Geeklog Documentation - Changes

Changes

This document is intended to give a quick overview over the most import and / or obvious changes. For a detailed list of changes, please consult the ChangeLog.

Geeklog 1.3.6

New Features

• Images in articles can now be resized automatically during upload (provided you have either ImageMagick or netpbm installed). See the configuration description for details.
• The contents of a static page entitled "Frontpage" will be displayed before the first story on the front page of a Geeklog site. If the static page additionally carries the label "nonews", then it will completely replace the news on the front page.
• User submission queue: When activated (in config.php), new users will need to be approved by an admin before they receive their password.
• The submission queues can be switched off separately, either completely (in config.php) or only for certain groups of users (by using the new features story.submit, links.submit, and event.submit).
• When posting source code (e.g. PHP, HTML, ...), you can now use the [code] ... [/code] pseudo tags to enclose those portions of your posting that should be reproduced verbatim.
• The links section now uses a categorized and paged display (can be switched off separately and even back to the pre-1.3.6 style listing).
• Anonymous users can now be blocked from almost every part of the site (e.g. links section, site stats, ...), if needed.
• A Geeklog site can now be disabled easily (e.g. for maintenance) by setting a flag in config.php.
• Theme changes: Please consult the themes documentation for a list of changes.

Bugfixes

• Several fixes have been made to ensure that permissions are taken into account properly (e.g. not revealing titles of stories that the user has no access to).
• Several fixes have been made to make sure that Geeklog can now be properly localized (provided you have a language file that is up to date and have chosen the proper locale settings for your country and language).
• The variable $_CONF['site_admin_url'] is now used properly so that you can rename Geeklog's admin directory if needed.
• New RDF parser will now import most (if not all) RDF news feeds properly

Notes

• Since there are a lot of new variables in config.php, it is recommended you start with a fresh copy of that file instead of copying over your old config.php from your previous installation.
• Please note that currently only the English, German, Italian, Polish, and Japanese language files are up to date. Using one of the other language files may result in your Geeklog site not working properly.

Contributors: Gene Wood, Blaine Lang, Tom Willet, and Roger Webster have contributed to this release. Thank you!