing, is in alpha state and should
  3520    not be used on production sites anyway).
  3521 
  3522    An upcoming release of Geeklog will address the remaining SQL issues,
  3523    including any problems with MySQL 4.1.
  3524 
  3525 Other fixes (not security-related):
  3526 - When trying to guess the value of $_CONF['cookiedomain'], we need to remove
  3527   the port number from the URL, if there is one (bug #75).
  3528 - The full 1.3.8-1sr1 tarball also includes updated French (Canada) and
  3529   Turkish language files.
  3530 
  3531 
  3532 August 9, 2003 (1.3.8-1)
  3533 --------------
  3534 
  3535 - When upgrading, the install script will now default the version selection to
  3536   the last version in the list (currently: 1.3.7) instead of the first one
  3537   (1.2.5-1).
  3538 - Don't allow HTML in static page titles (bug #26).
  3539 - Display the search form again if the query returned no results.
  3540 - Make sure we're not attempting to send a Daily Digest email to Anonymous.
  3541 - Prevent admin from changing a user's email address to one that's already used
  3542   by someone else (bug #24). The error message you get when you try this may
  3543   be confusing, though ("The username you tried saving already exists.") since
  3544   I don't want to introduce new texts in the language file at this point. To
  3545   be corrected later.
  3546 - Fixed a problem with the cookie timeout: When a user edited his/her profile
  3547   for the first time, the cookie timeout defaulted to 1 hour, while the default
  3548   in config.php was usually much longer (default: 1 week). So after editing
  3549   their profile for the first time, users didn't stay logged in as long as
  3550   before (unless they noticed that and changed the cookie timeout accordingly
  3551   themselves).
  3552 - Fixed problems in the install script when trying to find out the MySQL
  3553   version number.
  3554 - Fixed a problem collecting links for the What's Related block when the article
  3555   contained (uploaded) images.
  3556 - Words from a search query are now hightlighted in comments as well.
  3557 - You can now use variables {rss_url} and {rdf_file} in both the site header
  3558   and footer. Both variables hold the URL to the RSS feed.
  3559 - Fixed an occassional "call to member function of non-object" error message
  3560   in lib-plugins.php.
  3561 - Make sure the RSS feed and Older Stories block are updated when a story is
  3562   deleted.
  3563 - The language selection will only list files that end in .php and do not
  3564   start with a '.'.
  3565 - Fixed links to a user's comments from the Last 10 Comments block in the user
  3566   profile.
  3567 - Removed '&query=' from links in search results if the query was empty.
  3568 - Anonymous users couldn't use the advanced search even if
  3569   $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] was not set.
  3570 - Fix to disallow access to the extended search for anonymous users (i.e.
  3571   $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] works again as it did in 1.3.7)
  3572 - Fixed search by date.
  3573 - Template variable {uid_value} was always empty in the user's profile edit
  3574   form (in usersettings.php).
  3575 
  3576 - New French (Canada) language file, provided by Jean-Francois Allard.
  3577 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by W. Niemans.
  3578 - Updated Bulgarian language file, provided by Vassil Simeonov and Itso Banov.
  3579 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero.
  3580 
  3581 - New French (Canada) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  3582   Jean-Francois Allard.
  3583 - New Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by W. Niemans.
  3584 
  3585 
  3586 July 17, 2003 (1.3.8)
  3587 -------------
  3588 
  3589 - Added Blaine's sample code for the custom registration to lib-custom.php
  3590   (there's also an accompanying sample template file, memberdetail.thtml).
  3591 - "No new links" wasn't displayed in the What's New block when you didn't
  3592   have any links in the database or when the current user didn't have access
  3593   to any of them (reported by krove).
  3594 - Applied a patch by Tatsumi Imai to fix problems with Japanese characters
  3595   when editing polls (bug #17).
  3596 - Hide those story submissions from moderators that don't have access to the
  3597   topic.
  3598 - Use $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PATH_INFO'] instead of $PATH_INFO for the url_rewrite
  3599   feature, since the latter doesn't seem to work on some setups (reported by
  3600   Peter Sieradzki).
  3601 
  3602 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
  3603 - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  3604   Robert Stadnik
  3605 
  3606 
  3607 July 6, 2003 (1.3.8rc2)
  3608 ------------
  3609 
  3610 - When failing to delete an image for a story (from the Admin's story editor),
  3611   only log this problem in the error.log but don't abort the script (reported
  3612   by Rob).
  3613 - When editing a story that used double quotes in the title, the title was cut
  3614   off after the first quote sign.
  3615 - Story Admins could edit stories in a topic they didn't have access to, if
  3616   they somehow found out the story id.
  3617 - When $_CONF['listdraftstories'] was enabled, moderation.php listed all stories
  3618   that had the "draft" flag set without checking for topic permissions (this
  3619   option was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1).
  3620 - For Story Admins, the Admin menu may have listed a greater number of stories
  3621   than the user actually had access to (didn't check for topic permissions).
  3622 - Fixed "Google paging" on the Admin's list of stories when the current user
  3623   didn't have access to all the topics (paging was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1).
  3624 - Try to prevent "illegal access" messages in error.log, caused by the plugin
  3625   page looking for uninstalled plugins.
  3626 - Upcoming events (in the block of the same name) are now sorted by start date
  3627   and start time, which makes more sense than the old start date, end date
  3628   sort order (reported by Peter Sieradzki).
  3629 - Fixed description of function DB_count() in lib-database.php (reported by
  3630   jose on IRC).
  3631 - Changed the "getBent" block to test the real admin directory in case it has
  3632   been renamed (bug #762881).
  3633 - Saving the user profile also saved the privacy options, setting them all to
  3634   "off" (reported by Dwight Trumbower).
  3635 - Check the topic permissions when doing a search on stories and comments.
  3636 - Check the topic permissions when displaying the new stories and comments in
  3637   the What's New block.
  3638 - Need to use date_sub() in the SQL request for the display=new mode on the
  3639   index page to ensure compatibility with old versions of MySQL (reported by
  3640   Markus Guske).
  3641 - New users created manually from the Admin's User menu were assigned a
  3642   random password, even when the Admin entered one (reported by TechFan).
  3643   This bug was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1.
  3644 - The printer-friendly version of a story in HTML format should not call
  3645   nl2br() on the story text (bug #762636).
  3646 - When attempting to edit a submission, check that it still exists in the
  3647   submission queue (since another Admin could already have handled it),
  3648   avoiding an SQL error (reported by Simon Lord).
  3649 
  3650 - New language file for formal German (addressing the user as "Sie" instead of
  3651   "Du"), provided by Philip Sack.
  3652 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65.
  3653 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata.
  3654 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
  3655 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero.
  3656 - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg.
  3657 
  3658 - New formal German language file for the Static Pages plugin.
  3659 - New Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by quess65.
  3660 - New Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Yusuke
  3661   Sakata.
  3662 - New Swedish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Markus Berg
  3663 
  3664 
  3665 June 29, 2003 (1.3.8rc1)
  3666 -------------
  3667 
  3668 - Fixed SQL error when using quotes in a group description.
  3669 - Fixed bug where blocks assigned to a topic disappeared when viewing articles.
  3670 - Add new Plugin API PLG_getHeaderCode, Used to return JS Functions or other
  3671   Header Meta Tags required by the plugin. Added new variable {plg_headercode}
  3672   to the template header.thtml files.
  3673 - New search: You can search for the exact phrase, all of the words, or any of
  3674   the words from the query. Search words are highlighted in stories. Also,
  3675   results in stories and comments are listed separately.
  3676 - Added new block "Privacy Options" to the Preferences:
  3677   + chose to receive email from admins and/or other users
  3678   + chose to show up in Who's Online block
  3679   (Feature requests #609758 and #609759)
  3680 - New config option $_CONF['hide_author_exclusion'] to hide the author
  3681   exclusion list from the user's preferences (useful e.g. when it's a rather
  3682   long list but hardly used by the users of your site).
  3683 - Added tracking of users lastlogin to the userinfo table.
  3684   New $_CONF['lastlogin'] added to config.php - SESSION SETTINGS area
  3685 - Added an option in admin/group.php to list all the users belonging to a group.
  3686 - Added adminoption_off.thtml template file (for current entry in the Admin
  3687   menu) and topicoption.thtml and topicoption_off.thtml files (for entries in
  3688   the Topics/Sections menu).
  3689 - Geeklog will not accept topic ids containing spaces any more.
  3690 - Added new config option $_CONF['allow_account_delete'] to allow users to
  3691   delete their account (from their Account Information page).
  3692 - Posts (stories and comments) from deleted users will now be reassigned to
  3693   user "Anonymous".
  3694 - Removed the Geeklog version number from the footer of the default themes.
  3695   Instead, the version number is now displayed in the headline of the "Command
  3696   and Control" block (moderation.php) and next to the "GL Version Test" entry
  3697   in the Admin's functions block.
  3698 - New Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen.
  3699 - Introduced new config.php variable $_CONF['mysqldump_options'] that holds
  3700   additional options to be used when Geeklog calls mysqldump to do a backup
  3701   of the database.
  3702 - Added a check for an existing email address in the user's profile so that
  3703   users can't change their email address to one that's already in use for
  3704   another account.
  3705 - Pick up the 'postmode' default setting for the Admin's story editor.
  3706 - Stories in the Daily Digest are now sorted by date (newest first, as on the
  3707   index page).
  3708 - Changed handling of plugin comments slightly: Plugins will have to do the
  3709   'delete' operation on their comments on their own now since Geeklog can't
  3710   possibly know which (if any) permissions are needed to delete a comment.
  3711   The 'id' parameter in the call to plugin_handlecomment_<type> will now
  3712   always be the comment id.
  3713 - In another attempt to solve the various issues regarding "www vs. non-www"
  3714   URLs and related login problems:
  3715   + Made sure all setcookie() calls use all 6 parameters
  3716   + Try to guess the correct value for $_CONF['cookiedomain'] if it isn't set
  3717   + Removed the redirection attempt from index.php
  3718 - When requesting a new password for your account, you can now enter either
  3719   your username or the email address you used to register with the site.
  3720 - Added a speed limit for requests for a new password (defaults to 5 minutes
  3721   between requests).
  3722 - The commentspeedlimit and submitspeedlimit tables have been replaced with a
  3723   general speedlimit table and three new functions operating on it have been
  3724   introduced (in lib-common.php). The new table has a 'type' field, so plugins
  3725   could easily implement their own speed limits.
  3726 - Introduced new "forgot password" functionality: When requesting a new password
  3727   for an account, the user will now receive an email with a link that s/he has
  3728   to click on. It will take the user to a form where s/he can enter a new
  3729   password (a unique id is contained in the URL and checked when entering the
  3730   new password, thus preventing misuse). The old password remains valid until a
  3731   new password is entered from this form, so the email can simply be ignored in
  3732   case the user didn't request a new password (cf. Feature Request #567979).
  3733 - Removed unused commentheader.thtml file from all default themes.
  3734 - Fixed the redirect after posting a comment to a poll (should return to the
  3735   poll, not to the index page).
  3736 - You can now "clone" events, i.e. make a copy of an existing event. This comes
  3737   in handy if you have a lot of similar events (e.g. repeating events).
  3738   Template files admin/event/eventlist.thtml and admin/event/listitem.thtml
  3739   need to be updated or the "clone" option will not show up ...
  3740 - Fixed a bug in the Admin's poll editor which let you enter more than
  3741   $_CONF['maxanswers'] answers for a poll. You may need to adjust your setting
  3742   of $_CONF['maxanswers'] or you may lose an answer when editing such a poll
  3743   (found & fixed by Tom Willet).
  3744 - Moved hard-coded HTML for the poll block and poll results to new template
  3745   files.
  3746 - When the theme uses a replacement function for COM_siteHeader and/or
  3747   COM_siteFooter, we need to pass it the same parameter that the replaced
  3748   function was being called with.
  3749 - Fixed "Last 10 comments by user" in the user's profile which was missing the
  3750   comments to polls.
  3751 - When a new user registers, we need to check for a valid email address
  3752   first (before searching the database to see if that address is already in use)
  3753 - You are now taken back to the moderation page after editing a story submission
  3754 - Fixed 'previous' link on the Admin's list of stories. Alternatively, you can
  3755   now use {google_paging} there (requires a change in the template).
  3756 - Added -Q option to the mysqldump call when doing a database backup. This will
  3757   enclose database names in quotes and thus prevent problems with special
  3758   characters in table names as used by some plugins (bug #712901).
  3759 - Set the max length of the input field for the event URL to 128 characters
  3760   (was 96) in the default themes (other themes may need adjusting).
  3761 - Fixed localisation of the date of all-day events in the event details.
  3762 - Added missing {event_location} variable in calendar/eventdetails.thtml
  3763   template files.
  3764 - Fixed display of events spanning several days in the personal calendar.
  3765 - Moved hard-coded HTML for the login form in the User Functions block to a new
  3766   template file.
  3767 - The Sections block now uses the useroption.thtml and the new
  3768   useroption_off.thtml template files for the list of topics. You can also use
  3769   $_CONF['hide_home_link'] to hide the "Home" link from the Sections block.
  3770 - New config option $_CONF['keep_unscaled_image'] allows you to keep the
  3771   original, unscaled image after upload (in stories only, for now). The smaller,
  3772   scaled image will be used as a thumbnail and link to the original image
  3773   (based on code provided by Alexander Schmacks).
  3774 - In admin/database.php:
  3775   + Made sure we really display the last 10 backups (fix by Alexander Schmacks)
  3776   + Display total number of backups in the directory
  3777   + Moved hard-coded HTML for the list of backups to template files
  3778   + Replaced $PHP_SELF with $_CONF['site_admin_url']/database.php since
  3779     $PHP_SELF seems to cause problems in some environments
  3780 - You can now make one topic the default topic. The topic selection in the
  3781   story submission form will then default to this topic.
  3782 - When clicking on the "contribute" link from the topic index page, the new
  3783   story will now default to the topic you just viewed.
  3784   This only works with themes that use the {menu_elements} variable in
  3785   header.thtml. Other themes can use the new variable {current_topic} which
  3786   holds '&topic=<topicid>' when a topic is selected (and is empty otherwise).
  3787 - Integrated Vincent Furia's improvements for COM_exportRDF. You can now use
  3788   $_CONF['rdf_limit'] to limit the number of stories in the RDF file by
  3789   setting this to a number (e.g. 10) or a number of hours (e.g. 24h).
  3790   $_CONF['rdf_storytext'] lets you add the story's introtext to the RDF feed.
  3791   Also fixed a bug with un-escaped special characters in the feed's title.
  3792 - Added paging to the list of Static Pages (for more than 50 pages).
  3793 - Fixed problem with the Older Stories block disappearing when it was edited
  3794   (e.g. moved from left to right), bug #670673.
  3795 - Fixed "late" update of portal blocks (bug #681855).
  3796 - Fixed mixing of comments from different plugins, found & fixed by Alan McKay.
  3797 - A theme can provide its own functions to render the site header and footer
  3798   (this is not a new feature). Geeklog now expects those functions to be named
  3799   <themename>_siteHeader and <themename>_siteFoote, respectively. Until now,
  3800   it was, however, looking for the wrong function names ...
  3801 - Added the piece of code that is needed to make the Theme Tester work to
  3802   lib-common.php (won't do anything without the Theme Tester block).
  3803 - Fixed SQL query for displaying new comments in the What's New block, provided
  3804   by Marc Von Ahn (with some help from Rob Griffiths).
  3805 - Changes to make Geeklog install and work again on old versions of MySQL
  3806   (e.g. MySQL 3.22). Special thanks to Markus Guske for providing the fixes
  3807   for the What's New block and for testing the new install.
  3808 - Feb 13/03: (Blaine) Added new Plugin function to support Center Blocks
  3809   Included call to PLG_showCenterblock in index.php
  3810 - The user's signature is now appended to messages sent to another user.
  3811 - Feb 6/03: (Blaine)  Added support for custom user registration and account
  3812   profile: Added hooks to users.php, usersettings.php  and admin/user.php and
  3813   new $_CONF parm to enable
  3814   Developer is responsible for code to handle new form processing, account
  3815   record save, update and delete.
  3816 - The list of blocks now includes a column indicating whether the block is
  3817   enabled or disabled (will need changes in admin/block/listblocks.thtml and
  3818   listitem.thtml template files of custom themes).
  3819 - Variable {rdf_url} (available in footer.thtml) holds the URL of the RDF file.
  3820 - What's Related block is now created dynamically.
  3821 - Top Ten Commented Stories didn't count comments on stories submitted by
  3822   anonymous users (found & fixed by Laurence Whitworth).
  3823 - Allow users to change their username if $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is
  3824   set to 1.
  3825 - Jan 18/03: (Blaine) Corrected problem in mysql.class.php where the checks in
  3826   dbdelete, dbchange, dbcount and dbcopy for a passed value of 0 were not
  3827   sufficient. If the parameter was 0 - it was assuming it was empty.
  3828   Consequence: The dbdelete would delete all records or dbcount would return
  3829   count(*)
  3830 - Display Preferences and Comment Preferences have been merged. There is now
  3831   only one option, Preferences, in the User Functions block.
  3832 - Hard-coded HTML for the Display Preferences, Comment Preferences, and
  3833   Account information has been moved to template files (new "preferences"
  3834   directory).
  3835 
  3836 Static Pages Plugin 1.3
  3837 -----------------------
  3838 - Integrated (and extended) the Static Pages plugin 1.2 (originally started by
  3839   Phill Gillespie and later supported by Tom Willet). This "combined" version
  3840   is now called Static Pages 1.3.
  3841   Use Geeklog's install script to upgrade from any previous version (1.1 or 1.2)
  3842 - Supports the use of PHP in static pages.
  3843 - You can now edit the ID of a static page to create more readable URLs like
  3844   http://yoursite/staticpages/index.php?page=about
  3845   In combination with Geeklog's $_CONF['url_rewrite'] option, the URL can even
  3846   look like http://yoursite/staticpages/index.php/page/about
  3847 - You can now "clone" static pages, i.e. make a copy of an existing page.
  3848 - Removed the "static pages on frontpage" hack and changed the plugin to use
  3849   the new Center Block API instead:
  3850   A static page can now be displayed on the top of the front page, on the
  3851   bottom, or after the featured story. It can also replace the front page
  3852   entirely. Instead of using special label names (like "frontpage"), the
  3853   display mode and position can now be selected from drop-down menus in the
  3854   static pages editor.
  3855 
  3856 Please see docs/staticpages.html for details.
  3857 
  3858 
  3859 January 26, 2004 (1.3.7sr5)
  3860 ----------------
  3861 
  3862 This release addresses the following security issues:
  3863 
  3864 1. It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to
  3865    become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).
  3866 2. Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it
  3867    possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the
  3868    user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object
  3869    was known.
  3870 3. It was possible to delete other people's personal events if you knew the
  3871    event ID.
  3872 4. It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user
  3873    did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).
  3874 5. Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone's account settings
  3875    (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted
  3876    link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
  3877 6. The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection
  3878    (reported by Jelmer).
  3879 7. It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by
  3880    Jelmer).
  3881 8. It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment
  3882    preview (reported by Jelmer).
  3883 
  3884 
  3885 December 5, 2003 (1.3.7sr4)
  3886 ----------------
  3887 
  3888 This release addresses the following security-related issues:
  3889 
  3890 1. As "dr.wh0" pointed out, the category field for link submissions was not
  3891    filtered at all. Although you probably can't cause too much harm with
  3892    those 32 characters, this has now been fixed.
  3893 2. Vincent Furia found that the restrictions for the form to email users
  3894    could be circumvented and could even be used to spam users.
  3895 3. There was a way to post comments anonymously even when posting for
  3896    anonymous users had been disabled.
  3897 4. It was possible to post comments under someone else's username.
  3898 
  3899 
  3900 October 12, 2003 (1.3.7sr3)
  3901 ----------------
  3902 
  3903 This release is intended to address some of the security issues reported in
  3904 September and early October 2003.
  3905 
  3906 1. Includes Ulf Harnhammar's kses HTML filter to address possible Javascript
  3907    injections and CSS defacements.
  3908 
  3909    When upgrading from an earlier version, please make sure to copy over the
  3910    $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays from the included
  3911    config.php to your own copy of that file.
  3912 
  3913 2. While almost all of the alleged SQL injection issues could not be
  3914    reproduced, this release includes an update to the MySQL class to not
  3915    report SQL errors in the browser any more (but only in Geeklog's error.log).
  3916    This will avoid disclosing any sensitive information as part of the error
  3917    message.
  3918 
  3919    Please note that at the moment we do NOT recommend to use Geeklog with
  3920    MySQL 4.1 (which, at the time of this writing, is in alpha state and should
  3921    not be used on production sites anyway).
  3922 
  3923    An upcoming release of Geeklog will address the remaining SQL issues,
  3924    including any problems with MySQL 4.1.
  3925 
  3926 
  3927 May 26, 2003 (1.3.7sr2)
  3928 ------------
  3929 
  3930 Security issues:
  3931 
  3932 1. It was possible to obtain valid session ids for every account (reported by
  3933    SCAN Associates).
  3934 2. Using Internet Explorer, it was possible to upload an image with embedded
  3935    PHP code and execute it (reported by SCAN Associates).
  3936 3. Story permissions could override topic permissions, resulting in the display
  3937    of stories to users who shouldn't have access to them (reported by Andrew
  3938    Lawlor).
  3939    Note: This was already fixed with the new index.php, released 2003-05-15.
  3940 4. Added a warning in config.php that adding any of the following tags to the
  3941    list of allowable HTML can make the site vulnerable to scripting attacks:
  3942    <img> <span> <marquee> <script> <embed> <object> <iframe>
  3943    (pointed out by Joat Dede)
  3944 
  3945 - Fixed the bug in several of the admin areas (blocks, events, links, polls,
  3946   stories, topics) where admins without root access got a message stating
  3947   that they did not have the proper permissions when trying to save an object.
  3948 - Fixed a typo in lib-sessions.php that caused the creation of unnecessary
  3949   sessions (pointed out by Kobaz).
  3950 - Fixed malformed cookie (used $_CONF['site_url'] instead of
  3951   $_CONF['cookiedomain']) in lib-sessions.php, found & fixed by Jon Evans.
  3952 - Fixed a bug that prevented certain right blocks from showing up when there
  3953   were no stories for a topic.
  3954 - The "Google paging" on the index page may have displayed the wrong number
  3955   of pages for users who disabled topics in their display preferences.
  3956 
  3957 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Claudio.
  3958 - Updated French language file, provided by Jaques.
  3959 - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by Access-=-Denied Networks
  3960 - Updated Spanish and Spanish (Argentina) language files,
  3961   provided by Fernando Bernardini
  3962 - New Portuguese language file, provided by Mario Seabra
  3963 - New Bulgarian language file, provided by lachko
  3964 - New Turkish language file, provided by Sinan Ussakli
  3965 - New Slovenian language file, provided by gape
  3966 - New Slovak language file, provided by Rado
  3967 - New Romanian language file, provided by Dan Gheorghitza
  3968 - New Chinese language file (gb2312 encoding), provided by Crocodile King
  3969 - New Czech language file, provided by Hermes Trismegistos
  3970 
  3971 
  3972 January 13, 2003 (1.3.7sr1)
  3973 ----------------
  3974 
  3975 Security issues:
  3976 
  3977 1. Javascript code could be used in the homepage link of a user's profile
  3978    (reported by Jin Yean Tan).
  3979 2. Javascript code could be injected in several URLs so that these could then
  3980    be used for a cross-site scripting attack (reported by Jin Yean Tan).
  3981 3. Anybody could delete comments, provided they knew the comment id.
  3982 4. A StoryAdmin could manipulate any story, even if permissions should have
  3983    prevented that. The same applied to Admins for links, events, polls, topics,
  3984    and blocks (reported by Kobaz).
  3985 
  3986 - The new user notification email was always sent out, even if 'user' was not
  3987   listed in $_CONF['notification'].
  3988 - In admin/database.php, added a check to test if function is_executable() is
  3989   available (since it is not available on Windows).
  3990 - {copyright_notice} in the site's footer (footer.thtml) will now use the
  3991   current year for the copyright notice. You can override this by setting
  3992   $_CONF['copyrightyear'] to the year you want.
  3993   Also, new variables {lang_copyright} and {current_year} as well as {site_name}
  3994   and {site_slogan} are now available in footer.thtml so that you can build a
  3995   customised copyright notice from them.
  3996 - Fixed incomplete links to search results from poll comments.
  3997 - Fixed wrong link to the week view from the last week of the month view.
  3998 - Fixed bug where links was not using the date field - being stored as null.
  3999 - Fixed image resizing when using ImageMagick.
  4000 - Added the actual and max. image dimensions in the error message that is
  4001   displayed when an image exceeds the max. image dimensions and no imagelib
  4002   is configured.
  4003 - The Admin menu will now be displayed for users which have Admin access to
  4004   a plugin but not to a core Geeklog Admin feature.
  4005 - The redirect in index.php (when a site is called up with a URL other than
  4006   the one configured in $_CONF['site_url']) now checks for the existence of
  4007   $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_HOST']. Also, the server name comparison is done
  4008   case-insensitive now.
  4009 - New config option $_CONF['emailstoriesperdefault']: Set to 1 if new users
  4010   should be subscribed to the daily digest automatically. Defaults to 0 (no
  4011   automatic subscribtion), thus restoring the behaviour of Geeklog prior to
  4012   1.3.7.
  4013 - Removed some unused / outdated files (include and etc directories)
  4014 - Updated URLs to point to www.geeklog.net and lists.geeklog.net instead of the
  4015   now outdated places on Sourceforge.
  4016 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by R.F. van der Veen
  4017 - New Danish language files (for Geeklog and for the Static Pages plugin),
  4018   provided by Steen Broelling
  4019 
  4020 
  4021 December 16, 2002 (1.3.7)
  4022 -----------------
  4023 
  4024 - In all Admin editors, the hard-coded default group permissions have been
  4025   changed from 3 (read/write) to 2 (read-only).
  4026 - Make sure an error message is displayed when a StoryAdmin tries to edit a
  4027   story s/he does not have access to.
  4028 - Hide topics from the Admin's list of stories that the current (Story)Admin
  4029   has no access to.
  4030 - Tom Willet found a problem in admin/user.php that sometimes mangled user
  4031   names, especially on sites hosted on sourceforge.net.
  4032 - Fixed an SQL error when using single quotes in a block title.
  4033 - When updating events in the master calendar, make sure copies of such events
  4034   in the personal calendars are updated as well (including deleting them when
  4035   the original event is removed from the master calendar).
  4036 - Fixed PRIMARY KEY for table personal_events, so that more than one user can
  4037   add an event to his/her personal calendar.
  4038 
  4039 - New Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by Access-=-Denied Networks
  4040 - New Spanish language file, provided by LeChuck
  4041 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
  4042 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
  4043 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
  4044 
  4045 
  4046 December 3, 2002 (1.3.7rc1)
  4047 ----------------
  4048 
  4049 - Modifed savesubmission() to better handle Plugin return - Bug ID 642106
  4050 - Modified Comment Plugin API Comment call - PLG_handlePluginComment now passes
  4051   $operation to indicate a 'save' or 'delete'.
  4052 - Fixed problems with the portal.php redirect for links (bug #579221).
  4053 - Fixed a problem when uploading images with certain versions of Opera.
  4054 - When deleting a topic, also remove stories for that topic from the submission
  4055   queue.
  4056 - Added a redirect in index.php when the site was called up with the "wrong"
  4057   URL (i.e. not the one that has been set in $_CONF['site_url']), thus
  4058   fixing the "www vs. non-www" problem where people showed up in Who's Online
  4059   but did not get the User Functions block.
  4060 - The topic selection in the daily digest now defaults to "on" for all topics,
  4061   i.e. when the daily digest is activated ($_CONF['emailstories'] = 1) and
  4062   a user has not selected any topics yet, s/he will receive a digest for all
  4063   topics. This ensures that new topics are automatically added to the daily
  4064   digest (bug #573305).
  4065 - Fixed a permission problem with the daily digest where users could get a
  4066   digested version of a story they didn't have access to.
  4067 - Fixed permission problems in the statistics where story titles, links, and
  4068   events where listed even when the current user did not have access to them.
  4069 - Added the Top Ten Links to the links page (only when links are displayed
  4070   per category).
  4071 - When sending emails, Geeklog now uses \r\n in the mail headers which should
  4072   resolve problems under Windows.
  4073 - Resolved a couple of stripslashes() issues.
  4074 - The static pages plugin can now be uninstalled using the "delete" option
  4075   from the plugin editor. Note that this will only remove the plugin's tables
  4076   and data from the database, not remove any files.
  4077 - Added a simple email notification when a new story, link, or event has been
  4078   submitted or a new user has registered. See $_CONF['notification'] for details
  4079 - Added a separate set of config variables for the max. dimensions of user
  4080   photos ($_CONF['max_photo_width'] etc.).
  4081 - Fixed a problem when resizing GIF images using the netpbm tools.
  4082 - Check the topic permissions when presenting a list of topics in the Admin
  4083   story editor (since the StoryAdmin may not have access to all topics).
  4084 - Removed the Normal / Archive / Refreshing drop down menus from the admin
  4085   story and poll editors since they're not used anyway.
  4086 - In the links section, do not display link categories when the current user
  4087   does not have access to the links in those categories (bug #612869).
  4088 - Fixed problems when using quotes in the title of an HTML-formatted comment
  4089   (including confusing error messages and wrong speed limit alerts).
  4090 - Changed the way how Geeklog checks if it's currently displaying the site's
  4091   front page, thus fixing the problem with disappearing "homeonly" blocks.
  4092 - Fixed double line spacing in HTML-formatted comments and [code] sections when
  4093   running on PHP 4.2.0 and up.
  4094 - Fixed problems with slashes and HTML entities in emails sent out by Geeklog
  4095   (Send story to friend, daily digest, Admin mail utility).
  4096 - Added new config variable 'showfirstasfeatured' which, when set to 1, will
  4097   render the first story on _any_ page like it was a featured story.
  4098 - Added admin/plugins/newpluginlist.thtml and newlistitem.thml template files
  4099   for the list of plugins not installed yet. These files are optional, i.e.
  4100   the list will be formatted using hard-coded HTML when they don't exist.
  4101 - Removed unused template file admin/plugins/installform.thtml.
  4102 - The plugin menu will now list all plugins which exist in the file system
  4103   but haven't been installed (yet) with a link to their install script for
  4104   easy installation (based on code provided by Blaine Lang).
  4105 - New plugin API function PLG_callCommentForm() and improvements for the use of
  4106   comments in plugins, provided by Blaine Lang.
  4107 - The Older Stories block did not take stories into account which were to be
  4108   published in the future. Therefore, the block sometimes listed stories that
  4109   were still on the first index page.
  4110 - Added variable {contributedby_photo} (user photo of story author) for use in
  4111   story templates.
  4112 - Users couldn't disable display of the Older Stories block in their preferences
  4113 - The contents of the Older Stories block was deleted whenever you changed it
  4114   (e.g. moving it from the left to the right column).
  4115 - The static pages editor displayed a blank page when the title and/or content
  4116   field of a new static page were not filled in (will display an error message
  4117   now).
  4118 - Implemented fixes for plugins using the submission queue, suggested by
  4119   Vincent Furia.
  4120 - Following the link "X stories in last 24 hours" from the What's New block
  4121   will now display only the new stories on the index page.
  4122 - When $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] = 2, the search is completely blocked
  4123   for anonymous users (1 will only block the advanced search).
  4124 - Added a check to test for a valid date format when searching by date.
  4125 - Added $_CONF['skip_preview'] to allow submission of comments and stories
  4126   without previewing (defaults to off).
  4127 - Search queries with less than 3 characters are now rejected to reduce server
  4128   load.
  4129 - (Event)Admins couldn't add events directly to their personal calendar
  4130   (found & fixed by Kenn Osborne).
  4131 - Fixed a nasty bug in SEC_inGroup() (in lib-security.php) that let a user
  4132   admin change the password of a root user, so that effectively every user
  4133   admin could become a root user ...
  4134 - Topics are now sorted alphabetically by the topic name instead of by topic id.
  4135 - Added several new variables which can be used in the story template files.
  4136 - New config options $_CONF['dateonly'] and $_CONF['timeonly'] which hold the
  4137   format string for day + month (to be used in the Upcoming Events and Older
  4138   Stories blocks) and the time (to be used for event details).
  4139 - Fixed calls to unknown function printErrorMsgs in the file upload class.
  4140 - New options in config.php:
  4141   $_CONF['upcomingeventsrange'] = no. of days to look ahead for upcoming events
  4142   $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = disallow "send story be email" for
  4143   anonymous users
  4144   $_CONF['hideemailicon'], $_CONF['hideprintericon'] = hide email / printer
  4145   icon from stories (and from Story Options block)
  4146   $_CONF['hidenewstories'], $_CONF['hidenewcomments'], $_CONF['hidenewlinks'] =
  4147   hide new stories / comments / links from What's New block
  4148 - User photos are now resized according to the image dimensions in config.php
  4149   (if an imagelib is configured - otherwise images exceeding those dimensions
  4150   are rejected).
  4151 - Added a check for the proper permissions on the admin page of the Static
  4152   Pages plugin.
  4153 - Plugins can now return "false" (or an empty array) from
  4154   plugin_cclabel_<plugin-name> so that the plugin's icon does not show up
  4155   in moderation.php if the user does not have the proper access rights for the
  4156   plugin. Changed the Static Pages plugin to do exactly that.
  4157 - Fixed problems when using multiple [code] ... [/code] sections.
  4158 - PHP blocks which return an empty string are not displayed any more. This
  4159   allows PHP blocks to "hide" themselves.
  4160 - Searching for links caused an SQL error on installs that were upgraded
  4161   from Geeklog 1.1 (missing "date" field in links table). However, links don't
  4162   use that field anyway, so searching by date was removed (the "date" field
  4163   will be added when upgrading the database to 1.3.7).
  4164   Also, the search results are now sorted by link title.
  4165 - The calendar displayed an empty last week (in month view) for some months,
  4166   e.g. November 2002.
  4167 - COM_pollResults() will not use the side block templates when called from
  4168   pollbooth.php (thus allowing different block layouts for the poll results
  4169   in a side block and in pollbooth.php).
  4170 - Allow for theme-based topic icons by using the $_THEME_URL variable as the
  4171   base directory for topic icons (if that variable is set).
  4172 - Fixed display (or lack thereof) of $ signs in portal blocks.
  4173 - lib-common.php didn't use $_CONF['path_language'] to include the default
  4174   language file.
  4175 - What's Related block
  4176   + content is now set for all user submitted stories (previously, links where
  4177     only added in stories submitted by the Admin or user submissions edited by
  4178     the Admin)
  4179   + block is not displayed when it's empty
  4180   + now uses COM_makeList() (i.e. the list.thtml and listitem.thtml template
  4181     files) instead of hard-coded <li> tags
  4182 - The What's Related and Story Options blocks can now be used independent of
  4183   each other in the article/article.thtml template file - use {whats_related},
  4184   {story_options} or {whats_related_story_options}.
  4185 - Theme authors can now use the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE "hack" for the What's Related
  4186   and Story Options blocks as well (using 'whats_related_block' and
  4187   'story_options_block' as the block names).
  4188 - Fixed the "noboxes" feature where all blocks (with the exception of the
  4189   section, login / user functions, and admin blocks) are hidden.
  4190 - Changed admin/link/listitem.thtml so that the URLs in the Admin's list of
  4191   links are clickable.
  4192 - Fixed an SQL error when calling search.php and there were no stories and no
  4193   comments in the system.
  4194 - Fixed an SQL error in the user profile when there were no stories and no polls
  4195   in the system.
  4196 - Fixed date bug when previewing stories to be posted around the noon hour in
  4197   the admin story editor.
  4198 - Added sanity checks in admin/story.php to prevent possible loss of stories
  4199   when using an incomplete language file (or manipulating the URL).
  4200 - Fixed a variable in admin/plugins/editor.ththml of the Smooth Blue theme.
  4201 - Fixed a typo and a grammatical error in english.php
  4202 - Fixed problems with the "static page as frontpage" hack:
  4203   + will now check if the static pages plugin is installed and enabled
  4204   + uses sp_format (i.e. display blocks as specified in the static pages editor)
  4205   + added a missing stripslashes() call
  4206   New: When you have $_SP_CONF['in_block'] == 1 and the label of the static
  4207   page is neither empty nor "nonews" then that label is used as the block title
  4208   for the static page.
  4209 - The "userevent" table is back in lib-database.php. Geeklog doesn't use this
  4210   table any more, but the name is needed when upgrading from old versions.
  4211 
  4212 Localisation:
  4213 - New Chinese language file (Big 5 encoding), provided by Jacky Chan
  4214 - New Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg
  4215 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by R. F. van der Veen
  4216 - Updated French language file, provided by Florent Guiliani
  4217 - The German language file now uses the proper national special characters
  4218   (umlauts) instead of HTML entities.
  4219  _ New Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
  4220 - New Spanish language file for the Static Pages Plugin, provided by gorka
  4221 
  4222 
  4223 September 20, 2002 (1.3.6)
  4224 ------------------
  4225 - Images in stories can now be resized automatically during upload, provided
  4226   you have either ImageMagick or netpbm installed. See the image settings in
  4227   config.php for details.
  4228 - If you create a static page with the title "Frontpage" then the content of
  4229   this static page will be displayed above the first story on the front page
  4230   of your site. If you additionally set the label of this static page to
  4231   "nonews", then the static page will completeley replace the news on the front
  4232   page of your site.
  4233   You may want to wrap static pages in a block - set $_SP_CONF['in_block'] = 1;
  4234   in /path/to/geeklog/plugins/staticpages/config.php
  4235 - A user assigned only to the Mail Admin group wasn't able to use the "Mail
  4236   Users" function.
  4237 - The filter to disable Javascript onXXX events also changed certain links in
  4238   HTML postings. This should be fixed now.
  4239 - The poll uses a POST instead of a GET request now to at least prevent
  4240   primitive manipulation attempts ...
  4241 - Events on the same day were displayed in the order they were entered, not
  4242   in the order they were scheduled (occured in day, week, and month view).
  4243 - The user function and admin blocks weren't using the proper templates when
  4244   the theme was using the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE trick, as outlined in
  4245   <http://www.geeklog.net/article.php?story=20020429092841722>.
  4246 - When the first character of the content of a block is a '<' it is now
  4247   assumed that the block contains HTML and nl2br() is not applied to the
  4248   block content. This allows proper HTML usage and even the use of Javascript
  4249   in blocks.
  4250 - Sanity checks have been added to the admin editors (including the editor
  4251   for static pages) to prevent possible damage to the database in case of
  4252   incomplete translations (language files) or invalid IDs.
  4253 - The delete button in the plugin editor, which was unused since the removal
  4254   of the automated plugin install (in Geeklog 1.3.4), will now cause a function
  4255   plugin_uninstall_<plugin name> to be called. This allows plugins to uninstall
  4256   themselves (if possible).
  4257 - The author's name was missing from emailed stories. Also changed it so that
  4258   the author's name is only included when $_CONF['contributedbyline'] == 1.
  4259   The daily digest now also includes the author's name.
  4260 - Fixed the "1054: Unknown column 'deleted' in 'where clause'" SQL error that
  4261   some people were getting when logging out.
  4262 - Submitted stories will now pick up the permissions from the topic they were
  4263   posted under (instead of using default permissions).
  4264 - Added new features story.submit, link.submit, event.submit which, when
  4265   assigned to a group, allow members of that group to post directly (skipping
  4266   the submission queue) even when the submissione queue is active.
  4267 - Fixed issues with backslashes in block titles, as suggested by Neil Darlow.
  4268 - The page navigation is now wrapped in a <div class="pagenav"> so that it
  4269   can be formatted by a theme using CSS.
  4270   Because of this change, the template files admin/user/userslist.thtml and
  4271   links/links.thtml had to be changed, because they wrapped the page navigation
  4272   in a <p>.
  4273 - Submission of links and events by anonymous users failed when the link
  4274   submission queues were switched off.
  4275 - Anonymous users were able to submit comments even when $_CONF['loginrequired']
  4276   was set to 1.
  4277 - Fixed a search bug introduced in 1.3.6rc1 when searching by author.
  4278 - When updating from an earlier version, the install script will no longer try
  4279   to rename the staticpage table when no prefix is used in the database.
  4280 - PLG_getUserOptions() will no longer return empty menu options.
  4281 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
  4282 - Changed some wording in the German language file
  4283 - Fixed spelling errors in the English language file
  4284 
  4285 
  4286 August 28, 2002 (1.3.6rc1)
  4287 ---------------
  4288 - Problems with using the dollar sign in stories, comments, and their titles
  4289   have been fixed.
  4290 - Fresh installations now have a "Are you secure?" block pre-installed
  4291   that only the Admin can see and which does some (very simple) tests whether
  4292   the site is secure or not.
  4293 - Fixed the page navigation in (admin's) user list.
  4294 - Using the preview in the admin story editor will now keep the topic icon
  4295   and the time will not revert from pm to am any more.
  4296 - The links section now includes a list of the link categories at the top.
  4297   The list of links is now also separated into pages (10 links per page by
  4298   default, configurable in config.php).
  4299   To get back the old (pre-1.3.6) style of the links section, just set both
  4300   $_CONF['linkcols'] and $_CONF['linksperpage'] (in config.php) to 0.
  4301   These changes are based on code provided by Tom Willett.
  4302 - Fixed the SQL syntax for some requests ("count(*) AS count" instead of
  4303   "count(*) count") which seems to have caused problems with some (older)
  4304   versions of MySQL.
  4305 - A proper error message is now displayed when attempting to use "Mail Users"
  4306   but not filling out all the fields.
  4307 - Editing a portal block shouldn't make it disappear any more ...
  4308 - The somewhat random order of poll answers has been fixed.
  4309 - The site can be disabled by setting $_CONF['site_enabled'] = false; in
  4310   config.php. $_CONF['site_disabled_msg'] can either contain a message to be
  4311   displayed in that case or a URL (has to start with http:) to which all
  4312   requests will be redirected.
  4313 - Fixed various access rights / privacy issues where users could see (but
  4314   not access) information even when they shouldn't ...
  4315   + Search returns only those stories, comments, links, and events to which the
  4316     user has the proper access rights
  4317   + What's New block counts stories and comments according to access rights
  4318     now (this should also fix the problems some people had when New Comments
  4319     were not displayed for anonymous users). New Links also take access rights
  4320     into account.
  4321   + Upcoming events are only visible to those with the proper rights.
  4322   + Topics are not available for submissions without proper rights.
  4323   + Topic selection in the user preferences also follows access rights.
  4324   + "Last 10 comments" (and the new "Last 10 stories too, of course) in profile
  4325     takes proper rights into account
  4326 - Story display and paged navigation weren't working properly when some stories
  4327   were only accessible to certain users.
  4328 - Fixed a bug where users weren't able to use the site when their theme had
  4329   been removed (until they cleared their cookies).
  4330 - New installations now have only two default accounts: The Admin account (as
  4331   before) and a Moderator account that has access to the story, links, and
  4332   events submission queues.
  4333 - The Older Stories block should work again.
  4334 - The submission queues for stories, links, events, and users can now be
  4335   switched off separately (in config.php), i.e. items submitted by users will
  4336   then be visible to everybody immediately.
  4337 - The database backup is more verbose now, especially when there are problems
  4338   (changes provided by Blaine Lang).
  4339 - Fixed a bug where the admin's user photo overwrote a user's photo when the
  4340   admin was editing the user's account information.
  4341 - Group editor:
  4342   + Could not create new groups when using a non-english language file.
  4343   + Once you've added one group to another (by checking off an option from
  4344     the "Security Groups" list), there was no way to uncheck it again.
  4345   + The message after saving/deleting a group said that the topic(!) had been
  4346     saved/deleted ...
  4347 - Changes in search:
  4348   + Should be faster now.
  4349   + Search by date did not work (mostly because the date format recommended to
  4350     be used in a search is really YYYY-MM-DD and not MM-DD-YYYY).
  4351   + List of authors is now sorted by username.
  4352   + Search results for links are now routed via portal.php, too, so that the
  4353     links are counted when clicked.
  4354   + When no results are returned for a search, then the search form will now
  4355     be displayed below that message again.
  4356 - The static pages plugin uses the table prefix now (databases created with
  4357   Geeklog 1.3.5 or older need to be upgraded).
  4358 - A user submission queue has been added. When activated in config.php
  4359   ($_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1;), new users will not get their password
  4360   emailed until they are approved by an admin.
  4361   You can, however, let users from certain domains be approved automatically
  4362   by adding their domain names to the comma-separated list of domains in
  4363   $_CONF['allow_domains'].
  4364 - Fixed problems with quotes in poll question and answers.
  4365 - The default value for the number of stories per page for a new user is now
  4366   taken from $_CONF['limitnews'] (was hard-coded to 10).
  4367 - The user profile has been extended to include
  4368   + last 10 stories by that user
  4369   + total number of stories and comments posted by that user
  4370   + link to search for all postings by that user
  4371 - The title of an article is now displayed in the page title (again).
  4372 - New configuration option $_CONF['allow_user_language'] to allow / prevent
  4373   to change the language. When set to 0, the option to switch the language
  4374   is hidden from the user preferences.
  4375 - The message "You have successfully logged out" should not show up any more
  4376   when you log out and log in again.
  4377 - The blocks stating that the search returned no results (e.g. for links) are
  4378   now switched off by default but can be switched on again with the new
  4379   configuration variable $_CONF['showemptysearchresults'].
  4380 - Fixed the list of authors in the search form (did not list all authors).
  4381 - Fixed search results for links and events: They always displayed only one
  4382   result, even when there where more hits. Also, when searching for authors,
  4383   no hits amongst the links and events will be returned (since they have
  4384   no author).
  4385 - In the admin menu, the count of available submissions is now displayed
  4386   according to the admin's access rights (e.g. don't count story submissions
  4387   for someone who's only a link admin).
  4388 - Links in the What's New block are now counted when clicked (for the site
  4389   statistics).
  4390 - Fixed a stray "(N/A)" that would show up in the admin menu for admins which
  4391   were not static pages admins.
  4392 - You can now block anonymous users from accessing any part of a Geeklog site
  4393   or you can block them from certain parts, e.g. block anonymous access to the
  4394   calendar (via a new set of XXXloginrequired flags in config.php).
  4395   Please note that $_CONF['loginrequired'] is now used to require login to all
  4396   areas. To require login for submissions, use $_CONF['submitloginrequired'].
  4397 - New RDF/RSS parser, provided by Roger Webster. This should now properly
  4398   import even those RDF feeds which Geeklog previously refused to display.
  4399 - Updated language files:
  4400   + Italian, provided by quess65
  4401   + Japanese, provided by Yusuke Sakata
  4402   + Polish, provided by Robert Stadnik
  4403 - Various fixes for the consistent use of $_CONF['site_admin_url'] instead of
  4404   $_CONF['site_url']/admin, provided by Gene Wood.
  4405 - The static pages plugin can now wrap static pages in a block
  4406   (available as an option in staticpages.cfg)
  4407 - You can now use [code] ... [/code] in stories and comments (HTML formatted
  4408   only) to mark portions of the text as containing code of any form (HTML, PHP,
  4409   any other programming language). Geeklog will then reproduce this section
  4410   verbatim, i.e. not interpreting any special characters in that section.
  4411 - Fixed type pulldown menu in search when more than one plugin was used.
  4412 - Signatures in comments are working again.
  4413 - The daily digest uses $_CONF['shortdate'] now
  4414 - New configuration variable $_CONF['emailstorieslength'] to specify the length
  4415   of stories sent in the daily digest: 0 = only the title and a link to the
  4416   story are included, 1 = entire introtext is included (default), any other
  4417   number = cut off text after that amount of characters.
  4418 - The selection of the user theme is now hidden from the user's preferences
  4419   when 'allow_user_themes' is turned off in config.php
  4420 - The links "Add To My Calendar" are now hidden when personal calendars are
  4421   turned off in config.php
  4422 - Fixed a bug where the number of submissions was displayed in the sections
  4423   block even when that was turned off.
  4424 - New variable $_CONF['adminhtml'] allows (Story)Admin to use a wider variety
  4425   of HTML tags than the ordinary user.
  4426 - Fixed COM_exportRDF so that only articles that anonymous users have access to
  4427   show up.
  4428 - Search: User drop down only shows users that have posted a comment or a story.
  4429 - Fixed bug with double quotes in title of story submission.
  4430 - The upcoming events block uses the list templates now.
  4431 - The story option block uses the list templates now.
  4432 - The (Event)Admin could not delete events (delete button was missing).
  4433 - The calendar class reverted to using the english day and month names as
  4434   soon as you called setCalendarMatrix().
  4435 - Added {edit_link} in story templates in Classic theme.
  4436 - All admin editors have the save / cancel / delete buttons at the bottom now.
  4437 - The link to the plugin homepage did not work from the plugin editor.
  4438 - Added $_CONF['default_charset'] in config.php and $LANG_CHARSET in the
  4439   language files to specify a character set to be used for the web pages (use
  4440   {charset} in header.thtml) and email sent by Geeklog.
  4441 - Changes in the themes and the admin editors, moving lots of hard-coded
  4442   english texts to the language files.
  4443   This affects most of the files in the admin and calendar directories within
  4444   the themes directories.
  4445 - The static pages plugin will now pick the language automatically, based on
  4446   the user / default setting for the language. Currently, only English and
  4447   German language files are included.
  4448 - New variables that can be used in footer.thtml: {execution_textandtime},
  4449   {powered_by}.
  4450 
  4451 
  4452 July 8, 2002 (1.3.5sr2)
  4453 -------------
  4454 - New installation instructions (now back in docs/install.html).
  4455   Please note that some of the other documentation may be out of date ...
  4456 - Display of stories in older stories block was off by one day.
  4457 - Number of guest users in Who's online block should now be reset properly.
  4458 - Added some scripts in admin/install to help with the installation:
  4459   + info.php just does a phpinfo()
  4460   + check.php will check the file and directory permissions
  4461   + configinfo.php will display the contents of config.php
  4462   Note: It is now even more important that you remove the install directory
  4463   after the installation went through (or at least block read access to this
  4464   directory).
  4465 - Disable all onXXX Javascript events in HTML postings (stories and comments).
  4466 - Fill in user name and email address when writing an email to a user (via
  4467   the 'send email' form from the user profile).
  4468 - Make sure that the first comment to a story has the 'title' field filled in
  4469   (previously, only comments to comments took over the title).
  4470 - Cut off the subject at the first linefeed when sending email to a user,
  4471   thus preventing the injection of additional email headers.
  4472 - Added a test for register_globals=off in the install script (and display a
  4473   warning if it is off). Also added a hint what the current path is and tries
  4474   to guess the /path/to/geeklog.
  4475 - Fixed the "12pm bug": Posting a story between 12 and 1 pm would result in
  4476   the story being posted with a date in 1969.
  4477 - Use mysql_connect() instead of mysql_pconnect() in MySQL class.
  4478 - The redirect after submitting a story always went to /index.php
  4479 - HTML tags are now stripped out of search queries.
  4480 - Removed the logging of all search queries to error.log.
  4481 - Fixed a wrong link from personal events in the upcoming events block.
  4482 - The "Home" link in the section block was not active on pages > 1. It was,
  4483   however, always active on the home page when the Geeklog site was not
  4484   located in the DocumentRoot.
  4485 
  4486 
  4487 June 10, 2002 (1.3.5sr1)
  4488 -------------
  4489 - This release addresses security issues recently discovered by the people at
  4490   olympos.org. These issues allow for the injection of malicious javascript
  4491   code (which could be used to access the admin's cookie) and the injection
  4492   of MySQL code which could be used to access and even damaged the database
  4493   (under certain circumstances). Details will be available in a report on
  4494   the Bugtraq list shortly after this release is out.
  4495 - The following bugs from the 1.3.5 release have also been fixed:
  4496   + missing field 'emailfromadmin' in userprefs table (fresh installs only)
  4497   + fixed a typo that prevented the page navigation from working
  4498   + fixed batch user import
  4499   + fixed logo size and path to search in XSilver theme
  4500   + optimized size of image files in XSilver theme
  4501   + fixed path to search in Clean theme
  4502 
  4503 
  4504 April 24, 2002 (1.3.5)
  4505 --------------
  4506 - Change installation so that server configuration is manual, DB configuration is scripted
  4507 - Search page now properly generates the right link to search comments
  4508 - Comments to polls now show up in whats new block
  4509 - You can now specify the order the poll results show up in in config.php.  You can either sort by
  4510   voteorder (highest number of votes -> lowest) or by the order they were saved in admin/poll.php
  4511 - You can now move /admin somewhere else in web tree.  This should help out folk where ISP's use /admin
  4512   for their administration stuff.
  4513 - 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
  4514   are trying to submit (e.g. story, link, event)
  4515 - fixed calendar.php so month view now shows events spanning multiple days on months other than the current
  4516 - admin/event.php now saves am/pm and allday properly
  4517 - PollAdmin group can now properly add a new poll.
  4518 - fixed SEC_getUserGroups() so that it always returns an array even if no groups are returned (e.g.
  4519   empty array
  4520 - fixed moderation.php so post mode is saved properly from storysubmission to story table.
  4521 - killed 1064 bug in admin/event.php
  4522 - set error_reporting() so uninitialized variables don't show up (common in poorly configured PHP installs)
  4523 - gldefault blocks now actually use permissions assigned to them in admin/block.php
  4524 - Added all sorts of shit to english.php.  Translators will need to really take their time
  4525   with this file.
  4526 - Added $_CONF['maximagesperarticle'] to config.php
  4527 - install.php was reworked a bit for upcoming release
  4528 - lib-common.php has changed.  can't even begin to note all the changes there
  4529 - admin/user.php has a very simple batch import utility.  You can now create multiple
  4530   accounts by importing a tab-delimited file.  See that page for file format specs
  4531 - story.php was reworked a bit to be simplified and to correctly do paging (old
  4532   paging feature had a bug where one article would never show up.
  4533 - admin/user.php now allows for paging and searching.  Check it out, you'll see what I mean ;-)
  4534 - blocks can now be disabled in admin/block.php
  4535 - added support for images in articles
  4536 - complete overhauled upload.class.php for ease of use, better security, better logging
  4537   and for use in putting images in articles.
  4538 - fixed bug in users.php that allows accounts with same email addresses yet different
  4539   usernames to be created.
  4540 - New strings in english.php (and german.php):
  4541   $LANG02: 15 (moved from calendar_event.php)
  4542   $LANG04: 74, 75, 76 (moved from usersettings.php)
  4543   $LANG08: 31, 32, 33, 34 (moved from lib-common.php)
  4544   These strings need to be added to the other language files!
  4545 - Fixed user selection of emailed topics (usersettings.php) and removed the
  4546   hard coded texts for the daily digest from lib-common.php (again).
  4547 - Slightly changed display of event block: The type of event is no longer
  4548   underlined and the event date is displayed as 03-Apr etc.
  4549 - Added Russion Translation
  4550 - Fixed bug #531483 where $_CONF['commentsloginrequired'] was set to 'on' or
  4551   'off' instead of '1' or '0'.
  4552 - Fixed bug #529621 and added the variable layout_url in COM_endBlock in
  4553   lib-common.php
  4554 - (Sort of) fixed bug #530142: {geeklog_blocks} is now set to an empty string
  4555   in lib-common.php
  4556 - Fixed bug #531018: {contributedby_use} had an 'r' too many in lib-common.php
  4557 - There have been lots of minor changes in the themes so that they now contain
  4558   valid HTML. Nearly all those change fall into one of the following categories:
  4559   + changed '&' in URLs to '&amp;'
  4560   + added alt="" to <img> tags
  4561   + changed the script tags to <script type="text/javascript">
  4562   + changed the DOCTYPE to HTML 4.01 (there is a bug in the HTML 4.0
  4563     specification which prevents the use of 'name' attributes in forms).
  4564   + added '#' signs in front of colour values (mostly in the Classic theme)
  4565   These kinds of changes have also been applied to index.php and lib-common.php
  4566 - During those changes for valid HTML, some typos were corrected:
  4567   + Classic/header.thtml: added a missing <b> before {welcome_message}
  4568   + Classic/storytext.thtml: added a missing 'n' in {end_contributedby_anchortag}
  4569   + Yahoo/header.thml referred to a non-existent file "spec.gif"
  4570   + Yahoo/footer.thml: there was an extra quote after align="right"
  4571   + Digital_Monochrom/admin/plugins/editor.thml: file was missing - copied
  4572     over from the Classic theme)
  4573   + Digital_Monochrom/footer.thtml: added a missing ';' after &nbsp
  4574 - admin/install/install.php had two <body> tags but was missing the </head>
  4575 
  4576 March 7, 2002
  4577 -----------------
  4578 - Fixed broken older stories block (lib-common.php)
  4579 - Fixed problems with saving rights to a group in admin/group.php (admin/group.php)
  4580 - Fixed bug in admin/user that would reset user's settings when admin made a change (admin/user.php)
  4581 - Fixed bug in index.php.  There were two FOR loops, one nested inside the other both interating
  4582   on the variable $i.  This caused problems only for users who went into display preferences and
  4583   selected only the topics they wanted to get articles for (index.php)
  4584 - Fixed bug in story admin that would prevent the date edit from prepopulating right when admin hit
  4585   the preview button (admin/story.php)
  4586 - Modified admin/plugin.php to reflect change in how plugins are installed.  Because of platform
  4587   dependance issues, all plugins will have a simple but manual installation process.  This should
  4588   work across all platforms. (admin/plugin.php, layout/Yahoo/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml,
  4589   layout/Classic/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml, layout/Digital_Monochrome/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml)
  4590 - Alter the database to force all stories to show on the frontpage by default.  This will make the
  4591   moderation of articles work as expected.  Before if you approved an article it would show up only
  4592   in the topic and not on the frontpage (mysql_tableanddata.sql, table.sql, mysql_1.3.3_to_1.3.4.sql)
  4593 
  4594 March 1, 2002
  4595 -----------------
  4596 - Admins can now manually edit the publish date of an article.  This include the ability
  4597   to set the date for a time in the future.  In that case the article is completely
  4598   ignored by COM_exportRDF, stats.php, search.php and the email digest
  4599 - Rudimentary support for database backups (one per day at most).  There is no restore
  4600   capability at this time.
  4601 - Modified the display preference so we store the blocks a user doesn't want to see instead
  4602   of the ones they do want to see.  This will allow any new block to show up by default as
  4603   expected.
  4604 - Removed hardcoded english from COM_emailUserTopics
  4605 - 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)
  4606 - Topic administration page now default the group to 'Topic Admin' properly
  4607 - Topic administration now save anonymous permissions properly
  4608 
  4609 February 22, 2002
  4610 -----------------
  4611 - Removed some outdated themes (hence the 1.3.2-1 version number)
  4612 
  4613 February 22, 2002
  4614 -----------------
  4615 - Added Canadian French, German and Polish translations
  4616 - Fixed bug that kept front page with multiple polls from working right
  4617 - Added missing help field to block table
  4618 - Added block to usersettings where user can pick topics to receive articles for in an
  4619   email digest
  4620 - Fixed bug with the contact link in the header of some themes
  4621 - Fixed bug that caused the admin block to disappear
  4622 - Fixed bug that caused save of story as admin to go to http://someurl/draft_flag
  4623 - Fixed bad relative paths in calendar
  4624 - block type now defaults properly when showing prepopulated data
  4625 
  4626 January 11, 2001
  4627 -----------------
  4628 - 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
  4629 - In admin/block.php you can now specify the URL to a help file.  This is usefully in providing site help to your users
  4630 - Many bugfixes to the calendar in both the UI and the administration
  4631 - Added who's online block
  4632 - Fixed bug that was keeping users registration date from being saved.
  4633 - Fixed bugs in usersettings.php that keep user options from saving
  4634 - Added two database indexes that really speed things up
  4635 - Coded some performance-related enhancements
  4636 - Fixed bug that kept user-defined themes from working
  4637 - Fixed bug in links.php that caused the first link category to report over and over
  4638 - Started updating some of the documents
  4639 
  4640 November XX, 2001
  4641 -----------------
  4642 - Added user-defined themes via PHPLib's template class library
  4643 - Update the Geeklog security model from numeric Security Levels to a *nix-like model that
  4644   can be used by plugins
  4645 - Added support for plugins. Plugins can be downloaded from http://geeklog.sourceforge.net and uploaded and installed remotely or manually
  4646 - Updated most places where dates are used to use the user-defined format in their display preferences
  4647 - 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.
  4648 - Update blocks so that admins can specify the side and order a block shows up on.
  4649 - Seperated common.php into the following libraries: lib-database.php, lib-common.php, lib-sessions.php lib-security.php
  4650 - Started moving Geeklog to use PHP's OO features with the addition of a timer class, a calendar class, a MySQL database class.
  4651 - Fixed bug with output of Geeklog RDF file that allowed story drafts to be included.
  4652 - Updated most of the codebase to use the Geeklog Coding Standard (a subset of the PEAR standard).
  4653 
  4654 August 21, 2001
  4655 -----------------
  4656 
  4657 - Updated configuration documentation
  4658 - Added the ability for article author's username to be hidden (via 'contributedbyline' option in config.php)
  4659 - Fixed a bug with the Google-like paging feature where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
  4660 - Fixed a bug which caused slashes to appear before apostrophes in the older stuff block and in the search results
  4661 - Fixed overlapping/bad HTML in index.php and common.php
  4662 - Fixed the bug in the sections block that showed submission cue numbers to non-logged in people
  4663 - Added workaround for problem where users (after following link in e-mail after registration) would still see the login page after logging in
  4664 - Created phrase IDs for previously hard-coded English in common.php and story.php
  4665 - Fixed a bug which caused draft stories to be counted as new stories in the What's New block
  4666 - Fixed a bug with the upcoming events block where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
  4667 - Stroked the cat
  4668 
  4669 August 17, 2001
  4670 -----------------
  4671 - Released 1.3b
  4672 - Added in support for plugins and has been test for *nix and *should* work for windows
  4673 - A few bug fixes
  4674 
  4675 August 3, 2001
  4676 ----------------
  4677 - Released 1.2.2
  4678 - Added the ability for admins to save drafts of stories
  4679 - Fixed a bug with in calendar_event.php when adding event to user calendar
  4680 - Fixed a bug with the search bar in header.php
  4681 
  4682 August 1, 2001
  4683 ----------------
  4684 - Released 1.2.1
  4685 - a few minor bug fixes
  4686 - Added google-like paging feature
  4687 - fixed all references to newsgeeks to point to geeklog.org
  4688 - when you login when on users.php you are routed to index.php when successfully logged in
  4689   instead of back to users.php
  4690 
  4691 July 19, 2001
  4692 ----------------
  4693 - Released 1.2 stable.
  4694 - Added personalized calendars
  4695 - Fixed a number of bugs from 1.2b
  4696 - Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibility issues
  4697 - Added alt_header.php which is the same as header.php minus the left hand side
  4698 
  4699 May 29, 2001
  4700 ----------------
  4701 
  4702 - Released 1.2b.  Changes are below:
  4703 -Fixed security error in usersettings.php with PGP key
  4704 -Now allows posts that don't go to front page
  4705 -Added new calendar
  4706 -Whether the count of stories and submissions shows up in the Sections block is driven in config.php
  4707 -Add ability to sort topics in Section block by number or alpha (specified in config.php)
  4708 -Renamed header.inc and footer.inc to have the php extension to avoid letting nosy people see the code
  4709 -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
  4710 -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"]
  4711 -added config variable called $CONF["minnews"] which specifies the minimum number of stories per page regardless of topic (i.e. it overrides topics.limitnews)
  4712 -an anonymous user can now email a story to a friend and they can enter some text to accompany the message
  4713 -fixed bug that allowed users to post comments to non-existent articles through article.php
  4714 -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
  4715 -session management has been improved
  4716 -moved "appears on homepage" setting on poll administraction screen to the top of the form to
  4717 keep from having to scroll down all the way.
  4718 -Added messages to various user actions (i.e. notification that submission was sent, confirmation that user data was saved, etc)
  4719 -Added Upcoming events block
  4720 -Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibilities
  4721 -added account creation date to user table along with other useful information (aim, yim, etc)
  4722 -added email gl users/admins feature
  4723 -fixed checkhtml function so that strings to gain extra spaces
  4724 -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
  4725 -added version checking system to let admins check for current version
  4726 -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
  4727 
  4728 
  4729 September 24, 2000
  4730 ---------------------------------------
  4731 
  4732 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.1 out the door!
  4733 
  4734 September 24, 2000
  4735 -----------------
  4736 
  4737 - Date in moderation now shows the correct
  4738   submission date.
  4739 - Maxstories now counts a feature as a story.
  4740 - Saving user information now returns you the
  4741   the edit screen.
  4742 
  4743 September 18, 2000
  4744 -----------------
  4745 
  4746 - Fixed comment post mode preview bug.
  4747 - If a block is empty, it will not be displayed.
  4748 - Fixed a user creation error.
  4749 - Fixed the submission scripts to add and remove
  4750   slashes in all the right places.
  4751 
  4752 September 13, 2000
  4753 -----------------
  4754 
  4755 - Added a limit check to index.php to ensure stories
  4756   are displayed.
  4757 - If block order is between 1 and 9 it is a default
  4758   block.  Anything greater than 9 will not be displayed
  4759   without the user configuring thier settings for it.
  4760 - Added bolding to the display preferences screen for
  4761   default blocks.
  4762 
  4763 September 12, 2000
  4764 -----------------
  4765 
  4766 - If a user sets maxstories to less than 5, max stories
  4767   will be 5.
  4768 - If a story id and poll id are the smae they will
  4769   share comments and the poll will be displayed on the
  4770   stories article page.
  4771 - Poll results box is now linked to comments.
  4772 - Added stripslashes to the links description.
  4773 - Made HTML the default posting format.
  4774 - Updated the user authentication to address a login bug.
  4775 - Added a 404 script.
  4776 - Updated the admin user editor to create all the new
  4777   user tables when creating a user.
  4778 - Updated the What's Releated function to better parse
  4779   for links.
  4780 - Updated comment functions to update the comment counter
  4781   more often.
  4782 - Finished the addition of a "smart" style sheet!  It will
  4783   now format the font size according to the users browser
  4784   an platform.
  4785 
  4786 September 9, 2000
  4787 -----------------
  4788 
  4789 - Updated some missing to language in english.php.
  4790   Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
  4791 - Updated the stats script.
  4792 - Added post modes, the user can now select plain
  4793   text or HTML.
  4794 - Added user preferences for date format.
  4795 
  4796 September 8, 2000
  4797 -----------------
  4798 
  4799 - Fixed a few more issues surronding the
  4800   $CONF["site_url"] placement. Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
  4801 - Added sig to user accounts.
  4802 - Added a system hit counter
  4803 - Fixed a poll comment bug.
  4804 - Comments can now be enabled on a per story basis.
  4805 - Comments can now be enabled on a per poll basis.
  4806 
  4807 September 7, 2000
  4808 -----------------
  4809 
  4810 - Fixed the // uri issue.
  4811 - Fixed a few issues surronding the $CONF["site_url"]
  4812   placement in links.
  4813 - Began work on new user customization system!
  4814         - Index Configuration
  4815         - Comment Configuration
  4816         - Story Configuation
  4817         - User Configuration
  4818 - Fixed the link submission script so it now
  4819   actually works.
  4820 
  4821 September 6, 2000
  4822 -----------------
  4823 
  4824 - Updated the email story to a friend to use the
  4825   db widgets.
  4826 - Fixed the "More by author" search links from the
  4827   article page.
  4828 - Fixed the article editor to be able to delete
  4829   submissions.
  4830 - Fixed translation issues by adding two more
  4831   strings to english.php.  Added $LANG01[61] and
  4832   $LANG01[62].
  4833 - Fixed a formating error on the links page.
  4834 - Fixed the admin user editor to allow blanking
  4835   on non-essential fields.
  4836 - Removed moderation option from config.  If you
  4837   want an unmoderated site there are better
  4838   applications out there like UBB and FreeLinks.
  4839 - Updated the user profile page to put all
  4840   descriptors at the top of the cell for the
  4841   about and PGP key boxes.
  4842 - Updated INSTALL.HTML
  4843 
  4844 September 5, 2000
  4845 -----------------
  4846 
  4847 - Olderstuff() will now parse special charactors.
  4848 - Fixed the admin story editor to properly parse
  4849   the special charactors in the text for editing.
  4850 - Fixed article() to stripslashes from the title.
  4851 
  4852 September 4, 2000
  4853 -----------------
  4854 
  4855 - Fixed a logout bug effecting Netscape users.
  4856 - Fixed a change password bug effecting Netscape
  4857   users.
  4858 - Fixed references to speck.gif, spec.gif was
  4859   referenced incorrectly.
  4860 - Fixed the story submission to correctly
  4861   record the user instead of Anonymous.
  4862 - Added multiple previews when submitting a
  4863   story.
  4864 - Update to english.php
  4865 - Updated the blockparser to use str_replace()
  4866   instead of strtr().  The use of strtr() was
  4867   causing issues on some platforms using
  4868   earlier versions of PHP4.
  4869 - Added a sample httpd.conf Apache configuration
  4870   file to the distribution.
  4871 - Updated INSTALL.HTML
  4872 - Updated README
  4873 
  4874 September 1, 2000
  4875 -----------------
  4876 
  4877 - Fixed a bug in the database upgrade scripts.
  4878 
  4879 RELEASE!!!  1.0!!! - August 29, 2000
  4880 ------------------------------------
  4881 
  4882 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.0 out the door!
  4883 
  4884 August 29, 2000
  4885 ---------------
  4886 
  4887 - Fixed a bug in the command and control center
  4888   which didn't allow the display to be completely
  4889   updated after a batch moderation.
  4890 
  4891 August 28, 2000
  4892 ---------------
  4893 
  4894 - Completed the command and control center
  4895   functionality.
  4896 - Completed new search engine.
  4897 - Fixed language display bug in story submission
  4898   form.
  4899 
  4900 August 27, 2000
  4901 ---------------
  4902 
  4903 - Fixed a login bug that occoured under FreeBSD.
  4904 
  4905 August 26, 2000
  4906 ---------------
  4907 
  4908 - Fixed a bug that allowed anyone logged in to
  4909   delete a comment.
  4910 
  4911 August 22, 2000
  4912 ---------------
  4913 
  4914 - Fixed a nasty delete everything bug with the
  4915   link editor.
  4916 - Continued with search engine update.
  4917 
  4918 August 21, 2000
  4919 ---------------
  4920 
  4921 - Fixed a bug with the link counter.
  4922 - Reworked the olderstuff block.
  4923 - Updated the search engine.
  4924 - Fixed the speed limit warnings so they show the
  4925   number of seconds since the last post.
  4926 - Updated the index page to show date of last
  4927   comment.
  4928 
  4929 August 20, 2000
  4930 ---------------
  4931 
  4932 - Cleaned out now defuct class settings.
  4933 - Comments can now be set to force login to post.
  4934 - Block list is now sorted by type
  4935 - Email forms updated.
  4936 - Fixed the no from info bug in the password email.
  4937 - Fixed the topic editor background bug.
  4938 - Postions of the olderstuff and poll blocks is now
  4939   configurable.
  4940 - Olderstuff block can now be turned off.
  4941 - Olderstuff block now shows 2x the news limit.
  4942 - Updated the install instructions.
  4943 
  4944 August 19, 2000
  4945 ---------------
  4946 
  4947 - Modified the polls, you can now set then maximum
  4948   number of possible answers in config.php.
  4949 - Fixed edit link bug.
  4950 - Updared english.php for the new admin files.
  4951 - Modified the cookies to have a configurable
  4952   expiration time for users and admins.  This can
  4953   be set in config.php.
  4954 
  4955 August 18, 2000
  4956 ---------------
  4957 
  4958 - Reworked the default interface.
  4959 - Fixed numerous bugs.
  4960 
  4961 August 14, 2000
  4962 ---------------
  4963 
  4964 - Began moving portions of the HTML in to blocks
  4965 - Updated the english.php file.
  4966 
  4967 August 13, 2000
  4968 ---------------
  4969 
  4970 - Updated how polls are shown.
  4971 - Updated the poll adminstration interface, this was
  4972   the last old piece of code to be re-worked.
  4973 
  4974 August 12, 2000
  4975 ---------------
  4976 
  4977 - Completed new submission forms.
  4978 - Completed added base path to all references.
  4979 - Completed scripts for user account creation.
  4980 - Completed comment intergration with user
  4981   accounts.
  4982 - Added comment posting speed limit.
  4983 
  4984 
  4985 August 11, 2000
  4986 ---------------
  4987 
  4988 - Completed new story editor and managment
  4989   functions.
  4990 - Completed database widgets.
  4991 - Began work on reworking the poll editor
  4992   and managment.
  4993 - Removed the following functions that have
  4994   become obsolete:
  4995         - countx
  4996         - topicsel
  4997         - getTopic
  4998         - saveuser
  4999         - rot13
  5000 - Removed the following array used to set
  5001   premissions in older versions
  5002         - $ADMIN
  5003 - Began work on intergrating comments with
  5004   user accounts.
  5005 
  5006 August 7, 2000
  5007 --------------
  5008 
  5009 - More work on user accounts and database
  5010   widgets.
  5011 - Minor cosmetic fixes.
  5012 - Began re-working the administration forms.
  5013 
  5014 August 7, 2000
  5015 --------------
  5016 
  5017 - More work on new submission engine and
  5018   database widgets.
  5019 - Implemented submission speed limit.
  5020 
  5021 August 6, 2000
  5022 --------------
  5023 
  5024 - Added command and contol center to admin and
  5025   moderate submissions.
  5026 - Added ability for users to submit links.
  5027 - Added ability for users to submit events.
  5028 - Began intergrating user accounts.
  5029 - Began intergration of a help system.
  5030 
  5031 August 5, 2000
  5032 --------------
  5033 
  5034 - Created new database function templates.  Began
  5035   updating all the scripts to use these new
  5036   database calls.
  5037 
  5038 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.5!!! - August 3, 2000
  5039 ----------------------------------------
  5040 
  5041 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.5 BETA out the door!
  5042 
  5043 August 2, 2000
  5044 --------------
  5045 
  5046 - Getting ready for 0.5 release!!
  5047 - Parent links no longer show up on top level
  5048   comments.
  5049 - Story moderation now show the "new story" button
  5050   even if no stories exist.
  5051 - Story contribution preview now displays the date
  5052   correctly.
  5053 - Comment preview now displays the date correctly.
  5054 - Made the log path configurable.
  5055 - Fixed false "no stories" error in index.php.
  5056 - Fixed the topic highlighting in showtopics.
  5057 - Fixed comments so that the posting and delete
  5058   work properly again.
  5059 - Events (calander) now properly parses special
  5060   charactors.
  5061 - Links now properly parses special charactors.
  5062 - Mail to a friend should work better now.
  5063 
  5064 July 30, 2000
  5065 -------------
  5066 
  5067 - Moved all date functions to using strftime and
  5068   locale settings for display of dates and times
  5069   in local languages and formats.  These are also
  5070   configurable in the config.php file.
  5071 
  5072 July 27, 2000
  5073 -------------
  5074 
  5075 - Finished move admin strings to english.php.
  5076 
  5077 July 26, 2000
  5078 -------------
  5079 
  5080 - Added the featured article functionality.
  5081 - Fixed a special charactors problem in the
  5082   comments, you can now use special charactors.
  5083 - Made some changes to the email story function
  5084   to provide a statement on this isn't spam!
  5085 - Added parent function to comments.
  5086 
  5087 July 25, 2000
  5088 -------------
  5089 
  5090 - Began moving strings from the admin files in to
  5091   english.php
  5092 - Finished up printable story and email story
  5093   functions.
  5094 - More minor bug fixes to the comment engine.
  5095 
  5096 July 24, 2000
  5097 -------------
  5098 
  5099 - Fixed encoding bugs in comments.  Slashes are now
  5100   being stripped properly.
  5101 - Fixed the comment control bar, the title and
  5102   number of comments are now showing up correctly.
  5103 - Fixed the url encoding in the reply links.  The
  5104   title of a reply now copies over in to the form.
  5105 - Bought more vodka!  The vodka shortage is over!
  5106 - Adjusted the comment spacing.
  5107 - Began to add the printable story and email story
  5108   functions.
  5109 
  5110 July 23, 2000
  5111 -------------
  5112 
  5113 - Added comment count to olderstuff block.
  5114 - Reworked the polls for better display
  5115 - Worked more on the comment engine, all comment
  5116   modes (none, flat, threaded, nested) work at
  5117   one level or another.  This is really shaping up
  5118   well and we have unchained the monkies from
  5119   their typewriters...  But no novel yet...
  5120 - Out of vodka and can't buy any more since it is
  5121   illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays in Georgia.
  5122 
  5123 July 22, 2000
  5124 -------------
  5125 
  5126 - Changed password functions to use md5, crypt()
  5127   is becoming to unreliable.  Running the dat
  5128 
  5129 <editor problems, change log for 0.4.1.2 - 0.4.1.1 lost>
  5130 
  5131 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.4.1!!! - July 19, 2000
  5132 -----------------------------------------
  5133 
  5134 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.1 BETA out the door!
  5135 
  5136 July 19, 2000
  5137 -------------
  5138 
  5139 - RDF fetch bug fixed.  The rdfimport routine was
  5140   not correctly identifying if the file open didn't
  5141   work correctly.
  5142 - Poll Dispaly bug fixed.  Poll wouldn't display if
  5143   there wern't at least two user defined blocks.
  5144 - Added word count to the read more display.
  5145 - Move all strings for public side functions to
  5146   a resource bundle called english.php.  Geeklog can
  5147   now be translated.  If you do translate Geeklog
  5148   please send me your resource file!  Great thanks
  5149   goes to Mischa Polivanov for his work on this
  5150   project!
  5151 - When moderating a story, it now returns you to
  5152   the submissions que when your done.
  5153 
  5154 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.4.0!!! - July 8, 2000
  5155 ----------------------------------------
  5156 
  5157 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.0 BETA out the door!
  5158 
  5159 July 8, 2000
  5160 ------------
  5161 
  5162 - Update the poll to restrict votes by IP.  This
  5163   function only creates a table of IP addresses
  5164   pollids and timestamps, votes are NOT tracked!
  5165   Addresses are deleted after an admin specified
  5166   peroid of time set with the config.php variable
  5167   $CONF["polladdresstime"].
  5168 - Added $CONF["pollcookietime"] to config.php to
  5169   allow you to set the amount of time the poll
  5170   cookies will exist for the user.
  5171 - Changed poll to only show a % in the smaller
  5172   index window.  Graphs are now only on the full
  5173   view of the results.
  5174 - Added SQL query interface for admins.  This was
  5175   added for those that don't have shell access or
  5176   shell access isn't alaways avaiable for
  5177   troubleshooting.  Be VERY careful with this!
  5178 - Fixed a really nasty bug with the RDF import
  5179   HTTP calls!  This was causing the server to
  5180   lock up under certian circumstances.
  5181 - Update showblocks() to now order polls and
  5182   olderstuff as well.  Here's the new method:
  5183     - show blockoder = 0 to 1
  5184     - show the polls
  5185     - show blockorder = 2
  5186     - show olderstuff
  5187     - show remaining blocks
  5188 - Reworked the calendar layout a bit.
  5189 - Added two new doc files dbschema.html and
  5190   dbschema.png to document the database.
  5191 
  5192 July 5, 2000
  5193 ------------
  5194 
  5195 - New admin menu as well as more admin checks
  5196   in editing of stories and blocks.  In stories
  5197   only the owner or someone with a seclev of 200
  5198   or higher can edit a story.  Blocks seclev's
  5199   are now being enforced.
  5200 - More stats stuff
  5201 - Access logging is now working!  It reports on
  5202   admin access and illegal operations in
  5203   /logs/access.log
  5204 - Found some more bugs released to stricter PHP
  5205   syntax guidelines in blocks.php and users.php.
  5206   They've been fixed!
  5207 - Added the beginings for threaded comments, but
  5208   it is NOT working yet.
  5209 - Refined different aspects of the database, this
  5210   is going to be the bigest DB update script yet!
  5211 - Calendar has been rewored as events, since I can
  5212   see Security Geeks using this functionality for
  5213   things other than a calendar.  Hmm, what is he
  5214   thinking?
  5215 - Adding CSS references where needed when I find
  5216   them.
  5217 
  5218 July 4, 2000
  5219 ------------
  5220 
  5221 - Added additional security checks for admins
  5222   as well as adding additional admin tracking.
  5223 - REMOVAL: function isAdmin() is being removed.
  5224 - Created a new story format and parser.  The
  5225   story text is now broken in to two blocks, an
  5226   introtext block and bodytext block.  Introtext
  5227   is all that is displayed on the index page.
  5228   Both introtext and bodytext are displayed on
  5229   an article page.  There are many other neat
  5230   things that have changed to go along with this,
  5231   too many to mention!  An example is "read more"
  5232   is only displayed when there is data in bodytext.
  5233 - Added comment and poll stats to the stats page.
  5234 
  5235 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.3.0!!! - July 3, 2000
  5236 ----------------------------------------
  5237 
  5238 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.3.0 BETA out the door!
  5239 
  5240 July 3, 2000
  5241 ------------
  5242 
  5243 - Fixed poll division by zero error. (xix)
  5244 - Added the calander.  This also involved adding
  5245   lines to config.php and style.css.
  5246 - Added next a previous links to the stories list.
  5247   Security Geeks has almost 2000 stories now.  We
  5248   needed a better way to view this information
  5249   without killing the SQL server!
  5250 - Fixed a parsing bug on the contrib form. (richpav)
  5251 - Fixed a bug in which votes were not being saved
  5252   if the first answer has 0 votes in the poll
  5253   editor. (richpav)
  5254 
  5255 July 2, 2000
  5256 ------------
  5257 
  5258 - Fixed a rouge <xmp> tag in contrib.php.
  5259 - Added a new function to check email addresses.
  5260 - Fixed a problem with the checking of <a href=>
  5261   tags. (frank)
  5262 - Moved more of the layout to CSS.  Giving some
  5263   though to creating a CSS editor for the site.
  5264 - Added additional error checking on submissions.
  5265 - Evaluated the security of the file layout, file
  5266   premissions, cookies and made some minor changes
  5267 - Added the RDF import capibilty to the blocks.
  5268   Woo-hoo!  Half way there to 0.3.0!
  5269 - Fixed a bunch of function calls that are now
  5270   considered errors in PHP 4.0.1pl2 (richpav)
  5271 
  5272 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.2.1!!! - July 1, 2000
  5273 ----------------------------------------
  5274 
  5275 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.1 BETA out the door!
  5276   The bugs fixed here are pretty signifant.  This
  5277   has none of the 0.3.0 features.
  5278 
  5279 July 1, 2000
  5280 ------------
  5281 
  5282 - Cleaned up the all of the PHP scripts and added
  5283   missing ;'s. (macole)
  5284 - Fixed some table layouts for comment and story
  5285   submissions.
  5286 
  5287 June 30, 2000
  5288 -------------
  5289 
  5290 - Fixed an bug in the story submit functions.  It
  5291   seems addslashes was droped when putting in the
  5292   content checking.  It's back now!
  5293 - Added a line to display the allowable HTML in the
  5294   story editor and submission form.
  5295 
  5296 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.2.0!!! - June 29, 2000
  5297 -----------------------------------------
  5298 
  5299 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.0 BETA out the door!
  5300 
  5301 June 29, 2000
  5302 -------------
  5303 
  5304 - Bugs Found Score: Women:28 Men:13
  5305 - Security hole regarding user cookies.  The
  5306   user cookie contined the site key, this 33%
  5307   is part of the information needed to forge
  5308   a admin site key.  This has been fixed.
  5309 - Also fixed a problem in the user cookie where
  5310   some of Jason's (the other Jason) info for
  5311   his site was coded in there.
  5312 - Added the ability to specify your own salt
  5313   value for the encryptor.
  5314 - Added filters that are admin configurable to
  5315   strip out unwanted HTML tags and key words.
  5316   These options are configurable in the
  5317   config.php file.
  5318 - Blocks are now topic aware.
  5319 - Change sid to char(20) in the database tables
  5320   stories and comments.  This was in order to
  5321   create compatibilty between stories, comments
  5322   and polls.
  5323 - Poll comments!
  5324 - Added a blockorder field to the blocks table. You
  5325   can now modify the display order of blocks.
  5326 - Fixed a bug in the link generation in stats.php.
  5327 - Changed the description field in the links
  5328   tables from varchar(255) to text to allow for
  5329   longer descriptions.
  5330 - Preview now uses article() function.  Shows a
  5331   true preview!
  5332 - Fixed a bug in comment.php that still may the
  5333   user type in a user name email even if if the
  5334   anonymous option was chosen.  It never actually
  5335   saved the info, just asked for it.  Now it no
  5336   longer asks. :-)
  5337 
  5338 June 28, 2000
  5339 -------------
  5340 
  5341 - Correct setting of a user cookie in comment.php,
  5342   contrib.php and profile.php.  The cookie was not
  5343   being set to remember a users infomation if they
  5344   selected to do so.
  5345 - Fixed the CSS layout for the comment bar, this
  5346   wasn't working properly under Netscape.
  5347 - Fixed an error in the change password function.  It
  5348   was displaying a error even when the change was
  5349   successful.
  5350 - Made total votes a caculated field in the poll
  5351   editor, this is also a easy way to reset the count
  5352   in the case of SQL errors.
  5353 - Fixed topic sorting bug, topics sort themselves now.
  5354   This also involved a change to the config.php file
  5355   in which $CONF["topicssort"] was changed to
  5356   $CONF["topicsort"].
  5357 - Added feature to track which admin moderated a
  5358   story and posted it to the site.
  5359 
  5360 BETA RELEASE!!!  0.1.0!!! - June 27, 2000
  5361 -----------------------------------------
  5362 
  5363 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.1.0 BETA out the door!
  5364 
  5365 June 27, 2000
  5366 -------------
  5367 
  5368 - Added the ability to delete comments.  NOTE: I do
  5369   not plan on the abilty to edit comments.  Just
  5370   a personal thing, thats all.
  5371 
  5372 June 26, 2000
  5373 -------------
  5374 
  5375 - Created search engine that searched stories,
  5376   comments and links.
  5377 - Update comments and how they are displayed.
  5378 - Created new form for submitting comments.
  5379 - Enhansed a bunch of the forms.
  5380 - Removed some obsolete stuff, cleaned things up a bit.
  5381 - Added some additional error checking to submits.  Also
  5382   moved all error checking to the server side.  I was
  5383   testing the use of JavaScript but too many people
  5384   like to turn it off!  I know I do! :-)
  5385 
  5386 June 25, 2000
  5387 -------------
  5388 
  5389 - Squashed 23 bugs with the help of my wife!  Now if
  5390   only Frank would get his bug reports in!
  5391 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  5392   links.
  5393 - Cleaned PHP procedures out of inc files.
  5394 - Updated and tested SQL statements to refelct DB
  5395   changes.
  5396 - DB changes frozen for release and the beta testers
  5397   rejoiced!
  5398 
  5399 June 24, 2000
  5400 -------------
  5401 
  5402 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  5403   users.
  5404 - Figgin problem with polls deleting themselves seems
  5405   to be fixed now.
  5406 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  5407   topics.
  5408 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
  5409   blocks.
  5410 - Created interface for moderation, editing and posting
  5411   of stories by admin.  This worked out well!
  5412 
  5413 June 23, 2000
  5414 -------------
  5415 
  5416 - Finished up additions to the datebase, need to change
  5417   the forms now so the site can use the new fields.
  5418   Some of the new feilds are for future use as well.
  5419 - Added descriptions to the Links page.
  5420 - Fixed the search page so its now formated correctly.
  5421 - Finished up the pollbooth functions (edit and delete).
  5422 - Optimized some of the HTML in the scripts, further
  5423   optimization later!
  5424 
  5425 June 21, 2000
  5426 -------------
  5427 
  5428 - Created a new layout format using all external CSS
  5429   calls.  Let the client do the work!
  5430 - Finished moving configuration to config.php
  5431 - Weeded out some functions in common.php.  Move
  5432   functions that are only used by one script to that
  5433   script.  Combined other similar functions in to one
  5434   function.  Smaller...  Faster... More Stable!
  5435 - Only 6 more items on the to do list for 0.1.0.0
  5436 
  5437 June 20, 2000
  5438 -------------
  5439 
  5440 - Created admin functions for the pollbooth.  Seems the
  5441   other authors on the site don't like hand entering SQL!
  5442   I don't like them having shell accounts!  -grin-
  5443 - Update the Header feild in the Stories block to be a
  5444   little bigger.  This should let wordy authors emblish
  5445   their titles more!
  5446 - Created a more robust errorlog routine.  Now has the
  5447   options of output to a log, the screen or both!
  5448 
  5449 June 19, 2000
  5450 -------------
  5451 
  5452 - Created a pollbooth for voting.  All user functions are
  5453   in pollbooth.php.  There are no admin functions yet as I
  5454   just love hand entering SQL!
  5455 
  5456 June 18, 2000
  5457 -------------
  5458 
  5459 - Optimizations made to the SQL connections and calls.  Too
  5460   much done here to talk about, but part of it was moving
  5461   the site configuration to a flat file.  These changes
  5462   should decrease the usage of the SQL server a great deal.
  5463   This took up most of my day.
  5464 - Variable usage optimizations.  Made many, many chnages in
  5465   the way variables were being used.  This should result in
  5466   cleaner, faster code that _may_ use a little less memory?
  5467   Hey, if I can save 2k per hit, thats a big deal! :-)
  5468 - Updated all code and tested to ensure php4 compatibility.
  5469   So from now on only php4 will be run on the Geeks web
  5470   servers.  So I changed all the extentions and links from
  5471   .php3 to .php to mark this moment.
  5472 - Restructured the directory layout so I can implement some
  5473   new security settings on the files.  Hmmm, I bet you
  5474   wondering "what is this mad-man thinking?"
  5475 
  5476 June 17, 2000
  5477 -------------
  5478 
  5479 - Initial announcement, running this new code on the Geeks
  5480   web servers.
  5481 - Special thanks to Jason Hines and phpWebLog! His work
  5482   inspired much of my efforts!  Unfortunatly phpWebLog is
  5483   taking a different direction that the Geeks sites needed.
  5484   However, all the code I am writing here will be published
  5485   in the hopes that Jason and others may find these functions
  5486   useful.  If you looking for a weblog software that is cool,
  5487   configurable and supported by someone I would recommend you
  5488   check out http://phpweblog.org and party on dudes!