Hello

After a long time we released the new version 20240729.1 with several bugfixes, two new featurettes and database performance enhancements. The forum user Joe I (user joeiacoponi1 on Github) helped to improve performance by overhauling various database queries.

After finding the cause of several reports about empty pages or HTTP-status 500 (server error) we officially fixed this bug by correcting a database column, that was to small to store IPv6-addresses. Inofficilally the cause was described and a solution provided in other forum postings nearly a year ago. Furthermore we solved a problem in the captcha class and we prevent to send the passwort for spell checking to the services of the browsers in case of displaying a password in plain text.

For seeing the layout changes as they are intended, you possibly have to reload the forum with [CTRL]+[F5] in a desktop browser after the upgrade.

Attention: There are two important things you have to be aware of.

1. We removed the plugin Bad Behavior, because the latest update of the project was a long time ago. Furthermore the project seems to be abandoned, I wasn't able to find a project page.
2. After proceeding the upgrade, the forum stays disabled. This is a change in the behaviour ov the upgrade script. Until the last version the forum was disabled when starting the upgrade and was enabled again after applying the database changes but before uploading the changed files and directories. From now on the forum stays disabled and has to be reenabled manually in the forum-settings page after uploading the changed and new files.

The changes are noticed in the release message on Github where one also can download the package of the new release.

Tschö, Auge