Archive For September, 2007

I am happy to announce version 1.0.8 of the light and Open Source PHP/MySQL bulletin board package "UseBB".Version 1.0.8 is a minor security and bug fix release. The most important fix is for a few full path disclosure vulnerabilities reported by Ilia Alshanetsky. Upgrading is highly recommended. Visit http://www.usebb.net/downloads/ for downloads. Information about upgrading is available in the docs/index.html document.One of the discovered vulnerabilities is the same one found in 1.0.5 and prior releases. The fix introduced in 1.0.6 turned out insufficient and the vulnerability appeared to come forward in another case as well. It does not pose a direct…

I am happy to announce version 1.0.8 of the light and Open Source PHP/MySQL bulletin board package "UseBB".Version 1.0.8 is a minor security and bug fix release. The most important fix is for a few full path disclosure vulnerabilities reported by Ilia Alshanetsky. Upgrading is highly recommended. Visit http://www.usebb.net/downloads/ for downloads. Information about upgrading is available in the docs/index.html document.One of the discovered vulnerabilities is the same one found in 1.0.5 and prior releases. The fix introduced in 1.0.6 turned out insufficient and the vulnerability appeared to come forward in another case as well. It does not pose a direct…

A new version is finally here, and ready for download! The biggest news is better search and compatibility with WordPress 2.3, but it also fixes a lot of bugs.

Other bug fixes include:

Broken forum hierarchies
Tag inconsistencies
and a bunch of fixes making it easier to write cool plugins.

In addition to the above bugs, you can also check out the exact code changes.

With the introduction of the new BB_Query_Class in bbPress 0.8.3, the old method of adding custom “views” to bbPress has been removed. You should no longer directly manipulate the $bb_views array, nor does the bb_views hook work.

To add a view, you should instead use a new function: bb_register_view(). Also available is bb_deregister_view() for removing the default views or views added by other plugins.

function my_plugin_views() {
/*
bb_register_view(
$view_slug,
$view_title,
$bb_query_argument_array
);
*/

bb_register_view(
‘more-than-5′,
‘Topics with more than five posts’,
array( ‘post_count’ => ‘>5′ )
);

bb_register_view(
‘old-timers’,
‘Topics started before 2005′,
array( ’started’ => ‘<2005′ )
);

// Remove default ‘Topics…

So WordPress 2.3 is out, and the release announcement is exciting to read.

First off, in 2.3, WordPress gives us real Tags. Tags are not categories. I was really disappointed when WordPress.com started confusing categories for tags, and wrote about why Tags are not Categories. WordPress has finally come clean, and seen the light, and explained what’s what over at the Tags and Categories article at WordPress.com blog. Now to take it a step further in the right direction, it would help if everyone thought about how tags add value to a blog. Tag Clouds are cool, but they’re not the…

We just released Phorum 5.1.25 which, as usual, fixes some bugs and alsosolves a security issue found by kernelnewbies.org.We also improved security of the session-id for cookies.Therefore we urge all Phorum users to upgrade as soon as possible.The current release can be downloaded atour download-siteThe changelog is below:Quote2007-09-15 23:39 mmakaay* Fixed a local file inclusion security hole as reported bykernelnewbies.org. Also went over the full code and added strictinclusion prevention code for all include statements.2007-09-13 08:43 ts77* rss-changes for better readability (fixing #622), thanks tomysql.com2007-09-11 18:55 brian* kill session id in table on logout2007-09-09 15:02 mmakaay* Fix for #624: problems…

Before we go any further: if you want to discuss Phorum 5.2, please use the special Phorum 5.2 forum that we created for this purpose. If you have a bug, start a new thread in that forum. Thank you.After a month collecting issues and doing new features for 5.2 we released 5.2.1-alpha now which is mostly a bugfix release over the previous alpha where lots of issues were fixed and a couple of new features were added.In new features there were some new hooks which allow modules to hook into the controlcenter without copying files there and new newflags-code for…