[Phpbb-qa] phpBB 3.0.7 Release Candidate 1 released
Nils Adermann
naderman at phpbb.com
Tue Feb 2 01:44:51 GMT 2010
Hello phpBB supporters!
We are happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate
of phpBB 3.0.7 aimed at experienced users in an effort to increase the
quality of final releases.
Please scrutinise this release in-depth and report issues to the bug
tracker. Critical bugs halting the board's operation should be reported
immediately. Feel free to contact developers directly about such problems.
We recommend that international support sites update their sites to RC1
too. We are able to provide direct support to them within our
international support sites forums.
*Tagging/Reviewing fixes*
Every QA team member can now mark bug fixes as verified using our
bugtracker. To mark a bugfix verified go to the bug and click "I have
verified the fix of this ticket" in the "Options" section on the right.
Of course prior to clicking you should have properly checked whether the
bug was really fixed. Comment on the respective bug if you find problems
so the fix can be corrected.
To easily get an overview over fixed bugs you can access the QA overview
page. It lists unfixed critical bugs at the top. Then a list of critical
bugs that have been fixed - these should be thorougly checked to confirm
that the problem has really been solved. And then all other bugs that
have been fixed since the last release are listed. You should focus on
the least tested bugs when choosing which one you are going to test next.
The bug overview page is located at:
http://www.phpbb.com/bugs/phpbb3/qa.php
*Language Packs and Styles*
We already gave out instructions to language pack authors to let them
update their language packs in a timely manner. The changes are provided
with the code changes package (see downloads section below). Style
authors should also download the code changes package and adjust their
styles accordingly. Please post within our Styles forums if you have
questions or encounter problems.
*New features, changes, bug fixes*
phpBB 3.0.7 is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs as well as
solving a few usability issues.
There is only one new feature in phpBB 3.0.7:
- Ability to use HTTP authentication in ATOM feeds by passing the GET
parameter "auth=http".
These are changes to functionality we have introduced in phpBB 3.0.7:
- Move redirect into a hidden field to avoid issues with mod_security.
(Bug #54145)
- Log activation through inactive users ACP. (Bug #30145)
- Send time of last item instead of current time in ATOM Feeds. (Bug #53305)
- Use em dash instead of hyphen/minus as separator in ATOM Feeds item
statistics. (Bug #53565)
- Alter ACP user quick tools interface to reduce confusion with the
delete operation.
- Send statistics now check for IPv6 and send private network status as
a boolean.
- Split "All topics" feed into "New Topics" and "Active Topics" feeds.
- Forum feed no longer includes posts of subforums.
- Show login attempt CAPTCHA option in the captcha plugin module.
- It is no longer possible to persist a solution for the login CAPTCHA.
- SQLite is no longer autoloaded by the installer. (Bug #56105)
- Friends and foes will not show up as private message rule options if
their respective UCP modules are disabled. (Bug #51155)
- Offer for guests to log in for egosearch and unreadposts search before
the search permissions check. (Bug #51585)
- Show warning box for users of PHP < 5.2.0 about phpBB ending support.
- Disallow deleting the last question of the Q&A CAPTCHA.
- Tweak Q&A CAPTCHA garbage collection.
- Show a proper preview for the Q&A CAPTCHA. (Bug #56365)
And this is a list of bugs that have been fixed in 3.0.7:
- Allow ban reason and length to be selected and copied in ACP and
subsilver2 MCP. (Bug #51095)
- Force full date for board online record date.
- Correctly reset login keys if passed value is the current user. (Bug
#54125)
- Correctly set last modified headers. (Bug #54245, thanks Paul.J.Murphy)
- Show correct HTML title when reporting private messages. (Bug #54375)
- Correctly exclude subforums from ATOM Feeds. (Bug #54285)
- Do not link to user profile in ATOM feed entry if post has been made
by the guest user. (Bug #54275)
- Make word censoring case insensitive. (Bug #54265)
- Fulltext-MySQL search for keywords and username at the same time. (Bug
#54325)
- Various XHTML and CSS mistakes in prosilver. (Bugs #54705, #55895)
- Correctly show topic ATOM feed link when only post id is specified.
(Bug #53025)
- Cleanly handle forum/topic not found in ATOM Feeds. (Bug #54295)
- PHP 5.3 compatibility: Check if function dl() exists before calling
it. (Bug #54665)
- PHP 5.3 compatibility: Disable E_DEPRECATED on startup to keep
set_magic_quotes_runtime(0) quiet. (Bug #54495)
- Correctly replace table prefix before inserting schema data into the
database. (Bug #54815)
- Correctly take post time instead of topic time for the overall forum
feed statistics row. (Bug #55005)
- Posting errors with CAPTCHAs using user::add_lang(). (Bug #55245)
- Use memcache::replace() instead of memcache::set() for existing keys
to prevent problems.
- Check for required functions in eAccelerator. (Bug #54465)
- Use correct RFC 3339 date format in ATOM feed. (Bug #55005)
- Do not deliver topics from unreadable or passworded forums in the news
feed. (Bug #54345)
- Restore user language choice to compiled stylesheets. (Bug #54035)
- Add missing language entries. (Bug #55095)
- Do not permit unauthorised users to delete private messages from
folder listing. (Bug #54355)
- Correctly check for empty strings in custom profile fields. (Bug #55335)
- Use correct options to parse BBCodes in signatures when previewing PMs.
- Correct rendering of prosilver quick reply under IE6. (Bug #54115 -
Patch by Raimon)
- Correct wording for "How do I show an image below my username"
question answer in FAQ. (Bug #23935)
- Handle export of private messages where all recipients were deleted.
(Bug #50985)
- Correctly get unread status information for global announcements in
search results.
- Correctly handle global announcements in ATOM feeds.
- Use correct limit config parameter in the News feed.
- Restrict search for styles/../style.cfg to folders. (Bug #55665)
- Add ability to disable overall (aka board-wide) feed.
- Do not pass new_link parameter when creating a persistent connection
with mysql. (Bug #55785)
- Improved search query performance through sorting words by their
occurance. (Bug #21555)
- Correctly move sql_row_pointer forward when calling sql_fetchfield()
on cached queries. (Bug #55865)
- Remove item limit from "All forums" feed.
- Do not use group colours for usernames on print view. (Bug #30315 -
Patch by Pasqualle)
- Pagination of User Notes in MCP uses two different config values. (Bug
#56025)
- List hidden groups on viewprofile where the viewing user is also a
member. (Bug #31845)
- Sort viewprofile group list by group name.
- Strictly check whether a moderator can post in the destination forum
when moving topic. (Bug #56255)
- Added some error handling to the compress class.
- Correctly determine permissions to show quick reply button. (Bug #56555)
- Do not unsubscribe users from topics replying with quickreply. (Bug
#56235)
- Don't submit when pressing enter on preview button. (Bug #54395)
- Load reCAPTCHA over https when using a secure connection to the board.
(Bug #55755)
- Clarify explanation of bump feature setting. (Bug #56075)
- Properly paginate unapproved posts in the MCP. (Bug #56285)
- Do not duplicate previous/next links in pagination text of moderator
logs and user notes in MCP for subsilver2. (Bug #55045)
- Do not automatically unsubscribe users from topics, when email and
jabber is disabled.
- Don't send activation email when user tries to change email without
permission (fix by nrohler). (Bug #56335)
- Replace hard coded "px" with translated language-string. (Bug #52495)
- Correctly hover list menu in UCP and MCP for RTL languages. (Bug #49945)
- Correctly orientate quoted text image on RTL languages. (Bug #33745)
- Deprecate $allow_reply parameter to truncate_string() (Bug #56675)
- Fall back to default language email template if specified file does
not exist. (Bug #35595)
- Update users last visit field correctly when changing activation
status. (Bug #56185)
- Database updater now separates ADD COLUMN from SET NOT NULL and SET
DEFAULT, when using PostgreSQL <= 7.4 (Bug #54435)
- Styles adjustment to correctly display an order of rtl/ltr mixed
content. (Bugs #55485, #55545)
- Fix language string for PM-Reports refering to post-data. (Bug #54745)
- Do not store email templates in database. (Bug #54505)
The complete list including previous releases can be found in the
changelog file within the docs folder contained in the package.
*Available packages:*
This release is available in five packages.
Full Package: Contains the entire phpBB3 source and British English
language files.
Automatic Update Package: Update package for the automatic updater,
contains changes from the previous release to this release.
Changed Files Only: Contains only the files modified in this release of
phpBB3. Please note this archive contains modified files in comparison
to every previous release.
Patch Files: Contains patches against previous versions of phpBB3 that
can be applied with a patch programme.
Code Changes Package: This package contains all changes to language
files, the prosilver style and the subsilver2 style.
Select the package most suitable for you. As a tiny guide we recommend
the following methods based on the requirements:
- For a new installation, use the Full Package
- For updates of boards without modifications you can use the Automatic
Update Package (guided udpate) or the Changed Files Only package (manual
update).
- For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic
Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you
can use the Patch Files Package.
- Style Authors and Translators may use the Code Changes Package to
update their styles or language packs directly.
- International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction
with the Code Changes to better support users having problems with
conflicts or specific code sections.
- If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files
Package to update all of your client installations.
*Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before
proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!*
*Download:*
Full Package:
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.7-RC1.zip
md5sum 0e2223d8fe5a0aa9b27649521e6ab010
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.7-RC1.tar.bz2
md5sum 59dfaba69579da85f8bedfcbb6839ae4
Automatic Update Package:
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.6_to_3.0.7-RC1.zip
md5sum 4d2700d191a9f9d04ee450a0b735ace9
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.6_to_3.0.7-RC1.tar.bz2
md5sum 5249c7f9a60ddc1f6be5e07f447f5633
Changed Files Only Package:
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.7-RC1-files.zip
md5sum 303701bd54203fb103408970d9cc18c7
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.7-RC1-files.tar.bz2
md5sum ac7487a19cdea0b2b22219f62729e760
Patch Files Package:
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.7-RC1-patch.zip
md5sum fe99703d5c4ef267fb47015e0b343307
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.7-RC1-patch.tar.bz2
md5sum 5c109584979e317194b068e869001b80
Code Changes Package:
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.6_to_3.0.7-RC1-codechanges.zip
md5sum c64147e6f56645be85b30766cd5a0c1f
http://www.phpbb.com/files/qa/phpBB-3.0.6_to_3.0.7-RC1-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum 12e2f6035444ebbd7e5b9d781c8ecaab
*IMPORTANT*
To correctly perform an update, do not forget to re-enable the PHPBB_QA
constant in your includes/constants.php file. Otherwise you are not
prompted for an update in the ACP and the automatic update will
eventually fail. :)
Have fun with the release,
the phpBB Team
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