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You Asked, We Delivered - YaBB 2.3 (Read 9541 times)
Oct 12th, 2008 at 4:07pm

Corey Chapman   Offline
YaBB Administrator
Rock Hill, South Carolina

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The much anticipated release of YaBB, version 2.3, is here!  This is one of the biggest and best updates to the YaBB 2 line.  Several new and long overdue features have been added – you’ll recognize them as the most popular BoardMod modifications for YaBB.  Overall, 16 large features have been added.  On top of that, dozens of bugs, layout issues, spelling errors, and documentation deficiencies have been corrected!


http://www.yabbforum.com/downloads.php

Below is just a modest list of what has been changed.

Feature Additions:
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1. Quick Reply Advanced Edition
2. Reverse Post in Topic Advanced Edition
3. YaBB Backup
4. Top of Page Button
5. Pie Charts for Polls
6. Showcase Poll
7. Preselected Smilies
8. Category Pictures
9. Image Resize
10. Multi-Attachments
11. Avatar Uploader
12. Split/Splice Advanced
13. Expand/Collapse Advanced
14. New Members E-Mail Notification (to Admin)
15. Extended Profiles
16. Spell Checker

Bug Fixes:
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- Broadcast Messages shown as "new" until read (this will happen on upgrades to 2.3 until BM's read for 1st time)
- Stealth mode didn't turn off for demoted Admins and GMods
- Problem with quotes and polls containing foreign characters
- Changed rlog format to improve speed of "view Profile" and "View last xx posts by.."
- E-mail notifications for posts and PMs not working correctly
- Leading zero in year date format
- PM Live Preview not working correctly
- Server loading and speed improvement for notifications on top of page feature
- Problem with instant Delete/Validate of pre-registered users
- Menu style display in Template Configuration
- Corrected Ban.txt file creation on setup
- Last post display in user profile
- Notifications of Alert Moderator messages
- Added send BC messages to only Administrators
- Date/Time Zone display different than settings
- Lost language setting if clicking on Login from other than Board Index
- Special characters in language name directories
- Error message when saving/modifying posts in boards where attachments are not allowed
- User logs cleaned 3X number of days after Posts read by user marked as new again
- Moving, splitting, or splicing posts/topics no longer adds/subtracts from post count
- Redirect back to current page after login
- Improved Topic Notifications
- Hide E-mail address from public set as the default setting
- Image code now displayed in code box instead of image
- Improved security to prevent URL abuse of image tags
- DST selector allowed independent of allowing user avatars
- Allow brackets in search / search routine speed improvements
- User names now cloaked in Topic Summary
- Alert to Moderator function sent as PM to Admin if no Moderator/Group assigned
- Deleting a member in Admin Center no longer unchecks the reverse results box
- View member function now displays correct members beyond first page group
- Greater than 30 days since last post selection fixed in View/Delete members
- New Topic "on" gif no longer displays when a new (empty) board created
- Improved subject content in reply notifications
- Improved "Send to a Friend" feature
- Improved security of E-mail by keeping addresses encoded (not in HTML plain text)
- UBBC Quote button in Personal Messages
- To: addressing and permissions in user replies to BC messages
- Insert Smiley in message text field function
- Several smaller miscellaneous code fixes and improvements

Link Fixes:
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- Corrected Quote button link from last recent user posts listing
- Corrected focus of jump to Quick Reply box for Start New Topic
- Focus set on User name field in the Log-in form
- Corrected link to quoted posts in Live Preview

Layout/Format Fixes:
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- Added Title Text (mouse over text) throughout forum and Admin Center
- Notification button in search results when logged in
- Input fields for options set in Admin Center are faded if the option is unchecked
- Display of smilies in PM Smiley box
- Display of comma in online list if Admin/GMod logged on in Stealth Mode
- Format corrections to Admin Center and MyCenter templates
- Corrected button display when modifying polls
- Radio button for move automatically checked when selecting new destination board
- Improved Jump-To menu and layout
- Reduced default list of censored words
- Changed location in Admin Center of some feature selections
- Added color palette for selecting Validation Image color settings
- Added line break to code tag for better display in IE browsers
- Added missing mouseover texts in Admin Center/Referrer Security section
- Added titles to Menu.def files
- Improved display name in quotes in live preview
- Added Language selector for Add Member function in Admin Center
- Profile Button removed from Guest view
- Improved readability of validation code and added field to view selected color
- Added color preview for Forum News
- Deleted board loads display in debug
- Corrected high page number layout problems in member list
- Improved More Smilies Window display in different browsers
- Color button height in edit Member Groups screen

Spelling, Text, and Instruction Fixes:
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- Revised Quick-Guide
- Revised and expanded Help Files
- Spelling correction to Rebuild Message Index message
- Spelling correction in Global Moderator Access window
- Cleanup of some non-language file text
- Updated credits in Quick-Guide and in Admin Center

http://www.yabbforum.com/downloads.php
 
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Reply #1 - Oct 12th, 2008 at 4:56pm

Michael Prager   Offline
Boardmod Team
YaBB Legends (Inactive)
Germany

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Hey nice to see my beloved extended profiles mod being integrated, now I can rest easy Grin. Congrats to the devs and everyone who made this new version possible Smiley

Oh btw Corey, the README.txt and VERSION.txt files in the .tar.gz archive need an update (.zip is fine though).
 

Nail here for a new monitor! --> [x]
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Reply #2 - Oct 12th, 2008 at 5:37pm

Outumuro   Offline
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Operations Team
Los Angeles, California

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Great to see all the YaBB team's hard work pay off in the release of YaBB 2.3!  Looking forward to upgrading my own forums. Smiley
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News item - You Asked, YaBB 2.3 Delivered!.
News item - You Asked, We Delivered - YaBB 2.3.
 

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Reply #3 - Oct 12th, 2008 at 5:54pm

deti   Offline
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Development Team
Prien am Chiemsee, Germany

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Outumuro wrote on Oct 12th, 2008 at 5:37pm:
Looking forward to upgrading my own forums.

Yes, but consider what we wrote in the Quick-Guide ("Upgrading YaBB...")!!!

Don't think it is an usual update!!!
 

Was immer Du tun kannst
oder erträumst tun zu können,
beginne es.
Kühnheit besitzt Genie,
Macht und magische Kraft.
Beginne es jetzt.
Whatever you can do
or dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
J. W. Goethe
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Reply #4 - Oct 12th, 2008 at 7:14pm

Nimdas   Offline
YaBB Newbie
Poland (not Portland :P)

Posts: 49
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Yeah, I try install new instalation of YaBB but I have 403 error Sad

Setup.pl - OK,
Setup.pl?action=adminlogin2 - OK
Setup.pl?action=setup1 - OK
Setup.pl?action=setup2 - Forbidden (403)  Angry

I check chmod in all folders and files. I try also alternative settings for setting file permissions...


 
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Reply #5 - Oct 12th, 2008 at 8:47pm

teknotrav   Offline
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NICE!  Another fantastic YaBB product!
 

...&&Check out TechProblems Forum!&&I can upgrade your forum for you if you can't or don't know how to.  Just send me a PM.
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Reply #6 - Oct 12th, 2008 at 9:21pm

Corey Chapman   Offline
YaBB Administrator
Rock Hill, South Carolina

Posts: 9620
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Michael Prager wrote on Oct 12th, 2008 at 4:56pm:
Oh btw Corey, the README.txt and VERSION.txt files in the .tar.gz archive need an update (.zip is fine though). 


Thanks - Deti fixed it for me.

 
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Reply #7 - Oct 13th, 2008 at 4:56am

deti   Offline
Legacy Dev Team
Development Team
Prien am Chiemsee, Germany

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@
 Nimdas
Nimdas wrote on Oct 12th, 2008 at 7:14pm:
I check chmod in all folders and files. I try also alternative settings for setting file permissions...

Did you also check the folder CHMOD? At this step the CHMOD of yabb2 and the file permission of Path.pl
 

Was immer Du tun kannst
oder erträumst tun zu können,
beginne es.
Kühnheit besitzt Genie,
Macht und magische Kraft.
Beginne es jetzt.
Whatever you can do
or dream you can,
begin it.
Boldness has genius,
power and magic in it.
Begin it now.
J. W. Goethe
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Reply #8 - Oct 13th, 2008 at 5:47am

pedrax   Offline
YaBB Newbie

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Great stuff, any idea when this will be available on Cpanel?

Thanks for all the hardwork.

Cpanel install is essential, the two versions are virtually impossible for simple minded people such as myself to resolve.
 
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Reply #9 - Oct 13th, 2008 at 7:42am

Jet Li   Offline
Legacy Dev Team
Development Team
Netherland

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pedrax wrote on Oct 13th, 2008 at 5:47am:
Great stuff, any idea when this will be available on Cpanel?

We  YaBB Team never know it. Ask your Hoster.  Wink
 

...
PM me for YaBB Installation Service
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Reply #10 - Oct 13th, 2008 at 8:08pm

Nimdas   Offline
YaBB Newbie
Poland (not Portland :P)

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deti wrote on Oct 13th, 2008 at 4:56am:
Did you also check the folder CHMOD? At this step the CHMOD of yabb2 and the file permission of Path.pl

Yes. All new folder has 755.
I delete all files and reupload it, Set CHMOD as in Quick-Guide, step 3 and result is this same.
 
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Reply #11 - Oct 13th, 2008 at 10:14pm

Rad_one   Offline
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Newport Beach, California

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Thanks for all the hard work. Downloading now.

http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
 
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Reply #12 - Oct 13th, 2008 at 10:43pm

batchman   Offline
Jr. Support Team
Orlando, FL

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I just have to say, I had some issues with the last new version I installed, but this one has seemed absolutely perfect. It has been a dream to see how smoothly almost everything works, right out of the box.

An extremely impressive package!
 
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Reply #13 - Oct 14th, 2008 at 1:29am

George Maschke   Offline
Full Member

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Thank you Corey (and all YaBB developers)! I've got 2.3 up and running on my forum, and all seems to be working well:

https://antipolygraph.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.pl

Smiley
 

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Reply #14 - Oct 14th, 2008 at 2:30am

Franco.   Offline
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Pforzheim

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Hi folks a huge compliment to all of the project have made so great they are the best forums
and thank it for 2.3 is super
Here my new where I just build
http://www.meine-hunde.de/cgi-bin/Tierforum3/YaBB.pl
Franco Salutto Wink
 
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