This 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.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.7 / 2.6.1 / 2.7.0-alpha
January 15th, 2010phpMyFAQ 2.6.0 Released!
January 11th, 2010The 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 2.6 branched
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
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.
Happy 2010!
January 1st, 2010The phpMyFAQ Team wishes everyone a happy new year 2010! Since today, the only supported versions are phpMyFAQ 2.5 and the upcoming phpMyFAQ 2.6 release. We don’t support any PHP 4 based of phpMyFAQ anymore.
Merry Christmas!
December 24th, 2009The phpMyFAQ Team wishes evyerone a merry christmas. 
phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 Released!
December 22nd, 2009The 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 2.7 on the iPhone
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
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
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…
phpMyFAQ 2.6.0-RC Released!
December 8th, 2009The 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!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.6 / 2.6.0-RC
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.
phpMyFAQ 2.5.5 Released!
December 1st, 2009The 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!
November 22nd, 2009The 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!
International PHP Conference 2009
November 13th, 2009Like the last years I will attend the International PHP Conference which will be held in Karlsruhe, Germany. I’ll present a half day workshop about “Unittesting for dummies” together with Lars Jankowfsky from swoodoo. On monday I’ll do a talk called “Fix your acrchitecture” where I will speak about anti patterns in business, processes and developement. I’ll be in Karlsruhe until wednesday evening, so if you want to meet me…
phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 Released!
November 10th, 2009The 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!
November 6th, 2009The 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!
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.4 / 2.6.0-alpha
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
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.
phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 Released!
October 19th, 2009The 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.