October 3rd, 2007
0.96.6-GA Released
The 0.96.6-GA release is now . This release the stable build of 96.6. If you are upgrading from 96.5 or 06.3 there are lots of new features and modules available in this new version.
If you have already upgraded to 96.6 Alpha or Beta this release mostly includes bug fixes.
Below is the list of changes from 96.6-Beta to 96.6-GA. For a full list of changes and please see the CHANGELOG file in the package.
Added / Fixed in 0.96.6 GA
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- Added ability to specify the quality of the image generated by the thumbnailer.
- Added MySQLi Database option. Use the MySQLi database interface for improved MySQL performance.
- Added new i18n strings.
- Added database encoding check to the createTable function in MySQL class.
- Fixes to links generated in search results.
- Fixed session timeout check comparing against the string "true" instead of the value true.
- Fixed bug in news module with permissions regardling the workflow system.
- Fixed bug in resource module download script. Now sends proper headers for download which are recognized by all modern browsers.
- Fixed bug in EditorControl which would cause installation problems on PHP4 servers.
- Fixed bug which would cause pagination to show an extra, empty page under certain circumstances.
- Fixed a bug which was preventing links from being deleted from linklist module
- Fixed issue where an upgrade from 96.3 or 96.5 to 96.6 would cause a calendar in the Monthly view to not be shown.
- Fixed a bug where a session could timeout mid-post when saving on the bbmodule.
- Fixed bugs in file manager which was causing deletes to not be processed correctly.
- Removed Image Workshop module and Directory Listing module from release.
- Contact form will now use the sender's email address if available to allow for direct replies.
- Install Wizard will remove improperly named wizard_pages file from datatypes directory which existed in 96.6 alpha
- Icons converted to gif format for better load performance in Internet Explorer.
- Many other various cleanups in views.
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