Op het forum van UseBB hebben de ontwikkelaars een nieuwe versie van de forumsoftware aangekondigd. UseBB is een open-sourceforumsoftwarepakket dat gebruikt kan worden op systemen die PHP en MySQL draaien. De nieuwbakken release is voorzien van versienummer 0.7 beta 1 en is de eerste uitgifte van de 0.7-branche. Naast verbeterde forumfuncties hebben de ontwikkelaars van UseBB ook het ACP-modulesysteem een update gegeven. Het ACP-modulesysteem stelt forumbeheerders in staat om mods en onderdelen aan het forum toe te voegen zonder dat er in de code van UseBB gesleuteld moet worden. Versie 0.7 beta 1 is vanaf deze pagina te downloaden. Welke veranderingen en nieuwe features in beta 1 zijn doorgevoerd is hierbeneden te lezen:
UseBB 0.7 beta 1 Changelog
- Added ACP module system.
- Added to ACP: module overview system with upload/delete.
- Added mark all as read feature in panel.
- Added max signature length.
- Added DocBlocks for phpDocumentor.
- Fixed XSS vulnerability in search results.
- Fixed bug #658: search form gives error when no viewable forums.
- Fixed bug #669: no newlines in quote tags cause problems.
- Fixed bug #687: mb_language(): Unknown language.
- Fixed bug #707: Maximum execution time exceeded error on DNS lookup for Google.
- Fixed bug #709: Undefined index on deleting (to) empty forum.
- Fixed bug which didn't accept auth value 0 on edit forum form.
- Fixed bug which returned empty page when member accesses ACP.
- Fixed bug which changed global stats when forum is deleted and content moved.
- Fixed some auto focus and tabindex on post forms.
- Fixed malfunctioning mark updated topics feature.
- Fixed translating } and { when not needed (disabling Javascript in HTML posts).
- Fixed bad styles on quote in preview box.
- Fixed get_config() to set some missing but required config settings.
- Fixed unavailable $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] on IIS.
- Include trailing / in BBCode URL's.
- Renamed Jabber to Jabber/XMPP and made a FAQ entry about Google Talk.
- RSS feed improvements:
- Add "Re:" when applicable.
- Parse smileys viewable in RSS reader.
- Don't add session ID's to URL's in feed.
- Removed obsolete username_max_length.
- Added note about installing UseBB on "table doesn't exist" SQL error.
- Various template fixes, mostly for Opera.
- Make database password and table prefix mandatory.
- Throw error when passwords are too short.
- Don't require leading and trailing whitespace for smilies.
- Give notice when trying to add forum when no category exists.
- Better detect the board URL.