PHPwnage 1.8

Stable Release 1.8 of PHPwnage.
New Features:
- User preferences control theme
- Entire CMS can be translated with a single file
- Image gallery
Announceing PHPwnage 1.8, a free and open-source forum, news site, image gallery, and calendar powered by PHP and MySQL!
This release is the first to be licensed under the GPL (v3), and offers hundreds of improvements over the previous release.

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Project:
PHPwnage
Series:
trunk
Version:
1.8
Released:
 
Registrant:
K. Lange
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Blueprints:
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Bugs:
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Release notes 

New in 1.8:
- Image Gallery: Lets users upload and view images.
- Button Icons: Make your forum look better with icons beside button labels.
- Moderation: New moderation tools have been added - split topics, merge topics and more.
- Quick Edit: In a hurry? Use the quick edit button to make speedy changes to your posts.
- ReCAPTCHA: ReCAPTCHA has been (optionally) implemented for forum registration.
- Security: 1.8 features improved security and bug fixes.
- Theming: Theming capabilities have been vastly improved in 1.8, as has the look of the forum.
- Icon Themes: 1.8 comes with a brand new Tango icon set (icons are either directly from or derivatives of icons from the Tango Desktop Project and are under the Creative Commons by-sa license) as well as new icon theming abilities.
- Translation: 1.8 offers easy translation to other languages (note that only US English is provided, as we don't have anyone who speaks another language on our team, help is appreciated!)
- Bazaar: All new updates for PHPwnage are stored in a Bazaar repository run through Launchpad.
- Administration: The Admin panel has been greatly improved.
- Paging: A new paging system has been implemented that makes navigating content even easier.
- XHTML Compliance: PHPwnage is now completely XHTML compliant - just run us through W3C! Same for our CSS themes and RSS feed.
- Search: Search has been vastly improved with search-by-author and paged results.
- Calendar: Minor improvements have been made to the Calendar/
- Member List: The included member list module has been rewritten to show more information and allow sorting by name, id, and posts.
- Code Style: As PHPwnage is now open-source, we've rewritten and restyled the PHP code to be significantly more presentable.
- Installer: The installer has been completely rewritten to be easy to use and provide better failure reports.
- Table Prefixes: You can now enter a table prefix to use for your MySQL database
- Guest Posting: Guest posting has been greatly improved to provide a much better experience for more public forums.
- Messages: The error message and redirect system has been improved and themed to make using PHPwnage more enjoyable for your users.
- RSS: RSS now works. That's about the only way we can put it.
- Mobile: The mobile page (now mobile.php) has been completely rewritten to provide an interface to the forum for your mobile phone or other portable device.
- New Themes: PHPwnage now has two new themes: Crystal and Pristine (as well as "crystalclean", a different take on Crystal). Deprecated themes have been removed and require modification to work properly with the new theme system.
- New Logo: We have a brand new logo designed by TJ Fadness and vectorized by myself.
- News: You can now use bbCode for formatting news articles.
- Configuration: Configuration options have been moved to config.php so they're all in one place and unchanged when you update.
- Profiles: Profiles now store themes, icon sets, backgrounds, and language settings. The profile viewer has been redesigned.

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1 blueprint and 1 bug targeted

Blueprint Priority Assignee Delivery
More Security and Antibot Measures More Security and Antibot Measures 1 Undefined K. Lange  11 Implemented
Bug report Importance Assignee Status
255064 #255064 Scrolled window screws up floating preview boxes in IE 5 Low   10 Fix Released
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