Primary Changes In This Release
- Attachment Display is now customizable between Grouped or Inlined.
- Support for Google reCAPTCHA.
- New "My Account" drop-down menu. This menu replaces the "My Stuff" menu/links.
- Login page now returns the user back to the page they were previously viewing just before logging in.
- Attached images can now be automatically resized and/or compressed at the time of upload.
- New Fetch_ip function to retrieve the correct Client IP address for sites behind a CDN or Firewall, or user accessing the site behind a proxy.
- Facebook "Share" has been added. This is in addition to "Like," which was already available.
- New Styles added, "Ventura" and "Ventura Open." (Five variations are available: Burgundy, Cobalt, Pine, Ink, and Mint)
- Posts will now display an "OP" next to the name of the "Original Poster." Customizable per style.
- New Posts will now display a "NEW" indicator in the post subject/details bar. Customizable per style.
- New default avatars will be displayed for users who do not have a profile avatar set.
- Long pages now will display a "Return to Top" FAB.
- Smooth Scroll added to the "Return to Top" FAB and the post/message previews.
- Subscription Details page can now be printed and are printer friendly.
- Pages can now have their HTML minified on the fly.
- Responsive layout on mobile devices can be disabled for your entire forum.
- Control Panel now sends you directly to the Log In page if you are not logged in and attempt to access it.
- Topics can now be re-rated if Topic Ratings are enabled.
- Social/Sharing Settings, and CAPTCHA Settings groups have been added to the Control Panel (General settings section).
- Shareaholic setup directions have been updated.
- SQL Backup now works as expected and is quicker. Backup progress information is now displayed. Task start/end times are now added to the Admin Log.
- Multiple language updates within the Control Panel for consistency, clarity, and layout improvement.
- Cleanup of language strings, templates, CSS, and JavaScript files.
- Any code and page validation errors that were found, were fixed. There were a few of each.
Added
- Google reCAPTCHA is now available.
- New "My Account" drop-down menu. This menu replaces the "My Stuff" menu/links.
- Fetch_ip function will retrieve the correct Client IP address for sites behind a CDN or Firewall, or clients accessing the site behind a proxy.
- Attached images can now be automatically resized at the time of upload.
- Attached images can now be automatically compressed at the time of upload.
- New image "Attachments" page has been added to the Control Panel to control the size and compression of image attachments.
- Facebook "Share" has been added. This is in addition to "Like," which was already available.
- Added "Ventura" Style. Three variations are available: Burgundy, Cobalt, and Pine.
- Added "Ventura Open" Style. A variation of the "Ventura" style package. Two variations are available: Ink and Mint.
- Admin Log now records each time a user is checked or reported in StopForumSpam from the User Editor.
- The current forum config file is now backed up before new changes are saved. A forum owner can now roll back to their backup config file, if the new one gets corrupted during its creation.
- Post and Gallery attachments now display their file information on hover-over.
- Control Panel now displays the Post Attachments count and total size, as stored in the database.
- Control Panel now displays the Post Attachments count and total size, as stored on disk (when debugging is enabled).
- Control Panel Cache Manager will now purge files in the /tmp directory, and orphaned file entries in the database older than 2 hours.
- Login page now returns the user back to the page they were previously viewing just before logging in.
- Posts will now display an "OP" next to the name of the "Original Poster." Can be Customized through the Style Editor for each custom forum style.
- New Posts will now display a "NEW" indicator in the post subject/details bar.
- New default avatars will be displayed for users who do not have a profile avatar set.
- Long pages now will display a "Return to Top" chevron that can be clicked on to return the user back to the top of the page.
- Smooth Scroll added to the "Return to Top" jumper and the post/message previews.
- Added an option within the Primary/Advanced Settings to always "Expand Control Panel Sections" on key Control Panel pages.
- Responsive layout on mobile devices can be disabled for your entire forum.
- Subscription Details page can now be printed.
- Minify HTML Page Output
Changed
- UBB.gallery list page received some cosmetic updates to look more like a gallery by putting more attention on the thumbnail.
- Control Panel > Clear Cache now displays the items which will be cleared / rebuilt.
- All references to maps.google.com have been updated from HTTP to HTTPS.
- Control Panel now sends you directly to the Log In page if you are not logged in and attempt to access it.
- Post display has been updated and allows for the same author information to be displayed across multiple screen sizes.
- Private Messages indicator is now always displayed, making it easy for you to visit your Private Messages from any page.
- Topics can now be re-rated. If Topic Ratings are enabled, users can update their previous topic ratings.
- Topic Ratings menu has been completely updated.
- Active Topics layout has been adjusted to display the first section of each listed post.
- Custom Titles are now shown in Italic font, and Forum Group Titles remain in regular font to help prevent users from faking a "Moderator" or "Admin" titles.
- The "My Account" left navigation menu will only display when there is enough screen width.
- CAPTCHA Settings group has been added to the Control Panel (General settings section).
- Social/Sharing Settings group has been added to the Control Panel (General settings section).
- Shareaholic setup directions have been updated to reflect the most recent changes on the shareaholic.com admin dashboard.
- SQL Backup now works as expected and is quicker. Backup progress information is now displayed. Task start/end times are now added to the Admin Log.
- User Registration Queue pages have been polished. They now display the registrations in reverse chronological order (newest is first).
- User Registration Queue now only lists the last 50 registrations. A warning notice is shown when you reach 50+ registrations waiting.
- Control Panel updates and fixes, including further appearance updates, improved menus, and layout corrections all over the place.
- Multiple language updates within the Control Panel for consistency, clarity, and layout improvement.
- Cleanup of language strings, templates, CSS, and JavaScript files.
- Updated Autosize library from 3.0.20 to version 4.0.0.
- Updated Dropzone asset from 4.3.0 to version 5.2.0.
- Updated FontAwesome library from 4.7.0 to version 5.0.1.
- Updated html5shiv library from 3.7.2 to version 3.7.3.
- Updated jQuery library from version 3.1.1 to version 3.2.1.
- Updated Lightbox asset from 2.9.0 to version 2.10.0.
- Updated PHPMailer library from 5.2.22 to version 5.2.25.
- Updated Smarty library from 2.6 to version 3.1.31.
Fixed
- Viewing Subscriptions in CP would display a blank header and sidebar.
- Blank columns would display on some pages, when "Only Show [Left/Right] Column On The Portal" was checked.
- BBcode would insert html line breaks for PHP, HTML, and SQL BBcode Code tags.
- PHP4 left-overs updated to be correctly PHP5/PHP7 formatted. This progresses PHP7 compatibility.
- When creating a new Private Message, the "Add Users From Friend List" drop-down menu will not be displayed if the user has a blank "Friend List."
- Attachment/Poll Manager now updates the file/poll count in real time.
- Twitter and Facebook buttons on posts now use secure https URLs, use their current APIs and are now mobile-friendly.
- File Manager now displays a message when max attachments have been reached, and allow deletions of previous items.
- File Manager no longer pushes content off the screen for files with extremely long names.
- Minor Who’s Online HTML fixes.
- UBB.gallery now displays the first image in the group as its main/cover thumbnail on the postlist page.
- UBB.gallery now displays the thumbnail images within each gallery with the correct proportions.
- Minor display fixes all over within the UBB.gallery pages.
- Fixed attached image Filename / Description display and Lightbox minimum window sizes.
- Fixed attached image Navigation indicators on Post List.
- UBB.gallery Image Manager now display image previews for image attachments.
- The Attachment Manager will now purge orphaned file entries in the database older than 2 hours.
- Post layout, "User info on top," has been fixed.
- Showflat post_top avatar display has been fixed for when a user has linked to a large image using an external URL for their avatar.
- User Avatar sizes on posts have been fixed.
- User Avatars are now displayed on Mobile screens.
- Gallery Threads now display the OP with the exact same style as post_top/mobile layout. All author details that are found within regular threads, are now displayed on Gallery threads.
- CAPTCHA now display correctly when the config variables cannot be passed through the URL due to higher server security settings within php. This was a long-standing bug from at least UBBT 7.5.0. It has now been fixed.
- Control Panel display corrections for IPv6 addresses.
- Any code and page validation errors that were found, were fixed. There were a few of each.
UBB.threads 7.6.1 has been released and is now available to download in the Member Area.