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Teemz v0.62.1 Release Notes
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Upgrading from v0.62(beta)
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1) No changes to skin format
v0.62.1 uses exactly the same skin format as v0.62(beta), so contrary to the instructions in Section 2.6.6 of the Administrator's Manual, you *can* select the "Restore Active Skin" option when restoring your board after the upgrade. The setup.txt format is also identical, so you do not need to do the renaming procedure mentioned in Section 2.6.6. This means you can completely restore your old board without having to save your Teemz Manager/Skin Changer pages (as described in Section 2.6.1).
2) $time_offset
v0.62.1 is primarily a bugfix release, so its functionality is more or less identical to v0.62(beta). The only difference in functionality is that $gmt_offset in tzsetup.txt is now $time_offset, and display times are computed relative to the server's local time rather than to GMT (which proved to be inaccurate). If you would like your board to display times in a different time zone from the zone your server is in, adjust $time_offset appropriately. For example, to display times in a timezone that is 3 hours behind your server's time zone, use:
$time_offset = -3;
3) All the Teemz files are now in UNIX file format instead of DOS. This means that Teemz should run successfully on UNIX servers when uploaded with FTP clients that don't handle DOS format very well (leaving in carriage returns). The down-side is that the files will look strange if you edit them with Windows Notepad! If you need to edit any of the files on your Windows PC (e.g. when editing the template files directly), use WordPad or another text editor.
For full upgrade instructions please see Section 2.6 in the Teemz Administrator's Manual:
http://www.teemz.com/cgi-bin/manual/manual.cgi?version=0_62&page=2.6
Upgrading from v0.61 ONLY:
Because v0.62 uses a different setup.txt file format to v0.61, it is recommended that you do NOT restore your old setup.txt file if restoring your board(s)
after the upgrade (using the method described in "Upgrading from a Previous
Version" in the Administrator's Manual).
To avoid restoring setup.txt, rename the file setup.txt in the _backup directory
to setup.old.txt BEFORE restoring the backup.
Once the restore is complete, you will need to re-enter your Board Title and
Announcement in Teemz Manager.
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Changes From v0.62.0 (AKA v0.62(beta)) To v0.62.1
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* All files are now in UNIX text file format instead of DOS text file format, for greater compatibility across web server operating systems.
* Topic corruption when moderators edit posts has been fixed (bug #223)
* Posts counters are now updated correctly when moving topics between forums (bug #252)
* Edit Profile: Problem with wrong user record being overwritten in certain situations has been fixed (bug #299)
* @ signs in custom headers and footers are now escaped with a backslash
(bug #21)
* Teemz error page now contains the board administrator's email address as a contact address, rather than the hardcoded "webmaster@elated.com" (whoops!) (bug #225)
* Fixed problems with Edit Profile on Netscape 4 (bugs #226 and #296)
* Fixed error that occurred after re-logging in when attempting to delete topics (bug #227)
* Teemz Setup "completed successfully" message now displays correctly in Netscape 4 (but #297)
* It is no longer possible to register a username with just spaces in - all registration fields are now trimmed of spaces (bug #316)
* & symbols in posts are now correctly escaped with & (bugs #294 and #228)
* .bak files are now chmoded to 666 after they have been created, to allow proper moving/deletion by the website owner (bug #295)
* "Email Password" function: Fixed bug where email addresses were not found in the database if the user's .txt file contained more than one user (bug #298)
* Time display was incorrectly computing local time. Now uses server local time rather than attempting to compute GMT + offset. Board admins should set $time_offset in tzsetup.txt (if required), which replaces the old $gmt_offset. (bug #300)
* "use sigtrap" removed (was redundant and causing problems with some ActivePerl builds) (bug #169)
* Fixed bug where pipe symbols (|) were being displayed with a space before them in posts (bug #55)
* Fixed problem with corruption when assigning/removing moderators with spaces in their usernames (bug #209)
* HTML index files in forum directories are now chmoded to 666 after creation (bug #301)
* "Email Author" window now uses ff_headings and fs_headings for the title rather than hard-coded H3 (bug #19)
* & in Teemz Manager/Skin Changer custom header/footer etc. is now preserved correctly when re-editing (escaped as & in form fields) (bug #221)
* Teemz Setup now gracefully handles scenario where $cgipath cannot be determined at all (bug #229)
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Changes From v0.61b(beta) to v0.62(beta)
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New Features:
* Interactive Colour Picker in the Skin Changer
* "No. of topics within Last 'n' days" and "total no. of topics" displays on
topic list page
* "Use Default Setting" option under the "Default Age of Topics to Display?"
dropdown in Edit Profile (then takes value from $global_default_history)
* Global default history setting ($global_default_history) is now editable
on a per-board basis (i.e. in setup.txt rather than tzsetup.txt)
* Teemz Manager: Backup now prompts before overwriting a previous backup
* Teemz Setup correctly guesses all required paths on more web servers
* Teemz Setup is now compatible with a greater range of UNIX servers, including
servers that do not allow world-writable CGI files to be executed
* Cookie code is now compatible with a greater range of web server environments
Bugs Fixed:
* Fixed a problem with the Skin Changer using the Active Skin's style sheet
rather than the style sheet in tzimages/_admin
* Teemz Manager: Backup now backs up the images and style sheet for the board
* Fixed a problem with Teemz Manager displaying an error if there were non-forum
directories in the board directory
* The code that produces "Edited By (user) on (date/time)" for a message
was hard-coding the label font face, colour and size. Fixed: "Edited By..."
no longer uses any font settings, but has '[' and ']' around the "Edited By..."
message
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Changes From v0.61(beta) to v0.61b(beta)
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Bugs Fixed:
* Disabled disk space checking code - was causing problems on some UNIX flavours
* Date/time display now displays a when no topics/posts, rather than nothing,
to ensure Netscape compatibility
* Fixed templates where font is hard-coded as Verdana; also fixed in $page_header
(
geocities.com/fromzie)