Changes to freeForum

1.8.1 (21 Fev 2009)

Bug fix:

• Allow new lines within code, italic, and bold styles.

1.8 (11 December 2008)

New features:

• Italian translation, thanks to Mauro Savone.
• Bosnian translation, thanks to Faruk Garic.
• Indonesian translation, thanks to Hendra Arief.
• 3 extra stylesheet: blue, yellow, black.
• Button in message to send a private email to the poster.
• Option to remember author info.

Improvements:

• Fix long text user input.

1.7 (16 June 2008)

Improvements

• Translation updates.

1.7beta1 (29 May 2008)

New features

• Improved anti-spam: better handeling of session parameters and name change for forms. This should block all spams that freeForum has been getting recently
• Advanced search (in title, message, author, date range)
• Polish translation
• Turkish translation

Improvements

• Return to thread when deleting a message from a given thread

1.6 (6 Mar 2008)

New features

• CAPTCHA images are now optional.
• New stylesheets: blue and yellow.
• Spanish translation.
• New Installation, less bugs, easier to deal with.

Improvements

• Better substitutions for URLS followed by special characters.

1.5.1 (29 Jul 2007)

Improvements

• Option to set the date format.

1.5 (21 Jul 2007)

New features

• Sessions expiration: you can now set a time after which the sessions will expire.
• Smarter forms: forms structures are changing constantly in order to disturb spammers and automated programs. It is totally invisible to the human users.

5 new translations

• German,
• Dutch,
• Swedish,
• Russian,
• Chinese (traditional).

1.4.1 (3 May 2007)

Bug fixes

• Stricter IP validation: spammers had their way around it.
• Fixed a bug in captcha validation that let automated programs go through.

1.4 (27 April 2007)

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug with links in export function.

1.4beta1 (1 April 2007)

New features:

• CAPTCHAs codes prevent automated software to spam the forum.
• Backup and restore functions.
• Option to see the full thread when adding a post.

Improvements

• Nicer forms, functional in all browsers, with icons for easy selection.
• Proper emails to admins, with UTF character sets and HTML codes replaced.

Bug fixes

• Fixed bug with long administrator passwords.
• Fixed bug with slash (\) characters that would not be read properly.
• You can have several forums on the same site, log-in for each of them will be independent.

v1.3 (26 April 2006)

New features:

• Thanks to a suggestion by C. Iancu from counterzone.ro, freeforum now has a multilingual interface! At the moment, you can choose between English, French, and Romanian. Language files are easy to create (20 minutes), so do not hesitate to make your own and send it back to us!
• The second feature suggested by C. Iancu was a log-in form to get rid of the .htaccess files. It is now implemented. When you install or upgrade freeforum, you will be asked for an admin name and password. Later on, just use those to log-in to the admin panel, directly from your forum.
• A couple of simple icons, the pages look a little more lively.

v1.2.1 (28 February 2006)

Security fix:

• Corrected Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability with name and subject parameters.
• Corrected PHP Code Execution Vulnerability in func.inc.php.

Thanks to Aliaksandr Hartsuyeu from evuln.com for the notice.

v1.2 (18 January 2006)

New features:

• Headlines: you can include the latest post or latest thread of the forum somewhere else on your site.

Improvements:

• Templates have been simplified. The template used in the admin or user section have been separated. As a result, you only should edit the main template (template.php) and it is twice shorter than it used to be.

v1.1.2 (09 January 2006)

Security fix:

• Corrected Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability with search parameter. Thanks to Ramanathan K for pointing it out!

v1.1.1 (28 November 2005)

Security fix:

• Input passed to the thread, cat and quote parameters were not properly sanitised before being used in a SQL query. This could have been exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code. It is fully fixed.

v1.1 (10 November 2005)

New features:

• Added possibility to add extra text (or an ad) between first post and other messages in the thread.

Improvements:

• Page numbering has been improved to deal with large number of pages.
• Better management of categories: if you choose a category, you will stay within this category until you ask to change it.

Bug fixes:

• Bug in banned IP list: old template did not display how many times an IP address had been blocked.
• Bug in category list: old template did not display the number of threads in each category.
• Bug with email function: servers with the "register_globals" set to "off" used to send empty emails to the webmaster.
• Bug collection of IP addresses: servers with the "register_globals" set to "off" would not collect IP addresses.

v1.0.1 (17 August 2005)

Bug fixes

• fixed glitches on server with "register_globals" set to "off",
• in banned IP list, the number of time that the IP had been block did not display properly.

Improvements

• error messages now appear with a navigation and in a frame.

v1.0 (8 August 2005)

First public release of freeForum with

• unlimited number of categories,
• free posting,
• administration interface,
• private and public categories,
• ip banning,
• flood protection,
• and many more!