Archive for the ‘Announcement’ Category

phpMyFAQ 2.6.3 Released!

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.3, the “Steve Fossett” release. This release fixes various mail issues and improves links rewriting, sitemap for Chinese, Japanese and Korean content and the meta keyword handling. We updated Portuguese and French translation. We also fixed a lot of minor bugs.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.2 Released!

Monday, February 1st, 2010

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.2, the “Hildegard Knef” release. This release fixes an update script issue, the display of Chinese, Japanese and Korean content in PDFs, some issues with RSS feeds and the broken Spanish translation. We also updated the French translation and fixed some minor bugs.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.1 Released!

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.1, the “Oleg Velyky” release. This release updates the bundled TCPDF library to version 4.8.026 and we improved cookie handling. We also fixed a lot of bugs reported by our users the last two weeks.

phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 Released!

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.5.7, the “Herbert Wehner” release. This release improves the glossary detection and contains updated Dutch, Indonasian, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese and Norwegian Bokmal translations. We fixed many minor bugs.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.0 Released!

Monday, January 11th, 2010

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of our new major version, phpMyFAQ 2.6.0, the “Sir Edmund Hillary” release. With this release we moved all language files to UTF-8 and added TCPDF as replacement for FPDF library. We also added support for TinyMCE translations, support for multi-language news, user adjustable template sets and styles, support plurals in translations, share on Facebook link, a rest/json API, secure login if SSL is available, FAQ entry dependent meta description, and experimental support for Microsoft Windows Web App Gallery. We improved the attachment functionality, the install script, the category view with description, the FAQ entry activation, the user administration, and the FAQ entry workflow. We removed the Docbook XML export and the Net_IDNA library. Finally, we updated the Greek, the Lithuanian, and the Japanese translation.

phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 Released!

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.5.6, the “Joe Strummer” release. This release updates the bundled TinyMCE editor component to version 3.2.7, the bundled SyntaxHighlighter library to version 2.1.364, the bundled SyntaxHighlighter plugin for TinyMCE, the Brazilian Portuguese translation, and the Spanish translation. It also fixes minor issues.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-RC Released!

Tuesday, December 8th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of the frist release candidate of our next major version, phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-RC, the “John Lennon” release. This release fixes a lot of issues. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

phpMyFAQ 2.5.5 Released!

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.5.5, the “World AIDS Day” release. This release fixes multiple IE6/7 only XSS vulnerabilities. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest versions! A detailed security advisory is available.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-beta Released!

Sunday, November 22nd, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of the second preview release of our next major version, phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-beta, the “Sandmännchen” release. This release updates the Greek translation, fixes the upgrade and migration process and fixes a lot of minor issues. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 Released!

Tuesday, November 10th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.5.4, the “Sesame Street” release. This release fixes various PostgreSQL related issues, updates the Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese translations andwe fixed many minor bugfixes.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-alpha Released!

Friday, November 6th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of the first preview release of our next major version, phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-alpha, the “Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky” release. In this release we moved all language files to UTF-8, added TCPDF as replacement for FPDF library, added support for TinyMCE translations, added support for multi-language news, added user adjustable template sets and styles, added support plurals in translations, added share on Facebook link, added a rest/json API for future iPhone or Android apps, added secure login if SSL is available, and added FAQ entry dependent meta description. We improved the attachment functionality, the install script, the category view with description, the FAQ entry activation, the user administration frontend, and the FAQ entry workflow. We removed the Docbook XML export and updated bundled TinyMCE editor component to version 3.2.7. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 Released!

Monday, October 19th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.5.3, the “Jonathan Swift” release. With this release we switched our version control system from SVN to git and we added the missing Perl syntax hightlighting. We fixed the missing info link in news, the broken group permission check for instant response, the broken attachment download, and we fixed some SQLite problems. We also updated the Japanese translation.

A new phpMyFAQ Team member

Saturday, September 5th, 2009

We have another team member: Antoliy Belsky. Anatoliy is working in the same company like me and he already contributed some hundred lines of code and features for 2.5 and 2.6 during the last month so I asked him to join and I’m really happy that he said yes. :-)

phpMyFAQ 2.0.17 and 2.5.2 Released!

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.5.2, the “Engelbert Humperdinck” release. This release fixes a IE6/7 only XSS vulnerability. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest versions! A detailed security advisory is available. We also updated the Polish and Chinese language file, and fixed a problem with Czech translation.
The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.0.17, the “Cable Car San Francisco” release. This release fixes a IE6/7 only XSS vulnerability. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest versions! A detailed security advisory is available.

phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 and 2.5.1 Released!

Monday, August 10th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.5.1, the “Otto Lilienthal” release. We added support for LDAP-datamapping, e.g. against an Active Directory Server, support for multi-domain-authentication, e.g. against an ADS-Global Catalog, support for PHP LDAP options, and a Lithuanian translation. We fixed LDAP and some Oracle issues, and improved our svn2package script. Beside that many minor bugfixes were made.
We would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.16, the “Isaac Hayes” release. We updated the French translation and fixed a lot of minor bugs. This is the final release for the 2.0.x series. Only critical security issues will be fixed.

phpMyFAQ 2.5.0 Released!

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.5.0, the “Apollo 11″ release. After more than two years of refactoring to a PHP 5 code base and improving this milestone release adds new features like a new and improved new layout for the frontend and backend, a new and better Image Manager, RSS feeds for categories, the ability to copy and duplicate FAQ entries, support for blocks in template engine, a public user registration, LDAP and HTTP authentication, a new Mail sub system, the possibility to enable or disable the WYSIWYG Editor, a most popular searches list, a admin frontend for search logs statistics, sticky FAQ records, a smart answering for user questions, a string wrapper for better UTF-8 handling, a translation frontend, a configurable attachment directory, an approval permission for FAQs, and a Hindi translation. We improved our user administration frontend and our language files. phpMyFAQ now features an ajaxified comment and record administration, we now use jQuery 1.3 as replacement for Prototype/Script.aculo.us. We also updated the bundled Net_IDNA to version 0.6.3, TinyMCE editor component to version 3.2.5, FPDF library to version 1.6, and the Turkish translation. Have fun with phpMyFAQ 2.5!

phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC3 Released!

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of the third release candidate of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC3, the “Michael Jackson” release. We added a configurable attachment directory, an approval permission for FAQs, and a Hindi translation. We also improved some language files and fixed a lot of bugs. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC2 Released!

Monday, June 15th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce the second release candidate of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC2, the “Seattle” release. This release updates the Turkish translation, includes some minor fixes and improvements in the install script and has many minor bugfixes reported the last couple of days. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC Released!

Friday, June 12th, 2009

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of the first release candidate of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC, the “Anne Frank” release. With this release we removed the last Prototype based JavaScript code, we added visual Ajax indicators in administration backend, a new Image and File Manager in administration backend, and we added a translation frontend for editing and sharing phpMyFAQ’s translation files. We also improved some language files and fixed a lot of bugs. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-RC

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Today we re-added a new Image and File Manager for phpMyFAQ 2.5. The new component is fully Ajax-based and very cool to handle. We also fixed some bugs reported by some beta testers.