NewFeatures241

New and Changed Features in JForum 2.4.1

Libraries

• updated JavaMail from 1.5.2 to 1.5.4
• updated JDOM2 from 2.0.5 to 2.0.6
• updated FreeMarker from 2.3.21 to 2.3.23
• updated Apache Commons Lang3 from 3.3.2 to 3.4
• updated JBoss Cache from 2.2.19 to 2.2.22
• updated SLF4J from 1.7.10 to 1.7.12
• updated C3P0 from 0.9.5 to 0.9.5.1
• updated MySQL driver from 5.1.34 to 5.1.36
• updated PostgreSQL driver from 9.3-1102-jdbc4 to 9.4-1201-jdbc4
• updated HSQLDB from 2.3.2 to 2.3.3
• updated Apache Tika from 1.7 to 1.9
• updated jQuery from 1.11.2 to 1.11.3

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New Features and fixes

• Better fix for "Arbitrary File Upload and Remote Code Execution – Smileys"
• Only show number of edits of a post to logged-in users
• Don't ignore user's "Hide my online status" setting
• Salt the user password with an installation-specific value
• Fix problem where smilies could not be inserted into posts by clicking their icons
• Added some missing settings to the Configurations page
• Dates can be displayed in the local timezone of the forum visitor instead of the timezone of the forum server
• broken "can edit message" setting has been fixed
• Numerous code improvements suggested by FindBugs and PMD
• Fix  Issue 22 : Some user attributes not stored in DB
• Fix  Issue 35 : allow to disable version check by adding a version.check.enabled key to switch for check or not
• Fix  Issue 66 : Improve Automatic URL matching
• Fix  Issue 67 : When topic cache is disabled, all pages except first and last in a forum display 0 threads
• Enforce image height and width when using large external image URL as user avatar
• Add DTD for bb_config.xml
• Rearrange the sequence of filters in web.xml

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New Configurations

Entry name | Default value | Description

• | - | -
  dateTime.local | false | whether to display dates in the visitor timezone or the server timezone
  version.check.enabled | true | whether to check the latest JForum version or not

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Database Schema

• remove gender and theme_id attributes from jforum_users table
• drop table jforum_themes