mwForum Changes

Please don't forget to follow the instructions in Upgrade.html when upgrading.

Credits for bug reports are in [brackets].

2.29.7 (2015-12-05)

• Added: reCAPTCHA 2.0 support.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Block more illegal topic branch moves. [Luchs]
• Fixed: HTML-escaped board titles in notification emails. [Luchs]

2.29.6 (2015-01-02)

• Added: Video type "vgf" for GIF-like videos (muted autoplay loop).
• Fixed: Board import into empty category. [Arne Bochem]
• Fixed: Plugin option mess from previous version. [Luchs]

2.29.5 (2014-06-13)

• Changed: Avoid problems when plugins overwrite $_.
• Changed: Avoid more potential $_ problems.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Private message markup for additional recipients. [Luchs]
• Fixed: Ticket lookup etc. with SQLite. [tyatsumi]
• Removed: Custom SQLite collation.

2.29.4 (2014-03-18)

• Added: Authz plugin call for sending private messages.
• Added: Embed attached images by default with $cfg->{attachImgDef}.
• Changed: Browser and country statistics use current Google Chart types.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.11.0.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: SQL error with table prefix in topic_merge and branch_move.
• Fixed: Don't try to block some forms of external searches.
• Removed: Google Image Charts (deprecated by Google).

2.29.3 (2013-10-07)

• Added: User activity page.
• Added: Support for mod_perl on Apache 2.4.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Syntax error in captcha module. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: Multi-name autocompletion with current jQuery. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Privacy option didn't hide info from unreg., changed description.

2.29.2 (2013-08-25)

• Added: Existing post and upvote views on user admin page.
• Added: Support SMTP authentication and SSL with Net::SMTP.
• Added: Support HTTP::Tiny for reCAPTCHA.
• Added: Support HTTP::Tiny for attaching linked images.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Policy page redirection loop with CGI. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: Username autocompletion with CGI.
• Removed: Manual configuration of SMTP authentication mechanism.

2.29.1 (2013-06-08)

• Added: Click-through policy agreement.
• Changed: Enable fullscreen for YT/Vimeo HTML5 videos with some browsers.
• Changed: Don't use Captcha::reCAPTCHA module for reCAPTCHA anymore.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.10.1.
• Fixed: topUserLink include plugin interface. [Tobias Zwick]
• Fixed: No login registration hint when limited to admins. [John Cooper]
• Removed: Google keyword highlighting (rarely included in refs anymore).
• Removed: Optional display of IP addresses to everybody.

2.29.0 (2013-03-15)

• Added: User registration name availability check (AJAX).
• Changed: Don't send HSTS headers anymore when sslOnly is enabled.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.9.1.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Switching between instant and digest subscriptions.
• Fixed: Example Files/FilesMatch mismatch. [Janusz Wiśniewski]
• Fixed: HTML-escaped board titles in emails. [Florian Graier]
• Fixed: JSON output in case of AJAX script errors.
• Removed: Troublesome Win32 CryptoAPI support.

2.27.4 (2012-10-31)

• Added: Post upvoting.
• Added: Log entry expiration.
• Added: Show subscribed topics on user info pages.
• Changed: Use $cfg->{dbTableOpt} instead of various options/params.
• Changed: Dropped Expires header to enable bfcache with Firefox/SSL.
• Changed: Use SSL for reCAPTCHA when forum uses it.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.8.2.
• Fixed: Keyboard navigation over topic page boundaries.
• Fixed: Anonymous posting request source auth error.

2.27.3 (2012-07-31)

• Added: Safer upgrade.pl execution with fork() for shell-less admins.
• Changed: Improved read time handling when moving topic branches.
• Changed: Show and search usernames by default on user list page.
• Changed: Only accept email addresses for forgot-password requests.
• Changed: Allow password lengths from 8 to ∞ and all Unicode chars.
• Changed: Restored previous md5() function behaviour.
• Fixed: Escaping of topic subjects in email notifications. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Data version increment with upgrade.pl.
• Fixed: Category toggling.
• Fixed: Gravatar display.

2.27.2 (2012-06-30)

• Added: Show existing number of posts on user info pages.
• Added: Subscription emails include unsubscribe and post links.
• Changed: Unified subscription and notification email layout.
• Changed: Subscription emails use users' language and timezone.
• Changed: Security enhancements for password hashing and auth tokens.
• Changed: Limit forum info details page to $cfg->{cfgAdmins}.
• Changed: Remove msg params from URLs with history.replaceState.
• Changed: Improved board/topic statistics update performance.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Bounced email always gets user deleted when using cron_bounce.
• Fixed: Negotiated language was used wrongly for new users.
• Fixed: Syntax error in small screen @media rule.

2.27.1 (2012-05-31)

• Added: Username autocompletion (AJAX).
• Added: Font, mod/ban reason, user title etc. autocompletion (HTML5).
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Improved read time handling when merging topics.
• Changed: Only show messenger field to registered users.
• Fixed: Archiving with MySQL.
• Fixed: Unresized uploaded avatars. [Tobias Zwick]
• Removed: Email address display to non-admins.
• Removed: User selection via listbox.
• Removed: Deprecated SEO rewriting.
• Removed: URL-based sessions.

2.27.0 (2012-04-08)

• Added: Notifying users about posts.
• Added: Mods can turn image embeds into attachments with Ctrl-Click.
• Added: Output of uname, uptime, free and df on forum info details page.
• Added: Support fully quoted expression with PgSQL fulltext search.
• Added: Script that scales all gallery avatars to configured size.
• Changed: Gallery avatars can have non-ASCII filenames.
• Changed: Allow reporting of one's own posts.
• Changed: Prefix msg/reply/ping notification email subjects with type.
• Changed: Show name/caption/size tooltip for embedded attachments.
• Changed: Unified image resizing and thumbnailing code.
• Changed: Reset subscriptions when admin is removing user's address.
• Changed: Don't copy OpenID to old usernames when setting name.
• Changed: Don't use unreliable env vars for spawned scripts.
• Changed: Only sign encrypted emails.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Process spawning for emu/manual-cronjobs under CGI.
• Fixed: Topic merging left behind poll and subscription entries.
• Fixed: Filename encoding issues.
• Removed: Prev/next board/topic navigation.
• Removed: JS-based autofocus.
• Removed: XHTML mode.

2.26.0 (2012-02-15)

• Added: Quick branch moving: Ctrl-Click post, Alt-Click new parent.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Use SSL for YouTube and Vimeo when forum uses it.
• Fixed: Embedded YouTube video when based on HTML5.
• Fixed: Don't stop dbToDisplay() on invalid video tag content.
• Fixed: Don't require country flags to use GeoIP for Google Maps.
• Fixed: Apostrophes in language strings passed to JS.
• Removed: Google AJAX forum search (deprecated by Google).
• Removed: Microsummary for Live Titles (removed in Firefox 6).

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Escape brackets in URLs to avoid display-time tag corruption.
• Fixed: JS-based parent-post navigation over page boundaries.

2.25.2 (2012-01-21)

• Added: Multi-file and drag&drop attachment upload with HTML5.
• Added: Prev/next navigation on attachment page.
• Added: Click to zoom images on attachment page.
• Added: Add JS-based parent-post navigation to history.
• Changed: Don't normalize all URLs to tagged format with link text.
• Changed: Allow square brackets in URLs when not tagged with link text.
• Changed: Scripts can use $cfg->{dbCitext} option instead of -i param.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: SQL error when adding topics. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: Undo removal of dbSchema, needed for multi-forums.

2.25.1 (2011-12-10)

• Added: Log page.
• Added: Board/topic export/import between mwForums.
• Added: Check whether cookies work on login pages (AJAX).
• Added: Purging posts by username.
• Added: List matching posts when purging users.
• Changed: Delay watch notif. and instant subs. for unapproved posts.
• Changed: Use SSL for Google APIs and Gravatar when forum uses it.
• Changed: Frontend proxy can signal SSL usage to backend server.
• Changed: Adapt OpenID to changes in Net::OpenID::Consumer.
• Changed: Make most input field sizes CSS-based.
• Changed: Merged logStrings table into log table.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.7.1.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Purge users/posts matching all instead of any criteria.
• Changed: Purge users by exact username match only.
• Fixed: Multiple spam purging errors.
• Fixed: Delete raw post body when setting body to "[deleted]".
• Fixed: Board jumplist script broke topic moving. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Admins with HTML5 browsers couldn't remove email addresses.
• Fixed: Table prefix error in old upgrade code.
• Removed: Topic hit counting.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Highlighting of quoted search terms using MySQL FTS.
• Fixed: Double-stemming of words using PgSQL FTS.
• Fixed: Login didn't mark old posts as old.

2.25.0 (2011-09-09)

• Added: Simple style.
• Added: Print media style rules.
• Added: Preview for post editing.
• Added: Indexed fulltext search for PgSQL.
• Changed: Make URL-based login sessions optional.
• Changed: Moved jsparams to validator-compatible data attribute.
• Changed: Disable PgSQL prep. statements, bound params hurt optimizer.
• Changed: Prepare for UTF-8 changes in DBD::Pg 3.0.
• Changed: Removed deprecated SQLite pragma.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.6.2.
• Changed: Deprecated SEO rewriting.
• Fixed: All page 1 noindex'ed when using SEO rewriting.
• Fixed: Work around Opera bug with horizontal SVG gradients.
• Fixed: Multiple XSS vulnerabilities.

2.24.0 (2011-05-01)

• Added: HTML5 "required" attributes.
• Added: Hidden option to force scriptUrlPath for all URLs.
• Added: Hidden options to enable noarchive and/or nosnippet robot metas.
• Changed: Style changes for IE9, no more filters for IE8-.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.5.2.
• Fixed: SQL error with temp tables and prefixes. [Daði Jónsson]

2.23.1 (2011-02-26)

• Added: Forum option to make user-posted links open in new tabs.
• Changed: Page number link scheme.
• Changed: Embed videos with iframes to let providers select Flash or HTML5.
• Changed: Preselect ignored/watched user when coming from their info page.
• Changed: Allow all characters except necessary delimiters in URLs.
• Changed: Improved Accept-Language negotiation.
• Changed: Use negotiated instead of default language for new users.
• Changed: Delete never-logged-in users on email bounces.
• Changed: Updated jQuery to version 1.4.4.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Message notification formatting with multiple recipients.
• Fixed: Accidentally merging a topic with itself deletes it. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Accumulating FORUM IS LOCKED messages.

2.23.0 (2010-11-06)

• Added: User country statistics.
• Added: Forum activity statistics.
• Added: Uploaded image resizing.
• Added: Google AJAX forum search mode.
• Added: IPv6 support.
• Added: IP address expiration.
• Added: Blocking of forum searches from outside search form.
• Changed: Simplified bans, banned users can't do anything anymore.
• Changed: Use backup request source auth values to avoid error messages.
• Changed: Flag display requires userFlags option in addition to geoIp.
• Changed: Ignore keystrokes on topic page when in (addon) textarea.
• Changed: Make threading notifications available without reports enabled.
• Changed: Don't limit dupecheck to timeframe.
• Changed: Don't IP-block registered users.
• Changed: Allow comments in IP blocks.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: dbToDisplay() ends when undefined :tag: is found.
• Fixed: Fatal error when using invalid format for ipBlocks. [John Cooper]
• Fixed: RSS date format on servers with non-English locale. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Persistency of board selection during attachment search. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Margin size of forms with IE7.

2.22.0 (2010-07-03)

• Added: Text snippets for posts.
• Added: Skip :tag: replacement for users with showDeco off with "!" prefix.
• Changed: Expand/collapse all branches with Numpad-* or Shift-Click on +/-.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Removed: Experimental Drizzle support.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: A dash of light blue to the Default2 style.
• Changed: Improved tracking and display of focused post.
• Fixed: Some new/old tracking features for guests on topic pages.
• Fixed: IE inserting tag buttons outside of text field. [Daði Jónsson]

2.21.3 (2010-06-09)

• Added: Keyboard navigation of posts.
• Added: AJAX support for addons.
• Added: HTML5 video with [vid=html].
• Added: Skip buttons for :tags: with "?" prefix.
• Added: Can force browsers to reload files via version in data path.
• Added: tagButtons include plugin subtype, replaces default code.
• Changed: Use jQuery-based Javascript.
• Changed: Replaced client-side with server-side category hiding.
• Changed: Replaced smiley substitution with integrated smiley :tag: pack.
• Changed: Make parameters in mwf.p accessible to JS addons.
• Changed: Moved Q&A captcha configuration to forum options page.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: JS-side tooltip titles for +/- branch collapsing buttons.
• Fixed: Removed 30s debug sleep in instant subscription script.
• Removed: Differentiation between normal and advanced forum options.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Don't require Net::CIDR::Lite unless IP blocking is used.
• Fixed: Persistency of selected categ/board during forum search.

2.21.2 (2010-05-13)

• Added: Raw post bodies for source code etc.
• Added: IP blocking with CIDR and range support.
• Added: userUserLink and userAdminLink include plugin subtypes.
• Added: Tooltip of forum option names shows default value.
• Added: Script file extension global forum option.
• Changed: Use scrollbars for oversized embedded attached/external images.
• Changed: Pass user param to userProfileLink and userOptionsLink plugins.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Unordered poll results under some circumstances.
• Fixed: paramStr() always trimmed whitespace.
• Fixed: OpenPGP support.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Some more HTML5 attributes and other small changes.
• Changed: Only show Geolocate button when Google Maps are enabled.
• Fixed: HTML error with polls.

2.21.1 (2010-04-15)

• Added: Pseudo-pagination on New/Unread Posts overview pages.
• Added: Enable multiple message display plugins.
• Added: topicData include plugins can add CSS classes to posts.
• Added: Use HTML5 (backwards-compatible).
• Added: HTML5 geolocation insertion for user location field.
• Added: HTML5 input element types for user profile/options.
• Added: HTML5 autofocus attributes.
• Changed: Use <code> for [tt] for HTML5.
• Changed: Got rid of <br> outside of user content for HTML5.
• Changed: Merged various updates of current user into one query.
• Changed: Filter out Unicode bidi control characters.
• Changed: Dropped pointless defaults for database columns.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Temporary avatar files didn't get deleted.
• Fixed: Resized avatar files didn't get chmodded.
• Fixed: Error output when running install/upgrade.pl through CGI.
• Fixed: Global feed updating without rssExclude set. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Another potential SQL placeholder bug.
• Removed: Remaining IE6 workaround.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Various tweaks to new/old tracking for guests.

2.21.0 (2010-03-12)

• Added: New/old tracking for guests.
• Added: Mark Read button on board level.
• Added: Forum search features for attachment list.
• Added: Experimental DNSBL-based antispam method.
• Added: Forum option for sites with mandatory SSL.
• Added: Forum options to include static HTTP headers and HTML.
• Added: Board and topic subscription views on user admin page.
• Added: Message display plugin example for embedding attachments.
• Added: upgrade.pl can use -i param to enable citext type for PgSQL.
• Added: PgSQL schema can be set with $cfg->{dbSchema}.
• Changed: Fresh-up of the Default2 style.
• Changed: Headers can show wrapped text thanks to CSS gradients.
• Changed: Use base post as default target for moving topic-level branches.
• Changed: Don't rename non-image attachments with same base name.
• Changed: Widgets must opt-in to get auto-focus with fcs CSS class.
• Changed: Don't list redundant users in group/ignore/watch selection lists.
• Changed: Split off userVariables table from variables table.
• Changed: Use temp tables instead of potentially very long IN() lists.
• Changed: Replaced query debug output with better query log file.
• Changed: Tweaked language used for topic vs. post replies.
• Changed: Ask for missing forum version entry during upgrade.
• Fixed: userDataExp code could delete forum version entry.
• Fixed: HTML error with search results excl. body.
• Fixed: Editing posts with multiline linked URLs.
• Fixed: Topic pages jumped to "unread" posts for guests.
• Fixed: Unordered topics on board pages under some circumstances.
• Fixed: Don't show avatar size hint if uploading is disabled.
• Removed: Subject-only mode of forum search results.
• Removed: Sorting of forum search results by user.
• Removed: fallbackStyle forum option.
• Removed: secureLogin user option.

2.20.0 (2009-12-16)

• Changed: Show search results incl. body more like posts.
• Changed: Use MEDIUMTEXT with MySQL by default.
• Fixed: Don't show unapproved posts in search results.
• Fixed: Missing execution messages for watch list editing.
• Fixed: Edited user when admin edits users' word watch list.
• Fixed: Nesting correction of URL tags with other tags.
• Fixed: SQL error when searching subjects for nothing.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Use native named placeholders with PgSQL.
• Fixed: Google Maps without GeoIP. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: Image and video tag insertion. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: XHTML error in user_topics.pl.

2.19.3 (2009-11-07)

• Added: Instant subscriptions.
• Added: Content Security Policy support.
• Added: topUserLink include plugin subtype.
• Added: LDAP login authentication plugin example.
• Added: Non-header-parsing mailx mailer support.
• Added: Enable multiple include plugins of the same subtype.
• Changed: Login authentication plugins can return error message.
• Changed: Always show advanced forum search options.
• Changed: Skip hidden boards in forum search.
• Changed: Fork cron emu and manual cronjobs to prevent timeouts.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Avoid multiple cron emu starts with transactional DBs.
• Fixed: Login page behavior if login auth plugin is used.
• Fixed: Archive table creation with PgSQL 8.0 to 8.2.
• Fixed: More issues caused by PgSQL 8.3's removed type conversions.
• Fixed: SQL error with board archiving. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: SQL error with archiving and table prefixes. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Some group-not-found error messages.
• Fixed: XSS vulnerability in custom fields during registration.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Redirection from user name page.
• Fixed: Subject search results contained all topic-level posts.

2.19.2 (2009-09-13)

• Added: Order user admin list by last online time.
• Added: MwfMainLocal.pm can override and add methods.
• Added: Hidden options for thumbnailing thresholds.
• Added: topicData, postHeader and userInfo include plugin subtypes.
• Added: Net::SMTP mailer support.
• Changed: Simplified avatar hint text, include max. upload size.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Re-added dbQuote(), required by old upgrade scripts.
• Removed: Post rating (custom implementations can use plugins).

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Smileys and :tags: in attachment captions.
• Fixed: Subjects could be edited via any topic-level post. [Daði Jónsson]

2.19.1 (2009-08-16)

• Added: Google maps on user info pages.
• Added: GeoLite City support on user info pages.
• Added: Image processing support for Imager, Graphics::Magick.
• Added: Moderated-user plugin example.
• Added: Pie charts for browser statistics.
• Added: Various hidden options.
• Changed: Make browser statistics public.
• Changed: Email notification subjects include name and topic.
• Changed: Increased quality of thumbnail JPEGs from 70 to 90.
• Changed: Display plugins can ask dbToDisplay() to do "safe" stuff only.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Multiple recipients when replying to a PM.
• Removed: Yahoo search.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: Attachment captions can be edited.
• Changed: Topic replies are now actual topic-level posts.
• Changed: Various changes related to topic-level posts.
• Changed: Show caption instead of size in image gallery.
• Changed: Only show threading hint if user has < 10 posts.
• Fixed: Topic reply status was lost after post age reminder.

2.19.0 (2009-07-09)

• Added: Topic replies.
• Added: Attachment captions.
• Added: Separate user profile page.
• Added: Multipurpose user profile field with markup.
• Added: Active Time and Style Snippets views on user admin page.
• Added: Separate option for max. posts on forum overview page.
• Added: Wrapper div style option for styles like Rybka.
• Added: Hints for board subscriptions and user ignoring.
• Added: More detailed browser stats on forum info page.
• Added: HTML5 video element plugin example.
• Changed: Use CSS sprites instead of many small icons.
• Changed: Include stylesheet for style-independent rules.
• Changed: Moved board admin bar to board info page.
• Changed: Limited user admin bar to user info page.
• Changed: Package MwfConfigGlobal as MwfConfigGlobalDefault.
• Changed: Don't auto-tag URL after ] to allow plugin to use URL.
• Changed: Show hints, errors and exec messages in similar boxes.
• Changed: Replaced selection captcha with question/answer.
• Changed: Treat animated PNG like animated GIF avatars.
• Changed: Various small OpenPGP improvements.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Decode UTF-8 from GnuPG.
• Fixed: Embedding of videos when/where they shouldn't.
• Fixed: Group name linking on board info pages for forum admins.
• Fixed: Emphasize new edit time even if post is new.
• Fixed: Thumbnail filenames could collide. [Tobias Zwick]
• Fixed: Table prefix errors on user admin page. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Adding multiple group members via listbox. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Board position changing. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Default default style for early errors.
• Fixed: Forum purging didn't delete users.
• Removed: PGP backward compatibility option.
• Removed: OpenID icon next to usernames.
• Removed: dataBaseUrl option (prepend to $cfg->{dataPath} and attachUrlPath).
• Removed: buttonIcons option (styleOptions is enough).

2.18.0 (2009-05-23)

• Added: Unicode collation support for SQLite.
• Changed: Replaced built-in Silk smileys with Fugue smileys.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: icon_openid.png was missing from downloads.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Report deleting.

2.17.3 (2009-05-15)

• Added: Various aggregated views on user admin page.
• Added: Built-in video tag for YouTube and Vimeo.
• Added: Removal of admin/mod rights when banning.
• Added: Experimental support for Drizzle.
• Added: Support for citext type in install.pl for PgSQL 8.4.
• Changed: Reveal ignored posts with DHTML.
• Changed: Post reporting can be disabled.
• Changed: Allow banned users to remove notifications.
• Changed: Expired non-vital user data includes absent ignored users.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Searching in numeric user fields with PgSQL.
• Fixed: Forum overview incl. moderated boards with PgSQL.
• Fixed: On post attachments page, only link images to image page.
• Fixed: Post deleting didn't check topic/post locks.
• Fixed: Unrelated colons could prevent :tags: from working.
• Fixed: Honeypot captcha wouldn't catch anything. [Eazyjd]
• Removed: User ban list (merged into user admin page).

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Fixed: Replaced Default style in MwfDefaults.pm, too.
• Fixed: Blog topic migration.

2.17.2 (2009-04-07)

• Added: Post and branch locking.
• Added: Topic creator = topic moderator board option.
• Added: Sending PMs to multiple recipients.
• Added: Adding/removing multiple group members at once.
• Added: Link from global forum_overview pages to topic level.
• Changed: Can search for posts by members of non-public groups.
• Changed: Users are allowed to rate their own posts.
• Changed: Use fallback if user's selected style is missing.
• Changed: Prevent editing topics/posts that user once had access to.
• Fixed: Unread Posts link on topic pages shows current unread posts.
• Fixed: Post rating link was shown in locked topics.
• Removed: Old Default style.
• Removed: Blogs.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: Optional tag insert buttons for all custom styles.
• Changed: Custom styles moved to forum option and included inline.
• Changed: Use "!" as prefix for group names in username input fields.
• Fixed: Remove custom style tags from emails.

2.17.1 (2009-03-16)

• Added: Group admins.
• Added: Open (joinable) groups.
• Added: Refresh button on forum_overview page.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Don't show SQL error for non-existent blog.
• Fixed: Change usernames of posts when users rename themselves.
• Removed: Direct board membership and moderatorship (use groups).

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Allow custom style tag names with any number of characters.
• Fixed: XSS vulnerability caused by the SQL placeholder changes.
• Fixed: Problems with uppercase style tags. [Daði Jónsson]

2.17.0 (2009-03-01)

• Added: User badges.
• Added: Custom style tag.
• Added: User account comment field for admins.
• Added: Admins can edit users' ignore and watch lists.
• Added: Show ban status to admins on user info pages.
• Added: Show list of other users' updates on blog page.
• Added: Forum search for posts by group members (!groupname).
• Added: Show warning before replying to posts older than x days.
• Added: Hidden forum options for various hardcoded numbers (see FAQ.html).
• Added: Documentation for various hidden forum options.
• Added: Separate page for admin user options.
• Added: Include plugin subtype early.
• Changed: Plugins can stop requests.
• Changed: Use SQL placeholders everywhere.
• Changed: Tentatively require DBI 1.30 and DBD::mysql 2.9002.
• Changed: locked forum option is now text displayed when in lockdown.
• Changed: Don't linkify usernames of posts when user doesn't exist anymore.
• Changed: Only show Mark Old/Read and New/Unread buttons when usable.
• Changed: Reorder some buttons to have them appear in fixed places.
• Changed: Add session id to internal links in posts when displaying.
• Changed: Remove session id from internal links when posting.
• Changed: Don't show error if session id isn't valid.
• Changed: Copy user info page admin links to user options page.
• Changed: Admins can set users' email addresses to empty.
• Changed: Don't redirect to login page after registration.
• Changed: Skip origin redirection after errors.
• Changed: Allow ) in manual [url] tags.
• Changed: Always set MySQL sql_mode.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Unregistered usernames in reply notifications emails. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Ratings of deleted branches didn't get deleted.
• Fixed: Pagination bug with 9 pages.
• Fixed: Don't allow PMs addressed to nobody. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: PgSQL < 8.2 and SQLite can't use UPDATE x AS. [Michael Stevens]
• Fixed: PgSQL 8.3 won't auto-convert types anymore in some cases.
• Fixed: PgSQL syntax fix when deleting all private messages.
• Fixed: Subscriptions cronjob was missing multi-forum code.
• Fixed: OpenID registrants got rename notification despite nickname.
• Fixed: Some in-post messages didn't use the default language. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Posts in locked topics can't be deleted anymore. [Tobias Jaeggi]
• Fixed: Removing topic tags. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: Name link on user option pages was shown to admins.
• Fixed: Don't try to upgrade arc_boards table with SQLite.
• Fixed: Mention upgrading of language modules to UTF-8.
• Fixed: Missing user renaming execution message.
• Removed: ID Selector support.

2.16.0 (2008-10-26)

• Added: Private message export.
• Added: Board splitting (topic mass-moving).
• Added: Users can rename themselves a limited number of times.
• Added: Track former usernames and display them on user info page.
• Added: Send notifications to users who don't observe thread structure.
• Changed: Don't enforce forum lockdown during login.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Check if submitted topic tags exist.
• Removed: Anonymous posts by registered users.

2.15.1 (2008-08-29)

• Added: Mass-setting of user values.
• Added: Optionally allow unregistered guests to specify username.
• Added: Reminder that the report form isn't a reply form.
• Added: CSS classes for topics on board page with new/unr posts.
• Added: ID Selector support.
• Changed: Enable Default2 style by default.
• Changed: Create polls with textarea for quick pasting of prepared polls.
• Changed: Extended max. poll option length to 60 characters.
• Changed: Send notifications for unapproved posts after approval.
• Changed: Crosslinks to promoted topics use pid to survive later topic merge.
• Changed: util_replace.pl only loads one post at once, not whole table twice.
• Changed: Interpret input that isn't valid UTF-8 as Latin1.
• Changed: Do Unicode normalization under mod_perl only, for performance reasons.
• Changed: Replaced Perl constants with vars to avoid mod_perl reload log spam.
• Changed: Updated YouTube example with fullscreen parameters.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Crosslink posts pointing to themselves as next new/unread.
• Fixed: Case-insensitive search with util_replace.pl.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: Board archiving UI.
• Added: Include plugin interface for tag buttons.
• Changed: Create archive tables automatically.
• Fixed: Board moderator list showing "ARRAY". [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Button link include plugin parameter issues.

2.15.0 (2008-06-28)

• Added: Archiving.
• Added: Board merging.
• Added: Basic HTML export.
• Added: Yahoo site search.
• Added: Akismet spam checking.
• Added: Linkifying embedded images.
• Added: More include plugin interfaces.
• Changed: Require MySQL 4.1, Perl 5.8.1.
• Changed: Always use Unicode/UTF-8 encoding.
• Changed: Attachments can use characters available in filesystem encoding.
• Changed: Allow branch promote/move in non-threaded boards.
• Changed: Accept uppercase [tags].
• Changed: Use SQL subqueries where it's faster or saves memory.
• Changed: Only cache user status where it can help performance.
• Changed: Don't send forgot-password emails to freshly registered users.
• Changed: Don't send forgot-password emails more than once in half an hour.
• Changed: Admin user search for various identity fields includes IP.
• Changed: Attachment list includes files from boards with limited upload.
• Changed: Don't pretend stuff doesn't exist if access is denied.
• Changed: Unified misc. access error messages.
• Changed: Don't list crosslink posts in feeds.
• Changed: Include robots-noindex in all error pages.
• Changed: Don't limit empty forum search to 30 days.
• Changed: Post rating doesn't require board write access anymore.
• Fixed: User admin page doesn't show Gravatars.
• Fixed: SQL injection vulnerability. [ash]
• Fixed: List crosslink posts in overview, so they get marked read. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Feed generation with PgSQL. [Michael Stevens]
• Fixed: Next-topic-page link when SEO rewriting is enabled.
• Fixed: Only generate blog feeds if blogs are public.
• Fixed: Google search keyword highlighting.
• Removed: noCacheHeaders forum option.

2.14.0 (2008-04-08)

• Fixed: Untranslated German blog expiration note. [Matthias Althaus]

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Google site search only searches forum, not whole domain.
• Changed: Don't scroll to first new/unread post when showing poll results.
• Fixed: Blog page works with only topic id specified.
• Fixed: Error with watch words/users during topic adding.
• Fixed: Removing watch words with escaped characters. [Matthias Althaus]

2.13.3 (2008-03-27)

• Added: URL rewriting for search engine optimization purposes.
• Added: Forum search max. age limit for performance reasons.
• Added: Forum search can be limited to registered users.
• Added: Last cronjob execution/duration on forum info page.
• Changed: Merged subscription, variable, birthday, ignore/watch expiration.
• Changed: Shell scripts take multi-forum id via -f param, not as first arg.
• Changed: More utility shell scripts print usage instructions.
• Changed: Moved performance forum options to other sections.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Removed: skipNew/UnreadComp forum options.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: Scroll to posts with JS for new/unread posts, too.
• Changed: OpenID SREG 1.1 namespace for OpenID 2.0 compatibility.
• Changed: Remove fragment IDs from OpenID URLs.
• Changed: Only show visible boards on public group info page.
• Changed: One more board page optimization.
• Fixed: OpenID escaping issue affecting origin redirection.
• Fixed: Image attachment embedding tags. [Daði Jónsson]

2.13.2 (2008-03-07)

• Added: Watch users.
• Added: Watch words.
• Added: Google site search.
• Added: Groups can be public.
• Added: Deleting all attachments of one post.
• Added: Searching for nothing again lists latest posts.
• Added: Server timezone with automatic DST also returns.
• Added: Scroll to posts with JS, works with embedded images.
• Added: CSS rule to limit external embedded images to post width.
• Added: Case-insensitive search with SQLite in UTF-8 mode.
• Added: More admin statistics on forum info page.
• Added: util_fill.pl and util_migratedb.pl scripts.
• Added: Show EXPLAIN output with SQL queries in debug mode.
• Added: IP recording can be disabled.
• Added: Quoting help entry.
• Changed: Limit number of notifications for one user to 200.
• Changed: Use request-wide transactions instead of manual ones.
• Changed: Work around Perl bug with s/// on tied hashes for PgSQL.
• Changed: Use basic hash wrapper for PgSQL instead of Hash::Case.
• Changed: Search, forum page and various other optimizations.
• Changed: Revised upgrade instructions.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: DROP INDEX syntax for PgSQL and SQLite.
• Fixed: Missing attachment error messages.
• Removed: Configurable email regexp.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Average post ratings get recalculated in main cronjob.
• Fixed: Board page optimization in 2.13.0 was odd, is faster now.

2.13.1 (2007-12-20)

• Added: Post rating.
• Added: Gravatar support.
• Added: Show attachments in search result and forum_overview pages.
• Added: Forum option to hide user info pages from unregistered visitors.
• Added: Video embedding message display plugin example.
• Changed: "Hide online status" is now a general privacy option.
• Changed: Show tag alt/title text in topic tags list.
• Changed: If OpenPGP signing/encryption fails, don't send email.
• Changed: Cookies use httpOnly flag.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Delete poll votes when deleting user.
• Fixed: Repeated user title HTML-escaping on user options page (mod_perl).
• Fixed: Untranslated password fields on user registration page. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Page button link style in default.css. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Delete group member entries and reports when deleting users.
• Fixed: Remember-me checkbox didn't use configured default. [Constantin Pan]
• Fixed: Handle missing language file gracefully on forum info page. [Constantin Pan]
• Fixed: Category collapsing persistence if cookie domain or path is set. [John Cooper]
• Fixed: Deleting user with gallery avatar also deleted file. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Attachments upgrade in 2.9.2 should have failed for transactional databases.
• Removed: Post todo list, doesn't add anything that bookmarks can't do.
• Removed: Mark old manually user option.
• Removed: Configurable signature boundaries.
• Removed: Most parameters for authz plugins.
• Removed: IP blocking.

2.13.0 (2007-11-01)

• Added: OpenID support.
• Added: Image attachment embedding tags.
• Added: Invisible Field and reCAPTCHA.net captchas.
• Added: Configurable attachment file extension exclusion.
• Added: Delete notifications when their links are followed.
• Added: Searching through multiple fields at once on user admin page.
• Added: Configurable permissions for mwForum-created files/dirs.
• Added: Image page that makes "Content-Disposition: attachment" more convenient.
• Changed: Allow replying to crosslink base posts.
• Changed: Separate error for usernames containing reserved string.
• Changed: Board page statistics query optimization gains 20% performance.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Removed dependency on buggy Image::Info from thumbnail code.
• Changed: Safeguard against Image::Info bug in avatar code.
• Fixed: Harmless HTML syntax errors.
• Fixed: Wrongly regexp-escaped search highlight parameters.

2.12.0 (2007-07-26)

• Fixed: Harmless HTML syntax errors.
• Fixed: robots-noindex logic was inverted.

2.11.2 (2007-07-10)

• Changed: License switch from GPLv2 or later to GPLv3 or later.
• Changed: Don't set post edit time if only topic subject changed.
• Changed: Always print robots-noindex for all pages but forum/board/blog/topic_show.
• Changed: Workaround for UTF-8 compatibility breakage in DBD::mysql.
• Changed: If using UTF-8 mode, Perl 5.8.1 is required because of above workaround.
• Fixed: Deleting posts with replies didn't delete attachments etc. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Private messages could be sent even if feature was disabled.

2.11.1 (2007-06-07)

• Added: Registration without email.
• Added: Notification message form for admins.
• Added: Microsummary support for Firefox Live Titles.
• Added: Optionally show post bodies in search results by default.
• Changed: Use main language for [deleted] messages.
• Changed: Sendmail options in $cfg->{sendmail} instead of hardcoded.
• Changed: Moved captcha code to separate module for customization purposes.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Changed: Bottom page bar in topic page returns.
• Fixed: Warning spam in error log.
• Fixed: Avatar resizing bugs. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: A few orphaned tags in forum_info. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Wrong page link to last page in blogs. [Петр Кузнецов]
• Fixed: Style of board descriptions of inaccessible boards.

2.11.0 (2007-03-10)

• Added: Button icons.
• Added: Per-style options.
• Added: Default2 style with new icons.
• Added: Board option to list board on forum page even if user has no access.
• Added: Pseudo-captchas for those lacking the image captcha Perl modules.
• Added: Forum option list can be toggled between simplified and advanced mode.
• Added: Option to always show advanced forum search inputs.
• Added: Set focus on text fields in some often used forms.
• Added: Don't-reply warning in subscription emails.
• Added: Login ticket link in registration emails.
• Changed: Combined board title and description cells.
• Changed: Remember-me login option instead of user option.
• Changed: User lists' search feature scans selectable field, not username.
• Changed: Flag size to 16x11 for flags from same author as other new icons.
• Changed: Better Image::Magick support for avatar resizing.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Faster query for new blog posts.
• Changed: Workaround for SQLite 3.3.5 random() compatibility breakage.
• Changed: Workaround for Perl 5.8.0 bug with "@timestamp".
• Changed: Allow board mod/member adding even if user already has status via group.
• Changed: Hide empty custom user fields on user info page like the rest.
• Fixed: Image::Info was required even if only gallery avatars were used.
• Fixed: RSS 2.0 feed post bodies weren't dbToDisplay()-filtered.
• Fixed: Remove control characters from input.
• Fixed: Board prev/next skipped boards only visible to registered users.
• Fixed: New attachment IDs weren't getting passed to event plugins.
• Fixed: Gallery avatars getting deleted after upload.
• Fixed: Missing captcha on topic add page. [eoe]
• Fixed: Untranslated user_topics.pl.
• Fixed: Problems with various checkbox lists and PgSQL. [Isaac Mushinsky]
• Removed: user_search.pl.

2.10.0 (2006-08-05)

• Changed: Admins can see all online users on forum page.
• Changed: All icons use PNG format now, styles need updating.

2.9.2 (2006-07-29)

• Added: Multiple attachments per post.
• Added: Spam/troll account/post purging.
• Added: Automatic reformatting of avatar images.
• Changed: Use [[x]]-style placeholders for all language strings.
• Fixed: User search criteria.

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: Captcha support for private messages.
• Changed: Use much longer timeouts for post and message captchas.
• Fixed: More problems with invalid/missing images and thumbnails.

2.9.1 (2006-07-08)

• Changed: Detached post delete function from post edit page.
• Changed: Remove quotes from text before auto-quoting.
• Changed: Hide empty user profile fields on user info page.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Search SQL error if no boards are visible. [mevvis]

Changes only of interest to development release users:

• Added: Notifications of merged topics.
• Added: Captcha support for unregistered and all posts.
• Changed: Crosslink posts are optional.
• Fixed: Crosslink posts didn't use main language.
• Fixed: 2.9.0 upgrade script errors. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Image gallery pagination. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Problems with invalid/missing images and thumbnails.

2.9.0 (2006-05-20)

• Added: Image gallery.
• Added: Captcha images.
• Added: FastCGI support.
• Added: Topic subscriptions.
• Added: Notification message system.
• Added: Crosslink posts for promoted topic branches.
• Added: Attachment uploading can be limited to admins/mods.
• Added: Embedded attached images can be displayed as thumbnails.
• Added: Optional data base URL for load balancing and attachment security.
• Added: Warning message for admins if forum is currently locked.
• Added: Optional redirection with relative Location headers.
• Added: Signatures on user info pages.
• Changed: Board page performance optimizations for thousands of topics.
• Changed: Remove default MySQL stopwords from indexed search query.
• Changed: Renamed brdSubsExpirat to subsExpiration, affects topics, too.
• Changed: Don't jump to topic page with first new/unread post for guests.
• Fixed: Show decorations option wasn't set for new users. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Check board visibility for topic move and branch promote actions.
• Fixed: Attachment and user list nav up button.
• Fixed: Delete topics completely when deleting them by deleting the first post.

2.8.0 (2006-02-26)

• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: PgSQL upgrading.
• Removed: Old upgrade files, now come in a separate download.

2.7.3 (2006-02-19)

• Added: Subdirectories for style-dependent files.
• Added: Skipping of GeoIP flags for a selectable country.
• Changed: Simplified adv. search mode, now called indexed search mode.
• Changed: Moving topics doesn't require dest. board mod status anymore.
• Changed: Always limit passwords to ASCII, but allow special chars.
• Changed: Allow tagging of locked topics.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Set version variable for new installations.
• Fixed: Missing topic tag message. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Two more missing table prefixes. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Manual username input for user migration. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Fill custom fields on user reg. page with previous values. [Глеб Стальной]
• Fixed: Only show email notification checkbox to users who can use it.
• Fixed: SQL error when trying to send notifications to deleted users.

2.7.2 (2006-02-01)

• Added: Topic tags.
• Added: Blog feeds.
• Added: Predefined user titles.
• Added: Optionally show full posts on forum search page.
• Added: Show decorations user option (titles, ranks, smileys, topic tags).
• Added: Category and board position selection by listbox.
• Added: Warning about wrong charsets on forum info page.
• Added: Log login attempts with invalid passwords.
• Added: Ranks on user list page with post number column.
• Added: Missing user fields on user admin page.
• Changed: Replaced Atom 0.3 feeds with Atom 1.0 feeds.
• Changed: Moved all feed links to global feed page.
• Changed: Use new standard icon to link to feed page.
• Changed: Don't enforce edit time limit on board members.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Apostrophe wasn't escaped in URL parameters. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: HTML user titles/ranks.

2.7.1 (2005-12-22)

• Added: User ranks based on post count.
• Added: Move topic branches across topics.
• Added: Move topic branches and merge topics across boards.
• Added: Show report link for moderators on forum page again.
• Changed: Automatically HTML-escape policy text.
• Changed: Require destination board mod status for various mod actions.
• Changed: Only auto-approve posts by members in public boards.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Don't scroll textbox on tag insertion in Mozilla browsers. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Topic merge vulnerability.
• Fixed: Various missing table prefixes. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Moderators couldn't access reports page. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Messages from ignored users didn't appear in sentbox.
• Fixed: Wrongly HTML-escaped forum search words in page links. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Attachment list page board selection wasn't persistent.
• Fixed: Prefilled username fields on message and ignore pages.
• Fixed: Advanced search syntax help was only displayed to admins.

2.7.0 (2005-11-25)

• Added: PostgreSQL support.
• Added: Group members page.
• Added: Attachment list page.
• Added: Forum search pagination.
• Added: Forum search quote operators.
• Added: Forum search minimum age.
• Added: Forum search sorting.
• Added: Birthday expiration.
• Added: Message text display plugin interface.
• Added: Lists for user selection if less users than maxListUsers.
• Added: Move topic branches to parent posts other than first post.
• Added: Show HTTP headers in forum info under mod_perl for debugging.
• Added: Show expiration time below private message list.
• Changed: Search for substring in user lists, not prefix.
• Changed: Invalid sessions will only display note, not generate error.
• Changed: Use nameless timezones, don't use Date::Format anymore.
• Changed: Limit subscriptions to posts from last few days.
• Changed: Allow moderators access to board groups page.
• Changed: Also use X-Forwarded-Host as realHost for backend servers.
• Changed: CSS font tweaks for MSIE 5.x.
• Changed: Check board access before sending subscriptions and notifications.
• Fixed: Cronjob set all sourceAuth values to the same number (since 2.5.0).
• Fixed: Adding subscriptions for boards where user had group membership. [Peter Bauer]
• Fixed: SQL error reporting for dbDo(). [Peter Bauer]
• Fixed: Missing ban error message title.
• Fixed: Table name prefix bug in feeds cronjob. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: HTML error if only birthdays are shown in forum stats. [Daði Jónsson]
• Fixed: Anchor id on hidden post bar.
• Fixed: HTML standard requires <p> inside <blockquote>.
• Fixed: Delete cookies via past expiration dates, not empty values.
• Fixed: Group info page visible to everybody. [Peter Wortmann]
• Fixed: Non-approved replies visible to everybody. [Ian Pitcher]
• Fixed: Reserved username checking during registration.
• Fixed: Icon on sent message page was shown from recipient's perspective.
• Fixed: Report list didn't check moderator group membership. [Günther Brammer]
• Removed: Report link for moderators on forum page.
• Removed: classic.css style.
• Removed: Relevance-sorted and attachment search modes.

2.6.0 (2005-06-13)

• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Censor words in subject, too.
• Fixed: Default user option showImages wasn't used.
• Fixed: User options in variables table weren't deleted with user.
• Fixed: Expanding all topic branches didn't set icon titles/alts. [Tobias Zwick]
• Removed: Email plugin interfaces, never used.

2.5.4 (2005-05-30)

• Added: "(locked)" after subject of locked topics on topic and overview pages.
• Changed: Use single upgrade.pl file, starting with 2.3.2.
• Changed: Changed/removed some non-idempotent GET links.
• Changed: Local language modules compatible with Apache::Reload'ing.
• Changed: Custom user profile fields can contain 255 characters.
• Changed: Renamed homepage profile field to more generic "website".
• Changed: URLs in website field can be mixed with text and still get linkified.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Illegal birthyear default value, wasn't compatible with MySQL 5.0.
• Fixed: Upgrading from versions < 2.3.0. [Julian Zimmerle]
• Fixed: XSS vulnerability.

2.5.3 (2005-05-21)

• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: UTF-8 in configuration options.
• Fixed: Empty hash configuration options like styleSnippets. [Daði Jónsson]

2.5.2 (2005-05-20)

• Added: Style snippets.
• Added: Threaded display of forum_overview. [Günther Brammer]
• Changed: Don't show embedded [img] on forum_overview page.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Birthday on user info page was sticky under mod_perl.
• Fixed: Don't print HTTP header from forked cron job.
• Fixed: Todo list showed same topic for every post in it.
• Fixed: Reply list showed board bars with no posts for self-replies.
• Fixed: HTML title on message list page. [Matthias Althaus]
• Removed: Feed discovery, only attracts crappy browser RSS clients.

2.5.1 (2005-04-25)

• Added: Group permissions.
• Added: Login redirects to origin page.
• Added: Show embedded images user option.
• Added: Body HTML element gets the script name as CSS class.
• Added: Hiding of database error messages with $cfg->{dbHideError}.
• Changed: Split attachment upload from post edit page.
• Changed: Improved tag insertion cursor positioning.
• Changed: Revised redirection to origin pages.
• Changed: Merged page and admin bars.
• Changed: Use current apreq2 API.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Removed: Attachment plugin interface, use event.

2.5.0 (2005-03-30)

• Added: Cookieless login sessions.
• Added: SQLite database support.
• Added: Table name prefix support.
• Added: Birthdays.
• Added: Show file attachment size.
• Added: Show user title and avatar on user info page.
• Added: Show long description on board page (option boardPageDesc).
• Added: Support for different script filename extensions.
• Added: New/online users lists can be displayed to everybody.
• Added: Preserve users with posts during expiration (option noUserPostsExp).
• Changed: Combined forum page user statistics in a single stats box.
• Changed: Only show new users registered in last 5 days in stats box.
• Changed: Enabled tag buttons for Opera, supported since 8.0 beta 2.
• Changed: Centralized topic delete code to avoid incomplete code elsewhere.
• Changed: Quotes can contain markup and are stored highlighted in database.
• Changed: Link board title on board page and topic subject on topic page.
• Changed: No more new install/upgrade.sql files, use scripts instead.
• Changed: Use new Apache2 namespace in mod_perl 2.0 after RC4.
• Changed: Split user board options from user options page.
• Changed: Delete blog topics when deleting blog owner.
• Changed: Don't show comment IPs to blog owners.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Flag DBI-quoted strings as utf8 again. [FtoR]
• Fixed: Two untranslated strings.
• Fixed: Unapproved posting.
• Removed: Member checkboxes in user admin list, never used, always buggy.
• Removed: Score moderation, never really finished or useful.

2.4.x

Stable branch skipped due to lack of beta testers.

2.3.5 (2005-02-16)

• Added: Blogs.
• Added: Show number of users that ignore user on user info page to admin.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Merged quoteThreaded option into quote option, chatRegReq into chat.
• Fixed: Image tag was always enabled if markup was enabled. [FtoR]
• Fixed: Banned users couldn't see topics even when they should.
• Fixed: Admin changing other user's password.

2.3.4 (2005-01-30)

• Added: GeoIP support, shows user's country name and flag.
• Added: Optional full signatures with markup and no size limit (option fullSigs).
• Added: URL auto tags are back with safer detection.
• Changed: Restructured some forum option sections.
• Changed: Include board title in board feed titles.
• Changed: Allow 2-character usernames.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Uploaded avatars don't work in UTF-8 mode under CGI. [biolearner]
• Fixed: Minimum registration time broke unregistered posting. [drups]
• Fixed: Don't show poll form if board isn't writable for user.
• Removed: Per-post signatures.

2.3.3 (2005-01-15)

• Added: Wait time between registration and first post (option minRegTime).
• Added: User IP resolver script.
• Changed: Normalize space around quotes.
• Changed: Don't update user's timestamps if user just triggered cron emu.
• Fixed: Persistent variables weren't saved unless already existent. [Lucas Saud]
• Fixed: GPG fields missing from install-tables.sql.
• Removed: Subject regexp forum option.
• Removed: URL auto tags, back in 2.3.4.

2.3.2 (2004-12-31)

• Added: Attachments can be enabled per board.
• Changed: Optimized forum page performance if many boards are used.
• Changed: Optimized private message storage, only one copy per message.
• Changed: Use <blockquote> for quote highlighting.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Manual and emulated cronjob launching. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: Wrong user info link on sent message page.
• Fixed: Text::Flowed loading for quoting in non-threaded boards.
• Fixed: URL auto-tags could generate invalid HTML for nested URLs.

2.3.1 (2004-12-01)

• Added: Post preview.
• Added: :Tag: buttons.
• Added: Auto-closing of polls x days after topic creation (option pollLockTime).
• Added: Upgrade scripts and some utils can be executed over CGI.
• Added: Enforce that upgrade scripts can only be run once.
• Added: Show all SQL queries in debug mode.
• Changed: Optimized performance if many private boards are used.
• Changed: [Tag] and :tag: buttons are optional (option tagButtons).
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Initial admin password wasn't set to "admin". [Vincent Rivellino]
• Fixed: Reverted MwfCGI back to old implementation. [Ian Pitcher]
• Fixed: viewBoard authz plugin wasn't getting board parameter.
• Fixed: Board jumplist obeys viewBoard authz plugins.
• Fixed: Don't show hidden custom user fields in public user list.
• Fixed: Incomplete renaming of "forumId" to "cookiePrefix" and "options" to "variables".
• Fixed: Missing enableSecLogin forum option.

2.3.0 (2004-11-06)

• Added: URL tags.
• Added: [Tag] buttons.
• Added: Sent-box for private messages.
• Added: Optional error/warning log file.
• Added: Authentication plugin interfaces.
• Added: Separate form for password change.
• Added: GnuPG signing/encryption for emails.
• Added: Button to delete all read private messages.
• Added: Temporarily lock the whole forum (option locked).
• Added: Ticket links instead of forgotten password by email.
• Added: Ticket links instead of new password when email is changed.
• Added: Some warnings shown on page bottom for log ignorers.
• Added: util_cleancfg.pl deletes unneeded options from database.
• Added: Show full %INC and Apache environment on forum info page.
• Added: Unicode NFC normalization for all text input in UTF-8 mode.
• Added: Use quoted-printable for emails sent through commandline mailers.
• Added: DB error messages with full SQL in addition to often useless MySQL messages.
• Added: Support for MySQL 4.1 tables in UTF-8 format.
• Added: util_lang2utf8.pl creates UTF-8 versions of language modules.
• Added: Hook for custom options in MwfDefaultsLocal.pm.
• Changed: Use salted MD5 hash of passwords in cookies and database.
• Changed: Use utf8 for DB data, language strings and output in UTF-8 mode.
• Changed: Renamed "Forum Admin" to "Admin" and "Board Admin" to "Moderator".
• Changed: Moved option utf8 from forum_options.pl to MwfConfigGlobal.pm.
• Changed: Hide most admin info on forum info page unless Details button is used.
• Changed: Under mod_perl 2.0, "SetHandler perl-script" is again required.
• Changed: Only log email sending errors, don't show error page.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Stylesheets force vertical scrollbar.
• Changed: Reimplemented MwfCGI with CGI::Simple code.
• Changed: Moved search options to their own section.
• Changed: Shortened upgrade instructions, filenames.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Upgrade instructions, perform all DB upgrades first. [Sau Loon Tong]
• Fixed: Various UTF-8 issues.
• Fixed: Plugins couldn't return values.
• Fixed: Javascript post delete shortcut.
• Fixed: Email headers for bounce recognition.
• Fixed: Tag corrector catches more nasty nested tags, hopefully all.
• Fixed: Membership-setting on admin page would reset status of users on other pages.
• Fixed: Perl constant errors with Perl 5.8 under CGI. [Leo Grapendaal]
• Fixed: Search by user only allowed 15 chars for names. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Apache::Request 2.0 support under CGI.
• Fixed: Broken email sending. [Andrea Bianchi]
• Fixed: mod_perl button image on forum info page.
• Removed: Mark Read button on forum overview page.
• Removed: IE7 hack support.
• Removed: Built-in HTTP authentication, use request auth plugin instead.
• Removed: Option linkNewWindow, not compatible with URL tags.
• Removed: RSS 0.91 feeds.

2.2.0 (2004-08-08)

• Added: Link on user options page for SendGPG plugin.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.

2.1.3 (2004-08-04)

• Added: Apache::Request 2.0 support under CGI.
• Changed: Send/create email plugin interface parameters.
• Changed: First user (admin) doesn't get registration email at all.
• Changed: Use MwfMain::MP constants instead of $m->{modperl}.
• Changed: On errors occuring before language loading, default to English.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Warning spam from MwfEnglish.pm.
• Fixed: Upload disabled under mod_perl.
• Fixed: Escape system error messages.
• Fixed: Poll buttons were shown to guests on pages > 1.
• Fixed: Missing config table in install-tables.sql. [alexrait]
• Fixed: Fatal errors during init prevented fixing of options in forum_options. [alexrait]
• Removed: $gcfg->{ignoreModPerl}.

2.1.2 (2004-07-23)

• Added: Public user list.
• Added: Public user list's prefix/hide features for admin user list.
• Added: Mark Old for forum_overview when showing new posts for whole forum.
• Added: Mark Read for forum_overview when showing unread posts for whole forum.
• Added: Proper Accept-Language parsing with I18N::AcceptLanguage if available.
• Changed: Default email address validation regexp allows "+" in usernames.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: HTML error, sorting error on user admin page.

2.1.1 (2004-07-05)

• Added: HTTP authentication.
• Added: RSS 2.0 feeds.
• Added: Google search keyword highlighting.
• Added: Limiting of access to forum_options to specific admins.
• Added: forum_overview-based pages can be limited to boards and topics.
• Changed: Integrated Reply List and Todo List into forum_overview.
• Changed: Unread Posts page only marks displayed topics as read.
• Changed: Mark Read and Mark Old buttons on forum page.
• Changed: Use current Apache::Request 2.0 API for uploads.
• Changed: Board member's posts are always approved.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.

2.1.0 (2004-06-07)

• Added: Form-based configuration.
• Added: XHTML 1.1 (application/xhtml+xml) support.
• Added: Site navigation link tags.
• Added: Atom 0.3 feeds.
• Added: Hide online status user option.
• Added: Link to message in message notification emails.
• Added: Highlight post edit time if edited since last session.
• Added: Show note and exit on cronEmu-triggering requests.
• Added: Show %ENV on forum info page again.
• Added: Support for Dean Edwards' IE7 hack.
• Added: More .htaccess examples.
• Changed: Improved post abbreviations for RSS and tooltips.
• Changed: Clip message subject to max length after adding "Re:".
• Changed: Reveal hidden posts in unread overview links to topic.
• Changed: Show multiple reasons on hidden posts bar.
• Changed: Name of cgi directory in distribution is now "script".
• Changed: Only save post edit time if it has been 2min since posting.
• Changed: Prev/next topic redirects to board at the end of the sequence.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Avoid recursion with error printing.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Workaround for MSIE problems with avatars.
• Fixed: Allow avatar uploads when attachments are disabled.
• Fixed: CSS class for tag-embedded images. [Guenther Brammer]
• Fixed: Missing newline before auth header with sendmail.
• Fixed: Unescaped quote XSS vulnerability.
• Removed: HTTP hostname blocking.
• Removed: Referrer check.
• Removed: Statistics plugin interface.
• Removed: Filter plugin interface.

2.0.0 (2004-04-05)

• Added: Separate RSS feeds for boards.
• Added: Hidden-post bars for ignored posts on forum overview page.
• Changed: Documentation is in HTML.
• Changed: Moved RSS files to xml subdirectory.
• Changed: Only use #fp for logged-in users.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.

1.99.2 (2004-03-25)

• Added: Show board subscriptions in user/board info pages.
• Added: Optionally show newest and online users on forum page.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Board jumplist hidden when copyright message hidden. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Top bar didn't display configured forum name. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Topic merge form redirects to topic move script.
• Fixed: Policy title not shown.

1.99.1 (2004-03-23)

• Added: CSS-based strict HTML.
• Added: RSS 0.91 feeds.
• Added: Avatar gallery.
• Added: Flood control, optional x seconds pause between posts.
• Added: Browser stats and a few other fields for admins on forum info page.
• Added: Icon for answered private messages.
• Added: Configuration upgrade script (experimental until tested).
• Added: util_posts_sed renamed util_replace, can s&r in all fields.
• Changed: Report list shows full posts.
• Changed: Changed German from impersonal to formal.
• Changed: Optimized performance when looking for a topic's board page.
• Changed: post_misc and topic_move split up into separate pages.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: SQL error when resetting email flags while banning.
• Fixed: Jumping to a specific board page via tid=x with sticky topics present.
• Fixed: Chat display for unregistered users.
• Fixed: Bounce warning.
• Fixed: User agent field wasn't escaped.
• Removed: Long string breaking (not needed with new HTML).
• Removed: Forum statistics plugin.

1.19.0 (2004-02-15)

• Added: Topic merging.
• Added: User ignoring.
• Added: Bounced email handling.
• Added: Post formatting for post reports.
• Added: Expiration of accounts that have never been used.
• Changed: A few chat page changes, mostly for performance.
• Changed: Split off cron_subscriptions from cron_jobs.
• Changed: Board admins can add polls to all topics.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Missing request auth for user_delete and board_member/remove.
• Fixed: Quote highlighting when edit timestamp is displayed. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: postEditTime in 1.17.2 Upgrade.html must be showEditTime. [Vincent Rivellino]
• Fixed: Missing field posts.editTime in install-tables.sql. [Lucas Saud]

1.18.0 (2004-01-09)

• Added: SMTP authentication.

1.17.2 (2004-01-03)

• Added: Chat page.
• Added: Post edit timestamp.
• Added: Database query counter.
• Changed: Round page creation time.
• Changed: Round poll result percents instead of clipping them.
• Changed: Optimized boardVisible() and tag replacement.
• Changed: Added poll actions to the list of actions that don't cause read status.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Membership mode of user admin page.
• Fixed: Missing error string if admin renames user to existing name. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Syntax error in MwfConfig.pm. [Lucas Saud]
• Removed: Trolls (too many problems, unfortunately).
• Removed: $cfg->{showNewButtons}.
• Removed: $cfg->{qcache}.

1.17.1 (2003-12-02)

• Added: Page creation timer.
• Added: Cronjob can close huge topics.
• Added: Cronjob can close polls of locked topics.
• Added: Optional "user wrote:" prefix for quotes.
• Added: Show notice on topic page if poll is closed.
• Added: Additional DBI DSN parameters can be specified.
• Added: Experimental DateTime support.
• Changed: Optimized retrieval of big topics.
• Changed: Additional attachment directory layer to circumvent 32000 dir limit.
• Changed: Jump to topic's first unread post if available, first new post otherwise.
• Changed: Hide some of the user options when they're not used.
• Changed: Moved poll close/delete buttons to poll box.
• Changed: Changed a few configuration defaults.
• Changed: Restructured MwfConfig.pm.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Various fixes/changes to poll buttons. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Don't skip first poll option when adding polls. [Matthias Althaus]

1.17.0 (2003-11-07)

• Added: Avatar images.
• Added: Multiple-vote polls.
• Added: Include plugin interface for additional headers and HTML.
• Added: Replace :tags: in colons with configurable strings.
• Added: Time zone descriptions.
• Added: Experimental DBD::mysqlPP support.
• Changed: Board admins can lock and delete polls.
• Changed: Some forms use GET instead of POST.
• Changed: Don't put old password on user options page.
• Changed: Re-added $cfg->{noCacheHeaders}, use "Cache-Control: private" when off.
• Changed: Normalize multiple consecutive slashes in URL path for multi-forum support.
• Changed: Work around MySQL 4.x bug (?) causing unsorted MATCH relevance.
• Changed: Changed various column types to TINYINT.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: $env->{realHost} for CGI frontend/backend setups.
• Fixed: Load Time::Zone in user_options. [Lucas Saud]
• Fixed: Additional slash in user registration email link.
• Removed: $cfg->{redirect303} (always used for HTTP/1.1 now).
• Removed: Search result limit field.

1.16.0 (2003-09-23)

• Changed: Use semicolons instead of invalid ampersands in URLs.
• Changed: Added reset of font sizes to previous upgrade.sql.
• Changed: Some more changes to message and report link buttons.
• Changed: Don't allow votes in locked topics.
• Changed: Changed default time format to ISO.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: SQL error while changing email address. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Main bar messages for adding/deleting private messages. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Only show quote button for messages when quoting is enabled.
• Fixed: Added missing 1.15.1 upgrade instructions.
• Fixed: forum-id parameter for util_posts_sed.
• Removed: Regexp search mode (unused and way too slow).

1.15.1 (2003-09-02)

• Added: Private messages.
• Added: Optional deleting of sent private messages with user bans.
• Added: Optional resetting of email subscriptions/notifications with user bans.
• Changed: Reply notification default for own topics applies to all posts in topic.
• Changed: Stick/unstick isn't a toggle anymore but uses explicit parameter instead.
• Changed: Changed script names.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Reply notification default for new topic posts was ignored.
• Fixed: Language of email notifications was wrong in 1.15.0. [Philip Mak]

1.15.0 (2003-08-23)

• Added: Polls.
• Added: Trolls.
• Added: Multi-forum support.
• Added: Topic links jump to first new post in the topic.
• Added: Prefix @ to names of board admins in topics of their boards.
• Added: Separate quote and reply buttons in unthreaded boards.
• Added: Optional trash bin board for deleted topics.
• Added: forum.pl?bid=x redirects to board.
• Added: Configurable cookie domain.
• Added: Supports PerlSetupEnv Off, PerlSendHeader Off (mp1).
• Added: Supports PerlOptions -SetupEnv -ParseHeaders -GlobalRequest (mp2).
• Added: Supports Apache::RegistryBB (mp1) resp. ModPerl::RegistryBB (mp2).
• Added: Supports "modperl" handler in addition to "perl-script" handler (mp2).
• Changed: Better preserve multiple consecutive spaces in posts.
• Changed: Use MwfMain as an object, no more globals, no more exported functions.
• Changed: Adapted plugin interfaces to MwfMain objects and unified interface style.
• Changed: Lock/unlock isn't a toggle anymore but uses explicit parameter instead.
• Changed: Changed method of determining if a user has left a topic for read calc.
• Changed: $cfg->{maxPostsPP} is also used for new/unread posts and replies pages.
• Changed: Moved forum statistics to their own plugin that isn't used by default.
• Changed: Forum statistics only show active users/topics from the last 14 days.
• Changed: Board admins get forum admin bar with global reports link, too.
• Changed: Use pixels instead of points for font size option.
• Changed: Use MySQL's MD5() instead of Digest::SHA1.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Renamed doc files.
• Changed: Requires MySQL 3.23.17.
• Changed: Requires Perl 5.6.0.
• Changed: Restored old behaviour of (x new) link on board page
• Fixed: Wrong parameter name for user_migrate. [SPr]
• Fixed: "x new" link on board_show wasn't shown without $cfg{'linkShowNew'}.
• Fixed: "Go up a level" for sticky topics.
• Fixed: JPEG user title images.
• Fixed: References to old _x filenames in user_ban and user_migrate.
• Fixed: Syntax error in user_ban.
• Fixed: user.extra123 mixup. [Jon Evans]
• Fixed: Removed user_mark.
• Removed: $cfg->{showBoardCateg}, $cfg->{showTopicCateg}, $cfg->{showTopicBoard}.
• Removed: $cfg->{noCacheHeaders}, they're always sent now.
• Removed: Workaround for mod_perl 2.0 without Apache::Request.

1.14.0 (2003-06-28)

• Added: "(x new)" link on board page links to first topic page with new posts.
• Changed: Mark Old button on forum bar for users with manual option activated.
• Changed: Workaround for problems with mod_perl 2.0 without Apache::Request.
• Changed: Use CSS for table borders, results in proper borders in Opera 7.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Auto-collapsing in Mozilla. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Notification checkbox state. [Matthias Althaus]
• Removed: $cfg{'linkShowNew'}, $cfg{'newColor'} and $cfg{'navImages'}.
• Removed: Netscape 4.x support.

1.13.1 (2003-06-16)

• Added: Users can add posts to personal todo lists.
• Added: Users can report inappropriate posts to admins.
• Added: Integrated various form pages to retain field values on errors.
• Added: Request authentication values for increased security.
• Added: Show unread posts page, marks all posts as read (has undo button).
• Added: Show new posts page has button to mark all posts as old.
• Added: Users can disable automatic marking of posts as old.
• Added: Search result list includes abbr. post bodies as tooltips.
• Added: Target posts in topic_show get different header color.
• Added: Advanced search mode supports subject and attachment search.
• Added: A few more user search fields.
• Added: Registration page requires typing email address twice.
• Added: Display category title in topic_move and branch_promote pages.
• Changed: If no title image is defined, main menu occupies full width.
• Changed: Moved board admin bar from board info to board page.
• Changed: Disable subscription checkboxes if subscriptions are disabled.
• Changed: Changed script names.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: A few search mode selection issues.
• Fixed: Signature field description texts. [Matthias Althaus]
• Fixed: Show hide-board checkboxes if subscriptions are disabled.
• Fixed: Disable notification checkbox in topic_new when email is disabled.
• Removed: Protected topics, basically superseded by sticky topics.

1.13.0 (2003-05-06)

• Added: Sticky topics.
• Added: User titles/icons.
• Added: Subject and attachment search modes.
• Added: Category collapsing/expanding (DHTML), state is saved in cookie.
• Added: Topic branches can be moved to top level inside topic if misplaced.
• Added: User registration page can be disabled if admin wants to create accounts.
• Added: Promote and move topic branches to different board in one go.
• Added: Additional CSS definitions via config option.
• Added: Optionally open posted links in new window.
• Added: Configurable max. username length.
• Changed: Auto-remove user's board subscriptions if board membership is revoked.
• Changed: Changed ICQ field to text field for all instant messenger IDs.
• Changed: Users without DHTML/JS don't get collapsed topics anymore.
• Changed: Removed outdated CSS FAQ entry, added attachment FAQ entry.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Unban POST referrer check. [Vincent Rivellino]
• Removed: OR search mode (rarely used, mode list is simpler without it).

1.12.0 (2002-09-26)

• Changed: Camouflaged admin email addresses won't be linked.
• Changed: Auto-link URLs in signatures.

1.11.1 (2002-09-07)

• Added: Support for MySQL 4.0's query cache.
• Added: Support for MySQL 4.0's boolean search mode.
• Added: Go-to-first-new/unread-post button in non-threaded topics.
• Added: Local string overrides.
• Changed: Signatures may contain 100 chars and one linebreak instead of 50/50.
• Changed: Delete signature when setting posts to "[deleted]".
• Changed: Don't use default signature in anonymous boards.
• Changed: Misc. changes to URL auto-highlighting.
• Changed: Only load MwfSendmail.pm when required.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Limit actions with referrer checks to POST to prevent local link attacks.
• Fixed: Two code lines requiring Perl 5.6.0. [Yura]
• Removed: Skipping delete confirmation.

1.11.0 (2002-08-16)

• Added: Per-post signatures.
• Added: Admin-to-user messages.
• Added: Experimental Unicode/UTF-8 support.
• Added: Branch collapsing/expanding in threaded topics (DHTML).
• Added: Email can be disabled for users with defective email accounts.
• Added: Attachment embedding can be toggled without re-uploading.
• Added: Post editing can be limited to a given time after posting.
• Added: Go-to-next-new-post buttons also jump to unread posts.
• Added: User agent is saved in user records and displayed to admins.
• Added: Additional internal ban reason only shown to admins.
• Added: Attachment processing plugin interface with real examples.
• Added: Expiration of board subscriptions.
• Added: Client IP in error log entries.
• Added: Filtering of bad w*rds.
• Added: Auto-correction of broken mwForum markup (balancing/nesting).
• Added: String used to break long strings can be set, <WBR> is default.
• Added: Board/topic viewing can be denied to banned users.
• Changed: Replaced Mail::QuoteWrap with Text::Flowed (better list quoting, small).
• Changed: Attachment embedding status is saved as DB field, not filename suffix.
• Changed: Approved posts in moderated boards can't be edited anymore.
• Changed: Don't show signatures and embedded images in post_shownew.
• Changed: Authz and email plugin interfaces changed to use named parameters.
• Changed: One cookie instead of two.
• Changed: No more 3D border in Mozilla.
• Changed: Requires Perl 5.005_03 (5.8.0 for UTF-8 support).
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Enable auto-linking of URLs with embedded passwords.
• Changed: Don't send password request emails to banned users.
• Changed: Wrapper functions for CGI parameter access.
• Changed: Use Apache::Request instead of MwfCGI under mod_perl.
• Changed: Searching can be limited to fulltext-indexed mode to prevent slow searches.
• Changed: If fulltext index is enabled, relevance search mode is the default.
• Changed: User/date-only searching is enabled in all modes.
• Changed: No more separate FIXES file.
• Fixed: CGI params are now also filtered for admins.
• Fixed: Fixed bug that would expire all posts after upgrade from 1.0.x.
• Fixed: Anonymous posts didn't get included in subscriptions. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: Missing "attachment deleted" message. [Lucas Saud]
• Fixed: Referrer checks for admin-only scripts, too.
• Fixed: Pagination bug if old user postsPP was bigger than maxPostsPP.
• Fixed: Escaped HTML in topic subjects in emails. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Last-minute typo prevented <wbr> breaking from working in 1.10.0.
• Fixed: Minimum username length wasn't enforced and was inconsistently stated.
• Fixed: Fixed uppercase embedded image filename extension, part 2. [David Wolf]
• Removed: Removed topic sorting order option.
• Removed: ICQ indicators (for legal reasons).

1.10.0 (2002-02-16)

No code changes

1.9.2 (2002-02-09)

• Added: logStrings table, mainly used for search keyword logging.
• Added: Translation of illegal Windows-1252 characters to ASCII.
• Added: New format for reply notification emails with more context info.
• Added: Quick Javascript confirmation for deleting posts.
• Added: Intersperse long strings with <WBR> to avoid page layout corruption.
• Added: Enable use of Apache::Compress for gzipped output.
• Added: PerlSendHeader On isn't required for mod_perl anymore.
• Added: Optional ROBOTS NOINDEX meta tag.
• Added: $cfg{'emailRegExp'} to define valid email addresses.
• Added: topic_show can infer topic id from post id.
• Added: Worked around Opera bug with cell widths if not all widths are explicit.
• Added: Use https:// in reply notification URLs for SSL cookie users.
• Changed: Update posts.userNameBaks when changing usernames.
• Changed: Separate username fields and text changes on login page.
• Changed: Remove tags before quoting text to avoid invalid HTML.
• Changed: Remove control characters in escHtml().
• Changed: Misc. small changes on search page.
• Changed: Optimized filtering speed by removing /i regexp options.
• Changed: Some changes in boardVisible/Writeable() interfaces.
• Fixed: Invisible post icon wasn't shown in topic_show.
• Fixed: Relevance search option didn't stick.
• Fixed: Fixed uppercase embedded image filename extension. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: Boards only visible to reg. users were missing from some lists. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Form-data boundary wasn't escaped before regexp search. [Philip Mak]

1.9.1 (2002-01-02)

• Added: Lock icon shown as separate icon.
• Changed: Renamed some files.
• Fixed: Delete attachments when deleting branches.
• Fixed: Problems with 1.9.0 upgrade.pl and leftover attachments. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: Wrong parameter name for anonymous board option checkbox. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: Also use $cfg{'subjectRegExp'} in post_edit_x. [Yura]
• Fixed: mkdir() needs mask parameter in Perl < 5.6.0. [Yura]
• Fixed: Unregistered posting info strings mixed up in German. [Matthias Althaus]

1.9.0 (2001-12-23)

• Added: Posting without registration (board option).
• Added: Anonymous posting (user id not saved with posts, board option).
• Added: Board visible only to registered users (board option).
• Added: Integrated forum search and results pages.
• Added: Improved jump-to-board dropdown list.
• Added: Links to specific posts are possible if post is not on first topic page.
• Added: Links to specific topics are possible if topic is not on first board page.
• Added: Links to specific posts/topics are used from misc. locations.
• Added: Integrated title and page bars.
• Added: Title/page bar repeated at bottom of topic pages.
• Added: Go-to-next-new-post and go-to-parent-post navigation buttons.
• Added: Attachments get their own directories instead of post IDs in the filename.
• Added: Search keyword highlighting works with regexps and phrases.
• Added: If keywords field is empty in phrase search mode, search by age only.
• Added: Configurable regexp for subject validation.
• Added: Configurable strings that are displayed before and after signatures.
• Added: Configurable maxima for topics per page and posts per page.
• Added: Link button to last page is shown when there are less buttons than pages.
• Added: Preservation of multiple spaces in posts (for ASCII tables etc).
• Added: Cronjob script executes "cron_jobs_local" if present.
• Added: Show category names on board admin and user admin pages.
• Added: More selectable fields on user admin page.
• Added: Manual ">" quotes are colored even without automatic quoting.
• Added: Optionally allow mixing of multiple charsets. Security risk?
• Added: Show board/topic name in HTML title.
• Added: More module versions on forum info page.
• Added: Command line script for search and replace in post bodies.
• Added: Allow blank HTTP referrers if $cfg{'checkReferer'} == 2.
• Added: Show username on user ban page.
• Added: TEXTAREA fields use "width: 99%" style.
• Added: Link button on user info page to user's reply list for admins.
• Changed: Changed distribution archive folder layout.
• Changed: Promoted topic branches inherit read timestamps.
• Changed: Only use hidden board status for forum_show, posts_shownew and prevnext.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Changed: Disabled DBI's PrintError option.
• Changed: Uniformly count subject/body length before HTML escaping.
• Changed: Removed CGI::Carp, might be responsible for some of the esoteric problems.
• Changed: English language names in configuration.
• Changed: Proper init() function instead of connectDb() abuse.
• Changed: Cache browser-specific tag attributes.
• Fixed: "Attachment added" message was missing.
• Fixed: Clipped HTML entities in topic stats. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: Multi-level quoting didn't work properly in some versions. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Font size couldn't be set to 0 unless $cfg{'fontSize'} was 0. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Show reply button in posts_shownew for non-threaded boards. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Illegal newline in mail content-type header.
• Fixed: Wrong plugin function called for escHtml().
• Fixed: post_shownew cutoff message was displayed without <BR>. [Matthes Bender]
• Fixed: SQL-injection security hole, registered users can gain admin status.
• Fixed: Entity name on confirmation pages wasn't escaped.
• Fixed: Messages for adding/removing board members.
• Fixed: Attachments didn't get deleted correctly when deleting a whole topic.
• Fixed: Misc. user profile fields needed more storage space for escaped HTML.
• Fixed: Don't allow certain separator characters (;, ) in email addresses.
• Fixed: Different entity names in category action logging. [David Wolf]
• Removed: Removed MySQL logos because of MySQL AB's new trademark policy.
• Removed: Main page pagination.

1.8.0 (2001-07-30)

• Added: Timezone selection via listbox, zones taken from Time::Zone module.
• Fixed: Some options would be mixed up if an admin edited another user's options.

1.7.1 (2001-07-21)

• Added: Entity names in delete confirmation forms.
• Added: Confirmation for single post deleting.
• Added: Link buttons on post_shownew page can be hidden.
• Added: Post icons in post_shownew page are links to topic with anchor.
• Changed: Icons use short strings for ALT and longer strings for TITLE attributes.
• Changed: Removed DOCTYPE URL to prevent extra-ugly 3D border in Mozilla.
• Changed: Combined new/old/unread/read FAQ entry and icon legend.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Max. posts cutoff on post_shownew page was broken.
• Fixed: Syntax error in board_delete_x. [Mike Blezien]
• Fixed: Syntax errors in categ_admin and user_showbans.

1.7.0 (2001-06-16)

• Added: User-selectable language.
• Added: Admins can delete branches and promote them to topics.
• Added: Forum pagination using a static category->page assignment.
• Added: Active topics/users, newest/online users statistics on forum page.
• Added: Member management for board admins.
• Added: Jump-to-board dropdown list.
• Added: Listing of replies to user's posts.
• Added: Category/board names in board/topic bars are links to the higher layers.
• Added: Error message if logging-in fails because of disabled cookies.
• Added: Login/password request possible with email address instead of username.
• Added: User option for limiting cookies to SSL connections.
• Added: Link decoration (underlined or not) is configurable.
• Added: Show notification in empty posts_shownew list.
• Added: All errors are logged in webserver log.
• Added: Create-email plugins can override sender address and get more context info.
• Added: Multiple authorization plugins for different actions can be used.
• Added: Experimental transaction support with InnoDB tables.
• Changed: Don't default to localhost in SMTP module.
• Changed: Category/board positions are now relative to page/category.
• Changed: Online FAQ corrections/additions concerning new/old/read/unread.
• Changed: No more reply notifications for self-replies.
• Changed: Hide email addresses from not-logged-in users (email spiders).
• Changed: Globalized $user.
• Changed: Optimized topicReadTimes update in posts_shownew.
• Changed: Replies are instantly marked read if there was no parallel post.
• Changed: Limit max. number of posts in posts_shownew to 500.
• Changed: Board deletions must always be confirmed.
• Changed: Base post id is stored in topic.
• Changed: Misc. filtering changes.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Search listed topics in private boards.
• Fixed: Search by username/id listed posts in semi-anonymous boards. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: Uploading an attachment over an old one with the same name deleted both.
• Fixed: $cfg{'smileySize'} wasn't used. [Philip Mak]
• Fixed: Bug in prevnext.pl (consequences unknown).
• Fixed: Delete additional dependent rows on user/board deletion. [David Wolf, mw]
• Fixed: Workaround for bug in Mail::QuoteWrap with empty/whitespace lines.
• Fixed: When defaulting to localhost, SMTP module messed up CGI output.
• Fixed: Highlighting won't break HTML tags and entities anymore. [Carlo Teubner, mw]
• Removed: No more HTML mode in boards for security and code simplicity reasons.

1.6.0 (2001-03-29)

• Added: Event plugin interface.
• Added: Requests denied by bans/blocks are logged.
• Added: Pseudo timezone "SVR" = server's timezone.
• Changed: Log includes IP.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Timezone of not logged-in users defaults to $cfg{'userTimezone'}.
• Fixed: New post numbers were wrong with $cfg{'linkShowNew'} off. [Marko Njezic]
• Fixed: Posting plugin was broken, superseded by event plugin. [Marko Njezic]
• Fixed: Undefined function lengthError(). [Michael Zinn]
• Fixed: Search highlight regexp problems with special chars.

1.5.2 (2001-02-09)

• Added: Search keyword highlighting.
• Added: Logging, level 2 and 3.
• Fixed: User info page text wasn't filtered. [Carlo Teubner]
• Fixed: Syntax error in post_moderate_x.
• Fixed: Logging out didn't work if $cfg{'forumId'} was used. [David Wolf]
• Fixed: No more user search in semi-anonymous boards. [Brian Maloney]
• Fixed: Date display was broken without Date::Format. [Arne Bochem]

1.5.1 (2001-01-29)

• Added: Indexed fulltext search with relevance sorting (req. MySQL 3.23.28).
• Added: Fulltext search with POSIX regular expressions.
• Added: Reply quoting and quote highlighting.
• Added: Logging, level 1.
• Added: Localized time display.
• Added: Persistent board admin page options.
• Added: Semi-anonymous boards (poster names visible to admins only).
• Added: Reply-only boards (admins/members can start topics, all users can reply).
• Changed: Prev/next board/topic computation moved to prevnext.pl.
• Changed: Prev/next, search and post_shownew skip hidden boards, too.
• Changed: Instead of MD5, Digest::SHA1 is used if available, hex cookies if not.
• Changed: Renamed "external handler modules" to "plugins".
• Changed: Show short board desc on board info page if no long desc available.
• Changed: After printError(), page ends with printFooter() now.
• Changed: URL auto-linking now only stops at '")< and whitespace.
• Changed: Leading spaces get converted to &nbsp; for code snippets.
• Changed: Cookie names can get an optional unique prefix.
• Changed: New users see all posts as old to prevent huge new posts pages.
• Changed: Docs wrapped to 78 chars for narrow consoles.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Board view authz plugin is now always called in post_shownew.
• Fixed: Changing of temp cookie flag works without re-login now. [Carlo Teubner]
• Fixed: :o smiley conflicted with "mailto:o", requires nose now. [Chuq Von Rospach]
• Removed: No more tag filtering in HTML boards (fake security). [Carlo Teubner]

1.5.0 (2000-12-11)

• Added: Forum keeps track of which topics/posts have been read.
• Added: Optional post_shownew link for all users.
• Added: post_shownew linked from new-numbers, showing a single board resp. topic.
• Added: Configurable color for header bars of new posts, makes them easier to spot.
• Added: Users can hide selected boards.
• Added: Users can hide board descriptions.
• Added: User-configurable editbox width/height.
• Added: Reply notification user option can be set for new topics or all posts.
• Added: New authorization plugin action for viewing boards.
• Added: Authorization plugins get more context info.
• Added: Users are notified of wrong bookmarks with obsolete "?markRead=1".
• Added: Password cookies are MD5-hashed (users will have to re-login).
• Changed: More standardized access checking in some places.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Fixed security hole that lets everybody see private posts.
• Fixed: Attachments under Windows still didn't work.
• Fixed: Workaround for missing $ENV{HTTP_HOST} was broken.
• Fixed: String in forum full phrase search was not quoted.

1.4.0 (2000-08-26)

• Added: Optional thread indenting on the right instead of the left side.
• Changed: Workaround for missing $ENV{HTTP_HOST}.
• Changed: Switched from .zip to .tar.gz archives.
• Fixed: Sometimes double and conflicting email headers in changed sendEmail().
• Fixed: Referrer check didn't work with new $cfg{'baseUrl'}. [Marko Njezic]

1.3.2 (2000-08-10)

• Added: New, more flexible email plugin interfaces.
• Added: Category in board title bar, board in topic bar and category in topic bar.
• Added: Configurable max. number of page buttons displayed on board page.
• Added: Optional smiley graphics.
• Added: Table index optimization (ANALYZE table) with MySQL 3.23.22+.
• Added: Subscriptions contain forum link, in case s.o. forgets where to unsubscribe.
• Changed: Changed enter/mark-read procedure once again, one less redir now.
• Changed: Image embedding is now done via checkbox instead of 'embed'-filename.
• Changed: Improved table template functions.
• Changed: URL autolinking works at start of post.
• Changed: New posts in boards without approval moderation are marked as approved.
• Changed: Unapproved posts don't count as new for normal users.
• Changed: Absmiddle image align in Opera and Moz5/6.
• Changed: Smaller textarea/input size for all Netscape versions (still broken in 5/6).
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Words in forum search weren't filtered.
• Fixed: $ENV{'MWF_ALLOWCRON'} wasn't reset after cron script execution.
• Fixed: "Email Error" string was missing.
• Fixed: "Error string not found" message had angled brackets.
• Fixed: Attachment wasn't deleted when setting posts to "[deleted]".
• Fixed: Attachment filenames without path weren't handled right. [Mark Marsalese]
• Fixed: Attachment syswrite didn't work with Perl 5.004. [Mark Marsalese]

1.3.1 (2000-07-17)

• Added: Posts contain a backup of the username which is used if user is deleted.
• Added: Attached images can be displayed inline (provisional).
• Added: Config option for icon size.
• Added: Optional homepage link in main bar or at page bottom.
• Added: Config option for copyright message color.
• Changed: Changed mark-read procedure, no more problematic parameter in the URL.
• Changed: Replaced CGI::Cookie with internal functions.
• Changed: Replaced literal table/cell headers with template functions (provisional).
• Changed: Posts of deleted users get a neutral user id.
• Changed: Removed °° quoting, showed up as escape sequences in vi on some systems.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Attachments didn't work on Windows servers.
• Fixed: Prev/next board sequence included private boards.

1.3.0 (2000-06-20)

• Added: New posts plugin supprt.
• Added: Authorization plugin support.
• Added: Additional options for the extra profile fields for authorization plugins.
• Added: All error messages are displayed with header and in a table.
• Added: Logging/display of user's last used IP (independent of posts).
• Added: Multiple empty lines and empty lines at post beginning and end get removed.
• Changed: Admin posts get set to approved automatically.
• Changed: Ban page actions redirect to ban page.
• Changed: Double length for ban reason string.
• Changed: No more O0o1l and uppercase characters in passwords.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Reply notification flags of banned users didn't get resetted.
• Fixed: Users with zero and negative votes could vote.

1.2.0 (2000-05-30)

• Changed: Integrated files CONTRIBUTE, BUGS, TODO and AUTHORS into README.
• Fixed: Attachment expiration was buggy.
• Fixed: Email addresses with multiple domains didn't get auto-linked.

1.1.3 (2000-05-16)

• Added: File attachments.
• Added: Reply notification emails contain link to topic.
• Added: Topic hit sum on forum info page.
• Changed: Email address validation accepts long top level domains.
• Fixed: Referrer check wasn't correctly displayed on forum info page.
• Fixed: Email change text wasn't translated in German translation.

1.1.2 (2000-04-22)

• Added: User search form for admins.
• Added: Three configurable user profile fields.
• Added: Old topics can be locked by cronjob (board option).
• Added: Confirmation for category/board/topic/user deletion (forum option).
• Added: Configuration section in forum_info.
• Changed: HTTP expires-header uses legal date format instead of 0.
• Fixed: Redirection URI must be absolute according to HTTP spec.
• Fixed: create-tables.sql contained false commas.
• Fixed: Default DB name in create-table.sql was "test".
• Fixed: Topic prev/next sequence was broken. [Matthes Bender]
• Fixed: board_admin didn't load MwfCGI.pm. [Arne Bochem]
• Fixed: Subscriptions were still unnecessarily limited to SMTP. [Arne Bochem]

1.1.1 (2000-04-08)

• Added: Topic hits can be counted and displayed.
• Changed: Reverted to caching board and topic statistics. Major speedup.
• Changed: Netscape6/Mozilla5 compatibility (removed lots of <P> tags).
• Changed: Filter plugins can overwrite markup help.
• Fixed: create-tables.sql still contained IP field in ban index.
• Fixed: sendmail/mail didn't use $cfg{'charset'}. [Marko Njezic]

1.1.0 (2000-04-04)

• Added: Access blocking for hostnames and IPs.
• Added: Filtering plugin interfaces.
• Added: Configurable policy text for forum info page and registration emails.
• Added: Display of post IP addresses (forum option).
• Added: New posts overview page. Useful for quickly scanning all new posts.
• Added: Ban overview page.
• Added: Board membership status can be edited per board on user admin page.
• Added: Reply notification flag of posts can be edited.
• Added: Users receive a new password when they change their email address.
• Added: Translation can be selected in MwfConfig.
• Added: Subscriptions work with all mailers. Seperate sending instead of BCC header.
• Changed: Replaced bloated CGI.pm with MwfCGI.pm (=CGI::Minimal).
• Changed: Replaced board/category creation forms with simple creation links.
• Changed: Deleting a post with descendants resets reply notification flag.
• Fixed: Topic lock status wasn't checked in post_reply_x.
• Fixed: (?<!) regexp required Perl 5.005, should run with 5.004 again.
• Fixed: $cfg{'charset '} contained a space, so it wasn't used. [Marko Njezic]

1.0.0 (2000-03-14)

• Added: In-response-to text gets auto-linked too.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Image tag didn't work with external links. [Marko Njezic]

0.9.7 (2000-03-10)

• Added: http:// is added before homepage URL if missing.
• Added: Post icon is an anchor link to parent post.
• Added: Subscription execution button added.
• Changed: Cronjobs don't "use lib" anymore and must be started from their directory.
• Fixed: User bans with duration 0 (infinite) don't expire anymore.
• Fixed: Subscription function checks approval status of posts.
• Fixed: If username in search form isn't found, don't find posts by everybody.

0.9.6 (2000-03-04)

• Added: Email subscription of boards.
• Added: cron_optimize, optimizes database tables.
• Added: Configurable title image filename.
• Added: Icon legend in help text.
• Changed: Search: user field instead of user mode. Code simplifications.
• Changed: German translation: translated missing strings, help and FAQ.
• Changed: German translation: changed informal to impersonal addressing.
• Changed: Re-added setLanguage() in translations, seems to be neccessary.
• Changed: Mark Read button sets lastReadTime to lastOnTime instead of current time.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: OBJECT, EMBED, APPLET and SCRIPT tags get filtered even with HTML enabled.
• Fixed: HTML option and IMG tag option marked as security risks.
• Fixed: Charset gets set in HTTP header.
• Fixed: Subject gets filtered the same as message body.
• Fixed: Requests are only accepted if coming from the same domain (forum option).
• Fixed: Integer CGI parameters were used in SQL without check. [Vladislav Malyshkin]
• Fixed: Strict filtering for image tags to disable inline script. [mw, Arne Bochem]
• Fixed: $cfg{'postSortOrder'} = DESC didn't work in 0.9.4/5. [Arne Bochem]

0.9.5 (2000-02-03)

• Fixed: Compilation errors in category_create_x. [Chris Gregors]

0.9.4 (2000-02-02)

• Added: Topic pagination.
• Added: Board pagination.
• Added: User list pagination.
• Added: Non-threaded mode (board option).
• Added: Image markup tag (forum option).
• Added: User list options are saved permanently.
• Added: Configurable text color.
• Added: CSS-formatting for widgets.
• Added: Statistics on forum info page.
• Added: Username validation regexp in MwfConfig for easier i18n.
• Changed: Lots of behind-the-scenes SQL changes. No more cached statistics.
• Changed: cgi/forum.pl replaces data/index.html.
• Changed: LastReadTime gets set on login.
• Changed: More auto-link regexp improvements.
• Changed: Set link color for non-CSS browsers.
• Changed: Improved username validation, no more problematic spaces.
• Changed: Misc. small changes.
• Fixed: Deleted post with successors weren't set to "[deleted]".
• Fixed: Tags didn't get filtered out of emails.
• Fixed: Memberships/admins/subscriptions didn't get removed on board deletion.
• Removed: Bottom nav bars had to make way for page bars.

0.9.3 (2000-01-14)

• Added: Forum info page (most info is for admin so far).
• Added: Non-threaded mode (forum option).
• Added: Second navbar at bottom of board and topic pages (global option).
• Changed: Replaced sth->{insertid} with LAST_INSERT_ID() query.
• Fixed: Sendmail and mail didn't work because of a missing semicolon.
• Fixed: Apostrophes in input fields cut off the rest of the string. [Marko Njezic]
• Fixed: cron_expireusers deleted new users who didn't log in until then.
• Fixed: Search only worked if at least one private board existed. [momu]
• Fixed: Typo in score/vote field evaluation in user options. [Alexander Sulima]
• Fixed: topic_new_x was untested and had an undeclared scalar. [Marko Njezic]

0.9.2 (2000-01-10)

• Added: Posts can be sorted ascending or descending (forum option).
• Added: Navigation buttons can be shown as images (forum option).
• Added: Added sendmail and mail as alternatives to SMTP.
• Changed: Optimized topic_show to get all posts in one query.
• Changed: Included Mail::Sendmail as MwfSendmail to make installation easier.
• Fixed: Removed "exit" from grant-access.sql, avoiding harmless error. [Jürgen Fey]
• Removed: Removed reveal button from topic bar.

0.9.1 (2000-01-06)

• Changed: Changed mysql_insertid to insertid for compatibility with older DBD::mysql.
• Changed: Font size 0 is the default now, and is skipping definition in CSS.
• Fixed: Zombie topics prevented board display.
• Fixed: First user didn't get promoted to admin.

0.9.0 (2000-01-02)

Initial public release.