1 Geeklog History/Changes:
6 - The user's time zone selection (from My Account) is actually used now [Dirk]
7 - Modernized the "timezone hack", made the config option a dropdown, and moved
8 all timezone-related code into a new TimeZoneConfig class [Dirk]
9 - Fixed an old bug that could cause SQL errors when a user changed their "Show
10 & hide boxes" settings [Dirk]
11 - Searching by author threw an error on PHP 4 (bug #0001008) [Dirk]
12 - Moved the functionality of the toinnodb.php script into the Database Backups
14 - Added an option to optimze tables to the Database Backups admin panel [Dirk]
15 - Added a notice about the expiry time for the security token (and the potential
16 loss of changes) to most editors. This is meant as an intermediate step
17 until we get around to updating the editors and provide a more user friendly
19 - Fixed display of text excerpt for search results on PHP 4 (bug #0001004)
21 - The comment speed limit was being ignored (bug #0001003) [Dirk]
22 - Added an icon to make the plugin update option somewhat more obvious [Dirk]
23 (icon "stock_update-data.png" taken from Gnome 2.18 icon theme set by
24 AMAZIGH Aneglus, released under the GPL)
25 - Allow bigger values for a topic's Sort Order field (feature request #0001011)
27 - When a Story Admin did not have permission to edit a story, Geeklog threw a
28 "call to a member function on a non-object" error when trying to display a
29 proper "access denied" message (reported by Chase and Cesar) [Dirk]
30 - Allow external apps to contribute to search results (feature request #0000985)
32 - Remember current sort/limit in search results (bug #0001007) [Sami]
33 - Don't display the comment form for a story when comments aren't enabled for it
35 - Fixed a long-standing quirk of the submission handling where the "Submissions"
36 entry in the Admins Block wasn't updated after accepting / rejecting a
38 - Fixed creation of multiple plugin groups in plugin autoinstall [Randy, Dirk]
39 - Added new option $_CONF['article_comment_close_enabled'] to enable/disable
40 automatically closing stories for comments after a certain amount of days
41 (bug #0000959). Changed handling of comment_expire field in gl_stories such
42 that 0 means the story is always open for comments [Dirk]
43 - The "Admin Group" checkbox in the Group Editor didn't work (bug #0000995,
44 reported & fix provided by Tsuchi)
45 - Setting $_CONF['article_comment_close_days'] to a high value (to work around
46 bugs with the "Disable Comments" option in 1.6.0) may result in values outside
47 of the range of the year dropdown for that option, in which case it reverted
48 to the previous(!) year and caused comments to be closed immediately [Dirk]
49 - When viewing your own profile page, you now get an "edit" link that take you
50 to "My Account" [Dirk]
51 - Additional checks in "Mail Story to a Friend", "Send mail to user", and
52 "Mail Users" dialogs to make sure users don't enter email addresses into the
53 name fields (bug #0000992) [Dirk]
54 - Added an option to send a copy to self to the "Mail Story to a Friend" dialog
55 and made the look of this and the "Send mail to user" dialogs more consistent
57 - Display the number of stories in the current topic in the Topic Editor
58 (feature request #0000806) [Dirk]
59 - Call CUSTOM_userCheck from admin/user.php (bug #0000925) [Dirk]
60 - You can now have one featured story per topic (feature request #0000750,
61 patch provided by Tom Homer)
62 - Changing the Post Mode in Advanced Editor mode selected the wrong tab
63 (bug #0000980, patch provided by dengen)
64 - Made the former $cc parameter for COM_mail an optional array of additional
65 email headers (using a string for that parameter still works as CC:) [Dirk]
66 - Fixed reply notification for the very first comment (bug #0000973)
68 - When an anonymous commenter left a name, use it in the comment notification
69 email (bug #0000960) [Dirk]
70 - Removed the CSRF token from all links to edit a comment. We only need it in
71 the actual comment editor and it caused problems on the moderation page [Dirk]
72 - For anonymous comments, use the anonymous user's name from the database, not
73 from the language file (cf. bug #0000960) [Dirk]
74 - The session and password cookies are now created with the HttpOnly flag set
75 to make it somewhat harder to read them from JavaScript (requires browser
77 - Fixed visibility of the "Send Ping" links in the Story Admin's list of stories
78 and the Story Options block [Dirk]
79 - The install script was switching back to English in some upgrade scenarios
80 (bug #0000969, patch provided by taca)
81 - Added a workaround to not lose the XMLSitemap priorities for Locales where
82 the comma is used as the decimal separator [Dirk]
83 - Keep track of actual upper/lowercase spelling of plugin names in the
84 XMLSitemap plugin [mystral-kk, Dirk]
85 - Added support for a CUSTOM_renderMenu function when rendering the top menu
86 (feature request #0000845) [Dirk]
87 - In the install script, always open db-config.php and siteconfig.php in
88 binary mode to avoid EOL character mixup on Windows (bug #0000730) [Dirk]
89 - Avoid SQL error with certain db dumps during migration (bug #0000955) [Dirk]
90 - Plugin migration was only called when the plugin also needed an upgrade
92 - The Migrate option in the install script now also works on an existing
93 database (feature request #0000945) [Dirk]
94 - Comment notifications used the phrase "Read the full article" when pointing
95 to the new comment post (bug #0000940) [Dirk]
96 - Send correct content type and character set header in the install script
97 (bug #0000964, patch provided by taca)
98 - The "Remember Me For" option under My Account did not recognize the "(don't)"
99 option any more (bug #0000961) [Dirk]
100 - Send a notification when a comment goes into the submission queue [Dirk]
101 - Added a link back to the story to the "Mail Story to a Friend" form [Dirk]
102 - Only list [code], [raw] tags when story.* permissions are required [Dirk]
103 - [page_break] was not listed when all HTML was allowed for Root users [Dirk]
104 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
105 - When an error occurs in bigdump.php (during migration) keep the selected
106 language when sending the user back to migrate.php (bug #0000943) [Dirk]
107 - Use COM_getUserDateTimeFormat, i.e. the user's preferred format, for
108 displaying the date and time in search results [Dirk]
109 - When disabling a feed, delete the feed file [Dirk]
110 - Moved leftover hard-coded text from admin/sectest.php to the language files
112 - When creating Pingback excerpts, convert the other site's content to our
113 site's character set, when necessary [Dirk]
114 - New function COM_getTextContent converts HTML into continuous text. Used for
115 a more accurate "read more" count for articles and to improve the text
116 excerpts for search results and pingbacks [Dirk]
117 - Use COM_numberFormat to format the number of registered and anonymous users
118 displayed in the Who's Online block [Dirk]
119 - Use $LANG_ADMIN['na'] instead of hard-coding 'N/A' in several places [Dirk]
120 - For Remote Users, display their service name in the User Editor [Dirk]
122 Calendar Plugin 1.1.1
124 - Keep track of the user id for submitted events (bug #0000993) [Dirk]
125 - Reintroduced {event_begin_anchortag} and {event_end_anchortag} variables
127 - The number of hits for an event was reset when editing the event [Dirk]
128 - When cloning an event, the number of hits for the clone should be 0 [Dirk]
129 - Avoid triggering a false spam report when submitting an event with the default
130 "http://" entry for the link still in place (bug #0000946) [Dirk]
134 - Display the number of links in the current category in the Category Editor.
135 Note: Does not (yet) count links in sub-categories [Dirk]
136 - Link titles in autotags showed up with backslashes before quotes (bug
141 - Fixed display of the Polls block when it only contained polls not visible
142 for anonymous visitors (bug #0000996) [Dirk]
143 - When upgrading from Geeklog 1.5.2, the length of the poll IDs was not extended
144 to 40 characters - only fresh installs of Geeklog 1.6.0 and upgrades from
145 older versions worked correctly (cf. feature request #0000754) [Dirk]
146 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
147 - Introduced [poll:], [poll_vote:], and [poll_result:] autotags, allowing to
148 embed polls where autotags are allowed, provided by Tom Homer
150 Static Pages Plugin 1.6.1
152 - Certain types or all Static Pages can now be excluded from the search results
153 (feature request #0000979, provided by Tom Homer)
154 - New and updated Static Pages are now listed in the What's New block
155 (feature request #0000908, provided by Tom Homer)
156 - Fresh installs of the plugin in Geeklog 1.6.0 accidentally used a wrong name
157 for the plugin's admin group. Silently fix that during the upgrade [Dirk]
158 - Made the list of pages sortable by author (feature request #0000978) [Dirk]
159 - List available autotags in the static pages editor [Dirk]
160 - Added support for meta tags and meta keywords, provided by Tom Homer
163 Aug 30, 2009 (1.6.0sr2)
166 This release addresses the following security issue:
167 - Unauthorized file uploads were possible through FCKeditor.
168 Uploaded files still had to go through FCKeditor's filter, so it was not
169 possible to upload scripts (and the integrity of the Geeklog site as such was
170 not in danger). There were, however, reports that this was used to host
172 This update prevents use of the upload feature when FCKeditor is disabled and
173 disables it for anonymous users. It also doesn't allow uploading of archive
174 files any more. Furthermore, you need some sort of "edit" permission now to
175 be able to upload files through FCKeditor (this is meant as an interim
176 measure - we will probably introduce a separate "upload" permission in future
179 Not security-related:
180 - Fixed installation using InnoDB tables [Dirk]
181 - Links plugin: Fixed wrong function name in the autoinstall.php file
183 - Fixed an SQL error (due to a missing global declaration; not exploitable) when
184 the commentcode field was auto-updated (reported by Jokke_K) [Dirk]
186 This release also includes updated Hebrew (provided by LWC) and German language
190 Jul 30, 2009 (1.6.0sr1)
193 This release addresses the following security issues:
194 - Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to
195 email a story to a friend.
196 - The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that
197 it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to
200 Not security-related:
201 - Fixed an SQL error (due to a non-initialized variable; not exploitable) when
202 the story submission queue was off (reported by Dieter Thomas) [Dirk]
203 - Fixed calls to a nonexistent function COM_outputMessageAndAbort (should have
204 been COM_displayMessageAndAbort) [Dirk]
210 Geeklog 1.6.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
211 the 2008 Google Summer of Code:
213 + Site migration support and easier plugin installation, by Matt West
214 + Improved search, by Sami Barakat
215 + Comment moderation and editable comments, by Jared Wenerd
217 Changes since 1.6.0rc2:
218 - Updated language file for formal German, provided by Markus Wollschläger
219 - Updated Japanese language file and documentation, provided by the
223 Jul 12, 2009 (1.6.0rc2)
226 Changes since 1.6.0rc1:
227 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.4.1 [Dirk]
228 - Fixed advanced search not using start and end dates (bug #0000924, patch
230 - Fixed auto-detection of table prefix during migration when the SQL dump
231 contained CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS requests (bug #0000922) [Dirk]
232 - When an error occurs in bigdump.php (during migration) send the user back to
233 migrate.php (bug #0000919) [Dirk]
234 - Fixed warning in migration script when no backups are available (bug #0000918,
235 patch provided by hiroron)
237 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
238 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
239 - Updated Japanese language files and documentation, provided by the
243 Jun 28, 2009 (1.6.0rc1)
246 Changes since 1.6.0b3:
247 - Fixed include path for db-config.php in bigdump.php (bug #0000915) [Dirk]
248 - Improved detection of UTF-8 database dumps in migration (bug #0000916) [Dirk]
249 - Fixed typos in the install script (bugs #0000913 and #0000914) [Dirk]
252 Jun 21, 2009 (1.6.0b3)
255 Changes since 1.6.0b2:
256 - Fixed IE6 and Safari compatibility issue with sort and limit combo boxes in
257 search results (part of bug #0000874) [Sami]
258 - Fixed HTML in the Configuration (bug #0000907) [Dirk]
259 - Added a more prominent reminder to remove the install script [Dirk]
260 - Made the link to a comment's parent object from the comment bar work properly
262 - Allow searching by topic (without a query string) again (reported by Markus
264 - Fixed handling of $_CONF['comment_close_rec_stories'] (bug #0000899) [Dirk]
265 - Improved selection of text portion displayed in search results [Dirk]
266 - Fixed an error that occured after deleting a trackback [Dirk]
267 - Replace autotags in search results (bug #0000887) [Dirk]
268 - Don't insist on an email address when editing a Remote User (bug #0000885)
270 - Added a config option to send an X-FRAME-OPTIONS HTTP header to prevent
271 "clickjacking" (requires browser support) [Dirk]
272 - Prevent XSS in the install script (reported independently by Nemesis and MaXe)
274 - Removed old plugin API function plugin_commentsupport from the Calendar,
275 Polls, and Static Pages plugins [Dirk]
277 - Updated Japanese language files and Japanese documentation,
278 provided by the Geeklog.jp group
282 - Fixed leap year check [Sean Clark]
286 - Implemented PLG_getCommentUrlId [Dirk]
287 - Update polls comments when changing a poll's ID so the comments don't become
288 orphaned (part of bug #0000901) [Dirk]
292 - Another attempt to fix a compatibility issue with PHP 4 (parse error)
294 - Implemented PLG_getCommentUrlId [Dirk]
295 - Update static pages comments when changing a page's ID so the comments don't
296 become orphaned (part of bug #0000901) [Dirk]
297 - When deleting a static page, also delete its comments (bug #0000901) [Dirk]
301 - Add the Polls plugin to the sitemap by default (part of bug #0000898) [Dirk]
302 - When manually adding or removing plugins, automatically add/remove
303 corresponding entries for priority and frequency (part of bug #0000898) [Dirk]
306 May 31, 2009 (1.6.0b2)
309 Changes since 1.6.0b1:
310 - Various fixes to the new search (work in progress) [Sami]
311 - The list of Comment Submissions now tries to provide a link to a comment's
312 parent object (article, poll, ...). If not available, it displays an excerpt
313 from the comment [Dirk]
314 - Plugin comments lost their type when being saved in the comment submission
315 queue (they were treated as comments on stories) [Dirk]
316 - SQL errors now trigger the standard error handler ("Unfortunately, an error
317 has occurred ..."). Details are available in error.log, as usual [Tony, Dirk]
318 - Removed the $_CONF['search_no_data'] config option and moved the text to the
319 language files (bug #0000873) [Dirk]
320 - All bundled plugins now include a check to see if they support the DBMS the
321 site is running on [Dirk]
322 - A fresh install didn't check if the bundled plugins are compatible with the
323 Geeklog version about to be installed [Dirk]
324 - Users couldn't change their password or delete their account (reported by
326 - Fixed plugin postinstall from the install script [Dirk]
327 - Made COM_createImage recognize https:// URLs (bug #0000881) [Dirk]
328 - Fixed notices in the config class (reported by tgc and others) [Dirk]
329 - Fixed empty entries in the "Type" dropdown on the Advanced Search page.
330 Requires an updated search/searchform.thtml template (part of bug #0000874)
331 - Ensure PLG_templateSetVars (and therefore CUSTOM_templateSetVars) is called
332 properly when the "Skip Preview" option is disabled (bug #0000880) [Dirk]
333 - Fixed handling of multi-byte encoded texts when limiting the content of feed
334 entries to a certain amount of characters (reported by alank) [Dirk]
335 - Added a verbose logging option to the search class and make it default to off
337 - lib-custom.php was missing from the 1.6.0b1 tarball
339 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Juan Pablo Novillo
343 - Display a message when a plugin comment is queued [Dirk]
344 - If you knew a poll's ID, you could find out the poll's title even if you did
345 not have access to the poll [Dirk]
346 - Fixed (mostly) blank page when calling up a non-existing poll ID (reported
351 - Display a message when a plugin comment is queued [Dirk]
352 - Fixed handling of "entire page" centerblocks in a multi-language environment:
353 Need to allow one per language (reported by Norbert Ortmann) [Dirk]
354 - Fixed a typo that prevented the [staticpage:] autotag from working [Dirk]
358 - Added an option to exclude plugins from inclusion in the sitemap. Defaults
359 to the Links plugin [Dirk]
360 - Remove sitemap files when uninstalling the plugin [Dirk]
361 - Don't include Links in the sitemap.xml automatically [Dirk]
362 - Fixed "missing argument 2" error when changing config options (reported by
363 Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
366 May 1, 2009 (1.6.0b1)
369 - New XMLSitemap plugin that creates a XML sitemaps file as supported by all
370 major search engines, provided by mystral-kk
371 - Don't allow to add/remove users to/from the All Users and Logged-in Users
372 groups via the group editor (bugs #0000863 and #0000864) [Dirk]
373 - Cosmetic changes to the form to add/remove users to/from groups, for
374 consistency with the other admin panels [Dirk]
375 - Document where CUSTOM_templateSetVars is actually called from (bug #0000862)
377 - Added option to search by titles only (feature request #0000840) [Sami]
378 - The "Plugins" entry in the Admins Block now displays the number of enabled
379 plugins (previously included the disabled plugins) [Dirk]
380 - Added a config option to enable/disable automatically turning URLs in text
381 postings into clickable URLs [Dirk]
382 - Changed some default settings [Dirk]:
383 * Webservices are now disabled
384 * Cronjob emulation is off
385 * Default sort for topics is alphabetically
386 * Default comment mode is nested
387 These settings are _not_ changed when upgrading from an earlier version.
388 - Experimental: Compress HTML output before sending it to the browser (disabled
389 by default; has to be supported by both the browser and the webserver) [Dirk]
390 - Added canonical link for article directory [Dirk]
391 - Moved hard-coded texts from admin/sectest.php to the language files (bug
393 - Added an option to send a copy of the email to a user to self (feature request
394 #0000771, based on a patch by Roshan Singh)
395 - COM_checkList would use the table name for the name of the checkbox array in
396 the HTML(!). Added a new parameter for the name (pointed out by Bookoo in
397 the exploit for usersettings.php, cf. Geeklog 1.5.2sr4) [Dirk]
398 - Fixed wrong use of COM_allowedHTML and COM_checkHTML in plugins: Functions
399 were called without specific permissions, so they defaulted to 'story.edit'.
400 I.e. as a Story Admin, you could use the admin_html set in events, but as a
401 Calendar admin, you could not ... (bug #0000785) [Dirk]
402 - Added missing finish() calls for some templates, e.g. header.thtml
403 (bug #0000855) [Dirk]
404 - Moved documentation to docs/english so that it can be translated
405 (feature request #0000770) [Dirk]
406 - New plugin API function PLG_pluginStateChange [Dirk]
407 - Fixed dropdown for the "censor mode", which has more than the two options
408 offered previously (bug #0000692) [Mike, Maciej Cupial]
409 - Slightly faster template class (feature request #0000760, patches provided
410 by dengen and mystral-kk)
411 - Use a more efficient implementation of Story::hasContent (bug #0000858, patch
412 provided by Maciej Cupial)
413 - Make sure formerly optional config items can be disabled (bug #0000846) [Dirk]
414 - New plugin API function PLG_getDocumentationUrl (feature request #0000848)
416 - Fresh installs + MySQL only: Changed some tinyint fields that are only used
417 as flags to tinyint(1) from tinyint(3) (bug #0000857)
418 - Fixed one of the predefined date format strings (bug #0000854)
419 - Replace Wiki-style formatting in the Daily Digest and when emailing a story
420 to a friend (bug #0000837, patch provided by Pawel Szczur)
421 - New plugin API function PLG_configChange (feature request #0000694) [Dirk]
422 - Fixed layout of Batch Add and Batch Admin options of the User Manager [Dirk]
423 - On a login failure, the user registration form showed up even when new user
424 registration was disabled (bug #0000843)
425 - The Wiki-style format broke national special characters, e.g. Japanese and
426 German umlauts (bug #0000823) [Dirk]
427 - Introduced new plugin API function PLG_migrate [Dirk]
428 - Allow switching the DOCTYPE from the Configuration. Requires a theme that
429 uses {doctype} instead of a hard-coded DOCTYPE declaration (feature request
431 - The notification email about new user submissions didn't include information
432 about the remote service used (if any) [Dirk]
433 - Define {xmlns} when using XHTML for XHTML compliance. Updated header.thtml
434 and article/printable.thtml template files to include that variable [Dirk]
435 - Fixed wrong use of '&' when sending a trackback (bug #0000825)
436 - Removed incomplete PDF generator (never enabled in any shipped version) [Dirk]
437 - Fixed a problem with words being merged together in newsfeeds when the article
438 was written with CR as the line separator [Dirk]
439 - Made url rewriting work on setups that only set $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']
441 - Fixed duplicate plugin entries when a plugin has more than one entry for the
442 admin or user menu (bug #0000820)
443 - {contributedby_user} and {contributedby_fullname} weren't set in the story
444 templates (bug #0000821) [Dirk]
445 - Reinstated old definitions of the {start_contributedby_anchortag},
446 {end_contributedby_anchortag}, and {contributedby_author} variables, i.e. the
447 two anchortag variables are set again and _author contains the name only (bug
449 - Auto-deleting a story didn't delete trackbacks for that story [Dirk]
450 - Ensure consistent template variable names for the Permission Editor [Dirk]
451 - Added new permission 'group.assign', now required to be able to assign a user
452 to a group. Part of the Group Admin (not User Admin) permissions by default
453 (feature request #0000190) [Dirk]
454 - Raised minimum required PHP version to PHP 4.3.0 and removed all workarounds
455 that ensured compatibility with PHP 4.1.0 [Dirk]
456 - Added a filename mask config option for the names of the database backups
458 - Removed $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack. Use COM_siteHeader('menu', $pagetitle)
460 - Added canonical link for articles [Dirk]
461 - Moved hard-coded "Reminders" column title to the language file (bug #0000817)
462 - Hide archive option radiobutton from the story editor when no archive topic
463 is defined (feature request #0000807) [Dirk]
464 - Display group names with an uppercase first letter everywhere [Dirk]
465 - Added an ISO 8601-ish format to the gl_dateformats table [Dirk]
466 - Let users with user.mail permissions only email groups that they are in
468 - Gave the Groups and User editors a facelift. Requires a new template file,
469 admin/lists/inline.thtml [Dirk]
470 - Introduced list of "advanced HTML" tags that are allowed when FCKeditor is
471 enabled. Needed for images (bug #0000757) [Blaine]
472 - Add new permissions plugin.install and plugin.upload for more fine-grained
473 control to the plugin admin panel (bug #0000637) [Dirk]
474 - Introduced new plugin API function PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
475 - Changed API for PLG_itemSaved to make it simpler and easier to use [Dirk]
476 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.6.4 [Blaine]
477 - Usersettings.php - can not change password when custom membership is enabled.
478 Modified CUSTOM_userCheck to return both a error message string and Error
479 code. Updated users.php and usersettings,php (bug #0000776) [Blaine]
480 - Implemented extended API for PLG_getItemInfo [mystral-kk, Dirk]
481 - Fixed inconsistencies and various small mistakes when displaying "Access
482 denied" messages on the admin pages [Dirk]
483 - Added a print.css stylesheet to be used by the printable template files
484 (feature request #0000766) [Dirk]
485 - Re-introduced the path hints in the install script when it can't find
487 - Added a note about the max. dimensions of a userphoto in the About You pane
488 of a user's My Account page (feature request #0000629) [Dirk]
489 - Display a message when no topics exist and don't let the user enter the story
490 editors (bug #0000738) [Dirk]
491 - Added a configuration option to control the JPEG quality (Feature request
494 - Updated Hebrew language file for the install script, provided by LWC
495 - New Serbian (Latin) language files, provided by Aleksandar Scepanovic
499 - Added migration support [Dirk]
500 - Removed extra double quote from upcoming events block (bug #0000827)
501 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
502 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
506 - Added migration support [Dirk]
507 - Added category default permissions [Dirk]
508 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
509 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
510 - Introduced function LINKS_getCategorySQL and fixed visibility of link
511 categories in the Top 10 Links list and site statistics [Dirk]
512 - Added an option to allow opening external links in a new window (feature
513 request #0000693). Use with care, please [Dirk]
514 - Only external links are marked with class="ext-link" [Dirk]
518 - Added migration support [Dirk]
519 - Set the page title when viewing a poll [Dirk]
520 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
521 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
522 - Extended length of poll IDs to 40 characters (feature request #0000754) [Dirk]
526 - Added migration support [Dirk]
527 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
531 - Added migration support [Dirk]
532 - The printable.thtml template file now uses the {xmlns} variable [Dirk]
533 - Added canonical link [Dirk]
534 - Added auto installation support [Dirk]
535 - Added support for PLG_getItemInfo, PLG_itemSaved, PLG_itemDeleted [Dirk]
536 - The printable.thtml template file uses the HTML Strict doctype and print.css
538 - Display "successfully saved" and "successfully deleted" messages, just like
539 every other plugin and built-in function does (bug #0000644) [Dirk]
542 Jul 30, 2009 (1.5.2sr5)
545 This release addresses the following security issues:
546 - Gerendi Sandor Attila reported an XSS in the forms to email a user and to
547 email a story to a friend.
548 - The "Mail Story to a Friend" function didn't check story permissions, so that
549 it was possible to email a story even if you didn't have the permissions to
553 Apr 18, 2009 (1.5.2sr4)
556 This release addresses the following security issue:
558 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted another SQL injection exploit,
559 targetting an old bug in usersettings.php. As with the previous issues, this
560 allowed an attacker to extract the password hash for any account and is fixed
564 Apr 13, 2009 (1.5.2sr3)
567 This release addresses the following security issue:
569 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted another SQL injection exploit, this
570 time targetting the webservices API. As with the previous issue, this allowed
571 an attacker to extract the password hash for any account and is fixed with this
574 Not security-related:
575 - Re-introduced function get_SPX_Ver in the install script, which is still
576 needed when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by Sheila) [Dirk]
579 Apr 4, 2009 (1.5.2sr2)
582 This release addresses the following security issue:
584 Bookoo of the Nine Situations Group posted an SQL injection exploit for glFusion
585 that also works with Geeklog. This issue allowed an attacker to extract the
586 password hash for any account and is fixed with this release.
589 Mar 30, 2009 (1.5.2sr1)
592 This release addresses the following security issue:
594 Fernando Munoz reported a possible XSS in the query form on most admin panels
595 that we are fixing with this release (bug #0000841).
601 - The default replacement text for censored text was supposed to read
602 "censored", not "censormode" [Dirk]
603 - Fixed problem with extra backslashes appearing in a story's title during the
604 story preview when magic_quotes_gpc = On (bug #0000790) [Mike, Dirk]
605 - Added missing page title when viewing a single comment [Dirk]
606 - Sort groups in the group dropdowns non-case sensitive [Dirk]
607 - Display a message when sending the email to report an abusive comment failed
609 - Display a message when sending the email for a new password failed [Dirk]
611 - Updated Estonian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Artur Räpp
612 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
616 - Fixed parse error when saving a static page (reported by greenteagod). This
617 problem was only introduced in 1.5.2rc1 [Dirk]
620 Jan 24, 2009 (1.5.2rc1)
623 - Fixed various issues with COM_makeClickableLinks (bug #0000767, #0000793,
625 - The comment submission form didn't show the user's full name when
626 $_CONF['show_fullname'] was enabled [Dirk]
627 - Comments were always showing the username, even when $_CONF['show_fullname']
628 was enabled (reported and patch provided by mystral-kk, bug #0000800)
629 - Fixed story preview losing the story when the sid already existed (bug
631 - Fixed wrong use of str_replace in STORY_extractLinks (bug #0000794) [Dirk]
632 - Added "Send Pings" to the Story Options block (if enabled and allowed for the
634 - Don't let the user enable plugins when there's no functions.inc for the
636 - When the install script can't find db-config.php, that message was always
637 displayed in English, i.e. you could not change the language for that screen
639 - When upgrading from a Geeklog version prior to 1.5.0, the plugin config.php
640 files are no longer renamed [Dirk]
641 - Admin lists allowed non-sortable columns to be sortable (reported and patch
642 provided by hiroron, bug #0000791)
643 - Fixed STORY_getItemInfo - need to check the draft flag and for a publish date
644 in the future [mystral-kk, Dirk]
645 - Fixed wrong use of COM_isAnonUser in COM_getPermSQL (since 1.5.0) [Dirk]
646 - When calling COM_getYearFormOptions with a $startoffset parameter, the list
647 of years was off by one (bug #0000783; patch provided by hiroron)
648 - Fixed updating feeds after changing topic permissions (bug #0000779) [Dirk]
649 - The security token was missing from the trackback editor template file
650 (reported and patch provided by hiroron, bug #0000778)
651 - Removed rel="tag" from topic links in lib-story.php as that would indicate a
652 Microformat with a slightly different meaning [Dirk]
653 - Don't include X-Originating-IP header in emails sent from the site's admin
654 area (bug #0000701) [Dirk]
655 - Check if COM_errorLog exists before using it in the config class (for possible
656 problems during installation, bug #0000768) [Dirk]
657 - Fixed filling out the Site Email / No-Reply Email fields in the install
658 script, which was overwriting the correct values from config.php during
659 upgrades (bug #0000759) [Dirk]
660 - Set language direction in templates for printable versions of articles and
661 static pages. Also set $LANG_DIRECTION to 'ltr' now if the language file does
662 not already define it (bug #0000762) [Dirk]
663 - Removing an element from the middle of the censorlist caused the censoring
664 to act up (bug #0000763) [Dirk]
665 - Saving a story tried to update a feed of type 'geeklog' instead of 'article'
666 (reported by Tom Homer)
667 - Delete a feed's file when deleting a feed (bug #0000758) [Dirk]
668 - When using gdlib, use imagecopyresampled instead or imagecopyresized to scale
669 images. This should result in better image quality (part of Feature request
671 - The {start_storylink_anchortag} variable in the story templates was missing
672 a '>' (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
673 - Display a "Service" column in the Admin's list of users when remote auth is
675 - Introduced new function COM_showMessageText to display a free-form text in a
676 "System Message" box (feature request #0000676) [Dirk]
677 - Introduced new function COM_showMessageFromParameter for easy and consistent
678 display of messages passed in the URL, including plugin messages (second
679 attempt to fix bug #0000618) [Dirk]
680 - Display confirmation message when emailing a story (feature request #0000689)
682 - Implemented new function COM_renderWikiText to convert wiki-formatted text
683 to (X)HTML (feature request #0000643) [Dirk]
684 - Added support for CUSTOM_formatEmailAddress and CUSTOM_emailEscape functions
685 (feature request #0000727) [Dirk]
686 - Fixed 'cookiedomain' being reported as changed in the Configuration
687 (bug #0000638) [Dirk]
688 - Reverted fix for bug #0000618 (COM_showMessage automatically picking up a
689 'plugin' parameter) as it's causing problems when displaying more than one
690 message on the same page [Dirk]
691 - Added missing check for allowed IP addresses in downloader class
692 (bug #0000709) [Dirk]
693 - Force a refresh after uninstalling a plugin so that the plugin's entry
694 disappears from the Admins block [Dirk]
695 - Fixed an issue with story expiry dates on PHP 4/Windows (reported by zeb)
698 - Updated Hebrew language file for the install script and Spam-X plugin,
700 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
701 - Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
702 - Updated Slovenian language file for the Links plugin, provided by gape
706 - Fix for calendar plugin - unable to add personal event [Blaine]
707 - Make {event_url} available in eventdetails.thtml [Dirk]
711 - Missing parentheses my have resulted in incorrect search results [Dirk]
712 - Added urlencoded versions of {link_actual_url} and {link_name} [Dirk]
713 - Prevent overwriting existing links when changing the link ID [Dirk]
717 - Lowered the default number of questions per poll to 5 and the number of
718 answers per question to 8 to avoid running into Suhosin's default
719 post.max_vars limit (for new installs only) [Dirk]
720 - Fixed SQL error when poll questions contained single quotes (bug #0000756)
722 - Fixed handling of poll IDs in Polls editor (bug #0000753) [Dirk]
726 - The owner of a static page changed to the user who last edited it
727 (bug #0000777) [Dirk]
728 - Fixed call to WS_makeId when sp_id was longer than STATICPAGE_MAX_ID_LENGTH
729 (found by Marc Maier) [Dirk]
736 - Fixed protection against direct execution in various include files which may
737 have failed on non-case sensitive file systems (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
738 - Saving a story as someone other than the owner will revert the story to your
739 ownership. (bug #0000742) [Mike]
740 - Fixed searching for non-installed plugins when open_basedir restrictions are
741 in effect (bug #0000741)
742 - Fix for first change of password issue (bug #0000724) [Mike]
743 - Fixed failure to switch language with new query highlighting URLs
744 (bug #0000733) [Dirk]
745 - Fixed bug with HTML Encoding of default comment title for articles
746 (bug #0000737) [Mike]
747 - Fixed another case where a duplicate of a story submission was left in the
748 submission queue after approving the story [Mike]
749 - Fixed problem with the MySQL class not recognizing UTF-8 when the character
750 set name was written in uppercase (bug #0000731) [Dirk]
752 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
753 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
754 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by the Geeklog.jp group
755 - Updated Slovenian language files, provided by gape
758 Sep 7, 2008 (1.5.1rc1)
761 - Added missing slash in the install script (bug #0000715) [Dirk]
762 - CSRF token not passed to draft list (bug #0000726) [Ted Powell]
763 - If root debugging is enabled, hide anything in the array stack that has a key
764 containing 'cookie' or 'pass'. And added option to override this.
765 (bug #0000722) [Mike]
766 - Prevent direct execution of the FCKeditor upload script (reported by t0pP8uZz) [Dirk]
767 - Renamed the "Restore" option in the Configuration to "Enable" [Dirk]
768 - Provided better error handling for database backups (bug #0000714) [Mike]
769 - Provided auto-detection of -left and -right overrides for any given block
770 template. This allows any block to auto-style to left and right for themes
771 without the need for the theme to work it out, or talk to the database.
772 ("Bug" #0000684) [Mike]
773 - Fixed handling of corrupted config value db entries, e.g. after importing
774 Calendar event_types with the wrong character set (bug #0000690) [Dirk]
775 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in the Configuration (bug #0000710)
777 - Story image upload: Only add a link to the unscaled image if such an image
778 actually exists [Dirk]
779 - Removed unused code from lib-story.php [Dirk]
780 - COM_siteFooter no-longer creates two sets of right blocks. (bug #0000698)
782 - Microsummaries work in topics, reported by Joe. [Mike]
783 - Added DB_checkTableExists and changed INST_checkTableExists to use it. [Mike]
784 - Changed REPLACE INTO for DB_save for MSSQL compat [Mike]
785 - Re-introduced function get_SP_Ver in the install script, which is still needed
786 when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by libexec) [Dirk]
787 - Fixed issue where you can post a comment to an unpublished story (bug
788 #0000705) [mystral-kk/Mike]
789 - Fixed make clickable links with quotes (bug #0000691) plus truncated long
791 - Fixed table prefix issues with constraints (bug #0000702) [Mike/Sami]
792 - Fixed error when attempting to highlight a search query that contained a
794 - Updated FCKeditor to v2.6.3 [Blaine]
795 - Moved remove() (config JavaScript) to gl_cfg_remove (bug #0000681) [Mike]
796 - Change for CUSTOM_usercreate to support passing in $batchimport,
797 set true if called via the Admin->Users Batch_Add [Blaine]
798 - Fix for date formatting in RSS fields (bug #0000696) [mystral-kk]
799 - A small tweak to the Professional theme's commentbar to make the "Post a
800 comment" option easier to find [Dirk]
801 - Renamed the syndication feed type "geeklog" to "article" since that's what
802 they are nowadays [Dirk]
803 - New option "All Frontpage Stories" for article feeds: skip stories that have
804 the "Show only in topic" option set (feature request #0000652) [Dirk]
805 - If there is a feed for a topic, there will now be a "Subscribe to ..." option
806 in the Story Options block for every story for that topic (feature request
808 - Cop-out fix for bug #0000671: Don't display the icon for external links when
809 the text direction is 'rtl' (e.g. Hebrew) [Dirk, Mike]
810 - Keep letter case intact when highlighting a search query string (patch
811 provided by Sami Barakat)
812 - Provide nicer URLs to story search results when URL rewriting is enabled
813 (bug #0000665, based on a patch by Sami Barakat) [Dirk]
814 - Better support for plugin messages (bug #0000618) [Blaine]
815 - Introduced new variable {page_title_and_site_name} for header.thtml so that
816 we can have "Site Name - Site Slogan" in the frontpage's title again [Dirk]
817 - Fixed SQL error(s) for story submissions by users with story.submit but no
818 further Story Admin permissions (reported by Orion) [Dirk]
819 - End a user's session when they are being banned [Dirk]
820 - Signatures in HTML-formatted comments weren't XHTML compliant [Dirk]
821 - Minor cleanups in style.css - no actual layout changes (bug #0000683) [Dirk]
822 - Allow creation of banned users, i.e. ban the user on account creation [Dirk]
823 - Minor improvements in the error handling, e.g. preventing Geeklog from
824 creating error.log files outside the logs directory [Dirk]
825 - Send a HTTP status code 503 "Service Unavailable" when the site is disabled
827 - Hide the database password when the database backup failed and we're logging
828 the mysqldump command [Dirk]
829 - Disable OpenID login when new registrations are disabled [Dirk]
830 - Allow to unset Configuration options again after they have been "restored",
831 i.e. enabled (bug #0000664) [Dirk]
832 - Adopted hack to allow multilingual blocks (bug #0000626) [Dirk]
833 - Fixed SQL error in story submissions (reported by Chase) [Mike]
834 - Stories with a publishing date in the future and stories with the draft flag
835 set were accessible if you knew their story id (bug #0000678) [Mike]
836 - Enabled siteconfig.php to override database config in core, primarily for
837 rootdebug. [bug 0000673] [Mike]
838 - Allow remote users to use the webservices (bug #0000640). Due to the
839 authentication method it is not possible for OpenID users to use the
840 webservices. Other remote users will have to use username@servicename for
841 their username when logging in through the webservices [Dirk]
842 - Fix to template.class to better handle full path being passed in [Blaine]
843 - Updated PLG_uninstall to supress errors for table drop. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
844 - Fixed INST_checkTableExists for MS SQL Support. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
845 - Hardcode an ltr div around HTML tags in the allowed html tag list. Plus minor
846 HTML compliance issues. [bug 0000669] [Mike]
847 - Plaintext stories have nl2br applied in syndication feeds to provide correct
848 formatting in feed readers. [bug 0000662] [Mike]
849 - Changed SEC_createToken so that it will only return one token per page
850 (effectively making it a singleton). This fixes the problem of not being able
851 to delete comments when you also have trackbacks for the same article
853 - Approving a story submission by saving it from the Admin's story editor left
854 a duplicate in the submission queue, unless you changed the story ID at the
855 same time [Dirk, Mark Evans]
856 - Fixed user submission queue (reported by greenteagod) [Dirk]
858 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
862 - Fixed <brXHTML> tags in the German language files for the Calendar [Dirk]
863 - Fixed date comparison ("End date is before start date.", bug #0000703) [Dirk]
864 - Fixed Admin delete links in day and week view (bug #0000680) [Dirk]
865 - Search for an event's "author" didn't work [Dirk]
866 - Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
867 day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums) (really) [Mike]
871 - Fixed passing the category on multi-page link lists [Dirk]
872 - Fixed new category silently overwriting an existing category if they had the
873 same id (part 2 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
874 - Fixed SQL error when trying to change a category id to an already existing id
875 (part 1 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
879 - For multi-question polls, make the "Vote" button read "Start Poll" in the
880 polls block (bug #0000633) [Dirk]
881 - Fixed display of "Results" link while a poll is open [Dirk]
885 - Menu entries were not language-aware (in multi-language setups), i.e. all the
886 menu entries were always displayed (bug #0000713) [Dirk]
887 - Removed unused 'config_data' entry from the plugin uninstall function
888 (bug #0000666) [Dirk]
889 - Fixed printer friendly version of a static page not working when url_rewrite
890 is enabled (bug #0000661) [Dirk]
893 June 15, 2008 (1.5.0)
896 Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
897 the 2007 Google Summer of Code:
899 + New user-friendly install script by Matt West
900 + New Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron Blankstein
901 + New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. Iyer
903 Changes since 1.5.0rc2:
904 - Users that used a different theme than the site default would see the site
905 switch temporarily back to the site's default theme when changing a config
906 option. This was a side effect of the fix for bug #0000648 [Dirk]
907 - In a tradeoff between security and convenience, we decided to go with
908 security: The install script will no longer display the database credentials
909 from db-config.php. The downside is that you will have to enter them again
910 when doing a database upgrade or re-running the install (reported by Mark
912 - Links plugin: The word "Root" wasn't taken from the language file for the page
913 title of the public list of links (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
914 - Fixed remaining places where the Admin panels had inconsistent layouts:
915 Calendar list of events, Polls editor (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
917 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
918 - Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
919 - Some Korean language files had a mixture of CR/LF and LF as line separators
920 (bug #0000655) [Dirk]
923 June 8, 2008 (1.5.0rc2)
926 Changes since 1.5.0rc1:
927 - Hide the | separator for static pages with page format "blank page" (reported
928 by Tetsuko Komma) [Dirk]
929 - Hardcoded all URL entry fields in the templates and the date selection in the
930 calendar plugin to dir="ltr" (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
931 - Fixed handling of UTF-8 languages in the install script (reported by Tetsuko
933 - Ensure consistent display of the admin lists (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
934 - Sanitize the language in the install help (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
935 - Moved the hard-coded CSS for the System Message to the stylesheet [Dirk]
936 - Added a workaround for the Yulup Atompub client that sometimes sends Text
937 nodes within XHTML nodes [Dirk]
938 - Made the Install / Upgrade buttons in the install script a bit wider to
939 provide more space for the Japanese and German translations [Dirk]
940 - Fixed bug #0000647: All modifications of usersettings should go through
941 CUSTOM_usercheck [Blaine]
942 - Removed hard-coded <ul> tags from the functions for the Admin, User, and
943 Topics blocks. Added new blockheader-list.thtml, blockfooter-list.thtml
944 template files for those blocks [Blaine]
945 - Removed the fake {blockid} for the block templates as it was actually derived
946 from the block title, resulting in layout changes when you changed the block
947 title. It also didn't work properly with non-ASCII languages. Updated
948 style.css and the block templates accordingly [Blaine]
949 - Fixed setting the site's default language and default theme (bugs #0000646
950 and #0000648) [Aaron, Dirk]
951 - The bundled plugins don't need to read their config.php any more. This also
952 avoids confusion if renaming the old config.php failed during the upgrade
954 - Fixed SQL error in the Mail Utility when using the option to override user
955 settings (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
956 - Fixed problems with the text direction in the install script (reported by LWC)
959 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
960 - Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
961 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Takahiro Kambe, Tetsuko Komma,
962 and the Geeklog.jp group
963 Note: Only the UTF-8 versions of the Japanese language files are supported
964 from now on. The euc-jp versions have been removed from the distribution.
965 - Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
966 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
969 May 25, 2008 (1.5.0rc1)
972 Changes since 1.5.0b2:
973 - Fixed story date/time when using the timezone hack (bug #0000639) [Dirk]
974 - Fixed MS SQL upgrade [Mike]
975 - Added code to beautify the language names in the install script [Dirk]
976 - Ensure the "After Saving ..." options work as advertised [Dirk]
977 - Fixed handling of empty form submission and display of error messages in the
978 batch user import [Dirk]
979 - Fixed text for the account reminder emails [Dirk]
980 - Display value in the "Months since registration" column on the Batch User
981 Admin screen without decimals again (as in 1.4.1) [Dirk]
982 - Removed unused poll-vote, poll-vote-results classes from the Professional
983 theme's stylesheet; added empty required-field, missing-field classes for
984 future use (cf. bug #0000635) [Dirk]
986 - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
987 - Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
988 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
992 - Fixed missing ] in the headline of the day and week view [Dirk]
993 - Fixed the template for the personal event editor (extra <td> tag) [Dirk]
994 - Bugfix: In some cases, personal events would end up in the submission queue
995 for site events [Dirk]
996 - Fixed "Delete old entries" option (delete checkboxes were missing) [Dirk]
999 May 20, 2008 (1.5.0b2)
1002 Changes since 1.5.0b1:
1003 - {story_title} is now available in the article.thtml template file [Dirk]
1004 - Bugfix: When saving a (new) topic with one or more required fields missing,
1005 don't go back into the topic editor as that would cause a confusing "access
1006 denied" message [Dirk]
1007 - Hard-coded the text direction as "ltr" for some input fields and the date/time
1008 selection in the story editor (bug #0000150). Also removed "text-align:left"
1009 for the HTML body from the Professional theme's style sheet as it interferes
1010 with the ability to switch the text direction (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1011 - Removed references to config.php from the documentation, some READMEs, and
1012 some source files (bug #0000627) [Dirk]
1013 - Don't include the (internal) 'subgroup' and 'fieldset' entries in the $_CONF
1015 - COM_numberFormat wouldn't handle decimals correctly (bug #0000624) [Dirk]
1016 - Make sure the XHTML constant is defined if the theme doesn't already define
1017 it (bug #0000622) [Dirk]
1018 - Fixed invalid <brXHTML> tags in some language files (bug #0000621) [Dirk]
1019 - The URL sent in a user registration notification contained an & where it
1020 should have been a simple & [Dirk]
1022 - Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
1026 - Fixed the "Validate Links" link from the list of categories [Dirk]
1030 - Bugfix: When saving a (new) poll with one or more required fields missing,
1031 don't go back into the polls editor as that would cause a confusing "access
1032 denied" message [Dirk]
1033 - Renamed 'open' column in the gl_polltopics table to 'is_open' as "open" is
1034 a reserved keyword in MS SQL server [Matt]
1035 - Fixed duplicate sort_order value in the Polls config [Dirk]
1036 - Cosmetic changes in the Polls topic and results (bug #0000625) [Dirk]
1040 - Moved the print and edit icons to the bottom of a static page in the default
1041 staticpage.thtml template file. Also removed the icons from the default
1042 centerblock.thtml template file and defined the {lastupdate} and {hits}
1043 variables there (bug #0000628) [Dirk]
1044 - Removed an extra } from the Static Pages staticpage.thtml template file
1045 (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
1049 May 5, 2008 (1.5.0b1)
1052 - Updated FCKeditor to v2.6 [Blaine]
1053 - LDAP remote authentication module, provided by Jessica Blank / MTV Networks
1054 - The {lang_attribute} can only properly be set in a multi-language setup
1055 (bug #0000616) [Dirk]
1056 - Removed Blogger remote authentication option. Blogger.com have changed their
1057 authentication process, so this module no longer works.
1058 - Emails sent from Geeklog now have an X-Originating-IP header to help track
1059 spam or abuse [Dirk]
1060 - The topic editor allowed you to enter topic IDs with more than 20 characters
1061 (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
1062 - Ease restriction that email addresses have to be unique: Remote accounts can
1063 have non-unique addresses, on-site accounts can't [Dirk]
1064 - Bug: Email user form doesn't display correctly with " in subject when sending
1065 is failed due to incomplete fields. [Mike]
1066 - Bugs: Ensure that site_url, site_admin_url, layout_url and xhtml available to
1067 all templates. [Mike]
1068 - Support for [raw][/raw] tag in HTML post mode. All the benefits of code and
1069 pre, with none of the ugly styling. [Mike]
1070 - Added an Atom self-link to RSS feeds. Sounds odd, but it is recommended by
1071 <http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MissingAtomSelfLink.html> [Mike]
1072 - Improved support for podcasts in portal blocks and fixed an error where REALLY
1073 long syndication feeds could blow portal blocks up. [Mike]
1074 - Only use the multi-byte string functions when the current character set is
1075 UTF-8 (reported by Rick78) [Dirk]
1076 - COM_hit() is now called from COM_siteFooter() instead of doing the UPDATE SQL
1077 directly (reported by Joe Mucchiello) [Dirk]
1078 - New function SEC_encryptPassword() to be used when we have to encrypt a
1079 password. This is only a wrapper for md5() for now but should it make easier
1080 for us to use some other method in the future [Dirk]
1081 - Incorporated patches by Joe Mucchiello for places in the code where the
1082 template library was used incorrectly.
1083 - By defining the constant XHTML as ' /', themes can now be XHTML compliant
1084 (patches provided by dengen from geeklog.jp)
1085 - Added batch admin feature to send out account reminders [Blaine]
1086 - Hide "Create Account" link in the story submission form when new account
1087 registration has been disabled (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
1088 - Updated COM_startBlock to set a unique {blockid} template variable [Blaine]
1089 - Fixed checking of "Show Admin lists" in Group Admin when going to 2nd page of
1091 - Created new function for Admin-Menu display and removed that functionality
1092 from ADMIN_list-functions. [Oliver]
1093 - Fixed missing N/A display when no plugin version number was available
1094 (reported by Machinari) [Dirk]
1095 - Avoid division by zero error when $_CONF['limitnews'] == 0
1096 (reported by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
1097 - Bugfix: Atom always assumes 0.3 and doesn't handle article dates. (Reported by
1098 mystral-kk on the forums). [Mike]
1099 - Added OpenID 1.1 support, provided by Choplair
1100 - Pass site_name into story templates so advanced linking to items like digg.com
1101 can be templated cross-site. [Mike]
1102 - Revamped DB Backups option. It now lists all backups (all .sql files), and
1103 lets you download and delete backups from there [Dirk]
1104 - Fixed checking for errors when sending Pingbacks or Pings [Mike, Dirk]
1105 - When receiving a Pingback, optionally create an excerpt from the text of the
1106 site that sent the Pingback [Dirk]
1107 - Portal blocks now use the HTTP Last-Modified and ETag headers to only request
1108 feeds when they have changed [Dirk]
1109 - The {read_more_class} variable now contains class="story-read-more-link" (if
1110 defined) for consistency with the class name used in {readmore_link} [Dirk]
1111 - Changed the Security Check to only check if any Root users have their password
1112 as "password" [Dirk]
1113 - Made admin/sectest.php recognize 403 status codes (reported by THX100) [Dirk]
1114 - All plugin API's, where not doing very, very plugin specific activities now
1115 call a matching CUSTOM_ function. [Mike]
1116 - Integrated support for passing parameters to phpblock functions (Patch #643 by
1117 Joe Mucchiello) [Mike]
1118 - Fixed numerous HTML errors in admin pages [Oliver]
1119 - Added a missing blank between the day's name and the date in the Older Stories
1120 block (reported by Jeruvy's girlfriend, via IRC) [Dirk]
1121 - fixed bug [#648] sending new password email returns "Ok" message although
1122 it fails when SMTP Server cannot be reached [Oliver]
1123 - Need to include parameters in the URL when sending Pingbacks, e.g. to
1125 - When sending Pingbacks, also search for <link rel="pingback"> if the linked
1126 site does not send an X-Pingback header [Dirk]
1127 - When sending Pingbacks for a story that had identical link texts for different
1128 URLs, only the last of those links was pinged [Dirk]
1129 - Implemented new Autouninstall for plugins. Plugins runs a function that passes
1130 a specific array to a core function that removes all given element of the
1131 plugin. The function inside the plugin can handle aditional removals that
1132 the core code cannot [Oliver]
1133 - Fixed search by date in Calendar (reported and patch provided by Jeffrey Hare)
1134 - Only allow autotags in normal blocks (bug #653) [Dirk]
1135 - Added {story_topic_image_no_align} and {story_anchortag_and_image_no_align}
1136 in stories so that you have access to the topic image without the alignment
1137 (feature request #410) [Dirk]
1138 - Show autotags in story editor to Admin even if all HTML is allowed [Oliver]
1139 - Allow comments to be closed, i.e. display the existing comments but don't
1140 accept any new ones [Dirk]
1141 - Introduced COM_getCharset which returns the currently used character set (to
1142 avoid code duplication). It should be save to simply use $LANG_CHARSET in
1143 most cases, though [Dirk]
1144 - Added optional Wikitext postmode for stories [Oliver]
1145 - Added optional noreply-email address option to config.php to prevent
1146 spammers retrieving the admin's email address from registering online [Oliver]
1147 - Added support for "Microsummaries" to index.php.
1148 See (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries) [Mike]
1149 - Story "Rewrite" - significant re-structure of story code to fix all issues
1150 with posting HTML special characters etc. [Mike]
1151 - Added ability to have Body Text in user submitted stories. To deactivate,
1152 edit layout\theme\submit\submitstory.thtml and submitstory_advanced.thtml
1154 - fixing the dimension-resizing of uploaded images. If an image would be within
1155 the max width after resizing, the max height might still be off. This is
1156 solved with the new code. [Oliver]
1157 - Removed tzcode table and started using PEAR::Date instead since all timezone
1158 information is stored in there. [Oliver]
1159 - Added timezone selector to preferences page [Oliver]
1160 - Fixed COM_getLangSQL() to escape the underscore character '_' which happens
1161 to be a wildcard character when used with LIKE. In a multi-language setup,
1162 this may accidentally display unwanted items (reported by Kenji Ito) [Dirk]
1163 - Addressed problems with the text direction (ltr/rtl) and the hard-coded
1164 English text in admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1165 - Due to a language file change, the login form in users.php ("Try Logging in
1166 Again") now asked for a "new password" (reported by Laugh) [Dirk]
1167 - Remove the "Are you secure?" (getBent) block from the database as its
1168 functionality has been moved to admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1169 - Added config option what should be displayed after user saving [Oliver]
1170 - Added config option what should be displayed after story saving [Oliver]
1171 - Images in articles (inc. topic icon) aligned with float [Oliver]
1173 - New Czech language file for the Calendar and Links plugins, provided
1175 - New Danish language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by dirtyjensen
1176 - Updated Dutch language files, provided by Ronald Edelschaap
1177 - New Dutch language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by John van Gaal
1178 - Updated French Canadian language files for Geeklog and the Static Pages plugin
1179 and new language files for the Calendar, Links, and Polls plugins, provided
1180 by Jean-Francois Allard
1181 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1182 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1183 by the Geeklog Japanese group
1184 - New Korean language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
1185 by Tetsuko Komma and Kim Younghie
1186 - Updated Spanish (UTF-8) language file and new Spanish (UTF-8) language files
1187 for all the plugins, provided by Jose R. Valverde
1189 Calendar plugin (1.0.2)
1191 - Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
1192 day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums)
1193 - Fixed deleting events submissions from the Events editor [Dirk]
1194 - The global $_STATES has been removed from Geeklog. The state in an event's
1195 details is now a simple text entry field.
1196 - The form to add an event to the personal calendar was missing the site footer
1197 (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
1198 - Fixed Calendar feeds: The first parameter to the getFeedContent function is
1199 the feed's ID, not the feed limit (bug #659) [Dirk]
1200 - Highlight search queries [Dirk]
1201 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1202 - Added Batch-Delete functionality [Oliver]
1203 - Added config option what should be displayed after event saving [Oliver]
1205 Links plugin (2.0.0)
1207 - Fixed deleting link submissions from the Links editor (didn't work in at least
1208 all 1.4.x versions) [Dirk]
1209 - Added owner_id field to submissions to record submitter and align with
1210 stories behavior [Oliver]
1211 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1212 - Added "Report Broken Link" function [Oliver]
1213 - Added Link Verification to Link Admin [Oliver]
1214 - Added config option what should be displayed after link saving [Oliver]
1215 - Added Link sub-category options [Euan]
1217 Polls plugin (2.0.1)
1219 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1220 - Added Support for multiple questions grouped into a survey [Oliver]
1221 - Added Support for closing polls [Oliver]
1222 - Added Support for hiding poll results of open polls [Oliver]
1223 - Added config option what should be displayed after event poll [Oliver]
1225 Spam-X plugin (1.1.1)
1227 - Fixed the "edit" modules not working with the French language files (reported
1229 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1230 - Fixed an error with the SLV module when $_CONF['site_url'] was empty
1231 (reported by AA6QN) [Dirk]
1232 - Added support for blocking entire IP ranges, using either CIDR notation or
1233 simple x.x.x.x-y.y.y.y ranges [Dirk]
1235 Static Pages plugin (1.5.0)
1237 - Bugfix: In a multi-language setup, we need to be able to see all topics for
1238 the centerblock option [Dirk]
1239 - Bugfix: Allow the static pages "page format" setting to override
1240 $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] (reported by Simon Lord) [Dirk]
1241 - New Static pages Autotag: staticpage_content to return the contents of a
1242 static page instead of a link to a static page [Oliver]
1243 - Now using a template to display static pages [Oliver]
1244 - Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
1245 - The static pages editor was looking for the advanced editor template in the
1246 wrong place, due to an uninitialized variable (reported by k74) [Dirk]
1247 - Allow static pages to replace tags also on PHP-generated content [Oliver]
1248 - Added config option what should be displayed after page saving [Oliver]
1249 - Added comments feature [Oliver]
1252 Dec 31, 2006 (1.4.1)
1255 - Changed the default character set in config.php back to iso-8859-1 [Dirk]
1256 - Removed display of the site URL from admin/sectest.php. On sites not installed
1257 in the webroot, it did not display the site's actual URL, which only causes
1258 confusion (reported by Dazzy) [Dirk]
1259 - Fixed conflict between the Spam-X DeleteComment and SLVreport action
1260 modules which prevented the count of deleted spams from being incremented
1262 - Fixed max. allowed length for a user's homepage (128) and location (96) in the
1263 preferences/profile.thtml template file (reported by burjans) [Dirk]
1264 - Fixed page title after a successful batch import of users (which read "Error")
1266 - Back in Geeklog 1.4.0, a counter was added to the Spam-X plugin to count all
1267 deleted spam posts. The counter was only added in fresh installs of 1.4.0,
1268 though, but not when upgrading from an earlier version. Fixed that [Dirk]
1269 - In lists created from the Links and Calendar plugins, use "links-new-plugin"
1270 as the CSS class name [Oliver]
1272 - Updated Estonian language file, provided by Artur Räpp
1273 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Alexander Yurchenko
1274 - New Russian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Alexander
1276 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
1279 Dec 17, 2006 (1.4.1rc1)
1282 - Improved handling of UTF-8 feeds (feature request #631) [Mike, Dirk]
1283 - Fixes for the remaining MS SQL issues (bugs #620, #621, #622, #624)
1284 [Randy Kolenko, Dirk]
1285 - Initialize SQL request arrays to prevent PHP errors (e.g. with static pages),
1286 reported by ldfoo [Dirk]
1287 - Escape the '#' sign in spam checks since we're using it as the separator
1288 character for the regexp [Dirk]
1289 - Mark Evans provided a set of patches that let plugins hook into the user
1290 registration, story and comment submission as well as the contact user and
1291 email story forms. These hooks can be used to add CAPTCHAs to those forms,
1292 but may also come in handy for other plugin applications.
1293 Also modified several template files to include a {captcha} variable to ease
1294 installation of Mark's CAPTCHA plugin.
1295 - Update the timestamp for the last run of PLG_runScheduledTask before calling
1296 the function to minimize the risk of the call being triggered more than once
1298 - In a multi-language setup, allow one static page per language to take over
1299 the index page (bug #625) [Dirk]
1300 - sectest.php didn't perform the test for the install script and default
1301 passwords on some setups (reported by Christian Weiske) [Dirk]
1302 - Fixed "delete account" option (reported by Paul Lelgemann) [Dirk]
1303 - Fixed counting of comments in several places where comments were counted
1304 without taking the type of the parent object into account (e.g. when a story
1305 and a poll happened to use the same id, their comment counts would have been
1307 - Editing a story did reset the trackback count (reported by T. Marquez) [Dirk]
1308 - In the admin's story editor, set the debug option for the image upload only
1309 when $_CONF['debug_image_upload'] = true (thus avoiding the "Warning: File #x
1310 on the HTML form was empty" messages in error.log) [Dirk]
1311 - Renamed [calendar:] autotag back to [event:] for backward compatibility. It
1312 also makes more sense this way, since it does provide a link to an event, not
1313 a link to a calendar (bug #619) [Dirk]
1314 - Need to check if field 'etids' is NULL (for MySQL 4) for the Daily Digest
1316 - Removed the outer table from the layout and merged several style declarations
1317 into the body-tag declaration [Oliver]
1318 - The spam check for comment posts did not include the comment title (reported
1320 - When multi-language support is enabled, allow language-specific overrides
1321 of the locale settings, e.g. $_CONF['date_en'] and $_CONF['date_de'] to
1322 overwrite $_CONF['date'] depending on the current language [Dirk]
1323 - When installing the Geeklog database using InnoDB tables, create a
1324 'database_engine' entry in gl_vars, so that plugins know to use InnoDB for
1325 their tables. Updated the bundled plugins to act accordingly [Dirk]
1326 - DB_query will now (optionally) accept an array of SQL request strings from
1327 which it will pick the one applicable for the currently used database type
1329 - Provide some more meta information in header.thtml [Dirk]
1330 + added optional {lang_id} variable and lang attribute
1331 + added a hreflang attribute to the feed links
1332 + added <link rel="home">, <link rel="search">, <link rel="contents"> links
1333 (via the {rel_links} variable)
1334 - COM_isFrontpage has been deprecated, as it had its return values inverted
1335 (returns false when on the site's index page). Use COM_onFrontpage instead
1337 - Fixed check for new stories from archive topic [Dirk]
1338 - Call PLG_templateSetVars() from STORY_renderArticle() so we can have custom
1339 variables in the story templates [Dirk]
1341 - Updated Chinese language files (traditional and simplified), provided by
1343 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1344 by the Geeklog Japanese group
1345 - Updated Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251, KOI8-U, and UTF-8 encoding)
1346 for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
1349 Nov 5, 2006 (1.4.1b2)
1352 - Fixed potential SQL injection in the story editor preview (required Story
1353 Admin permissions) [Dirk]
1354 - Added multi-language support in static pages centerblocks and search [Dirk]
1355 - When cloning a static page, keep the original's "wrap in a block" setting
1357 - Spam-X stats: Removed MT-Blacklist entry, added SLV whitelist entry [Dirk]
1358 - Don't add empty "No Title" links in portal blocks when the feed has less than
1359 the configured max. number of entries (bug #610) [Dirk]
1360 - Added support for COM_mail to use a parm for a CC: distribution list [Blaine]
1361 - Fixed bug #603, hardcoded mysql_error() [Oliver]
1362 - Fixed bug #604, delete trackbacks of a story when story is deleted [Oliver]
1363 - Allow users to switch the language again, even when the default character set
1364 is not UTF-8. It is, however, not possible to mix UTF-8 and other charsets.
1365 Also, "UTF-8" is not displayed in the language dropdown any more [Dirk]
1366 - Corrected SQL for group counting in Admin menu for root admin to fix bug #573
1368 - Properly encode non-ASCII characters in email headers (subject, names),
1369 loosely based on patch #489 and code from Cal Henderson's book [Dirk]
1370 - Removed the Calendar styles and moved them to a dedicated file in the
1371 plugin's directory [Oliver]
1372 - Sorted all stylesheet definitions alphabetically and split semantics and
1374 - When making a topic the archive topic, update all existing stories in that
1375 topic to "archived" status (and likewise revert that status if the topic
1376 loses its archive topic status) [Dirk]
1377 - Don't count archived stories as new stories in the What's New block [Dirk]
1378 - Moved the defines for STORY_ARCHIVE_ON_EXPIRE and STORY_DELETE_ON_EXPIRE to
1379 lib-story.php (from config.php) where they make more sense [Dirk]
1380 - COM_getPermSQL was using the current user's group information when called for
1381 another user. In Geeklog, this only happens for the Daily Digest, though
1383 - When comments are disabled for a story, don't show any existing comments in
1384 the What's New block, in search results or via comment.php (bug #597) [Dirk]
1385 - When trackbacks are disabled for a story, don't list any existing trackbacks
1386 in the What's New block [Dirk]
1387 - In the Admin's User Editor, disabled the checkboxes for the All Users,
1388 Logged-in Users, and Remote Users groups to prevent accidental change of
1389 group membership [Dirk]
1390 - When deleting a topic, also delete all Trackbacks attached to stories in that
1391 topic and update the Older Stories block and the feeds [Dirk]
1392 - Fixed approve / delete of draft stories from moderation.php [Dirk]
1393 - Strip blanks from the name of a PHP block function when saving a PHP block
1395 - Fixed / added multi-language support in the article directory, What's New
1396 block, and the search for stories and comments [Dirk]
1397 - Fixed an SQL error when changing a story's ID [Dirk]
1398 - Call SET NAMES 'utf8' when using UTF-8 as the site's character set (with
1399 MySQL), as pointed out by several people [Dirk]
1400 - Removed wrong parameter when calling up the comment form again when the
1401 comment's title was missing. This bug existed for both story and polls
1402 comments. (bug #591) [Dirk]
1403 - Users who were only in the Syndication Admin group didn't have access to
1404 Command and Control (moderation.php) [Dirk]
1405 - For Block, Group, Polls, Story and Topic Admins only display the number of
1406 the respective entries they can actually see (instead of the number of all
1407 entries, e.g. topics, in the system) [Dirk]
1408 - Fixed highlighting parse error when the search term contained an apostrophe
1410 - Improved (and subsequently fixed) Pingback spam detection which now also uses
1411 the $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] settings [Dirk]
1412 - directory.php was still using $LANG30 instead of $LANG_MONTH (bug #583) [Dirk]
1413 - When upgrading the database from 1.4.0, only update those plugins that are
1414 actually installed (disabled or not) [Dirk]
1415 - CSS Changes to support better scaling of Font size - using browser Text-Size
1416 adjustment. Removed many extra font-size declarations. [Blaine]
1417 - Don't allow viewing of a Banned user profile unless user admin [Blaine]
1418 - Only call CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler when custom_registration is enabled
1420 - Fixed SQL error with some older MySQL versions when calling up the Batch User
1421 Delete option [Oliver]
1422 - Comments always displayed the comment author's full name, even when
1423 $_CONF['show_fullname'] was set to 0 [Dirk]
1424 - Fixed 404 (caused by a request for a file named '(none)') in the user profile
1425 display when a user doesn't have a userphoto [Dirk]
1427 - New Estonian language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
1429 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1430 - Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1431 by the Geeklog Japanese group
1432 - New Russian language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Pavel Kovalenko
1433 - Updated Slovenian language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
1438 - Created a dedicated stylesheet file and include the file only if the URL
1439 contains the word 'calendar' [Oliver]
1440 - Tweaked the Calendar search result listing: Removed the Event Description
1441 (usually too long for the result listing), replaced Location (which is only a
1442 part of the address and not very helpful) with Event Type, minimized Date &
1443 Time display for events lasting only one day (don't list date twice) [Dirk]
1447 - Renamed classes block-vote-results to poll-vote-results and block-vote to
1449 - Removed duplicate "Other" entry from the Link submission form [Dirk]
1450 - In the Admin's list of links, only display an edit icon for links that the
1451 current user can actually edit (they did get a proper error message when
1452 trying to edit such a link, though) [Dirk]
1453 - Don't return the number of links in the links submission queue if the
1454 current user does not have links.moderate permissions [Dirk]
1455 - Filter out special characters from link IDs. They were properly escaped
1456 before storing them in the database but caused problems when using them
1460 Sep 17, 2006 (1.4.1b1)
1463 - Changes to templates and CSS to remove deprecated HTML (align= and valign=)
1464 Removed un-used CSS declarations, redundant font-family declarations
1465 Removed use of font-size percentage and used more acceptable EM units [Blaine]
1466 - Don't display an "edit" link in a story if the current user doesn't have
1467 edit permissions for the story's topic (bug #558) [Dirk]
1468 - Added a new script to check the site's security (admin/sectest.php). This
1469 replaces the "get bent" PHP block, but also performs additional checks [Dirk]
1470 - Created a Batch Delete function for users that easily identifies inactive or
1471 old users and allows mass-deletion of those [Oliver]
1472 - Updated FCKeditor to version 2.3.1 [Blaine]
1473 - Added ability to filter out Admin related groups on the Group Admin page
1474 Allows users to easily see only user groups. When editing non-core groups,
1475 You can select if this group is an Admin Group [Blaine]
1476 - Added ability to multi-select submission queue items on the moderation page
1477 and delete them all at once [Blaine]
1478 - Always make "Submissions" the first entry in the Admins Only block to keep
1479 the correspondence between the other entries and the icons on the moderation
1480 page undisturbed (and because it's an important entry) [Dirk]
1481 - Fixed 'emailstoriesperdefault' config option (bug #553) [Dirk]
1482 - Added support for Microsoft SQL Server, provided by Randy Kolenko
1483 - Introduced $_CONF['disallow_domains'] as a blacklist of domain names that are
1484 not allowed for new users during signup. Both 'disallow_domains' and
1485 'allow_domains' can also contain regular expressions [Dirk]
1486 - Introduced DB_lockTable / DB_unlockTable to encapsulate the LOCK / UNLOCK
1487 requests when updating the comments table [Dirk]
1488 - Fixed bug: [#540] Blocking the last Root user or yourself should not be
1490 - Fixed bug: [#546] The phrase "Story Stats" is hardcoded [Oliver]
1491 - Added a spam check to the email user form [Dirk]
1492 - Use the same piece of code to compare plugin version numbers in lib-admin.php
1493 and admin/plugins.php to avoid the "update" button not appearing for some
1494 version numbers (bug #542) [Dirk]
1495 - Re-implemented $_CONF['allow_domains'] whitelist (when the user submission
1496 queue is enabled) that was inexplicably missing from 1.4.0 [Dirk]
1497 - Merged User Preferences and Account information into one page, like the
1498 Story editor with tabs etc. [Blaine, Oliver]
1499 - Tried to make "3 new stories in the last 1 day" sound less awkward by going
1500 back one unit, i.e. "3 new stories in the last 24 hours", in the What's New
1501 block (likewise for 1 week, 1 month, etc.) [Dirk]
1502 - Introduced config options to set the default for the story's draft flag
1503 and frontpage option (feature request #163) [Dirk]
1504 - Introduced $_CONF['hide_main_page_navigation'] to hide the "Google paging"
1505 from index.php (may be useful for some layouts) [Dirk]
1506 - Allow (optional) usage of autotags in "normal" blocks (can be enabled /
1507 disabled per block) [Dirk]
1508 - Introduced a {story_counter} variable in the story templates. It's 0 on the
1509 article page and in previews, but 1 for the first story, 2 for the second,
1510 etc. on the index page (per page, i.e. starts with 1 again on the second page)
1512 - Require that users enter their current password when changing their password,
1513 email address or "Remember me for" setting. Redesigned the Account Information
1514 page and added a note about this requirement. [Dirk]
1515 - Prevent accidental banning of users when the Admin edits a user's information
1516 using a theme that wasn't updated for Geeklog 1.4.0+ [Dirk]
1517 - $_CONF['show_fullname'] now works as expected, i.e. when setting it to = 1,
1518 a user's full name will be displayed everywhere in Geeklog instead of the
1519 username (assuming the users entered their full name) [Dirk]
1520 - Fixed a bug in the article directory where December was not listed when no
1521 stories had been posted in that month (reported by Kino and Ivy of geeklog.jp)
1522 - Replace Geeklog's [imageX] tags before extracting the What's Related links
1523 from a story to prevent the (verbatim) tag to show up in the block [Dirk]
1524 - Update story ids in the gl_trackback table when a story's id is changed [Mike]
1525 - Implemented new plugin API function, PLG_spamAction, to perform the spam
1526 actions in case spam has been detected through some other means (e.g.
1527 trackbacks from sites that don't link back to us) [Dirk]
1528 - Implemented new plugin API function, plugin_enablestatechange_, to inform
1529 plugins when they are about to be enabled / disabled (Patch #405) [Dirk]
1530 - Support backslashes in comment and submissions in HTML mode [Mike]
1531 - Added breadcrumb functionality to the navbar class (v1.1) [Blaine]
1532 - Enhancements to navbar templates and CSS for a more 3D TAB'ed look [Blaine]
1533 - Changed several <table>s to <div>s + CSS in the Professional theme [Oliver]
1534 - Introduced generic function to delete a user's photo to avoid code
1535 duplication and slightly different error handling in various places [Dirk]
1536 - Made the new user registration form remember the user's input so that they
1537 don't have to retype everything in case of an error [Dirk]
1538 - In the Admin's user list, banned users are indicated by striked-through
1539 entries (based on a hack by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
1540 - Added new setting $_CONF['onlyrootfeatures']. This is for sites where two or
1541 more story admins can feature stories that the other admins cannot see. The
1542 setting prevents that one admin does not see that there is another recent
1543 story featured and sets one by himself, "stealing" the feature from the other.
1544 - Changed "Reply"-button to "Post a comment" [Oliver]
1545 - Implemented an error handler to supress all PHP level errors and display a
1546 much more userfriendly error text to the end user. Prevents all path exposure,
1547 prevents "white error page" mystery debugging fun. [Mike]
1548 - Full sweep of all code for $_REQUEST/$_GET/$_POST and $_COOKIE use. Made sure
1549 that COM_applyFilter, or other safe usage is made of the variables. [Mike]
1550 - Added an option to hide the "No News To Display" message on the index page
1551 (new config option $_CONF['hide_no_news_msg']) [Dirk]
1552 - Added an option to check if the sites sending trackbacks are actually linking
1553 to our site (see $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] in config.php) [Dirk]
1554 - Made it impossible to save two syndication feeds with identical filenames
1556 - Stories with comments/trackbacks disabled, do not show comment/trackback
1557 url in RSS feeds [Mike]
1558 - Added email confirmation fields for new user and usersettings [Oliver]
1559 - Allow changing of group ownership for "gldefault" blocks. Requires a change
1560 in admin/block/defaultblockeditor.thtml to enable the group dropdown. On a
1561 fresh install, all the blocks (with the exception of "Are you secure?") are
1562 now owned by the Block Admin group [Dirk]
1563 - Users created by a User Admin should not be queued for approval, even when
1564 $_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1 [Dirk]
1565 - Introduced 'syndication.edit' permission and 'Syndication Admin' group so
1566 that access to the Content Syndication panel no longer requires 'Root'
1568 - For the "Submissions" entry in the Admins Only block, only count story and
1569 event submissions when the current user has story.moderate or event.moderate
1570 permissions, respectively [Dirk]
1571 - On admin/moderation.php, list the stories that have their draft flag set only
1572 when the current user has story.edit permission [Dirk]
1573 - Fixed empty lines in a Group Admin's list of groups when that Group Admin
1574 was not a member of all groups [Dirk]
1575 - Renamed the misnamed CUSTOM_runSheduledTask function (in lib-custom.php) to
1576 CUSTOM_runScheduledTask. Don't forget to make that change in your copy of
1577 lib-custom.php if you're using that functionality! [Dirk]
1578 - Improved error log contents when unable to acquire a feed reader for a portal
1580 - Extended plugin API for feed extensions to include feed id and the topic (for
1581 adding topic/feed specific data) [Mike]
1582 - Don't attempt to rename a non-existing user photo when
1583 $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is enabled (reported and fix suggested by
1584 Yusuke Sakata) [Dirk]
1585 - Made changes to ensure compatibility with MS SQL, as suggested by
1586 Randy Kolenko [Dirk]
1587 - The "last login date" column in the Admin's list of users now uses
1588 $_CONF['shortdate'] so that it includes the year [Dirk]
1589 - Fixed batch user import (which set all imported users to status "Awaiting
1590 Authorization" instead of "Awaiting Activation") [Mike]
1591 - Fixed admin lists google paging for use in static pages etc. [Oliver]
1592 - Added support for a custom login error handler function,
1593 CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler [Blaine]
1594 - Format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 / 2068 / 2616, i.e.
1595 "Geeklog/1.4.1" when trying to detect a Trackback URL [Dirk]
1596 - Made the search option on the Admin pages behave like the site search, i.e.
1597 it doesn't require you to pad queries with '*' any longer [Dirk]
1598 - In story search results, show/hide the "Author" and "Views" columns based on
1599 the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] and $_CONF['hideviewscount'] settings [Dirk]
1600 - Introduced $_CONF['title_trim_length'] to make the max. title length of items
1601 in the What's New block configurable (feature request #525). Also implemented
1602 a new function COM_truncate (based on a patch by Yusuke Sakata) that properly
1603 handles truncation of multi-byte text strings if the mb_ functions are
1605 - Added a JavaScript confirmation box to most delete buttons/links. If you'd
1606 rather not have such a confirmation, use {delete_option_no_confirmation}
1607 instead of {delete_option} in the admin templates [Dirk]
1608 - Fixed RSS Feed parser to create RFC 822 dates in en_GB or en_US locale as per
1610 - Removed obsolete "do not use spaces" warning from user editor (bug #530)
1612 - Show fullname/username according to config.php settings in stories [Oliver]
1613 - Added possibility to change the css-class for admin list headers and fields
1615 - Added unified new style class to stats.php/style.css to have all lists on
1616 the page look the same [Oliver]
1617 - Added multi-language support, based on earlier works by Euan McKay and LWC.
1618 Also see http://wiki.geeklog.net/wiki/index.php/Multi-Language_Support
1619 - Changed the default path for topic icons to /images/topics [Dirk]
1620 - Fixed an SQL error when calling up the Admin's list of stories without any
1622 - Removed the public_html/portal.php script, as it is no longer needed [Dirk]
1623 - Remove uninstalled plugins from the global $_PLUGINS array immediately
1624 (just in case the array would be used to trigger any actions) [Dirk]
1625 - The "Topic" column in the list of feeds was empty for feeds that are only
1626 linked from a topic page [Dirk]
1627 - Only use the mb_substr workaround in the calendar when the current character
1628 set is UTF-8 (bug #524) [Dirk]
1629 - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when listing the members of a group (bug #527)
1631 - When emailing a story, don't include the text "Comment on this story at ..."
1632 when comments have been switched off for that story [Dirk]
1633 - Fixed wrong wording of some of the "access denied" messages when trying to
1634 access Admin panels without proper privileges [Dirk]
1635 - Fixed display of Admin block for users that only had certain Admin privileges
1638 - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
1639 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1640 The Hebrew language file was also renamed to hebrew_utf-8.php for consistency
1641 with the other UTF-8 language files.
1642 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
1644 Calendar plugin (1.0.0)
1646 - Bugfix: Replace autotags in the event description [Dirk]
1647 - Added an option to switch between 24 hour and 12 hour am/pm mode for entering
1648 and editing events [Dirk]
1649 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
1650 feeds and blocks when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
1651 - Added calendar plugin initial version [Oliver]
1653 Links plugin (1.0.1)
1655 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
1656 feeds when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
1657 - Changed the english language file from "Web Resources" to "Links"
1658 - Fixed hard-coded link to the "admin" directory when editing a link (reported
1659 by Ronnie Rigl) [Dirk]
1660 - Optimized SQL requests for the plugin's What's New section [Dirk]
1661 - Re-introduced {button_links} header variable [Dirk]
1662 - Added an option to hide the Top Ten Links on the first page [Dirk]
1663 - Made the page title on the Web Resources page more informative by adding the
1664 category and page number [Dirk]
1665 - The edit icon (only visible for Links Admins) now uses the same image type
1666 as the current theme (was previously hardcoded to "edit.gif") [Dirk]
1667 - Hide the "Web Resources" link from the menu when login is required to see
1668 the links (for consistency with the Polls plugin) [Dirk]
1669 - Added a title attribute to the links on the site stats page that contains
1670 the link's actual URL [Dirk]
1671 - Fixed site link in search results which wasn't using portal.php [Dirk]
1672 - The Admin's search option now also searches the link description [Dirk]
1673 - Removed extra <small> tags from the What's New section (bug #526) [Dirk]
1675 Polls plugin (1.1.0)
1677 - Fixed call to undefined function polllist when calling up a non-existing
1679 - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable the poll
1680 block when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
1681 - Fixed search [Dirk]
1682 - Added a remark field for polls answers [Oliver]
1683 - Re-introduced {button_polls} header variable [Dirk]
1684 - Added an option to hide the link to the polls from the menu (for consistency
1685 with the Links plugin) [Dirk]
1686 - Fixed poll URLs on the site stats page [Dirk]
1687 - Remove the polls block when uninstalling the Polls plugin (another part of
1690 Spam-X plugin (1.1.0)
1692 - Added SLV (Spam Link Verification) modules [Dirk]
1693 - The MT-Blacklist modules are not being shipped with Geeklog any longer. The
1694 MT-Blacklist entries are removed from the database during the upgrade [Dirk]
1695 - Allow special characters (e.g. backslashes) in the Admin modules (e.g. the
1696 Personal Blacklist module) [Dirk]
1697 - Moved spam actions to plugin_spamaction_spamx API function [Dirk]
1698 - Fixed potential problems with the checkforSpam function's return code in case
1699 of unusual configurations (e.g. $_CONF['spamx'] = 0) [Dirk, Tom Willet]
1700 - Made the plugin's internal log flag a proper config option. So you can now
1701 disable logging to spamx.log from the plugin's config.php [Dirk]
1702 - Mass delete by IP now uses stored IP address [Mike]
1704 Static Pages plugin (1.4.3)
1706 - Make sure autotags are replaced even when execution of PHP code is disabled
1707 (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
1708 - Added a help URL for the block display of static pages [Oliver]
1709 - Added ability in staticpage editor to enable/disable Advanced Editor mode
1710 so you can use FCKeditor and then if need basic html edit mode [Blaine]
1711 - Fixed default sorting order for the list of static pages [Dirk]
1712 - Allow to show/hide update date/time and hits [Oliver]
1713 - When creating a new page, don't set the default group ownership to the Static
1714 Page Admin group if the current user is not a member of that group. Instead,
1715 pick a group with staticpages.edit permission that the user is a member of
1717 - Fixed paging for the list of static pages (bug #528) [Dirk]
1720 January 8, 2008 (1.4.0sr6)
1723 MustLive pointed out a possible XSS in the form to email an article to a
1724 friend that we're fixing with this release.
1727 July 23, 2006 (1.4.0sr5-1)
1730 This release fixes display problems in the comment preview that were only
1731 introduced in Geeklog 1.4.0sr5 (as a result of the fix for the XSS).
1733 The complete 1.4.0sr5-1 tarball also includes the following language files:
1735 - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
1736 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1737 - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat
1740 July 16, 2006 (1.4.0sr5)
1743 JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
1744 fixing with this release.
1747 June 30, 2006 (1.4.0sr4)
1750 Two exploits have been released by "rgod" for insecure Geeklog installations
1751 and for a bug in the "mcpuk" file manager that we've been shipping as part of
1752 FCKeditor in all 1.4.0 releases.
1754 - Some of the files outside of the public_html directory were not protected
1755 against direct execution. If Geeklog was installed such that those files were
1756 accessible from a URL (which has always been strongly discouraged in the
1757 installation instructions) then those files could be used to load and
1758 execute malicious code from a remote server.
1760 More information: http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/so-called-exploit
1762 In this release, we've added the missing execution prevention for all files
1763 outside of public_html. We would still, however, suggest that you fix your
1764 Geeklog install if the files outside of public_html are accessible from a URL.
1766 - The "mcpuk" file manager that we've integrated into FCKeditor allowed the
1767 upload of arbitrary PHP code (even if FCKeditor was disabled in Geeklog's
1768 config.php). Depending on your webserver's configuration, it was then possible
1769 to execute that uploaded code.
1772 http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/exploit-for-fckeditor-filemanager
1774 The file manager has been removed from this release. You will therefore no
1775 longer be able to upload files, e.g. images, through FCKeditor. Future
1776 versions of Geeklog will ship with an updated version of FCKeditor and its
1777 included file manager.
1780 May 28, 2006 (1.4.0sr3)
1783 The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
1786 - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
1787 - Possible XSS in getimage.php
1788 - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
1789 e.g. the Professional theme
1791 An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
1795 Mar 5, 2006 (1.4.0sr2)
1800 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
1801 anyone to log in as any user.
1802 - HTML was not stripped from the Location field in a user's profile.
1805 Feb 19, 2006 (1.4.0sr1)
1810 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
1811 Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
1812 file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
1816 - Fixed bug in page-break combined with url rewrite (bug #521) [Oliver]
1817 - Fixed Story [page_break] showing only intro on first page [Oliver]
1818 - Fixed install script for the Spam-X plugin which was trying to include an SQL
1819 file that doesn't exist - and wasn't needed (part of bug #520) [Dirk]
1821 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
1822 - New Russian language files for the Links and Polls plugins, provided by
1823 Volodymyr V. Prokurashko
1824 - Fixed Static pages dutch language file [Oliver]
1825 - New Polish language file for the Links plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
1826 - Added UTF-8 English versions of the Links, Polls, Static Pages, and Spam-X
1827 language files [Dirk]
1828 - Added all UTF-8 Language files for core [Oliver]
1834 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks [Dirk]
1835 - Added missing navbar images - used for CSS based buttons as part of the
1836 standard Plugin CSS [Blaine]
1837 - Set options in FCKConfig to have Firefox browsers by default not using the
1838 <span> and font tags to format Bold and Italic [Blaine]
1839 - Fixed another bug in google pagination of admin-lists [Oliver]
1840 - Fixed "wrap static page in a block" and "exit type" options in the static
1841 page editor. Also link to the "rewritten" URL from the list of static pages
1842 when URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
1843 - Fixed JavaScript error in the Admin's story editor (bug #479) [Dirk]
1844 - Fixed hard-coded paths in the check.php script and added tests for missing
1845 directories (reported by Markus Wollschlaeger) [Dirk]
1846 - A humble attempt to add some semantics [Dirk]
1847 + Added rel="category tag" to a story's topic link
1848 + Added rel="self bookmark" for a comment's permalink
1849 - Cosmetics: Moved the number of links per category out of the actual link to
1851 - On MySQL 5, the drop-down list of link categories presented to a user when
1852 submitting a new link came out wrong (while the one in the Admin's link
1853 editor worked just fine). Moved the working code into a new function in the
1854 plugin's functions.inc and changed the code to use it in both cases now [Dirk]
1855 - Fixed an SQL error when the "length of entries" field in the Feed Editor was
1857 - Fixed date and time defaulting to the current date and time when creating
1858 a new event as an Admin user (adding a workaround for changes of strtotime()
1859 behavior in PHP 5) [Dirk]
1860 - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when creating a new topic (bug #517) [Dirk]
1861 - In HTTP requests, format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 /
1862 2068 / 2616, i.e. "Geeklog/1.4.0" [Dirk]
1864 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakata
1865 - Updated Ukrainian (Windows-1251) language file, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
1868 Jan 22, 2006 (1.4.0rc2)
1871 - header.thtml now specifies the CSS Class Declaration to use for the body.
1872 This addresses the issue with FCKeditor when displayed, its CSS was
1873 over-riding the main site <body> tag and the site margin padding was being
1875 - Removed CSS for the Forum plugin from style.css [Blaine]
1876 - Fixed "Cannot modify header ..." message when logging in from the admin
1877 pages (reported by Samuel M. Stone). This also fixes confusing intermittent
1878 displays during the login (e.g. only some of the "Command and Control" icons
1879 showing up, messages about missing permissions flashing up) [Dirk]
1880 - Removed Geeklog version number from feed files due to security concerns
1881 (pointed out by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
1882 - Login through the admin pages didn't work with register_globals=off [Dirk]
1883 - Fixed admin lists so pagination works also in static pages [Oliver]
1884 - Pass GeekLog as user agent when fetching RSS feeds [Mike]
1885 - Made the image upload work with out-of-the-box PHP 5 configurations [Dirk]
1886 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in Pingbacks [Dirk]
1887 - Fixed Spam-X Mass Delete Trackback Spam module to update the story's trackback
1888 count when deleting trackbacks [Dirk]
1889 - Fixed a possible SQL error when saving a block (reported by BDUB) [Dirk]
1890 - Fixed story titles in the What's New block when they contained HTML entities
1891 (entities where sometimes cut off and/or encoded twice) [Dirk]
1892 - Fixed a typo in all the plugin install script which set the group description
1893 to "grp_desc" instead of $grp_desc (found by Ingo Schaefer) [Dirk]
1894 - Improved autodetect of Trackback URLs [Dirk]
1895 - The submit story form was not selecting the advanced Editor if user was not
1896 logged in or did not have Story Editor permissions [Blaine]
1897 - Added missing CSS class name "list-feed" for portal blocks [Dirk]
1898 - Fixed user submission queue (reported by Andrew Lawlor) [Dirk]
1899 - Fixed handling of integer fields in the Admin's story editor (reported by
1900 Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
1901 - Fixed handling of checkboxes in the static pages editor (reported by
1902 Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
1903 - Fixed SQL error when saving a static page that had had more than 1000 hits
1904 (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
1905 - Removed visible table border from advanced comment editor form [Blaine]
1906 - Moved some hard-coded text strings from the advanced editor into the
1907 language files [Blaine]
1909 - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
1910 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
1913 Dec 31, 2005 (1.4.0rc1)
1916 - Added support for Advanced Editor in the Add Comment Feature [Blaine]
1917 - Fixed SQL error in search on MySQL 5 (fix suggested by dariball) [Dirk]
1918 - Added trackback.php and pingback.php to the included robots.txt [Dirk]
1919 - Added a few more calls to COM_numberFormat all over the place (links and polls
1920 plugins, Admins Only block, ...) [Dirk]
1921 - Fixed test for a Geeklog 1.3.9 database in the install script [Dirk]
1922 - When emailing a story, make sure all fields are filled in [Dirk]
1923 - Don't lose the current topic selection when a Story Admin uses the Contribute
1925 - Fixed highlighting of search query in comments when register_globals = off
1927 - When the entries in the Admin's block are not sorted, make sure the icons in
1928 Command and Control are in the same order as the block entries [Dirk]
1929 - Allow topic icons to be uploaded to and retrieved from a 'topics' directory
1930 outside of the document root [Dirk]
1931 - Added a workaround to produce abbreviated day names in the calendar for UTF-8
1932 language files (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
1933 - The Spam-X plugin now uses the same "universal" install script as the other
1934 three preinstalled plugins [Dirk]
1935 - Added more allowable HTML tags and attributes if Advanced_Editor enabled
1936 config.php setting [Blaine]
1937 - Added logic to detect if Javascript was not enabled and Advanced Editor was
1939 User will be prompted with alert and able to use the default editor [Blaine]
1940 - Changed spam handling for Trackbacks and Pingbacks to check for spam on the
1941 unfiltered Trackback/Pingback content [Dirk]
1942 - When editing a link submission with a new link category (i.e. the submitter
1943 selected "other" and entered a non-existing category), make sure that new
1944 category actually shows up in the links editor [Dirk]
1945 - In the Admin's list of stories, show the display name of the topic (i.e. the
1946 same as in the Topics block) instead of the topic ID [Dirk]
1947 - Hide the edit icon in the Admin's list of stories when the current user
1948 doesn't have edit access to a story (since they only got a note saying they
1949 can't edit that story anyway) [Dirk]
1950 - Fixed alternating row colors in admin lists if one row has no data [Oliver]
1951 - Made it impossible to switch off blocks if there is no access [Oliver]
1952 - Fixed handling of items in the submission queues (it was only possible to
1953 approve / delete the first item in a queue) [Dirk]
1954 - Grant users with 'plugin.edit' permission access to the plugin editor [Dirk]
1955 - Changed admin-lists 'default-filter' to require 'AND' [Oliver]
1956 - Fixed admin lists for events & static pages for non-root users [Oliver]
1957 - Fixed invalid language string in submit.php [Oliver]
1958 - Fixed problems with the query highlighting code escaping double quotes [Dirk]
1959 - In the list of plugins, display only the plugin's current version number as
1960 long as it's in sync with the code version or the plugin hasn't implemented
1961 the chkVersion API function [Dirk]
1962 - Limit length of a new user's username to 16 characters in the
1963 admin/user/edituser.thtml template file [Dirk]
1964 - Don't display the current user's userphoto when creating a new user in
1965 admin/user.php [Dirk]
1966 - Fixed sanity checks in USER_addGroup and USER_delGroup [Trinity, Dirk]
1967 - Allowed the Links-entry from the top menu to be hidden by config.php in links
1969 - Fixed small HTML validation issues with adv. editor and admin lists [Oliver]
1970 - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
1971 have the correct story/topic permissions. [Vinny]
1972 - Send the character set as an HTTP header from COM_siteHeader now [Oliver]
1973 - Fixed updating Links feeds [Mike]
1974 - Corrected RSS handling of GUID or LINK [Mike]
1975 - Fixed date format in Atom feeds [Mike]
1976 - Fixed loss of sort setting when browsing the user list [Oliver]
1977 - Fixed block title of the site stats (reported by Tom Willet) [Dirk]
1978 - Fixed an SQL error when approving the default story submission ("Are you
1979 secure?") after a fresh install (reported by suvi) [Dirk]
1980 - Fixed warnings that exposed the full path to Geeklog when attempting SQL
1981 injections on the advanced search [Mike]
1982 - The "Mail Users" icon was missing from Command and Control [Dirk]
1983 - In Command and Control, show the Trackback icon only when at least one of the
1984 Trackback, Pingback, or Ping features is enabled (in addition to 'story.ping'
1985 permissions for the current user) [Dirk]
1986 - Replaced the delete_event.gif icon (in layout/professional/images/icons) with
1987 a PNG, since the Professional theme uses PNGs now and the icon wouldn't show
1989 - The block around the list of backups was missing the title [Dirk]
1990 - Don't emit the Trackback and Pingback headers when trackbacks have been
1991 disabled for a story [Dirk]
1992 - Introduced {lang_trackback_comments_no_link} (in trackback/trackback.thtml)
1993 so that you can have an article page entirely without links back to itself
1994 (for picky spiders such as the one for Google News) [Dirk]
1995 - Call COM_refresh when creating a user with usersubmission = 1 [Mike]
1996 - Fixed sorting of Trackbacks in the What's New block [Dirk]
1997 - The search by author or by date switched to searching for everything on
1998 page 2 of the results [Dirk]
1999 - For the Links plugin, the "last x days" text in the What's New block was
2001 - Fixed an SQL error when creating new blocks [Mike]
2002 - The feed reader will now also follow redirects [Mike]
2004 - Updated Chinese traditional and simplified language files, and new Chinese
2005 language files for the Links, Polls, and Static Pages plugins, provided by
2007 - German language files now exist in 4 combinations (formal / informal German,
2008 ISO-8859-15 / UTF-8 encoding) for Geeklog, the Links, Polls and Static Pages
2010 - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
2011 - New Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251) for Geeklog and all four plugins,
2012 provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
2013 - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
2014 Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych
2017 Nov 20, 2005 (1.4.0b1)
2020 - Introduced {start_storylink_anchortag} and {end_storylink_anchortag} template
2021 variables in the story and commentbar template files which only produce a
2022 link to the story when not on article.php, thus avoiding links back to the
2023 article page itself, which the spider for Google News doesn't seem to like
2024 (feature request #486) [Dirk]
2025 - Added a workaround for image uploads using GD when ImageCreateTrueColor is
2026 not available (patch #468) [Dirk]
2027 - Allow a subject to be passed as a parameter for the "contact user" form
2028 (based on patch #497) [Dirk]
2029 - Added support for right-to-left languages (based on patch #488) [Dirk]
2030 - Update Feeds and Older Stories block when changing topic settings [Dirk]
2031 - Added a hits counter to events and added a Top Ten Events section to the
2033 - Introduced $_CONF['show_topic_icon'], i.e. the default setting whether to
2034 show topic icons or not [Dirk]
2035 - The "Older Stories" block now only lists articles that appeared on the
2036 frontpage (i.e. have not been set to "Show only in topic", bug #408) [Dirk]
2037 - Fixed problems with query highlighting in stories scrambling links in
2038 autotags (bug #492) [Dirk]
2039 - Group names are now unique (as they should have been from the beginning). The
2040 install script takes care of existing duplicate group names when upgrading
2041 to 1.4.0 (bug #367) [Dirk]
2042 - Allow for more topic IDs in the user's preferences (bug #490) [Dirk]
2043 - Replace autotags in the Daily Digest (bug #484) [Dirk]
2044 - Explicitly link to /docs/index.html for the documentation link in the Admin's
2045 block (bug #504) [Dirk]
2046 - Added an option to enable / disable trackbacks per story (just like you can
2047 enable / disable comments per story) [Dirk]
2048 - Changed COM_optionList to check for language arrays which override the text
2049 strings that are embedded in the database (for comment mode, featured story,
2050 post mode, etc.) Bug #227 [Dirk]
2051 - Fixed Bug #174 -- quotes in titles are no longer double htmlentized [Vinny]
2052 - The default permissions for new objects (stories, topics, blocks, etc.) can
2053 now be set in config.php (feature request #90) [Dirk]
2054 - Added an "Active users" entry to the site statistics. If Geeklog is configured
2055 to track a user's last login, this will display the number of users who
2056 logged into the site during the last 4 weeks. Otherwise, it displays the
2057 number of user accounts with status = 3 (i.e. have logged into their account
2058 at least once and haven't been banned) [Dirk]
2059 - Introduced a new plugin API function so that the plugin's summary (e.g.
2060 number of items) can be properly integrated with the "Site Stats" section.
2061 Modified stats/sitestatistics.thtml, removed stats/stats.thtml, added
2062 stats/singlesummary.thtml template files [Dirk]
2063 - Introduced a generic function, USER_getPhoto, which provides the user's photo,
2064 if available. The function also supports getting the user's avatar from
2065 gravatar.com (if enabled in config.php) [Dirk]
2066 - The texts in the What's New block ("x new stories in the last y hours",
2067 "last 2 weeks", etc.) now properly reflect the actual settings of the
2068 $_CONF['newXXXinterval'] variables (bug #390) [Oliver, Dirk]
2069 - Introduced a method to signal a forced update for feeds in case the content
2070 of one of the feed entries has changed - so far, we only checked if entries
2071 had been added or removed (bug #277) [Dirk]
2072 - Added $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] option which, if set = true, will display
2073 right-side blocks on all pages (also addresses feature request #31) [Dirk]
2074 - Fixed bug #454, SQL error when reading comments. [Vinny]
2075 - Leave off the "page=1" parameter on the "Google paging" navigation bar for
2076 links that point back to the first page [Dirk]
2077 - The default feed for a new site is now in RSS 2.0 format and named
2078 "geeklog.rss" [Mike, Dirk]
2079 - Added time of the day to the name of the database backups to allow several
2080 backups a day [Oliver]
2081 - When the search returns no results, the search form is now pre-populated
2082 with the last search query, so that it can be changed easily. On successful
2083 searches, a "refine search" link will appear that also takes you back to a
2084 pre-populated search form (to refine your search, obviously) [Dirk]
2085 - Changed search to only return a certain amount of hits per page, thus
2086 avoiding timeouts on servers where the script execution time is limited
2088 A new config variable, $_CONF['num_search_results'], defines the number of
2089 search results to be returned per page (and per type). The search form also
2090 includes a drop-down menu where this can be changed for every search.
2091 Plugins will have to indicate if they support this "paged" search. Otherwise,
2092 Geeklog will fake the paging for the plugin, so that the plugin does a full
2093 search for every page, but Geeklog will only display the hits for the current
2094 page (such a plugin can therefore still cause a timeout until it is changed
2095 to support "paged" searching).
2096 - Added a permanent link to comments (in the professional theme) [Vinny]
2097 - Added new icons for the admin sections and made sure each admin section
2098 now has an icon in admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
2099 The new icons have been taken from the Gnome project (some of them modified
2100 by Jakub Steiner). They are released under the GPL.
2101 - Introduced global variable $_IMAGE_TYPE that specifies the image type to
2102 use. Defaults to 'gif'. Themes can override it to use other images types,
2103 e.g. PNG, for all images [Dirk]
2104 - Added option to upload topic icons (Feature Request #415, Patch #423),
2105 provided by Alford Deeley (machinari)
2106 - Changed the Admin's "Command and Control" center such that there is an icon
2107 for every entry in the Admin's block [Dirk]
2108 - Removed duplicate code for creating a "topic SQL" query in moderation.php
2109 (use COM_getTopicSQL instead) [Dirk]
2110 - Added the ability to allow users to login via defined remote services (ships
2111 with Blogger and LiveJournal support) [Mike]
2112 - Added the ability to ban users, and to tell when a user has logged in at least
2114 - Added edit-icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & alternating row colors
2115 in admin menus for groups, syndication, staticpages, trackback
2116 (where not yet done) [Oliver]
2117 - Added function to allow user-defined scaling of images in articles by using
2118 [unscaledX] instead of [imageX] [Oliver]
2119 - Removed $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] option - use $_CONF['show_fullname']
2121 - Fixed bug where extra slashes appeared when previewing comments [Vinny]
2122 - Removed the "lastvisit" cookies, as they are obviously not used [Dirk]
2123 - Removed redundant changepwd-button & code from /admin/user.php (Bug #9)
2125 - Added new feature to insert a feed-links into header depending on topic, to
2126 be chosen from /admin/syndication.php in the form of
2127 <link rel="alternate" type="application/{format}+xml" ....> [Oliver]
2128 - Added options to google-Navigation so it can be used by plugins and work with
2129 url-rewriting (feature request #315). [Oliver]
2130 - Userlist now also shows Registration Date and if $_CONF['lastlogin']= true it
2131 shows the last login date instead. [Oliver]
2132 - Added option in config.php to hide "Viewed: x" line with
2133 $_CONF['viewscountline'] just as the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] [Oliver]
2134 - Added function COM_numberFormat to format displayed numbers with custom
2135 decimal & thousand - separators and fixed decimal places if necessary
2136 Includes the respecitve 3 new config.php values in locale section.
2137 (Feature Request #298) [Oliver]
2138 - Default Blocks showed always in all Topics before. Now you can choose to show
2139 them in All/only one topic/only on homepage like other blocks (feature #326)
2141 - A Story can now break over several pages in the body-text. The tag
2142 [page_break] will split the bodytext in pieces that can be opened with the
2143 std. COM_printPageNavigation. Introtext is removed for pages>1 [Oliver]
2144 - Added field for old password check in /usersettings.php (bug #230) [Oliver]
2145 - Added password confirmation to /admin/user.php and /usersettings.php
2147 - Made the alternating row colors in the Admin's trackback functions compatible
2148 with the scheme used in other places (list of users, etc.). Also changed the
2149 list of weblog directory services so that editing is now done by clicking on
2150 the number of the service [Dirk]
2151 - Stories are no longer forced to be featured _and_ on frontpage (bug #362)
2153 - Changed links locations in User-list, added user-photo indicator [Oliver]
2154 - Don't update a story's date any more when unchecking the 'draft' flag
2156 - Don't use "rewritten" URLs in the static pages editor any more (bug #403).
2157 Also updated the list of static pages to use alternating colors for the
2159 - Use "\r\n" when sending trackback pings (bug #407) [Dirk]
2160 - Allow autotags to optionally have a space after the tag name [Blaine]
2162 [story:20040101093000103 here] or [story: 20040101093000103 here]
2163 - Fixed inconsistent use of {site_url} and {layout_url} in some of the
2164 professional theme's admin template files - using {layout_url} everywhere
2165 now when referring to icons (bug #395) [Dirk]
2166 - Event titles containing quotes were cut off at the first quote in the event
2167 editor, i.e. both the admin's event editor and the editor for personal events.
2169 - Modified PLG_templateSetVars API to also check for a custom function [Blaine]
2170 Users can now set header template using CUSTOM_templatesetvars()
2171 - Added new CSS declarations as recommened CSS for plugins [Blaine]
2172 - Added a basic scheduler Plugin API plugin_runScheduledTask [Blaine]
2173 Interval is set in config.php - $_CONF['cron_schedule_interval']
2174 - Enhanced the Group Admin interface display [Blaine]
2175 - Enhanced the User Admin display and made the headings sortable [Blaine]
2176 - Geeklog will now properly handle html special characters (such as quotes and
2177 ampersands) in comment titles (bug #174) [Vinny]
2178 - Hide 'edit' option for articles in preview (bug #347) [Dirk]
2179 - Changed admin/user.php to use file() for the batch import [Dirk]
2180 - Implemented pinging weblog directory services like blo.gs and weblogs.com
2181 (Feature Request #35). By default, we ping pingomatic.com [Dirk]
2182 - Complete overhaul of the Plugin Comment API to reduce the likelyhood of
2183 plugins introducing security problems. Older plugins that use the comment
2184 API will no longer work. [Vinny]
2185 - Refactored Comment code out of lib-common.php and into lib-comment.php, also
2186 some changes to comment.php [Vinny]
2187 - Introduced a 'story.ping' permission that enables users to send Pings,
2188 Pingbacks, and Trackbacks for a story (or plugin item). Members of the Story
2189 Admin group have that permission by default.
2190 - Overhauled install script: It will now abort the installation if the minumum
2191 requirements (PHP 4.1.0, MySQL 3.23.2) are not met. It also displays a warning
2192 message if register_long_arrays is off (PHP 5 only, bug #360). Another
2193 warning message is displayed if "public_html" is part of the URL.
2194 When upgrading, it now tries to identify the Geeklog version that was used
2195 previously (only really works for versions 1.3.8 - 1.3.11) [Dirk]
2196 - Fixed date in comment preview (bug #370) [Dirk]
2197 - Incorporated the new syndication framework for reading and writing feeds of
2198 different formats (RSS, RDF, Atom), provided by Michael Jervis (patch #352).
2199 This contribution also addresses Task #19 ("RSS import class") and Feature
2200 Request #67 ("Limiting number of entries in RSS feeds").
2201 Please note that the feed writer classes, system/classes/*.feed.class.php,
2202 are now obsolete and can be removed. Please also note this adds new PEAR
2203 package requirements for Net_URL and HTTP_Request.
2204 - Added support for sending and receiving trackback comments (Feature Request
2205 #34) Also implemented Pingback support in pretty much the same way. Once
2206 received, Geeklog treats Trackbacks and Pingbacks the same and stores them
2207 in the gl_trackback table. [Dirk]
2208 Both can be switched off in config.php: $_CONF['trackback_enabled'] = false;
2209 and $_CONF['pingback_enabled'] = false;
2210 - Added a new script, directory.php, that implements a date-based listing of
2211 all the stories on a site [Dirk]
2212 A link to the directory is available as a new option, 'directory', for the
2213 $_CONF['menu_elements'] config variable, so that it can be added to the menu.
2214 - The column headline for event search results was not displayed [Dirk]
2215 - Added logos to syndication feeds. [Mike]
2216 - Added config option to disable new accounts (Patch #426 from Alford Deeley)
2218 - Alphabet Sort on Admin Menu and C&C Block [Mike]
2220 - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
2221 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
2223 - New Farsi (Persian) language file for the static pages plugin,
2228 - Added ID-editor and Autotags-feature [link: ... ] [Oliver]
2229 - Added Category-Specific Feeds [Oliver]
2230 - Added Edit-Icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & etc for admin menu [Oliver]
2231 - Moved links functionality into a plugin [Trinity, Oliver]
2235 - Polls moved to a plugin [Trinity]
2239 - The LogView module now automatically truncates the Spam-X logfile to 100KB
2241 - The IP Blacklist module now supports regular expressions [Mike]
2242 - Added a Mass Delete module for Trackback comments [Dirk]
2243 - Added an "admin override" option, so that postings by members of the 'spamx
2244 Admin' group will not be checked for spam [Dirk]
2247 July 16, 2006 (1.3.11sr7)
2250 JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
2251 fixing with this release.
2254 May 28, 2006 (1.3.11sr6)
2257 The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
2260 - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
2261 - Possible XSS in getimage.php
2262 - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
2263 e.g. the Professional theme
2265 An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
2269 Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.11sr5)
2274 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
2275 anyone to log in as any user.
2278 Feb 19, 2006 (1.3.11sr4)
2283 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
2284 Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
2285 file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
2286 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks
2289 Dec 12, 2005 (1.3.11sr3)
2294 - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
2295 have the correct story/topic permissions (reported by LWC) [Vinny]
2296 - Fixed a path disclosure in case someone tampered with the start date or end
2297 date in advanced search (reported by r0t3d3Vil) [Mike]
2298 Feeding malformed dates to the search caused a warning message to be displayed
2299 that disclosed the path to the Geeklog install on the server. It was NOT
2300 possible to use this for SQL injections.
2304 - Fixed the problems (introduced in 1.3.11sr2) editing static pages when
2305 $_CONF['url_rewrite'] = true (bug #491) [Dirk]
2306 - The "Reply" button didn't work when viewing individual comments [Vinny]
2307 - Fixed the definition of the 'expire' field (in table gl_stories), which
2308 caused an SQL error when doing a fresh install on MySQL 5
2309 (reported by Johannes) [Dirk]
2311 - Fixed and updated the Hebrew language file [LWC, Dirk]
2312 - New Ukrainian language file (Windows-1251), provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
2313 - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
2314 Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych
2317 Oct 9, 2005 (1.3.11sr2)
2320 This release provides security enhancements and better spam protection
2321 originally developed for Geeklog 1.3.12. It also addresses a few bugs where
2322 the bugfix could be integrated with a reasonable amount of work (other bugfixes
2323 will have to wait for the 1.3.12 release).
2325 Security and Spam protection:
2327 - Added speedlimit to login attempts, defaults to allowing three tries in a
2328 five minute period. [Vinny]
2329 See new config options $_CONF['login_attempts'] and $_CONF['login_speedlimit']
2330 - Changed the spam handling to update the speed limit when spam is detected
2331 (i.e. handle spam posts as if they were successful posts and make the
2332 submitter wait for the speed limit to expire). Also send a 403 "Forbidden"
2333 HTTP response code when displaying the "spam detected" message [Dirk]
2334 To quote RFC2616: "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is
2335 refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD
2337 - Filter linefeeds in the To:, From:, and Subject: fields of an email in
2339 - When a new user account is created and the user submission queue is enabled
2340 in config.php, ensure that the user is properly "queued" even in the
2341 unlikely event that the account creation fails halfway through (reported by
2343 - When $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = 1, hide the links to the "email
2344 story" form from anonymous users [Dirk]
2345 - When emailing a story, check the user's message that is sent with the story
2347 - Added a robots.txt file to the distribution. By default, it excludes
2348 comment.php, submit.php, and the docs directory from being spidered [Dirk]
2349 - Added a spam check to the user profile [Dirk]
2350 - Story, event, and link submissions are now also checked for spam [Dirk]
2351 - This release also includes the Spam-X plugin version 1.0.2
2353 Please note that MT-Blacklist (used by Spam-X) has recently been discontinued.
2354 For the time being, we provide the last version of the blacklist for download
2355 from geeklog.net (the Spam-X plugin as included in this release is configured
2356 to get it from there for the initial import). There will, however, be no
2357 updates the blacklist. For details, please see
2358 http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/mt-blacklist-discontinued
2362 - Fixed an error message thrown up by PHP 5.0.5 or later when viewing the
2363 article page (bug #483) [Dirk]
2364 - Fixed bug with topic-specific blocks not showing up on the article page when
2365 URL rewriting was enabled (bug #401) [Dirk]
2366 - Fixed missing site header when trying to submit an event without required
2367 fields. Also fixed that it would redirect you to the story submission form
2368 then (bug #409) [Dirk]
2369 - Make sure {menu_elements} is rendered using the menuitem_none.thtml template
2370 when no menu elements are to be displayed (bug #378) [Dirk]
2371 - Quote names in email addresses as soon as they contain any non-alphanumeric
2372 characters (apart from the blank). This also addresses bug #368 [Dirk]
2373 - Allow single quotes in passwords (bug #396, also previously reported as
2374 bug #349 / #996354) [Dirk]
2375 - When $_CONF['profileloginrequired'] was set to 1, the actual message that
2376 you have to log in before being able to see a user profile was not wrapped
2377 in the Geeklog framework (reported by Sean C) [Dirk]
2378 - Fix: Made a story's archive/expire date work with the timezone hack [Dirk]
2379 - COM_applyFilter will now accept negative numbers if the isnumeric parameter
2380 is true. Needed to fix problems with pollbooth.php (and others) [Vinny]
2381 - Upgraded included kses class to version 0.2.2 which fixes problems with
2382 Japanese and Thai characters (among other things), thus addressing bugs #94
2384 - Fixed SQL error when using the [staticpage:] autotag (bug #373) [Dirk]
2385 - Added a missing stripslashes call to remove backslashes when a topic's name
2386 was displayed in the index page's title (bug #369) [Dirk]
2387 - Link tags are now translated in printer friendly mode (Bug #411) [Mike]
2388 - Removed the <meta name="ROBOTS"> entry from the Professional theme's
2389 header.thtml as "INDEX,FOLLOW" is the default anyway. For finer control,
2390 we now ship a robots.txt [Dirk]
2394 - Don't check for auto-archived stories when no archive topic has been
2396 - Added support for a custom_usercheck function. Custom registration code that
2397 requires certain information can now abort the creation of a new account if
2398 that information is missing. The function is called after Geeklog has checked
2399 that the username and email address of the new user are okay (valid and not
2400 in the database yet), but before the user has been added to the database
2402 - Saved one SQL request for a story's printable view [Dirk]
2406 - Made sure all language files refer to Geeklog's [image] tags as [imageX],
2407 [imageX_right], and [imageX_left] (bug #381) [Dirk]
2409 - New Catalan language file, provided by an anonymous user
2410 - New Russian (UTF-8) language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
2411 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
2412 - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by MzOzD
2413 - Updated Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
2414 - Updated Japanese (UTF-8) language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
2415 - Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho
2416 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
2418 - New Japanese (UTF-8) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
2420 - Updated Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
2422 - Updated Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
2426 Aug 21, 2005 (Spam-X plugin 1.0.2)
2429 - Changed the display name of the plugin to "Spam-X" to avoid potential
2430 confusion with the email spam filter of the same name.
2431 "SpamX" is a registered trademark of Hendrickson Software Components.
2432 - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the poster
2434 - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the
2435 spamvertised site [Tom Willet]
2436 - Added a new module to filter posts based on characteristics of the HTTP header
2438 - Fixed the Mass Delete Spam Comments module [Tom Willet]
2439 - The Spam-X plugin's examine modules run the post through html_entity_decode()
2440 now in case the spammers try to obfuscate their posts by using HTML entities
2442 - The Mail Admin action module now also reports the HTTP headers of the post
2443 that triggered the spam filter [Dirk]
2444 - Added a simple stats function (reports the number of posts deleted as spam,
2445 and - to the Spam-X Admin only - the number of entries for each module) [Dirk]
2446 - Implemented an update function for the plugin [Dirk]
2448 - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
2449 - New Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
2450 - New Spanish language file, provided by vivi1123
2453 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.11sr1)
2456 This release addresses the following security issue:
2458 Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
2459 be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.
2462 Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.11)
2465 Geeklog 1.3.11 addresses the following security issues:
2467 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
2468 were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
2469 These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
2470 disabled it in config.php.
2471 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
2472 leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
2473 3. The links for the What's Related block were created from the unfiltered story
2474 text, opening the possibility of XSS attacks (reported by Vincent Furia).
2478 - Added a missing stripslashes() call for the topic name in the What's Related
2479 block (bug #351) [Dirk]
2480 (affected file: system/lib-story.php)
2481 - Fixed problems in the story editor when editing plain-text posts with
2482 uploaded images (bug #356) [Dirk]
2483 (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
2484 - When changing a story ID, update the story ID in any comments to that story,
2485 too (bug #357) [Dirk]
2486 (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
2487 - Fixed handling of autotags that started with the same substring, e.g. for
2488 2 tags 'mytag' and 'mytagtwo', the second tag would not be recognized
2489 (reported by Dr. Shakagee) [Dirk]
2490 (affected file: system/lib-plugins.php)
2491 - Fixed caching of $_GROUPS [Dirk]
2492 (affected files: system/lib-security.php, public_html/lib-common.php)
2493 - Made a minor optimization to save one SQL request when displaying the comment
2494 bar for anonymous users [Dirk]
2495 (affected file: public_html/lib-common.php)
2496 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
2497 (affected file: language/slovenian.php)
2500 Dec 22, 2004 (1.3.11rc1)
2503 - Fixed "archive" option being activated too early on certain non-featured
2504 stories (bug #345) [Blaine]
2505 - Added missing handling of autotags in static pages being displayed as center
2506 blocks (reported by Jill) [Dirk]
2507 - Fixed size of the 'sid' field in the gl_comments table. It should be 40
2508 characters, to be able to hold the long story IDs introduced in 1.3.10
2509 (reported by Douglas Santos) [Dirk]
2510 - When using mogrify (ImageMagick) to resize uploaded images, the name of the
2511 image is now enclosed in double quotes instead of single quotes, which
2512 caused the command to fail on Windows [Dirk]
2513 - The emails sent from the Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action now also include
2514 the IP address of the spam poster [Dirk]
2515 - SEC_getFeatureGroup() should not overwrite $_GROUPS if not operating on the
2516 current user (bug #331) [Dirk]
2517 - Introduced a {camera_icon} variable in story and comment templates that
2518 displays the little camera icon if the author has uploaded a user photo, just
2519 like in the Who's Online block (suggested by Laurence Whitworth) [Dirk]
2520 - The parent link in top-level comments took the user to the homepage rather
2521 than to the article page (bug #346) [Vinny]
2522 - Stories submitted for the archive topic will automatically be saved with
2523 frontpage = 0 when approved, i.e. only be displayed in the topic [Dirk]
2524 - Avoid emitting an extra <br> tag after the last section in the What's New
2525 block (bug #330) [Dirk]
2526 - Update comment count in Older Stories block when a new comment is posted
2527 (bug #317). Also optimized the code to collect the contents of the Older
2528 Stories block [Dirk]
2529 - Fixed extra <br> being emitted in the calendar for events that aren't
2530 visible for the current user (bug #268) [Dirk]
2531 - (Event) Admins can now delete events directly from the calendar's day and
2532 week views (just like events in the personal calendar) [Dirk]
2533 - Fixed usersettings.php so that it displays the "benefits" message again when
2534 called up by an anonymous user. Also made it go to the user's preferences
2535 when called without a 'mode' parameter [Dirk]
2536 - Added {layout_url} to the available theme variables in the submission forms.
2537 Also added {separator} for those who prefer correct spelling ;-) [Dirk]
2538 - More parameter filtering and permission checks in submit.php [Dirk]
2539 - Fixed over-zealous parameter filtering in links.php which prevented
2540 categories with apostrophes from working [Dirk]
2541 - Fixed broken URLs when editing a plain-text story that contained uploaded
2542 images (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
2543 - The PEAR classes that ship with Geeklog actually require PHP 4.2.x now.
2544 However, the missing functions in older PHP versions (minimum requirement
2545 for Geeklog itself is now PHP 4.1.0) are provided by the PEAR PHP_Compat
2546 package, which we will have to ship with Geeklog from now on. Added the
2547 necessary code to lib-common.php to load PHP_Compat, if required [Dirk]
2548 Many thanks to Tom Willet for providing a test setup.
2549 - Fixed "quick add form" for personal events, so that it stores the new event
2551 - Fixed handling of 12am/pm in events, event submissions, and when passing the
2552 time from the calendar to the event submission forms [Dirk]
2553 - Improved handling of personal events / personal calendar, especially for
2554 (Event) Admins [Dirk]
2555 - Fixed What's Related links when magic_quotes_qpc = on [Vinny, Dirk]
2556 - Fixed use of an undefined variable $U in COM_showBlocks and warning messages
2557 for undefined array indexes in COM_getCurrentURL (reported by irawen) [Dirk]
2558 - Allow empty search query strings so that the "More by <author>" and "More
2559 from <topic>" options work again [Dirk]
2560 - When deleting a poll, also delete any comments to that poll [Dirk]
2561 - Delete comments and story images when deleting stories from a deleted topic
2563 - When deleting a story, added an extra check for type='article' when deleting
2564 the story's comments [Dirk]
2565 - Set current user as the owner when cloning an event (bug #338) [Dirk]
2566 - Start time, end time, and event location weren't copied over when adding a
2567 site event to the personal calendar (bug #336) [Dirk]
2568 - Fixed wrong use of htmlentities() on comment title (bug #335) [Dirk]
2569 - Changed "read more" word count so that it ignores HTML tags (bug #333) [Dirk]
2571 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
2572 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Ko de Pree.
2573 - Updated Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin,
2574 provided by Ko de Pree.
2575 - New French language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Alain Ponton.
2578 Nov 28, 2004 (1.3.10)
2581 - Allow omission of the link text for the [story:], [event:], and [staticpage:]
2582 autotags. Geeklog will then use the title (of the story / event / static page)
2583 as the link text [Dirk]
2584 (affected files: system/lib-plugins.php, plugins/staticpages/functions.inc)
2586 - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
2589 Nov 21, 2004 (1.3.10rc3)
2592 - Changed wording of the error message if the "backups" directory is not
2594 - Fixed comments for the DB_result (in lib-database.php) and dbResult
2595 (in mysql.class.php) functions (bug #320) [Dirk]
2596 - Display a success message when using the "changepw" option in admin/user.php
2598 - When changing a username, make sure to change the name of the user's photo,
2599 too (bug #321) [Dirk]
2600 - Links in "plain text" stories and comments are now made clickable (i.e.
2601 enclosed in <a> tags) when the post is saved instead of when it's displayed,
2602 as in the previous release candidates. This also fixes bug #308. [Dirk]
2603 - Added $_CONF['disable_autolinks'] config option to disable autolinks [Dirk]
2604 - Removed ViewBlacklist.Admin.class.php from the Spam-X plugin [Tom Willet]
2605 - Overhauled handling of personal events [Dirk]:
2606 + Fixed deleting personal events (again).
2607 + The upcoming events block now links to the event details of personal
2608 events (just like it already did for site events).
2609 + Added stricter checks for permissions, user IDs, and the personal calendars
2610 being activated in the first place.
2611 - Added a check for allow_url_fopen if reading a (RSS) feed fails and report it
2612 in error.log if it is off [Dirk]
2613 - When deleting a story (automatically), make sure we're only deleting comments
2614 belonging to that story (i.e. added a check for type = 'article') [Dirk]
2615 - Added {event_type}, {lang_event_type}, and {edit_icon} in all the themes'
2616 calendar/eventdetails.thtml template file [Dirk]
2617 - Fixed some URLs in the calendar (missing slash) [Dirk]
2618 - Comment IDs don't have to be numeric (in comment.php) [Vinny]
2619 - The Static Pages plugin now takes $_CONF['showfirstasfeatured'] into account
2620 when displaying static pages in center blocks (reported by eyecravedvd) [Dirk]
2621 - Forgot to declare $_CONF as global when fixing bug #301 (bug #302) [Dirk]
2623 - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
2624 - Updated Japanese language files (euc-jp and UTF-8), provided by Yusuke Sakata
2625 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
2626 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
2627 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero
2628 - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg
2631 Oct 24, 2004 (1.3.10rc2)
2634 - Fixed plugin update function [Blaine]
2635 - Set the target encoding in Geeklog's RSS parser (bug #301) [Dirk]
2636 - Set the {topic_icon} variable to an empty string for the "Home" link in the
2637 Topics block (reported by jhwhite) [Dirk]
2638 - Fixed News Box Configuration, i.e. the ability to disable blocks [Vinny]
2639 - In the story template files, the number of comments now only is a link when
2640 there actually is a comment on the story [Dirk]
2641 - Hard-coded the English word 'delete' in the URLs to delete a comment [Dirk]
2642 - For the list of a user's recent comments, use 'mode=view' to link directly
2643 to a comment now [Dirk]
2644 - Fixed comment id in comment notification emails [Dirk]
2645 - Fixed display of the number of static pages that the user has access to (in
2646 the Admin Block) [Dirk]
2647 - COM_makeClickableLinks did not recognize links with the 'http:' at the
2648 start of a line [Dirk]
2649 - Re-introduced <br> between plugin sections in the What's New block, pretty
2650 much reverting the change suggested by feature request #292 [Dirk]
2651 - Introduced function COM_formatEmailAddress that creates a (more or less)
2652 RFC(2)822 compliant email address from a name and an address [Dirk]
2653 This function is now used for formatting the site address, as well as for
2654 addresses entered by the user in profiles.php and admin/mail.php.
2655 - The Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action didn't send any email notifications,
2656 since the call to COM_mail was commented out ... [Dirk]
2657 - admin/mail.php and admin/group.php use the complete URL to the script in
2658 the <form action="..."> now (instead of relying on PHP_SELF) [Dirk]
2659 - Fixed parse error in the Dutch language file (reported by NeoNecro) [Dirk]
2660 - Allow the dot '.' in IDs (in addition to letters, digits, the dash, and the
2664 Oct 17, 2004 (1.3.10rc1)
2666 - Added new functionality to [autotags] - New plugin API's added [Blaine]
2667 - Added [autotag] hooks for stories [Blaine]
2668 - When a plugin had its icon only in the admin directoy, the plugin editor
2669 did not find it and displayed a generic icon instead [Dirk]
2670 - In admin/mail.php, apply htmlspecialchars() on the email addresses before
2671 displaying them, as the '<foo@example.com>' part will be interpreted as
2672 HTML by some browsers (pointed out by LWC) [Dirk]
2673 - When using gdlib for image resizing, GIF images were converted to PNG, but
2674 Geeklog was still trying to display the GIF (reported by Tom Willet). Since
2675 the LZW patent has now expired (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw),
2676 it is safe to use GIF images again, so the PNG conversion was dropped [Dirk]
2677 - Fixed link to the Anonymous user's profile in comment/thread.thtml [Dirk]
2678 - Added Location field to the user profile [Blaine]
2679 - In the light of bug #293, removed all variable names from the language files,
2680 leaving only the $_CONF config variables [Dirk]
2681 - Fixed an error message when plugins didn't return an array from
2682 plugin_getmenuitems_xxx (reported by computerade) [Dirk]
2683 - When sending emails from the admin/mail.php, some user's names weren't set
2684 in their email address (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
2685 - Removed an extra <br> from before and between data provided by plugins in
2686 the What's New block (feature request #292) [Dirk]
2687 - When creating a new user from admin/user.php, don't determine the uid before
2688 actually creating the database entries to avoid race conditions / collisions
2689 with other user accounts created at the same time (bug #243) [Dirk]
2690 Also took the opportunity to refactor and move the almost identical code
2691 from users.php and admin/user.php into a new function USER_createAccount in
2692 system/lib-user.php.
2693 - usersettings.php was missing a default case for unsupported values of 'mode'
2694 (bug #287). This only displayed a blank page and was not exploitable [Dirk]
2695 - Fixed hard-coded default group names in the Admin sections (e.g. when a user
2696 had story.edit permissions but was not in the Story Admin group, any new
2697 story created by that user would default to being owned by the Story Admin
2698 group nonetheless) [Dirk]
2699 - Introduced new plugin API functions plugin_user_changed_xxx and
2700 plugin_group_changed_xxx to inform plugins when a user's information
2701 (profile or settings) or a group (new, edit, delete) has been changed [Dirk]
2702 - COM_checkHTML and COM_allowedHTML now accept an additional parameter in form
2703 of a comma-separated list of permissions. If the current user has at least
2704 one of those permissions, they are assumed to be an "Admin" and the functions
2705 will use the $_CONF['admin_html'] list of HTML tags for them (bugs #114 and
2707 - COM_allowedHTML now has an option to only return the list of allowed HTML
2708 tags without the "Allowed HTML" text (bug #118) [Dirk]
2709 - For the poll block, always use the block title stored in the database (bug
2711 - It is now again possible to have a different number of stories per page
2712 for individual topics. Users have to set their preferred number of stories
2713 per page to 0 (zero) in their preferences, though, as the user preferences
2714 will always override this setting (bug #190) [Dirk]
2715 - The Professional theme, kindly provided by Victor B. Gonzalez, is our new
2717 - In the calendar's day and week view, event permissions weren't checked
2718 properly, so that some events were displayed to user who shouldn't have
2719 been able to see them (reported by Willem Jan) [Dirk]
2720 - Don't update a story's hit counter as long as the draft flag is set or the
2721 publishing date is in the future (feature request #282) [Dirk]
2722 - Introduced new function COM_sanitizeID() to filter special characters out of
2723 user-editable IDs as used for stories, polls, topics, and static pages (also
2724 fixes bug #181). Allowed characters are letters a-z (both upper and lower
2725 case), digits 0-9, the dash '-', and the underscore '_' [Dirk]
2726 - The Upcoming Events block didn't use the help URL, even if it was set
2727 (reported by Wolfgang M. Schmitt) [Dirk]
2728 - Geeklog now comes with Tom Willet's Spam-X plugin pre-installed. The plugin
2729 now stores the blacklists in the database and uses a new plugin API
2730 function to filter comment posts [Tom Willet, Tony, Blaine, Dirk]
2731 - Plugins can now offer their own tags to allow easy linking to their content.
2732 These tags take the form [name:id link text], where 'name' is a name
2733 associated with the plugin, 'id' is a unique id referring to one of the
2734 objects under the plugin's control, and 'link text' is text used in the <a>
2735 tag that Geeklog creates from these tags.
2736 Built-in tags are [story:] to link to a story and [event:] to link to an
2737 event [Blaine, Dirk]
2738 Example: [story:email-bug About the email bug] would be translated into
2739 <a href="http://example.com/article.php/email-bug">About the email bug</a>
2740 - portal.php now sends a 301 HTTP status code for the links instead of a 302.
2741 While a 302 status code would actually make more sense, Google does have a
2742 tendency to list search results with the URL of the portal script but with
2743 the content of the linked site, thus giving the impression that the content
2744 is actually located on another site. Sending a 301 avoids this problem [Dirk]
2745 - Group Admins should not even see the groups of which they are not a member
2747 - Prevent Group Admins from listing the members of a group unless they are a
2748 member of that group themselves [Dirk]
2749 - Introduced $_CONF['left_blocks_in_footer'] config option that makes the
2750 {left_blocks} variable available in footer.thtml (disabling it in header.thtml
2751 at the same time). This is really only useful for two-column layouts where
2752 you want the side blocks in the right column [Dirk]
2753 - Polls linked from the stats page now display the result of the poll instead
2754 of letting the user vote on them (feature request #267) [Dirk]
2755 - In the Admin's list of events and stories, don't list items for which the
2756 Admin doesn't have read access (bug #269). [Dirk]
2757 - Story IDs are now editable (just like the IDs of static pages). [Dirk]
2758 Important: Update the story editor template (admin/story/storyeditor.thtml)!
2759 - Fixed a bug that reset every user's password request as soon as some user
2760 changed their account information (bug #265) [Dirk]
2761 - Added support for URL rewriting to portal.php [Dirk]
2762 - The links for the What's Related block are stored in the 'related' field in
2763 the gl_stories table again. Parsing the story for links every time it is
2764 rendered uses too much CPU power (with apologies to groklaw.net) [Dirk]
2765 - Added theme variable {story_link} to commentbar.thtml to link back to original
2766 story the comments are derived from. [Vinny]
2767 - Introduced new file system/lib-story.php for story-related functions and
2768 moved COM_article, COM_whatsRelated, COM_extractLinks, as well as the code
2769 to delete article images into that file (functions were renamed accordingly:
2770 STORY_renderArticle, STORY_whatsRelated, STORY_extractLinks) [Dirk]
2771 - Fixed URLs to userphotos and story images when $_CONF['path_images'] had been
2772 changed (but was still inside of $_CONF['path_html']) [Dirk]
2773 - Added a script to convert an existing database to InnoDB tables (if the MySQL
2774 version supports them): admin/install/toinnodb.php [Dirk]
2775 - Added missing closing </a> tag in story search results (bug #260) [Dirk]
2776 - Added a second parameter to function COM_makeList that is used as a CSS
2777 class name in the list it returns (use {list_class_name} to get the actual
2778 class name, and {list_class} to get class="classname"). Changed the existing
2779 calls to COM_makeList to include class names, so that you can now use the
2780 following class names in your stylesheet to style lists: list-feed,
2781 list-new-comments, list-new-links, list-new-plugins, list-older-stories,
2782 list-personal-events, list-site-events, list-story-options, list-whats-related
2783 (the names should be self-explanatory) [Dirk]
2784 - Moved the docs directory to public_html/docs and added a link to it from the
2785 Admin's block (can be switched off in config.php by setting the new option
2786 $_CONF['link_documentation'] = 0) [Dirk]
2787 - Replaced 'ppmtojpeg' with 'pnmtojpeg' when using NetPBM for scaling
2788 uploaded JPEG images (bug #257) [Dirk]
2789 - Added a check (and a warning message) for PHP 4.1.0 to the install script,
2790 as that is our new minimum requirement [Dirk]
2791 - Rewrote install/success.php and added a link to install/check.php [Dirk]
2792 - Added the 'data' and 'pdfs' directory to install/check.php [Dirk]
2793 - Integrated the "welcome email hack": If the file 'welcome_email.txt' exists
2794 in the 'data' directory, the contents of that file are sent out as the
2795 welcome email to new users (instead of the hard-coded welcome message) [Dirk]
2796 - Introduced a 'data' directory ($_CONF['path_data'], defaulting to
2797 /path/to/geeklog/data) and use it for the batch user import, as Geeklog's
2798 base directory may not be writable on some setups (bug #77) [Dirk]
2799 - Sort list of older polls by date (newest first) and added paging [Dirk]
2800 - Make sure the old userphoto is deleted when uploading a new one (bug #228).
2801 So far, the old photo was not removed when the file type changed (e.g. from
2802 .gif to .jpg) [Dirk]
2803 - Don't assume the uploaded file in usersettings.php is always the userphoto -
2804 it may in fact belong to a plugin (bug #179). This bug prevented plugins from
2805 uploading their own files through the plugin API [Dirk]
2806 - Fixed repeating events in the personal calendar's day view (bug #232) [Dirk]
2807 - COM_siteHeader() now accepts a page title (to go between the page's
2808 <title>...</title> tags) as the second parameter, replacing the
2809 $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack (which still works but should be avoided) [Dirk]
2810 - In the site's page title, replace the site slogan with more meaningful
2811 information, where possible, e.g. "Submit a Story" on the story submission
2812 form, "Search Results", etc. (feature request #95) [Dirk]
2813 - Fixed deleting events from the personal calendar (bug #199) [Dirk]
2814 - Carry over the date and time from the calendar when Admins add a new event
2816 - Don't display "Site Events" headline in the Upcoming Events block when
2817 personal calendars are off (feature request #151) [Dirk]
2818 - Removed hard-coded am/pm formatted hours from the calendar's day view
2819 (calendar/dayview/dayview.thtml) and replaced them with {xx_hour} variables,
2820 where 'xx' is 0-23, which will be replaced with the hours formatted
2821 according to the $_CONF['timeonly'] config variable [Dirk]
2822 - Themes can now use a couple of CSS class names to style the small calendar (of
2823 the previous and next month) in month view: .smallcal, .smallcal-headline,
2824 .smallcal-week-even, .smallcal-week-odd, .smallcal-week-empty,
2825 .smallcal-day-even, .smallcal-day-odd, and .smallcal-day-empty [Dirk]
2826 - Improvements to the Story Archive Feature, UI tweaks, Language Extraction,
2827 Added new field to the topics table. Admin now sets the archive topic in
2828 the Topic Editor. Only one topic can be used - logic enforced. [Blaine]
2829 - Don't emit the <br><br> in article.php when the story's body text is empty
2830 (based on patch #147, provided by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
2831 - Set {article_url} variable when displaying the story in article.php [Dirk]
2832 - Fixed missing </select> tags for the comment display mode and sort order
2833 drop-down menus in usersettings.php (patch #255, provided by machinari) [Dirk]
2834 - Hard-coded the names of the pseudo image tags in story.php, i.e. they are
2835 always [imageX], [imageX_left], and [imageX_right] now, independent of
2836 the current language file (bug #139) [Dirk]
2837 - Added the Auto-Archive Management feature. Optionally allows the Story Editor
2838 to archive or delete a story when the expire date is reached [Blaine]
2839 - Improved the commentbar to logically support comments viewed from comment.php
2841 - Removed a bug in comment.php that allowed a story/comment mismatch during
2842 display. This was not exploitable. [Vinny]
2843 - Integrated the timezone hack to compensate for time differences when your
2844 webserver is located in another timezone (original timezone hack by Yew Loong,
2845 with additions by "Joe" as well as several other geeklog.net users) [Dirk]
2846 - The calendar can now be configured so that the week starts on either a
2847 Sunday or a Monday - see new config variable $_CONF['week_start']
2848 (based on a patch by bond_anton) [Dirk]
2849 - Sort the admin's list of events by date (newest first). Also added paging,
2850 a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
2851 theme changes in admin/event/eventlist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
2852 - Incorporated a patch provided by Drago Goricanec to sort the Admin's user
2854 - Introduced 2 config options for the Who's Online block:
2855 - $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] will display the user's full name,
2856 - $_CONF['whosonline_anonymous'] does not display the names of registered
2857 users to anonymous visitors of the site.
2858 Both options are disabled by default [Dirk]
2859 - Added support for single quotes and nested tags to COM_extractLinks [Vinny]
2860 - The admin_html and user_html are now merged recursively (bug #240) [Vinny]
2861 - Remove colons from email addresses, as they have a special meaning,
2862 according to RFC(2)822, that we didn't intend (bug #6) [Dirk]
2863 - Fixed compilation of regexp if the search query ended or started with a
2864 space (the resulting error message would also expose the path to article.php),
2866 - Sort the admin's list of polls by date (newest first). Also added paging,
2867 a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
2868 theme changes in admin/poll/polllist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
2869 - Added paging to the plugin editor (for more than 25 installed plugins).
2870 A {google_paging} variable is needed in admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml for
2871 the paging links to show up [Dirk]
2872 - Emails sent from the Admin's mail form (admin/mail.php) were always sent
2873 with the site name and site email address, even if you entered something else
2874 in the form. Also made admin/mail/mailform.thtml slightly less ugly [Dirk]
2875 - When deleting a topic, keep the blocks assigned to that topic (bug #247).
2876 They're assigned to 'all topics' and disabled, but kept around now. The same
2877 applies for topic feeds, which weren't handled at all before [Dirk]
2878 - Make sure upload errors for user photos and story images are displayed in a
2879 Geeklog block, not on a blank screen [Dirk]
2880 - Fixed description of DB_insertId() in lib-database.php and dbInsertId() in
2881 mysql.class.php: The functions take a resource, describing the opened link to
2882 the database, not a record set (pointed out by lgonze on IRC). [Dirk]
2883 - Plugins are now getting the key type passed to their search function, so that
2884 they can perform a search for "exact phrase", "all of these words", or
2885 "any of these words" as selected from the search form. [Dirk]
2886 - Use URL rewriting for the link to a story's printer-friendly version, when
2887 activated (bug #201) [Dirk]
2888 - Resizing an image didn't work when the image height exceeded the max. height
2889 but the image width was still below the max. width (bug #242) [Dirk]
2890 - Keeping the unscaled image when using GDlib didn't work (bug #197) [Dirk]
2891 - Added a workaround for the Zeus webserver so that blocks marked "homeonly"
2892 properly appear there (bug #244) [Dirk]
2893 - Previewing a story submission from admin/story.php before saving it left the
2894 original story submission in the submission queue while also adding it as a
2895 new story. This has been fixed now [Dirk]
2896 - Added {article_url} variable for article/printable.thtml so that we can
2897 print the proper URL to the article if URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
2898 - Added filtering for the $order parameter in article.php [Dirk]
2899 - Added {link_actual_url} variable in links.php, holding the actual URL of
2900 a link (not Geeklog's redirect URL via portal.php). Updated template
2901 file links/linkdetails.thtml in all default themes to use {link_actual_url}
2902 in a title attribute for the links [Dirk]
2903 - The event description now honors linefeeds to allow some basic text
2905 - Escape all PCRE special characters in the code to highlight search query
2906 words (bug #200). Also moved the code to its own function, COM_highlightQuery,
2907 in lib-common.php [Dirk]
2908 - The contents and order of the menu entries, i.e. of the {menu_elements}
2909 variable in header.thtml, is now configurable in config.php (new config
2910 variable $_CONF['menu_elements']). It also includes an option to add custom
2911 entries by implementing a function CUSTOM_menuEntries() that returns the
2912 additional entries [Dirk]
2913 - Use an UPDATE request when increasing the number of times a story has been
2915 - When an error occurs while creating a backup, the complete command line
2916 used to call mysqldump is now added to error.log [Dirk]
2917 - Added 'view' mode to allow links directly to a single comment (and optionally
2918 its children) in comments.php. [Vinny]
2919 - Added a few variables to be used in the eventdetails.thtml template file:
2920 {event_state_name} (full name of the state), {event_state_only} and
2921 {event_state_name_only} (abbreviated and full state name without the comma),
2922 {event_edit} (link to edit the event, if allowed for the current user),
2923 {edit_icon} (same, but with the edit icon instead of a text link),
2924 {lang_event_type} and {event_type} for the event type [Dirk]
2925 - Registered users can now report abusive comments to the site admin (inspired
2926 by Feature Request #171, which actually requested this for the forums).
2927 Requires new text strings in the language files and a new template file,
2928 comment/reportcomment.thtml [Dirk]
2929 - Bugfix: New users created through the batch import didn't get the email with
2930 their password [Dirk]
2931 - Moved function to create and send a password to lib-user.php to avoid having
2932 identical code in users.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
2933 - Added {topic_image} variable (available in the topicoption.thtml and
2934 topicoption_off.thtml template files) so that you can use topic images in
2935 the Topics block (feature request #152) [Dirk]
2936 - COM_undoSpecialChars() now also handles (bug #192) [Dirk]
2937 - Fixed handling of HTML entities in [code] sections (bug #159) [Dirk]
2938 - Added an option to look up IP addresses (new variable $_CONF['ip_lookup'] in
2939 config.php, pointing to a service that does IP address lookups) [Dirk]
2940 - Fixed problems with the database backup when there were spaces in the path to
2941 the backups directory (bug #185). [Dirk]
2942 - Added email notification for new comments (feature request #155) [Dirk]
2943 - Added tracking of IP addresses of comment posters (as suggested by Michael
2945 - Altered COM_article to improve performance by reducing queries. [Vinny]
2946 - Reduced DB queries in COM_showTopics to improve performance. [Vinny]
2947 - Cached enabled plugins to reduce db queries and improve performance. [Vinny]
2948 - Fixed SEC_inGroup not using $_GROUPS cache in several instances. [Vinny]
2949 - mysql.class.php now only runs mysql_connect once per page load. [Vinny]
2950 - The "Google paging" now has additional links to jump to the first and last
2951 page (patch provided by Niels Leenheer). [Dirk]
2952 - Introduced function COM_makeClickableLinks to turn URLs in text-only posts
2953 into clickable links (i.e. it's adding <a> tags around URLs). [Dirk]
2954 - Changed the comment insert, delete, display algorithms for improved
2955 efficiency. They now use a modified preorder tree traversal method. [Vinny]
2956 - Comment limit now applies to all the comments displayed, not just the top
2957 level comments. [Vinny]
2958 - Added pagination ability to comments ({pagenav} template variable in
2959 startcomment.thtml). [Vinny]
2960 - Fixed typo in timer.class.php that broke the ->restart() function. [Vinny]
2961 - Make sure the database backup files are always sorted by (last modified) date
2962 (found & fixed by Alexander Schmacks). [Dirk]
2963 - Make sure the user's preferred comment limit is used when changing the
2964 comment display via the comment bar (bug #176). [Vinny]
2965 - When URL rewriting is activated, the "rewritten" URLs are now also used
2966 in all (RSS) feeds containing links to articles. [Dirk]
2967 - Experimental: On a fresh install, use InnoDB tables (instead of MyISAM) if
2968 the MySQL version running on the server supports them (usually as of
2969 MySQL 4.0). This should avoid locks on tables where hit counters and the
2970 actual data are stored in the same table, e.g. stories (suggested by
2971 Marc Von Ahn). [Dirk]
2972 - Fixed bug in the install script when upgrading from 1.3.8 or earlier:
2973 Check to see if the static pages plugin is installed before attempting to
2974 update its tables (reported by Rob Griffiths). [Dirk]
2975 - Implemented a change to DB_fetchArray, suggested by Niels Leenheer:
2976 Geeklog will now, by default, only return associative array indices. In case
2977 the numeric indices are needed, a new (optional) second parameter for
2978 DB_fetchArray has to be set to "true". [Dirk]
2979 - Removed extra quotes in SQL statements in admin/block.php to ensure
2980 compatibility with old MySQL versions (reported by Elmer Masters). [Dirk]
2981 - In admin/database.php, if the is_executable function is not available (e.g.
2982 on Windows), do at least a file_exists to check if the mysqldump executable
2983 exists in the path given in config.php. [Dirk]
2984 - Introduced function COM_getTopicSQL which returns part of an SQL request to
2985 check for a user's topic access [Dirk]
2986 (This was actually introduced in 1.3.9sr1 but missing from the changelog)
2990 - New Bosnian language file, provided by Kenan Hodzic
2991 - Updated Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic
2992 - New Indonesian language file, provided by Piotr Sobis
2993 - Updated Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen
2995 Static Pages Plugin 1.4.1
2996 -------------------------
2997 - Added a printable version for static pages (based on a concept by
2998 Jannetta S Lewis). Requires a new template file, printable.thtml, located
2999 in the static pages' template directory [Dirk]
3000 - Added support for autolinks and provide a [staticpage:] autotag [Dirk]
3001 - Added an option to sort the static pages that are added to a site's menu
3002 (see {plg_menu_elements} in header.thtml) by id, label, title, or date [Dirk]
3003 - The block templates used to wrap a static page in a block can now be
3004 overridden, using '_staticpages_block' and '_staticpages_centerblock' as the
3005 index for the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE array [Dirk]
3006 - The plugin now checks for template files in the current theme's directory
3007 (layout/THEMENAME/staticpages) first before using the default template files
3008 from plugin/staticpages/templates [Dirk]
3009 - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
3010 user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
3011 pages that are for anonymous users only [Dirk]
3012 This change was actually supposed to be in Static Pages 1.4 (Geeklog 1.3.9),
3013 but somehow didn't make it ...
3014 - For center blocks, ignore the "blank page" setting, unless it's for a page
3015 that is supposed to replace the entire frontpage (bug #234) [Dirk]
3016 - The static pages editor doesn't display a "delete" button for new and
3017 cloned pages any more (since, obviously, you can't delete what hasn't been
3018 saved yet ...). [Dirk]
3019 - Bugfix: Fresh installs of Geeklog 1.3.9 only allowed 20 characters for the
3020 static page ID, while installs upgraded from an earlier version allowed up
3021 to 40 characters [Dirk]
3022 - New Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho.
3025 Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.9sr5)
3028 This release addresses the following security issues:
3030 - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
3031 anyone to log in as any user.
3032 - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
3033 Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
3034 file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
3035 - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks
3038 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.9sr4)
3041 This release addresses the following security issue:
3043 Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
3044 be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.
3047 Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.9sr3)
3050 This release addresses 2 security issues:
3052 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
3053 were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
3054 These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
3055 disabled it in config.php.
3056 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
3057 leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
3060 Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.9sr2)
3063 This release addresses 2 security issues:
3065 - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
3066 variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
3067 using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
3068 - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
3069 posting had been switched off [Dirk]
3070 This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
3071 went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
3074 Non-security related fixes:
3076 - Fixed lib-plugins.php to be compatible with PHP 5 [Dirk]
3077 - Includes updated PEAR packages to resolve email problems some users were
3078 having (especially with safe_mode being on).
3081 Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.9sr1)
3084 This release addresses the following security issues:
3086 - It was possible to post anonymous comments, even when anonymous comment
3087 posting had been switched off in config.php [Vinny, Dirk]
3088 - Added additional speed limit checks for comments and submissions [Vinny]
3089 - It was still possible to read the comments to stories, even when the user
3090 didn't have access to the story's topic (provided they knew the story id)
3092 - If none of the topics were visible for anonymous users, the site's index
3093 page may still have displayed some stories for anonymous users, depending on
3094 the stories' permissions [Vinny, Dirk]
3095 - Users still got Daily Digest emails for topics from which they had been
3096 removed (bug #178) [Dirk]
3097 - It was possible to subscribe to the Daily Digest for all topics, even if the
3098 user did not have access to certain topics [Dirk]
3099 - Don't list stories or comments in the user profile if the current user isn't
3100 allowed to see the topics they were posted under (bug #208) [Dirk]
3102 Non-security related fixes:
3104 - Fixed an SQL error in COM_showTopics if users excluded topics in their
3105 preferences (reported by Rob Young) [Dirk]
3106 - Fixed sporadic "Duplicate entry '...' for key 1." messages in error.log
3107 (caused by the handling of pseudo-session ids for anonymous users) [Dirk]
3108 - Fixed incorrect author names in Daily Digest (bug #207) [Dirk]
3109 - The plugin_profileblocksedit_<plugin-name> Plugin API function wasn't working
3110 due to a missing piece of code in usersettings.php [Dirk]
3111 - COM_extractLinks will now ignore anchor tags that do not contain "href"
3115 Mar 14, 2004 (1.3.9)
3118 - Custom Registration function hook to custom_useredit added in the edituser()
3119 when creating a new user from the admin screen. The custom function was not
3120 being called if this was a new user [file: admin/user.php].
3121 - Fixed wrong use of DB_count in COM_showPoll in lib-common.php. This may have
3122 prevented people from voting on other polls once they voted on any poll on
3123 a site [file: lib-common.php].
3125 - Updated Danish language file, provided by ZooN.
3126 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel (please note that this
3127 file was made for 1.3.8-1 and is missing a few of the texts added in 1.3.9).
3130 Mar 7, 2004 (1.3.9rc3)
3133 - Fixed call to CUSTOM_mail and added a sample implementation in
3134 lib-custom.php (commented out by default).
3135 - Made an attempt to recover from duplicate session ids for anonymous users.
3136 - Adding new topics always resulted in a "Please fill in the Topic ID and Topic
3137 Name fields" error message, even if you did fill in both fields (this bug was
3138 only introduced in 1.3.9rc2).
3139 - Filter out backslashes.
3140 - Comment titles were cut off at the first single or double quote (when
3141 submitting a new comment).
3142 - The text string $LANG04[89] in all language files must be enclosed in
3143 double quotes, not single quotes.
3145 - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
3146 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
3147 - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
3149 - Updated Russian language file, provided by Denis Kuznetsov.
3150 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
3151 - Included UTF-8 versions of the Croatian and Japanese language files,
3152 provided by Samuel Stone.
3155 Feb 29, 2004 (1.3.9rc2)
3158 - The new Admin interface for handling blocks (introduced in 1.3.9rc1) will
3159 renumber the block order in steps of 10, which can lead to order numbers
3160 > 255 if you have many blocks. Changed the 'blockorder' field in the
3161 "gl_blocks" table from TINYINT to SMALLINT to compensate.
3162 If you are upgrading from 1.3.9rc1, you will need to run the following SQL
3165 ALTER TABLE gl_blocks CHANGE blockorder blockorder smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1';
3167 Replacing "gl_blocks" with the proper table name, if you are using a table
3168 prefix other than 'gl_'. This step is not necessary when upgrading from 1.3.8
3169 or earlier versions.
3170 - The Group Admin restrictions introduced in 1.3.9rc1 didn't even let the
3171 Admin assign unassigned features to groups (e.g. there was no way to add
3172 the staticpages.PHP feature to the Static Page Admin group on a fresh
3174 - When normal users tried to submit an event, they were redirected to the
3175 story submission form (this bug was only introduced in 1.3.9rc1).
3176 - Cosmetic changes in the beautifying of language names (in the user's
3178 - Fixed COM_extractLinks to work with links that follow [IMAGE] tags and more
3179 generally handle the extraction of links better and more efficiently.
3180 - If a function CUSTOM_mail() exists, it will be called instead of COM_mail(),
3181 to allow users to implement their own function to send emails, if necessary.
3182 - The Static Pages plugin now supports the "exact phrase", "all of these words",
3183 and "any of these words" search options.
3184 - Included a simplified custom registration example and made the naming
3185 convention for the custom registration functions more consistent.
3186 - Fixed display problems with comments in nested and threaded mode.
3187 Please note that the template file comment/comment.thtml has changed (again)
3189 - Don't rely on the Who's Online block being active when handling sessions
3190 for anonymous users.
3191 - Removed some unused code that handled the obsolete "layout" blocks.
3192 - Try to guess the correct path separator when running on PHP < 4.3.0.
3193 - When upgrading from a pre-1.3.9 install, the install script choked on
3194 single quotes in the site name or site slogan.
3195 - More parameter filtering.
3197 - Included UTF-8 versions of the English, German, Finnish, and Chinese
3198 (traditional and simplified) language files, provided by Samuel Stone.
3199 - Added new Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic.
3200 - Added new Finnish language file, provided by Jussi Josefsson.
3201 - Added new Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
3202 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Wim Niemans.
3205 Feb 16, 2004 (1.3.9rc1)
3208 - Use COM_getYearFormOptions() etc. for the event submission form in
3209 submit.php, thus avoiding duplicated code.
3210 - Plugins can now add their new entries to the What's New block by implementing
3211 the new plugin_whatsnewsupported and plugin_getwhatsnew API functions.
3212 This section can be enabled/disabled with the new $_CONF['hidenewplugins']
3214 - When a user is deleted, make sure we assign any objects that require Admin
3215 access (blocks, topics, ...) to a user from the Root group.
3216 - Slightly revamped the install script and made it catch (or silently ignore)
3217 the most popular problems with the path to Geeklog ...
3218 - Removed the hard-coded from {welcome_msg} and added it to the
3219 header.thtml of the Classic, XSilver, and Yahoo themes (the other themes
3220 either look fine without it or didn't use {welcome_msg} anyway).
3221 - Added a missing stripslashes() call for link titles returned from a search.
3222 - Fixed bug when highlighting search queries that contained a '*' (reported
3224 - Fixed a bug/typo introduced in 1.3.8-1sr4 that prevented you from deleting
3225 story submissions from the Admin's story editor (reported by James Bothe).
3226 - Changed all url fields in the database to hold up to 255 characters per URL.
3227 Please note that the template files in most themes will limit the max.
3228 number of characters to 96 or 128 characters. See docs/theme.html for more
3229 information on how to update the themes.
3230 - Fixed problems batch-importing users with single quotes in their names
3232 - The permissions for the "Group Admin" group have been changed such that
3233 members of that group now only have access to groups of which they themselves
3234 are a member of. When creating new groups, the rights (permissions) to chose
3235 from are also limited to those that the Group Admin users have themselves.
3236 These changes should make the Group Admin group more useful.
3237 Note: Group admins can still see all the existing groups and who is a member
3239 - Fixed search class so that the simplified and the advanced search return
3240 the same results (as long as none of the advanced options are used).
3241 - Added new config variable $_CONF['allowed_protocols'] which lets you specify
3242 the protocols that are allowed to be used in a link (feature request #109).
3243 Note: The kses class has a hard-coded list of allowed protocols to which
3244 the above will be added. It is currently not possible to remove any of the
3245 predefined protocols.
3246 - Introduced variable {allowed_menu_elements} in header.thtml which only
3247 includes those menu elements that the current user is allowed to use
3248 (i.e. honoring the $_CONF['XXXloginrequired'] settings).
3249 - COM_accessLog() now logs the user's uid and IP address automatically.
3250 - The option to stay logged in for 1 year has been removed and an option to
3251 not stay logged in (after the session has expired) has been added.
3252 - Fixed display of default blocks in the user preferences.
3253 - If the user chose not to see certain topics (by selecting them from the
3254 "Excluded Items" list in the preferences) then don't list those topics in
3256 - After saving your account information, you are now redirected to your
3257 profile page, so that you can see your changes as they would be displayed
3258 for other users of the site.
3259 - Integrated Vincent Furia's patches to use Geeklog's URL rewriting for links
3260 to stories (i.e. article.php).
3261 - In the story templates, you can now use {article_url} as the URL to the
3262 article.php with the current story (e.g. for a "link to this story" link).
3263 - There is a new file, system/lib-user.php, for user-related code that is
3264 used by usersettings.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php.
3265 - All template files that let you enter a URL are now using {max_url_length}
3266 for the maxlength attribute.
3267 - Access to admin/mail.php is now granted to all users with 'user.mail'
3268 permissions (previously, users with that permission without being in the
3269 'Mail Admin' group would see the "Mail Users" entry in the Admin block but
3270 were refused access to it).
3271 - The list of group names in the Mail Users form is now sorted alphabetically.
3272 - Any unauthorized attempts to access the admin pages are now properly logged
3274 - Fixed problems when resizing userphotos for user names that have spaces in
3275 them (reported by Per on geeklog-users).
3276 - Now accomodate strict webhosts who don't allow file uploads to the standard
3277 image directory, you can now set a new configuration variable,
3278 $_CONF['path_images'] to point to a directory outside of your webtree where
3279 article images and user profile pictures will be saved and served from.
3280 - Don't append a '-' to the page title if $_CONF['site_slogan'] is empty
3281 (feature request #88).
3282 - COM_getMonthFormOptions() now always lists the month names instead of only
3283 the numbers. COM_getYearFormOptions() also lists the previous year.
3284 - Changed admin/event.php to use the COM_getMonthFormOptions() etc. functions
3285 from lib-common.php, thus avoiding duplicated code.
3286 - In the calendar/calendar.thtml template file, you can now use {start_block}
3287 and {end_block} to wrap the calendar in a block.
3288 - Fixed a few display problems in case of errors in calendar_event.php. Also
3289 made calendar.php display messages sent from calendar_event.php.
3290 - Make sure the custom registration form is properly called from all relevent
3292 - Single quotes are now silently stripped from topic IDs (bug #113).
3293 - Fixed search displaying all the links for an empty search string, e.g. when
3294 searching for "more from" some user (bug #87).
3295 - Fixed link from search results that contained a '/' (bug #115).
3296 - Comments from a story that has been marked as "draft" are no longer returned
3297 from a search (bug #128).
3298 - The Admin's link list now uses "google paging", 50 links per page (bug #104).
3299 Note: Requires a change in the admin/link/linklist.thtml template file.
3300 - (Block)Admins can now change the order of blocks and enable / disable blocks
3301 directly from the Admin's list of blocks (based on a concept by stratosfear).
3302 - An alternative interface to adding (multiple) users to a group is now
3303 available from the Admin's list of groups. This feature requires JavaScript.
3304 - Fixed display of permissions in the "Access" column of the Admin's list of
3305 stories (didn't take Topic permissions into account).
3306 - Fixed handling of "0" as a poll answer (bug #73).
3307 - Added a check and warning message in admin/moderation.php if register_globals
3309 - Changed function COM_isEmail() to use PEAR::Mail/RFC822 to check for valid
3311 - Added an edit icon to each theme (images/edit.gif). Variable {edit_icon} can
3312 be used as an alternative to {edit_link}, i.e. as an icon that Story Admins
3313 can click on to edit a story.
3314 - You can now enable debug messages (to error.log) for the image upload by
3315 setting $_CONF['debug_image_upload'] = true in config.php.
3316 - When deleting a group, delete all references to that group from the
3317 group_assignments table (bug #50). The install script will remove any
3318 orphaned entries when upgrading the database to 1.3.9.
3319 - The option to delete comments was only available to users in the Root group
3320 (e.g. Admin). Since comments don't have permissions, comments can now be
3321 deleted by users with Story Admin permissions for the story they are
3322 commenting on (or Poll Admin permissions for comments on polls; bug #27).
3323 - Display a generic (and localised) error message when there is a problem
3324 importing an (RSS) feed - details will be available in error.log. Also checks
3325 for empty (but existing) feeds now.
3326 - When the user submission queue is activated, you now have an "edit" link
3327 that takes you to the Admin's user editor (the profile link is now on the
3328 username). Contributed by Ed Magin.
3329 - COM_siteHeader() now uses output buffering for the eval(), preventing the
3330 header from being output directly.
3331 Note: This may require changes in 3rd party scripts, e.g. the Geeklog/Gallery
3333 - The install script will set the 'date' field for links to sensible values
3334 now (reconstructed from the date that's encoded in the link id).
3335 - The author exclusion list in the preferences is now a (multi-select) listbox.
3336 - A proper error message is now displayed if the Admin creates a new user or
3337 changes an existing account with an email address that already exists (that
3338 test was already introduced in 1.3.8-1 but the error message was confusing),
3339 thus closing bug #24. Also checks for valid email addresses now.
3340 - You can now use {author_fullname} and {author_photo} variables in comment
3341 templates (feature request #35).
3342 - Remove extra backslashes from new links in What's New block (bug #59).
3343 - The [code] tag is now displayed in the list of allowed HTML tags.
3344 - Image upload can now use the GD library (contributed by Rob Coenen).
3345 If possible, GIF images will be converted to PNGs during upload. However,
3346 some versions of the GD library may not allow to read GIF images at all.
3347 - Geeklog now uses PEAR::Mail to send all emails.
3348 In config.php, you can select whether emails should be sent via PHP's mail()
3349 function, sendmail, or SMTP.
3350 - Introduced /path/to/geeklog/system/pear as the directory to hold the PEAR
3351 packages used by Geeklog. Currently, those are PEAR, Mail, Net_SMTP, and
3352 Net_Socket. These packages will be included in the releases from now on.
3353 - Introduced function COM_mail(). From now on, all Geeklog email will be sent
3354 from this function (instead of using PHP's mail() function directly).
3355 - When users try to register with an empty username or invalid email address,
3356 make sure we're displaying a custom registration form (if one exists) when
3357 displaying the error message (part 1 of bug #57).
3358 - Prevent users from registering with an empty username (bug #56).
3359 - Use $_CONF['emailstoriesperdefault'] when batch-adding users. Until now,
3360 new users were subscribed to the Daily Digest automatically (bug #55).
3361 - Added an 'edit' link to links/linkdetails.thtml, so that (Link) Admins can
3362 edit links easily (contributed by Euan McKay).
3363 - What's Related applied COM_checkHTML() on the entire block instead of on the
3364 individual items, thus stripping out HTML from the template file (bug #52).
3365 - Words from a search query are now properly highlighted in comments when the
3366 words occured only in the comments (but not in the story).
3367 - Integrated Vincent Furia's new comment code to use templates for comments
3368 (instead of hard-coded HTML).
3369 New template files: comment/comment.thtml, comment/thread.thtml.
3370 Updated: comment/startcomment.thtml
3371 - New Admin interface for content syndication (RSS feeds etc.). This lets you
3372 create feeds for all the stories and per topic as well as for links and
3373 (upcoming) events. Plugins can also provide feeds (through extensions of the
3374 Plugin API). Additional feed formats (other than RSS 0.91) can be implemented
3375 as new classes (xxx.feed.class.php).
3376 Includes new admin/syndication template directory.
3377 - Don't display the "delete" button in the Admin's Event editor when we're
3378 editing a new event (reported by Simon Lord).
3380 Static Pages Plugin 1.4
3381 -----------------------
3383 - It is now possible to disable the use of PHP in static pages entirely by
3384 setting $_SP_CONF['allow_php'] = 0 in the static pages' config.php file.
3385 If you don't plan on using PHP in static pages, it is recommended that you
3386 do that as an additional security measure.
3387 - You can now use "plain PHP" code in a static page, i.e. it doesn't need to
3388 be written such that it returns all output in a 'return' statement. The
3389 PHP checkbox has been replaced with a dropdown menu offering "do not execute
3390 PHP", "execute PHP (return)" [that's the old way], and "execute PHP" [new].
3391 - The ID of a static page can now have up to 40 characters.
3392 - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
3393 user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
3394 pages that are for anonymous users only.
3395 - The option to wrap static pages in a block can now be applied to each page
3396 individually. $_SP_CONF['in_block'] is only used as the default setting
3398 - Static pages to be displayed after the featured story (in a center block) are
3399 now displayed even if there is no featured story (after the static pages to
3400 be displayed at the top of the page).
3401 - Static pages are not wrapped in a block when the page format is set to "blank
3403 - Added a "Cancel" button in the static pages editor.
3404 - Bugfix: Depending on the permission settings, the "Edit" link was sometimes
3405 displayed for users without them having edit permissions for the static page.
3406 It wasn't possible to edit the page, though, but the link shouldn't have
3407 been there in the first place.
3408 - For security reasons, the Static Page Admin group does not include
3409 'staticpages.PHP' permissions by default any more.
3410 - When a user is deleted, static pages created by that user can now either be
3411 deleted or assigned to a Root user (see $_SP_CONF['delete_pages'] option).
3413 Please see docs/staticpages.html for details.
3416 Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr6)
3419 This release addresses 2 security issues:
3421 - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
3422 variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
3423 using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
3424 Note: german.php was not affected and is therefore not included.
3426 - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
3427 posting had been switched off [Dirk]
3428 This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
3429 went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
3433 Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr5)
3436 This release fixes a bug due to which it was possible to post anonymous
3437 comments even when anonymous comment posting had been switched off in
3440 To upgrade from Geeklog 1.3.8-1sr4 to 1.3.8-1sr5, simply upload the included
3441 comment.php, replacing the file of the same name on your webserver.
3444 January 26, 2004 (1.3.8-1sr4)
3447 This release addresses the following security issues:
3449 1. It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to
3450 become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).
3451 2. Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it
3452 possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the
3453 user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object
3455 3. It was possible to delete other people's personal events if you knew the
3457 4. It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user
3458 did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).
3459 5. Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone's account settings
3460 (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted
3461 link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
3462 6. The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection
3463 (reported by Jelmer).
3464 7. It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by
3466 8. It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment
3467 preview (reported by Jelmer).
3470 December 5, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr3)
3473 This release addresses the following security-related issues:
3475 1. As "dr.wh0" pointed out, the category field for link submissions was not
3476 filtered at all. Although you probably can't cause too much harm with
3477 those 32 characters, this has now been fixed.
3478 2. Vincent Furia found that the restrictions for the form to email users
3479 could be circumvented and could even be used to spam users.
3480 In addition to fixing theses issues, there is now also a speed limit
3481 on that form (defaults to the speed limit for story submissions).
3482 3. There was a way to post comments anonymously even when posting for
3483 anonymous users had been disabled.
3484 4. It was possible to post comments under someone else's username.
3487 October 14, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr2)
3490 Jouko Pynnonen found a way to trick the new "forgot password" feature,
3491 introduced in 1.3.8, into letting an attacker change the password for _any_
3492 account. This release addresses this issue - there were no other changes.
3494 The only thing you need to do is to replace the file users.php on your site
3495 with the file that comes with this tarball. It's suggested that you change
3496 the version number in your config.php to '1.3.8-1sr2' afterwards.
3498 Please note that only Geeklog 1.3.8, 1.3.8-1, and 1.3.8-1sr1 are affected,
3499 as this feature did not exist in earlier versions.
3502 October 12, 2003 (1.3.8-1sr1)
3505 This release is intended to address some of the security issues reported in
3506 September and early October 2003.
3508 1. Includes Ulf Harnhammar's kses HTML filter to address possible Javascript
3509 injections and CSS defacements.
3511 When upgrading from an earlier version, please make sure to copy over the
3512 $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays from the included
3513 config.php to your own copy of that file.
3515 2. While almost all of the alleged SQL injection issues could not be
3516 reproduced, this release includes an update to the MySQL class to not
3517 report SQL errors in the browser any more (but only in Geeklog's error.log).
3518 This will avoid disclosing any sensitive information as part of the error
3521 Please note that at the moment we do NOT recommend to use Geeklog with
3522 MySQL 4.1 (which, at the time of this writing, is in alpha state and should
3523 not be used on production sites anyway).
3525 An upcoming release of Geeklog will address the remaining SQL issues,
3526 including any problems with MySQL 4.1.
3528 Other fixes (not security-related):
3529 - When trying to guess the value of $_CONF['cookiedomain'], we need to remove
3530 the port number from the URL, if there is one (bug #75).
3531 - The full 1.3.8-1sr1 tarball also includes updated French (Canada) and
3532 Turkish language files.
3535 August 9, 2003 (1.3.8-1)
3538 - When upgrading, the install script will now default the version selection to
3539 the last version in the list (currently: 1.3.7) instead of the first one
3541 - Don't allow HTML in static page titles (bug #26).
3542 - Display the search form again if the query returned no results.
3543 - Make sure we're not attempting to send a Daily Digest email to Anonymous.
3544 - Prevent admin from changing a user's email address to one that's already used
3545 by someone else (bug #24). The error message you get when you try this may
3546 be confusing, though ("The username you tried saving already exists.") since
3547 I don't want to introduce new texts in the language file at this point. To
3549 - Fixed a problem with the cookie timeout: When a user edited his/her profile
3550 for the first time, the cookie timeout defaulted to 1 hour, while the default
3551 in config.php was usually much longer (default: 1 week). So after editing
3552 their profile for the first time, users didn't stay logged in as long as
3553 before (unless they noticed that and changed the cookie timeout accordingly
3555 - Fixed problems in the install script when trying to find out the MySQL
3557 - Fixed a problem collecting links for the What's Related block when the article
3558 contained (uploaded) images.
3559 - Words from a search query are now hightlighted in comments as well.
3560 - You can now use variables {rss_url} and {rdf_file} in both the site header
3561 and footer. Both variables hold the URL to the RSS feed.
3562 - Fixed an occassional "call to member function of non-object" error message
3564 - Make sure the RSS feed and Older Stories block are updated when a story is
3566 - The language selection will only list files that end in .php and do not
3568 - Fixed links to a user's comments from the Last 10 Comments block in the user
3570 - Removed '&query=' from links in search results if the query was empty.
3571 - Anonymous users couldn't use the advanced search even if
3572 $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] was not set.
3573 - Fix to disallow access to the extended search for anonymous users (i.e.
3574 $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] works again as it did in 1.3.7)
3575 - Fixed search by date.
3576 - Template variable {uid_value} was always empty in the user's profile edit
3577 form (in usersettings.php).
3579 - New French (Canada) language file, provided by Jean-Francois Allard.
3580 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by W. Niemans.
3581 - Updated Bulgarian language file, provided by Vassil Simeonov and Itso Banov.
3582 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero.
3584 - New French (Canada) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
3585 Jean-Francois Allard.
3586 - New Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by W. Niemans.
3589 July 17, 2003 (1.3.8)
3592 - Added Blaine's sample code for the custom registration to lib-custom.php
3593 (there's also an accompanying sample template file, memberdetail.thtml).
3594 - "No new links" wasn't displayed in the What's New block when you didn't
3595 have any links in the database or when the current user didn't have access
3596 to any of them (reported by krove).
3597 - Applied a patch by Tatsumi Imai to fix problems with Japanese characters
3598 when editing polls (bug #17).
3599 - Hide those story submissions from moderators that don't have access to the
3601 - Use $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PATH_INFO'] instead of $PATH_INFO for the url_rewrite
3602 feature, since the latter doesn't seem to work on some setups (reported by
3605 - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
3606 - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
3610 July 6, 2003 (1.3.8rc2)
3613 - When failing to delete an image for a story (from the Admin's story editor),
3614 only log this problem in the error.log but don't abort the script (reported
3616 - When editing a story that used double quotes in the title, the title was cut
3617 off after the first quote sign.
3618 - Story Admins could edit stories in a topic they didn't have access to, if
3619 they somehow found out the story id.
3620 - When $_CONF['listdraftstories'] was enabled, moderation.php listed all stories
3621 that had the "draft" flag set without checking for topic permissions (this
3622 option was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1).
3623 - For Story Admins, the Admin menu may have listed a greater number of stories
3624 than the user actually had access to (didn't check for topic permissions).
3625 - Fixed "Google paging" on the Admin's list of stories when the current user
3626 didn't have access to all the topics (paging was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1).
3627 - Try to prevent "illegal access" messages in error.log, caused by the plugin
3628 page looking for uninstalled plugins.
3629 - Upcoming events (in the block of the same name) are now sorted by start date
3630 and start time, which makes more sense than the old start date, end date
3631 sort order (reported by Peter Sieradzki).
3632 - Fixed description of function DB_count() in lib-database.php (reported by
3634 - Changed the "getBent" block to test the real admin directory in case it has
3635 been renamed (bug #762881).
3636 - Saving the user profile also saved the privacy options, setting them all to
3637 "off" (reported by Dwight Trumbower).
3638 - Check the topic permissions when doing a search on stories and comments.
3639 - Check the topic permissions when displaying the new stories and comments in
3640 the What's New block.
3641 - Need to use date_sub() in the SQL request for the display=new mode on the
3642 index page to ensure compatibility with old versions of MySQL (reported by
3644 - New users created manually from the Admin's User menu were assigned a
3645 random password, even when the Admin entered one (reported by TechFan).
3646 This bug was only introduced in 1.3.8rc1.
3647 - The printer-friendly version of a story in HTML format should not call
3648 nl2br() on the story text (bug #762636).
3649 - When attempting to edit a submission, check that it still exists in the
3650 submission queue (since another Admin could already have handled it),
3651 avoiding an SQL error (reported by Simon Lord).
3653 - New language file for formal German (addressing the user as "Sie" instead of
3654 "Du"), provided by Philip Sack.
3655 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65.
3656 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata.
3657 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
3658 - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero.
3659 - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg.
3661 - New formal German language file for the Static Pages plugin.
3662 - New Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by quess65.
3663 - New Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Yusuke
3665 - New Swedish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Markus Berg
3668 June 29, 2003 (1.3.8rc1)
3671 - Fixed SQL error when using quotes in a group description.
3672 - Fixed bug where blocks assigned to a topic disappeared when viewing articles.
3673 - Add new Plugin API PLG_getHeaderCode, Used to return JS Functions or other
3674 Header Meta Tags required by the plugin. Added new variable {plg_headercode}
3675 to the template header.thtml files.
3676 - New search: You can search for the exact phrase, all of the words, or any of
3677 the words from the query. Search words are highlighted in stories. Also,
3678 results in stories and comments are listed separately.
3679 - Added new block "Privacy Options" to the Preferences:
3680 + chose to receive email from admins and/or other users
3681 + chose to show up in Who's Online block
3682 (Feature requests #609758 and #609759)
3683 - New config option $_CONF['hide_author_exclusion'] to hide the author
3684 exclusion list from the user's preferences (useful e.g. when it's a rather
3685 long list but hardly used by the users of your site).
3686 - Added tracking of users lastlogin to the userinfo table.
3687 New $_CONF['lastlogin'] added to config.php - SESSION SETTINGS area
3688 - Added an option in admin/group.php to list all the users belonging to a group.
3689 - Added adminoption_off.thtml template file (for current entry in the Admin
3690 menu) and topicoption.thtml and topicoption_off.thtml files (for entries in
3691 the Topics/Sections menu).
3692 - Geeklog will not accept topic ids containing spaces any more.
3693 - Added new config option $_CONF['allow_account_delete'] to allow users to
3694 delete their account (from their Account Information page).
3695 - Posts (stories and comments) from deleted users will now be reassigned to
3697 - Removed the Geeklog version number from the footer of the default themes.
3698 Instead, the version number is now displayed in the headline of the "Command
3699 and Control" block (moderation.php) and next to the "GL Version Test" entry
3700 in the Admin's functions block.
3701 - New Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen.
3702 - Introduced new config.php variable $_CONF['mysqldump_options'] that holds
3703 additional options to be used when Geeklog calls mysqldump to do a backup
3705 - Added a check for an existing email address in the user's profile so that
3706 users can't change their email address to one that's already in use for
3708 - Pick up the 'postmode' default setting for the Admin's story editor.
3709 - Stories in the Daily Digest are now sorted by date (newest first, as on the
3711 - Changed handling of plugin comments slightly: Plugins will have to do the
3712 'delete' operation on their comments on their own now since Geeklog can't
3713 possibly know which (if any) permissions are needed to delete a comment.
3714 The 'id' parameter in the call to plugin_handlecomment_<type> will now
3715 always be the comment id.
3716 - In another attempt to solve the various issues regarding "www vs. non-www"
3717 URLs and related login problems:
3718 + Made sure all setcookie() calls use all 6 parameters
3719 + Try to guess the correct value for $_CONF['cookiedomain'] if it isn't set
3720 + Removed the redirection attempt from index.php
3721 - When requesting a new password for your account, you can now enter either
3722 your username or the email address you used to register with the site.
3723 - Added a speed limit for requests for a new password (defaults to 5 minutes
3725 - The commentspeedlimit and submitspeedlimit tables have been replaced with a
3726 general speedlimit table and three new functions operating on it have been
3727 introduced (in lib-common.php). The new table has a 'type' field, so plugins
3728 could easily implement their own speed limits.
3729 - Introduced new "forgot password" functionality: When requesting a new password
3730 for an account, the user will now receive an email with a link that s/he has
3731 to click on. It will take the user to a form where s/he can enter a new
3732 password (a unique id is contained in the URL and checked when entering the
3733 new password, thus preventing misuse). The old password remains valid until a
3734 new password is entered from this form, so the email can simply be ignored in
3735 case the user didn't request a new password (cf. Feature Request #567979).
3736 - Removed unused commentheader.thtml file from all default themes.
3737 - Fixed the redirect after posting a comment to a poll (should return to the
3738 poll, not to the index page).
3739 - You can now "clone" events, i.e. make a copy of an existing event. This comes
3740 in handy if you have a lot of similar events (e.g. repeating events).
3741 Template files admin/event/eventlist.thtml and admin/event/listitem.thtml
3742 need to be updated or the "clone" option will not show up ...
3743 - Fixed a bug in the Admin's poll editor which let you enter more than
3744 $_CONF['maxanswers'] answers for a poll. You may need to adjust your setting
3745 of $_CONF['maxanswers'] or you may lose an answer when editing such a poll
3746 (found & fixed by Tom Willet).
3747 - Moved hard-coded HTML for the poll block and poll results to new template
3749 - When the theme uses a replacement function for COM_siteHeader and/or
3750 COM_siteFooter, we need to pass it the same parameter that the replaced
3751 function was being called with.
3752 - Fixed "Last 10 comments by user" in the user's profile which was missing the
3754 - When a new user registers, we need to check for a valid email address
3755 first (before searching the database to see if that address is already in use)
3756 - You are now taken back to the moderation page after editing a story submission
3757 - Fixed 'previous' link on the Admin's list of stories. Alternatively, you can
3758 now use {google_paging} there (requires a change in the template).
3759 - Added -Q option to the mysqldump call when doing a database backup. This will
3760 enclose database names in quotes and thus prevent problems with special
3761 characters in table names as used by some plugins (bug #712901).
3762 - Set the max length of the input field for the event URL to 128 characters
3763 (was 96) in the default themes (other themes may need adjusting).
3764 - Fixed localisation of the date of all-day events in the event details.
3765 - Added missing {event_location} variable in calendar/eventdetails.thtml
3767 - Fixed display of events spanning several days in the personal calendar.
3768 - Moved hard-coded HTML for the login form in the User Functions block to a new
3770 - The Sections block now uses the useroption.thtml and the new
3771 useroption_off.thtml template files for the list of topics. You can also use
3772 $_CONF['hide_home_link'] to hide the "Home" link from the Sections block.
3773 - New config option $_CONF['keep_unscaled_image'] allows you to keep the
3774 original, unscaled image after upload (in stories only, for now). The smaller,
3775 scaled image will be used as a thumbnail and link to the original image
3776 (based on code provided by Alexander Schmacks).
3777 - In admin/database.php:
3778 + Made sure we really display the last 10 backups (fix by Alexander Schmacks)
3779 + Display total number of backups in the directory
3780 + Moved hard-coded HTML for the list of backups to template files
3781 + Replaced $PHP_SELF with $_CONF['site_admin_url']/database.php since
3782 $PHP_SELF seems to cause problems in some environments
3783 - You can now make one topic the default topic. The topic selection in the
3784 story submission form will then default to this topic.
3785 - When clicking on the "contribute" link from the topic index page, the new
3786 story will now default to the topic you just viewed.
3787 This only works with themes that use the {menu_elements} variable in
3788 header.thtml. Other themes can use the new variable {current_topic} which
3789 holds '&topic=<topicid>' when a topic is selected (and is empty otherwise).
3790 - Integrated Vincent Furia's improvements for COM_exportRDF. You can now use
3791 $_CONF['rdf_limit'] to limit the number of stories in the RDF file by
3792 setting this to a number (e.g. 10) or a number of hours (e.g. 24h).
3793 $_CONF['rdf_storytext'] lets you add the story's introtext to the RDF feed.
3794 Also fixed a bug with un-escaped special characters in the feed's title.
3795 - Added paging to the list of Static Pages (for more than 50 pages).
3796 - Fixed problem with the Older Stories block disappearing when it was edited
3797 (e.g. moved from left to right), bug #670673.
3798 - Fixed "late" update of portal blocks (bug #681855).
3799 - Fixed mixing of comments from different plugins, found & fixed by Alan McKay.
3800 - A theme can provide its own functions to render the site header and footer
3801 (this is not a new feature). Geeklog now expects those functions to be named
3802 <themename>_siteHeader and <themename>_siteFoote, respectively. Until now,
3803 it was, however, looking for the wrong function names ...
3804 - Added the piece of code that is needed to make the Theme Tester work to
3805 lib-common.php (won't do anything without the Theme Tester block).
3806 - Fixed SQL query for displaying new comments in the What's New block, provided
3807 by Marc Von Ahn (with some help from Rob Griffiths).
3808 - Changes to make Geeklog install and work again on old versions of MySQL
3809 (e.g. MySQL 3.22). Special thanks to Markus Guske for providing the fixes
3810 for the What's New block and for testing the new install.
3811 - Feb 13/03: (Blaine) Added new Plugin function to support Center Blocks
3812 Included call to PLG_showCenterblock in index.php
3813 - The user's signature is now appended to messages sent to another user.
3814 - Feb 6/03: (Blaine) Added support for custom user registration and account
3815 profile: Added hooks to users.php, usersettings.php and admin/user.php and
3816 new $_CONF parm to enable
3817 Developer is responsible for code to handle new form processing, account
3818 record save, update and delete.
3819 - The list of blocks now includes a column indicating whether the block is
3820 enabled or disabled (will need changes in admin/block/listblocks.thtml and
3821 listitem.thtml template files of custom themes).
3822 - Variable {rdf_url} (available in footer.thtml) holds the URL of the RDF file.
3823 - What's Related block is now created dynamically.
3824 - Top Ten Commented Stories didn't count comments on stories submitted by
3825 anonymous users (found & fixed by Laurence Whitworth).
3826 - Allow users to change their username if $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is
3828 - Jan 18/03: (Blaine) Corrected problem in mysql.class.php where the checks in
3829 dbdelete, dbchange, dbcount and dbcopy for a passed value of 0 were not
3830 sufficient. If the parameter was 0 - it was assuming it was empty.
3831 Consequence: The dbdelete would delete all records or dbcount would return
3833 - Display Preferences and Comment Preferences have been merged. There is now
3834 only one option, Preferences, in the User Functions block.
3835 - Hard-coded HTML for the Display Preferences, Comment Preferences, and
3836 Account information has been moved to template files (new "preferences"
3839 Static Pages Plugin 1.3
3840 -----------------------
3841 - Integrated (and extended) the Static Pages plugin 1.2 (originally started by
3842 Phill Gillespie and later supported by Tom Willet). This "combined" version
3843 is now called Static Pages 1.3.
3844 Use Geeklog's install script to upgrade from any previous version (1.1 or 1.2)
3845 - Supports the use of PHP in static pages.
3846 - You can now edit the ID of a static page to create more readable URLs like
3847 http://yoursite/staticpages/index.php?page=about
3848 In combination with Geeklog's $_CONF['url_rewrite'] option, the URL can even
3849 look like http://yoursite/staticpages/index.php/page/about
3850 - You can now "clone" static pages, i.e. make a copy of an existing page.
3851 - Removed the "static pages on frontpage" hack and changed the plugin to use
3852 the new Center Block API instead:
3853 A static page can now be displayed on the top of the front page, on the
3854 bottom, or after the featured story. It can also replace the front page
3855 entirely. Instead of using special label names (like "frontpage"), the
3856 display mode and position can now be selected from drop-down menus in the
3857 static pages editor.
3859 Please see docs/staticpages.html for details.
3862 January 26, 2004 (1.3.7sr5)
3865 This release addresses the following security issues:
3867 1. It was possible for users in the Group Admin and User Admin groups to
3868 become a member of the Root group (reported by Samuel M. Stone, bug #135).
3869 2. Being admin for a certain area (e.g. Story Admin for stories) made it
3870 possible to delete all objects in that area (e.g. stories) even if the
3871 user was not supposed to have access to them, provided the id of the object
3873 3. It was possible to delete other people's personal events if you knew the
3875 4. It was possible to browse through the comments of a story even if the user
3876 did not have access to the actual story (reported by Peter Roozemaal).
3877 5. Due to an XSS issue, it was possible to change someone's account settings
3878 (including the password) if you got them to click on a specially crafted
3879 link (reported by Jelmer, fix suggested by Vincent Furia).
3880 6. The comment display suffered from the possibility of an SQL injection
3881 (reported by Jelmer).
3882 7. It was possible to inject Javascript code in the calendar (reported by
3884 8. It was possible to execute (but not save) Javascript code in the comment
3885 preview (reported by Jelmer).
3888 December 5, 2003 (1.3.7sr4)
3891 This release addresses the following security-related issues:
3893 1. As "dr.wh0" pointed out, the category field for link submissions was not
3894 filtered at all. Although you probably can't cause too much harm with
3895 those 32 characters, this has now been fixed.
3896 2. Vincent Furia found that the restrictions for the form to email users
3897 could be circumvented and could even be used to spam users.
3898 3. There was a way to post comments anonymously even when posting for
3899 anonymous users had been disabled.
3900 4. It was possible to post comments under someone else's username.
3903 October 12, 2003 (1.3.7sr3)
3906 This release is intended to address some of the security issues reported in
3907 September and early October 2003.
3909 1. Includes Ulf Harnhammar's kses HTML filter to address possible Javascript
3910 injections and CSS defacements.
3912 When upgrading from an earlier version, please make sure to copy over the
3913 $_CONF['user_html'] and $_CONF['admin_html'] arrays from the included
3914 config.php to your own copy of that file.
3916 2. While almost all of the alleged SQL injection issues could not be
3917 reproduced, this release includes an update to the MySQL class to not
3918 report SQL errors in the browser any more (but only in Geeklog's error.log).
3919 This will avoid disclosing any sensitive information as part of the error
3922 Please note that at the moment we do NOT recommend to use Geeklog with
3923 MySQL 4.1 (which, at the time of this writing, is in alpha state and should
3924 not be used on production sites anyway).
3926 An upcoming release of Geeklog will address the remaining SQL issues,
3927 including any problems with MySQL 4.1.
3930 May 26, 2003 (1.3.7sr2)
3935 1. It was possible to obtain valid session ids for every account (reported by
3937 2. Using Internet Explorer, it was possible to upload an image with embedded
3938 PHP code and execute it (reported by SCAN Associates).
3939 3. Story permissions could override topic permissions, resulting in the display
3940 of stories to users who shouldn't have access to them (reported by Andrew
3942 Note: This was already fixed with the new index.php, released 2003-05-15.
3943 4. Added a warning in config.php that adding any of the following tags to the
3944 list of allowable HTML can make the site vulnerable to scripting attacks:
3945 <img> <span> <marquee> <script> <embed> <object> <iframe>
3946 (pointed out by Joat Dede)
3948 - Fixed the bug in several of the admin areas (blocks, events, links, polls,
3949 stories, topics) where admins without root access got a message stating
3950 that they did not have the proper permissions when trying to save an object.
3951 - Fixed a typo in lib-sessions.php that caused the creation of unnecessary
3952 sessions (pointed out by Kobaz).
3953 - Fixed malformed cookie (used $_CONF['site_url'] instead of
3954 $_CONF['cookiedomain']) in lib-sessions.php, found & fixed by Jon Evans.
3955 - Fixed a bug that prevented certain right blocks from showing up when there
3956 were no stories for a topic.
3957 - The "Google paging" on the index page may have displayed the wrong number
3958 of pages for users who disabled topics in their display preferences.
3960 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Claudio.
3961 - Updated French language file, provided by Jaques.
3962 - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by Access-=-Denied Networks
3963 - Updated Spanish and Spanish (Argentina) language files,
3964 provided by Fernando Bernardini
3965 - New Portuguese language file, provided by Mario Seabra
3966 - New Bulgarian language file, provided by lachko
3967 - New Turkish language file, provided by Sinan Ussakli
3968 - New Slovenian language file, provided by gape
3969 - New Slovak language file, provided by Rado
3970 - New Romanian language file, provided by Dan Gheorghitza
3971 - New Chinese language file (gb2312 encoding), provided by Crocodile King
3972 - New Czech language file, provided by Hermes Trismegistos
3975 January 13, 2003 (1.3.7sr1)
3980 1. Javascript code could be used in the homepage link of a user's profile
3981 (reported by Jin Yean Tan).
3982 2. Javascript code could be injected in several URLs so that these could then
3983 be used for a cross-site scripting attack (reported by Jin Yean Tan).
3984 3. Anybody could delete comments, provided they knew the comment id.
3985 4. A StoryAdmin could manipulate any story, even if permissions should have
3986 prevented that. The same applied to Admins for links, events, polls, topics,
3987 and blocks (reported by Kobaz).
3989 - The new user notification email was always sent out, even if 'user' was not
3990 listed in $_CONF['notification'].
3991 - In admin/database.php, added a check to test if function is_executable() is
3992 available (since it is not available on Windows).
3993 - {copyright_notice} in the site's footer (footer.thtml) will now use the
3994 current year for the copyright notice. You can override this by setting
3995 $_CONF['copyrightyear'] to the year you want.
3996 Also, new variables {lang_copyright} and {current_year} as well as {site_name}
3997 and {site_slogan} are now available in footer.thtml so that you can build a
3998 customised copyright notice from them.
3999 - Fixed incomplete links to search results from poll comments.
4000 - Fixed wrong link to the week view from the last week of the month view.
4001 - Fixed bug where links was not using the date field - being stored as null.
4002 - Fixed image resizing when using ImageMagick.
4003 - Added the actual and max. image dimensions in the error message that is
4004 displayed when an image exceeds the max. image dimensions and no imagelib
4006 - The Admin menu will now be displayed for users which have Admin access to
4007 a plugin but not to a core Geeklog Admin feature.
4008 - The redirect in index.php (when a site is called up with a URL other than
4009 the one configured in $_CONF['site_url']) now checks for the existence of
4010 $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_HOST']. Also, the server name comparison is done
4011 case-insensitive now.
4012 - New config option $_CONF['emailstoriesperdefault']: Set to 1 if new users
4013 should be subscribed to the daily digest automatically. Defaults to 0 (no
4014 automatic subscribtion), thus restoring the behaviour of Geeklog prior to
4016 - Removed some unused / outdated files (include and etc directories)
4017 - Updated URLs to point to www.geeklog.net and lists.geeklog.net instead of the
4018 now outdated places on Sourceforge.
4019 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by R.F. van der Veen
4020 - New Danish language files (for Geeklog and for the Static Pages plugin),
4021 provided by Steen Broelling
4024 December 16, 2002 (1.3.7)
4027 - In all Admin editors, the hard-coded default group permissions have been
4028 changed from 3 (read/write) to 2 (read-only).
4029 - Make sure an error message is displayed when a StoryAdmin tries to edit a
4030 story s/he does not have access to.
4031 - Hide topics from the Admin's list of stories that the current (Story)Admin
4033 - Tom Willet found a problem in admin/user.php that sometimes mangled user
4034 names, especially on sites hosted on sourceforge.net.
4035 - Fixed an SQL error when using single quotes in a block title.
4036 - When updating events in the master calendar, make sure copies of such events
4037 in the personal calendars are updated as well (including deleting them when
4038 the original event is removed from the master calendar).
4039 - Fixed PRIMARY KEY for table personal_events, so that more than one user can
4040 add an event to his/her personal calendar.
4042 - New Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by Access-=-Denied Networks
4043 - New Spanish language file, provided by LeChuck
4044 - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
4045 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
4046 - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
4049 December 3, 2002 (1.3.7rc1)
4052 - Modifed savesubmission() to better handle Plugin return - Bug ID 642106
4053 - Modified Comment Plugin API Comment call - PLG_handlePluginComment now passes
4054 $operation to indicate a 'save' or 'delete'.
4055 - Fixed problems with the portal.php redirect for links (bug #579221).
4056 - Fixed a problem when uploading images with certain versions of Opera.
4057 - When deleting a topic, also remove stories for that topic from the submission
4059 - Added a redirect in index.php when the site was called up with the "wrong"
4060 URL (i.e. not the one that has been set in $_CONF['site_url']), thus
4061 fixing the "www vs. non-www" problem where people showed up in Who's Online
4062 but did not get the User Functions block.
4063 - The topic selection in the daily digest now defaults to "on" for all topics,
4064 i.e. when the daily digest is activated ($_CONF['emailstories'] = 1) and
4065 a user has not selected any topics yet, s/he will receive a digest for all
4066 topics. This ensures that new topics are automatically added to the daily
4067 digest (bug #573305).
4068 - Fixed a permission problem with the daily digest where users could get a
4069 digested version of a story they didn't have access to.
4070 - Fixed permission problems in the statistics where story titles, links, and
4071 events where listed even when the current user did not have access to them.
4072 - Added the Top Ten Links to the links page (only when links are displayed
4074 - When sending emails, Geeklog now uses \r\n in the mail headers which should
4075 resolve problems under Windows.
4076 - Resolved a couple of stripslashes() issues.
4077 - The static pages plugin can now be uninstalled using the "delete" option
4078 from the plugin editor. Note that this will only remove the plugin's tables
4079 and data from the database, not remove any files.
4080 - Added a simple email notification when a new story, link, or event has been
4081 submitted or a new user has registered. See $_CONF['notification'] for details
4082 - Added a separate set of config variables for the max. dimensions of user
4083 photos ($_CONF['max_photo_width'] etc.).
4084 - Fixed a problem when resizing GIF images using the netpbm tools.
4085 - Check the topic permissions when presenting a list of topics in the Admin
4086 story editor (since the StoryAdmin may not have access to all topics).
4087 - Removed the Normal / Archive / Refreshing drop down menus from the admin
4088 story and poll editors since they're not used anyway.
4089 - In the links section, do not display link categories when the current user
4090 does not have access to the links in those categories (bug #612869).
4091 - Fixed problems when using quotes in the title of an HTML-formatted comment
4092 (including confusing error messages and wrong speed limit alerts).
4093 - Changed the way how Geeklog checks if it's currently displaying the site's
4094 front page, thus fixing the problem with disappearing "homeonly" blocks.
4095 - Fixed double line spacing in HTML-formatted comments and [code] sections when
4096 running on PHP 4.2.0 and up.
4097 - Fixed problems with slashes and HTML entities in emails sent out by Geeklog
4098 (Send story to friend, daily digest, Admin mail utility).
4099 - Added new config variable 'showfirstasfeatured' which, when set to 1, will
4100 render the first story on _any_ page like it was a featured story.
4101 - Added admin/plugins/newpluginlist.thtml and newlistitem.thml template files
4102 for the list of plugins not installed yet. These files are optional, i.e.
4103 the list will be formatted using hard-coded HTML when they don't exist.
4104 - Removed unused template file admin/plugins/installform.thtml.
4105 - The plugin menu will now list all plugins which exist in the file system
4106 but haven't been installed (yet) with a link to their install script for
4107 easy installation (based on code provided by Blaine Lang).
4108 - New plugin API function PLG_callCommentForm() and improvements for the use of
4109 comments in plugins, provided by Blaine Lang.
4110 - The Older Stories block did not take stories into account which were to be
4111 published in the future. Therefore, the block sometimes listed stories that
4112 were still on the first index page.
4113 - Added variable {contributedby_photo} (user photo of story author) for use in
4115 - Users couldn't disable display of the Older Stories block in their preferences
4116 - The contents of the Older Stories block was deleted whenever you changed it
4117 (e.g. moving it from the left to the right column).
4118 - The static pages editor displayed a blank page when the title and/or content
4119 field of a new static page were not filled in (will display an error message
4121 - Implemented fixes for plugins using the submission queue, suggested by
4123 - Following the link "X stories in last 24 hours" from the What's New block
4124 will now display only the new stories on the index page.
4125 - When $_CONF['searchloginrequired'] = 2, the search is completely blocked
4126 for anonymous users (1 will only block the advanced search).
4127 - Added a check to test for a valid date format when searching by date.
4128 - Added $_CONF['skip_preview'] to allow submission of comments and stories
4129 without previewing (defaults to off).
4130 - Search queries with less than 3 characters are now rejected to reduce server
4132 - (Event)Admins couldn't add events directly to their personal calendar
4133 (found & fixed by Kenn Osborne).
4134 - Fixed a nasty bug in SEC_inGroup() (in lib-security.php) that let a user
4135 admin change the password of a root user, so that effectively every user
4136 admin could become a root user ...
4137 - Topics are now sorted alphabetically by the topic name instead of by topic id.
4138 - Added several new variables which can be used in the story template files.
4139 - New config options $_CONF['dateonly'] and $_CONF['timeonly'] which hold the
4140 format string for day + month (to be used in the Upcoming Events and Older
4141 Stories blocks) and the time (to be used for event details).
4142 - Fixed calls to unknown function printErrorMsgs in the file upload class.
4143 - New options in config.php:
4144 $_CONF['upcomingeventsrange'] = no. of days to look ahead for upcoming events
4145 $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = disallow "send story be email" for
4147 $_CONF['hideemailicon'], $_CONF['hideprintericon'] = hide email / printer
4148 icon from stories (and from Story Options block)
4149 $_CONF['hidenewstories'], $_CONF['hidenewcomments'], $_CONF['hidenewlinks'] =
4150 hide new stories / comments / links from What's New block
4151 - User photos are now resized according to the image dimensions in config.php
4152 (if an imagelib is configured - otherwise images exceeding those dimensions
4154 - Added a check for the proper permissions on the admin page of the Static
4156 - Plugins can now return "false" (or an empty array) from
4157 plugin_cclabel_<plugin-name> so that the plugin's icon does not show up
4158 in moderation.php if the user does not have the proper access rights for the
4159 plugin. Changed the Static Pages plugin to do exactly that.
4160 - Fixed problems when using multiple [code] ... [/code] sections.
4161 - PHP blocks which return an empty string are not displayed any more. This
4162 allows PHP blocks to "hide" themselves.
4163 - Searching for links caused an SQL error on installs that were upgraded
4164 from Geeklog 1.1 (missing "date" field in links table). However, links don't
4165 use that field anyway, so searching by date was removed (the "date" field
4166 will be added when upgrading the database to 1.3.7).
4167 Also, the search results are now sorted by link title.
4168 - The calendar displayed an empty last week (in month view) for some months,
4170 - COM_pollResults() will not use the side block templates when called from
4171 pollbooth.php (thus allowing different block layouts for the poll results
4172 in a side block and in pollbooth.php).
4173 - Allow for theme-based topic icons by using the $_THEME_URL variable as the
4174 base directory for topic icons (if that variable is set).
4175 - Fixed display (or lack thereof) of $ signs in portal blocks.
4176 - lib-common.php didn't use $_CONF['path_language'] to include the default
4178 - What's Related block
4179 + content is now set for all user submitted stories (previously, links where
4180 only added in stories submitted by the Admin or user submissions edited by
4182 + block is not displayed when it's empty
4183 + now uses COM_makeList() (i.e. the list.thtml and listitem.thtml template
4184 files) instead of hard-coded <li> tags
4185 - The What's Related and Story Options blocks can now be used independent of
4186 each other in the article/article.thtml template file - use {whats_related},
4187 {story_options} or {whats_related_story_options}.
4188 - Theme authors can now use the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE "hack" for the What's Related
4189 and Story Options blocks as well (using 'whats_related_block' and
4190 'story_options_block' as the block names).
4191 - Fixed the "noboxes" feature where all blocks (with the exception of the
4192 section, login / user functions, and admin blocks) are hidden.
4193 - Changed admin/link/listitem.thtml so that the URLs in the Admin's list of
4194 links are clickable.
4195 - Fixed an SQL error when calling search.php and there were no stories and no
4196 comments in the system.
4197 - Fixed an SQL error in the user profile when there were no stories and no polls
4199 - Fixed date bug when previewing stories to be posted around the noon hour in
4200 the admin story editor.
4201 - Added sanity checks in admin/story.php to prevent possible loss of stories
4202 when using an incomplete language file (or manipulating the URL).
4203 - Fixed a variable in admin/plugins/editor.ththml of the Smooth Blue theme.
4204 - Fixed a typo and a grammatical error in english.php
4205 - Fixed problems with the "static page as frontpage" hack:
4206 + will now check if the static pages plugin is installed and enabled
4207 + uses sp_format (i.e. display blocks as specified in the static pages editor)
4208 + added a missing stripslashes() call
4209 New: When you have $_SP_CONF['in_block'] == 1 and the label of the static
4210 page is neither empty nor "nonews" then that label is used as the block title
4211 for the static page.
4212 - The "userevent" table is back in lib-database.php. Geeklog doesn't use this
4213 table any more, but the name is needed when upgrading from old versions.
4216 - New Chinese language file (Big 5 encoding), provided by Jacky Chan
4217 - New Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg
4218 - Updated Dutch language file, provided by R. F. van der Veen
4219 - Updated French language file, provided by Florent Guiliani
4220 - The German language file now uses the proper national special characters
4221 (umlauts) instead of HTML entities.
4222 _ New Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
4223 - New Spanish language file for the Static Pages Plugin, provided by gorka
4226 September 20, 2002 (1.3.6)
4228 - Images in stories can now be resized automatically during upload, provided
4229 you have either ImageMagick or netpbm installed. See the image settings in
4230 config.php for details.
4231 - If you create a static page with the title "Frontpage" then the content of
4232 this static page will be displayed above the first story on the front page
4233 of your site. If you additionally set the label of this static page to
4234 "nonews", then the static page will completeley replace the news on the front
4236 You may want to wrap static pages in a block - set $_SP_CONF['in_block'] = 1;
4237 in /path/to/geeklog/plugins/staticpages/config.php
4238 - A user assigned only to the Mail Admin group wasn't able to use the "Mail
4240 - The filter to disable Javascript onXXX events also changed certain links in
4241 HTML postings. This should be fixed now.
4242 - The poll uses a POST instead of a GET request now to at least prevent
4243 primitive manipulation attempts ...
4244 - Events on the same day were displayed in the order they were entered, not
4245 in the order they were scheduled (occured in day, week, and month view).
4246 - The user function and admin blocks weren't using the proper templates when
4247 the theme was using the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE trick, as outlined in
4248 <http://www.geeklog.net/article.php?story=20020429092841722>.
4249 - When the first character of the content of a block is a '<' it is now
4250 assumed that the block contains HTML and nl2br() is not applied to the
4251 block content. This allows proper HTML usage and even the use of Javascript
4253 - Sanity checks have been added to the admin editors (including the editor
4254 for static pages) to prevent possible damage to the database in case of
4255 incomplete translations (language files) or invalid IDs.
4256 - The delete button in the plugin editor, which was unused since the removal
4257 of the automated plugin install (in Geeklog 1.3.4), will now cause a function
4258 plugin_uninstall_<plugin name> to be called. This allows plugins to uninstall
4259 themselves (if possible).
4260 - The author's name was missing from emailed stories. Also changed it so that
4261 the author's name is only included when $_CONF['contributedbyline'] == 1.
4262 The daily digest now also includes the author's name.
4263 - Fixed the "1054: Unknown column 'deleted' in 'where clause'" SQL error that
4264 some people were getting when logging out.
4265 - Submitted stories will now pick up the permissions from the topic they were
4266 posted under (instead of using default permissions).
4267 - Added new features story.submit, link.submit, event.submit which, when
4268 assigned to a group, allow members of that group to post directly (skipping
4269 the submission queue) even when the submissione queue is active.
4270 - Fixed issues with backslashes in block titles, as suggested by Neil Darlow.
4271 - The page navigation is now wrapped in a <div class="pagenav"> so that it
4272 can be formatted by a theme using CSS.
4273 Because of this change, the template files admin/user/userslist.thtml and
4274 links/links.thtml had to be changed, because they wrapped the page navigation
4276 - Submission of links and events by anonymous users failed when the link
4277 submission queues were switched off.
4278 - Anonymous users were able to submit comments even when $_CONF['loginrequired']
4280 - Fixed a search bug introduced in 1.3.6rc1 when searching by author.
4281 - When updating from an earlier version, the install script will no longer try
4282 to rename the staticpage table when no prefix is used in the database.
4283 - PLG_getUserOptions() will no longer return empty menu options.
4284 - Updated Italian language file, provided by quess65
4285 - Changed some wording in the German language file
4286 - Fixed spelling errors in the English language file
4289 August 28, 2002 (1.3.6rc1)
4291 - Problems with using the dollar sign in stories, comments, and their titles
4293 - Fresh installations now have a "Are you secure?" block pre-installed
4294 that only the Admin can see and which does some (very simple) tests whether
4295 the site is secure or not.
4296 - Fixed the page navigation in (admin's) user list.
4297 - Using the preview in the admin story editor will now keep the topic icon
4298 and the time will not revert from pm to am any more.
4299 - The links section now includes a list of the link categories at the top.
4300 The list of links is now also separated into pages (10 links per page by
4301 default, configurable in config.php).
4302 To get back the old (pre-1.3.6) style of the links section, just set both
4303 $_CONF['linkcols'] and $_CONF['linksperpage'] (in config.php) to 0.
4304 These changes are based on code provided by Tom Willett.
4305 - Fixed the SQL syntax for some requests ("count(*) AS count" instead of
4306 "count(*) count") which seems to have caused problems with some (older)
4308 - A proper error message is now displayed when attempting to use "Mail Users"
4309 but not filling out all the fields.
4310 - Editing a portal block shouldn't make it disappear any more ...
4311 - The somewhat random order of poll answers has been fixed.
4312 - The site can be disabled by setting $_CONF['site_enabled'] = false; in
4313 config.php. $_CONF['site_disabled_msg'] can either contain a message to be
4314 displayed in that case or a URL (has to start with http:) to which all
4315 requests will be redirected.
4316 - Fixed various access rights / privacy issues where users could see (but
4317 not access) information even when they shouldn't ...
4318 + Search returns only those stories, comments, links, and events to which the
4319 user has the proper access rights
4320 + What's New block counts stories and comments according to access rights
4321 now (this should also fix the problems some people had when New Comments
4322 were not displayed for anonymous users). New Links also take access rights
4324 + Upcoming events are only visible to those with the proper rights.
4325 + Topics are not available for submissions without proper rights.
4326 + Topic selection in the user preferences also follows access rights.
4327 + "Last 10 comments" (and the new "Last 10 stories too, of course) in profile
4328 takes proper rights into account
4329 - Story display and paged navigation weren't working properly when some stories
4330 were only accessible to certain users.
4331 - Fixed a bug where users weren't able to use the site when their theme had
4332 been removed (until they cleared their cookies).
4333 - New installations now have only two default accounts: The Admin account (as
4334 before) and a Moderator account that has access to the story, links, and
4335 events submission queues.
4336 - The Older Stories block should work again.
4337 - The submission queues for stories, links, events, and users can now be
4338 switched off separately (in config.php), i.e. items submitted by users will
4339 then be visible to everybody immediately.
4340 - The database backup is more verbose now, especially when there are problems
4341 (changes provided by Blaine Lang).
4342 - Fixed a bug where the admin's user photo overwrote a user's photo when the
4343 admin was editing the user's account information.
4345 + Could not create new groups when using a non-english language file.
4346 + Once you've added one group to another (by checking off an option from
4347 the "Security Groups" list), there was no way to uncheck it again.
4348 + The message after saving/deleting a group said that the topic(!) had been
4350 - Changes in search:
4351 + Should be faster now.
4352 + Search by date did not work (mostly because the date format recommended to
4353 be used in a search is really YYYY-MM-DD and not MM-DD-YYYY).
4354 + List of authors is now sorted by username.
4355 + Search results for links are now routed via portal.php, too, so that the
4356 links are counted when clicked.
4357 + When no results are returned for a search, then the search form will now
4358 be displayed below that message again.
4359 - The static pages plugin uses the table prefix now (databases created with
4360 Geeklog 1.3.5 or older need to be upgraded).
4361 - A user submission queue has been added. When activated in config.php
4362 ($_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1;), new users will not get their password
4363 emailed until they are approved by an admin.
4364 You can, however, let users from certain domains be approved automatically
4365 by adding their domain names to the comma-separated list of domains in
4366 $_CONF['allow_domains'].
4367 - Fixed problems with quotes in poll question and answers.
4368 - The default value for the number of stories per page for a new user is now
4369 taken from $_CONF['limitnews'] (was hard-coded to 10).
4370 - The user profile has been extended to include
4371 + last 10 stories by that user
4372 + total number of stories and comments posted by that user
4373 + link to search for all postings by that user
4374 - The title of an article is now displayed in the page title (again).
4375 - New configuration option $_CONF['allow_user_language'] to allow / prevent
4376 to change the language. When set to 0, the option to switch the language
4377 is hidden from the user preferences.
4378 - The message "You have successfully logged out" should not show up any more
4379 when you log out and log in again.
4380 - The blocks stating that the search returned no results (e.g. for links) are
4381 now switched off by default but can be switched on again with the new
4382 configuration variable $_CONF['showemptysearchresults'].
4383 - Fixed the list of authors in the search form (did not list all authors).
4384 - Fixed search results for links and events: They always displayed only one
4385 result, even when there where more hits. Also, when searching for authors,
4386 no hits amongst the links and events will be returned (since they have
4388 - In the admin menu, the count of available submissions is now displayed
4389 according to the admin's access rights (e.g. don't count story submissions
4390 for someone who's only a link admin).
4391 - Links in the What's New block are now counted when clicked (for the site
4393 - Fixed a stray "(N/A)" that would show up in the admin menu for admins which
4394 were not static pages admins.
4395 - You can now block anonymous users from accessing any part of a Geeklog site
4396 or you can block them from certain parts, e.g. block anonymous access to the
4397 calendar (via a new set of XXXloginrequired flags in config.php).
4398 Please note that $_CONF['loginrequired'] is now used to require login to all
4399 areas. To require login for submissions, use $_CONF['submitloginrequired'].
4400 - New RDF/RSS parser, provided by Roger Webster. This should now properly
4401 import even those RDF feeds which Geeklog previously refused to display.
4402 - Updated language files:
4403 + Italian, provided by quess65
4404 + Japanese, provided by Yusuke Sakata
4405 + Polish, provided by Robert Stadnik
4406 - Various fixes for the consistent use of $_CONF['site_admin_url'] instead of
4407 $_CONF['site_url']/admin, provided by Gene Wood.
4408 - The static pages plugin can now wrap static pages in a block
4409 (available as an option in staticpages.cfg)
4410 - You can now use [code] ... [/code] in stories and comments (HTML formatted
4411 only) to mark portions of the text as containing code of any form (HTML, PHP,
4412 any other programming language). Geeklog will then reproduce this section
4413 verbatim, i.e. not interpreting any special characters in that section.
4414 - Fixed type pulldown menu in search when more than one plugin was used.
4415 - Signatures in comments are working again.
4416 - The daily digest uses $_CONF['shortdate'] now
4417 - New configuration variable $_CONF['emailstorieslength'] to specify the length
4418 of stories sent in the daily digest: 0 = only the title and a link to the
4419 story are included, 1 = entire introtext is included (default), any other
4420 number = cut off text after that amount of characters.
4421 - The selection of the user theme is now hidden from the user's preferences
4422 when 'allow_user_themes' is turned off in config.php
4423 - The links "Add To My Calendar" are now hidden when personal calendars are
4424 turned off in config.php
4425 - Fixed a bug where the number of submissions was displayed in the sections
4426 block even when that was turned off.
4427 - New variable $_CONF['adminhtml'] allows (Story)Admin to use a wider variety
4428 of HTML tags than the ordinary user.
4429 - Fixed COM_exportRDF so that only articles that anonymous users have access to
4431 - Search: User drop down only shows users that have posted a comment or a story.
4432 - Fixed bug with double quotes in title of story submission.
4433 - The upcoming events block uses the list templates now.
4434 - The story option block uses the list templates now.
4435 - The (Event)Admin could not delete events (delete button was missing).
4436 - The calendar class reverted to using the english day and month names as
4437 soon as you called setCalendarMatrix().
4438 - Added {edit_link} in story templates in Classic theme.
4439 - All admin editors have the save / cancel / delete buttons at the bottom now.
4440 - The link to the plugin homepage did not work from the plugin editor.
4441 - Added $_CONF['default_charset'] in config.php and $LANG_CHARSET in the
4442 language files to specify a character set to be used for the web pages (use
4443 {charset} in header.thtml) and email sent by Geeklog.
4444 - Changes in the themes and the admin editors, moving lots of hard-coded
4445 english texts to the language files.
4446 This affects most of the files in the admin and calendar directories within
4447 the themes directories.
4448 - The static pages plugin will now pick the language automatically, based on
4449 the user / default setting for the language. Currently, only English and
4450 German language files are included.
4451 - New variables that can be used in footer.thtml: {execution_textandtime},
4455 July 8, 2002 (1.3.5sr2)
4457 - New installation instructions (now back in docs/install.html).
4458 Please note that some of the other documentation may be out of date ...
4459 - Display of stories in older stories block was off by one day.
4460 - Number of guest users in Who's online block should now be reset properly.
4461 - Added some scripts in admin/install to help with the installation:
4462 + info.php just does a phpinfo()
4463 + check.php will check the file and directory permissions
4464 + configinfo.php will display the contents of config.php
4465 Note: It is now even more important that you remove the install directory
4466 after the installation went through (or at least block read access to this
4468 - Disable all onXXX Javascript events in HTML postings (stories and comments).
4469 - Fill in user name and email address when writing an email to a user (via
4470 the 'send email' form from the user profile).
4471 - Make sure that the first comment to a story has the 'title' field filled in
4472 (previously, only comments to comments took over the title).
4473 - Cut off the subject at the first linefeed when sending email to a user,
4474 thus preventing the injection of additional email headers.
4475 - Added a test for register_globals=off in the install script (and display a
4476 warning if it is off). Also added a hint what the current path is and tries
4477 to guess the /path/to/geeklog.
4478 - Fixed the "12pm bug": Posting a story between 12 and 1 pm would result in
4479 the story being posted with a date in 1969.
4480 - Use mysql_connect() instead of mysql_pconnect() in MySQL class.
4481 - The redirect after submitting a story always went to /index.php
4482 - HTML tags are now stripped out of search queries.
4483 - Removed the logging of all search queries to error.log.
4484 - Fixed a wrong link from personal events in the upcoming events block.
4485 - The "Home" link in the section block was not active on pages > 1. It was,
4486 however, always active on the home page when the Geeklog site was not
4487 located in the DocumentRoot.
4490 June 10, 2002 (1.3.5sr1)
4492 - This release addresses security issues recently discovered by the people at
4493 olympos.org. These issues allow for the injection of malicious javascript
4494 code (which could be used to access the admin's cookie) and the injection
4495 of MySQL code which could be used to access and even damaged the database
4496 (under certain circumstances). Details will be available in a report on
4497 the Bugtraq list shortly after this release is out.
4498 - The following bugs from the 1.3.5 release have also been fixed:
4499 + missing field 'emailfromadmin' in userprefs table (fresh installs only)
4500 + fixed a typo that prevented the page navigation from working
4501 + fixed batch user import
4502 + fixed logo size and path to search in XSilver theme
4503 + optimized size of image files in XSilver theme
4504 + fixed path to search in Clean theme
4507 April 24, 2002 (1.3.5)
4509 - Change installation so that server configuration is manual, DB configuration is scripted
4510 - Search page now properly generates the right link to search comments
4511 - Comments to polls now show up in whats new block
4512 - You can now specify the order the poll results show up in in config.php. You can either sort by
4513 voteorder (highest number of votes -> lowest) or by the order they were saved in admin/poll.php
4514 - You can now move /admin somewhere else in web tree. This should help out folk where ISP's use /admin
4515 for their administration stuff.
4516 - 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
4517 are trying to submit (e.g. story, link, event)
4518 - fixed calendar.php so month view now shows events spanning multiple days on months other than the current
4519 - admin/event.php now saves am/pm and allday properly
4520 - PollAdmin group can now properly add a new poll.
4521 - fixed SEC_getUserGroups() so that it always returns an array even if no groups are returned (e.g.
4523 - fixed moderation.php so post mode is saved properly from storysubmission to story table.
4524 - killed 1064 bug in admin/event.php
4525 - set error_reporting() so uninitialized variables don't show up (common in poorly configured PHP installs)
4526 - gldefault blocks now actually use permissions assigned to them in admin/block.php
4527 - Added all sorts of shit to english.php. Translators will need to really take their time
4529 - Added $_CONF['maximagesperarticle'] to config.php
4530 - install.php was reworked a bit for upcoming release
4531 - lib-common.php has changed. can't even begin to note all the changes there
4532 - admin/user.php has a very simple batch import utility. You can now create multiple
4533 accounts by importing a tab-delimited file. See that page for file format specs
4534 - story.php was reworked a bit to be simplified and to correctly do paging (old
4535 paging feature had a bug where one article would never show up.
4536 - admin/user.php now allows for paging and searching. Check it out, you'll see what I mean ;-)
4537 - blocks can now be disabled in admin/block.php
4538 - added support for images in articles
4539 - complete overhauled upload.class.php for ease of use, better security, better logging
4540 and for use in putting images in articles.
4541 - fixed bug in users.php that allows accounts with same email addresses yet different
4542 usernames to be created.
4543 - New strings in english.php (and german.php):
4544 $LANG02: 15 (moved from calendar_event.php)
4545 $LANG04: 74, 75, 76 (moved from usersettings.php)
4546 $LANG08: 31, 32, 33, 34 (moved from lib-common.php)
4547 These strings need to be added to the other language files!
4548 - Fixed user selection of emailed topics (usersettings.php) and removed the
4549 hard coded texts for the daily digest from lib-common.php (again).
4550 - Slightly changed display of event block: The type of event is no longer
4551 underlined and the event date is displayed as 03-Apr etc.
4552 - Added Russion Translation
4553 - Fixed bug #531483 where $_CONF['commentsloginrequired'] was set to 'on' or
4554 'off' instead of '1' or '0'.
4555 - Fixed bug #529621 and added the variable layout_url in COM_endBlock in
4557 - (Sort of) fixed bug #530142: {geeklog_blocks} is now set to an empty string
4559 - Fixed bug #531018: {contributedby_use} had an 'r' too many in lib-common.php
4560 - There have been lots of minor changes in the themes so that they now contain
4561 valid HTML. Nearly all those change fall into one of the following categories:
4562 + changed '&' in URLs to '&'
4563 + added alt="" to <img> tags
4564 + changed the script tags to <script type="text/javascript">
4565 + changed the DOCTYPE to HTML 4.01 (there is a bug in the HTML 4.0
4566 specification which prevents the use of 'name' attributes in forms).
4567 + added '#' signs in front of colour values (mostly in the Classic theme)
4568 These kinds of changes have also been applied to index.php and lib-common.php
4569 - During those changes for valid HTML, some typos were corrected:
4570 + Classic/header.thtml: added a missing <b> before {welcome_message}
4571 + Classic/storytext.thtml: added a missing 'n' in {end_contributedby_anchortag}
4572 + Yahoo/header.thml referred to a non-existent file "spec.gif"
4573 + Yahoo/footer.thml: there was an extra quote after align="right"
4574 + Digital_Monochrom/admin/plugins/editor.thml: file was missing - copied
4575 over from the Classic theme)
4576 + Digital_Monochrom/footer.thtml: added a missing ';' after  
4577 - admin/install/install.php had two <body> tags but was missing the </head>
4581 - Fixed broken older stories block (lib-common.php)
4582 - Fixed problems with saving rights to a group in admin/group.php (admin/group.php)
4583 - Fixed bug in admin/user that would reset user's settings when admin made a change (admin/user.php)
4584 - Fixed bug in index.php. There were two FOR loops, one nested inside the other both interating
4585 on the variable $i. This caused problems only for users who went into display preferences and
4586 selected only the topics they wanted to get articles for (index.php)
4587 - Fixed bug in story admin that would prevent the date edit from prepopulating right when admin hit
4588 the preview button (admin/story.php)
4589 - Modified admin/plugin.php to reflect change in how plugins are installed. Because of platform
4590 dependance issues, all plugins will have a simple but manual installation process. This should
4591 work across all platforms. (admin/plugin.php, layout/Yahoo/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml,
4592 layout/Classic/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml, layout/Digital_Monochrome/admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml)
4593 - Alter the database to force all stories to show on the frontpage by default. This will make the
4594 moderation of articles work as expected. Before if you approved an article it would show up only
4595 in the topic and not on the frontpage (mysql_tableanddata.sql, table.sql, mysql_1.3.3_to_1.3.4.sql)
4599 - Admins can now manually edit the publish date of an article. This include the ability
4600 to set the date for a time in the future. In that case the article is completely
4601 ignored by COM_exportRDF, stats.php, search.php and the email digest
4602 - Rudimentary support for database backups (one per day at most). There is no restore
4603 capability at this time.
4604 - Modified the display preference so we store the blocks a user doesn't want to see instead
4605 of the ones they do want to see. This will allow any new block to show up by default as
4607 - Removed hardcoded english from COM_emailUserTopics
4608 - 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)
4609 - Topic administration page now default the group to 'Topic Admin' properly
4610 - Topic administration now save anonymous permissions properly
4614 - Removed some outdated themes (hence the 1.3.2-1 version number)
4618 - Added Canadian French, German and Polish translations
4619 - Fixed bug that kept front page with multiple polls from working right
4620 - Added missing help field to block table
4621 - Added block to usersettings where user can pick topics to receive articles for in an
4623 - Fixed bug with the contact link in the header of some themes
4624 - Fixed bug that caused the admin block to disappear
4625 - Fixed bug that caused save of story as admin to go to http://someurl/draft_flag
4626 - Fixed bad relative paths in calendar
4627 - block type now defaults properly when showing prepopulated data
4631 - 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
4632 - In admin/block.php you can now specify the URL to a help file. This is usefully in providing site help to your users
4633 - Many bugfixes to the calendar in both the UI and the administration
4634 - Added who's online block
4635 - Fixed bug that was keeping users registration date from being saved.
4636 - Fixed bugs in usersettings.php that keep user options from saving
4637 - Added two database indexes that really speed things up
4638 - Coded some performance-related enhancements
4639 - Fixed bug that kept user-defined themes from working
4640 - Fixed bug in links.php that caused the first link category to report over and over
4641 - Started updating some of the documents
4645 - Added user-defined themes via PHPLib's template class library
4646 - Update the Geeklog security model from numeric Security Levels to a *nix-like model that
4647 can be used by plugins
4648 - Added support for plugins. Plugins can be downloaded from http://geeklog.sourceforge.net and uploaded and installed remotely or manually
4649 - Updated most places where dates are used to use the user-defined format in their display preferences
4650 - 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.
4651 - Update blocks so that admins can specify the side and order a block shows up on.
4652 - Seperated common.php into the following libraries: lib-database.php, lib-common.php, lib-sessions.php lib-security.php
4653 - Started moving Geeklog to use PHP's OO features with the addition of a timer class, a calendar class, a MySQL database class.
4654 - Fixed bug with output of Geeklog RDF file that allowed story drafts to be included.
4655 - Updated most of the codebase to use the Geeklog Coding Standard (a subset of the PEAR standard).
4660 - Updated configuration documentation
4661 - Added the ability for article author's username to be hidden (via 'contributedbyline' option in config.php)
4662 - Fixed a bug with the Google-like paging feature where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
4663 - Fixed a bug which caused slashes to appear before apostrophes in the older stuff block and in the search results
4664 - Fixed overlapping/bad HTML in index.php and common.php
4665 - Fixed the bug in the sections block that showed submission cue numbers to non-logged in people
4666 - Added workaround for problem where users (after following link in e-mail after registration) would still see the login page after logging in
4667 - Created phrase IDs for previously hard-coded English in common.php and story.php
4668 - Fixed a bug which caused draft stories to be counted as new stories in the What's New block
4669 - Fixed a bug with the upcoming events block where it would only work if the GeekLog site was in the root dir
4675 - Added in support for plugins and has been test for *nix and *should* work for windows
4681 - Added the ability for admins to save drafts of stories
4682 - Fixed a bug with in calendar_event.php when adding event to user calendar
4683 - Fixed a bug with the search bar in header.php
4688 - a few minor bug fixes
4689 - Added google-like paging feature
4690 - fixed all references to newsgeeks to point to geeklog.org
4691 - when you login when on users.php you are routed to index.php when successfully logged in
4692 instead of back to users.php
4696 - Released 1.2 stable.
4697 - Added personalized calendars
4698 - Fixed a number of bugs from 1.2b
4699 - Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibility issues
4700 - Added alt_header.php which is the same as header.php minus the left hand side
4705 - Released 1.2b. Changes are below:
4706 -Fixed security error in usersettings.php with PGP key
4707 -Now allows posts that don't go to front page
4709 -Whether the count of stories and submissions shows up in the Sections block is driven in config.php
4710 -Add ability to sort topics in Section block by number or alpha (specified in config.php)
4711 -Renamed header.inc and footer.inc to have the php extension to avoid letting nosy people see the code
4712 -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
4713 -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"]
4714 -added config variable called $CONF["minnews"] which specifies the minimum number of stories per page regardless of topic (i.e. it overrides topics.limitnews)
4715 -an anonymous user can now email a story to a friend and they can enter some text to accompany the message
4716 -fixed bug that allowed users to post comments to non-existent articles through article.php
4717 -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
4718 -session management has been improved
4719 -moved "appears on homepage" setting on poll administraction screen to the top of the form to
4720 keep from having to scroll down all the way.
4721 -Added messages to various user actions (i.e. notification that submission was sent, confirmation that user data was saved, etc)
4722 -Added Upcoming events block
4723 -Fixed MySQL 3.23 incompatibilities
4724 -added account creation date to user table along with other useful information (aim, yim, etc)
4725 -added email gl users/admins feature
4726 -fixed checkhtml function so that strings to gain extra spaces
4727 -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
4728 -added version checking system to let admins check for current version
4729 -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
4733 ---------------------------------------
4735 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.1 out the door!
4740 - Date in moderation now shows the correct
4742 - Maxstories now counts a feature as a story.
4743 - Saving user information now returns you the
4749 - Fixed comment post mode preview bug.
4750 - If a block is empty, it will not be displayed.
4751 - Fixed a user creation error.
4752 - Fixed the submission scripts to add and remove
4753 slashes in all the right places.
4758 - Added a limit check to index.php to ensure stories
4760 - If block order is between 1 and 9 it is a default
4761 block. Anything greater than 9 will not be displayed
4762 without the user configuring thier settings for it.
4763 - Added bolding to the display preferences screen for
4769 - If a user sets maxstories to less than 5, max stories
4771 - If a story id and poll id are the smae they will
4772 share comments and the poll will be displayed on the
4773 stories article page.
4774 - Poll results box is now linked to comments.
4775 - Added stripslashes to the links description.
4776 - Made HTML the default posting format.
4777 - Updated the user authentication to address a login bug.
4778 - Added a 404 script.
4779 - Updated the admin user editor to create all the new
4780 user tables when creating a user.
4781 - Updated the What's Releated function to better parse
4783 - Updated comment functions to update the comment counter
4785 - Finished the addition of a "smart" style sheet! It will
4786 now format the font size according to the users browser
4792 - Updated some missing to language in english.php.
4793 Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
4794 - Updated the stats script.
4795 - Added post modes, the user can now select plain
4797 - Added user preferences for date format.
4802 - Fixed a few more issues surronding the
4803 $CONF["site_url"] placement. Thanks to Hidekazu SHIOZAWA.
4804 - Added sig to user accounts.
4805 - Added a system hit counter
4806 - Fixed a poll comment bug.
4807 - Comments can now be enabled on a per story basis.
4808 - Comments can now be enabled on a per poll basis.
4813 - Fixed the // uri issue.
4814 - Fixed a few issues surronding the $CONF["site_url"]
4816 - Began work on new user customization system!
4817 - Index Configuration
4818 - Comment Configuration
4819 - Story Configuation
4820 - User Configuration
4821 - Fixed the link submission script so it now
4827 - Updated the email story to a friend to use the
4829 - Fixed the "More by author" search links from the
4831 - Fixed the article editor to be able to delete
4833 - Fixed translation issues by adding two more
4834 strings to english.php. Added $LANG01[61] and
4836 - Fixed a formating error on the links page.
4837 - Fixed the admin user editor to allow blanking
4838 on non-essential fields.
4839 - Removed moderation option from config. If you
4840 want an unmoderated site there are better
4841 applications out there like UBB and FreeLinks.
4842 - Updated the user profile page to put all
4843 descriptors at the top of the cell for the
4844 about and PGP key boxes.
4845 - Updated INSTALL.HTML
4850 - Olderstuff() will now parse special charactors.
4851 - Fixed the admin story editor to properly parse
4852 the special charactors in the text for editing.
4853 - Fixed article() to stripslashes from the title.
4858 - Fixed a logout bug effecting Netscape users.
4859 - Fixed a change password bug effecting Netscape
4861 - Fixed references to speck.gif, spec.gif was
4862 referenced incorrectly.
4863 - Fixed the story submission to correctly
4864 record the user instead of Anonymous.
4865 - Added multiple previews when submitting a
4867 - Update to english.php
4868 - Updated the blockparser to use str_replace()
4869 instead of strtr(). The use of strtr() was
4870 causing issues on some platforms using
4871 earlier versions of PHP4.
4872 - Added a sample httpd.conf Apache configuration
4873 file to the distribution.
4874 - Updated INSTALL.HTML
4880 - Fixed a bug in the database upgrade scripts.
4882 RELEASE!!! 1.0!!! - August 29, 2000
4883 ------------------------------------
4885 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 1.0 out the door!
4890 - Fixed a bug in the command and control center
4891 which didn't allow the display to be completely
4892 updated after a batch moderation.
4897 - Completed the command and control center
4899 - Completed new search engine.
4900 - Fixed language display bug in story submission
4906 - Fixed a login bug that occoured under FreeBSD.
4911 - Fixed a bug that allowed anyone logged in to
4917 - Fixed a nasty delete everything bug with the
4919 - Continued with search engine update.
4924 - Fixed a bug with the link counter.
4925 - Reworked the olderstuff block.
4926 - Updated the search engine.
4927 - Fixed the speed limit warnings so they show the
4928 number of seconds since the last post.
4929 - Updated the index page to show date of last
4935 - Cleaned out now defuct class settings.
4936 - Comments can now be set to force login to post.
4937 - Block list is now sorted by type
4938 - Email forms updated.
4939 - Fixed the no from info bug in the password email.
4940 - Fixed the topic editor background bug.
4941 - Postions of the olderstuff and poll blocks is now
4943 - Olderstuff block can now be turned off.
4944 - Olderstuff block now shows 2x the news limit.
4945 - Updated the install instructions.
4950 - Modified the polls, you can now set then maximum
4951 number of possible answers in config.php.
4952 - Fixed edit link bug.
4953 - Updared english.php for the new admin files.
4954 - Modified the cookies to have a configurable
4955 expiration time for users and admins. This can
4956 be set in config.php.
4961 - Reworked the default interface.
4962 - Fixed numerous bugs.
4967 - Began moving portions of the HTML in to blocks
4968 - Updated the english.php file.
4973 - Updated how polls are shown.
4974 - Updated the poll adminstration interface, this was
4975 the last old piece of code to be re-worked.
4980 - Completed new submission forms.
4981 - Completed added base path to all references.
4982 - Completed scripts for user account creation.
4983 - Completed comment intergration with user
4985 - Added comment posting speed limit.
4991 - Completed new story editor and managment
4993 - Completed database widgets.
4994 - Began work on reworking the poll editor
4996 - Removed the following functions that have
5003 - Removed the following array used to set
5004 premissions in older versions
5006 - Began work on intergrating comments with
5012 - More work on user accounts and database
5014 - Minor cosmetic fixes.
5015 - Began re-working the administration forms.
5020 - More work on new submission engine and
5022 - Implemented submission speed limit.
5027 - Added command and contol center to admin and
5028 moderate submissions.
5029 - Added ability for users to submit links.
5030 - Added ability for users to submit events.
5031 - Began intergrating user accounts.
5032 - Began intergration of a help system.
5037 - Created new database function templates. Began
5038 updating all the scripts to use these new
5041 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.5!!! - August 3, 2000
5042 ----------------------------------------
5044 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.5 BETA out the door!
5049 - Getting ready for 0.5 release!!
5050 - Parent links no longer show up on top level
5052 - Story moderation now show the "new story" button
5053 even if no stories exist.
5054 - Story contribution preview now displays the date
5056 - Comment preview now displays the date correctly.
5057 - Made the log path configurable.
5058 - Fixed false "no stories" error in index.php.
5059 - Fixed the topic highlighting in showtopics.
5060 - Fixed comments so that the posting and delete
5061 work properly again.
5062 - Events (calander) now properly parses special
5064 - Links now properly parses special charactors.
5065 - Mail to a friend should work better now.
5070 - Moved all date functions to using strftime and
5071 locale settings for display of dates and times
5072 in local languages and formats. These are also
5073 configurable in the config.php file.
5078 - Finished move admin strings to english.php.
5083 - Added the featured article functionality.
5084 - Fixed a special charactors problem in the
5085 comments, you can now use special charactors.
5086 - Made some changes to the email story function
5087 to provide a statement on this isn't spam!
5088 - Added parent function to comments.
5093 - Began moving strings from the admin files in to
5095 - Finished up printable story and email story
5097 - More minor bug fixes to the comment engine.
5102 - Fixed encoding bugs in comments. Slashes are now
5103 being stripped properly.
5104 - Fixed the comment control bar, the title and
5105 number of comments are now showing up correctly.
5106 - Fixed the url encoding in the reply links. The
5107 title of a reply now copies over in to the form.
5108 - Bought more vodka! The vodka shortage is over!
5109 - Adjusted the comment spacing.
5110 - Began to add the printable story and email story
5116 - Added comment count to olderstuff block.
5117 - Reworked the polls for better display
5118 - Worked more on the comment engine, all comment
5119 modes (none, flat, threaded, nested) work at
5120 one level or another. This is really shaping up
5121 well and we have unchained the monkies from
5122 their typewriters... But no novel yet...
5123 - Out of vodka and can't buy any more since it is
5124 illegal to sell alcohol on Sundays in Georgia.
5129 - Changed password functions to use md5, crypt()
5130 is becoming to unreliable. Running the dat
5132 <editor problems, change log for 0.4.1.2 - 0.4.1.1 lost>
5134 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.4.1!!! - July 19, 2000
5135 -----------------------------------------
5137 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.1 BETA out the door!
5142 - RDF fetch bug fixed. The rdfimport routine was
5143 not correctly identifying if the file open didn't
5145 - Poll Dispaly bug fixed. Poll wouldn't display if
5146 there wern't at least two user defined blocks.
5147 - Added word count to the read more display.
5148 - Move all strings for public side functions to
5149 a resource bundle called english.php. Geeklog can
5150 now be translated. If you do translate Geeklog
5151 please send me your resource file! Great thanks
5152 goes to Mischa Polivanov for his work on this
5154 - When moderating a story, it now returns you to
5155 the submissions que when your done.
5157 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.4.0!!! - July 8, 2000
5158 ----------------------------------------
5160 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.4.0 BETA out the door!
5165 - Update the poll to restrict votes by IP. This
5166 function only creates a table of IP addresses
5167 pollids and timestamps, votes are NOT tracked!
5168 Addresses are deleted after an admin specified
5169 peroid of time set with the config.php variable
5170 $CONF["polladdresstime"].
5171 - Added $CONF["pollcookietime"] to config.php to
5172 allow you to set the amount of time the poll
5173 cookies will exist for the user.
5174 - Changed poll to only show a % in the smaller
5175 index window. Graphs are now only on the full
5176 view of the results.
5177 - Added SQL query interface for admins. This was
5178 added for those that don't have shell access or
5179 shell access isn't alaways avaiable for
5180 troubleshooting. Be VERY careful with this!
5181 - Fixed a really nasty bug with the RDF import
5182 HTTP calls! This was causing the server to
5183 lock up under certian circumstances.
5184 - Update showblocks() to now order polls and
5185 olderstuff as well. Here's the new method:
5186 - show blockoder = 0 to 1
5188 - show blockorder = 2
5190 - show remaining blocks
5191 - Reworked the calendar layout a bit.
5192 - Added two new doc files dbschema.html and
5193 dbschema.png to document the database.
5198 - New admin menu as well as more admin checks
5199 in editing of stories and blocks. In stories
5200 only the owner or someone with a seclev of 200
5201 or higher can edit a story. Blocks seclev's
5202 are now being enforced.
5204 - Access logging is now working! It reports on
5205 admin access and illegal operations in
5207 - Found some more bugs released to stricter PHP
5208 syntax guidelines in blocks.php and users.php.
5210 - Added the beginings for threaded comments, but
5211 it is NOT working yet.
5212 - Refined different aspects of the database, this
5213 is going to be the bigest DB update script yet!
5214 - Calendar has been rewored as events, since I can
5215 see Security Geeks using this functionality for
5216 things other than a calendar. Hmm, what is he
5218 - Adding CSS references where needed when I find
5224 - Added additional security checks for admins
5225 as well as adding additional admin tracking.
5226 - REMOVAL: function isAdmin() is being removed.
5227 - Created a new story format and parser. The
5228 story text is now broken in to two blocks, an
5229 introtext block and bodytext block. Introtext
5230 is all that is displayed on the index page.
5231 Both introtext and bodytext are displayed on
5232 an article page. There are many other neat
5233 things that have changed to go along with this,
5234 too many to mention! An example is "read more"
5235 is only displayed when there is data in bodytext.
5236 - Added comment and poll stats to the stats page.
5238 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.3.0!!! - July 3, 2000
5239 ----------------------------------------
5241 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.3.0 BETA out the door!
5246 - Fixed poll division by zero error. (xix)
5247 - Added the calander. This also involved adding
5248 lines to config.php and style.css.
5249 - Added next a previous links to the stories list.
5250 Security Geeks has almost 2000 stories now. We
5251 needed a better way to view this information
5252 without killing the SQL server!
5253 - Fixed a parsing bug on the contrib form. (richpav)
5254 - Fixed a bug in which votes were not being saved
5255 if the first answer has 0 votes in the poll
5261 - Fixed a rouge <xmp> tag in contrib.php.
5262 - Added a new function to check email addresses.
5263 - Fixed a problem with the checking of <a href=>
5265 - Moved more of the layout to CSS. Giving some
5266 though to creating a CSS editor for the site.
5267 - Added additional error checking on submissions.
5268 - Evaluated the security of the file layout, file
5269 premissions, cookies and made some minor changes
5270 - Added the RDF import capibilty to the blocks.
5271 Woo-hoo! Half way there to 0.3.0!
5272 - Fixed a bunch of function calls that are now
5273 considered errors in PHP 4.0.1pl2 (richpav)
5275 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.2.1!!! - July 1, 2000
5276 ----------------------------------------
5278 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.1 BETA out the door!
5279 The bugs fixed here are pretty signifant. This
5280 has none of the 0.3.0 features.
5285 - Cleaned up the all of the PHP scripts and added
5286 missing ;'s. (macole)
5287 - Fixed some table layouts for comment and story
5293 - Fixed an bug in the story submit functions. It
5294 seems addslashes was droped when putting in the
5295 content checking. It's back now!
5296 - Added a line to display the allowable HTML in the
5297 story editor and submission form.
5299 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.2.0!!! - June 29, 2000
5300 -----------------------------------------
5302 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.2.0 BETA out the door!
5307 - Bugs Found Score: Women:28 Men:13
5308 - Security hole regarding user cookies. The
5309 user cookie contined the site key, this 33%
5310 is part of the information needed to forge
5311 a admin site key. This has been fixed.
5312 - Also fixed a problem in the user cookie where
5313 some of Jason's (the other Jason) info for
5314 his site was coded in there.
5315 - Added the ability to specify your own salt
5316 value for the encryptor.
5317 - Added filters that are admin configurable to
5318 strip out unwanted HTML tags and key words.
5319 These options are configurable in the
5321 - Blocks are now topic aware.
5322 - Change sid to char(20) in the database tables
5323 stories and comments. This was in order to
5324 create compatibilty between stories, comments
5327 - Added a blockorder field to the blocks table. You
5328 can now modify the display order of blocks.
5329 - Fixed a bug in the link generation in stats.php.
5330 - Changed the description field in the links
5331 tables from varchar(255) to text to allow for
5332 longer descriptions.
5333 - Preview now uses article() function. Shows a
5335 - Fixed a bug in comment.php that still may the
5336 user type in a user name email even if if the
5337 anonymous option was chosen. It never actually
5338 saved the info, just asked for it. Now it no
5344 - Correct setting of a user cookie in comment.php,
5345 contrib.php and profile.php. The cookie was not
5346 being set to remember a users infomation if they
5348 - Fixed the CSS layout for the comment bar, this
5349 wasn't working properly under Netscape.
5350 - Fixed an error in the change password function. It
5351 was displaying a error even when the change was
5353 - Made total votes a caculated field in the poll
5354 editor, this is also a easy way to reset the count
5355 in the case of SQL errors.
5356 - Fixed topic sorting bug, topics sort themselves now.
5357 This also involved a change to the config.php file
5358 in which $CONF["topicssort"] was changed to
5360 - Added feature to track which admin moderated a
5361 story and posted it to the site.
5363 BETA RELEASE!!! 0.1.0!!! - June 27, 2000
5364 -----------------------------------------
5366 - Tar'ed it up and shipped 0.1.0 BETA out the door!
5371 - Added the ability to delete comments. NOTE: I do
5372 not plan on the abilty to edit comments. Just
5373 a personal thing, thats all.
5378 - Created search engine that searched stories,
5380 - Update comments and how they are displayed.
5381 - Created new form for submitting comments.
5382 - Enhansed a bunch of the forms.
5383 - Removed some obsolete stuff, cleaned things up a bit.
5384 - Added some additional error checking to submits. Also
5385 moved all error checking to the server side. I was
5386 testing the use of JavaScript but too many people
5387 like to turn it off! I know I do! :-)
5392 - Squashed 23 bugs with the help of my wife! Now if
5393 only Frank would get his bug reports in!
5394 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5396 - Cleaned PHP procedures out of inc files.
5397 - Updated and tested SQL statements to refelct DB
5399 - DB changes frozen for release and the beta testers
5405 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5407 - Figgin problem with polls deleting themselves seems
5409 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5411 - Created interface for editing, creating and deleting
5413 - Created interface for moderation, editing and posting
5414 of stories by admin. This worked out well!
5419 - Finished up additions to the datebase, need to change
5420 the forms now so the site can use the new fields.
5421 Some of the new feilds are for future use as well.
5422 - Added descriptions to the Links page.
5423 - Fixed the search page so its now formated correctly.
5424 - Finished up the pollbooth functions (edit and delete).
5425 - Optimized some of the HTML in the scripts, further
5431 - Created a new layout format using all external CSS
5432 calls. Let the client do the work!
5433 - Finished moving configuration to config.php
5434 - Weeded out some functions in common.php. Move
5435 functions that are only used by one script to that
5436 script. Combined other similar functions in to one
5437 function. Smaller... Faster... More Stable!
5438 - Only 6 more items on the to do list for 0.1.0.0
5443 - Created admin functions for the pollbooth. Seems the
5444 other authors on the site don't like hand entering SQL!
5445 I don't like them having shell accounts! -grin-
5446 - Update the Header feild in the Stories block to be a
5447 little bigger. This should let wordy authors emblish
5449 - Created a more robust errorlog routine. Now has the
5450 options of output to a log, the screen or both!
5455 - Created a pollbooth for voting. All user functions are
5456 in pollbooth.php. There are no admin functions yet as I
5457 just love hand entering SQL!
5462 - Optimizations made to the SQL connections and calls. Too
5463 much done here to talk about, but part of it was moving
5464 the site configuration to a flat file. These changes
5465 should decrease the usage of the SQL server a great deal.
5466 This took up most of my day.
5467 - Variable usage optimizations. Made many, many chnages in
5468 the way variables were being used. This should result in
5469 cleaner, faster code that _may_ use a little less memory?
5470 Hey, if I can save 2k per hit, thats a big deal! :-)
5471 - Updated all code and tested to ensure php4 compatibility.
5472 So from now on only php4 will be run on the Geeks web
5473 servers. So I changed all the extentions and links from
5474 .php3 to .php to mark this moment.
5475 - Restructured the directory layout so I can implement some
5476 new security settings on the files. Hmmm, I bet you
5477 wondering "what is this mad-man thinking?"
5482 - Initial announcement, running this new code on the Geeks
5484 - Special thanks to Jason Hines and phpWebLog! His work
5485 inspired much of my efforts! Unfortunatly phpWebLog is
5486 taking a different direction that the Geeks sites needed.
5487 However, all the code I am writing here will be published
5488 in the hopes that Jason and others may find these functions
5489 useful. If you looking for a weblog software that is cool,
5490 configurable and supported by someone I would recommend you
5491 check out http://phpweblog.org and party on dudes!