» Topic:  PostNuke 0.760 released

» Added by:  cXIb8O3

» Date:  17.9.2005

  The PostNuke team are pleased to announce the availablity of PostNuke 0.7.6.0, a major milestone realized on the road to 1.0. This release features significant enhacements to the .7x range of releases in addition to containing a significant number of modules taken directory from the .8x codebase.

If performing an upgrade please review manual.txt carefully. Many of the core system modules (blocks, modules etc.) are upgraded in this release so the process needs to be followed carefully.

Links

* Download: http://news.postnuke.com/Downloads-req-viewdownload-cid-1.html
* Support: http://forums.postnuke.com

Summary of Main Changes
Further cleaning of HTML

* pn-normal custom class removed in favor of styling of block level element using CSS
* pn-pagetitle class replaced by use of h1 tag
* pn-title class replaced by use of h2 tag
* all fake lists created using middot's replaced with proper lists

Simplication of non API compliant links

op=modload & file=index are the defaults so these are removed from all links
New printer (Xanthia) theme - enables printable view of any page

A printable view of any page is available using the printer theme. Append the url theme=Printer to the url or build a 'print me' button into your theme.
Removal of NS- prefix on all modules

All modules that contained the NS- prefix in the directory name have had this removed. This prefix is a result of our origins in php-nuke.
Baseline security analyzer
This new feature adds a check for some of the more basic configuration settings that can enhance the security of a PostNuke installation.
New features in core

* Modules can now be referenced using an 'alias' via the module display name setting.
* Default start function type, function name & parameters to the function can be defined. Note: API compliant modules only.
* Standard database connection error moved to a 'template' in includes/templates.
* Ability to turn the site off for maintainence (access to provided via permissions setting).
* Smarty updated to v2.6.10.
* ADODB updated to v4.6.5.

Modules

Admin_Messages, Modules, Blocks, Permissions, Groups, legal, Censor, Messages, Ephemerids, Quotes, Autolinks, AvantGo, Credits, Members_List, Ratings & Admin have been updated for full API compliance and templated output.

New modules

* Sniffer; Detects browser and browser capabilities using phpSniff (by Roger Raymond).
* RSS; Replaces dated feed handling with an xml based parser (magpie rss).

Bug fixes

* Xanthia - many fixes since original release.
* Mailer (added support for additional headers, bcc's & cc's), fixed sending to multiple addresses.

New features in modules (in addition to API compliance and templated output)

Modules module

* filter by letter, state
* graphical indicatator of state
* detection of change of type, admin & user capability
* ability to recover from missing files state

Blocks

* graphical indicatator of state
* ability to define each block as collaspable (credit to Mark Heldstab)
* ability to define each blocks' default collapseable state (credit to Mark Heldstab)

Others

* Groups - ability to add multiple users to a group in one go
* legal - added template accessibility report (thanks to http://diveintoaccessibility.org)
* Censor - added transfrom hook for censor module (supercedes pnVarCensor API - maintained for backwards compatability)
* Admin - added ability to split modules into categories, the categories view are skinable via a single stylesheet
* Credits