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Changes in Askbot

0.7.43 (May 14, 2012)

  • User groups (Evgeny)
  • Public/Private/Hidden reputation (Evgeny)
  • Enabling/disabling the badges system (Evgeny)
  • Created a basic post moderation feature (Evgeny)
  • Created a way to specify reasons for rejecting posts in a modal dialog (Evgeny)
  • A number of bug fixes (Adolfo Fitoria, Jim Tittsler, Evgeny Fadeev, Robin Stocker, Radim Řehůřek, Silvio Heuberger)

0.7.41, 0.7.42 (April 21, 2012)

  • Bug fixes

0.7.40 (March 29, 2012)

  • New data models!!! (Tomasz Zieliński)
  • Made email recovery link work when askbot is deployed on subdirectory (Evgeny)
  • Added tests for the CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN setting in the startup_procedures (Evgeny)
  • Askbot now respects django’s staticfiles app (Radim Řehůřek, Evgeny)
  • Fixed the url translation bug (Evgeny)
  • Added left sidebar option (Evgeny)
  • Added “help” page and links to in the header and the footer (Evgeny)
  • Removed url parameters and the hash fragment from uploaded files - amazon S3 for some reason adds weird expiration parameters (Evgeny)
  • Reduced memory usage in data migrations (Evgeny)
  • Added progress bars to slow data migrations (Evgeny)
  • Added a management command to build_thread_summary_cache (Evgeny)
  • Added a management delete_contextless_badge_award_activities (Evgeny)
  • Fixed a file upload issue in FF and IE found by jerry_gzy (Evgeny)
  • Added test on maximum length of title working for utf-8 text (Evgeny)
  • Added caching and invalidation to the question page (Evgeny)
  • Added a management command delete_contextless_activities (Evgeny)
  • LDAP login configuration (github user monkut)
  • Check order of middleware classes (Daniel Mican)
  • Added “reply by email” function (Vasil Vangelovski)
  • Enabled “ask by email” via Lamson (Evgeny)
  • Tags can be optional (Evgeny)
  • Fixed dependency of Django up to 1.3.1, because settings must be upgraded for Django 1.4 (Evgeny)

0.7.39 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • restored facebook login after FB changed the procedure (Evgeny)

0.7.38 (Jan 11, 2012)

  • xss vulnerability fix, issue found by Radim Řehůřek (Evgeny)

0.7.37 (Jan 8, 2012)

  • added basic slugification treatment to question titles with ALLOW_UNICODE_SLUGS = True (Evgeny)
  • added verification of the project directory name to make sure it does not contain a . (dot) symbol (Evgeny)
  • made askbot compatible with django’s CSRFViewMiddleware that may be used for other projects (Evgeny)
  • added more rigorous test for the user name to make it slug safe (Evgeny)
  • made setting ASKBOT_FILE_UPLOAD_DIR work (Radim Řehůřek)
  • added minimal length of question title ond body text to live settings and allowed body-less questions (Radim Řehůřek, Evgeny)
  • allowed disabling use of gravatar site-wide (Rosandra Cuello Suñol)
  • when internal login app is disabled - links to login/logout/add-remove-login-methods are gone (Evgeny)
  • replaced setting ASKBOT_FILE_UPLOAD_DIR with django’s MEDIA_ROOT (Evgeny)
  • replaced setting ASKBOT_UPLOADED_FILES_URL with django’s MEDIA_URL (Evgeny)
  • allowed changing file storage backend for file uploads by configuration (Evgeny)
  • file uploads to amazon S3 now work with proper configuration (Evgeny)

0.7.36 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • bugfix and made the logo not used by default

0.7.35 (Dec 15, 2011)

0.7.34 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Returned support of Django 1.2

0.7.33 (Dec 6, 2011)

  • Made on log in redirect to the forum index page by default and to the question page, if user was reading the question it is still possible to override the next url parameter or just rely on django’s LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL (Evgeny)
  • Implemented retraction of offensive flags (Dejan Noveski)
  • Made automatic dependency checking more complete (Evgeny)

0.7.32 (Nov 30, 2011)

  • Bugfixes in English locale (Evgeny)

0.7.31 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Added askbot_create_test_fixture management command (Dejan Noveski)
  • Integrated new test fixture into the page load test cases (Dejan Noveski)
  • Added an embeddable widget for the questions list matching tags (Daniel Mican, Evgeny Fadeev, Dejan Noveski)

0.7.30 (Nov 28, 2011)

Note: some of these features were added in one of the three previous versions.

  • Context-sensitive RSS url (Dejan Noveski)
  • Implemented new version of skin (Byron Corrales)
  • Show unused vote count (Tomasz Zielinski)
  • Categorized live settings (Evgeny)
  • Merge users management command (Daniel Mican)
  • Added management command send_accept_answer_reminders (Evgeny)
  • Improved the askbot-setup script (Adolfo, Evgeny)
  • Merge users management command (Daniel Mican)
  • Anonymous caching of the question page (Vlad Bokov)
  • Fixed sharing button bug, css fixes for new template (Alexander Werner)
  • Added ASKBOT_TRANSLATE_URL setting for url localization(Alexander Werner)
  • Changed javascript translation model, moved from jqueryi18n to django (Rosandra Cuello Suñol)
  • Private forum mode (Vlad Bokov)
  • Improved text search query in Postgresql (Alexander Werner)
  • Take LANGUAGE_CODE from request (Alexander Werner)
  • Added support for LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL to the login app (hjwp, Evgeny)
  • Updated Italian localization (Luca Ferroni)
  • Added Catalan localization (Jordi Bofill)
  • Added management command askbot_add_test_content (Dejan Noveski)
  • Continued work on refactoring the database schema (Tomasz Zielinski)

0.7.27 - 0.7.29 (Nov 8-28, 2011)

For these versions we did not keep consistent record of features.

0.7.26 (Oct 12, 2011)

  • Added settings for email subscription defaults (Adolfo)
  • Resolved `bug #102<http://bugs.askbot.org/issues/102>`_ - duplicate notifications on posts with mentions (Evegeny)
  • Added color-animated transitions when urls with hash tags are visited (Adolfo)
  • Repository tags will be automatically added to new releases (Evgeny, suggsted by ajmirsky)

0.7.25 (Oct 5 2011)

  • RSS feed for individual question (Sayan Chowdhury)
  • Allow pre-population of tags via ask a questions link (Adolfo)
  • Make answering own question one click harder (Adolfo)
  • Bootstrap mode (Adolfo, Evgeny)
  • Color-animated urls with the hash fragments (Adolfo)

0.7.24

  • Made it possible to disable the anonymous user greeting alltogether (Raghu Udiyar)
  • Added annotations for the meanings of user levels on the “moderation” page. (Jishnu)
  • Auto-link patterns - e.g. to bug databases - are configurable from settings. (Arun SAG)

0.7.23

  • Greeting for anonymuos users can be changed from live settings (Hrishi)
  • Greeting for anonymous users is shown only once (Rag Sagar)
  • Added support for Akismet spam detection service (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Added noscript message (Arun SAG)
  • Support for url shortening with TinyUrl on link sharing (Rtnpro)
  • Allowed logging in with password and email in the place of login name (Evgeny)
  • Added config settings allowing adjust license information (Evgeny)

0.7.22

  • Media resource revision is now incremented automatically any time when media is updated (Adolfo Fitoria, Evgeny Fadeev)
  • First user automatically becomes site administrator (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Avatar displayed on the sidebar can be controlled with livesettings.(Adolfo Fitoria, Evgeny Fadeev)
  • Avatar box in the sidebar is ordered with priority for real faces.(Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Django’s createsuperuser now works with askbot (Adolfo Fitoria)

0.7.21

This version was skipped

0.7.20

  • Added support for login via self-hosted Wordpress site (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Allowed basic markdown in the comments (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Added this changelog (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Added support for threaded emails (Benoit Lavigne)
  • A few more Spanish translation strings (Byron Corrales)
  • Social sharing support on identi.ca (Rantadeep Debnath)

0.7.19

0.7.17

  • Adding test for UserNameField.
  • Adding test for markup functions.

0.7.16

  • Admins can add aministrators too.
  • Added a postgres driver version check in the start procedures due to a bug in psycopg2 2.4.2.
  • New inbox system style (bug reported by Tomasz P. Szynalski).

0.7.15

  • Fixed integration with Django 1.1.
  • Fixed bugs in setup script.
  • Fixed pypi bugs.