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• Web-news Web-News v.1.6.4 file released: WebNews-1.6.4.zip

  Bug fixed in v1.6.4 1. Fix authentication when auth_level=1 and user/pass are set Feature added in v1.6.3 1. Added the recent messages thread when reading individual article Bugs fixed in v1.6.2 1. Fixed the incorrect pagination when displaying the search result. 2. Fixed the problem with no search result displayed when the search is not perform on the first page of the message list. Bugs fixed in v1.6.1b2 1. Correctly escaped the HTML symbols in the search text. 2. Correctly escape the special regular expression symbol in the search text. 3. The information string displayed when no search result is found is corrected to read from the messages*.ini file. Bug fixed in v1.6.1b1 1. Use of the "register_shutdown_function()" function to make sure any NNTP connection opened is closed when the script finished its execution. This solve the problem of connection timeout on some machine. New features and bug fixed in v1.6.0 1. Added the search feature for searching subject and author. 2. Re-format the control button layout. 3. Save user language and messages per page preferences in client browser cookies. 4. The "webnews.cfg" file is renamed into "webnews.cfg.php" to improve security. 5. A new setting "$over_link_color" is added in the "webnews.cfg.php" to set the color of a link when mouseover. 6. Bugs fixed in some regular expression to have better compatibility across different PHP version. 7. Correctly URL-encode the newsgroup name in the links. This fixed the problem of not able to show newsgroups with space in its name. 8. Fixed the bug of not showing empty newsgroup (newsgroup with no message in it) correctly. Bug fixed in v1.5.7 1. Yet, another bug in uucoder.php. This bug makes the decoding of some uuencoded message incorrectly. Bug fixed in v1.5.6 1. A bug in uucoder.php was discovered. There was an endless loop inside. Bug fixed in v1.5.5 1. uucoder.php changed for faster decoding 2. util.php changed for better case checking for the read_ini_file() function. 3. Better error checking in newsgroups.php script. 4. Fixed decoding bug for UUEncode attachment with whitespaces in file name. Bugs fixed and enhancements in v1.5.4 1. NNTP to RSS 2.0 feed is now supported. Now newsgroups not only can access through HTTP, but also through RSS feed. 2. A minor fix on closing the NNTP connect properly in "show_header.php" script. Bugs fixed and enhancement in v1.5.3 1. The use of the persistant socket connection is revoked back to non-persistant one since the use of persistant socket connection may cause stability to some web server. 2. NNTP connections not closed correctly and this may have trouble with some NNTP server. 3. Newsgroups listed using WILDMAT is sorted for the display.

  posted 217 days ago

• Web-news Web-News v.1.6.4 file released: WebNews-1.6.4.tar.gz

  Bug fixed in v1.6.4 1. Fix authentication when auth_level=1 and user/pass are set Feature added in v1.6.3 1. Added the recent messages thread when reading individual article Bugs fixed in v1.6.2 1. Fixed the incorrect pagination when displaying the search result. 2. Fixed the problem with no search result displayed when the search is not perform on the first page of the message list. Bugs fixed in v1.6.1b2 1. Correctly escaped the HTML symbols in the search text. 2. Correctly escape the special regular expression symbol in the search text. 3. The information string displayed when no search result is found is corrected to read from the messages*.ini file. Bug fixed in v1.6.1b1 1. Use of the "register_shutdown_function()" function to make sure any NNTP connection opened is closed when the script finished its execution. This solve the problem of connection timeout on some machine. New features and bug fixed in v1.6.0 1. Added the search feature for searching subject and author. 2. Re-format the control button layout. 3. Save user language and messages per page preferences in client browser cookies. 4. The "webnews.cfg" file is renamed into "webnews.cfg.php" to improve security. 5. A new setting "$over_link_color" is added in the "webnews.cfg.php" to set the color of a link when mouseover. 6. Bugs fixed in some regular expression to have better compatibility across different PHP version. 7. Correctly URL-encode the newsgroup name in the links. This fixed the problem of not able to show newsgroups with space in its name. 8. Fixed the bug of not showing empty newsgroup (newsgroup with no message in it) correctly. Bug fixed in v1.5.7 1. Yet, another bug in uucoder.php. This bug makes the decoding of some uuencoded message incorrectly. Bug fixed in v1.5.6 1. A bug in uucoder.php was discovered. There was an endless loop inside. Bug fixed in v1.5.5 1. uucoder.php changed for faster decoding 2. util.php changed for better case checking for the read_ini_file() function. 3. Better error checking in newsgroups.php script. 4. Fixed decoding bug for UUEncode attachment with whitespaces in file name. Bugs fixed and enhancements in v1.5.4 1. NNTP to RSS 2.0 feed is now supported. Now newsgroups not only can access through HTTP, but also through RSS feed. 2. A minor fix on closing the NNTP connect properly in "show_header.php" script. Bugs fixed and enhancement in v1.5.3 1. The use of the persistant socket connection is revoked back to non-persistant one since the use of persistant socket connection may cause stability to some web server. 2. NNTP connections not closed correctly and this may have trouble with some NNTP server. 3. Newsgroups listed using WILDMAT is sorted for the display.

  posted 217 days ago

• Web-News v.1.6.4 released

  New release for patching authentication bug.

  posted by chtyim 217 days ago

• File released: /Web-news/Web-News v.1.6.4/WebNews-1.6.4.zip

  posted 217 days ago

• File released: /Web-news/Web-News v.1.6.4/WebNews-1.6.4.tar.gz

  posted 217 days ago

• Code committed

  chtyim committed patchset 17 of module webnews to the Web-News CVS repository, changing 11 files

  posted by chtyim 217 days ago

• Code committed

  chtyim committed patchset 16 of module webnews to the Web-News CVS repository, changing 1 files

  posted by chtyim 217 days ago

• Language Pack Spanish_Costa Rica (v.1.6.3) file released: messages_es_cr_utf8.ini

  posted 752 days ago

• Language Pack Spanish_Costa Rica (v.1.6.3) file released: messages_es_cr.ini

  posted 752 days ago

• File released: /Language Pack/Spanish_Costa Rica (v.1.6.3)/messages_es_cr.ini

  posted 753 days ago