NewFeatures283

New and changed features in JForum 2.8.3

Information about upgrading from JForum version 2.8.2 to 2.8.3 can be found at Upgrading to JForum 2.8.3

---

New Features and fixes

• fix problem when using Oracle as database
• use system-wide date format in the user profile for the registration date
• fixed a couple of bugs in the mail sending code
• made a couple of changes for Wildfly compatibility [#99]
• fix Commons FileUpload vulnerability
• added Admin Config option to disable private messages
• fixed another XSS vulnerability

---

Libraries

• update Apache Commons FileUpload from 1.4 to 1.5
• update Apache Commons IO from 2.11.0 to 2.13.0
• update Apache FreeMarker from 2.3.31 to 2.3.32
• update HSQLDB from 2.7.1 to 2.7.2
• update Apache log4j from 2.19.0 to 2.20.0
• update Apache PDFBox from 2.0.27 to 3.0.0
• update jsoup from 1.15.3 to 1.16.1
• update slf4j from 2.0.5 to 2.0.9
• update PrettyTime from 5.0.6 to 5.0.7
• update MySQL driver from 8.0.31 to 8.1.0
• update Oracle driver from 21.8.0.0 to 21.11.0.0
• update PostgreSQL driver from 42.5.1 to 42.6.0
• update SQLServer driver from 11.2.1 to 12.4.1

---

New Configurations

Entry name	Default value	Description
allow.pm	true	whether to allow private messages between members