FluxBB 1.4.4 released

Reines · 2011-02-02 15:55:03

We have now released FluxBB 1.4.4!

Warning: There is a bug in FluxBB 1.4.4 which prevents authentication when using PHP 4. PHP 4 reached end-of-life over 3 years ago, however if you still use it, we recommend you either use a development snapshot (not necessarily stable!) or wait for FluxBB 1.4.5.

This release has a couple of changes worth noting, so please read below before upgrading!

Changes include:

For a full list of changes, see here.

Important notes:

When performing an upgrade the search index will want rebuilt and the posts will want re-parsed. On large boards this can be a slow process, and will put the server under high load while it runs. While recommended, this isn't absolutely necessary. If you want to skip the rebuilding simply update the config items "o_searchindex_revision" and "o_parser_revision" to 2, in the config table (before running the upgrade). For anyone wondering if it's worth skipping or not - The search indexer now strips out UTF-8 punctuation/symbols more aggressively when splitting words. If you have a primarily English board you can probably skip this.
The cookie has been changed to include a hash, to prevent tampering with either the user_id or expire time. This means the structure of the cookie has changed, and will result in everyone needing to log in again after the upgrade.
The stopwords.txt lists from all installed language packs are now combined into 1 list, which is cached. This means you should delete all .php files in the cache folder when installing/removing a language pack, or updating any stopwords.txt file.
The minimum required PHP version has increased to PHP 4.4.0.

We would like to give thanks to Peter Maxwell for alerting us to the insecurity of the expiration time in the cookie, and helping provide a fix as well as general advice. Since this release improves the security of the cookie we would strongly recommend upgrading.

As usual, downloads can be found on the download page and in the download folder.

As always please remember to do a backup of both your files and database!

If you have any problems or spot any errors please let us know!

Last edited by Reines (2011-02-12 13:15:17)

Reines · 2011-02-02 16:17:09

Changed language files:

lang/English/admin_censoring.php
lang/English/admin_forums.php
lang/English/admin_maintenance.php
lang/English/admin_reports.php
lang/English/common.php
lang/English/install.php
lang/English/mail_templates/new_reply.tpl
lang/English/mail_templates/new_reply_full.tpl
lang/English/mail_templates/new_topic.tpl
lang/English/mail_templates/new_topic_full.tpl
lang/English/search.php
lang/English/topic.php

inops · 2011-02-02 16:38:01

Wow, thats a huge list of updates for such a short time since the last one...
Nice work I guess

Franz · 2011-02-02 16:39:20

That's because we even started working on it a bit before 1.4.3 was released.
But thanks.

Tah Zonemaster · 2011-02-02 19:23:25

Congratulations

artoodetoo · 2011-02-04 05:05:13

Wow!

jojaba · 2011-02-04 10:34:06

Reines wrote:

Changed language files:
lang/English/admin_censoring.php
lang/English/admin_forums.php
lang/English/admin_maintenance.php
lang/English/admin_reports.php
lang/English/common.php
lang/English/install.php
lang/English/mail_templates/new_reply.tpl
lang/English/mail_templates/new_reply_full.tpl
lang/English/mail_templates/new_topic.tpl
lang/English/mail_templates/new_topic_full.tpl
lang/English/search.php
lang/English/topic.php

I don't remember how to compare with 1.4.3 on github...
Can you please provide a link?
Thanks in advance.

Last edited by jojaba (2011-02-04 10:34:26)

jojaba · 2011-02-04 10:40:14

Found!
https://github.com/fluxbb/fluxbb/compar … .4#diff-38

Last edited by jojaba (2011-02-04 10:40:47)

Jack · 2011-02-04 17:26:02

You can fin the uptaded italian translation here. Everything should be ok.

Could you please add it to the github?

(I have to admin that: im waiting for the new translation center )

wando · 2011-02-05 15:12:44

Hello, my FluxBB forum is fully modded. I only need security updates.

Can I have the code? Can I add it to my fluxbb? thank you for your hard work.

Reines · 2011-02-05 15:23:50

wando wrote:

Hello, my FluxBB forum is fully modded. I only need security updates.
Can I have the code? Can I add it to my fluxbb? thank you for your hard work.

Take a look at either the patch or hdiff in https://fluxbb.org/files/downloads/rele … xbb-1.4.4/

Jack · 2011-02-05 17:12:48

Jack wrote:

You can find the uptaded italian translation here. Everything should be ok.
Could you please add it to the github?

Sorry if i "up" this, but i really cant remember how to manage the git stuff... I have to reinstall the client and read again everything (as i said somewhere I reinstalled everythings on my pc and so....), it would be too longer (considering that for now I'm alone in the itailan translation management i think i would die dooing that too ).

thanks again,
J

Last edited by Jack (2011-02-05 17:13:52)

jojaba · 2011-02-07 17:15:09

Hello,

Finally found time to update French package : http://code.google.com/p/jojaba-code/do … -1.4.4.zip
Could you please upload it to github?

Thanks in advance

Reines · 2011-02-07 17:54:48

Cheers, done.

Jack · 2011-02-07 18:45:43

Reines wrote:

Cheers, done.

hemm... I feel a bit excluded...

Could someone please upload the italian translation too: http://fluxbb.oscon.it/fluxbb-1.4.4-italian.zip?

J

Last edited by Jack (2011-02-07 18:46:14)

Reines · 2011-02-07 18:49:30

Jack wrote:

Reines wrote:
Cheers, done.
hemm... I feel a bit excluded...
Could someone please upload the italian translation too: http://fluxbb.oscon.it/fluxbb-1.4.4-italian.zip?
J

Haha sorry I didn't notice your post there, done

Jack · 2011-02-07 23:05:11

Reines wrote:

Haha sorry I didn't notice your post there, done

thanks

jojaba · 2011-02-08 07:15:33

Reines wrote:

Cheers, done.

Thanks Reines
I already had a feedback about that package. Olivier found a typo : http://fluxbb.fr/forums/profile.php?id=3358
Could you please change this in common.php French lang file on github?
Find on line 105 :

'Topic searches'        =>    'Dicussions&#160;:',

Replace it by:

'Topic searches'        =>    'Discussions&#160;:',

Just add a "s" before the "c"
Thanks in advance...
The fixed package: http://code.google.com/p/jojaba-code/do … 4-fix1.zip

Last edited by jojaba (2011-02-08 07:17:30)

Profound · 2011-02-09 00:29:28

Great work guys. I am a big supporter of FluxBB. I use your forum software on a few of my boards. Keep up the good work, and don't stop developing.

Last edited by Profound (2011-02-10 05:41:00)

Pierre · 2011-02-10 19:01:13

I didn't had time to test it yet, but I am a little unsure about the release policy. Some changes of the last updates to 1.4 might be better in a 1.5 branch. That of course depends on how you define it.

For minor updates/ bug fix releases I would suggest:
1) No string changes (otherwise you break translations)
2) No database schema or content changes
3) No changes that would break custom layouts, css etc.

This would make the lives of site admins, translators or anybody doing modifications easier. On the other side I know that keeping compatibility limits the possibilities of developers and can be annoying.

And btw: A defined release schedule like e.g. KDE has can be helpful for all parties. They release compatible bugfix releases every month and major updates every six months.

Jack · 2011-02-10 20:01:35

Pierre wrote:

I didn't had time to test it yet, but I am a little unsure about the release policy. Some changes of the last updates to 1.4 might be better in a 1.5 branch. That of course depends on how you define it.

I still think that the most urgent thing is the "plugin system". With this feature (i know, i know, 2.0 will have it, but I cant wait ), all kind of release would be extremly fast and easy to upgrade. Cause you can manage all of your personalizations via your own plugins.

J

Last edited by Jack (2011-02-10 20:02:44)

zaher · 2011-02-15 10:51:46

Hmm, i am lost, i must update the language to work with 1.4.4 but also i like update it to last revision for FluxBB.

I am not good with git, so not sure about this idea:

branch the Languages to 1.4.4 (maybe in next release 1.4.5)
1 - Language maintainer update that branch and always merge it to the master
2- Languages maintainer update the master also to be up to date with last modification.

I dont know if it possible the git can auto merge branch to master for more easy work.

sexyprout · 2011-03-01 17:10:41

Why switch to PHP 4.4.0?

Reines · 2011-03-01 17:12:53

sexyprout wrote:

Why switch to PHP 4.4.0?

Due to the use of unicode character properties in regular expressions (required to properly handle censoring/splitting non-latin characters).

Floop · 2011-03-20 17:21:46

It's great

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