After nearly 2 months of development FUDforum 2.6.14 is finally out. Aside from the usual bug fixes this release includes a number of important improvements, such as full support for PHP 5.1 and introduction of a PDO database driver support, which enables FUDforum to talk with SQLite in addition to MySQL and PostgreSQL. In addition to all of the changes in found in RC1 and RC2 there is a small number of modification made since then, a list of which can be found below. The installer and the upgrade script can be found at their usual locations at: http://fudforum.org/download.php and all FUDforum users are encouraged to upgrade. Post RC2 Changes A series of fixes for the PDO SQLite driver. Fixed the phpBB2 conversion script. Added the ability to clear tracker for the NNTP import. Remove pointless JavaScript header in full-body e-mail notification, that triggered some spam filters (SpamAssassin). Fixed DB detection in the installer, when only one database driver is available. Added FUD API...

The 2nd release candidate of 2.6.14 was just published; this release performs the final bit of cleanup, code rearrangement and unification to make usage of PDO as a database interface possible. As of this release it is now possible to install FUDforum with the following PDO drivers: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite in addition to the native MySQL and PostgreSQL interfaces. Other important changes include fixes that accommodate the PHP 5.1 backwards compatibility (BC) breaks introduced after 5.1.0b1. Also, FUDforum no longer requires temporary tables, making their use optional, which should be welcome news to all the people who don't have the necessary privileges to perform this operation. The installer and upgrade script are now available online and can be downloaded from: http://fudforum.org/download.php The release also includes various minor fixes and improvements, listed below. Properly recognize permanent bans on ban list admin control panel. thread_view table is now forced to MyISAM for MySQL....

A new version of FUDforum is in the works, 2.6.14. This release is intended to introduce some new functionality as well as address any existing bugs. Some additional work has been done to enable future PDO support. At this time I already have a "beta" PDO driver that works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and partially supports SQLite. I hope to have it in CVS within a release or two. This version can be downloaded at: http://fudforum.org/download.php [b]New Features:[/b] Added Brazilian Portuguese translation. Allow resizing of the textarea for message posting. Added ability to set temporary bans. Added admin control panel to view all banned users. Improved performance of threaded topic view list rendering. Improved png hack for IE, it is now done by PHP. Better caption for template set on theme editor. Added unread message indicator for collapsed forums. Some changes to allow support of PDO database interface. Added view support to upgrade script. Improved message storage algorithm [b]...

Finally got around to releasing the next stable release of FUDforum, 2.6.13. For the most part it is the same as RC2, with just a few note worthy changes. The Japanese and Romanian translations were updated, Win32 finally has proper timezone support through a custom subset of timezone values and some more adjustments to the nested category display. The latter seems to have been an ongoing problem throughout the .13 release cycle and I sincerely hope we've finally hammered out all of the possible problems with it. The upgrade and installation scripts are available at the usual location: http://fudforum.org/download.php. On a related note, I am now working on a PDO database driver for the forum. This will allow FUDforum to expand it's database support beyond MySQL and PostgreSQL as well as benefit from an improved API offered by PDO. Many of PDO's convenience functions would significantly simplify the process of retrieving data for certain operations.

Here goes the 1st pre-release of FUDforum 2.6.13. The focus of this release has been stabilization of the code and fine tuning of the previously added features. Changes: If .htaccess is to be obeyed, make sure $_SERVER is created. When merging topics port the read statuses and notifications from source topics. Don't raise notices during charset conversion. Fixed decoding of messages to plain text for NNTP/Mailing list post backs. Many fixes to nested category display on the front page. Improvements to the captcha code generation. Fixed adding users to primary groups during consistency check. Fixed changing of user logins via admin interface. Corrected building of FUDforum zip archives (install/upgrade). Better handling of SQL server version detection (PostgreSQL 8.0). Fixes to pager generation in PATH_INFO theme. Fixed rebuild of primary PATH_INFO theme during upgrading. Fixed bugs that caused HTML entities to appear in bookmark titles in the PDFs. Added missing URL session id...