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Introduction: Changelog

Changelog from Pixelpost 1.6 to Pixelpost 1.7

The Big Changes

• Install and Upgrade assistant
• Front workspaces
• Sorting options for front side image queue
• Filtering options for admin side images list
• Cleanups in comments and addons section

Admin Area:

• New filter functions in the images list
• Comments sorted into submenus (published, moderated, Akismet)
• Admin language set independent of blog language

Feeds

• Renewed autodetection of feeds
• Feed description and copyright
• Valid ATOM and RSS feed
• Settings for feed display (image only, thumbnail only, image with text, thumbnail with text)

Language and Tags

• New tags for thumbnail size, subtitle and focus tag cloud
• New languages: hungarian and romanian. Spanish and swedish for admin panel.
• Admin language can be set independent now

Other Changes

• Frontpage workspaces which can be used for handling many of the front page functions of the blog (including comment actions)

Minor Changes and Bug Fixes

• Newline in comments editing
• Removed hardcoded paths of images and thumbnails folder
• Image autodelete security solution
• "use exif date for publish" now works on all systems
• HTML code in site title
• Quotes in metatags
• Mass delete function now deletes everything
• Cleaning of spam lists in admin options
• More appropriate error messages
• Addon sorting before calling
• Copy folder now stores the exif in database
• Don't show empty alt tags and alt title in the image list
• Form fields content in case of unsuccessful image upload
• Time zone is correct now on image uplade "post now"

Changelog from Pixelpost 1.5 to Pixelpost 1.6

The Big Changes

• Tag support
• Secondary language support
• More anti-spam features

Feeds

• Now Pixelpost produces valid ATOM 1.0 feed. Up to Version 1.5, Pixelpost produced valid ATOM 0.3 feed
• As the feedvalidator at www.feedvalidator.org issues deprecation warnings whenever it encounters Atom 0.3 feeds, this upgrade was really necessary
• RSS: <guid> now produces complete URL + index.php...
  Example where nn stands for the image-number: <guid>http://www.yourdomainhere.de/index.php?showimage=nn</guid>

Security

• Comments enabled/disabled/moderated for individual posts
• More security thanks to switching off error_reporting by default when not logged in
• Check if the commenter IP address is in the DSBL list @ http://www.dsbl.org. If it is, the user is redirected to a warning page mentioning the used address is blocked. Otherwise, comment gets trough
• Users can set the number of seconds between comments in the admin user panel. If a comment is posted before that the script dies because of a possible spam flood

Comments

• Bug fix with double <br /> in comments visible on page
• Markdown enable/disable
• Comments for an individual picture can now be disabled through editing picture properties or set when uploading a picture
• User comments with the same mail address as the admin mail address get a new style <li class="admin_comment"> to differentiate
• Fixed comment redirection when $_SERVER['HTTP_referrer'] is empty
• Added new functionality: direct redirection after posting comment (without "thank you screen"); it needs <input type='hidden' name='withthankyou' value='no' /> in comment form (in template file)

Language and Tags

• Fixed a bug that the selected language for the blog was shown twice in the list
• Code added for selecting language files and language specific templates while maintaining backwards compatibility
• TAG replacement and stuff is added in an addon
• If no language is set the 'old' way is used to display the page
• Support for <LANGUAGE=XX> tags (creates url) and <ALTERNATIVE_LANGUAGE> tag (for switching between the secondary language)
• Added secondary language support for title and description

Usability

• Switch template select: removed duplicate entry
• Showing exif is an option in the admin panel
• Added Mark all images in admin area (see: http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5361)
• Added a massdelete image option and a mass publish option
• Added additional info to the file upload error message when there are incorrect write rights to the /images directory
• Global setting, set through the Options, is used as default for new picture
• Nice error message when the user selects an alternative language similar to the default language
• Nice spam flood error message in the language file

Other Changes

• Many spelling errors corrected
• Addon type 'front' added for (future) workspaces in the frontpage.
• Added error_reporting switch. index.php?errors (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE) or index.php?errorsall (E_ALL). Must be logged into admin to work
• Added a count_addon_admin_menus function. If count_addon_admin_menus > 0 then show HTML menu code. Otherwise don't show code
• Small bug where index.html needed to prevent folder browsing showed up in the selection lists for language and templates fixed
• When uploading picture Exif info is stored in database and on viewing restored from database
• Added SVN tags for development
• Fixed small bug when get_file_contents is disabled when checking for latest pixelpost version. if get_file_contents returns false, cURL method is tried. If cURL returns false, "Unable to retrieve current version" is displayed
• When gpc_magic_quotes is not set PP title and site url is escaped by using addslahes. Bug fix for http://forum.pixelpost.org/showthread.php?t=5366
• Added code for adding alt_fields in the categories table and tags table
• Fixed problem with incorrect variable name used for taking thumbnail image size
• Many more minor bugs fixed

Changelog from Pixelpost 1.4 to Pixelpost 1.5

The Big Changes

• Admin Interface is completely language driven
• More options to fight SPAM
• Addons are now possible also in Admin-Area: new pages and customized functionality possible
• Fixed version 1.4.x problems with PHP 5 and MySQL 5
• Admin/index.php is split into thematic include-files (new_image.php, categories.php etc.)

Admin Area:

• Now complete ADMIN area is language-file driven as well
• Fix program output is converted into variables
• Admin-language-files are set like this:
  if admin-lang-XXX.php exist, when lang-XXX.php is choosen, this admin-language-file is activated
  if this admin-lang-XXX.php does not exist, admin-lang-english.php is activated
  if admin-lang-english.php does not exist, error message is printed out
• Admin/Options/General: only one UPDATE button for all options
• External links from Admin-section will open in new window
• More information in GENERAL INFO section:
  added info about file_uploads setting
  added info about PP installation URL
  added CHMOD info about image and thumb dirs
• Image path is ../images/ by default
• New image can be posted to EXIF-date of the image
• Time stamps ON/OFF switch added

Image Posting

• Added info with current time
• If EXIF is not available post to EXIF Date will post the current time
• Added opening MARKDOWN links in new window
• "Edit link" added after uploading image for fast editing
• 12cropImage is now compatible with php5
• Default category is selected only when user is inside the new_image (upload new image) page
• When posting to the future and you are logged in as admin, Pixelpost will show you
• The new image, non-admin users will see the actual image
• This is added as kind of "preview" for administrators

Image Editing

• Now categories can be assigned or unassigned to selected images (more than one)
• Images can be re-uploaded
• Preview-option (especially for posting into future)
• All <img> in the comments page now have alt attribute
• Bigger input fields for image-description
• When image is deleted, the comments of that image will be deleted as well

Comments

• Comment moderation + batch operations on comments
• Delete selected comments
• Publish selected comments
• View moderation queue
• Add to moderation queue
• Report comment as SPAM
• Edit the comment text
• Redirection to comment after entering comment automatically
• Changed email-handling: no email is sent, if no comment is inserted to DB
• Error massage is visible after unsuccessful adding adding of comment
• Added commenter URL to HTML notify
• Now people can delete/moderate comments with compare to the black/moderation list
• If no http:// or https:// , the comment-url will not be echoed
• Only one email-address can be entered in comment-form

Templates

• New template: "simple"
• All links to referrer template are taken off, because referrer-List is not supported anymore
• A descriptive splash page (splash_page.html) will show up in case the server/photoblog is not functioning well

Feeds

• Corrected atom-url for autodetect
• RSS and ATOM Feed working / validating with apostrophes and special characters
• Beside <ATOM_AUTODETECT>, which created the "href-part" of the autodetection-link in the header-section of image_template.html, we have now 2 new AUTODETECT-Tags: for RSS + Atom, implemented in the templates which come with Pixelpost

Security / SPAM

• No hijacking of the script possible
• index.php shows 404-message when image number is not numeric or "x=ref" is called
• No "index.php?x=foo" can be passed to a pixelpost photoblog unless "foo" is a valid argument
• "Fight Spam" added to options
• Moderation and black list for comments + referrer ban list for referrers
• Added spam report to admin >> comments page
• People can report spams and log their IPs in both black list and referrer banned list
• Comment spam moderation and ban list is added
• Admin / General Info shows the most referrers of last 7 days in the Options >> Fight Spam
• .htaccess code generation for preventing ref spams from hitting Pixelpost's webistes is added.
• Comment spam security hole is fixed
• No one can send spams with use of pixelpost comment form
• Only one email-address can be entered in comment-form
• Visitor booking can be turned OFF/ON

New Tags

• <SITE_URL> will show the complete URL of the site
• <BASE_HREF>, set in the header of a template, allows to set all links relative to the Site-URI

Addons

• Admin-addons are introduced
• You can have customize admin section with additional addons
• Admin area can have new pages with costum functionalities
• Existing Addons can be switched on/off by the admin
• Page archive tags are listed in the addons page
• CopyFolder Addon now can publish using exif capture date
• Upload sorted files according to their exif info or their filename
• The date of the posts is set as the actual date, if not set to use the exif date
• Supports clean url
• Added one second sleep before each post
• Can set multi categories at upload
• Calendar Addon is corrected, now it supports languages like chinese or farsi where letters are double-bytes

Development

• First steps to clear URL support (next and prev datetime variables)
• Options now have a workspace. People can write addons that adds submenu to options page!
• Updated paths - should work with <base href=..>
• Avoiding maximum execution time reached in thumb generation!
• Categories_as_list now a function inside functions.php
• Lists categories as a table, included from includes/admin_category_table_as_list.inc.php
• Some variables re-defined
• Login mechanism using sessions
• Small SQL optimization
• Pixelpost is compatible with PHP 5.0

Installation

• Install will prompt that it will create addons table
• No buttons / icons are packed to the release anymore

Minor changes

• Fixed that double quotes in <IMAGE_NOTE_CLEAN> broke the layout in IE
• Fixed a bug that prevent deleting the comments with banned words or refs with names in the banned list
• Bugfix for comment save
• Corrected the information about creating thumbnails
• Corrected typos
• admin_index.css extended and corrected
• Added the "category-title" to all Admin-sections
• Fixed title encoding problems in image section preview at admin panel
• Fixed warnings problem in new addons "installation" function
• Corrected wrong select-value for year 2009 (posting possible from 2002 to 2009)
• \\N to \\n
• MJS code formated in a cool way
• Exposure time of 350d was not showing for images on images with shutter time more than 1s
• Cleared CSS and HTML in templates
• Updated the version of markdown to Version 1.0.1c - Fri 9 Dec 2005

Changelog from Pixelpost 1.3 to Pixelpost 1.4.3

Major Changes

• Full Unicode (UTF-8) support, no more strange characters
• More security with better security measures
• Password recovery feature is now available
• Crop tool is added for creating selective thumbnails both when posting a new entry and editing an old entry
• More than one image a day is supported now
• Multi-category support compatible with v1.3 multi-cat
• Cleaner RSS/ATOM feed support (also autodetect-feature in the Header-Links for RSS and ATOM)
• Improved performance with database usage
• Templates are valid CSS and valid HTML
• Supports more languages
• Improved usability of admin panel
• More ways to integrate new templates
• Better EXIF-support