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Scoop 0.8 Released
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By panner , Section Project []
Posted on Mon Aug 06, 2001 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Scoop 0.8 is (finally :) out, with tarballs available on Sourceforge
as both .gz and .bz2 files. It's been about four months since Scoop 0.6 was
released, and this release includes many new features, bug fixes, and docs. For
anyone that cares, Scoop 0.8 is available under the scoop-0_8-stable
branch, while development will continue in the main trunk. The changelog for
0.8 is below.
Update [2001-8-15 21:13:55 by rusty]: It should be known that panner and hurstdog share the vast majority of the credit for this release. They've really taken over the running of the project, and panner especially got the last few bugs fixed and did all the releasing for 0.8. So when you thank someone for this sucker, thank them! :-)
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Features:
- New var interface, Site Controls. Might want to install the new
admin_tools box from the scoop.sql
- Scoop supports RDF's now! Users' can submit them, admins can add them, and
users can choose which to show on the main page (or wherever rdf_box is)
- Users' are allowed to choose sig behavior now, whether its sticky (where
the sig at the time you post is with that comment forever) or retroactive
(changes when you change it on every comment)
- Users' can also set comment preferences, how they post by default (sticky
retro, etc), and how the comments are displayed, will need to add to the
user_box for this
- Admin Notes textarea in each users' preferences page, which only admins
can see (have to have 'edit_user' permission). Toggle this with the var
'allow_admin_notes'
- New Hotlist
- Scoop keeps track of when people rate a comment now.
- New Section permission scheme. Can set which groups can read/post comments
and stories on which sections. Can also set whether scoop should just deny
them the privelage, or hide the whole section from them, and whether that
group gets auto-post permissions to that section
- more logging of user creating process, time and ip
- max_accounts_per_day var sets how many accounts 1 ip can create per day
- Indexing has been cleaned up and optimized a bit
- links to next and previous stories have been added (blocks next_page_link
and prev_page_link
- Clean URLs!!! Now you don't have to have op=foo;sid=lllladfadfadf in your
urls, stories can be accessed like http://.../story/sid and comments via
http://.../comments/sid/cid much much easier and cleaner
- Scoop supports basic subscriptions now, like on kuro5hin.org
- similar permissions as for stories, but for polls. This is in the Group
admin tool
- new database upgrade script
- support for Apache::Filter, so post processing with Apache::SSI works
- Admins can choose allowed html now, using allowed_html block, and allow
different HTML for different groups.
- lets you about new comments on stories
Bug Fixes:
- many many not listed here
- story post/drop emails only emailed once now
- topic url escape bugs fixed
- many install.pl fixed
- stronger url escaping
- double quote escaping while editing stories
- [ED] and [UPDATE] fixes
- cookies should work for multiple scoop sites under the same domain now
- more POD added.
- anonymous posting throttling fix
- changed Y in cron to be 365 instead of 366
- small bug fix with comments at the end of boxes
- formkey fixes
- no more empty sids can be added to hotlist
- new user confirm email uses |site_url| instead of SERVER_NAME
- search cleanups
- assertions for scoop
- changed & in urls to ;
- mail password now checks confirm key, and keya are only valid for a certain
amount of time. also can't request a lot of mail passes.
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