[Webcollab-announce] WebCollab 3.00

[Andrew S. <and...@pa...>]

Hello all,

I am pleased to announce the release of WebCollab 3.00 (Avon):

This version is similar to the former 2.xx series, but has bugfixes and some new features added. 
The principal change is the database backend now uses prepared statements and a PHP Data Objects
(PDO) interface.  Minor speed improvements are expected with database interactions.

The prepared statements with PDO interface provide very good protection against SQL injection
attacks, which in turn are often due to poor coding. (WebCollab has previously had no known SQL 
injection problems).

WebCollab is now fully UTF-8 only.  It has been seven years since the first WebCollab UTF-8
experimental versions were released and UTF-8 offers substantial advantages for
internationalisation. 

The XHTML produced is fully compliant with XHTML 1.0 strict and WebCollab now has a table-less box
model using CSS.  The CSS code has been totally rewritten to allow better CSS skinning of the
display.  The display is buffered using PHP buffers to give better throughput and screen control.

Users can now gain remote access to iCal files using web authorisation.    

Note that new MySQL databases will created be as innodb databases.  The older MyISAM option has
been deprecated in this version.  

The previous release WebCollab 2.71 was a minor release that cleaned up the few known minor bugs and
provided a final clean release for the 2.xx series.

Enjoy!

Andrew Simpson