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w-agora 4.2.1 is out, It is mainly a maintenance release.
It includes a bunch of bugs and security fixes.
Several recent vulnerabilities have been fixed, so it is highly recommended for all w-agora to ugrade.
Download is available here : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3413&package_id=3340&release_id=431405
or from the w-agora main site:
http://www.w-agora.net/

This release includes bugs fixes, improvements (database optimization, improved logs/statistics management)
and several new features :

- pagination in lists and threads,
- avatars gallery,
- new registration modes,
- abitity to send emails in HTML with attachments,
- better forums subscriptions management,
- private emails

In addition, w-agora 4.2 is now released under GPL

This version fixes several bugs and multiple security vulnerabilities. You will find more informations at:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12695/
In addition, some new features have been added such as full admin spanish translations.

Please check out the README, doc/install.html and doc/UPGRADE.txt for install and upgrade instructions
Check out the ChangeLog file at http://www.w-agora.net/current/doc/ChangeLog for a full list of changes.
You can download it here, from SourceForge.net or from the main w-agora site at http://www.w-agora.net/download.php

This is a bugfixes release, we recommend that all users of w-agora upgrade to this version,
specially users of w-agora 4.1.6 and all versions greater than 4.1.3 (backward compatibility with all versions >=4.1.3 is assumed)

You can download it here, from SourceForge.net or from the main w-agora site at http://www.w-agora.net/download.php

Full list of fixes can be found in the ChangeLog file at http://www.w-agora.net/current/doc/ChangeLog
Please read 4.1.6 informations for release notes and upgrading instructions in the doc/UPGRADE.txt file.... read more

It's been a long time since the last release of w-agora. This version is both a new feature and bugfix release, and is recommended for all w-agora users.

In addition to numerous minor or security bug fixes, the most important new feature is the inclusion of a WYSIWYG editor that allows your users to format the contents of their messages. The editor comes from another OpenSource project : htmlarea and works with Mozilla 1.3 (all OS), IE5.5+ (windows)... read more

w-agora is a fully customizable PHP forum engine intended to allow users to share, exchange and
publish informations, files and discussions over the WEB.

After a long testing periode, 4.1.5 is out
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This release includes several enhancements in the admin panel and is more stable, fast and secure.
A big effort has been given to the localization and to the templates system.
All templates are now entirely localized.
MS-Access/ADO support has been added (beta stage) and 2 languages have been added in the admin area :
polish and Italian (Thanks to Emanuele and Zlos)... read more

w-agora 4.1.4 is out.
This version fixes a major security vulnerability that may allow a remote user to execute arbitrary PHP scripts on the server. Everyone is encouraged to upgrade to this release.
You will find more informations at:
http://www.phpadvisory.com/advisories/view.phtml?ID=31

In addition several bugs have been fixed and some new features added such as danish translations.

Please check out the README and doc/UPGRADE.txt for upgrade instructions.... read more

w-agora 4.1.3 is out!

This release add some new features :
- A new log/statistics module that allow you to collect and display informations about the activity of your forums.
- A users page (users.php)
- Some additions/enhancements to the admin panel
- Full japanese translations (including setup & admin panel)

and as usual, a bunch of bug fixes

Check out the ChangeLog file at http://www.w-agora.net/current/doc/ChangeLog for a full list of changes. ... read more

Despite its number, this release may be considered as a major feature release :
- The admin panel has been entirely localized, German, English, and French are currenly supported.
- A new admin panel layout is used (cleaner and easier to use)
- The multiple attachments handling has been improved
- Some new default site templates (with cleaner layout) were added
- Numerous bugfixes were made. ... read more

This version is mainly a bug fixes release. It include several bug fixes and some new features :
- add user help in help/fr/ (french) from Pascal Cortial <pascal@citroen-web.com>
- User management (admin area):
- pagination in user list
- more infos in user form
- better privileges management
- add export.php script => export thread/forum to ms-word.
- better rendering of attachments icons and text/plain attachments,use msg[187]
(Ralf Schaefer <ralf.schaefer@gmx.ch>)
- file upload :
- better message management
- try to force mime-type if not properly set by the browser
- new look for the "downloads" template
- add template for the subscribe form (initial work from Laurent <laurent.aufrere@free.fr>... read more

More than just another PHP forum, w-agora is a fully customizable web publishing & communication software. Features includes multiple databases support, multiple sites & forums, user management, web based administration, and more...

This release includes several new features, mainly :

- forums categories support
- enhanced search (multi forum, multi criteria)
- Multiple file upload:
- unlimited number of files per notes
- attachments can be removed / added at any time
- files are now displayed and preserved in preview mode
- External Authentication module (thanks to Alastair Foreman):
Now authentication can be made against an external user database such as LDAP... read more

This release includes many bug fixes from 4.02a and some new features such as :
- Oracle 8i support
- new default (english) theme
- spanish, japanese translations
- more site statistics
- changes in registration logic
- and more...

Check out the ChangeLog file at http://www.w-agora.net/current/doc/ChangeLog for a full list of changes.

You can download it from SourceForge or from the main w-agora site at
http://www.w-agora.net/download.php

This release is basically the same as 4.0.2 with some minor bugfixes.
Just read the ChangeLog file for details.
You can download it from SourceForge or at the main w-agora site at
http://www.w-agora.net/download.php
M.

This is the first "official" public 4.0 release (after more than 1 year of intensive tests).

This release fixes a lot of bugs over 4.0.x and add some enhancements such as:
- Microsoft SQL server support (thanks to Iver Odin Kvello )
- more localized messages
- more customization

read the doc/ChangeLog file for details

There is still no documentation (but concepts and some features are explained in the 3.0 documentation and should help enough)... read more