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 2.5.5 Released!
December 1st, 2009phpMyFAQ 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.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.3 / 2.6.0-alpha
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
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…
Goodbye SVN, welcome git!
September 21st, 2009Today, David helped me to switch my SVN based repository to git. We merged the 2.0 and 2.5 branch and the now called master to git. The public clone is located at github.com. You can also get the Android and WebOS based clients for phpMyFAQ at github.
Zend Debugger for Snow Leopard
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
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
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
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.
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
September 2nd, 2009Yesterday I received my copy of Snow Leopard, the new version of Apples operating system. I installed it on my MacBook Pro and my iMac. It’s really faster than Leopard (10.5), but sadly I had to recompile my whole MacPorts installation…
phpMyFAQ 2.0.17 and 2.5.2 Released!
September 1st, 2009The 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.
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.2 / 2.6.0-alpha
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-
A new mobile phone
August 25th, 2009Today I received my Apple iPhone 3GS 32GB in black. Works perfect in the German Vodafone network…
Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.5.2 / 2.6.0-alpha
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.