Due to a stupid bug added by myself during some tests for the 2.6.1 release I have to release phpMyFAQ 2.6.2 as soon as possible. Currently 2.0 and 2.5 users cannot upgrade with the update script included in the 2.6.1 package. Sorry for that. Beside this bug I fixed the Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters in the PDF exports with the help of some users in our forums.
Archive for the ‘Development’ Category
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.2
Monday, January 25th, 2010Thoughts about a new layout in phpMyFAQ 2.7
Sunday, January 17th, 2010The last couple of months I thought about a new layout for phpMyFAQ. After Anatoliy’s work on the user-specific templates I decided to re-work the whole design of phpMyFAQ. We will re-work the whole layout, the XHTML and the CSS so that easier and more flexible layouts are possible. We will use a CSS framework for that, too. Together with the final release of phpMyFAQ 2.7 we will also provide more designs for 2.0 and 2.5/2.6 based layouts.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 / 2.6.1 / 2.7.0-alpha
Friday, January 15th, 2010This week was very good. We released phpMyFAQ 2.6 and got a lot of feedback after more than 1,000 downloads within the first 36 hours. Due to the big amount of feedback we also received a number of bugreports. We already fixed a lot of them, so expect a 2.6.1 the next two weeks. We also try to release a 2.5.7 maintainance release for phpMyFAQ 2.5 installations. phpMyFAQ 2.7 is under heavy development and currently very unstable because the changed already the complete category code base.
phpMyFAQ 2.6 branched
Monday, January 4th, 2010Today we added the new 2.6 branch in our repo and started the development with phpMyFAQ 2.7. phpMyFAQ 2.6.0 will be released the next days, so stay tuned!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 / 2.6.0
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010We fixed some minor issues the last days and we’re now preparing the 2.6 release. So there won’t be a RC2 anymore. I also thinking about supporting 2.5 until the 2.7 release planned for july 2010.
phpMyFAQ 2.7 on the iPhone
Thursday, December 17th, 2009Today I played with HTML 5 and the iPhone Simulator and this is the first result:
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009I’m still ill at home but I’m feeling better. Today I fixed three issues on phpMyFAQ 2.5.5 and I merged the patches also to phpMyFAQ 2.6.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0
Monday, December 14th, 2009I’m ill at home for one week now and I even cannot develop anything. Until now I didn’t get any feedback from the RC release but I’ll prepare a second RC for the next week. So 2.6.0 will be a 2010 release like the 2.5.6 release which will be the last 2.5 release. Please don’t forget that the support for phpMyFAQ 2.0 ends in 17 days…
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0-RC
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009We’re in the final stage of fixing the last bugs we found during testing the beta version of phpMyFAQ 2.6. As the current state is already quite stable the next version will be already our release candidate. If everything works well the final release can be out around christmas. Beside stabilizing the 2.6 version we’re still supporting the 2.5 branch some time. We also have some plans for 2.7. 
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 / 2.6.0-alpha
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Well, phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 and 2.6.0-alpha are almost “done”. Anatoliy and my colleague Max Koehler helped me a lot to improve the 2.6 release with some nice features. You’ll need less clicks in the administration backend than before. We also fixed all known issues in phpMyFAQ 2.5.x. I’ll have to travels a lot the coming weeks but I’ll try to release both versions this month.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 / 2.6.0-alpha
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009The last couple of days with fixed some minor issues in phpMyFAQ 2.5.x, we also received updates for the Dutch and Brazilian Portuguese translations. In phpMyFAQ 2.6 we finished the rest/json API and the alpha release will be in the next couple of days.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Sunday, October 11th, 2009The last couple of days were full of bugfixing for the 2.5.3 release. I also started to re-work the export stuff for 2.6… As we support Docbook XML export I was wondering if anyone is using this?
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009The first 10 days after the switch from SVN to git were full of bugfixes and some new features. David Soria Parra fixed some SQLite issues, Anatoliy started the work for a new Pagination class, and I fixed some bugs in the 2.5 and master branch. I also re-added one missing feature: the internal FAQ link plugin in TinyMCE. The 2.5.3 release will be sometime in october, the 2.6.0-alpha release won’t happen before the end of the same month. The final 2.6 release won’t be in 2009…
Zend Debugger for Snow Leopard
Thursday, September 17th, 2009Yesterday Zend released the Snow Leopard compatible 64 bit ZendDebugger binary. So I can debug again.
imac:extensions thorsten$ file ZendDebugger.so ZendDebugger.so: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures ZendDebugger.so (for architecture i386): Mach-O bundle i386 ZendDebugger.so (for architecture x86_64): Mach-O 64-bit bundle x86_64
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Monday, September 14th, 2009In the last couple of days Anatoliy commited a lot of stuff for the new attachments features and it should be working in the alpha release. We also provide a migration script for the attachments. Since a few days there’s also an Android client for phpMyFAQ 2.6 which is developed by David Soria Parra. David also blogged about his client.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
Monday, September 7th, 2009We fixed a minor bug in the news section the last days after the 2.5.2 release. The interesting changes are currently in the trunk of phpMyFAQ. Anatoliy is working hard on the new attachment feature of phpMyFAQ 2.6. With the new classes it’s possible to encrypt attachments and safe the files in the filesystem or in the database. We also are working on a big change at our infrastucture: After 2 years we’ll migrate from SVN to git. We already have an account at github where a public repository will be hosted. And some colleagues implemented a nice working demo with a WebOS application as frontend for phpMyFAQ. More about this really cool stuff at the Mayflower blog.
A new phpMyFAQ Team member
Saturday, September 5th, 2009We 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.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.2 / 2.6.0-alpha
Sunday, August 30th, 2009The last couple of days I had a lot of work at my daily job and I couldn’t work as much as I like for phpMyFAQ. So some reported bugs are still open but I hope I can fix these issues the next days-
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.2 / 2.6.0-alpha
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009The last couple of days we worked on some minor bugfixes we received after the 2.5.1 release. We also added some minor features for the 2.6.0-alpha release. Both releases are scheduled for september 2009.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.0.16 / 2.5.1 / 2.6.0-alpha
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009Today I received a great patch from Lars Scheithauer with some LDAP fixes and some great additions for our LDAP support. With Lars’ patch it’s now possible to authenticate against an Active Directory from Microsoft, using multiple domains in your Actice Directory, and he also added support for the PHP LDAP options. Thank you very much, Lars!
I added all these enhancements to phpMyFAQ 2.5.1 and 2.6.0-alpha. We also fixed some issues in all three supported branches. I think you can expect a release of 2.0.16 and 2.5.1 next week.