XenForo

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XenForo
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Version: 1.5.5 updated
Upload Date: 10 Feb 16
Developer: XenForo Ltd.
Distribution Type: Shareware
Price: 140.00 $
Downloads: 419

Rating: 3.7/5 (Total Votes: 3)

XenForo is written in PHP and allows webmasters to quickly install and publish their own discussions forum.

It works and looks just like any other forum, only it's highly optimized for the modern, social and SEO-driven Web.

What is new in this release:

  • Fix an issue where logging in via Facebook would immediately log you out again
  • Prevent a database error when using the IP Board 4.0/4.1 importer with a IPB 4.1 database
  • Resolve a timeout when dealing with long data URLs
  • No longer require a Facebook App ID to be configured to display Open Graph metadata
  • Workaround for a PHP 7.0.0 / 7.0.1 bug (fixed in 7.0.2) which causes a "Invalid numeric literal" error to be thrown on some [PHP]
  • Fix for "Undefined index: associate_account" error
  • Fix for a potential race condition involving G+ button if it hasn't loaded (or has been blocked)
  • Fix for an "array to string conversion" error in fb_channel.php
  • Workaround for an issue with pasted content being distorted when pasting from Microsoft Edge
  • Fix for an issue which clears custom field values from a form after returning to it after an error (such as registration)
  • Implement retrieving saved draft messages from the "Reply to Thread" page
  • Implement an option to prevent sending mass messages (conversations) via the control panel to users that don't want to receive emails from the admin
  • Force rebuild of rebuilding the add-ons cache after changing an add-ons addon_id
  • More consistent ordering of a users's IP addresses in the control panel
  • Skip email_bounce and email_confirm(_edit) states if a user has just reset their password
  • Include thread prefix in subject of thread watch emails

What is new in version 1.4.8 / 1.5.0 Beta 2:

  • Improved performance in the rich text editor.
  • Fixed trophies not being awarded at session creation as expected.
  • Fix certain cases where the image proxy would unexpectedly fail to detect a valid image.
  • Support downloading attachments with UTF-8 file names in IE.
  • Ensure a more correct following count is shown when viewing a member's profile in some cases.
  • Throw an error when sending a warning and only one of the conversation title or message box has been completed.
  • Fix an incorrect permission check over viewing the moderator actions taken against a thread.
  • Fix incorrect logic relating to the DNSBL cache used at registration.
  • Prune drafts hourly rather than daily.
  • Fix a situation where the spam cleaner would not remove replies by a spammer to their own thread.
  • Ensure that there is no default text decoration on <abbr> tags in Firefox.
  • Use a new "simple" BB code formatter when creating snippets for RSS feeds to prevent unexpected code from running.
  • Update the bundled version of jQuery Migrate to 1.2.1.
  • Copying from the template preview in template modifications did not maintain line breaks in Firefox.
  • Fix an issue importing older attachments from SMF.

What is new in version 1.4.7:

  • Improve email bounce parsing to detect additional cases.
  • Allow the current thread prefix to be maintained when a thread title is edited and the user editing does not have permission to use the current prefix.
  • Fix a potential timeout when embedding large data URIs in minified CSS.
  • Add cache prevention headers to database/server error pages.
  • When merging threads, remove the threads that are replaced with redirects from the search index.
  • When getting default warning conversation details, use the language selected by the user being warned.
  • Only show one RTE per page for Android due to keyboard issues when multiple are present.
  • Conversation invite emails no longer imply the person doing the inviting necessarily wrote the message being shown.
  • Prevent double inclusion of the Facebook JavaScript files in certain cases.
  • Add default support for the new Facebook video URL format.
  • When upgrading an add-on, maintain the active state for existing BB codes.
  • Fixed a Firefox button display quirk by removing the text-shadow.
  • Fix a situation where accessing a draft with attachments would generate an incorrect URL to manage those attachments.
  • Disable smilie parsing in HTML emails due to general lack of client support for sprite-based smilies.

What is new in version 1.4.6:

  • Fix an off-by-one style error with the flood check that could allow multiple requests through in a 1 second window.
  • On the customized components page, only revert items matching the filter.
  • Remove deprecated Facebook social buttons and convert to use the HTML5-style versions.
  • Fix an issue where Chrome would not re-focus the editor properly when opening a menu.
  • In the editor, update the current button state using the browser APIs when backspacing.
  • Load external JS/CSS when opening the smilie menu.
  • Add limits to the number of images being fetched by the image proxy simultaneously and add more strict limits to time outs and retrieval speed.
  • Allow a character set to be specified in the SMF importer.
  • When running the spam cleaner, stop redirecting when not checking IPs.
  • Dynamically change whether fixed overlays are used based on the overlay height (when loaded).
  • Properly number format user upgrade costs

What is new in version 1.4.5:

  • In certain circumstances, message edits were not subject to spam checks.
  • Remove the hard-coded "Spam" ban reason from the spam cleaner. This now uses the spam_cleaner_ban_reason phrase.
  • Cron entries that are part of disabled add-ons will no longer show a next run time to indicate they aren't run automatically.
  • Ensure that visible staff members are the only ones that cannot be ignored.
  • Fix an issue where custom field values were not always selected properly when editing.
  • Adjust spinboxes to work as expected when mousing into or out of them while holding the mouse button down.
  • Prevent a fatal error when rebuilding attachment thumbnails and unexpected data is found in an image.
  • Improve conversion of certain data in the SMF importer.
  • When receiving a security/CSRF check error via an Ajax request, return a slightly different error message that does not recommend pressing the back button.
  • Ensure that the editor HTML is always synchronized when submitting a form.

What is new in version 1.4.4:

  • This release also adds a new CAPTCHA option. It is Google's new version of reCAPTCHA and it has been redesigned to ensure it is much more user friendly to humans.

What is new in version 1.4.3:

  • This release also adds an importer for SMF 2.0.

What is new in version 1.4.2:

  • The IP of the user submitting a "Contact Us" form is now displayed in the email sent to the forum contact.
  • The "Contact Us" form can use the 1.3-style method of headers with the "Sender info in From header on contact emails" option. This can be useful when sending contact emails to a Gmail account which may not always respect the Reply-To header as expected.
  • Added support for Google's new Search Sitelinks mark up.
  • When a user has received warnings leading to a ban until the warning points expire, the ban expiration date will now be calculated and displayed to the user.

What is new in version 1.4.1:

  • A cross site request forgery (CSRF) issue has been identified in the SWFUpload library that XenForo uses. This has been fixed.

What is new in version 1.4.0:

  • Selective quoting
  • Automated bounce email handling
  • Sitemap XML generation
  • Inline moderation in search results
  • Author alerts for moderator actions
  • Thread reply bans
  • Custom help pages
  • Online status indicator in messages
  • Polling improvements

What is new in version 1.3.5:

  • This release addresses a security vulnerability that was identified. The security issue relates to XML processing.

What is new in version 1.3.4:

  • Fixed backwards compatibility/deprecation issue in PHP 5.6.
  • Fixed logging of password changes in the user change log.
  • Attempt to prevent links to proxy.php being inserted into posts in certain cases.

What is new in version 1.3.3:

  • Fix Google+ integration in IE8
  • Attempt to prevent appearance of duplicate posts when refreshing the page in Firefox
  • Improve the speed of BB code stripping on large posts
  • Fix link canonicalization of "//" links

What is new in version 1.3.2:

  • Bug fixes related to pasting and formatting text in the editor
  • Bug fixes related to the formatting of messages for the rich text editor when editing
  • Updated the Facebook integration to use version 2.0 of their API
  • Only show entries on the notable members page where the member actually has posts, likes, or trophy points
  • Fix the attribution of tagging alerts generated in a profile post comment
  • Support all languages that Twitter supports in the tweet button
  • Add isolation to usernames to improve display in RTL when LTR and RTL text is mixed
  • Add-on update/export buttons appear when creating an add-on
  • BB code blocks now all have overflow auto for float containment/preventing overlap with floated ads
  • Call to action buttons have have vertical-align top for improved cross browser display
  • Added scrolling to the avatar overlay to handle add-ons inserting additional rows
  • Account upgrades now use the "full" link generator to create the return URL
  • Fixed unexpected padding on the breadcrumbs with narrow displays
  • Fixed ReCAPTCHA image overflow with narrow displays
  • Added an open graph description to forum views and pages
  • Fixed inconsistent positioning of stay logged in/lost password links on login forms
  • Fixed overlay only buttons displaying on the follower/following lists when viewed as a non-overlay
  • Adjusted the display of voters on a poll when there's a deleted user

What is new in version 1.3.1:

  • Added tool to test Twitter integration
  • Added option to allow payments to alternative PayPal accounts to be accepted for user upgrade purposes
  • Added option to control pruning of user change logs

What is new in version 1.3.0:

  • Smiley categories and other smiley enhancements
  • Custom BB codes
  • A built in spoiler BB code
  • Google+/Twitter registration
  • Image and link proxying
  • User change logging
  • Multi-quote
  • Various moderation improvements

What is new in version 1.2.5:

  • Fix the positioning of SWFUpload over top of the upload button.
  • Fix an issue with Firefox 27 not redisplaying images in the lightbox correctly.
  • Fix an issue on certain servers where duplicate session IDs were generated, triggering an error.
  • Fix "v" being stripped from usernames where a very old PCRE library is in use.
  • Ensure that banned users do not receive conversation emails.
  • Enabled SSL support for the jQuery CDN.
  • Fixed situation where a slow server combined with script timeouts could cause cron to stop.
  • Some fields in the style property editor will now always be displayed left-to-right.
  • Fix an issue when double submitting the style property editor form.
  • Removed an invalid color reference from the panelScrollerNavControl style property.
  • Tweaked title casing in a few phrases.
  • Fixed the AddThis block when loading a second time in a single page view.
  • Give non-JS users the ability to delete attachments when editing.
  • Fix the hover style overriding the disabled style on proxied buttons.
  • Fix an issue where the warnings table could overflow.
  • Hide the duplicate "view results" button in the poll system when JS is disabled.
  • Move the report search page nav for consistency.
  • Fix the inline edit link on deleted thread list items.
  • Improve the performance of the editor on mobiles.
  • Allow individual importers to control the behavior when resetting to maintain IDs.
  • Fix an issue where the "is staff" option could not be changed when editing a moderator.
  • Today's birthdays now show correctly in RTL.
  • Fix a situation where date of birth was not verified correctly.
  • Fix an error when going to an incredibly large page number in the closed reports system.
  • Improved calculation of correct chmod values when running scripts via the CLI.

What is new in version 1.2.4:

  • Fixed bugs:
  • Generate message IDs when sending mail
  • Fix an issue where not all characters were escaped for quoted printable encoding of email headers
  • Improved random number generation with additional sources and enhanced entropy
  • Add support for forcing a character set when importing from IPB
  • Improve detection of deleted threads/posts when importing from IPB
  • Fix issue with importing attachments from XenForo
  • Further tweaks to attempt to prevent cron tasks from stopping unexpectedly
  • Fix issue where template merging was not always possible on a style that was 2 or more levels deep
  • Fix admin CP login form appearance in IE11
  • Allow Gravatars to be removed by admins when editing a user
  • Strip more control characters from input strings
  • Strip vertical whitespace characters from usernames as well
  • Limit the length of signatures and about fields to prevent MySQL errors
  • Ensure that alpha channels are always saved when saving a PNG using the GD image handler
  • Fix a thumbnailing bug when using Imagick module < 3 or ImageMagick < 6.3.2
  • Fix case where an uploaded image's dimensions were recorded incorrectly if it was resized
  • Support .jsOnly as well as .JsOnly for hiding content when JS is disabled
  • Remove forum-specific search link from the category page as it always returned no results
  • Fix incorrect class in node_page_level_n template
  • Prevent double escaping of search warnings on the search results page
  • Adjust the overlay close button appearance at responsive medium and smaller to fit with the adjusted border size
  • Fix situation where pasting into the rich text editor from Chrome did not display all content correctly
  • Fix issue where one space was lost when inserting code that contained an odd number of spaces
  • Fix issue where a disabler control wouldn't enable its children correctly when selected
  • Fix race condition when using square thumbs
  • More useful error message when attempting to register via Facebook and no email is given
  • Only run message tagging routines if the message has changed to prevent possible errors
  • Fix incorrect is installed check in the error handler
  • Don't sent a content-length header to IEMobile when displaying an error message to prevent the browser displaying the incorrect content
  • Fix issue where Firefox did not copy line breaks in template modifications correctly
  • Fix clean up of admin and email template modification logs when the corresponding template is removed
  • Change the order of RSS feed import processing to process the least-recently-visited first
  • Fix situation where merging users maintained the incorrect last activity date
  • Disallow user ignoring if the user is displayed as staff (rather than being an admin or moderator)
  • Fix incorrect type case of Facebook user IDs in the Facebook admins option

What is new in version 1.2.3:

  • Incorrect importing of page nodes in the XenForo to XenForo import
  • Handle corrupted data more gracefully in several import situations
  • Adding two else conditions in a template does not throw an error as expected
  • ImageMagick resizes images incorrectly in very specific cases
  • Make sure that "deny" actions in spam prevention handling overrides "moderate" actions
  • Inline form errors not positioned correctly in RTL
  • Weekly/monthly statistics not shown correctly in RTL
  • Tagging users incorrectly disabled by default on fresh installs
  • Thread watch records not maintained when threads are merged
  • Add additional direction attribute to email containers for RTL
  • Disable user tagging within certain BB codes (such as code tags)
  • Fix situation where node names were not available in URL generation
  • Expand romanization of Greek to be more extensive
  • Lightbox image selection incorrect when opening a second lightbox on a page
  • Default open graph logo size increased and image tweaked
  • ImageMagick class named incorrectly based on containing directory name

What is new in version 1.2.2:

  • Fixes and improved compatibility for IE11 (particularly in the editor)
  • Updated to jQuery 1.10.2 for improved IE11 compatibility
  • Nofollow member search links as the results won't be indexed
  • Fix potential situation where forum counters could become incorrect
  • Fix spam checking on profile posts/status updates
  • Fix situation where route filters could be applied to incoming routes incorrectly
  • Make the account upgrades page responsive
  • Fix behavior of registration spam checks when the manual moderation threshold is disabled
  • Incorrect last post dates on threads in the global RSS feed
  • Prevent a PHP crash/blank output when editing a large post
  • Prevent some server error logs with long input in certain pages
  • Fix incorrect "can revert" permission check in edit history.
  • Make the filter controls in the ban list search across all pages of results
  • Fix problems with tagging users that have @ in their usernames
  • Fix importing of pages from XenForo
  • Limit the number of users a person can follow to prevent performance issues
  • Tidy up the sub-forum list with long forum titles
  • Fix errors if a URL tag is manually added around text that has already been automatically linked

What is new in version 1.2.1:

  • Moderators that have the "bypass user privacy" setting will now see when a user is banned. The username will be struck out in most cases.
  • There is now a rebuild cache tool to update trophies for all users. This will award any unawarded trophies and recalculate the trophy point totals.
  • There is now a rebuild cache tool to upgrade promotions for all users. Normally, promotions would only be run against active users. This tool will run the promotions against all users. This is mostly only relevant when adding or changing promotions and you want to ensure the changes are applied immediately.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

  • User merging and bulk user management
  • Post edit history and logging
  • Signature permissions
  • Route filters (a system to change XenForo's URLs)
  • Template modifications and comparison utilities
  • Template merging and edit history
  • A new editor with drag and drop, image paste support, user tagging, and iOS/Android support
  • A fully responsive design
  • Support for watching a forum
  • User group and staff banners
  • Bulk thread management

What is new in version 1.1.5:

  • Registration errors displayed on a page without the registration form.
  • Thread redirects may be indexed in the search system.
  • Threads may not be reindexed properly when moved to a new forum.
  • Editor dialogs have been sped up.
  • Inline editing of messages has been disabled for Firefox 23 (currently Aurora channel) due to a Firefox bug that prevents it from working.
  • Notification count bubbles would not display correctly in all situations.

Requirements:

  • PHP 5.4 or higher

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