Jive Forums 5 Changelog

5.0.5 - August 30, 2006

Note: When you install this version you should be ready to run a quick upgrade task as the system administrator. This exists to install a new database table for the email integration feature (see second changelog entry below). When you run this version for the first time you will be kicked in to the upgrade process.

New Feature: Added translations: French, Italian, Dutch and German. [FORUMS-2789]
New Feature: Email integration -- added the ability to reply by email to a watch notification. When a user watches a forum, thread or category they will get an email notification to tell them of new content. They can now reply to that email directly to post a response. [FORUMS-2880]
Bug: Fixed a critical bug in which users could view questions that they did not have permission to view. This exposure would occur on the profile.jspa page in the Recent Questions section. [FORUMS-2781]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the Integrated Admin Console that would prevent users with only Moderator permissions from performing moderator actions. [FORUMS-2869]
Bug: Improved compatibilty with WebLogic to remove IllegalStateExceptions that could occur on specific pages. [FORUMS-2863]
Improvement: All RSS message body output is now run through the filters. This was inconsistent before. The end result is the HTML produced as a result of messages passing through filters is now included in the RSS feed. This makes the messages look the same in an RSS reader as they are on the web. [FORUMS-2760]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the jive_forums_mysql_upgrade_4_2_to_5_0.sql script which was caused by a semicolon on line 133. [FORUMS-2845]
Bug: The ImageFilter now protects against bad file names to avoid IllegalArgumentExceptions. [FORUMS-2662]
Bug: Fixed a bug caused by certain types of PNG files as avatars. [FORUMS-2766]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which the removal of a Jive Property would not propogate across the cluster correctly. [FORUMS-2784]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the English stemming search analyzer which would cause some searches to fail for seemingly no reason. [FORUMS-2829]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the LdapUser class which caused users to be unable to select their own user-uploaded avatars. [FORUMS-2761]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which enabling the use of Oracle's JDBC statement cache would cause errors on startup. [FORUMS-2844]
Bug: The email template system now falls back to a default template if no template is found for the specified locale. [FORUMS-2695]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the ForumActionSupport class which could cause replies and other actions to have odd behavior when using Themes. [FORUMS-2788]
Improvement: The NNTP server now includes the Path and Xref headers. [FORUMS-2665]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which a user with an auto login cookie could bypass the ban user login functionality. [FORUMS-2779]
Bug: The "Report Abuse" feature now works as expected when configured to hide messages after a single abuse report. [FORUMS-2776]
Bug: The ForumActionSupport.isAdmin(Forum) method checks permissions correctly. This allows Forum Admins to perform thread management operations such as edit, move and branch through the default skin. [FORUMS-2765]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the RSS system in which the username and password parameters have no effect on authentication. [FORUMS-2840]
Bug: The NNTP Name for specific forums can now be set when the NNTP server is off. [FORUMS-2660]
Bug: Added system.adminuser.fromName field to the Email settings page to avoid misconfigurations. [FORUMS-2842]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which batch email update times could be updated without sending an email when running in a clustered environment. [FORUMS-2700]
Bug: Announcements are now merged correctly when merging two forums. [FORUMS-2747]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which new the content from new non-text attachments is not included in the search index the first time the attachment is extracted. [FORUMS-2834]

5.0.4 - June 20, 2006

Task: Refactored use of the Blowfish algorithm for cookie credientials. We now use the standard Blowfish implementation that's part of the JDK. [FORUMS-2735]
Bug: Fixed an issue with the newsgroup importer forcing the JVM to garbage collect (via calls to System.gc()) which can spike cpu usage and cause forums to crawl to a stop with a large number of newsgroups. [FORUMS-2744]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which new posts on one clustered server did not show up on the other clustered server for several hours through the NNTP server. [FORUMS-2754]
Bug: Fixed report context issue, that could cause incorrect results on the report generation page. [FORUMS-2734]
Bug: Added a missing table definition in the HSQLDB SQL script (jiveQuestionProp). [FORUMS-2752]
Bug: Fixed issues in the virus scanner which could cause a loop of failing virus scan requests. [FORUMS-2693]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the Search Settings user interface in which the true "Time to keep logged search queries before deletion (in days)" setting would always reflect the default rather than the true value. [FORUMS-2724]
Bug: Fixed a bug which prevented searches from returning results based on content in message attachments. [FORUMS-2649]
Bug: The gateways now set the content type of messages to text/html if that is the disposition of the imported content. [FORUMS-1719]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which paging through search results would lose the specified Date Range unless "90 days" (the default) was being used. [FORUMS-2723]
Bug: Open question alert emails are no longer sent for forums or categories which have had alert emails disabled. [FORUMS-2748]
Bug: Expert Alert Emails are no longer sent if there are no open questions for the particular content area. [FORUMS-2749]
Bug: Fixed a bug on the index.jspa page in which root-level forums would not be displayed unless global permissions were set. [FORUMS-2702]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which the inherited locale for a category or forum would always be en_US. [FORUMS-2694]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which users could not cancel out of the Add Attachment page. [FORUMS-2671]
Improvement: The NNTP server will not longer log UnauthorizedExceptions to the error log when a user attempts to access a protected news group. Instead the UnauthorizedException will be logged to the debug log. [FORUMS-2756]
i18n: Addedd 3 new strings, please see the i18n properties file for more detail.

5.0.3 - May 24, 2006

New Feature: Implemented a user search in the default skin. This allows you to find users by their extended profile fields, username, name, etc. [FORUMS-922]
New Feature: Added: Ability to search users in the admin console by username, name, and email. <br/> Added: A widget that can be included on various pages to search and select a desired user [FORUMS-922]
Improvement: Slightly improved the performance of calls to the Presence APIs (for checking who's online). [FORUMS-2085]
Improvement: Added special case for logging ServletExceptions so that their root cause is recorded. [FORUMS-2566]
Improvement: The number of helpful answers is now configurable. [FORUMS-2374]
Bug: Fixed an issue where database connections could leak and eventually be used up causing the application to deadlock while attempting to obtain additional database connections. [FORUMS-2637]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which a failed export through a gateway will then export the message to all export gateways rather than just the intended gateway. [FORUMS-2625]
Bug: Updated various parts of the system so that references to userManager.getUser(1) and userManager.getUser("admin") are replaced with references to JiveGlobals.getJiveProperty("system.adminuser.email"). [FORUMS-2676]
Bug: Changed the way clustering was initialized to avoid a very rare race condition on a busy cluster. [FORUMS-2691]
Bug: Fixed bug causing the editing of message attachments to fail. [FORUMS-2557]
Bug: Fixed minor bug that caused the subject in a reply to be HTML escaped twice. [FORUMS-2645]
Bug: Fixed a bug where the search results page didn't honor the default rage range specified by the Jive Property 'search.defaultdaterange' if no date range was specified in a query. [FORUMS-2683]
Bug: Fixed bug causing custom words to not be added to the spell checker when there is extra whitespace around the word. [FORUMS-2648]
Bug: Added missing "search disabled" page which shows when you do a search but search is disabled. [FORUMS-2659]
Bug: Fixed some icons to have proper transparent backgrounds. [FORUMS-2698]
Bug: Worked around a problem in WebLogic's jsp:include tag that caused a NullPointerException to occur on some pages. [FORUMS-2578]
Bug: Fixed a problem in the Setup Tool on WebLogic 8.1 in which a redirect loop would occur. [FORUMS-2546]
Bug: Fixed a bug with custom themes when deleting a mapped category. The Admin Console > User Interface > Custom Themes page would no longer work after deleting the mapped category. [FORUMS-2629]
Bug: The Postgres database script was fixed so that the jiveAttachment (objectType, objectID) index is created. [FORUMS-2593]
Bug: Fixed an LdapUserManager logic error in which searching for a username while using a wildcard would cause an extraneous row to be added to the jiveUser table. [FORUMS-2642]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the XML import in which attachments on root messages were not imported. [FORUMS-2661]
i18n: Added about two dozen new strings, please see the i18n properties file for more detail.

5.0.2 - April 17, 2006

New feature: users can now see a list of the threads they've recently viewed by clicking on a history icon next to their username in the account box (upper right-hand corner of the screen). This is enabled by default and set to allow users to see the 10 most recent threads. [FORUMS-2538]
New feature: Users can now upload their own avatars. Adminstrators have the option to moderate these images and set other policies on them. See the "Avatar Settings" panel in the admin console for more details. [FORUMS-2537]
Bug: Removed a minor bug in the MySQL upgrade script causing an index table creation twice. [FORUMS-2603]
Bug: Fixed bug causing the editing of message attachments to fail. [FORUMS-2557]
Bug: Fixed bug causing the HTML in custom headers & footers to be double HTML escaped. [FORUMS-2560]
Bug: Fixed bug causing the a double HTML escape of the "quote original" prefix character (">"). [FORUMS-2587]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the default skin in which the user's location was read from the user's extended properties rather than the profile system. [FORUMS-2596]
Bug: Shortened the index names in the DB2 database script due to limitations in index name length. [FORUMS-2567]
Bug: Fixed a bug in DbForumMessage which could cause a new (unsaved) message's extended properties to get out of sync in memory. [FORUMS-2611]
Bug: Improved compatibilty with WebLogic 8.1. WebLogic reports a different path than other application servers from the request.getServletPath() method. [FORUMS-2577]
Bug: Fixed a minor issue that caused message replies to be out of order because the message creation date time was based on when the message was started (composed) and not the time it was actually posted. [FORUMS-2545]
Bug: Fixed minor bug causing the background color of the private message folder view to be black. [FORUMS-2550]
Bug: Improved the Choose Avatar form to make it less confusing and fixed a possible 404 error when submitting the form. [FORUMS-2588]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the Outgoing Email Gateway settings in which the "Allow export of attachments" feature did not work correctly. [FORUMS-2562]
Bug: Fixed a bug causing the Java code syntax highlighter to remove the "L" from long values (ie, 3L or 123L). [FORUMS-1996]

5.0.1 - March 23, 2006

Support is provided for upgrading from earlier versions. Please read the upgrade documentation before attempting an upgrade.
Bug: Fixed a bug with character encodings in which non-ascii output could be garbled in the default skin. [FORUMS-2539]
Bug: Fixed bug where announcements created in the root category were viewable by unauthorized users. [FORUMS-2395]
Bug: Fixed a bug on the forum.jspa page in which the "Thread" and "Last Post" column header font color would not change when configured through the Admin Console. [FORUMS-2124]
Improvement: The header font color and header background color for portlet boxes are now configurable through the Admin Console. [FORUMS-2125]

5.0.0 - March 9, 2006

Forums edition names have changed from Expert and Enterprise to Gold and Silver, respectively. [FORUMS-2265]
New Feature: Added real-time collaboration features, providing integrated group chat and public IM presence information.
New Feature: New customizable skins (template system) to allow selective branding.
New Feature: Added ability for users to manage extended profile information (admin defined fields).
New Feature: Added ability for expert users to specify their skills.
New Feature: New option for expert email notification.
New Feature: Added new ban user functionality. [FORUMS-2214]
New Feature: Added abuse reporting functionality. [FORUMS-2212]
New Feature: Added the ability to "gag" abusive members so that they can still post but only that user can see their posts. [FORUMS-1524]
New Feature: New user registration features supporting human input validation. [FORUMS-2215]
New Feature: Customized terms & conditions.
New Feature: New per-user licensing.
New Feature: Added support for loading group information from LDAP. [FORUMS-2184]
New Feature: Force a message back into the moderation process. [FORUMS-1595]
New Feature: Improvements to gateways. [FORUMS-2211]
New Feature: Added the ability to rename log files. [FORUMS-1866]
New Feature: Added ability to get community statistics via RSS. This includes things like number of forums, threads or messages. It's useful for aggregating data like "X users online, reading Y messages in Z forums". [FORUMS-2294]
Improvement: Added a new HTML based WYSIWYG editor (http://tinymce.moxicode.com) as the default WYSIWYG editor. This new editor works on both Mozilla and Internet Explorer (see http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/tinymce/docs/compatiblity_chart.html for details) and is actively maintained. The previous WYSIWYG editor is still available but is no longer maintained and will be removed in a future release. To enable the previous WYSIWYG editor set the Jive property 'skin.default.isHTMLAreaEditor.enabled' -> 'true'. [FORUMS-2402]
Improvement: Improved the default email templates to be more useful. [FORUMS-2350]
Improvement: Made report generation more memory efficient. [FORUMS-2165]
Improvement: Added a database index to improve performance of deleting all posts for a user. [FORUMS-1792]
Improvement: Improvement: Added ability to repeatedly add a filter at the same level [FORUMS-2148]
Improvement: Switched log classes to use the JDK 1.4 built-in logger. [FORUMS-1707]
Improvement: Upgrade web MVC framework to Webwork 2.2.
Bug: Fixed error that cases cache to report the wrong size with clustering enabled. [FORUMS-2434]
Bug: Fixed bug where users could spoof a rating url and give points to themselves. [FORUMS-2420]
Bug: User questions can now be marked as answered even if there are no replies. A follow-up message is encouraged but not required. [FORUMS-2419]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which users with only user admin rights could not perform all administrative actions on users in the admin console. [FORUMS-2364]
Bug: Fixed bug that caused excessive avatar lookups to happen if users do not have an avatar specified. [FORUMS-2301]
Bug: Fixed an issue with the "make active" poll date not being re-populated on the edit poll page. [FORUMS-2256]
Bug: Fixed bug when creating and expiring a poll on the same day. [FORUMS-2255]
Bug: Made the NNTP gateway more robust to deal with malformed references headers. [FORUMS-2083]
Bug: Fixed bug in which, under very specific circumstances, several search rebuild tasks could get queued during the initial index rebuild after deleting the contents of jiveHome/search/. [FORUMS-1918]
Bug: Fixed a bug in which ended, but not expired, polls were not viewable in the UI. [FORUMS-1822]
Bug: Fixed a bug causing the integrated search form to not remember the user's search query. [FORUMS-2306]
Bug: Fixed a bug on the category view page in which the Last Post link would be shown as from the wrong user if the a message was editing in the most recent thread. [FORUMS-2292]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the URLConverter in which "(" and ")" characters were not recognized as valid characters in a URL. [FORUMS-2269]
Bug: Fixed a bug in the Emoticon filter in which emoticons were not correctly rendered in some situations such as at the end of a line. [FORUMS-2161]
i18n: Added a number of new strings, please see the i18n properties file for more detail.