phpMyFAQ 2.6.12 Released

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.12, the “Free Julian Assange” release. We added experimental support for MariaDB and an empty LDAP configuration file as example. We also updated the Arabic, the Dutch, the French and the Norwegian Bokmal translation. We also fixed some minor bugs.

Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.12, 2.7.0-alpha and 3.0.0-dev

The development of phpMyFAQ slowed down a little bit due to a lot of time spent in my daily work. But nevertheless there is some progress in all versions. phpMyFAQ 2.6.12 will see the light in december and is now really mature. phpMyFAQ 2.7 gets some interesting features like Twitter support and an improved search using a relevance von search results. This will be configurable in the admin backend. We’re also working on the new HTML5 frontend and more and better usability. phpMyFAQ 3.0 includes all new features of 2.6 and 2.7, but currently there is not that much activity on it.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.9 Released!

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.9, the “Tia Zoe” 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. We also added a Slovak translation and a minor usability improvement in the administration backend. Additionally we fixed an issue with embedded Google Analytics code.
This release is also dedicated to Roland Bobinger, Rebecca Waltenberger and Emil Schemel.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.8 Released!

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.8, the “Laurent Fignon” release. We dropped the Oracle database support and added a new TinyMCE plugin for adding internal links by a suggest search. We also added a basic HTML5 powered administration backend and improved the setup and update functionality. The bundled TCPDF library was updated to version 5.6.000, the bundled TinyMCE editor component to version 3.3.8 and the bundled phpseclib to version 0.2.1. We also updated the Russian and the Portuguese translation. We fixed a XML rendering issue and many minor bugs.

Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.8, 2.7.0-alpha and 3.0.0-dev

This week we branched the new 2.7 branch from the current stable 2.6 branch. 2.7.0 will be the next major version of phpMyFAQ with a focus on a brand new user interface and some social improvements like better Facebook and Twitter integration. We changed the minimal PHP version for phpMyFAQ 2.7 to PHP 5.2.3. The current master branch was re-versioned to 3.0.0-dev and will need PHP 5.3, but it will take more than a year before you can see something here.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.7 Released!

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.7, the “Theo Albrecht” release. This release includes a complete refactored and unittested search backend, an improved pagination functionality and we fixed various problems with Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP. We also fixed some minor bugs.

Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.7

Today I had a little bit of free time for refactoring because I was at home with a summer cold. The old search routines are now removed from our codebase and the new search classes are already committed. The code is also unittested but I think I’ll release a 2.6.7-beta before the final release of 2.6.7.

Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.7

Some parts of the phpMyFAQ codebase are quite old because phpMyFAQ is almost 10 years old. Currently I’m working on the refactoring of the search component which hopefully will be part of phpMyFAQ 2.6.7. You maybe ask why I do this in the stable version and not in the master branch? The answer is quite simple: my spare time is limited so I will concentrate the next weeks and months on improve the 2.6 code base which will also be merged into the master branch for phpMyFAQ 2.7 and later.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.6 Released!

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.6, the “Heidi Kabel” release. This release includes a refactored database abstraction, fixes OpenLDAP authentication, fixes duplication of search results, fixes an issue with duplicate sitemap characters and some solution ID issues. We improved the glossary deletion workflowand updated the Brazilian Portuguese and Norwegian Bokmal translations. We also fixed some minor bugs.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.5 Released!

The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 2.6.5, the “Ronnie James Dio” release. This release updates bundled TCPDF library to version 5.0.009 and TinyMCE editor component to version 3.3.5.1. We refactored OpenSearch plugin code base and fixed small update issues in update script, a missing language fallback issue in instant response, the user deletion in admin backend and a backup/restore bug. We updated the Polish, Russian and Thai translation. We also fixed some minor bugs.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 Released!

The phpMyFAQ Team is pleased to announce phpMyFAQ 2.6.4, the “Eyjafjallajökull” release. This release adds experimental support for Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP and includes an improved FAQ record administration frontend and Sitemap titles. We updated the German, the Romanian and the Swedish translation. We also fixed some minor bugs.

Status update for phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 / 2.7.0-alpha

The last couple of days I fixed some minor bugs in the 2.6 and 2.7 code base. I have to work a lot during my daily work and so the development of phpMyFAQ 2.7 slowed down. Today I added the experimental support for Microsofts SQL Server Driver for PHP which will reduce some problems with the old PHP MS SQL Server driver. We’ll release this new driver support with phpMyFAQ 2.6.4 the next days.

Back from holidays…

After 4 great weeks I returned last friday from my Australia trip. I already fixed some issues reported the last weeks and I thought about the next 2.7 release. I think it won’t be released in summer as I planned because a lot of things are still not implemented and currently I do not have the time to work as much as I want to for phpMyFAQ. More news on the 2.7 release time the next weeks…

On the road again…

Tomorrow I will leave Germany for 4 weeks to spend my vacations in Australia. I’ll do a roadtrip from Sydney to Melbourne together with my girlfriend. Will be fun! :-)

So don’t expect any releases or support until April 2nd.

phpMyFAQ 2.6.3 Released!

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.