Geeklog History/Changes:

??? ??, 2008 (1.5.1)
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- Provided auto-detection of -left and -right overrides for any given block
  template. This allows any block to auto-style to left and right for themes
  without the need for the theme to work it out, or talk to the database.
  ("Bug" #0000684) [Mike]
- Fixed handling of corrupted config value db entries, e.g. after importing
  Calendar event_types with the wrong character set (bug #0000690) [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of HTML entities in the Configuration (bug #0000710)
  [Sami, Dirk]
- Story image upload: Only add a link to the unscaled image if such an image
  actually exists [Dirk]
- Removed unused code from lib-story.php [Dirk]
- COM_siteFooter no-longer creates two sets of right blocks. (bug #0000698)
  [Mike]
- Microsummaries work in topics, reported by Joe. [Mike]
- Added DB_checkTableExists and changed INST_checkTableExists to use it. [Mike]
- Changed REPLACE INTO for DB_save for MSSQL compat [Mike]
- Re-introduced function get_SP_Ver in the install script, which is still needed
  when upgrading from old Geeklog releases (reported by libexec) [Dirk]
- Fixed issue where you can post a comment to an unpublished story (bug
  #0000705) [Mystral_KK/Mike]
- Fixed make clickable links with quotes (bug #0000691) plus truncated long
  urls. [Sami]
- Fixed table prefix issues with constraints (bug #0000702) [Mike/Sami]
- Fixed error when attempting to highlight a search query that contained a
  slash [Dirk]
- Updated FCKEditor to v2.6.3 [Blaine]
- Moved remove() (config JavaScript) to gl_cfg_remove (bug #0000681) [Mike]
- Change for CUSTOM_usercreate to support passing in $batchimport, 
  set true if called via the Admin->Users Batch_Add [Blaine]
- Fix for date formatting in RSS fields (bug #0000696) [mystral_kk]
- A small tweak to the Professional theme's commentbar to make the "Post a
  comment" option easier to find [Dirk]
- Renamed the syndication feed type "geeklog" to "article" since that's what
  they are nowadays [Dirk]
- New option "All Frontpage Stories" for article feeds: skip stories that have
  the "Show only in topic" option set (feature request #0000652) [Dirk]
- If there is a feed for a topic, there will now be a "Subscribe to ..." option
  in the Story Options block for every story for that topic (feature request
  #0000154) [Dirk]
- Cop-out fix for bug #0000671: Don't display the icon for external links when
  the text direction is 'rtl' (e.g. Hebrew) [Dirk, Mike]
- Keep letter case intact when highlighting a search query string (patch
  provided by Sami Barakat)
- Provide nicer URLs to story search results when URL rewriting is enabled
  (bug #0000665, based on a patch by Sami Barakat) [Dirk]
- Better support for plugin messages (bug #0000618) [Blaine]
- Introduced new variable {page_title_and_site_name} for header.thtml so that
  we can have "Site Name - Site Slogan" in the frontpage's title again [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error(s) for story submissions by users with story.submit but no
  further Story Admin permissions (reported by Orion) [Dirk]
- End a user's session when they are being banned [Dirk]
- Signatures in HTML-formatted comments weren't XHTML compliant [Dirk]
- Minor cleanups in style.css - no actual layout changes (bug #0000683) [Dirk]
- Allow creation of banned users, i.e. ban the user on account creation [Dirk]
- Minor improvements in the error handling, e.g. preventing Geeklog from
  creating error.log files outside the logs directory [Dirk]
- Send a HTTP status code 503 "Service Unavailable" when the site is disabled
  [Dirk]
- Hide the database password when the database backup failed and we're logging
  the mysqldump command [Dirk]
- Disable OpenID login when new registrations are disabled [Dirk]
- Allow to unset Configuration options again after they have been "restored",
  i.e. enabled (bug #0000664) [Dirk]
- Adopted hack to allow multilingual blocks (bug #0000626) [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error in story submissions (reported by Chase) [Mike]
- Stories with a publishing date in the future and stories with the draft flag
  set were accessible if you knew their story id (bug #0000678) [Mike]
- Enabled siteconfig.php to override database config in core, primarily for
  rootdebug. [bug 0000673] [Mike]
- Allow remote users to use the webservices (bug #0000640). Due to the
  authentication method it is not possible for OpenID users to use the
  webservices. Other remote users will have to use username@servicename for
  their username when logging in through the webservices [Dirk]
- Fix to template.class to better handle full path being passed in [Blaine]
- Updated PLG_uninstall to supress errors for table drop. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
- Fixed INST_checkTableExists for MS SQL Support. [bug 0000668] [Mike]
- Hardcode an ltr div around HTML tags in the allowed html tag list. Plus minor
  HTML compliance issues. [bug  0000669] [Mike]
- Plaintext stories have nl2br applied in syndication feeds to provide correct
  formatting in feed readers. [bug 0000662] [Mike]
- Changed SEC_createToken so that it will only return one token per page
  (effectively making it a singleton). This fixes the problem of not being able
  to delete comments when you also have trackbacks for the same article
  [Mike, Dirk]
- Approving a story submission by saving it from the Admin's story editor left
  a duplicate in the submission queue, unless you changed the story ID at the
  same time [Dirk, Mark Evans]
- Fixed user submission queue (reported by greenteagod) [Dirk]

- Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC

Calendar plugin
---------------
- Fixed <brXHTML> tags in the German language files for the Calendar [Dirk]
- Fixed date comparison ("End date is before start date.", bug #0000703) [Dirk]
- Fixed Admin delete links in day and week view (bug #0000680) [Dirk]
- Search for an event's "author" didn't work [Dirk]
- Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
  day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums) (really) [Mike]

Links plugin
------------
- Fixed passing the category on multi-page link lists [Dirk]
- Fixed new category silently overwriting an existing category if they had the
  same id (part 2 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error when trying to change a category id to an already existing id
  (part 1 of bug #0000659) [Dirk]

Polls plugin
------------
- For multi-question polls, make the "Vote" button read "Start Poll" in the
  polls block (bug #0000633) [Dirk]
- Fixed display of "Results" link while a poll is open [Dirk]

Static Pages plugin
-------------------
- Removed unused 'config_data' entry from the plugin uninstall function
  (bug #0000666) [Dirk]
- Fixed printer friendly version of a static page not working when url_rewrite
  is enabled (bug #0000661) [Dirk]


June 15, 2008 (1.5.0)
-------------

Geeklog 1.5.0 incorporates the following projects implemented during
the 2007 Google Summer of Code:

+ New user-friendly install script by Matt West
+ New Configuration GUI (replacing config.php) by Aaron Blankstein
+ New Webservices API based on the Atom Publishing Protocol by Ramnath R. Iyer

Changes since 1.5.0rc2:
- Users that used a different theme than the site default would see the site
  switch temporarily back to the site's default theme when changing a config
  option. This was a side effect of the fix for bug #0000648 [Dirk]
- In a tradeoff between security and convenience, we decided to go with
  security: The install script will no longer display the database credentials
  from db-config.php. The downside is that you will have to enter them again
  when doing a database upgrade or re-running the install (reported by Mark
  Evans) [Dirk]
- Links plugin: The word "Root" wasn't taken from the language file for the page
  title of the public list of links (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
- Fixed remaining places where the Admin panels had inconsistent layouts:
  Calendar list of events, Polls editor (bug #0000650) [Dirk]

- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
- Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger
- Some Korean language files had a mixture of CR/LF and LF as line separators
  (bug #0000655) [Dirk]


June 8, 2008 (1.5.0rc2)
------------

Changes since 1.5.0rc1:
- Hide the | separator for static pages with page format "blank page" (reported
  by Tetsuko Komma) [Dirk]
- Hardcoded all URL entry fields in the templates and the date selection in the
  calendar plugin to dir="ltr" (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of UTF-8 languages in the install script (reported by Tetsuko
  Komma) [Dirk]
- Ensure consistent display of the admin lists (bug #0000650) [Dirk]
- Sanitize the language in the install help (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
- Moved the hard-coded CSS for the System Message to the stylesheet [Dirk]
- Added a workaround for the Yulup Atompub client that sometimes sends Text
  nodes within XHTML nodes [Dirk]
- Made the Install / Upgrade buttons in the install script a bit wider to
  provide more space for the Japanese and German translations [Dirk]
- Fixed bug #0000647: All modifications of usersettings should go through
  CUSTOM_usercheck [Blaine]
- Removed hard-coded <ul> tags from the functions for the Admin, User, and
  Topics blocks. Added new blockheader-list.thtml, blockfooter-list.thtml
  template files for those blocks [Blaine]
- Removed the fake {blockid} for the block templates as it was actually derived
  from the block title, resulting in layout changes when you changed the block
  title. It also didn't work properly with non-ASCII languages. Updated
  style.css and the block templates accordingly [Blaine]
- Fixed setting the site's default language and default theme (bugs #0000646
  and #0000648) [Aaron, Dirk]
- The bundled plugins don't need to read their config.php any more. This also
  avoids confusion if renaming the old config.php failed during the upgrade
  [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error in the Mail Utility when using the option to override user
  settings (reported by Michael Brusletten) [Dirk]
- Fixed problems with the text direction in the install script (reported by LWC)
  [Dirk]

- Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
- Updated Hebrew language files, provided by LWC
- Updated Japanese language files, provided by Takahiro Kambe, Tetsuko Komma,
  and the Geeklog.jp group
  Note: Only the UTF-8 versions of the Japanese language files are supported
  from now on. The euc-jp versions have been removed from the distribution.
- Updated Polish language files, provided by Robert Stadnik
- Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape


May 25, 2008 (1.5.0rc1)
------------

Changes since 1.5.0b2:
- Fixed story date/time when using the timezone hack (bug #0000639) [Dirk]
- Fixed MS SQL upgrade [Mike]
- Added code to beautify the language names in the install script [Dirk]
- Ensure the "After Saving ..." options work as advertised [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of empty form submission and display of error messages in the
  batch user import [Dirk]
- Fixed text for the account reminder emails [Dirk]
- Display value in the "Months since registration" column on the Batch User
  Admin screen without decimals again (as in 1.4.1) [Dirk]
- Removed unused poll-vote, poll-vote-results classes from the Professional
  theme's stylesheet; added empty required-field, missing-field classes for
  future use (cf. bug #0000635) [Dirk]

- Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
- Updated Estonian language files, provided by Artur Räpp
- Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape

Calendar plugin
---------------
- Fixed missing ] in the headline of the day and week view [Dirk]
- Fixed the template for the personal event editor (extra <td> tag) [Dirk]
- Bugfix: In some cases, personal events would end up in the submission queue
  for site events [Dirk]
- Fixed "Delete old entries" option (delete checkboxes were missing) [Dirk]


May 20, 2008 (1.5.0b2)
------------

Changes since 1.5.0b1:
- {story_title} is now available in the article.thtml template file [Dirk]
- Bugfix: When saving a (new) topic with one or more required fields missing,
  don't go back into the topic editor as that would cause a confusing "access
  denied" message [Dirk]
- Hard-coded the text direction as "ltr" for some input fields and the date/time
  selection in the story editor (bug #0000150). Also removed "text-align:left"
  for the HTML body from the Professional theme's style sheet as it interferes
  with the ability to switch the text direction (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- Removed references to config.php from the documentation, some READMEs, and
  some source files (bug #0000627) [Dirk]
- Don't include the (internal) 'subgroup' and 'fieldset' entries in the $_CONF
  arrays [Dirk]
- COM_numberFormat wouldn't handle decimals correctly (bug #0000624) [Dirk]
- Make sure the XHTML constant is defined if the theme doesn't already define
  it (bug #0000622) [Dirk]
- Fixed invalid <brXHTML> tags in some language files (bug #0000621) [Dirk]
- The URL sent in a user registration notification contained an &amp; where it
  should have been a simple & [Dirk]

- Updated German language files, provided by Markus Wollschläger

Links plugin
------------
- Fixed the "Validate Links" link from the list of categories [Dirk]

Polls plugin
------------
- Bugfix: When saving a (new) poll with one or more required fields missing,
  don't go back into the polls editor as that would cause a confusing "access
  denied" message [Dirk]
- Renamed 'open' column in the gl_polltopics table to 'is_open' as "open" is
  a reserved keyword in MS SQL server [Matt]
- Fixed duplicate sort_order value in the Polls config [Dirk]
- Cosmetic changes in the Polls topic and results (bug #0000625) [Dirk]

Static Pages plugin
-------------------
- Moved the print and edit icons to the bottom of a static page in the default
  staticpage.thtml template file. Also removed the icons from the default
  centerblock.thtml template file and defined the {lastupdate} and {hits}
  variables there (bug #0000628) [Dirk]
- Removed an extra } from the Static Pages staticpage.thtml template file
  (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]



May 5, 2008 (1.5.0b1)
-----------

- Updated FCKEditor to v2.6 [Blaine]
- LDAP remote authentication module, provided by Jessica Blank / MTV Networks
- The {lang_attribute} can only properly be set in a multi-language setup
  (bug #0000616) [Dirk]
- Removed Blogger remote authentication option. Blogger.com have changed their
  authentication process, so this module no longer works.
- Emails sent from Geeklog now have an X-Originating-IP header to help track
  spam or abuse [Dirk]
- The topic editor allowed you to enter topic IDs with more than 20 characters
  (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
- Ease restriction that email addresses have to be unique: Remote accounts can
  have non-unique addresses, on-site accounts can't [Dirk]
- Bug: Email user form doesn't display correctly with " in subject when sending
  is failed due to incomplete fields. [Mike]
- Bugs: Ensure that site_url, site_admin_url, layout_url and xhtml available to
  all templates. [Mike]
- Support for [raw][/raw] tag in HTML post mode. All the benefits of code and
  pre, with none of the ugly styling. [Mike]
- Added an Atom self-link to RSS feeds. Sounds odd, but it is recommended by
  <http://feedvalidator.org/docs/warning/MissingAtomSelfLink.html> [Mike]
- Improved support for podcasts in portal blocks and fixed an error where REALLY
  long syndication feeds could blow portal blocks up. [Mike]
- Only use the multi-byte string functions when the current character set is
  UTF-8 (reported by Rick78) [Dirk]
- COM_hit() is now called from COM_siteFooter() instead of doing the UPDATE SQL
  directly (reported by Joe Mucchiello) [Dirk]
- New function SEC_encryptPassword() to be used when we have to encrypt a
  password. This is only a wrapper for md5() for now but should it make easier
  for us to use some other method in the future [Dirk]
- Incorporated patches by Joe Mucchiello for places in the code where the
  template library was used incorrectly.
- By defining the constant XHTML as ' /', themes can now be XHTML compliant
  (patches provided by dengen from geeklog.jp)
- Added batch admin feature to send out account reminders [Blaine]
- Hide "Create Account" link in the story submission form when new account
  registration has been disabled (reported by Markus Wollschläger) [Dirk]
- Updated COM_startBlock to set a unique {blockid} template variable [Blaine]
- Fixed checking of "Show Admin lists" in Group Admin when going to 2nd page of
  results [Oliver]
- Created new function for Admin-Menu display and removed that functionality
  from ADMIN_list-functions. [Oliver]
- Fixed missing N/A display when no plugin version number was available
  (reported by Machinari) [Dirk]
- Avoid division by zero error when $_CONF['limitnews'] == 0
  (reported by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
- Bugfix: Atom always assumes 0.3 and doesn't handle article dates. (Reported by
  mystral kk on the forums). [Mike]
- Added OpenID 1.1 support, provided by Choplair
- Pass site_name into story templates so advanced linking to items like digg.com
  can be templated cross-site. [Mike]
- Revamped DB Backups option. It now lists all backups (all .sql files), and
  lets you download and delete backups from there [Dirk]
- Fixed checking for errors when sending Pingbacks or Pings [Mike, Dirk]
- When receiving a Pingback, optionally create an excerpt from the text of the
  site that sent the Pingback [Dirk]
- Portal blocks now use the HTTP Last-Modified and ETag headers to only request
  feeds when they have changed [Dirk]
- The {read_more_class} variable now contains class="story-read-more-link" (if
  defined) for consistency with the class name used in {readmore_link} [Dirk]
- Changed the Security Check to only check if any Root users have their password
  as "password" [Dirk]
- Made admin/sectest.php recognize 403 status codes (reported by THX100) [Dirk]
- All plugin API's, where not doing very, very plugin specific activities now
  call a matching CUSTOM_ function. [Mike]
- Integrated support for passing parameters to phpblock functions (Patch #643 by
  Joe Mucchiello) [Mike]
- Fixed numerous HTML errors in admin pages [Oliver]
- Added a missing blank between the day's name and the date in the Older Stories
  block (reported by Jeruvy's girlfriend, via IRC) [Dirk]
- fixed bug [#648] sending new password email returns "Ok" message although
  it fails when SMTP Server cannot be reached [Oliver]
- Need to include parameters in the URL when sending Pingbacks, e.g. to
  Serendipity [Dirk]
- When sending Pingbacks, also search for <link rel="pingback"> if the linked
  site does not send an X-Pingback header [Dirk]
- When sending Pingbacks for a story that had identical link texts for different
  URLs, only the last of those links was pinged [Dirk]
- Implemented new Autouninstall for plugins. Plugins runs a function that passes
  a specific array to a core function that removes all given element of the
  plugin.  The function inside the plugin can handle aditional removals that
  the core code cannot [Oliver]
- Fixed search by date in Calendar (reported and patch provided by Jeffrey Hare)
- Only allow autotags in normal blocks (bug #653) [Dirk]
- Added {story_topic_image_no_align} and {story_anchortag_and_image_no_align}
  in stories so that you have access to the topic image without the alignment
  (feature request #410) [Dirk]
- Show autotags in story editor to Admin even if all HTML is allowed [Oliver]
- Allow comments to be closed, i.e. display the existing comments but don't
  accept any new ones [Dirk]
- Introduced COM_getCharset which returns the currently used character set (to
  avoid code duplication). It should be save to simply use $LANG_CHARSET in
  most cases, though [Dirk]
- Added optional Wikitext postmode for stories [Oliver]
- Added optional noreply-email address option to config.php to prevent
  spammers retrieving the admin's email address from registering online [Oliver]
- Added support for "Microsummaries" to index.php.
  See (http://wiki.mozilla.org/Microsummaries) [Mike]
- Story "Rewrite" - significant re-structure of story code to fix all issues
  with posting HTML special characters etc. [Mike]
- Added ability to have Body Text in user submitted stories. To deactivate,
  edit layout\theme\submit\submitstory.thtml and submitstory_advanced.thtml
    [Mike]
- fixing the dimension-resizing of uploaded images. If an image would be within
  the max width after resizing, the max height might still be off. This is
  solved with the new code. [Oliver]
- Removed tzcode table and started using PEAR::Date instead since all timezone
  information is stored in there. [Oliver]
- Added timezone selector to preferences page [Oliver]
- Fixed COM_getLangSQL() to escape the underscore character '_' which happens
  to be a wildcard character when used with LIKE. In a multi-language setup,
  this may accidentally display unwanted items (reported by Kenji Ito) [Dirk]
- Addressed problems with the text direction (ltr/rtl) and the hard-coded
  English text in admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- Due to a language file change, the login form in users.php ("Try Logging in
  Again") now asked for a "new password" (reported by Laugh) [Dirk]
- Remove the "Are you secure?" (getBent) block from the database as its
  functionality has been moved to admin/sectest.php (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- Added config option what should be displayed after user saving [Oliver]
- Added config option what should be displayed after story saving [Oliver]
- Images in articles (inc. topic icon) aligned with float [Oliver]

- New Czech language file for the Calendar and Links plugins, provided
  by Ondrej Rusek
- New Danish language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by dirtyjensen
- Updated Dutch language files, provided by Ronald Edelschaap
- New Dutch language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by John van Gaal
- Updated French Canadian language files for Geeklog and the Static Pages plugin
  and new language files for the Calendar, Links, and Polls plugins, provided
  by Jean-Francois Allard
- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
- Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  by the Geeklog Japanese group
- New Korean language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
  by Tetsuko Komma and Kim Younghie
- Updated Spanish (UTF-8) language file and new Spanish (UTF-8) language files
  for all the plugins, provided by Jose R. Valverde

Calendar plugin (1.0.2)
---------------
- Calendar block now includes events from the current day (in progress or all
  day events, bug 0000604, patch from forums)
- Fixed deleting events submissions from the Events editor [Dirk]
- The global $_STATES has been removed from Geeklog. The state in an event's
  details is now a simple text entry field.
- The form to add an event to the personal calendar was missing the site footer
  (reported by Mark Evans) [Dirk]
- Fixed Calendar feeds: The first parameter to the getFeedContent function is
  the feed's ID, not the feed limit (bug #659) [Dirk]
- Highlight search queries [Dirk]
- Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
- Added Batch-Delete functionality [Oliver]
- Added config option what should be displayed after event saving [Oliver]

Links plugin (2.0.0)
------------
- Fixed deleting link submissions from the Links editor (didn't work in at least
  all 1.4.x versions) [Dirk]
- Added owner_id field to submissions to record submitter and align with
  stories behavior [Oliver]
- Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
- Added "Report Broken Link" function [Oliver]
- Added Link Verification to Link Admin [Oliver]
- Added config option what should be displayed after link saving [Oliver]
- Added Link sub-category options [Euan]

Polls plugin (2.0.1)
------------
- Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
- Added Support for multiple questions grouped into a survey [Oliver]
- Added Support for closing polls [Oliver]
- Added Support for hiding poll results of open polls [Oliver]
- Added config option what should be displayed after event poll [Oliver]

Spam-X plugin (1.1.1)
-------------
- Fixed the "edit" modules not working with the French language files (reported
  bye Joe) [Dirk]
- Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
- Fixed an error with the SLV module when $_CONF['site_url'] was empty
  (reported by AA6QN) [Dirk]
- Added support for blocking entire IP ranges, using either CIDR notation or
  simple x.x.x.x-y.y.y.y ranges [Dirk]

Static Pages plugin (1.5.0)
-------------------
- Bugfix: In a multi-language setup, we need to be able to see all topics for
  the centerblock option [Dirk]
- Bugfix: Allow the static pages "page format" setting to override
  $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] (reported by Simon Lord) [Dirk]
- New Static pages Autotag: staticpage_content to return the contents of a
  static page instead of a link to a static page [Oliver]
- Now using a template to display static pages [Oliver]
- Autouninstall implemented [Oliver]
- The static pages editor was looking for the advanced editor template in the
  wrong place, due to an uninitialized variable (reported by k74) [Dirk]
- Allow static pages to replace tags also on PHP-generated content [Oliver]
- Added config option what should be displayed after page saving [Oliver]
- Added comments feature [Oliver]


Dec 31, 2006 (1.4.1)
------------

- Changed the default character set in config.php back to iso-8859-1 [Dirk]
- Removed display of the site URL from admin/sectest.php. On sites not installed
  in the webroot, it did not display the site's actual URL, which only causes
  confusion (reported by Dazzy) [Dirk]
- Fixed conflict between the Spam-X DeleteComment and SLVreport action
  modules which prevented the count of deleted spams from being incremented
  [Dirk]
- Fixed max. allowed length for a user's homepage (128) and location (96) in the
  preferences/profile.thtml template file (reported by burjans) [Dirk]
- Fixed page title after a successful batch import of users (which read "Error")
  [Dirk]
- Back in Geeklog 1.4.0, a counter was added to the Spam-X plugin to count all
  deleted spam posts. The counter was only added in fresh installs of 1.4.0,
  though, but not when upgrading from an earlier version. Fixed that [Dirk]
- In lists created from the Links and Calendar plugins, use "links-new-plugin"
  as the CSS class name [Oliver]

- Updated Estonian language file, provided by Artur Räpp
- Updated Russian language file, provided by Alexander Yurchenko
- New Russian language file for the Calendar plugin, provided by Alexander
  Yurchenko
- Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat


Dec 17, 2006 (1.4.1rc1)
------------

- Improved handling of UTF-8 feeds (feature request #631) [Mike, Dirk]
- Fixes for the remaining MS SQL issues (bugs #620, #621, #622, #624)
  [Randy Kolenko, Dirk]
- Initialize SQL request arrays to prevent PHP errors (e.g. with static pages),
  reported by ldfoo [Dirk]
- Escape the '#' sign in spam checks since we're using it as the separator
  character for the regexp [Dirk]
- Mark Evans provided a set of patches that let plugins hook into the user
  registration, story and comment submission as well as the contact user and
  email story forms. These hooks can be used to add CAPTCHAs to those forms,
  but may also come in handy for other plugin applications.
  Also modified several template files to include a {captcha} variable to ease
  installation of Mark's CAPTCHA plugin.
- Update the timestamp for the last run of PLG_runScheduledTask before calling
  the function to minimize the risk of the call being triggered more than once
  (bug #628) [Dirk]
- In a multi-language setup, allow one static page per language to take over
  the index page (bug #625) [Dirk]
- sectest.php didn't perform the test for the install script and default
  passwords on some setups (reported by Christian Weiske) [Dirk]
- Fixed "delete account" option (reported by Paul Lelgemann) [Dirk]
- Fixed counting of comments in several places where comments were counted
  without taking the type of the parent object into account (e.g. when a story
  and a poll happened to use the same id, their comment counts would have been
  messed up) [Dirk]
- Editing a story did reset the trackback count (reported by T. Marquez) [Dirk]
- In the admin's story editor, set the debug option for the image upload only
  when $_CONF['debug_image_upload']  = true (thus avoiding the "Warning: File #x
  on the HTML form was empty" messages in error.log) [Dirk]
- Renamed [calendar:] autotag back to [event:] for backward compatibility. It
  also makes more sense this way, since it does provide a link to an event, not
  a link to a calendar (bug #619) [Dirk]
- Need to check if field 'etids' is NULL (for MySQL 4) for the Daily Digest
  (bug #595) [Dirk]
- Removed the outer table from the layout and merged several style declarations
  into the body-tag declaration [Oliver]
- The spam check for comment posts did not include the comment title (reported
  by Laugh) [Dirk]
- When multi-language support is enabled, allow language-specific overrides
  of the locale settings, e.g. $_CONF['date_en'] and $_CONF['date_de'] to
  overwrite $_CONF['date'] depending on the current language [Dirk]
- When installing the Geeklog database using InnoDB tables, create a
  'database_engine' entry in gl_vars, so that plugins know to use InnoDB for
  their tables. Updated the bundled plugins to act accordingly [Dirk]
- DB_query will now (optionally) accept an array of SQL request strings from
  which it will pick the one applicable for the currently used database type
  [Vinny, Dirk]
- Provide some more meta information in header.thtml [Dirk]
  + added optional {lang_id} variable and lang attribute
  + added a hreflang attribute to the feed links
  + added <link rel="home">, <link rel="search">, <link rel="contents"> links
    (via the {rel_links} variable)
- COM_isFrontpage has been deprecated, as it had its return values inverted
  (returns false when on the site's index page). Use COM_onFrontpage instead
  from now on [Dirk]
- Fixed check for new stories from archive topic [Dirk]
- Call PLG_templateSetVars() from STORY_renderArticle() so we can have custom
  variables in the story templates [Dirk]

- Updated Chinese language files (traditional and simplified), provided by
  Samuel M. Stone
- Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  by the Geeklog Japanese group
- Updated Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251, KOI8-U, and UTF-8 encoding)
  for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko


Nov 5, 2006 (1.4.1b2)
-----------

- Fixed potential SQL injection in the story editor preview (required Story
  Admin permissions) [Dirk]
- Added multi-language support in static pages centerblocks and search [Dirk]
- When cloning a static page, keep the original's "wrap in a block" setting
  [Dirk]
- Spam-X stats: Removed MT-Blacklist entry, added SLV whitelist entry [Dirk]
- Don't add empty "No Title" links in portal blocks when the feed has less than
  the configured max. number of entries (bug #610) [Dirk]
- Added support for COM_mail to use a parm for a CC: distribution list [Blaine]
- Fixed bug #603, hardcoded mysql_error() [Oliver]
- Fixed bug #604, delete trackbacks of a story when story is deleted [Oliver]
- Allow users to switch the language again, even when the default character set
  is not UTF-8. It is, however, not possible to mix UTF-8 and other charsets.
  Also, "UTF-8" is not displayed in the language dropdown any more [Dirk]
- Corrected SQL for group counting in Admin menu for root admin to fix bug #573
  [Oliver]
- Properly encode non-ASCII characters in email headers (subject, names),
  loosely based on patch #489 and code from Cal Henderson's book [Dirk]
- Removed the Calendar styles and moved them to a dedicated file in the
  plugin's directory [Oliver]
- Sorted all stylesheet definitions alphabetically and split semantics and
  classes [Oliver]
- When making a topic the archive topic, update all existing stories in that
  topic to "archived" status (and likewise revert that status if the topic
  loses its archive topic status) [Dirk]
- Don't count archived stories as new stories in the What's New block [Dirk]
- Moved the defines for STORY_ARCHIVE_ON_EXPIRE and STORY_DELETE_ON_EXPIRE to
  lib-story.php (from config.php) where they make more sense [Dirk]
- COM_getPermSQL was using the current user's group information when called for
  another user. In Geeklog, this only happens for the Daily Digest, though
  (bug #594) [Dirk]
- When comments are disabled for a story, don't show any existing comments in
  the What's New block, in search results or via comment.php (bug #597) [Dirk]
- When trackbacks are disabled for a story, don't list any existing trackbacks
  in the What's New block [Dirk]
- In the Admin's User Editor, disabled the checkboxes for the All Users,
  Logged-in Users, and Remote Users groups to prevent accidental change of
  group membership [Dirk]
- When deleting a topic, also delete all Trackbacks attached to stories in that
  topic and update the Older Stories block and the feeds [Dirk]
- Fixed approve / delete of draft stories from moderation.php [Dirk]
- Strip blanks from the name of a PHP block function when saving a PHP block
  [Dirk]
- Fixed / added multi-language support in the article directory, What's New
  block, and the search for stories and comments [Dirk]
- Fixed an SQL error when changing a story's ID [Dirk]
- Call SET NAMES 'utf8' when using UTF-8 as the site's character set (with
  MySQL), as pointed out by several people [Dirk]
- Removed wrong parameter when calling up the comment form again when the
  comment's title was missing. This bug existed for both story and polls
  comments. (bug #591) [Dirk]
- Users who were only in the Syndication Admin group didn't have access to
  Command and Control (moderation.php) [Dirk]
- For Block, Group, Polls, Story and Topic Admins only display the number of
  the respective entries they can actually see (instead of the number of all
  entries, e.g. topics, in the system) [Dirk]
- Fixed highlighting parse error when the search term contained an apostrophe
  (bug #590) [Dirk]
- Improved (and subsequently fixed) Pingback spam detection which now also uses
  the $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] settings [Dirk]
- directory.php was still using $LANG30 instead of $LANG_MONTH (bug #583) [Dirk]
- When upgrading the database from 1.4.0, only update those plugins that are
  actually installed (disabled or not) [Dirk]
- CSS Changes to support better scaling of Font size - using browser Text-Size
  adjustment. Removed many extra font-size declarations. [Blaine]
- Don't allow viewing of a Banned user profile unless user admin [Blaine]
- Only call CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler when custom_registration is enabled
  (bug #584) [Blaine]
- Fixed SQL error with some older MySQL versions when calling up the Batch User
  Delete option [Oliver]
- Comments always displayed the comment author's full name, even when
  $_CONF['show_fullname'] was set to 0 [Dirk]
- Fixed 404 (caused by a request for a file named '(none)') in the user profile
  display when a user doesn't have a userphoto [Dirk]

- New Estonian language files for Geeklog and most of the plugins, provided
  by Artur Räpp
- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
- Updated Japanese language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  by the Geeklog Japanese group
- New Russian language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Pavel Kovalenko
- Updated Slovenian language files for Geeklog and all the plugins, provided
  by gape

Calendar plugin
---------------
- Created a dedicated stylesheet file and include the file only if the URL
  contains the word 'calendar' [Oliver]
- Tweaked the Calendar search result listing: Removed the Event Description
  (usually too long for the result listing), replaced Location (which is only a
  part of the address and not very helpful) with Event Type, minimized Date &
  Time display for events lasting only one day (don't list date twice) [Dirk]

Links plugin
------------
- Renamed classes block-vote-results to poll-vote-results and block-vote to
  poll-vote [Oliver]
- Removed duplicate "Other" entry from the Link submission form [Dirk]
- In the Admin's list of links, only display an edit icon for links that the
  current user can actually edit (they did get a proper error message when
  trying to edit such a link, though) [Dirk]
- Don't return the number of links in the links submission queue if the
  current user does not have links.moderate permissions [Dirk]
- Filter out special characters from link IDs. They were properly escaped
  before storing them in the database but caused problems when using them
  (bug #565) [Dirk]


Sep 17, 2006 (1.4.1b1)
------------

- Changes to templates and CSS to remove deprecated HTML (align= and valign=)
  Removed un-used CSS declarations, redundant font-family declarations
  Removed use of font-size percentage and used more acceptable EM units [Blaine]
- Don't display an "edit" link in a story if the current user doesn't have
  edit permissions for the story's topic (bug #558) [Dirk]
- Added a new script to check the site's security (admin/sectest.php). This
  replaces the "get bent" PHP block, but also performs additional checks [Dirk]
- Created a Batch Delete function for users that easily identifies inactive or
  old users and allows mass-deletion of those [Oliver]
- Updated FCKeditor to version 2.3.1 [Blaine]
- Added ability to filter out Admin related groups on the Group Admin page
  Allows users to easily see only user groups. When editing non-core groups,
  You can select if this group is an Admin Group [Blaine]
- Added ability to multi-select submission queue items on the moderation page
  and delete them all at once [Blaine]
- Always make "Submissions" the first entry in the Admins Only block to keep
  the correspondence between the other entries and the icons on the moderation
  page undisturbed (and because it's an important entry) [Dirk]
- Fixed 'emailstoriesperdefault' config option (bug #553) [Dirk]
- Added support for Microsoft SQL Server, provided by Randy Kolenko
- Introduced $_CONF['disallow_domains'] as a blacklist of domain names that are
  not allowed for new users during signup. Both 'disallow_domains' and
  'allow_domains' can also contain regular expressions [Dirk]
- Introduced DB_lockTable / DB_unlockTable to encapsulate the LOCK / UNLOCK
  requests when updating the comments table [Dirk]
- Fixed bug: [#540] Blocking the last Root user or yourself should not be
  possible [Oliver]
- Fixed bug: [#546] The phrase "Story Stats" is hardcoded [Oliver]
- Added a spam check to the email user form [Dirk]
- Use the same piece of code to compare plugin version numbers in lib-admin.php
  and admin/plugins.php to avoid the "update" button not appearing for some
  version numbers (bug #542) [Dirk]
- Re-implemented $_CONF['allow_domains'] whitelist (when the user submission
  queue is enabled) that was inexplicably missing from 1.4.0 [Dirk]
- Merged User Preferences and Account information into one page, like the
  Story editor with tabs etc. [Blaine, Oliver]
- Tried to make "3 new stories in the last 1 day" sound less awkward by going
  back one unit, i.e. "3 new stories in the last 24 hours", in the What's New
  block (likewise for 1 week, 1 month, etc.) [Dirk]
- Introduced config options to set the default for the story's draft flag
  and frontpage option (feature request #163) [Dirk]
- Introduced $_CONF['hide_main_page_navigation'] to hide the "Google paging"
  from index.php (may be useful for some layouts) [Dirk]
- Allow (optional) usage of autotags in "normal" blocks (can be enabled /
  disabled per block) [Dirk]
- Introduced a {story_counter} variable in the story templates. It's 0 on the
  article page and in previews, but 1 for the first story, 2 for the second,
  etc. on the index page (per page, i.e. starts with 1 again on the second page)
  [Dirk]
- Require that users enter their current password when changing their password,
  email address or "Remember me for" setting. Redesigned the Account Information
  page and added a note about this requirement. [Dirk]
- Prevent accidental banning of users when the Admin edits a user's information
  using a theme that wasn't updated for Geeklog 1.4.0+ [Dirk]
- $_CONF['show_fullname'] now works as expected, i.e. when setting it to = 1,
  a user's full name will be displayed everywhere in Geeklog instead of the
  username (assuming the users entered their full name) [Dirk]
- Fixed a bug in the article directory where December was not listed when no
  stories had been posted in that month (reported by Kino and Ivy of geeklog.jp)
- Replace Geeklog's [imageX] tags before extracting the What's Related links
  from a story to prevent the (verbatim) tag to show up in the block [Dirk]
- Update story ids in the gl_trackback table when a story's id is changed [Mike]
- Implemented new plugin API function, PLG_spamAction, to perform the spam
  actions in case spam has been detected through some other means (e.g.
  trackbacks from sites that don't link back to us) [Dirk]
- Implemented new plugin API function, plugin_enablestatechange_, to inform
  plugins when they are about to be enabled / disabled (Patch #405) [Dirk]
- Support backslashes in comment and submissions in HTML mode [Mike]
- Added breadcrumb functionality to the navbar class (v1.1) [Blaine]
- Enhancements to navbar templates and CSS for a more 3D TAB'ed look [Blaine]
- Changed several <table>s to <div>s + CSS in the Professional theme [Oliver]
- Introduced generic function to delete a user's photo to avoid code
  duplication and slightly different error handling in various places [Dirk]
- Made the new user registration form remember the user's input so that they
  don't have to retype everything in case of an error [Dirk]
- In the Admin's user list, banned users are indicated by striked-through
  entries (based on a hack by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
- Added new setting $_CONF['onlyrootfeatures']. This is for sites where two or
  more story admins can feature stories that the other admins cannot see. The
  setting prevents that one admin does not see that there is another recent
  story featured and sets one by himself, "stealing" the feature from the other.
- Changed "Reply"-button to "Post a comment" [Oliver]
- Implemented an error handler to supress all PHP level errors and display a
  much more userfriendly error text to the end user. Prevents all path exposure,
  prevents "white error page" mystery debugging fun. [Mike]
- Full sweep of all code for $_REQUEST/$_GET/$_POST and $_COOKIE use. Made sure
  that COM_applyFilter, or other safe usage is made of the variables. [Mike]
- Added an option to hide the "No News To Display" message on the index page
  (new config option $_CONF['hide_no_news_msg']) [Dirk]
- Added an option to check if the sites sending trackbacks are actually linking
  to our site (see $_CONF['check_trackback_link'] in config.php) [Dirk]
- Made it impossible to save two syndication feeds with identical filenames
  [Oliver]
- Stories with comments/trackbacks disabled, do not show comment/trackback
  url in RSS feeds [Mike]
- Added email confirmation fields for new user and usersettings [Oliver]
- Allow changing of group ownership for "gldefault" blocks. Requires a change
  in admin/block/defaultblockeditor.thtml to enable the group dropdown. On a
  fresh install, all the blocks (with the exception of "Are you secure?") are
  now owned by the Block Admin group [Dirk]
- Users created by a User Admin should not be queued for approval, even when
  $_CONF['usersubmission'] = 1 [Dirk]
- Introduced 'syndication.edit' permission and 'Syndication Admin' group so
  that access to the Content Syndication panel no longer requires 'Root'
  permissions [Dirk]
- For the "Submissions" entry in the Admins Only block, only count story and
  event submissions when the current user has story.moderate or event.moderate
  permissions, respectively [Dirk]
- On admin/moderation.php, list the stories that have their draft flag set only
  when the current user has story.edit permission [Dirk]
- Fixed empty lines in a Group Admin's list of groups when that Group Admin
  was not a member of all groups [Dirk]
- Renamed the misnamed CUSTOM_runSheduledTask function (in lib-custom.php) to
  CUSTOM_runScheduledTask. Don't forget to make that change in your copy of
  lib-custom.php if you're using that functionality! [Dirk]
- Improved error log contents when unable to acquire a feed reader for a portal
  block. [Mike]
- Extended plugin API for feed extensions to include feed id and the topic (for
  adding topic/feed specific data) [Mike]
- Don't attempt to rename a non-existing user photo when
  $_CONF['allow_username_change'] is enabled (reported and fix suggested by
  Yusuke Sakata) [Dirk]
- Made changes to ensure compatibility with MS SQL, as suggested by
  Randy Kolenko [Dirk]
- The "last login date" column in the Admin's list of users now uses
  $_CONF['shortdate'] so that it includes the year [Dirk]
- Fixed batch user import (which set all imported users to status "Awaiting
  Authorization" instead of "Awaiting Activation") [Mike]
- Fixed admin lists google paging for use in static pages etc. [Oliver]
- Added support for a custom login error handler function,
  CUSTOM_loginErrorHandler [Blaine]
- Format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 / 2068 / 2616, i.e.
  "Geeklog/1.4.1" when trying to detect a Trackback URL [Dirk]
- Made the search option on the Admin pages behave like the site search, i.e.
  it doesn't require you to pad queries with '*' any longer [Dirk]
- In story search results, show/hide the "Author" and "Views" columns based on
  the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] and $_CONF['hideviewscount'] settings [Dirk]
- Introduced $_CONF['title_trim_length'] to make the max. title length of items
  in the What's New block configurable (feature request #525). Also implemented
  a new function COM_truncate (based on a patch by Yusuke Sakata) that properly
  handles truncation of multi-byte text strings if the mb_ functions are
  available [Dirk]
- Added a JavaScript confirmation box to most delete buttons/links. If you'd
  rather not have such a confirmation, use {delete_option_no_confirmation}
  instead of {delete_option} in the admin templates [Dirk]
- Fixed RSS Feed parser to create RFC 822 dates in en_GB or en_US locale as per
  the RFC spec [Mike]
- Removed obsolete "do not use spaces" warning from user editor (bug #530)
  [Dirk]
- Show fullname/username according to config.php settings in stories [Oliver]
- Added possibility to change the css-class for admin list headers and fields
  [Oliver]
- Added unified new style class to stats.php/style.css to have all lists on
  the page look the same [Oliver]
- Added multi-language support, based on earlier works by Euan McKay and LWC.
  Also see http://wiki.geeklog.net/wiki/index.php/Multi-Language_Support
- Changed the default path for topic icons to /images/topics [Dirk]
- Fixed an SQL error when calling up the Admin's list of stories without any
  topics [Dirk]
- Removed the public_html/portal.php script, as it is no longer needed [Dirk]
- Remove uninstalled plugins from the global $_PLUGINS array immediately
  (just in case the array would be used to trigger any actions) [Dirk]
- The "Topic" column in the list of feeds was empty for feeds that are only
  linked from a topic page [Dirk]
- Only use the mb_substr workaround in the calendar when the current character
  set is UTF-8 (bug #524) [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when listing the members of a group (bug #527)
  [Dirk]
- When emailing a story, don't include the text "Comment on this story at ..."
  when comments have been switched off for that story [Dirk]
- Fixed wrong wording of some of the "access denied" messages when trying to
  access Admin panels without proper privileges [Dirk]
- Fixed display of Admin block for users that only had certain Admin privileges
  [Dirk]

- New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
  The Hebrew language file was also renamed to hebrew_utf-8.php for consistency
  with the other UTF-8 language files.
- Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat

Calendar plugin (1.0.0)
---------------
- Bugfix: Replace autotags in the event description [Dirk]
- Added an option to switch between 24 hour and 12 hour am/pm mode for entering
  and editing events [Dirk]
- Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
  feeds and blocks when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
- Added calendar plugin initial version [Oliver]

Links plugin (1.0.1)
------------
- Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable plugin
  feeds when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
- Changed the english language file from "Web Resources" to "Links"
- Fixed hard-coded link to the "admin" directory when editing a link (reported
  by Ronnie Rigl) [Dirk]
- Optimized SQL requests for the plugin's What's New section [Dirk]
- Re-introduced {button_links} header variable [Dirk]
- Added an option to hide the Top Ten Links on the first page [Dirk]
- Made the page title on the Web Resources page more informative by adding the
  category and page number [Dirk]
- The edit icon (only visible for Links Admins) now uses the same image type
  as the current theme (was previously hardcoded to "edit.gif") [Dirk]
- Hide the "Web Resources" link from the menu when login is required to see
  the links (for consistency with the Polls plugin) [Dirk]
- Added a title attribute to the links on the site stats page that contains
  the link's actual URL [Dirk]
- Fixed site link in search results which wasn't using portal.php [Dirk]
- The Admin's search option now also searches the link description [Dirk]
- Removed extra <small> tags from the What's New section (bug #526) [Dirk]

Polls plugin (1.1.0)
------------
- Fixed call to undefined function polllist when calling up a non-existing
  poll [Dirk]
- Implemented plugin_enablestatechange API function to enable/disable the poll
  block when the plugin is enabled/disabled [Dirk]
- Fixed search [Dirk]
- Added a remark field for polls answers [Oliver]
- Re-introduced {button_polls} header variable [Dirk]
- Added an option to hide the link to the polls from the menu (for consistency
  with the Links plugin) [Dirk]
- Fixed poll URLs on the site stats page [Dirk]
- Remove the polls block when uninstalling the Polls plugin (another part of
  bug #520) [Dirk]

Spam-X plugin (1.1.0)
-------------
- Added SLV (Spam Link Verification) modules [Dirk]
- The MT-Blacklist modules are not being shipped with Geeklog any longer. The
  MT-Blacklist entries are removed from the database during the upgrade [Dirk]
- Allow special characters (e.g. backslashes) in the Admin modules (e.g. the
  Personal Blacklist module) [Dirk]
- Moved spam actions to plugin_spamaction_spamx API function [Dirk]
- Fixed potential problems with the checkforSpam function's return code in case
  of unusual configurations (e.g. $_CONF['spamx'] = 0) [Dirk, Tom Willet]
- Made the plugin's internal log flag a proper config option. So you can now
  disable logging to spamx.log from the plugin's config.php [Dirk]
- Mass delete by IP now uses stored IP address [Mike]

Static Pages plugin (1.4.3)
-------------------
- Make sure autotags are replaced even when execution of PHP code is disabled
  (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- Added a help URL for the block display of static pages [Oliver]
- Added ability in staticpage editor to enable/disable Advanced Editor mode
  so you can use FCKEditor and then if need basic html edit mode [Blaine]
- Fixed default sorting order for the list of static pages [Dirk]
- Allow to show/hide update date/time and hits [Oliver]
- When creating a new page, don't set the default group ownership to the Static
  Page Admin group if the current user is not a member of that group. Instead,
  pick a group with staticpages.edit permission that the user is a member of
  [Dirk]
- Fixed paging for the list of static pages (bug #528) [Dirk]


July 23, 2006 (1.4.0sr5-1)
-------------

This release fixes display problems in the comment preview that were only
introduced in Geeklog 1.4.0sr5 (as a result of the fix for the XSS).

The complete 1.4.0sr5-1 tarball also includes the following language files:

- New Afrikaans language file, provided by Renier Maritz
- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
- Updated Turkish language file, provided by Kemal Cellat


July 16, 2006 (1.4.0sr5)
-------------

JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
fixing with this release.


June 30, 2006 (1.4.0sr4)
-------------

Two exploits have been released by "rgod" for insecure Geeklog installations
and for a bug in the "mcpuk" file manager that we've been shipping as part of
FCKeditor in all 1.4.0 releases.

- Some of the files outside of the public_html directory were not protected
  against direct execution. If Geeklog was installed such that those files were
  accessible from a URL (which has always been strongly discouraged in the
  installation instructions) then those files could be used to load and
  execute malicious code from a remote server.

  More information: http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/so-called-exploit

  In this release, we've added the missing execution prevention for all files
  outside of public_html. We would still, however, suggest that you fix your
  Geeklog install if the files outside of public_html are accessible from a URL.

- The "mcpuk" file manager that we've integrated into FCKeditor allowed the
  upload of arbitrary PHP code (even if FCKeditor was disabled in Geeklog's
  config.php). Depending on your webserver's configuration, it was then possible
  to execute that uploaded code.

  More information:
  http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/exploit-for-fckeditor-filemanager

  The file manager has been removed from this release. You will therefore no
  longer be able to upload files, e.g. images, through FCKeditor. Future
  versions of Geeklog will ship with an updated version of FCKeditor and its
  included file manager.


May 28, 2006 (1.4.0sr3)
------------

The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
security issues:

- Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
- Possible XSS in getimage.php
- Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
  e.g. the Professional theme

An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
submissions.


Mar 5, 2006 (1.4.0sr2)
-----------

Security issues:

- Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
  anyone to log in as any user.
- HTML was not stripped from the Location field in a user's profile.


Feb 19, 2006 (1.4.0sr1)
------------

Security issues:

- James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
  Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
  file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.

Bugfixes:

- Fixed bug in page-break combined with url rewrite (bug #521) [Oliver]
- Fixed Story [page_break] showing only intro on first page [Oliver]
- Fixed install script for the Spam-X plugin which was trying to include an SQL
  file that doesn't exist - and wasn't needed (part of bug #520) [Dirk]

- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
- New Russian language files for the Links and Polls plugins, provided by
  Volodymyr V. Prokurashko
- Fixed Static pages dutch language file [Oliver]
- New Polish language file for the Links plugin, provided by Robert Stadnik
- Added UTF-8 English versions of the Links, Polls, Static Pages, and Spam-X
  language files [Dirk]
- Added all UTF-8 Language files for core [Oliver]


Feb 5, 2006 (1.4.0)
------------

- Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks [Dirk]
- Added missing navbar images - used for CSS based buttons as part of the
  standard Plugin CSS [Blaine]
- Set options in FCKConfig to have Firefox browsers by default not using the
  <span> and font tags to format Bold and Italic [Blaine]
- Fixed another bug in google pagination of admin-lists [Oliver]
- Fixed "wrap static page in a block" and "exit type" options in the static
  page editor. Also link to the "rewritten" URL from the list of static pages
  when URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
- Fixed JavaScript error in the Admin's story editor (bug #479) [Dirk]
- Fixed hard-coded paths in the check.php script and added tests for missing
  directories (reported by Markus Wollschlaeger) [Dirk]
- A humble attempt to add some semantics [Dirk]
  + Added rel="category tag" to a story's topic link
  + Added rel="self bookmark" for a comment's permalink
- Cosmetics: Moved the number of links per category out of the actual link to
  the category [Dirk]
- On MySQL 5, the drop-down list of link categories presented to a user when
  submitting a new link came out wrong (while the one in the Admin's link
  editor worked just fine). Moved the working code into a new function in the
  plugin's functions.inc and changed the code to use it in both cases now [Dirk]
- Fixed an SQL error when the "length of entries" field in the Feed Editor was
  left empty [Dirk]
- Fixed date and time defaulting to the current date and time when creating
  a new event as an Admin user (adding a workaround for changes of strtotime()
  behavior in PHP 5) [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error on MySQL 5 when creating a new topic (bug #517) [Dirk]
- In HTTP requests, format the user agent string according to the RFCs 1945 /
  2068 / 2616, i.e. "Geeklog/1.4.0" [Dirk]

- Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakata
- Updated Ukrainian (Windows-1251) language file, provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko


Jan 22, 2006 (1.4.0rc2)
------------

- header.thtml now specifies the CSS Class Declaration to use for the body.
  This addresses the issue with FCKEditor when displayed, its CSS was
  over-riding the main site <body> tag and the site margin padding was being
  affected [Blaine]
- Removed CSS for the Forum plugin from style.css [Blaine]
- Fixed "Cannot modify header ..." message when logging in from the admin
  pages (reported by Samuel M. Stone). This also fixes confusing intermittent
  displays during the login (e.g. only some of the "Command and Control" icons
  showing up, messages about missing permissions flashing up) [Dirk]
- Removed Geeklog version number from feed files due to security concerns
  (pointed out by Samuel M. Stone) [Dirk]
- Login through the admin pages didn't work with register_globals=off [Dirk]
- Fixed admin lists so pagination works also in static pages [Oliver]
- Pass GeekLog as user agent when fetching RSS feeds [Mike]
- Made the image upload work with out-of-the-box PHP 5 configurations [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of HTML entities in Pingbacks [Dirk]
- Fixed Spam-X Mass Delete Trackback Spam module to update the story's trackback
  count when deleting trackbacks [Dirk]
- Fixed a possible SQL error when saving a block (reported by BDUB) [Dirk]
- Fixed story titles in the What's New block when they contained HTML entities
  (entities where sometimes cut off and/or encoded twice) [Dirk]
- Fixed a typo in all the plugin install script which set the group description
  to "grp_desc" instead of $grp_desc (found by Ingo Schaefer) [Dirk]
- Improved autodetect of Trackback URLs [Dirk]
- The submit story form was not selecting the advanced Editor if user was not
  logged in or did not have Story Editor permissions [Blaine]
- Added missing CSS class name "list-feed" for portal blocks [Dirk]
- Fixed user submission queue (reported by Andrew Lawlor) [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of integer fields in the Admin's story editor (reported by
  Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of checkboxes in the static pages editor (reported by
  Ron Ackerman) [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error when saving a static page that had had more than 1000 hits
  (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
- Removed visible table border from advanced comment editor form [Blaine]
- Moved some hard-coded text strings from the advanced editor into the
  language files [Blaine]

- Updated Chinese language files, provided by Samuel M. Stone
- Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate


Dec 31, 2005 (1.4.0rc1)
------------

- Added support for Advanced Editor in the Add Comment Feature [Blaine]
- Fixed SQL error in search on MySQL 5 (fix suggested by dariball) [Dirk]
- Added trackback.php and pingback.php to the included robots.txt [Dirk]
- Added a few more calls to COM_numberFormat all over the place (links and polls
  plugins, Admins Only block, ...) [Dirk]
- Fixed test for a Geeklog 1.3.9 database in the install script [Dirk]
- When emailing a story, make sure all fields are filled in [Dirk]
- Don't lose the current topic selection when a Story Admin uses the Contribute
  link [Dirk]
- Fixed highlighting of search query in comments when register_globals = off
  [Dirk]
- When the entries in the Admin's block are not sorted, make sure the icons in
  Command and Control are in the same order as the block entries [Dirk]
- Allow topic icons to be uploaded to and retrieved from a 'topics' directory
  outside of the document root [Dirk]
- Added a workaround to produce abbreviated day names in the calendar for UTF-8
  language files (reported by Euan McKay) [Dirk]
- The Spam-X plugin now uses the same "universal" install script as the other
  three preinstalled plugins [Dirk]
- Added more allowable HTML tags and attributes if Advanced_Editor enabled
  config.php setting [Blaine]
- Added logic to detect if Javascript was not enabled and Advanced Editor was
  enabled.
  User will be prompted with alert and able to use the default editor [Blaine]
- Changed spam handling for Trackbacks and Pingbacks to check for spam on the
  unfiltered Trackback/Pingback content [Dirk]
- When editing a link submission with a new link category (i.e. the submitter
  selected "other" and entered a non-existing category), make sure that new
  category actually shows up in the links editor [Dirk]
- In the Admin's list of stories, show the display name of the topic (i.e. the
  same as in the Topics block) instead of the topic ID [Dirk]
- Hide the edit icon in the Admin's list of stories when the current user
  doesn't have edit access to a story (since they only got a note saying they
  can't edit that story anyway) [Dirk]
- Fixed alternating row colors in admin lists if one row has no data [Oliver]
- Made it impossible to switch off blocks if there is no access [Oliver]
- Fixed handling of items in the submission queues (it was only possible to
  approve / delete the first item in a queue) [Dirk]
- Grant users with 'plugin.edit' permission access to the plugin editor [Dirk]
- Changed admin-lists 'default-filter' to require 'AND' [Oliver]
- Fixed admin lists for events & static pages for non-root users [Oliver]
- Fixed invalid language string in submit.php [Oliver]
- Fixed problems with the query highlighting code escaping double quotes [Dirk]
- In the list of plugins, display only the plugin's current version number as
  long as it's in sync with the code version or the plugin hasn't implemented
  the chkVersion API function [Dirk]
- Limit length of a new user's username to 16 characters in the
  admin/user/edituser.thtml template file [Dirk]
- Don't display the current user's userphoto when creating a new user in
  admin/user.php [Dirk]
- Fixed sanity checks in USER_addGroup and USER_delGroup [Trinity, Dirk]
- Allowed the Links-entry from the top menu to be hidden by config.php in links
  [Oliver]
- Fixed small HTML validation issues with adv. editor and admin lists [Oliver]
- Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
  have the correct story/topic permissions. [Vinny]
- Send the character set as an HTTP header from COM_siteHeader now [Oliver]
- Fixed updating Links feeds [Mike]
- Corrected RSS handling of GUID or LINK [Mike]
- Fixed date format in Atom feeds [Mike]
- Fixed loss of sort setting when browsing the user list [Oliver]
- Fixed block title of the site stats (reported by Tom Willet) [Dirk]
- Fixed an SQL error when approving the default story submission ("Are you
  secure?") after a fresh install (reported by suvi) [Dirk]
- Fixed warnings that exposed the full path to Geeklog when attempting SQL
  injections on the advanced search [Mike]
- The "Mail Users" icon was missing from Command and Control [Dirk]
- In Command and Control, show the Trackback icon only when at least one of the
  Trackback, Pingback, or Ping features is enabled (in addition to 'story.ping'
  permissions for the current user) [Dirk]
- Replaced the delete_event.gif icon (in layout/professional/images/icons) with
  a PNG, since the Professional theme uses PNGs now and the icon wouldn't show
  up otherwise [Dirk]
- The block around the list of backups was missing the title [Dirk]
- Don't emit the Trackback and Pingback headers when trackbacks have been
  disabled for a story [Dirk]
- Introduced {lang_trackback_comments_no_link} (in trackback/trackback.thtml)
  so that you can have an article page entirely without links back to itself
  (for picky spiders such as the one for Google News) [Dirk]
- Call COM_refresh when creating a user with usersubmission = 1 [Mike]
- Fixed sorting of Trackbacks in the What's New block [Dirk]
- The search by author or by date switched to searching for everything on
  page 2 of the results [Dirk]
- For the Links plugin, the "last x days" text in the What's New block was
  missing [Dirk]
- Fixed an SQL error when creating new blocks [Mike]
- The feed reader will now also follow redirects [Mike]

- Updated Chinese traditional and simplified language files, and new Chinese
  language files for the Links, Polls, and Static Pages plugins, provided by
  Samuel M. Stone
- German language files now exist in 4 combinations (formal / informal German,
  ISO-8859-15 / UTF-8 encoding) for Geeklog, the Links, Polls and Static Pages
  plugins [Dirk]
- Updated Japanese language files, provided by Yusuke Sakate
- New Ukrainian language files (Windows-1251) for Geeklog and all four plugins,
  provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
- New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
  Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych


Nov 20, 2005 (1.4.0b1)
------------

- Introduced {start_storylink_anchortag} and {end_storylink_anchortag} template
  variables in the story and commentbar template files which only produce a
  link to the story when not on article.php, thus avoiding links back to the
  article page itself, which the spider for Google News doesn't seem to like
  (feature request #486) [Dirk]
- Added a workaround for image uploads using GD when ImageCreateTrueColor is
  not available (patch #468) [Dirk]
- Allow a subject to be passed as a parameter for the "contact user" form
  (based on patch #497) [Dirk]
- Added support for right-to-left languages (based on patch #488) [Dirk]
- Update Feeds and Older Stories block when changing topic settings [Dirk]
- Added a hits counter to events and added a Top Ten Events section to the
  site stats [Dirk]
- Introduced $_CONF['show_topic_icon'], i.e. the default setting whether to
  show topic icons or not [Dirk]
- The "Older Stories" block now only lists articles that appeared on the
  frontpage (i.e. have not been set to "Show only in topic", bug #408) [Dirk]
- Fixed problems with query highlighting in stories scrambling links in
  autotags (bug #492) [Dirk]
- Group names are now unique (as they should have been from the beginning). The
  install script takes care of existing duplicate group names when upgrading
  to 1.4.0 (bug #367) [Dirk]
- Allow for more topic IDs in the user's preferences (bug #490) [Dirk]
- Replace autotags in the Daily Digest (bug #484) [Dirk]
- Explicitly link to /docs/index.html for the documentation link in the Admin's
  block (bug #504) [Dirk]
- Added an option to enable / disable trackbacks per story (just like you can
  enable / disable comments per story) [Dirk]
- Changed COM_optionList to check for language arrays which override the text
  strings that are embedded in the database (for comment mode, featured story,
  post mode, etc.) Bug #227 [Dirk]
- Fixed Bug #174 -- quotes in titles are no longer double htmlentized [Vinny]
- The default permissions for new objects (stories, topics, blocks, etc.) can
  now be set in config.php (feature request #90) [Dirk]
- Added an "Active users" entry to the site statistics. If Geeklog is configured
  to track a user's last login, this will display the number of users who
  logged into the site during the last 4 weeks. Otherwise, it displays the
  number of user accounts with status = 3 (i.e. have logged into their account
  at least once and haven't been banned) [Dirk]
- Introduced a new plugin API function so that the plugin's summary (e.g.
  number of items) can be properly integrated with the "Site Stats" section.
  Modified stats/sitestatistics.thtml, removed stats/stats.thtml, added
  stats/singlesummary.thtml template files [Dirk]
- Introduced a generic function, USER_getPhoto, which provides the user's photo,
  if available. The function also supports getting the user's avatar from
  gravatar.com (if enabled in config.php) [Dirk]
- The texts in the What's New block ("x new stories in the last y hours",
  "last 2 weeks", etc.) now properly reflect the actual settings of the
  $_CONF['newXXXinterval'] variables (bug #390) [Oliver, Dirk]
- Introduced a method to signal a forced update for feeds in case the content
  of one of the feed entries has changed  - so far, we only checked if entries
  had been added or removed (bug #277) [Dirk]
- Added $_CONF['show_right_blocks'] option which, if set = true, will display
  right-side blocks on all pages (also addresses feature request #31) [Dirk]
- Fixed bug #454, SQL error when reading comments. [Vinny]
- Leave off the "page=1" parameter on the "Google paging" navigation bar for
  links that point back to the first page [Dirk]
- The default feed for a new site is now in RSS 2.0 format and named
  "geeklog.rss" [Mike, Dirk]
- Added time of the day to the name of the database backups to allow several
  backups a day [Oliver]
- When the search returns no results, the search form is now pre-populated
  with the last search query, so that it can be changed easily. On successful
  searches, a "refine search" link will appear that also takes you back to a
  pre-populated search form (to refine your search, obviously) [Dirk]
- Changed search to only return a certain amount of hits per page, thus
  avoiding timeouts on servers where the script execution time is limited
  (bug #274) [Dirk]
  A new config variable, $_CONF['num_search_results'], defines the number of
  search results to be returned per page (and per type). The search form also
  includes a drop-down menu where this can be changed for every search.
  Plugins will have to indicate if they support this "paged" search. Otherwise,
  Geeklog will fake the paging for the plugin, so that the plugin does a full
  search for every page, but Geeklog will only display the hits for the current
  page (such a plugin can therefore still cause a timeout until it is changed
  to support "paged" searching).
- Added a permanent link to comments (in the professional theme) [Vinny]
- Added new icons for the admin sections and made sure each admin section
  now has an icon in admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
  The new icons have been taken from the Gnome project (some of them modified
  by Jakub Steiner). They are released under the GPL.
- Introduced global variable $_IMAGE_TYPE that specifies the image type to
  use. Defaults to 'gif'. Themes can override it to use other images types,
  e.g. PNG, for all images [Dirk]
- Added option to upload topic icons (Feature Request #415, Patch #423),
  provided by Alford Deeley (machinari)
- Changed the Admin's "Command and Control" center such that there is an icon
  for every entry in the Admin's block [Dirk]
- Removed duplicate code for creating a "topic SQL" query in moderation.php
  (use COM_getTopicSQL instead) [Dirk]
- Added the ability to allow users to login via defined remote services (ships
  with Blogger and LiveJournal support) [Mike]
- Added the ability to ban users, and to tell when a user has logged in at least
  once [Mike]
- Added edit-icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & alternating row colors
  in admin menus for groups, syndication, staticpages, trackback
  (where not yet done) [Oliver]
- Added function to allow user-defined scaling of images in articles by using
  [unscaledX] instead of [imageX] [Oliver]
- Removed $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] option - use $_CONF['show_fullname']
  instead [Dirk]
- Fixed bug where extra slashes appeared when previewing comments [Vinny]
- Removed the "lastvisit" cookies, as they are obviously not used [Dirk]
- Removed redundant changepwd-button & code from /admin/user.php (Bug #9)
  [Oliver]
- Added new feature to insert a feed-links into header depending on topic, to
  be chosen from /admin/syndication.php in the form of
  <link rel="alternate" type="application/{format}+xml" ....> [Oliver]
- Added options to google-Navigation so it can be used by plugins and work with
  url-rewriting (feature request #315). [Oliver]
- Userlist now also shows Registration Date and if $_CONF['lastlogin']= true it
  shows the last login date instead. [Oliver]
- Added option in config.php to hide "Viewed: x" line with
  $_CONF['viewscountline'] just as the $_CONF['contributedbyline'] [Oliver]
- Added function COM_numberFormat to format displayed numbers with custom
  decimal & thousand - separators and fixed decimal places if necessary
  Includes the respecitve 3 new config.php values in locale section.
  (Feature Request #298) [Oliver]
- Default Blocks showed always in all Topics before. Now you can choose to show
  them in All/only one topic/only on homepage like other blocks (feature #326)
  [Oliver]
- A Story can now break over several pages in the body-text. The tag
  [page_break] will split the bodytext in pieces that can be opened with the
  std. COM_printPageNavigation. Introtext is removed for pages>1 [Oliver]
- Added field for old password check in /usersettings.php (bug #230) [Oliver]
- Added password confirmation to /admin/user.php and /usersettings.php
  (bug #230) [Oliver]
- Made the alternating row colors in the Admin's trackback functions compatible
  with the scheme used in other places (list of users, etc.). Also changed the
  list of weblog directory services so that editing is now done by clicking on
  the number of the service [Dirk]
- Stories are no longer forced to be featured _and_ on frontpage (bug #362)
  [Oliver]
- Changed links locations in User-list, added user-photo indicator [Oliver]
- Don't update a story's date any more when unchecking the 'draft' flag
  (bug #400) [Dirk]
- Don't use "rewritten" URLs in the static pages editor any more (bug #403).
  Also updated the list of static pages to use alternating colors for the
  rows [Dirk]
- Use "\r\n" when sending trackback pings (bug #407) [Dirk]
- Allow autotags to optionally have a space after the tag name [Blaine]
  Valid tags are:
  [story:20040101093000103 here] or [story: 20040101093000103 here]
- Fixed inconsistent use of {site_url} and {layout_url} in some of the
  professional theme's admin template files - using {layout_url} everywhere
  now when referring to icons (bug #395) [Dirk]
- Event titles containing quotes were cut off at the first quote in the event
  editor, i.e. both the admin's event editor and the editor for personal events.
  (bug #399) [Dirk]
- Modified PLG_templateSetVars API to also check for a custom function [Blaine]
  Users can now set header template using CUSTOM_templatesetvars()
- Added new CSS declarations as recommened CSS for plugins   [Blaine]
- Added a basic scheduler Plugin API plugin_runScheduledTask  [Blaine]
  Interval is set in config.php - $_CONF['cron_schedule_interval']
- Enhanced the Group Admin interface display [Blaine]
- Enhanced the User Admin display and made the headings sortable [Blaine]
- Geeklog will now properly handle html special characters (such as quotes and
  ampersands) in comment titles (bug #174) [Vinny]
- Hide 'edit' option for articles in preview (bug #347) [Dirk]
- Changed admin/user.php to use file() for the batch import [Dirk]
- Implemented pinging weblog directory services like blo.gs and weblogs.com
  (Feature Request #35). By default, we ping pingomatic.com [Dirk]
- Complete overhaul of the Plugin Comment API to reduce the likelyhood of
  plugins introducing security problems.  Older plugins that use the comment
  API will no longer work. [Vinny]
- Refactored Comment code out of lib-common.php and into lib-comment.php, also
  some changes to comment.php [Vinny]
- Introduced a 'story.ping' permission that enables users to send Pings,
  Pingbacks, and Trackbacks for a story (or plugin item). Members of the Story
  Admin group have that permission by default.
- Overhauled install script: It will now abort the installation if the minumum
  requirements (PHP 4.1.0, MySQL 3.23.2) are not met. It also displays a warning
  message if register_long_arrays is off (PHP 5 only, bug #360). Another
  warning message is displayed if "public_html" is part of the URL.
  When upgrading, it now tries to identify the Geeklog version that was used
  previously (only really works for versions 1.3.8 - 1.3.11) [Dirk]
- Fixed date in comment preview (bug #370) [Dirk]
- Incorporated the new syndication framework for reading and writing feeds of
  different formats (RSS, RDF, Atom), provided by Michael Jervis (patch #352).
  This contribution also addresses Task #19 ("RSS import class") and Feature
  Request #67 ("Limiting number of entries in RSS feeds").
  Please note that the feed writer classes, system/classes/*.feed.class.php,
  are now obsolete and can be removed. Please also note this adds new PEAR
  package requirements for Net_URL and HTTP_Request.
- Added support for sending and receiving trackback comments (Feature Request
  #34) Also implemented Pingback support in pretty much the same way. Once
  received, Geeklog treats Trackbacks and Pingbacks the same and stores them
  in the gl_trackback table. [Dirk]
  Both can be switched off in config.php: $_CONF['trackback_enabled'] = false;
  and $_CONF['pingback_enabled'] = false;
- Added a new script, directory.php, that implements a date-based listing of
  all the stories on a site [Dirk]
  A link to the directory is available as a new option, 'directory', for the
  $_CONF['menu_elements'] config variable, so that it can be added to the menu.
- The column headline for event search results was not displayed [Dirk]
- Added logos to syndication feeds. [Mike]
- Added config option to disable new accounts (Patch #426 from Alford Deeley)
  [Mike]
- Alphabet Sort on Admin Menu and C&C Block [Mike]

- New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
- Updated Japanese language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata

- New Farsi (Persian) language file for the static pages plugin,
  provided by Hesam.H

Links plugin 1.0.0
------------
- Added ID-editor and Autotags-feature [link: ... ] [Oliver]
- Added Category-Specific Feeds [Oliver]
- Added Edit-Icon, List-Sorting, searching, Limits & etc for admin menu [Oliver]
- Moved links functionality into a plugin [Trinity, Oliver]

Polls plugin 1.0.0
------------
- Polls moved to a plugin [Trinity]

Spam-X plugin 1.0.3
-------------
- The LogView module now automatically truncates the Spam-X logfile to 100KB
  [Tom Willet]
- The IP Blacklist module now supports regular expressions [Mike]
- Added a Mass Delete module for Trackback comments [Dirk]
- Added an "admin override" option, so that postings by members of the 'spamx
  Admin' group will not be checked for spam [Dirk]


July 16, 2006 (1.3.11sr7)
-------------

JPCERT/CC informed us about a possible XSS in the comment handling that we're
fixing with this release.


May 28, 2006 (1.3.11sr6)
------------

The Security Science Researchers Institute Of Iran reported the following
security issues:

- Possible SQL injection and authentication bypass in auth.inc.php
- Possible XSS in getimage.php
- Path disclosure in getimage.php and the functions.php of some themes,
  e.g. the Professional theme

An internal code review also revealed a possible SQL injection in story
submissions.


Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.11sr5)
-----------

Security issue:

- Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
  anyone to log in as any user.


Feb 19, 2006 (1.3.11sr4)
------------

Security issues:

- James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
  Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
  file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
- Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks


Dec 12, 2005 (1.3.11sr3)
------------

Security issues:

- Fixed comment bug that allowed comments to be saved even when user did not
  have the correct story/topic permissions (reported by LWC) [Vinny]
- Fixed a path disclosure in case someone tampered with the start date or end
  date in advanced search (reported by r0t3d3Vil) [Mike]
  Feeding malformed dates to the search caused a warning message to be displayed
  that disclosed the path to the Geeklog install on the server. It was NOT
  possible to use this for SQL injections.

Bugfixes:

- Fixed the problems (introduced in 1.3.11sr2) editing static pages when
  $_CONF['url_rewrite'] = true (bug #491) [Dirk]
- The "Reply" button didn't work when viewing individual comments [Vinny]
- Fixed the definition of the 'expire' field (in table gl_stories), which
  caused an SQL error when doing a fresh install on MySQL 5
  (reported by Johannes) [Dirk]

- Fixed and updated the Hebrew language file [LWC, Dirk]
- New Ukrainian language file (Windows-1251), provided by Vitaliy Biliyenko
- New Ukrainian language files (UTF-8 and KOI8-U encoding) for Geeklog, the
  Spam-X, and Static Pages plugins, provided by Yaroslav Fedevych


Oct 9, 2005 (1.3.11sr2)
-----------

This release provides security enhancements and better spam protection
originally developed for Geeklog 1.3.12. It also addresses a few bugs where
the bugfix could be integrated with a reasonable amount of work (other bugfixes
will have to wait for the 1.3.12 release).

Security and Spam protection:

- Added speedlimit to login attempts, defaults to allowing three tries in a
  five minute period.  [Vinny]
  See new config options $_CONF['login_attempts'] and $_CONF['login_speedlimit']
- Changed the spam handling to update the speed limit when spam is detected
  (i.e. handle spam posts as if they were successful posts and make the
  submitter wait for the speed limit to expire). Also send a 403 "Forbidden"
  HTTP response code when displaying the "spam detected" message [Dirk]
  To quote RFC2616: "403 Forbidden: The server understood the request, but is
  refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request SHOULD
  NOT be repeated."
- Filter linefeeds in the To:, From:, and Subject: fields of an email in
  COM_mail [Dirk]
- When a new user account is created and the user submission queue is enabled
  in config.php, ensure that the user is properly "queued" even in the
  unlikely event that the account creation fails halfway through (reported by
  LWC) [Dirk]
- When $_CONF['emailstoryloginrequired'] = 1, hide the links to the "email
  story" form from anonymous users [Dirk]
- When emailing a story, check the user's message that is sent with the story
  for spam [Dirk]
- Added a robots.txt file to the distribution. By default, it excludes
  comment.php, submit.php, and the docs directory from being spidered [Dirk]
- Added a spam check to the user profile [Dirk]
- Story, event, and link submissions are now also checked for spam [Dirk]
- This release also includes the Spam-X plugin version 1.0.2

Please note that MT-Blacklist (used by Spam-X) has recently been discontinued.
For the time being, we provide the last version of the blacklist for download
from geeklog.net (the Spam-X plugin as included in this release is configured
to get it from there for the initial import). There will, however, be no
updates the blacklist. For details, please see
http://www.geeklog.net/article.php/mt-blacklist-discontinued

Bugfixes:

- Fixed an error message thrown up by PHP 5.0.5 or later when viewing the
  article page (bug #483) [Dirk]
- Fixed bug with topic-specific blocks not showing up on the article page when
  URL rewriting was enabled (bug #401) [Dirk]
- Fixed missing site header when trying to submit an event without required
  fields. Also fixed that it would redirect you to the story submission form
  then (bug #409) [Dirk]
- Make sure {menu_elements} is rendered using the menuitem_none.thtml template
  when no menu elements are to be displayed (bug #378) [Dirk]
- Quote names in email addresses as soon as they contain any non-alphanumeric
  characters (apart from the blank). This also addresses bug #368 [Dirk]
- Allow single quotes in passwords (bug #396, also previously reported as
  bug #349 / #996354) [Dirk]
- When $_CONF['profileloginrequired'] was set to 1, the actual message that
  you have to log in before being able to see a user profile was not wrapped
  in the Geeklog framework (reported by Sean C) [Dirk]
- Fix: Made a story's archive/expire date work with the timezone hack [Dirk]
- COM_applyFilter will now accept negative numbers if the isnumeric parameter
  is true. Needed to fix problems with pollbooth.php (and others) [Vinny]
- Upgraded included kses class to version 0.2.2 which fixes problems with
  Japanese and Thai characters (among other things), thus addressing bugs #94
  and #119 [Dirk]
- Fixed SQL error when using the [staticpage:] autotag (bug #373) [Dirk]
- Added a missing stripslashes call to remove backslashes when a topic's name
  was displayed in the index page's title (bug #369) [Dirk]
- Link tags are now translated in printer friendly mode (Bug #411) [Mike]
- Removed the <meta name="ROBOTS"> entry from the Professional theme's
  header.thtml as "INDEX,FOLLOW" is the default anyway. For finer control,
  we now ship a robots.txt [Dirk]

Improvements:

- Don't check for auto-archived stories when no archive topic has been
  defined yet [Dirk]
- Added support for a custom_usercheck function. Custom registration code that
  requires certain information can now abort the creation of a new account if
  that information is missing. The function is called after Geeklog has checked
  that the username and email address of the new user are okay (valid and not
  in the database yet), but before the user has been added to the database
  [Dirk]
- Saved one SQL request for a story's printable view [Dirk]

Language files:

- Made sure all language files refer to Geeklog's [image] tags as [imageX],
  [imageX_right], and [imageX_left] (bug #381) [Dirk]

- New Catalan language file, provided by an anonymous user
- New Russian (UTF-8) language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin
- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by LWC
- Updated Hellenic (Greek) language file, provided by MzOzD
- Updated Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
- Updated Japanese (UTF-8) language file, provided by Yusuke Sakata
- Updated Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho
- Updated Russian language file, provided by Konstantin Boyandin

- New Japanese (UTF-8) language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  Yusuke Sakata
- Updated Italian language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  Marcello Teodori
- Updated Japanese language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  Yusuke Sakata


Aug 21, 2005 (Spam-X plugin 1.0.2)
------------

- Changed the display name of the plugin to "Spam-X" to avoid potential
  confusion with the email spam filter of the same name.
  "SpamX" is a registered trademark of Hendrickson Software Components.
- Added a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the poster
  [Tom Willet]
- Added  a new module to filter posts based on the IP address of the
  spamvertised site [Tom Willet]
- Added a new module to filter posts based on characteristics of the HTTP header
  [Dirk]
- Fixed the Mass Delete Spam Comments module [Tom Willet]
- The Spam-X plugin's examine modules run the post through html_entity_decode()
  now in case the spammers try to obfuscate their posts by using HTML entities
  [Tom Willet, Dirk]
- The Mail Admin action module now also reports the HTTP headers of the post
  that triggered the spam filter [Dirk]
- Added a simple stats function (reports the number of posts deleted as spam,
  and - to the Spam-X Admin only - the number of entries for each module) [Dirk]
- Implemented an update function for the plugin [Dirk]

- New Farsi (Persian) language file, provided by Hesam.H
- New Italian language file, provided by Marcello Teodori
- New Spanish language file, provided by vivi1123


Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.11sr1)
-----------

This release addresses the following security issue:

Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.


Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.11)
------------

Geeklog 1.3.11 addresses the following security issues:

1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
   were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
   These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
   disabled it in config.php.
2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
   leaving them open to potential SQL injections.
3. The links for the What's Related block were created from the unfiltered story
   text, opening the possibility of XSS attacks (reported by Vincent Furia).

Bugfixes:

- Added a missing stripslashes() call for the topic name in the What's Related
  block (bug #351) [Dirk]
  (affected file: system/lib-story.php)
- Fixed problems in the story editor when editing plain-text posts with
  uploaded images (bug #356) [Dirk]
  (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
- When changing a story ID, update the story ID in any comments to that story,
  too (bug #357) [Dirk]
  (affected file: public_html/admin/story.php)
- Fixed handling of autotags that started with the same substring, e.g. for
  2 tags 'mytag' and 'mytagtwo', the second tag would not be recognized
  (reported by Dr. Shakagee) [Dirk]
  (affected file: system/lib-plugins.php)
- Fixed caching of $_GROUPS [Dirk]
  (affected files: system/lib-security.php, public_html/lib-common.php)
- Made a minor optimization to save one SQL request when displaying the comment
  bar for anonymous users [Dirk]
  (affected file: public_html/lib-common.php)
- Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
  (affected file: language/slovenian.php)


Dec 22, 2004 (1.3.11rc1)
------------

- Fixed "archive" option being activated too early on certain non-featured
  stories (bug #345) [Blaine]
- Added missing handling of autotags in static pages being displayed as center
  blocks (reported by Jill) [Dirk]
- Fixed size of the 'sid' field in the gl_comments table. It should be 40
  characters, to be able to hold the long story IDs introduced in 1.3.10
  (reported by Douglas Santos) [Dirk]
- When using mogrify (ImageMagick) to resize uploaded images, the name of the
  image is now enclosed in double quotes instead of single quotes, which
  caused the command to fail on Windows [Dirk]
- The emails sent from the Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action now also include
  the IP address of the spam poster [Dirk]
- SEC_getFeatureGroup() should not overwrite $_GROUPS if not operating on the
  current user (bug #331) [Dirk]
- Introduced a {camera_icon} variable in story and comment templates that
  displays the little camera icon if the author has uploaded a user photo, just
  like in the Who's Online block (suggested by Laurence Whitworth) [Dirk]
- The parent link in top-level comments took the user to the homepage rather
  than to the article page (bug #346) [Vinny]
- Stories submitted for the archive topic will automatically be saved with
  frontpage = 0 when approved, i.e. only be displayed in the topic [Dirk]
- Avoid emitting an extra <br> tag after the last section in the What's New
  block (bug #330) [Dirk]
- Update comment count in Older Stories block when a new comment is posted
  (bug #317). Also optimized the code to collect the contents of the Older
  Stories block [Dirk]
- Fixed extra <br> being emitted in the calendar for events that aren't
  visible for the current user (bug #268) [Dirk]
- (Event) Admins can now delete events directly from the calendar's day and
  week views (just like events in the personal calendar) [Dirk]
- Fixed usersettings.php so that it displays the "benefits" message again when
  called up by an anonymous user. Also made it go to the user's preferences
  when called without a 'mode' parameter [Dirk]
- Added {layout_url} to the available theme variables in the submission forms.
  Also added {separator} for those who prefer correct spelling ;-) [Dirk]
- More parameter filtering and permission checks in submit.php [Dirk]
- Fixed over-zealous parameter filtering in links.php which prevented
  categories with apostrophes from working [Dirk]
- Fixed broken URLs when editing a plain-text story that contained uploaded
  images (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- The PEAR classes that ship with Geeklog actually require PHP 4.2.x now.
  However, the missing functions in older PHP versions (minimum requirement
  for Geeklog itself is now PHP 4.1.0) are provided by the PEAR PHP_Compat
  package, which we will have to ship with Geeklog from now on. Added the
  necessary code to lib-common.php to load PHP_Compat, if required [Dirk]
  Many thanks to Tom Willet for providing a test setup.
- Fixed "quick add form" for personal events, so that it stores the new event
  directly now [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of 12am/pm in events, event submissions, and when passing the
  time from the calendar to the event submission forms [Dirk]
- Improved handling of personal events / personal calendar, especially for
  (Event) Admins [Dirk]
- Fixed What's Related links when magic_quotes_qpc = on [Vinny, Dirk]
- Fixed use of an undefined variable $U in COM_showBlocks and warning messages
  for undefined array indexes in COM_getCurrentURL (reported by irawen) [Dirk]
- Allow empty search query strings so that the "More by <author>" and "More
  from <topic>" options work again [Dirk]
- When deleting a poll, also delete any comments to that poll [Dirk]
- Delete comments and story images when deleting stories from a deleted topic
  (bug #339) [Dirk]
- When deleting a story, added an extra check for type='article' when deleting
  the story's comments [Dirk]
- Set current user as the owner when cloning an event (bug #338) [Dirk]
- Start time, end time, and event location weren't copied over when adding a
  site event to the personal calendar (bug #336) [Dirk]
- Fixed wrong use of htmlentities() on comment title (bug #335) [Dirk]
- Changed "read more" word count so that it ignores HTML tags (bug #333) [Dirk]

- Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
- Updated Dutch language file, provided by Ko de Pree.
- Updated Dutch language file for the Static Pages plugin,
  provided by Ko de Pree.
- New French language files for the Spam-X plugin, provided by Alain Ponton.


Nov 28, 2004 (1.3.10)
------------

- Allow omission of the link text for the [story:], [event:], and [staticpage:]
  autotags. Geeklog will then use the title (of the story / event / static page)
  as the link text [Dirk]
  (affected files: system/lib-plugins.php, plugins/staticpages/functions.inc)

- Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone


Nov 21, 2004 (1.3.10rc3)
------------

- Changed wording of the error message if the "backups" directory is not
  writable [Dirk]
- Fixed comments for the DB_result (in lib-database.php) and dbResult
  (in mysql.class.php) functions (bug #320) [Dirk]
- Display a success message when using the "changepw" option in admin/user.php
  [Dirk]
- When changing a username, make sure to change the name of the user's photo,
  too (bug #321) [Dirk]
- Links in "plain text" stories and comments are now made clickable (i.e.
  enclosed in <a> tags) when the post is saved instead of when it's displayed,
  as in the previous release candidates. This also fixes bug #308. [Dirk]
- Added $_CONF['disable_autolinks'] config option to disable autolinks [Dirk]
- Removed ViewBlacklist.Admin.class.php from the Spam-X plugin [Tom Willet]
- Overhauled handling of personal events [Dirk]:
  + Fixed deleting personal events (again).
  + The upcoming events block now links to the event details of personal
    events (just like it already did for site events).
  + Added stricter checks for permissions, user IDs, and the personal calendars
    being activated in the first place.
- Added a check for allow_url_fopen if reading a (RSS) feed fails and report it
  in error.log if it is off [Dirk]
- When deleting a story (automatically), make sure we're only deleting comments
  belonging to that story (i.e. added a check for type = 'article') [Dirk]
- Added {event_type}, {lang_event_type}, and {edit_icon} in all the themes'
  calendar/eventdetails.thtml template file [Dirk]
- Fixed some URLs in the calendar (missing slash) [Dirk]
- Comment IDs don't have to be numeric (in comment.php) [Vinny]
- The Static Pages plugin now takes $_CONF['showfirstasfeatured'] into account
  when displaying static pages in center blocks (reported by eyecravedvd) [Dirk]
- Forgot to declare $_CONF as global when fixing bug #301 (bug #302) [Dirk]

- Updated Chinese language files (all 4 of them), provided by Samuel M. Stone
- Updated Japanese language files (euc-jp and UTF-8), provided by Yusuke Sakata
- Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik
- Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape
- Updated Spanish language file, provided by Angel Romero
- Updated Swedish language file, provided by Markus Berg


Oct 24, 2004 (1.3.10rc2)
------------

- Fixed plugin update function [Blaine]
- Set the target encoding in Geeklog's RSS parser (bug #301) [Dirk]
- Set the {topic_icon} variable to an empty string for the "Home" link in the
  Topics block (reported by jhwhite) [Dirk]
- Fixed News Box Configuration, i.e. the ability to disable blocks [Vinny]
- In the story template files, the number of comments now only is a link when
  there actually is a comment on the story [Dirk]
- Hard-coded the English word 'delete' in the URLs to delete a comment [Dirk]
- For the list of a user's recent comments, use 'mode=view' to link directly
  to a comment now [Dirk]
- Fixed comment id in comment notification emails [Dirk]
- Fixed display of the number of static pages that the user has access to (in
  the Admin Block) [Dirk]
- COM_makeClickableLinks did not recognize links with the 'http:' at the
  start of a line [Dirk]
- Re-introduced <br> between plugin sections in the What's New block, pretty
  much reverting the change suggested by feature request #292 [Dirk]
- Introduced function COM_formatEmailAddress that creates a (more or less)
  RFC(2)822 compliant email address from a name and an address [Dirk]
  This function is now used for formatting the site address, as well as for
  addresses entered by the user in profiles.php and admin/mail.php.
- The Spam-X plugin's MailAdmin action didn't send any email notifications,
  since the call to COM_mail was commented out ... [Dirk]
- admin/mail.php and admin/group.php use the complete URL to the script in
  the <form action="..."> now (instead of relying on PHP_SELF) [Dirk]
- Fixed parse error in the Dutch language file (reported by NeoNecro) [Dirk]
- Allow the dot '.' in IDs (in addition to letters, digits, the dash, and the
  underscore) [Dirk]


Oct 17, 2004 (1.3.10rc1)
------------
- Added new functionality to [autotags] - New plugin API's added  [Blaine]
- Added [autotag] hooks for stories  [Blaine]
- When a plugin had its icon only in the admin directoy, the plugin editor
  did not find it and displayed a generic icon instead [Dirk]
- In admin/mail.php, apply htmlspecialchars() on the email addresses before
  displaying them, as the '<foo@example.com>' part will be interpreted as
  HTML by some browsers (pointed out by LWC) [Dirk]
- When using gdlib for image resizing, GIF images were converted to PNG, but
  Geeklog was still trying to display the GIF (reported by Tom Willet). Since
  the LZW patent has now expired (see http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/lzw),
  it is safe to use GIF images again, so the PNG conversion was dropped [Dirk]
- Fixed link to the Anonymous user's profile in comment/thread.thtml [Dirk]
- Added Location field to the user profile [Blaine]
- In the light of bug #293, removed all variable names from the language files,
  leaving only the $_CONF config variables [Dirk]
- Fixed an error message when plugins didn't return an array from
  plugin_getmenuitems_xxx (reported by computerade) [Dirk]
- When sending emails from the admin/mail.php, some user's names weren't set
  in their email address (reported by LWC) [Dirk]
- Removed an extra <br> from before and between data provided by plugins in
  the What's New block (feature request #292) [Dirk]
- When creating a new user from admin/user.php, don't determine the uid before
  actually creating the database entries to avoid race conditions / collisions
  with other user accounts created at the same time (bug #243) [Dirk]
  Also took the opportunity to refactor and move the almost identical code
  from users.php and admin/user.php into a new function USER_createAccount in
  system/lib-user.php.
- usersettings.php was missing a default case for unsupported values of 'mode'
  (bug #287). This only displayed a blank page and was not exploitable [Dirk]
- Fixed hard-coded default group names in the Admin sections (e.g. when a user
  had story.edit permissions but was not in the Story Admin group, any new
  story created by that user would default to being owned by the Story Admin
  group nonetheless) [Dirk]
- Introduced new plugin API functions plugin_user_changed_xxx and
  plugin_group_changed_xxx to inform plugins when a user's information
  (profile or settings) or a group (new, edit, delete) has been changed [Dirk]
- COM_checkHTML and COM_allowedHTML now accept an additional parameter in form
  of a comma-separated list of permissions. If the current user has at least
  one of those permissions, they are assumed to be an "Admin" and the functions
  will use the $_CONF['admin_html'] list of HTML tags for them (bugs #114 and
  #118) [Dirk]
- COM_allowedHTML now has an option to only return the list of allowed HTML
  tags without the "Allowed HTML" text (bug #118) [Dirk]
- For the poll block, always use the block title stored in the database (bug
  #205) [Dirk]
- It is now again possible to have a different number of stories per page
  for individual topics. Users have to set their preferred number of stories
  per page to 0 (zero) in their preferences, though, as the user preferences
  will always override this setting (bug #190) [Dirk]
- The Professional theme, kindly provided by Victor B. Gonzalez, is our new
  default theme now.
- In the calendar's day and week view, event permissions weren't checked
  properly, so that some events were displayed to user who shouldn't have
  been able to see them (reported by Willem Jan) [Dirk]
- Don't update a story's hit counter as long as the draft flag is set or the
  publishing date is in the future (feature request #282) [Dirk]
- Introduced new function COM_sanitizeID() to filter special characters out of
  user-editable IDs as used for stories, polls, topics, and static pages (also
  fixes bug #181). Allowed characters are letters a-z (both upper and lower
  case), digits 0-9, the dash '-', and the underscore '_' [Dirk]
- The Upcoming Events block didn't use the help URL, even if it was set
  (reported by Wolfgang M. Schmitt) [Dirk]
- Geeklog now comes with Tom Willet's Spam-X plugin pre-installed. The plugin
  now stores the blacklists in the database and uses a new plugin API
  function to filter comment posts [Tom Willet, Tony, Blaine, Dirk]
- Plugins can now offer their own tags to allow easy linking to their content.
  These tags take the form [name:id link text], where 'name' is a name
  associated with the plugin, 'id' is a unique id referring to one of the
  objects under the plugin's control, and 'link text' is text used in the <a>
  tag that Geeklog creates from these tags.
  Built-in tags are [story:] to link to a story and [event:] to link to an
  event [Blaine, Dirk]
  Example: [story:email-bug About the email bug] would be translated into
  <a href="http://example.com/article.php/email-bug">About the email bug</a>
- portal.php now sends a 301 HTTP status code for the links instead of a 302.
  While a 302 status code would actually make more sense, Google does have a
  tendency to list search results with the URL of the portal script but with
  the content of the linked site, thus giving the impression that the content
  is actually located on another site. Sending a 301 avoids this problem [Dirk]
- Group Admins should not even see the groups of which they are not a member
  (bug #280) [Dirk]
- Prevent Group Admins from listing the members of a group unless they are a
  member of that group themselves [Dirk]
- Introduced $_CONF['left_blocks_in_footer'] config option that makes the
  {left_blocks} variable available in footer.thtml (disabling it in header.thtml
  at the same time). This is really only useful for two-column layouts where
  you want the side blocks in the right column [Dirk]
- Polls linked from the stats page now display the result of the poll instead
  of letting the user vote on them (feature request #267) [Dirk]
- In the Admin's list of events and stories, don't list items for which the
  Admin doesn't have read access (bug #269). [Dirk]
- Story IDs are now editable (just like the IDs of static pages). [Dirk]
  Important: Update the story editor template (admin/story/storyeditor.thtml)!
- Fixed a bug that reset every user's password request as soon as some user
  changed their account information (bug #265) [Dirk]
- Added support for URL rewriting to portal.php [Dirk]
- The links for the What's Related block are stored in the 'related' field in
  the gl_stories table again. Parsing the story for links every time it is
  rendered uses too much CPU power (with apologies to groklaw.net) [Dirk]
- Added theme variable {story_link} to commentbar.thtml to link back to original
  story the comments are derived from. [Vinny]
- Introduced new file system/lib-story.php for story-related functions and
  moved COM_article, COM_whatsRelated, COM_extractLinks, as well as the code
  to delete article images into that file (functions were renamed accordingly:
  STORY_renderArticle, STORY_whatsRelated, STORY_extractLinks) [Dirk]
- Fixed URLs to userphotos and story images when $_CONF['path_images'] had been
  changed (but was still inside of $_CONF['path_html']) [Dirk]
- Added a script to convert an existing database to InnoDB tables (if the MySQL
  version supports them): admin/install/toinnodb.php [Dirk]
- Added missing closing </a> tag in story search results (bug #260) [Dirk]
- Added a second parameter to function COM_makeList that is used as a CSS
  class name in the list it returns (use {list_class_name} to get the actual
  class name, and {list_class} to get class="classname"). Changed the existing
  calls to COM_makeList to include class names, so that you can now use the
  following class names in your stylesheet to style lists: list-feed,
  list-new-comments, list-new-links, list-new-plugins, list-older-stories,
  list-personal-events, list-site-events, list-story-options, list-whats-related
  (the names should be self-explanatory) [Dirk]
- Moved the docs directory to public_html/docs and added a link to it from the
  Admin's block (can be switched off in config.php by setting the new option
  $_CONF['link_documentation'] = 0) [Dirk]
- Replaced 'ppmtojpeg' with 'pnmtojpeg' when using NetPBM for scaling
  uploaded JPEG images (bug #257) [Dirk]
- Added a check (and a warning message) for PHP 4.1.0 to the install script,
  as that is our new minimum requirement [Dirk]
- Rewrote install/success.php and added a link to install/check.php [Dirk]
- Added the 'data' and 'pdfs' directory to install/check.php [Dirk]
- Integrated the "welcome email hack": If the file 'welcome_email.txt' exists
  in the 'data' directory, the contents of that file are sent out as the
  welcome email to new users (instead of the hard-coded welcome message) [Dirk]
- Introduced a 'data' directory ($_CONF['path_data'], defaulting to
  /path/to/geeklog/data) and use it for the batch user import, as Geeklog's
  base directory may not be writable on some setups (bug #77) [Dirk]
- Sort list of older polls by date (newest first) and added paging [Dirk]
- Make sure the old userphoto is deleted when uploading a new one (bug #228).
  So far, the old photo was not removed when the file type changed (e.g. from
  .gif to .jpg) [Dirk]
- Don't assume the uploaded file in usersettings.php is always the userphoto -
  it may in fact belong to a plugin (bug #179). This bug prevented plugins from
  uploading their own files through the plugin API [Dirk]
- Fixed repeating events in the personal calendar's day view (bug #232) [Dirk]
- COM_siteHeader() now accepts a page title (to go between the page's
  <title>...</title> tags) as the second parameter, replacing the
  $_CONF['pagetitle'] hack (which still works but should be avoided) [Dirk]
- In the site's page title, replace the site slogan with more meaningful
  information, where possible, e.g. "Submit a Story" on the story submission
  form, "Search Results", etc. (feature request #95) [Dirk]
- Fixed deleting events from the personal calendar (bug #199) [Dirk]
- Carry over the date and time from the calendar when Admins add a new event
  (bug #132) [Dirk]
- Don't display "Site Events" headline in the Upcoming Events block when
  personal calendars are off (feature request #151) [Dirk]
- Removed hard-coded am/pm formatted hours from the calendar's day view
  (calendar/dayview/dayview.thtml) and replaced them with {xx_hour} variables,
  where 'xx' is 0-23, which will be replaced with the hours formatted
  according to the $_CONF['timeonly'] config variable [Dirk]
- Themes can now use a couple of CSS class names to style the small calendar (of
  the previous and next month) in month view: .smallcal, .smallcal-headline,
  .smallcal-week-even, .smallcal-week-odd, .smallcal-week-empty,
  .smallcal-day-even, .smallcal-day-odd, and .smallcal-day-empty [Dirk]
- Improvements to the Story Archive Feature, UI tweaks, Language Extraction,
  Added new field to the topics table. Admin now sets the archive topic in
  the Topic Editor. Only one topic can be used - logic enforced. [Blaine]
- Don't emit the <br><br> in article.php when the story's body text is empty
  (based on patch #147, provided by Andy Maloney) [Dirk]
- Set {article_url} variable when displaying the story in article.php [Dirk]
- Fixed missing </select> tags for the comment display mode and sort order
  drop-down menus in usersettings.php (patch #255, provided by machinari) [Dirk]
- Hard-coded the names of the pseudo image tags in story.php, i.e. they are
  always [imageX], [imageX_left], and [imageX_right] now, independent of
  the current language file (bug #139) [Dirk]
- Added the Auto-Archive Management feature. Optionally allows the Story Editor
  to archive or delete a story when the expire date is reached [Blaine]
- Improved the commentbar to logically support comments viewed from comment.php
  [Vinny]
- Removed a bug in comment.php that allowed a story/comment mismatch during
  display.  This was not exploitable.  [Vinny]
- Integrated the timezone hack to compensate for time differences when your
  webserver is located in another timezone (original timezone hack by Yew Loong,
  with additions by "Joe" as well as several other geeklog.net users) [Dirk]
- The calendar can now be configured so that the week starts on either a
  Sunday or a Monday - see new config variable $_CONF['week_start']
  (based on a patch by bond_anton) [Dirk]
- Sort the admin's list of events by date (newest first). Also added paging,
  a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
  theme changes in admin/event/eventlist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
- Incorporated a patch provided by Drago Goricanec to sort the Admin's user
  list by uid [Dirk]
- Introduced 2 config options for the Who's Online block:
  - $_CONF['whosonline_fullname'] will display the user's full name,
  - $_CONF['whosonline_anonymous'] does not display the names of registered
    users to anonymous visitors of the site.
  Both options are disabled by default [Dirk]
- Added support for single quotes and nested tags to COM_extractLinks [Vinny]
- The admin_html and user_html are now merged recursively (bug #240) [Vinny]
- Remove colons from email addresses, as they have a special meaning,
  according to RFC(2)822, that we didn't intend (bug #6) [Dirk]
- Fixed compilation of regexp if the search query ended or started with a
  space (the resulting error message would also expose the path to article.php),
  (bug #251) [Dirk]
- Sort the admin's list of polls by date (newest first). Also added paging,
  a row number and parameter filtering. Paging and the row number require
  theme changes in admin/poll/polllist.thtml and listitem.thtml [Dirk]
- Added paging to the plugin editor (for more than 25 installed plugins).
  A {google_paging} variable is needed in admin/plugins/pluginlist.thtml for
  the paging links to show up [Dirk]
- Emails sent from the Admin's mail form (admin/mail.php) were always sent
  with the site name and site email address, even if you entered something else
  in the form. Also made admin/mail/mailform.thtml slightly less ugly [Dirk]
- When deleting a topic, keep the blocks assigned to that topic (bug #247).
  They're assigned to 'all topics' and disabled, but kept around now. The same
  applies for topic feeds, which weren't handled at all before [Dirk]
- Make sure upload errors for user photos and story images are displayed in a
  Geeklog block, not on a blank screen [Dirk]
- Fixed description of DB_insertId() in lib-database.php and dbInsertId() in
  mysql.class.php: The functions take a resource, describing the opened link to
  the database, not a record set (pointed out by lgonze on IRC). [Dirk]
- Plugins are now getting the key type passed to their search function, so that
  they can perform a search for "exact phrase", "all of these words", or
  "any of these words" as selected from the search form. [Dirk]
- Use URL rewriting for the link to a story's printer-friendly version, when
  activated (bug #201) [Dirk]
- Resizing an image didn't work when the image height exceeded the max. height
  but the image width was still below the max. width (bug #242) [Dirk]
- Keeping the unscaled image when using GDlib didn't work (bug #197) [Dirk]
- Added a workaround for the Zeus webserver so that blocks marked "homeonly"
  properly appear there (bug #244) [Dirk]
- Previewing a story submission from admin/story.php before saving it left the
  original story submission in the submission queue while also adding it as a
  new story. This has been fixed now [Dirk]
- Added {article_url} variable for article/printable.thtml so that we can
  print the proper URL to the article if URL rewriting is on [Dirk]
- Added filtering for the $order parameter in article.php [Dirk]
- Added {link_actual_url} variable in links.php, holding the actual URL of
  a link (not Geeklog's redirect URL via portal.php). Updated template
  file links/linkdetails.thtml in all default themes to use {link_actual_url}
  in a title attribute for the links [Dirk]
- The event description now honors linefeeds to allow some basic text
  formatting [Dirk]
- Escape all PCRE special characters in the code to highlight search query
  words (bug #200). Also moved the code to its own function, COM_highlightQuery,
  in lib-common.php [Dirk]
- The contents and order of the menu entries, i.e. of the {menu_elements}
  variable in header.thtml, is now configurable in config.php (new config
  variable $_CONF['menu_elements']). It also includes an option to add custom
  entries by implementing a function CUSTOM_menuEntries() that returns the
  additional entries [Dirk]
- Use an UPDATE request when increasing the number of times a story has been
  emailed [Dirk]
- When an error occurs while creating a backup, the complete command line
  used to call mysqldump is now added to error.log [Dirk]
- Added 'view' mode to allow links directly to a single comment (and optionally
  its children) in comments.php.  [Vinny]
- Added a few variables to be used in the eventdetails.thtml template file:
  {event_state_name} (full name of the state), {event_state_only} and
  {event_state_name_only} (abbreviated and full state name without the comma),
  {event_edit} (link to edit the event, if allowed for the current user),
  {edit_icon} (same, but with the edit icon instead of a text link),
  {lang_event_type} and {event_type} for the event type [Dirk]
- Registered users can now report abusive comments to the site admin (inspired
  by Feature Request #171, which actually requested this for the forums).
  Requires new text strings in the language files and a new template file,
  comment/reportcomment.thtml [Dirk]
- Bugfix: New users created through the batch import didn't get the email with
  their password [Dirk]
- Moved function to create and send a password to lib-user.php to avoid having
  identical code in users.php, admin/user.php, and admin/moderation.php [Dirk]
- Added {topic_image} variable (available in the topicoption.thtml and
  topicoption_off.thtml template files) so that you can use topic images in
  the Topics block (feature request #152) [Dirk]
- COM_undoSpecialChars() now also handles &nbsp; (bug #192) [Dirk]
- Fixed handling of HTML entities in [code] sections (bug #159) [Dirk]
- Added an option to look up IP addresses (new variable $_CONF['ip_lookup'] in
  config.php, pointing to a service that does IP address lookups) [Dirk]
- Fixed problems with the database backup when there were spaces in the path to
  the backups directory (bug #185). [Dirk]
- Added email notification for new comments (feature request #155) [Dirk]
- Added tracking of IP addresses of comment posters (as suggested by Michael
  Jervis) [Dirk]
- Altered COM_article to improve performance by reducing queries. [Vinny]
- Reduced DB queries in COM_showTopics to improve performance. [Vinny]
- Cached enabled plugins to reduce db queries and improve performance. [Vinny]
- Fixed SEC_inGroup not using $_GROUPS cache in several instances. [Vinny]
- mysql.class.php now only runs mysql_connect once per page load.  [Vinny]
- The "Google paging" now has additional links to jump to the first and last
  page (patch provided by Niels Leenheer). [Dirk]
- Introduced function COM_makeClickableLinks to turn URLs in text-only posts
  into clickable links (i.e. it's adding <a> tags around URLs). [Dirk]
- Changed the comment insert, delete, display algorithms for improved
  efficiency. They now use a modified preorder tree traversal method. [Vinny]
- Comment limit now applies to all the comments displayed, not just the top
  level comments. [Vinny]
- Added pagination ability to comments ({pagenav} template variable in
  startcomment.thtml). [Vinny]
- Fixed typo in timer.class.php that broke the ->restart() function. [Vinny]
- Make sure the database backup files are always sorted by (last modified) date
  (found & fixed by Alexander Schmacks). [Dirk]
- Make sure the user's preferred comment limit is used when changing the
  comment display via the comment bar (bug #176). [Vinny]
- When URL rewriting is activated, the "rewritten" URLs are now also used
  in all (RSS) feeds containing links to articles. [Dirk]
- Experimental: On a fresh install, use InnoDB tables (instead of MyISAM) if
  the MySQL version running on the server supports them (usually as of
  MySQL 4.0). This should avoid locks on tables where hit counters and the
  actual data are stored in the same table, e.g. stories (suggested by
  Marc Von Ahn). [Dirk]
- Fixed bug in the install script when upgrading from 1.3.8 or earlier:
  Check to see if the static pages plugin is installed before attempting to
  update its tables (reported by Rob Griffiths). [Dirk]
- Implemented a change to DB_fetchArray, suggested by Niels Leenheer:
  Geeklog will now, by default, only return associative array indices. In case
  the numeric indices are needed, a new (optional) second parameter for
  DB_fetchArray has to be set to "true". [Dirk]
- Removed extra quotes in SQL statements in admin/block.php to ensure
  compatibility with old MySQL versions (reported by Elmer Masters). [Dirk]
- In admin/database.php, if the is_executable function is not available (e.g.
  on Windows), do at least a file_exists to check if the mysqldump executable
  exists in the path given in config.php. [Dirk]
- Introduced function COM_getTopicSQL which returns part of an SQL request to
  check for a user's topic access [Dirk]
  (This was actually introduced in 1.3.9sr1 but missing from the changelog)

Language files
--------------
- New Bosnian language file, provided by Kenan Hodzic
- Updated Croatian language file, provided by Roberto Bilic
- New Indonesian language file, provided by Piotr Sobis
- Updated Norwegian language file, provided by Torfinn Ingolfsen

Static Pages Plugin 1.4.1
-------------------------
- Added a printable version for static pages (based on a concept by
  Jannetta S Lewis). Requires a new template file, printable.thtml, located
  in the static pages' template directory [Dirk]
- Added support for autolinks and provide a [staticpage:] autotag [Dirk]
- Added an option to sort the static pages that are added to a site's menu
  (see {plg_menu_elements} in header.thtml) by id, label, title, or date [Dirk]
- The block templates used to wrap a static page in a block can now be
  overridden, using '_staticpages_block' and '_staticpages_centerblock' as the
  index for the $_BLOCK_TEMPLATE array [Dirk]
- The plugin now checks for template files in the current theme's directory
  (layout/THEMENAME/staticpages) first before using the default template files
  from plugin/staticpages/templates [Dirk]
- When displaying a static page, the plugin no longer checks if the current
  user is a member of the Root group, so that "Root" users shouldn't see static
  pages that are for anonymous users only [Dirk]
  This change was actually supposed to be in Static Pages 1.4 (Geeklog 1.3.9),
  but somehow didn't make it ...
- For center blocks, ignore the "blank page" setting, unless it's for a page
  that is supposed to replace the entire frontpage (bug #234) [Dirk]
- The static pages editor doesn't display a "delete" button for new and
  cloned pages any more (since, obviously, you can't delete what hasn't been
  saved yet ...). [Dirk]
- Bugfix: Fresh installs of Geeklog 1.3.9 only allowed 20 characters for the
  static page ID, while installs upgraded from an earlier version allowed up
  to 40 characters [Dirk]
- New Portuguese (Brazil) language file, provided by Alcides Soares Filho.


Mar 5, 2006 (1.3.9sr5)
-----------

This release addresses the following security issues:

- Konstantin Dyakoff found an old bug in the session handling that would allow
  anyone to log in as any user.
- James Bercegay of GulfTech Security Research reported several issues with
  Geeklog's cookie handling that made it vulnerable to SQL injections, arbitrary
  file access, and even injection and execution of arbitrary code.
- Prevent execution of PHP code in "normal" blocks


Jul 3, 2005 (1.3.9sr4)
-----------

This release addresses the following security issue:

Stefan Esser found an SQL injection that can, under certain circumstances,
be exploited to extract user data such as the user's password hash.


Dec 31, 2004 (1.3.9sr3)
------------

This release addresses 2 security issues:

1. It was possible to submit stories anonymously even if anonymous submissions
   were turned off in config.php (reported by Barry Wong).
   These stories still ended up in the submission queue, though, unless you
   disabled it in config.php.
2. Some of the parameters in link and event submissions weren't filtered,
   leaving them open to potential SQL injections.


Oct 8, 2004 (1.3.9sr2)
-----------

This release addresses 2 security issues:

- Fixed a cross site scripting vulnerability caused by using the $topic
  variable in the language files ($LANG05[3]) where it should have been
  using '%s' instead (bug #293) [Vinny, Dirk]
- It was possible to post comments to stories or polls for which comment
  posting had been switched off [Dirk]
  This was only a problem if you allowed anonymous posts or when spammers
  went through the trouble of actually signing up for an account before
  posting.

Non-security related fixes:

- Fixed lib-plugins.php to be compatible with PHP 5 [Dirk]
- Includes updated PEAR packages to resolve email problems some users were
  having (especially with safe_mode being on).


Jun 1, 2004 (1.3.9sr1)
-----------

This release addresses the following security issues:

- It was possible to post anonymous comments, even when anonymous comment
  posting had been switched off in config.php [Vinny, Dirk]
- Added additional speed limit checks for comments and submissions [Vinny]
- It was still possible to read the comments to stories, even when the user
  didn't have access to the story's topic (provided they knew the story id)
  [Vinny, Dirk]
- If none of the topics were visible for anonymous users, the site's index
  page may still have displayed some stories for anonymous users, depending on
  the stories' permissions [Vinny, Dirk]
- Users still got Daily Digest emails for topics from which they had been
  removed (bug #178) [Dirk]
- It was possible to subscribe to the Daily Digest for all topics, even if the
  user did not have access to certain topics [Dirk]
- Don't list stories or comments in the user profile if the current user isn't
  allowed to see the topics they were posted under (bug #208) [Dirk]

Non-security related fixes:

- Fixed an SQL error in COM_showTopics if users excluded topics in their
  preferences (reported by Rob Young) [Dirk]
- Fixed sporadic "Duplicate entry '...' for key 1." messages in error.log
  (caused by the handling of pseudo-session ids for anonymous users) [Dirk]
- Fixed incorrect author names in Daily Digest (bug #207) [Dirk]
- The plugin_profileblocksedit_<plugin-name> Plugin API function wasn't working
  due to a missing piece of code in usersettings.php [Dirk]
- COM_extractLinks will now ignore anchor tags that do not contain "href"
  (bug #183) [Vinny]


Mar 14, 2004 (1.3.9)
------------

- Custom Registration function hook to custom_useredit added in the edituser()
  when creating a new user from the admin screen. The custom function was not
  being called if this was a new user [file: admin/user.php].
- Fixed wrong use of DB_count in COM_showPoll in lib-common.php. This may have
  prevented people from voting on other polls once they voted on any poll on
  a site [file: lib-common.php].

- Updated Danish language file, provided by ZooN.
- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel (please note that this
  file was made for 1.3.8-1 and is missing a few of the texts added in 1.3.9).


Mar 7, 2004 (1.3.9rc3)
-----------

- Fixed call to CUSTOM_mail and added a sample implementation in
  lib-custom.php (commented out by default).
- Made an attempt to recover from duplicate session ids for anonymous users.
- Adding new topics always resulted in a "Please fill in the Topic ID and Topic
  Name fields" error message, even if you did fill in both fields (this bug was
  only introduced in 1.3.9rc2).
- Filter out backslashes.
- Comment titles were cut off at the first single or double quote (when
  submitting a new comment).
- The text string $LANG04[89] in all language files must be enclosed in
  double quotes, not single quotes.

- Updated Hebrew language file, provided by Tal Vizel.
- Updated Polish language file, provided by Robert Stadnik.
- Updated Polish language file for the Static Pages plugin, provided by
  Robert Stadnik
- Updated Russian language file, provided by Denis Kuznetsov.
- Updated Slovenian language file, provided by gape.
- Included UTF-8 versions of the Croatian and Japanese language files,
  provided by Samuel Stone.


Feb 29, 2004 (1.3.9rc2)
------------

- The new Admin interface for handling blocks (introduced in 1.3.9rc1) will
  renumber the block order in steps of 10, which can lead to order numbers
  > 255 if you have many blocks. Changed the 'blockorder' field in the
  "gl_blocks" table from TINYINT to SMALLINT to compensate.
  If you are upgrading from 1.3.9rc1, you will need to run the following SQL
  request manually:

      ALTER TABLE gl_blocks CHANGE blockorder blockorder smallint(5) unsigned NOT NULL default '1';

  Replacing "gl_blocks" with the proper table name, if you are using a table
  prefix other than 'gl_'. This step is not necessary when upgrading from 1.3.8
  or earlier versions.
- The Group Admin restrictions introduced in 1.3.9rc1 didn't even let the
  Admin assign unassigned features to groups (e.g. there was no way to add
  the staticpages.PHP feature to the Static Page Admin group on a fresh
  1.3.9rc1 install).
- When normal users tried to submit an event, they were redirected to the
  story submission form (this bug was only introduced in 1.3.9rc1).
- Cosmetic changes in the beautifying of language names (in the user's
  preferences).
- Fixed COM_extractLinks to wor