SocialEngine

SocialEngine is not intending to replace Facebook pretty time soon, but it provides an alternative for scenarios where webmasters might want to build a closed or open group with better privacy settings and more control over the users accessing the community.

SocialEngine takes the privacy concerns out of using Facebook or Google+ groups for organizing your online gatherings and lets the developer have full control over the people accessing the site.

This platform can be used for various purposes, from simple online forums, to a company's Intranet, and up to a straight-forward social networking site.

The SocialEngine core supports various features that makes working with the platform extremely easy, benefiting from all the advances in recent PHP development techniques.

What is new in this release:

• Fixed issue where users were unable to like comments on certain activity feed posts.
• Fixed issue where new posts made without attachments were not appearing on user / content profiles.
• Marked Multi-byte String (mbstring) extension as required to avoid any errors because of this being disabled.
• Fixed issue with PHP array file not being generated properly.
• Fixed error "Call to a member function toValue() on a non-object" coming on user profile page in a few cases.
• Fixed notice of E_DEPRECATED and theme issues coming on websites having PHP version lower than 5.3.0 after last release.
• Fixed E_DEPRECATED notices coming on websites running on latest version of PHP (>= 5.6.0).
• Fixed issue with the translation of content sharing feed's text.
• Fixed issue with sound manager swf that was not working when Cloudfront CDN is being used on website.

What is new in version 4.8.8:

• Fixed issue where users were unable to like comments on certain activity feed posts.
• Fixed issue where new posts made without attachments were not appearing on user / content profiles.
• Marked Multi-byte String (mbstring) extension as required to avoid any errors because of this being disabled.
• Fixed issue with PHP array file not being generated properly.
• Fixed error "Call to a member function toValue() on a non-object" coming on user profile page in a few cases.
• Fixed notice of E_DEPRECATED and theme issues coming on websites having PHP version lower than 5.3.0 after last release.
• Fixed E_DEPRECATED notices coming on websites running on latest version of PHP (>= 5.6.0).
• Fixed issue with the translation of content sharing feed's text.
• Fixed issue with sound manager swf that was not working when Cloudfront CDN is being used on website.

What is new in version 4.8.7:

• Auto-addition of status update text as a photo's caption, when the photo is attached to that status update. Thus, when a user posts a photo from their status box, then the status message gets auto-assigned as the photo's caption and is visible on the photo view page.
• Added TinyMCE Editor for editing "Message Body" of Mail Templates in Admin Panel.
• Added South Sudan to the list of countries available to users for selection.
• Added 2 currencies (Turkish Lira and Russian Ruble) to the existing list of fully supported currencies.
• Speed enhancement achieved by not rendering CSS of disabled modules, and by resolving issues of translation performance (Converting language pack CSV files to a PHP array. This is a setting available in "Performance & Caching" section of Admin Panel.).
• "Browse Members" page is now available for editing in Layout Editor. You can now add desired widgets to this page from your website's administration.
• Enabled synchronization of likes and comments, for content posted as attachments from activity feed updates (photos, videos, music), between the content's activity feed and the main content.

What is new in version 4.8.6:

• Features:
• Added some reliable anti-spamming techniques; you will be able to enable them from Admin > Settings > Spam & Banning Tools.
• Bugfixes:
• Fixed bug with Re-Captcha when SSL is enabled
• Corrected order of forum posts added by Ning Importer.
• Fixed bug with adding link to a wall post where image selector was not being displayed.
• Background Mailer Task will run better now and not hang.
• Fixed bug where the respective profile field column in field search table was not getting deleted after the deletion of a profile field.
• Fixed social network mapping issue when multiple social networks are chosen during signup.
• Fixed bug with menu editor where any custom menu added to Member Edit Profile Navigation was redirecting to Browse Members page.

What is new in version 4.8.5:

• Features:
• Added ability to upload photos on mobile
• Added ability to upload videos on mobile
• Made video player choose HTML5 if available with fall back to Flash
• Increased the size of URL slugs to 64 characters
• Improved the way translation is optimized
• Added reverse-chronological comment sorting
• Bugfixes:
• News feed form attachment links no longer change order
• Fixed error handling with homepage (feed style) uploads
• Fixed autocomplete for the "To" field in messages
• "Send Message" no longer appears for if messages to a member level are restricted for mobile
• Improved SSL detection and use

What is new in version 4.8.3:

• Features:
• Added ability to upload and encode HTML5-compatible videos
• Added HTML5 video player on mobile
• Bug Fixes:
• Site-wide statistics now work in Chrome
• Corrected an issue where auto-suggest would only suggest friends
• Corrected an issue where mobile sign-ups didn't require a photo in spite of it being required
• Login history is now sorted by timestamp by default

What is new in version 4.8.2:

• Features:
• Added ability to sort and filter login history
• Added option to not automatically friend request invited members
• Select language based on the browser's Accept-Language header
• Bug fixes:
• Improved request backoff for activity feed and chat polling
• Deleting a photo from an album no longer will remove album from your activity feed
• Made searching members less strict
• Users who don't meet the privacy criteria cannot be added as guests to an event
• Other:
• Old/unused code cleanup

What is new in version 4.8.1:

• Features:
• Added a rich text widget for WYSIWYG editing of HTML blocks
• Added link button to TinyMCE for blog posts
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed a bug where minimum age validation was always failing
• Fixed cloned themes were always the active theme
• Fixed manifest file was not correctly set when cloning themes
• Check valid content returned by getItem() before using it on Abuse Reports
• Music player no longer breaks if using a CDN
• Fixed a bug that was checking permissions for events incorrectly
• Logged out users can now view event photos without errors

What is new in version 4.8.0:

• Option to hide subscription plans for users after they sign up
• Upgraded Zend Framework to v1.12.3
• Improved the robustness of the email queue
• Improved compatibility with older FFMpeg versions
• Added bot sign-up mitigation

What is new in version 4.7:

• Fixed the number of entries allowed for in the Blog plugin member settings
• Fixed a variety of bugs that were causing fatal errors for installations running on PHP 5.4+ in strict mode.
• Fixed a problem with people not showing up in members' buddy lists within the Chat plugin
• Now lazy-loading some JavaScript files to increase page load speed
• Minified and consolidated JavaScript files to increase page load speed
• Improved compatibility for link previews in feed posts
• Upgraded TinyMCE from v3 to v4
• Added support for HTML5 notifications for chat messages (all major browsers)
• Fixed some broken translation phrases
• Optimized image files and other static assets for faster loading
• Fixed the quote button on the Group plugin

What is new in version 3.10:

• New features:
• Data caching (file-based or memory-based with memcached) has been added to reduce MySQL server loads
• User login is stored in PHP sessions instead of hashed cookies for increased security
• New site statistics code in home.php can get statistics from plugins (will require next releases of plugins)
• Plugins can be re-ordered in the admin panel to affect lists such as the My Apps menu
• A captcha can be displayed on the help_contact.php page to prevent spam
• A captcha can be displayed on the login form, either always or after a certain number of failed logins (Admin Panel->Banning & Spam)
• lang_print and lang_sprintf now support preload, assign, and print parameters (see changelog for details).
• lang_sprintf now accepts the args parameter (see the vsprintf() function on php.net). This is required for the group and event media comment action feed link fixes (will require next releases of those plugins).
• Admin interface language can be changed
• The display name is now kept in the users table to ease retrieval and allow the addition of generation methods in the future
• Language packs can be imported from or exported to files for easier editing and transfer.
• Bug fixes:
• Fixed "Operation aborted" errors in IE caused by Tips initialization
• Action feed shows no text due to ASCII control characters or utf8 characters in the action text
• Action feed has incorrect link for group and event media (will require the next version of these plugins)
• Action media will now be cleaned out with the action items
• Database lockup problems sometimes seen on higher volume servers that is caused by updating user_lastactive
• The first and last name fields' max lengths will default to 30 characters for new installations. An option for 30 was added to the admin panel as well.
• Javascript errors in admin panel caused by differing format of $global_plugins array have been fixed.