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s + CSS in the Professional theme [Oliver] - Introduced generic function to delete a user's photo to avoid code duplication and slightly different error handling in various places [Dirk] - Made the new user registration form remember the user's input so that they don't have to retype everything in case of an error [Dirk] - In the Admin's user list, banned users are indicated by striked-through entries (based on a hack by Andy Maloney) [Dirk] - Added new setting $_CONF['onlyrootfeatures']. This is for sites where two or more story admins can feature stories that the other admins cannot see. The setting prevents that one admin does not see that there is another recent story featured and sets one by himself, "stealing" the feature from the other. - Changed "Reply"-button to "Post a comment" [Oliver] - Implemented an error handler to supress all PHP level errors and display a much more userfriendly error text to the end user. Prevents all path exposure, prevents "white error page" mystery debugging fun. [Mike] - Full sweep of all code for $_REQUEST/$_GET/$_POST and $_COOKIE use. Made sure that COM_applyFilter, or other safe usage is made of the variables. [Mike] - Added an option to hide the "No News To Display" message on the index page (new config option $_CONF['hide_no_news_msg']) [Dirk] - Added an option to check if the sites sending trackbacks are actually linking to our site (see $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] in config.php) [Dirk] - Made it impossible to save two syndication feeds with identical filenames [Oliver] - Stories with comments/trackbacks disabled, do not show comment/trackback url in RSS feeds [Mike] - Added email confirmation fields for new user and usersettings [Oliver] - Allow changing of group ownership for "gldefault" blocks. Requires a change in admin/block/defaultblockeditor.thtml to enable the group dropdown. On a fresh install, all the blocks (with the exception of "Are you secure?") are now owned by the Block Admin group [Dirk] - Users created by a User Admin should not be queued for approval, even when $_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1 [Dirk] - Introduced 'syndication.edit' permission and 'Syndication Admin' group so that access to the Content Syndication panel no longer requires 'Root' permissions [Dirk] - For the "Submissions" entry in the Admins Only block, only count story and event submissions when the current user has story.moderate or event.moderate permissions, respectively [Dirk] - On admin/moderation.php, list the stories that have their draft flag set only when the current user has story.edit permission [Dirk] - Fixed empty lines in a Group Admin's list of groups when that Group Admin was not a member of all groups [Dirk] - Renamed the misnamed CUSTOM_runSheduledTask function (in lib-custom.php) to CUSTOM_runScheduledTask. Don't forget to make that change in your copy of lib-custom.php if you're using that functionality! [Dirk] - Improved error log contents when unable to acquire a feed reader for a portal block. [Mike] - Extended plugin API for feed extensions to include feed id and the topic (for adding topic/feed specific data) [Mike] - Don't attempt to rename a non-existing user photo when $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is enabled (reported and fix suggested by Yusuke Sakata) [Dirk] - Made changes to ensure compatibility with MS SQL, as suggested by Randy Kolenko [Dirk] - The "last login date" column in the Admin's list of users now uses $_CONF['shortdate'] so that it includes the year [Dirk] - Fixed batch user import (which set all imported users to status "Awaiting Authorization" instead of "Awaiting Activation") [Mike] - Fixed admin lists google paging for use in static pages etc. [Oliver] - Added support for a custom login error handler function, CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler [Blaine] - Format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 / 2068 / 2616, i.e. "Geeklog/1.4.1" when trying to detect a Trackback URL [Dirk] - Made the search option on the Admin pages behave like the site search, i.e. it doesn't require you to pad queries with '*' any longer [Dirk] - In story search results, show/hide the "Author" and "Views" columns based on the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] and $_CONF['hideviewscount'] settings [Dirk] - Introduced $_CONF['title_trim_length'] to make the max. title length of items in the What's New block configurable (feature request #525). Also implemented a new function COM_truncate (based on a patch by Yusuke Sakata) that properly handles truncation of multi-byte text strings if the mb_ functions are available [Dirk] - Added a JavaScript confirmation box to most delete buttons/links. If you'd rather not have such a confirmation, use {delete_option_no_confirmation} instead of {delete_option} in the admin templates [Dirk] - Fixed RSS Feed parser to create RFC 822 dates in en_GB or en_US locale as per the RFC spec [Mike] - Removed obsolete "do not use spaces" warning from user editor (bug #530) [Dirk] - Show fullname/username according to config.php settings in stories [Oliver] - Added possibility to change the css-class for admin list headers and fields [Oliver] - Added unified new style class to stats.php/style.css to have all lists on the page look the same [Oliver] - Added multi-language support, based on earlier works by Euan McKay and LWC. Also see http://wiki.geeklog.net/wiki/index.php/Multi-Language_Support - Changed the default path for topic icons to /images/topics [Dirk] - Fixed an SQL error when calling up the Admin's list of stories without any topics [Dirk] - Removed the public_html/portal.php script, as it is no longer needed [Dirk] - Remove uninstalled plugins from the global $_PLUGINS array immediately (just in case the array would be used to trigger any actions) [Dirk] - The "Topic" column in the list of feeds was empty for feeds that are only linked from a topic page [Dirk] - Only use the mb_substr workaround in the calendar when the current character set is UTF-8 (bug #524) [Dirk] - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when listing the members of a group (bug #527) [Dirk] - When emailing a story, don't include the text "Comment on this story at ..." when comments have been switched off for that story [Dirk] - Fixed wrong wording of some of the "access denied" messages when trying to access Admin panels without proper privileges [Dirk] - Fixed display of Admin block for users that only had certain Admin privileges [Dirk] - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC The Hebrew language file was also renamed to hebrew_utf-8.php for consistency with the other UTF-8 language files. - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat Calendar plugin (1.0.0) --------------- - Bugfix: Replace autotags in the event description [Dirk] - Added an option to switch between 24 hour and 12 hour am/pm mode for entering and editing events [Dirk] - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin feeds and blocks when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk] - Added calendar plugin initial version [Oliver] Links plugin (1.0.1) ------------ - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin feeds when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk] - Changed the english language file from "Web Resources" to "Links" - Fixed hard-coded link to the "admin" directory when editing a link (reported by Ronnie Rigl) [Dirk] - Optimized SQL requests for the plugin's What's New section [Dirk] - Re-introduced {button_links} header variable [Dirk] - Added an option to hide the Top Ten Links on the first page [Dirk] - Made the page title on the Web Resources page more informative by adding the category and page number [Dirk] - The edit icon (only visible for Links Admins) now uses the same image type as the current theme (was previously hardcoded to "edit.gif") [Dirk] - Hide the "Web Resources" link from the menu when login is required to see the links (for consistency with the Polls plugin) [Dirk] - Added a title attribute to the links on the site stats page that contains the link's actual URL [Dirk] - Fixed site link in search results which wasn't using portal.php [Dirk] - The Admin's search option now also searches the link description [Dirk] - Removed extra tags from the What's New section (bug #526) [Dirk] Polls plugin (1.1.0) ------------ - Fixed call to undefined function polllist when calling up a non-existing poll [Dirk] - Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable the poll block when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk] - Fixed search [Dirk] - Added a remark field for polls answers [Oliver] - Re-introduced {button_polls} header variable [Dirk] - Added an option to hide the link to the polls from the menu (for consistency with the Links plugin) [Dirk] - Fixed poll URLs on the site stats page [Dirk] - Remove the polls block when uninstalling the Polls plugin (another part of bug #520) [Dirk] Spam-X plugin (1.1.0) ------------- - Added SLV (Spam Link Verification) modules [Dirk] - The MT-Blacklist modules are not being shipped with Geeklog any longer. The MT-Blacklist entries are removed from the database during the upgrade [Dirk] - Allow special characters (e.g. backslashes) in the Admin modules (e.g. the Personal Blacklist module) [Dirk] - Moved spam actions to plugin_spamaction_spamx API function [Dirk] - Fixed potential problems with the checkforSpam function's return code in case of unusual configurations (e.g. $_CONF['spamx'] = 0) [Dirk, Tom Willet] - Made the plugin's internal log flag a proper config option. So you can now disable logging to spamx.log from the plugin's config.php [Dirk] - Mass delete by IP now uses stored IP address [Mike] Static Pages plugin (1.4.3) ------------------- - Make sure autotags are replaced even when execution of PHP code is disabled (reported by LWC) [Dirk] - Added a help URL for the block display of static pages [Oliver] - Added ability in staticpage editor to enable/disable Advanced Editor mode so you can use FCKEditor and then if need basic html edit mode [Blaine] - Fixed default sorting order for the list of static pages [Dirk] - Allow to show/hide update date/time and hits [Oliver] - When creating a new page, don't set the default group ownership to the Static Page Admin group if the current user is not a member of that group. Instead, pick a group with staticpages.edit permission that the user is a member of [Dirk] - Fixed paging for the list of static pages (bug #528) [Dirk] July 23, 2006 (1.4.0sr5-1) ------------- This release fixes display problems in the comment preview that were only introduced in Geeklog 1.4.0sr5 (as a result of the fix for the XSS). The complete 1.4.0sr5-1 tarball also includes the following language files: - New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC - Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat July 16, 2006 (1.4.0sr5) ------------- JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're fixing with this release. June 30, 2006 (1.4.0sr4) ------------- Two exploits have been released by "rgod" for insecure Geeklog installations and for a bug in the "mcpuk" file manager that we've been shipping as part of FCKeditor in all 1.4.0 releases. - Some of the files outside of the public_html directory were not protected against direct execution. If Geeklog was installed such that those files were accessible from a URL (which has always been strongly discouraged in the installation instructions) then those files could be used to load and execute malicious code from a remote server. More information: http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/so-called-exploit In this release, we've added the missing execution prevention for all files outside of public_html. We would still, however, suggest that you fix your Geeklog install if the files outside of public_html are accessible from a URL. - The "mcpuk" file manager that we've integrated into FCKeditor allowed the upload of arbitrary PHP code (even if FCKeditor was disabled in Geeklog's config.php). Depending on your webserver's configuration, it was then possible to execute that uploaded code. More information: http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/exploit-for-fckeditor-filemanager The file manager has been removed from this release. You will therefore no longer be able to upload files, e.g. images, through FCKeditor. Future versions of Geeklog will ship with an updated version of FCKeditor and its included file manager. May 28, 2006 (1.4.0sr3) ------------ The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following security issues: - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php - Possible XSS in getimage.php - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes, e.g. the Professional theme An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story submissions. Mar 5, 2006 (1.4.0sr2) ----------- Security issues: - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow anyone to log in as any user. - HTML was not stripped from the Location field in a user's profile. Feb 19, 2006 (1.4.0sr1) ------------ Security issues: - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code. Bugfixes: - Fixed bug in page-break combined with url rewrite (bug #521) [Oliver] - Fixed Story [page_break] showing only intro on first page [Oliver] - Fixed install script for the Spam-X plugin which was trying to include an SQL file that doesn't exist - and wasn't needed (part of bug #520) [Dirk] - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC - New Russian language files for the Links and Polls plugins, provided by Volodymyr V. Prokurashko - Fixed Static pages dutch language file [Oliver] - New Polish language file for the Links plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik - Added UTF-8 English versions of the Links, Polls, Static Pages, and Spam-X language files [Dirk] - Added all UTF-8 Language files for core [Oliver] Feb 5, 2006 (1.4.0) ------------ - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks [Dirk] - Added missing navbar images - used for CSS based buttons as part of the standard Plugin CSS [Blaine] - Set options in FCKConfig to have Firefox browsers by default not using the and font tags to format Bold and Italic [Blaine] - Fixed another bug in google pagination of admin-lists [Oliver] - Fixed "wrap static page in a block" and "exit type" options in the static page editor. Also link to the "rewritten" URL from the list of static pages when URL rewriting is on [Dirk] - Fixed JavaScript error in the Admin's story editor (bug #479) [Dirk] - Fixed hard-coded paths in the check.php script and added tests for missing directories (reported by Markus Wollschlaeger) [Dirk] - A humble attempt to add some semantics [Dirk] + Added rel="category tag" to a story's topic link + Added rel="self bookmark" for a comment's permalink - Cosmetics: Moved the number of links per category out of the actual link to the category [Dirk] - On MySQL 5, the drop-down list of link categories presented to a user when submitting a new link came out wrong (while the one in the Admin's link editor worked just fine). Moved the working code into a new function in the plugin's functions.inc and changed the code to use it in both cases now [Dirk] - Fixed an SQL error when the "length of entries" field in the Feed Editor was left empty [Dirk] - Fixed date and time defaulting to the current date and time when creating a new event as an Admin user (adding a workaround for changes of strtotime() behavior in PHP 5) [Dirk] - Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when creating a new topic (bug #517) [Dirk] - In HTTP requests, format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 / 2068 / 2616, i.e. "Geeklog/1.4.0" [Dirk] - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakata - Updated Ukrainian (Windows-1251) language file, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko Jan 22, 2006 (1.4.0rc2) ------------ - header.thtml now specifies the CSS Class Declaration to use for the body. This addresses the issue with FCKEditor when displayed, its CSS was over-riding the main site tag and the site margin padding was being affected [Blaine] - Removed CSS for the Forum plugin from style.css [Blaine] - Fixed "Cannot modify header ..." message when logging in from the admin pages (reported by Samuel M. Stone). This also fixes confusing intermittent displays during the login (e.g. only some of the "Command and Control" icons showing up, messages about missing permissions flashing up) [Dirk] - Removed Geeklog version number from feed files due to security concerns (pointed out by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk] - Login through the admin pages didn't work with register_globals=off [Dirk] - Fixed admin lists so pagination works also in static pages [Oliver] - Pass GeekLog as user agent when fetching RSS feeds [Mike] - Made the image upload work with out-of-the-box PHP 5 configurations [Dirk] - Fixed handling of HTML entities in Pingbacks [Dirk] - Fixed Spam-X Mass Delete Trackback Spam module to update the story's trackback count when deleting trackbacks [Dirk] - Fixed a possible SQL error when saving a block (reported by BDUB) [Dirk] - Fixed story titles in the What's New block when they contained HTML entities (entities where sometimes cut off and/or encoded twice) [Dirk] - Fixed a typo in all the plugin install script which set the group description to "grp_desc" instead of $grp_desc (found by Ingo Schaefer) [Dirk] - Improved autodetect of Trackback URLs [Dirk] - The submit story form was not selecting the advanced Editor if user was not logged in or did not have Story Editor permissions [Blaine] - Added missing CSS class name "list-feed" for portal blocks [Dirk] - Fixed user submission queue (reported by Andrew Lawlor) [Dirk] - Fixed handling of integer fields in the Admin's story editor (reported by Ron Ackerman) [Dirk] - Fixed handling of checkboxes in the static pages editor (reported by Ron Ackerman) [Dirk] - Fixed SQL error when saving a static page that had had more than 1000 hits (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk] - Removed visible table border from advanced comment editor form [Blaine] - Moved some hard-coded text strings from the advanced editor into the language files [Blaine] - Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate Dec 31, 2005 (1.4.0rc1) ------------ - Added support for Advanced Editor in the Add Comment Feature [Blaine] - Fixed SQL error in search on MySQL 5 (fix suggested by dariball) [Dirk] - Added trackback.php and pingback.php to the included robots.txt [Dirk] - Added a few more calls to COM_numberFormat all over the place (links and polls plugins, Admins Only block, ...) [Dirk] - Fixed test for a Geeklog 1.3.9 database in the install script [Dirk] - When emailing a story, make sure all fields are filled in [Dirk] - Don't lose the current topic selection when a Story Admin uses the Contribute link [Dirk] - Fixed highlighting of search query in comments when register_globals = off [Dirk] - When the entries in the Admin's block are not sorted, make sure the icons in Command and Control are in the same order as the block entries [Dirk] - Allow topic icons to be uploaded to and retrieved from a 'topics' directory outside of the document root [Dirk] - Added a workaround to produce abbreviated day names in the calendar for UTF-8 language files (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk] - The Spam-X plugin now uses the same "universal" install script as the other three preinstalled plugins [Dirk] - Added more allowable HTML tags and attributes if Advanced_Editor enabled config.php setting [Blaine] - Added logic to detect if Javascript was not enabled and Advanced Editor was enabled. User will be prompted with alert and able to use the default editor [Blaine] - Changed spam handling for Trackbacks and Pingbacks to check for spam on the unfiltered Trackback/Pingback content [Dirk] - When editing a link submission with a new link category (i.e. the submitter selected "other" and entered a non-existing category), make sure that new category actually shows up in the links editor [Dirk] - In the Admin's list of stories, show the display name of the topic (i.e. the same as in the Topics block) instead of the topic ID [Dirk] - Hide the edit icon in the Admin's list of stories when the current user doesn't have edit access to a story (since they only got a note saying they can't edit that story anyway) [Dirk] - Fixed alternating row colors in admin lists if one row has no data [Oliver] - Made it impossible to switch off blocks if there is no access [Oliver] - Fixed handling of items in the submission queues (it was only possible to approve / delete the first item in a queue) [Dirk] - Grant users with 'plugin.edit' permission access to the plugin editor [Dirk] - Changed admin-lists 'default-filter' to require 'AND' [Oliver] - Fixed admin lists for events & static pages for non-root users [Oliver] - Fixed invalid language string in submit.php [Oliver] - Fixed problems with the query highlighting code escaping double quotes [Dirk] - In the list of plugins, display only the plugin's current version number as long as it's in sync with the code version or the plugin hasn't implemented the chkVersion API function [Dirk] - Limit length of a new user's username to 16 characters in the admin/user/edituser.thtml template file [Dirk] - Don't display the current user's userphoto when creating a new user in admin/user.php [Dirk] - Fixed sanity checks in USER_addGroup and USER_delGroup [Trinity, Dirk] - Allowed the Links-entry from the top menu to be hidden by config.php in links [Oliver] - Fixed small HTML validation issues with adv. editor and admin lists [Oliver] - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not have the correct story/topic permissions. [Vinny] - Send the character set as an HTTP header from COM_siteHeader now [Oliver] - Fixed updating Links feeds [Mike] - Corrected RSS handling of GUID or LINK [Mike] - Fixed date format in Atom feeds [Mike] - Fixed loss of sort setting when browsing the user list [Oliver] - Fixed block title of the site stats (reported by Tom Willet) [Dirk] - Fixed an SQL error when approving the default story submission ("Are you secure?") after a fresh install (reported by suvi) [Dirk] - Fixed warnings that exposed the full path to Geeklog when attempting SQL injections on the advanced search [Mike] - The "Mail Users" icon was missing from Command and Control [Dirk] - In Command and Control, show the Trackback icon only when at least one of the Trackback, Pingback, or Ping features is enabled (in addition to 'story.ping' permissions for the current user) [Dirk] - Replaced the delete_event.gif icon (in layout/professional/images/icons) with a PNG, since the Professional theme uses PNGs now and the icon wouldn't show up otherwise [Dirk] - The block around the list of backups was missing the title [Dirk] - Don't emit the Trackback and Pingback headers when trackbacks have been disabled for a story [Dirk] - Introduced {lang_trackback_comments_no_link} (in trackback/trackback.thtml) so that you can have an article page entirely without links back to itself (for picky spiders such as the one for Google News) [Dirk] - Call COM_refresh when creating a user with usersubmission = 1 [Mike] - Fixed sorting of Trackbacks in the What's New block [Dirk] - The search by author or by date switched to searching for everything on page 2 of the results [Dirk] - For the Links plugin, the "last x days" text in the What's New block was missing [Dirk] - Fixed an SQL error when creating new blocks [Mike] - The feed reader will now also follow redirects [Mike] - Updated Chinese traditional and simplified language files, and new Chinese language files for the Links, Polls, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Samuel M. Stone - German language files now exist in 4 combinations (formal / informal German, ISO-8859-15 / UTF-8 encoding) for Geeklog, the Links, Polls and Static Pages plugins [Dirk] - Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate - New Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251) for Geeklog and all four plugins, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych Nov 20, 2005 (1.4.0b1) ------------ - Introduced {start_storylink_anchortag} and {end_storylink_anchortag} template variables in the story and commentbar template files which only produce a link to the story when not on article.php, thus avoiding links back to the article page itself, which the spider for Google News doesn't seem to like (feature request #486) [Dirk] - Added a workaround for image uploads using GD when ImageCreateTrueColor is not available (patch #468) [Dirk] - Allow a subject to be passed as a parameter for the "contact user" form (based on patch #497) [Dirk] - Added support for right-to-left languages (based on patch #488) [Dirk] - Update Feeds and Older Stories block when changing topic settings [Dirk] - Added a hits counter to events and added a Top Ten Events section to the site stats [Dirk] - Introduced $_CONF['show_topic_icon'], i.e. the default setting whether to show topic icons or not [Dirk] - The "Older Stories" block now only lists articles that appeared on the frontpage (i.e. have not been set to "Show only in topic", bug #408) [Dirk] - Fixed problems with query highlighting in stories scrambling links in autotags (bug #492) [Dirk] - Group names are now unique (as they should have been from the beginning). The install script takes care of existing duplicate group names when upgrading to 1.4.0 (bug #367) [Dirk] - Allow for more topic IDs in the user's preferences (bug #490) [Dirk] - Replace autotags in the Daily Digest (bug #484) [Dirk] - Explicitly link to /docs/index.html for the documentation link in the Admin's block (bug #504) [Dirk] - Added an option to enable / disable trackbacks per story (just like you can enable / disable comments per story) [Dirk] - Changed COM_optionList to check for language arrays which override the text strings that are embedded in the database (for comment mode, featured story, post mode, etc.) Bug #227 [Dirk] - Fixed Bug #174 -- quotes in titles are no longer double htmlentized [Vinny] - The default permissions for new objects (stories, topics, blocks, etc.) can now be set in config.php (feature request #90) [Dirk] - Added an "Active users" entry to the site statistics. If Geeklog is configured to track a user's last login, this will display the number of users who logged into the site during the last 4 weeks. Otherwise, it displays the number of user accounts with status = 3 (i.e. have logged into their account at least once and haven't been banned) [Dirk] - Introduced a new plugin API function so that the plugin's summary (e.g. number of items) can be properly integrated with the "Site Stats" section. Modified stats/sitestatistics.thtml, removed stats/stats.thtml, added stats/singlesummary.thtml template files [Dirk] - Introduced a generic function, USER_getPhoto, which provides the user's photo, if available. The function also supports getting the user's avatar from gravatar.com (if enabled in config.php) [Dirk] - The texts in the What's New block ("x new stories in the last y hours", "last 2 weeks", etc.) now properly reflect the actual settings of the $_CONF['newXXXinterval'] variables (bug #390) [Oliver, Dirk] - Introduced a method to signal a forced update for feeds in case the content of one of the feed entries has changed - so far, we only checked if entries had been added or removed (bug #277) [Dirk] - Added $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] option which, if set = true, will display right-side blocks on all pages (also addresses feature request #31) [Dirk] - Fixed bug #454, SQL error when reading comments. [Vinny] - Leave off the "page=1" parameter on the "Google paging" navigation bar for links that point back to the first page [Dirk] - The default feed for a new site is now in RSS 2.0 format and named "geeklog.rss" [Mike, Dirk] - Added time of the day to the name of the database backups to allow several backups a day [Oliver] - When the search returns no results, the search form is now pre-populated with the last search query, so that it can be changed easily. On successful searches, a "refine search" link will appear that also takes you back to a pre-populated search form (to refine your search, obviously) [Dirk] - Changed search to only return a certain amount of hits per page, thus avoiding timeouts on servers where the script execution time is limited (bug #274) [Dirk] A new config variable, $_CONF['num_search_results'], defines the number of search results to be returned per page (and per type). The search form also includes a drop-down menu where this can be changed for every search. Plugins will have to indicate if they support this "paged" search. Otherwise, Geeklog will fake the paging for the plugin, so that the plugin does a full search for every page, but Geeklog will only display the hits for the current page (such a plugin can therefore still cause a timeout until it is changed to support "paged" searching). - Added a permanent link to comments (in the professional theme) [Vinny] - Added new icons for the admin sections and made sure each admin section now has an icon in admin/moderation.php [Dirk] The new icons have been taken from the Gnome project (some of them modified by Jakub Steiner). They are released under the GPL. - Introduced global variable $_IMAGE_TYPE that specifies the image type to use. Defaults to 'gif'. Themes can override it to use other images types, e.g. PNG, for all images [Dirk] - Added option to upload topic icons (Feature Request #415, Patch #423), provided by Alford Deeley (machinari) - Changed the Admin's "Command and Control" center such that there is an icon for every entry in the Admin's block [Dirk] - Removed duplicate code for creating a "topic SQL" query in moderation.php (use COM_getTopicSQL instead) [Dirk] - Added the ability to allow users to login via defined remote services (ships with Blogger and LiveJournal support) [Mike] - Added the ability to ban users, and to tell when a user has logged in at least once [Mike] - Added edit-icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & alternating row colors in admin menus for groups, syndication, staticpages, trackback (where not yet done) [Oliver] - Added function to allow user-defined scaling of images in articles by using [unscaledX] instead of [imageX] [Oliver] - Removed $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] option - use $_CONF['show_fullname'] instead [Dirk] - Fixed bug where extra slashes appeared when previewing comments [Vinny] - Removed the "lastvisit" cookies, as they are obviously not used [Dirk] - Removed redundant changepwd-button & code from /admin/user.php (Bug #9) [Oliver] - Added new feature to insert a feed-links into header depending on topic, to be chosen from /admin/syndication.php in the form of [Oliver] - Added options to google-Navigation so it can be used by plugins and work with url-rewriting (feature request #315). [Oliver] - Userlist now also shows Registration Date and if $_CONF['lastlogin']= true it shows the last login date instead. [Oliver] - Added option in config.php to hide "Viewed: x" line with $_CONF['viewscountline'] just as the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] [Oliver] - Added function COM_numberFormat to format displayed numbers with custom decimal & thousand - separators and fixed decimal places if necessary Includes the respecitve 3 new config.php values in locale section. (Feature Request #298) [Oliver] - Default Blocks showed always in all Topics before. Now you can choose to show them in All/only one topic/only on homepage like other blocks (feature #326) [Oliver] - A Story can now break over several pages in the body-text. The tag [page_break] will split the bodytext in pieces that can be opened with the std. COM_printPageNavigation. Introtext is removed for pages>1 [Oliver] - Added field for old password check in /usersettings.php (bug #230) [Oliver] - Added password confirmation to /admin/user.php and /usersettings.php (bug #230) [Oliver] - Made the alternating row colors in the Admin's trackback functions compatible with the scheme used in other places (list of users, etc.). Also changed the list of weblog directory services so that editing is now done by clicking on the number of the service [Dirk] - Stories are no longer forced to be featured _and_ on frontpage (bug #362) [Oliver] - Changed links locations in User-list, added user-photo indicator [Oliver] - Don't update a story's date any more when unchecking the 'draft' flag (bug #400) [Dirk] - Don't use "rewritten" URLs in the static pages editor any more (bug #403). Also updated the list of static pages to use alternating colors for the rows [Dirk] - Use "\r\n" when sending trackback pings (bug #407) [Dirk] - Allow autotags to optionally have a space after the tag name [Blaine] Valid tags are: [story:20040101093000103 here] or [story: 20040101093000103 here] - Fixed inconsistent use of {site_url} and {layout_url} in some of the professional theme's admin template files - using {layout_url} everywhere now when referring to icons (bug #395) [Dirk] - Event titles containing quotes were cut off at the first quote in the event editor, i.e. both the admin's event editor and the editor for personal events. (bug #399) [Dirk] - Modified PLG_templateSetVars API to also check for a custom function [Blaine] Users can now set header template using CUSTOM_templatesetvars() - Added new CSS declarations as recommened CSS for plugins [Blaine] - Added a basic scheduler Plugin API plugin_runScheduledTask [Blaine] Interval is set in config.php - $_CONF['cron_schedule_interval'] - Enhanced the Group Admin interface display [Blaine] - Enhanced the User Admin display and made the headings sortable [Blaine] - Geeklog will now properly handle html special characters (such as quotes and ampersands) in comment titles (bug #174) [Vinny] - Hide 'edit' option for articles in preview (bug #347) [Dirk] - Changed admin/user.php to use file() for the batch import [Dirk] - Implemented pinging weblog directory services like blo.gs and weblogs.com (Feature Request #35). By default, we ping pingomatic.com [Dirk] - Complete overhaul of the Plugin Comment API to reduce the likelyhood of plugins introducing security problems. Older plugins that use the comment API will no longer work. [Vinny] - Refactored Comment code out of lib-common.php and into lib-comment.php, also some changes to comment.php [Vinny] - Introduced a 'story.ping' permission that enables users to send Pings, Pingbacks, and Trackbacks for a story (or plugin item). Members of the Story Admin group have that permission by default. - Overhauled install script: It will now abort the installation if the minumum requirements (PHP 4.1.0, MySQL 3.23.2) are not met. It also displays a warning message if register_long_arrays is off (PHP 5 only, bug #360). Another warning message is displayed if "public_html" is part of the URL. When upgrading, it now tries to identify the Geeklog version that was used previously (only really works for versions 1.3.8 - 1.3.11) [Dirk] - Fixed date in comment preview (bug #370) [Dirk] - Incorporated the new syndication framework for reading and writing feeds of different formats (RSS, RDF, Atom), provided by Michael Jervis (patch #352). This contribution also addresses Task #19 ("RSS import class") and Feature Request #67 ("Limiting number of entries in RSS feeds"). Please note that the feed writer classes, system/classes/*.feed.class.php, are now obsolete and can be removed. Please also note this adds new PEAR package requirements for Net_URL and HTTP_Request. - Added support for sending and receiving trackback comments (Feature Request #34) Also implemented Pingback support in pretty much the same way. Once received, Geeklog treats Trackbacks and Pingbacks the same and stores them in the gl_trackback table. [Dirk] Both can be switched off in config.php: $_CONF['trackback_enabled'] = false; and $_CONF['pingback_enabled'] = false; - Added a new script, directory.php, that implements a date-based listing of all the stories on a site [Dirk] A link to the directory is available as a new option, 'directory', for the $_CONF['menu_elements'] config variable, so that it can be added to the menu. - The column headline for event search results was not displayed [Dirk] - Added logos to syndication feeds. [Mike] - Added config option to disable new accounts (Patch #426 from Alford Deeley) [Mike] - Alphabet Sort on Admin Menu and C&C Block [Mike] - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H - Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata - New Farsi (Persian) language file for the static pages plugin, provided by Hesam.H Links plugin 1.0.0 ------------ - Added ID-editor and Autotags-feature [link: ... ] [Oliver] - Added Category-Specific Feeds [Oliver] - Added Edit-Icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & etc for admin menu [Oliver] - Moved links functionality into a plugin [Trinity, Oliver] Polls plugin 1.0.0 ------------ - Polls moved to a plugin [Trinity] Spam-X plugin 1.0.3 ------------- - The LogView module now automatically truncates the Spam-X logfile to 100KB [Tom Willet] - The IP Blacklist module now supports regular expressions [Mike] - Added a Mass Delete module for Trackback comments [Dirk] - Added an "admin override" option, so that postings by members of the 'spamx Admin' group will not be checked for spam [Dirk] July 16, 2006 (1.3.11sr7) ------------- JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're fixing with this release. May 28, 2006 (1.3.11sr6) ------------ The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following security issues: - Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php - Possible XSS in getimage.php - Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes, e.g. the Professional theme An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story submissions. Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.11sr5) ----------- Security issue: - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow anyone to log in as any user. Feb 19, 2006 (1.3.11sr4) ------------ Security issues: - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code. - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks Dec 12, 2005 (1.3.11sr3) ------------ Security issues: - Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not have the correct story/topic permissions (reported by LWC) [Vinny] - Fixed a path disclosure in case someone tampered with the start date or end date in advanced search (reported by r0t3d3Vil) [Mike] Feeding malformed dates to the search caused a warning message to be displayed that disclosed the path to the Geeklog install on the server. It was NOT possible to use this for SQL injections. Bugfixes: - Fixed the problems (introduced in 1.3.11sr2) editing static pages when $_CONF['url_rewrite'] = true (bug #491) [Dirk] - The "Reply" button didn't work when viewing individual comments [Vinny] - Fixed the definition of the 'expire' field (in table gl_stories), which caused an SQL error when doing a fresh install on MySQL 5 (reported by Johannes) [Dirk] - Fixed and updated the Hebrew language file [LWC, Dirk] - New Ukrainian language file (Windows-1251), provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko - New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych Oct 9, 2005 (1.3.11sr2) ----------- This release provides security enhancements and better spam protection originally developed for Geeklog 1.3.12. It also addresses a few bugs where the bugfix could be integrated with a reasonable amount of work (other bugfixes will have to wait for the 1.3.12 release). Security and Spam protection: - Added speedlimit to login attempts, defaults to allowing three tries in a five minute period. [Vinny] See new config options $_CONF['login_attempts'] and $_CONF['login_speedlimit'] - Changed the spam handling to update the speed limit when spam is detected (i.e. handle spam posts as if they were successful posts and make the submitter wait for the speed limit to expire). Also send a 403 "Forbidden" HTTP response code when displaying the "spam detected" message [Dirk] To quote RFC2616: "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD NOT be repeated." - Filter linefeeds in the To:, From:, and Subject: fields of an email in COM_mail [Dirk] - When a new user account is created and the user submission queue is enabled in config.php, ensure that the user is properly "queued" even in the unlikely event that the account creation fails halfway through (reported by LWC) [Dirk] - When $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = 1, hide the links to the "email story" form from anonymous users [Dirk] - When emailing a story, check the user's message that is sent with the story for spam [Dirk] - Added a robots.txt file to the distribution. By default, it excludes comment.php, submit.php, and the docs directory from being spidered [Dirk] - Added a spam check to the user profile [Dirk] - Story, event, and link submissions are now also checked for spam [Dirk] - This release also includes the Spam-X plugin version 1.0.2 Please note that MT-Blacklist (used by Spam-X) has recently been discontinued. For the time being, we provide the last version of the blacklist for download from geeklog.net (the Spam-X plugin as included in this release is configured to get it from there for the initial import). There will, however, be no updates the blacklist. For details, please see http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/mt-blacklist-discontinued Bugfixes: - Fixed an error message thrown up by PHP 5.0.5 or later when viewing the article page (bug #483) [Dirk] - Fixed bug with topic-specific blocks not showing up on the article page when URL rewriting was enabled (bug #401) [Dirk] - Fixed missing site header when trying to submit an event without required fields. Also fixed that it would redirect you to the story submission form then (bug #409) [Dirk] - Make sure {menu_elements} is rendered using the menuitem_none.thtml template when no menu elements are to be displayed (bug #378) [Dirk] - Quote names in email addresses as soon as they contain any non-alphanumeric characters (apart from the blank). This also addresses bug #368 [Dirk] - Allow single quotes in passwords (bug #396, also previously reported as bug #349 / #996354) [Dirk] - When $_CONF['profileloginrequired'] was set to 1, the actual message that you have to log in before being able to see a user profile was not wrapped in the Geeklog framework (reported by Sean C) [Dirk] - Fix: Made a story's archive/expire date work with the timezone hack [Dirk] - COM_applyFilter will now accept negative numbers if the isnumeric parameter is true. Needed to fix problems with pollbooth.php (and others) [Vinny] - Upgraded included kses class to version 0.2.2 which fixes problems with Japanese and Thai characters (among other things), thus addressing bugs #94 and #119 [Dirk] - Fixed SQL error when using the [staticpage:] autotag (bug #373) [Dirk] - Added a missing stripslashes call to remove backslashes when a topic's name was displayed in the index page's title (bug #369) [Dirk] - Link tags are now translated in printer friendly mode (Bug #411) [Mike] - Removed the entry from the Professional theme's header.thtml as "INDEX,FOLLOW" is the default anyway. For finer control, we now ship a robots.txt [Dirk] Improvements: - Don't check for auto-archived stories when no archive topic has been defined yet [Dirk] - Added support for a custom_usercheck function. Custom registration code that requires certain information can now abort the creation of a new account if that information is missing. The function is called after Geeklog has checked that the username and email address of the new user are okay (valid and not in the database yet), but before the user has been added to the database [Dirk] - Saved one SQL request for a story's printable view [Dirk] Language files: - Made sure all language files refer to Geeklog's [image] tags as [imageX], [imageX_right], and [imageX_left] (bug #381) [Dirk] - New Catalan language file, provided by an anonymous user - New Russian (UTF-8) language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC - Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by MzOzD - Updated Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori - Updated Japanese (UTF-8) language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata - Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho - Updated Russian language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin - New Japanese (UTF-8) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Yusuke Sakata - Updated Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Marcello Teodori - Updated Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Yusuke Sakata Aug 21, 2005 (Spam-X plugin 1.0.2) ------------ - Changed the display name of the plugin to "Spam-X" to avoid potential confusion with the email spam filter of the same name. "SpamX" is a registered trademark of Hendrickson Software Components. - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the poster [Tom Willet] - Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the spamvertised site [Tom Willet] - Added a new module to filter posts based on characteristics of the HTTP header [Dirk] - Fixed the Mass Delete Spam Comments module [Tom Willet] - The Spam-X plugin's examine modules run the post through html_entity_decode() now in case the spammers try to obfuscate their posts by using HTML entities [Tom Willet, Dirk] - The Mail Admin action module now also reports the HTTP headers of the post that triggered the spam filter [Dirk] - Added a simple stats function (reports the number of posts deleted as spam, and - to the Spam-X Admin only - the number of entries for each module) [Dirk] - Implemented an update function for the plugin [Dirk] - New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H - New Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori - New Spanish language file, provided by vivi1123 Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.11sr1) ----------- This release addresses the following security issue: Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances, be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash. Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.11) ------------ Geeklog 1.3.11 addresses the following security issues: 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong). These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you disabled it in config.php. 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered, leaving them open to potential SQL injections. 3. The links for the What's Related block were created from the unfiltered story text, opening the possibility of XSS attacks (reported by Vincent Furia). Bugfixes: - Added a missing stripslashes() call for the topic name in the What's Related block (bug #351) [Dirk] (affected file: system/lib-story.php) - Fixed problems in the story editor when editing plain-text posts with uploaded images (bug #356) [Dirk] (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php) - When changing a story ID, update the story ID in any comments to that story, too (bug #357) [Dirk] (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php) - Fixed handling of autotags that started with the same substring, e.g. for 2 tags 'mytag' and 'mytagtwo', the second tag would not be recognized (reported by Dr. Shakagee) [Dirk] (affected file: system/lib-plugins.php) - Fixed caching of $_GROUPS [Dirk] (affected files: system/lib-security.php, public_html/lib-common.php) - Made a minor optimization to save one SQL request when displaying the comment bar for anonymous users [Dirk] (affected file: public_html/lib-common.php) - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape. (affected file: language/slovenian.php) Dec 22, 2004 (1.3.11rc1) ------------ - Fixed "archive" option being activated too early on certain non-featured stories (bug #345) [Blaine] - Added missing handling of autotags in static pages being displayed as center blocks (reported by Jill) [Dirk] - Fixed size of the 'sid' field in the gl_comments table. It should be 40 characters, to be able to hold the long story IDs introduced in 1.3.10 (reported by Douglas Santos) [Dirk] - When using mogrify (ImageMagick) to resize uploaded images, the name of the image is now enclosed in double quotes instead of single quotes, which caused the command to fail on Windows [Dirk] - The emails sent from the Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action now also include the IP address of the spam poster [Dirk] - SEC_getFeatureGroup() should not overwrite $_GROUPS if not operating on the current user (bug #331) [Dirk] - Introduced a {camera_icon} variable in story and comment templates that displays the little camera icon if the author has uploaded a user photo, just like in the Who's Online block (suggested by Laurence Whitworth) [Dirk] - The parent link in top-level comments took the user to the homepage rather than to the article page (bug #346) [Vinny] - Stories submitted for the archive topic will automatically be saved with frontpage = 0 when approved, i.e. only be displayed in the topic [Dirk] - Avoid emitting an extra
tag after the last section in the What's New block (bug #330) [Dirk] - Update comment count in Older Stories block when a new comment is posted (bug #317). Also optimized the code to collect the contents of the Older Stories block [Dirk] - Fixed extra
being emitted in the calendar for events that aren't visible for the current user (bug #268) [Dirk] - (Event) Admins can now delete events directly from the calendar's day and week views (just like events in the personal calendar) [Dirk] - Fixed usersettings.php so that it displays the "benefits" message again when called up by an anonymous user. Also made it go to the user's preferences when called without a 'mode' parameter [Dirk] - Added {layout_url} to the available theme variables in the submission forms. Also added {separator} for those who prefer correct spelling ;-) [Dirk] - More parameter filtering and permission checks in submit.php [Dirk] - Fixed over-zealous parameter filtering in links.php which prevented categories with apostrophes from working [Dirk] - Fixed broken URLs when editing a plain-text story that contained uploaded images (reported by LWC) [Dirk] - The PEAR classes that ship with Geeklog actually require PHP 4.2.x now. However, the missing functions in older PHP versions (minimum requirement for Geeklog itself is now PHP 4.1.0) are provided by the PEAR PHP_Compat package, which we will have to ship with Geeklog from now on. Added the necessary code to lib-common.php to load PHP_Compat, if required [Dirk] Many thanks to Tom Willet for providing a test setup. - Fixed "quick add form" for personal events, so that it stores the new event directly now [Dirk] - Fixed handling of 12am/pm in events, event submissions, and when passing the time from the calendar to the event submission forms [Dirk] - Improved handling of personal events / personal calendar, especially for (Event) Admins [Dirk] - Fixed What's Related links when magic_quotes_qpc = on [Vinny, Dirk] - Fixed use of an undefined variable $U in COM_showBlocks and warning messages for undefined array indexes in COM_getCurrentURL (reported by irawen) [Dirk] - Allow empty search query strings so that the "More by " and "More from " options work again [Dirk] - When deleting a poll, also delete any comments to that poll [Dirk] - Delete comments and story images when deleting stories from a deleted topic (bug #339) [Dirk] - When deleting a story, added an extra check for type='article' when deleting the story's comments [Dirk] - Set current user as the owner when cloning an event (bug #338) [Dirk] - Start time, end time, and event location weren't copied over when adding a site event to the personal calendar (bug #336) [Dirk] - Fixed wrong use of htmlentities() on comment title (bug #335) [Dirk] - Changed "read more" word count so that it ignores HTML tags (bug #333) [Dirk] - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape. - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Ko de Pree. - Updated Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Ko de Pree. - New French language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Alain Ponton. Nov 28, 2004 (1.3.10) ------------ - Allow omission of the link text for the [story:], [event:], and [staticpage:] autotags. Geeklog will then use the title (of the story / event / static page) as the link text [Dirk] (affected files: system/lib-plugins.php, plugins/staticpages/functions.inc) - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone Nov 21, 2004 (1.3.10rc3) ------------ - Changed wording of the error message if the "backups" directory is not writable [Dirk] - Fixed comments for the DB_result (in lib-database.php) and dbResult (in mysql.class.php) functions (bug #320) [Dirk] - Display a success message when using the "changepw" option in admin/user.php [Dirk] - When changing a username, make sure to change the name of the user's photo, too (bug #321) [Dirk] - Links in "plain text" stories and comments are now made clickable (i.e. enclosed in tags) when the post is saved instead of when it's displayed, as in the previous release candidates. This also fixes bug #308. [Dirk] - Added $_CONF['disable_autolinks'] config option to disable autolinks [Dirk] - Removed ViewBlacklist.Admin.class.php from the Spam-X plugin [Tom Willet] - Overhauled handling of personal events [Dirk]: + Fixed deleting personal events (again). + The upcoming events block now links to the event details of personal events (just like it already did for site events). + Added stricter checks for permissions, user IDs, and the personal calendars being activated in the first place. - Added a check for allow_url_fopen if reading a (RSS) feed fails and report it in error.log if it is off [Dirk] - When deleting a story (automatically), make sure we're only deleting comments belonging to that story (i.e. added a check for type = 'article') [Dirk] - Added {event_type}, {lang_event_type}, and {edit_icon} in all the themes' calendar/eventdetails.thtml template file [Dirk] - Fixed some URLs in the calendar (missing slash) [Dirk] - Comment IDs don't have to be numeric (in comment.php) [Vinny] - The Static Pages plugin now takes $_CONF['showfirstasfeatured'] into account when displaying static pages in center blocks (reported by eyecravedvd) [Dirk] - Forgot to declare $_CONF as global when fixing bug #301 (bug #302) [Dirk] - Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone - Updated Japanese language files (euc-jp and UTF-8), provided by Yusuke Sakata - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape - Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero - Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg Oct 24, 2004 (1.3.10rc2) ------------ - Fixed plugin update function [Blaine] - Set the target encoding in Geeklog's RSS parser (bug #301) [Dirk] - Set the {topic_icon} variable to an empty string for the "Home" link in the Topics block (reported by jhwhite) [Dirk] - Fixed News Box Configuration, i.e. the ability to disable blocks [Vinny] - In the story template files, the number of comments now only is a link when there actually is a comment on the story [Dirk] - Hard-coded the English word 'delete' in the URLs to delete a comment [Dirk] - For the list of a user's recent comments, use 'mode=view' to link directly to a comment now [Dirk] - Fixed comment id in comment notification emails [Dirk] - Fixed display of the number of static pages that the user has access to (in the Admin Block) [Dirk] - COM_makeClickableLinks did not recognize links with the 'http:' at the start of a line [Dirk] - Re-introduced
between plugin sections in the What's New block, pretty much reverting the change suggested by feature request #292 [Dirk] - Introduced function COM_formatEmailAddress that creates a (more or less) RFC(2)822 compliant email address from a name and an address [Dirk] This function is now used for formatting the site address, as well as for addresses entered by the user in profiles.php and admin/mail.php. - The Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action didn't send any email notifications, since the call to COM_mail was commented out ... [Dirk] - admin/mail.php and admin/group.php use the complete URL to the script in the now (instead of relying on PHP_SELF) [Dirk] - Fixed parse error in the Dutch language file (reported by NeoNecro) [Dirk] - Allow the dot '.' in IDs (in addition to letters, digits, the dash, and the underscore) [Dirk] Oct 17, 2004 (1.3.10rc1) ------------ - Added new functionality to [autotags] - New plugin API's added [Blaine] - Added [autotag] hooks for stories [Bline] - When a plugin had its icon only in the admin directoy, the plugin editor did not find it and displayed a generic icon instead [Dirk] - In admin/mail.php, apply htmlspecialchars() on the email addresses before displaying them, as the '' part will be interpreted as HTML by some browsers (pointed out by LWC) [Dirk] - When using gdlib for image resizing, GIF images were converted to PNG, but Geeklog was still trying to display the GIF (reported by Tom Willet). Since the LZW patent has now expired (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw), it is safe to use GIF images again, so the PNG conversion was dropped [Dirk] - Fixed link to the Anonymous user's profile in comment/thread.thtml [Dirk] - Added Location field to the user profile [Blaine] - In the light of bug #293, removed all variable names from the language files, leaving only the $_CONF config variables [Dirk] - Fixed an error message when plugins didn't return an array from plugin_getmenuitems_xxx (reported by computerade) [Dirk] - When sending emails from the admin/mail.php, some user's names weren't set in their email address (reported by LWC) [Dirk] - Removed an extra
from before and between data provided by plugins in the What's New block (feature request #292) [Dirk] - When creating a new user from admin/user.php, don't determine the uid before actually creating the database entries to avoid race conditions / collisions with other user accounts created at the same time (bug #243) [Dirk] Also took the opportunity to refactor and move the almost identical code from users.php and admin/user.php into a new function USER_createAccount in system/lib-user.php. - usersettings.php was missing a default case for unsupported values of 'mode' (bug #287). This only displayed a blank page and was not exploitable [Dirk] - Fixed hard-coded default group names in the Admin sections (e.g. when a user had story.edit permissions but was not in the Story Admin group, any new story created by that user would default to being owned by the Story Admin group nonetheless) [Dirk] - Introduced new plugin API functions plugin_user_changed_xxx and plugin_group_changed_xxx to inform plugins when a user's information (profile or settings) or a group (new, edit, delete) has been changed [Dirk] - COM_checkHTML and COM_allowedHTML now accept an additional parameter in form of a comma-separated list of permissions. If the current user has at least one of those permissions, they are assumed to be an "Admin" and the functions will use the $_CONF['admin_html'] list of HTML tags for them (bugs #114 and #118) [Dirk] - COM_allowedHTML now has an option to only return the list of allowed HTML tags without the "Allowed HTML" text (bug #118) [Dirk] - For the poll block, always use the block title stored in the database (bug #205) [Dirk] - It is now again possible to have a different number of stories per page for individual topics. Users have to set their preferred number of stories per page to 0 (zero) in their preferences, though, as the user preferences will always override this setting (bug #190) [Dirk] - The Professional theme, kindly provided by Victor B. Gonzalez, is our new default theme now. - In the calendar's day and week view, event permissions weren't checked properly, so that some events were displayed to user who shouldn't have been able to see them (reported by Willem Jan) [Dirk] - Don't update a story's hit counter as long as the draft flag is set or the publishing date is in the future (feature request #282) [Dirk] - Introduced new function COM_sanitizeID() to filter special characters out of user-editable IDs as used for stories, polls, topics, and static pages (also fixes bug #181). Allowed characters are letters a-z (both upper and lower case), digits 0-9, the dash '-', and the underscore '_' [Dirk] - The Upcoming Events block didn't use the help URL, even if it was set (reported by Wolfgang M. Schmitt) [Dirk] - Geeklog now comes with Tom Willet's Spam-X plugin pre-installed. The plugin now stores the blacklists in the database and uses a new plugin API function to filter comment posts [Tom Willet, Tony, Blaine, Dirk] - Plugins can now offer their own tags to allow easy linking to their content. These tags take the form [name:id link text], where 'name' is a name associated with the plugin, 'id' is a unique id referring to one of the objects under the plugin's control, and 'link text' is text used in the tag that Geeklog creates from these tags. Built-in tags are [story:] to link to a story and [event:] to link to an event [Blaine, Dirk] Example: [story:email-bug About the email bug] would be translated into About the email bug - portal.php now sends a 301 HTTP status code for the links instead of a 302. While a 302 status code would actually make more sense, Google does have a tendency to list search results with the URL of the portal script but with the content of the linked site, thus giving the impression that the content is actually located on another site. Sending a 301 avoids this problem [Dirk] - Group Admins should not even see the groups of which they are not a member (bug #280) [Dirk] - Prevent Group Admins from listing the members of a group unless they are a member of that group themselves [Dirk] - Introduced $_CONF['left_blocks_in_footer'] config option that makes the {left_blocks} variable available in footer.thtml (disabling it in header.thtml at the same time). This is really only useful for two-column layouts where you want the side blocks in the right column [Dirk] - Polls linked from the stats page now display the result of the poll instead of letting the user vote on them (feature request #267) [Dirk] - In the Admin's list of events and stories, don't list items for which the Admin doesn't have read access (bug #269). [Dirk] - Story IDs are now editable (just like the IDs of static pages). [Dirk] Important: Update the story editor template (admin/story/storyeditor.thtml)! - Fixed a bug that reset every user's password request as soon as some user changed their account information (bug #265) [Dirk] - Added support for URL rewriting to portal.php [Dirk] - The links for the What's Related block are stored in the 'related' field in the gl_stories table again. Parsing the story for links every time it is rendered uses too much CPU power (with apologies to groklaw.net) [Dirk] - Added theme variable {story_link} to commentbar.thtml to link back to original story the comments are derived from. [Vinny] - Introduced new file system/lib-story.php for story-related functions and moved COM_article, COM_whatsRelated, COM_extractLinks, as well as the code to delete article images into that file (functions were renamed accordingly: STORY_renderArticle, STORY_whatsRelated, STORY_extractLinks) [Dirk] - Fixed URLs to userphotos and story images when $_CONF['path_images'] had been changed (but was still inside of $_CONF['path_html']) [Dirk] - Added a script to convert an existing database to InnoDB tables (if the MySQL version supports them): admin/install/toinnodb.php [Dirk] - Added missing closing tag in story search results (bug #260) [Dirk] - Added a second parameter to function COM_makeList that is used as a CSS class name in the list it returns (use {list_class_name} to get the actual class name, and {list_class} to get class="classname"). Changed the existing calls to COM_makeList to include class names, so that you can now use the following class names in your stylesheet to style lists: list-feed, list-new-comments, list-new-links, list-new-plugins, list-older-stories, list-personal-events, list-site-events, list-story-options, list-whats-related (the names should be self-explanatory) [Dirk] - Moved the docs directory to public_html/docs and added a link to it from the Admin's block (can be switched off in config.php by setting the new option $_CONF['link_documentation'] = 0) [Dirk] - Replaced 'ppmtojpeg' with 'pnmtojpeg' when using NetPBM for scaling uploaded JPEG images (bug #257) [Dirk] - Added a check (and a warning message) for PHP 4.1.0 to the install script, as that is our new minimum requirement [Dirk] - Rewrote install/success.php and added a link to install/check.php [Dirk] - Added the 'data' and 'pdfs' directory to install/check.php [Dirk] - Integrated the "welcome email hack": If the file 'welcome_email.txt' exists in the 'data' directory, the contents of that file are sent out as the welcome email to new users (instead of the hard-coded welcome message) [Dirk] - Introduced a 'data' directory ($_CONF['path_data'], defaulting to /path/to/geeklog/data) and use it for the batch user import, as Geeklog's base directory may not be writable on some setups (bug #77) [Dirk] - Sort list of older polls by date (newest first) and added paging [Dirk] - Make sure the old userphoto is deleted when uploading a new one (bug #228). So far, the old photo was not removed when the file type changed (e.g. from .gif to .jpg) [Dirk] - Don't assume the uploaded file in usersettings.php is always the userphoto - it may in fact belong to a plugin (bug #179). This bug prevented plugins from uploading their own files through the plugin API [Dirk] - Fixed repeating events in the personal calendar's day view (bug #232) [Dirk] - COM_siteHeader() now accepts a page title (to go between the page's ... tags) as the second parameter, replacing the $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack (which still works but should be avoided) [Dirk] - In the site's page title, replace the site slogan with more meaningful information, where possible, e.g. "Submit a Story" on the story submission form, "Search Results", etc. (feature request #95) [Dirk] - Fixed deleting events from the personal calendar (bug #199) [Dirk] - Carry over the date and time from the calendar when Admins add a new event (bug #132) [Dirk] - Don't display "Site Events" headline in the Upcoming Events block when personal calendars are off (feature request #151) [Dirk] - Removed hard-coded am/pm formatted hours from the calendar's day view (calendar/dayview/dayview.thtml) and replaced them with {xx_hour} variables, where 'xx' is 0-23, which will be replaced with the hours formatted according to the $_CONF['timeonly'] config variable [Dirk] - Themes can now use a couple of CSS class names to style the small calendar (of the previous and next month) in month view: .smallcal, .smallcal-headline, .smallcal-week-even, .smallcal-week-odd, .smallcal-week-empty, .smallcal-day-even, .smallcal-day-odd, and .smallcal-day-empty [Dirk] - Improvements to the Story Archive Feature, UI tweaks, Language Extraction, Added new field to the topics table. Admin now sets the archive topic in the Topic Editor. Only one topic can be used - logic enforced. [Blaine] - Don't emit the

in article.php when the story's body text is empty (based on patch #147, provided by Andy Maloney) [Dirk] - Set {article_url} variable when displaying the story in article.php [Dirk] - Fixed missing tags for the comment display mode and sort order drop-down menus in usersettings.php (patch #255, provided by machinari) [Dirk] - Hard-coded the names of the pseudo image tags in story.php, i.e. they are always [imageX], [imageX_left], and [imageX_right] now, independent of the current language file (bug #139) [Dirk] - Added the Auto-Archive Management feature. Optionally allows the Story Editor to archive or delete a story when the expire date is reached [Blaine] - Improved the commentbar to logically support comments viewed from comment.php [Vinny] - Removed a bug in comment.php that allowed a story/comment mismatch during display. This was not exploitable. [Vinny] - Integrated the timezone hack to compensate for time differences when your webserver is located in another timezone (original timezone hack by Yew Loong, with additions by "Joe" as well as several other geeklog.net users) [Dirk] - The calendar can now be configured so that the week starts on either a Sunday or a Monday - see new config variable $_CONF['week_start'] (based on a patch by bond_anton) [Dirk] - Sort the admin's list of events by date (newest first). Also added paging, a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require theme changes in admin/event/eventlist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk] - Incorporated a patch provided by Drago Goricanec to sort the Admin's user list by uid [Dirk] - Introduced 2 config options for the Who's Online block: - $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] will display the user's full name, - $_CONF['whosonline_anonymous'] does not display the names of registered users to anonymous visitors of the site. Both options are disabled by default [Dirk] - Added support for single quotes and nested tags to COM_extractLinks [Vinny] - The admin_html and user_html are now merged recursively (bug #240) [Vinny] - Remove colons from email addresses, as they have a special meaning, according to RFC(2)822, that we didn't intend (bug #6) [Dirk] - Fixed compilation of regexp if the search query ended or started with a space (the resulting error message would also expose the path to article.php), (bug #251) [Dirk] - Sort the admin's list of polls by date (newest first). Also added paging, a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require theme changes in admin/poll/polllist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk] - Added paging to the plugin editor (for more than 25 installed plugins). A {google_paging} variable is needed in admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml for the paging links to show up [Dirk] - Emails sent from the Admin's mail form (admin/mail.php) were always sent with the site name and site email address, even if you entered something else in the form. Also made admin/mail/mailform.thtml slightly less ugly [Dirk] - When deleting a topic, keep the blocks assigned to that topic (bug #247). They're assigned to 'all topics' and disabled, but kept around now. The same applies for topic feeds, which weren't handled at all before [Dirk] - Make sure upload errors for user photos and story images are displayed in a Geeklog block, not on a blank screen [Dirk] - Fixed description of DB_insertId() in lib-database.php and dbInsertId() in mysql.class.php: The functions take a resource, describing the opened link to the database, not a record set (pointed out by lgonze on IRC). [Dirk] - Plugins are now getting the key type passed to their search function, so that they can perform a search for "exact phrase", "all of these words", or "any of these words" as selected from the search form. [Dirk] - Use URL rewriting for the link to a story's printer-friendly version, when activated (bug #201) [Dirk] - Resizing an image didn't work when the image height exceeded the max. height but the image width was still below the max. width (bug #242) [Dirk] - Keeping the unscaled image when using GDlib didn't work (bug #197) [Dirk] - Added a workaround for the Zeus webserver so that blocks marked "homeonly" properly appear there (bug #244) [Dirk] - Previewing a story submission from admin/story.php before saving it left the original story submission in the submission queue while also adding it as a new story. This has been fixed now [Dirk] - Added {article_url} variable for article/printable.thtml so that we can print the proper URL to the article if URL rewriting is on [Dirk] - Added filtering for the $order parameter in article.php [Dirk] - Added {link_actual_url} variable in links.php, holding the actual URL of a link (not Geeklog's redirect URL via portal.php). Updated template file links/linkdetails.thtml in all default themes to use {link_actual_url} in a title attribute for the links [Dirk] - The event description now honors linefeeds to allow some basic text formatting [Dirk] - Escape all PCRE special characters in the code to highlight search query words (bug #200). Also moved the code to its own function, COM_highlightQuery, in lib-common.php [Dirk] - The contents and order of the menu entries, i.e. of the {menu_elements} variable in header.thtml, is now configurable in config.php (new config variable $_CONF['menu_elements']). It also includes an option to add custom entries by implementing a function CUSTOM_menuEntries() that returns the additional entries [Dirk] - Use an UPDATE request when increasing the number of times a story has been emailed [Dirk] - When an error occurs while creating a backup, the complete command line used to call mysqldump is now added to error.log [Dirk] - Added 'view' mode to allow links directly to a single comment (and optionally its children) in comments.php. [Vinny] - Added a few variables to be used in the eventdetails.thtml template file: {event_state_name} (full name of the state), {event_state_only} and {event_state_name_only} (abbreviated and full state name without the comma), {event_edit} (link to edit the event, if allowed for the current user), {edit_icon} (same, but with the edit icon instead of a text link), {lang_event_type} and {event_type} for the event type [Dirk] - Registered users can now report abusive comments to the site admin (inspired by Feature Request #171, which actually requested this for the forums). Requires new text strings in the language files and a new template file, comment/reportcomment.thtml [Dirk] - Bugfix: New users created through the batch import didn't get the email with their password [Dirk] - Moved function to create and send a password to lib-user.php to avoid having identical code in users.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php [Dirk] - Added {topic_image} variable (available in the topicoption.thtml and topicoption_off.thtml template files) so that you can use topic images in the Topics block (feature request #152) [Dirk] - COM_undoSpecialChars() now also handles (bug #192) [Dirk] - Fixed handling of HTML entities in [code] sections (bug #159) [Dirk] - Added an option to look up IP addresses (new variable $_CONF['ip_lookup'] in config.php, pointing to a service that does IP address lookups) [Dirk] - Fixed problems with the database backup when there were spaces in the path to the backups directory (bug #185). [Dirk] - Added email notification for new comments (feature request #155) [Dirk] - Added tracking of IP addresses of comment posters (as suggested by Michael Jervis) [Dirk] - Altered COM_article to improve performance by reducing queries. [Vinny] - Reduced DB queries in COM_showTopics to improve performance. [Vinny] - Cached enabled plugins to reduce db queries and improve performance. [Vinny] - Fixed SEC_inGroup not using $_GROUPS cache in several instances. [Vinny] - mysql.class.php now only runs mysql_connect once per page load. [Vinny] - The "Google paging" now has additional links to jump to the first and last page (patch provided by Niels Leenheer). [Dirk] - Introduced function COM_makeClickableLinks to turn URLs in text-only posts into clickable links (i.e. it's adding tags around URLs). [Dirk] - Changed the comment insert, delete, display algorithms for improved efficiency. They now use a modified preorder tree traversal method. [Vinny] - Comment limit now applies to all the comments displayed, not just the top level comments. [Vinny] - Added pagination ability to comments ({pagenav} template variable in startcomment.thtml). [Vinny] - Fixed typo in timer.class.php that broke the ->restart() function. [Vinny] - Make sure the database backup files are always sorted by (last modified) date (found & fixed by Alexander Schmacks). [Dirk] - Make sure the user's preferred comment limit is used when changing the comment display via the comment bar (bug #176). [Vinny] - When URL rewriting is activated, the "rewritten" URLs are now also used in all (RSS) feeds containing links to articles. [Dirk] - Experimental: On a fresh install, use InnoDB tables (instead of MyISAM) if the MySQL version running on the server supports them (usually as of MySQL 4.0). This should avoid locks on tables where hit counters and the actual data are stored in the same table, e.g. stories (suggested by Marc Von Ahn). [Dirk] - Fixed bug in the install script when upgrading from 1.3.8 or earlier: Check to see if the static pages plugin is installed before attempting to update its tables (reported by Rob Griffiths). [Dirk] - Implemented a change to DB_fetchArray, suggested by Niels Leenheer: Geeklog will now, by default, only return associative array indices. In case the numeric indices are needed, a new (optional) second parameter for DB_fetchArray has to be set to "true". [Dirk] - Removed extra quotes in SQL statements in admin/block.php to ensure compatibility with old MySQL versions (reported by Elmer Masters). [Dirk] - In admin/database.php, if the is_executable function is not available (e.g. on Windows), do at least a file_exists to check if the mysqldump executable exists in the path given in config.php. [Dirk] - Introduced function COM_getTopicSQL which returns part of an SQL request to check for a user's topic access [Dirk] (This was actually introduced in 1.3.9sr1 but missing from the changelog) Language files -------------- - New Bosnian language file, provided by Kenan Hodzic - Updated Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic - New Indonesian language file, provided by Piotr Sobis - Updated Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen Static Pages Plugin 1.4.1 ------------------------- - Added a printable version for static pages (based on a concept by Jannetta S Lewis). Requires a new template file, printable.thtml, located in the static pages' template directory [Dirk] - Added support for autolinks and provide a [staticpage:] autotag [Dirk] - Added an option to sort the static pages that are added to a site's menu (see {plg_menu_elements} in header.thtml) by id, label, title, or date [Dirk] - The block templates used to wrap a static page in a block can now be overridden, using '_staticpages_block' and '_staticpages_centerblock' as the index for the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE array [Dirk] - The plugin now checks for template files in the current theme's directory (layout/THEMENAME/staticpages) first before using the default template files from plugin/staticpages/templates [Dirk] - When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static pages that are for anonymous users only [Dirk] This change was actually supposed to be in Static Pages 1.4 (Geeklog 1.3.9), but somehow didn't make it ... - For center blocks, ignore the "blank page" setting, unless it's for a page that is supposed to replace the entire frontpage (bug #234) [Dirk] - The static pages editor doesn't display a "delete" button for new and cloned pages any more (since, obviously, you can't delete what hasn't been saved yet ...). [Dirk] - Bugfix: Fresh installs of Geeklog 1.3.9 only allowed 20 characters for the static page ID, while installs upgraded from an earlier version allowed up to 40 characters [Dirk] - New Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho. Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.9sr5) ----------- This release addresses the following security issues: - Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow anyone to log in as any user. - James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code. - Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.9sr4) ----------- This release addresses the following security issue: Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances, be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash. Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.9sr3) ------------ This release addresses 2 security issues: 1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong). These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you disabled it in config.php. 2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered, leaving them open to potential SQL injections. Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.9sr2) ----------- This release addresses 2 security issues: - Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk] - It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment posting had been switched off [Dirk] This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before posting. Non-security related fixes: - Fixed lib-plugins.php to be compatible with PHP 5 [Dirk] - Includes updated PEAR packages to resolve email problems some users were having (especially with safe_mode being on). Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.9sr1) ----------- This release addresses the following security issues: - It was possible to post anonymous comments, even when anonymous comment posting had been switched off in config.php [Vinny, Dirk] - Added additional speed limit checks for comments and submissions [Vinny] - It was still possible to read the comments to stories, even when the user didn't have access to the story's topic (provided they knew the story id) [Vinny, Dirk] - If none of the topics were visible for anonymous users, the site's index page may still have displayed some stories for anonymous users, depending on the stories' permissions [Vinny, Dirk] - Users still got Daily Digest emails for topics from which they had been removed (bug #178) [Dirk] - It was possible to subscribe to the Daily Digest for all topics, even if the user did not have access to certain topics [Dirk] - Don't list stories or comments in the user profile if the current user isn't allowed to see the topics they were posted under (bug #208) [Dirk] Non-security related fixes: - Fixed an SQL error in COM_showTopics if users excluded topics in their preferences (reported by Rob Young) [Dirk] - Fixed sporadic "Duplicate entry '...' for key 1." messages in error.log (caused by the handling of pseudo-session ids for anonymous users) [Dirk] - Fixed incorrect author names in Daily Digest (bug #207) [Dirk] - The plugin_profileblocksedit_ Plugin API function wasn't working due to a missing piece of code in usersettings.php [Dirk] - COM_extractLinks will now ignore anchor tags that do not contain "href" (bug #183) [Vinny] Mar 14, 2004 (1.3.9) ------------ - Custom Registration function hook to custom_useredit added in the edituser() when creating a new user from the admin screen. The custom function was not being called if this was a new user [file: admin/user.php]. - Fixed wrong use of DB_count in COM_showPoll in lib-common.php. This may have prevented people from voting on other polls once they voted on any poll on a site [file: lib-common.php]. - Updated Danish language file, provided by ZooN. - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel (please note that this file was made for 1.3.8-1 and is missing a few of the texts added in 1.3.9). Mar 7, 2004 (1.3.9rc3) ----------- - Fixed call to CUSTOM_mail and added a sample implementation in lib-custom.php (commented out by default). - Made an attempt to recover from duplicate session ids for anonymous users. - Adding new topics always resulted in a "Please fill in the Topic ID and Topic Name fields" error message, even if you did fill in both fields (this bug was only introduced in 1.3.9rc2). - Filter out backslashes. - Comment titles were cut off at the first single or double quote (when submitting a new comment). - The text string $LANG04[89] in all language files must be enclosed in double quotes, not single quotes. - Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel. - Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik. - Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik - Updated Russian language file, provided by Denis Kuznetsov. - Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape. - Included UTF-8 versions of the Croatian and Japanese language files, provided by Samuel Stone. Feb 29, 2004 (1.3.9rc2) ------------ - The new Admin interface for handling blocks (introduced in 1.3.9rc1) will renumber the block order in steps of 10, which can lead to order numbers > 255 if you have many blocks. Changed the 'blockorder' field in the "gl_blocks" table from TINYINT to SMALLINT to compensate. If you are upgrading from 1.3.9rc1, you will need to run the following SQL request manually: ALTER TABLE gl_blocks CHANGE blockorder blockorder smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1'; Replacing "gl_blocks" with the proper table name, if you are using a table prefix other than 'gl_'. This step is not necessary when upgrading from 1.3.8 or earlier versions. - The Group Admin restrictions introduced in 1.3.9rc1 didn't even let the Admin assign unassigned features to groups (e.g. there was no way to add the staticpages.PHP feature to the Static Page Admin group on a fresh 1.3.9rc1 install). - When normal users tried to submit an event, they were redirected to the story submission form (this bug was only introduced in 1.3.9rc1). - Cosmetic changes in the beautifying of language names (in the user's preferences). - Fixed COM_extractLinks to work with links that follow [IMAGE] tags and more generally handle the extraction of links better and more efficiently. - If a function CUSTOM_mail() exists, it will be called instead of COM_mail(), to allow users to implement their own function to send emails, if necessary. - The Static Pages plugin now supports the "exact phrase", "all of these words", and "any of these words" search options. - Included a simplified custom registration example and made the naming convention for the custom registration functions more consistent. - Fixed display problems with comments in nested and threaded mode. Please note that the template file comment/comment.thtml has changed (again) since 1.3.9rc1! - Don't rely on the Who's Online block being active when handling sessions for anonymous users. - Removed some unused code that handled the obsolete "layout" blocks. - Try to guess the correct path separator when running on PHP < 4.3.0. - When upgrading from a pre-1.3.9 install, the install script choked on single quotes in the site name or site slogan. - More parameter filtering. - Included UTF-8 versions of the English, German, Finnish, and Chinese (traditional and simplified) language files, provided by Samuel Stone. - Added new Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic. - Added new Finnish language file, provided by Jussi Josefsson. - Added new Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel. - Updated Dutch language file, provided by Wim Niemans. Feb 16, 2004 (1.3.9rc1) ------------ - Use COM_getYearFormOptions() etc. for the event submission form in submit.php, thus avoiding duplicated code. - Plugins can now add their new entries to the What's New block by implementing the new plugin_whatsnewsupported and plugin_getwhatsnew API functions. This section can be enabled/disabled with the new $_CONF['hidenewplugins'] config variable. - When a user is deleted, make sure we assign any objects that require Admin access (blocks, topics, ...) to a user from the Root group. - Slightly revamped the install script and made it catch (or silently ignore) the most popular problems with the path to Geeklog ... - Removed the hard-coded from {welcome_msg} and added it to the header.thtml of the Classic, XSilver, and Yahoo themes (the other themes either look fine without it or didn't use {welcome_msg} anyway). - Added a missing stripslashes() call for link titles returned from a search. - Fixed bug when highlighting search queries that contained a '*' (reported by wlparks). - Fixed a bug/typo introduced in 1.3.8-1sr4 that prevented you from deleting story submissions from the Admin's story editor (reported by James Bothe). - Changed all url fields in the database to hold up to 255 characters per URL. Please note that the template files in most themes will limit the max. number of characters to 96 or 128 characters. See docs/theme.html for more information on how to update the themes. - Fixed problems batch-importing users with single quotes in their names (bug #141). - The permissions for the "Group Admin" group have been changed such that members of that group now only have access to groups of which they themselves are a member of. When creating new groups, the rights (permissions) to chose from are also limited to those that the Group Admin users have themselves. These changes should make the Group Admin group more useful. Note: Group admins can still see all the existing groups and who is a member of those groups. - Fixed search class so that the simplified and the advanced search return the same results (as long as none of the advanced options are used). - Added new config variable $_CONF['allowed_protocols'] which lets you specify the protocols that are allowed to be used in a link (feature request #109). Note: The kses class has a hard-coded list of allowed protocols to which the above will be added. It is currently not possible to remove any of the predefined protocols. - Introduced variable {allowed_menu_elements} in header.thtml which only includes those menu elements that the current user is allowed to use (i.e. honoring the $_CONF['XXXloginrequired'] settings). - COM_accessLog() now logs the user's uid and IP address automatically. - The option to stay logged in for 1 year has been removed and an option to not stay logged in (after the session has expired) has been added. - Fixed display of default blocks in the user preferences. - If the user chose not to see certain topics (by selecting them from the "Excluded Items" list in the preferences) then don't list those topics in the Topics block. - After saving your account information, you are now redirected to your profile page, so that you can see your changes as they would be displayed for other users of the site. - Integrated Vincent Furia's patches to use Geeklog's URL rewriting for links to stories (i.e. article.php). - In the story templates, you can now use {article_url} as the URL to the article.php with the current story (e.g. for a "link to this story" link). - There is a new file, system/lib-user.php, for user-related code that is used by usersettings.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php. - All template files that let you enter a URL are now using {max_url_length} for the maxlength attribute. - Access to admin/mail.php is now granted to all users with 'user.mail' permissions (previously, users with that permission without being in the 'Mail Admin' group would see the "Mail Users" entry in the Admin block but were refused access to it). - The list of group names in the Mail Users form is now sorted alphabetically. - Any unauthorized attempts to access the admin pages are now properly logged in access.log. - Fixed problems when resizing userphotos for user names that have spaces in them (reported by Per on geeklog-users). - Now accomodate strict webhosts who don't allow file uploads to the standard image directory, you can now set a new configuration variable, $_CONF['path_images'] to point to a directory outside of your webtree where article images and user profile pictures will be saved and served from. - Don't append a '-' to the page title if $_CONF['site_slogan'] is empty (feature request #88). - COM_getMonthFormOptions() now always lists the month names instead of only the numbers. COM_getYearFormOptions() also lists the previous year. - Changed admin/event.php to use the COM_getMonthFormOptions() etc. functions from lib-common.php, thus avoiding duplicated code. - In the calendar/calendar.thtml template file, you can now use {start_block} and {end_block} to wrap the calendar in a block. - Fixed a few display problems in case of errors in calendar_event.php. Also made calendar.php display messages sent from calendar_event.ph