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.
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phpMyFAQ 2.0.17 and 2.5.2 Released!
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 and 2.5.1 Released!
Monday, August 10th, 2009The 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, 2009The 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, 2009The 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, 2009The 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, 2009The 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, 2009Today 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.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.15 Released!
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.0.15, the “Benno Ohnesorg” release. This release fixes a 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 2.5 and 2.6 are not vulnerable!
phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-beta Released!
Monday, May 4th, 2009The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the beta version of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-beta, the “Audrey Hepburn” release. We added new administration layout, a frontend for search logs statistics, sticky FAQ records, a smart answering for user questions, a string wrapper for better UTF-8 handling, and an ajaxified comment and record administration. We updated the bundled jQuery to version 1.3.2, the bundled TinyMCE editor component to version 3.2.2.3, and the bundled Net_IDNA to version 0.6.3. We removed Prototype and Script.aculo.us, and we fixed a lot of bugs. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!
phpMyFAQ 2.0.13 Released!
Monday, April 20th, 2009The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.0.13, the “David Soria Parra” release. This release adds new blocked words for spam protection, fixes a fatal error with PHP 5.3, a redirect problem with multiviews in .htaccess, and a problem with visible questions in RSS feed. It also fixes some minor issues.
A special thank you to David Soria Parra, who patched my PHP with his dtrace patch!
phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-alpha2 Released!
Monday, March 9th, 2009The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the second preview of our next generation release, phpMyFAQ 2.5.0-alpha2, the “Yuri Gagarin” release. We migrated a lot of code to PHP 5.2 and dropped the support for MySQL 4.0, MaxDB and XML-RPC. We added LDAP and HTP authentication, a new mail subsystem, and a list of the most popular searches. We added jQuery 1.3 as new Ajax backend and updated FPDF and TinyMCE. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!
8 years phpMyFAQ
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009I almost forgot it… The phpMyFAQ projects celebrates its 8th birthday this month. Back in 2001 I started with Bastian Poettner with the first PHP 3 based lines of code. Happy birthday, phpMyFAQ!
Daily SVN snapshots back online
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009They’re back: the daily SVN snapshots for phpMyFAQ 2.0.x and phpMyFAQ 2.5! If you want to test the latest versions without using a SVN client you can use this daily fresh packaged downloads.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.12 Released!
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.12, the “too much snow in february” release. This release fixes a bug when using MySQL 6 and an annoying installation bug on some Linux systems. It also fixes a lot of minor issues.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.11 Released!
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.0.11, the “Goodbye George!” release. This release updates the English, Turkish and Simplified Chinese translations. It also fixes a lot of minor issues.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.10 Released!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.10, the “it survived the financial crisis” release. This release fixes a lot of minor bugs.
International PHP Conference 2008
Friday, October 24th, 2008Next week I’ll be 5 days in Mainz, Germany, attending the annual International PHP Conference. This year I’ll give one full day work shop with Lars from Swoodoo and my boss at Mayflower, Johann. Our topic on monday, october 27th, is Theory and practice – migrating your legacy code into our modern test driven development world. I’ll give an own session on thursday, october 30th, about Quality in PHP projects beyond Unittests. On Tuesday and wednesday you’ll find me at the Mayflower booth.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.9 Released!
Friday, October 17th, 2008The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.0.9, the “Everyone I know goes away in the end” release. This release improves the spam detection and fixes some bugs introduced with version 2.0.8. This release is dedicated to my uncle Werner, who passed away this week.
phpMyFAQ 2.0.8 Released!
Thursday, September 11th, 2008The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.0.8, the “9/11 memorial” release. This release fixes a security issue, some errors with MS SQL and IBM DB2 support and we fixed some minor bugs. The French and Serbian translations were updated. We also switched our repository from CVS to SVN.
Subversion
Monday, June 30th, 2008This week we’ll switch from CVS to SVN, so no commits and changes the next days. We’ll release 2.0.8 in july.