“Podcast Generator 2.4 this release includes bugfixes, new features and improvements”

Podcast Generator 2.4 is a free web based podcast publishing script written in PHP: upload media files (audio-video) via a web form along with episode information and automatically create podcast w3c-compliant feed including iTunes specific tags.

It also features a comprehensive web administration.

Podcast Generator (PG) is an open source Content Management System written in PHP and specifically designed for podcast publishing.

It provides the user with the tools to easily manage all of the aspects related to the publication of a podcast, from the upload of episodes to its submission to the iTunes store.

Changes Details

• Added support for images associated to single episodes
• Artwork embedded in a media file automatically extracted and displayed in the webpage + RSS feed
• Added two new default themes: “Exposure” and “Syndicate” (thanks to Randy Greene)
• Removed the old “classic_ocean” theme (that will be still supported for retro-compatibility)
• Increased SEO for better indexing of the single episodes permalinks
• Minor bug fixes

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“Dotclear 2.7.3 this patch includes bugfixes,”

Dotclear 2.7.3 is an open-source web publishing software created in 2002 by Olivier Meunier.

A one man’s project at first, Dotclear soon gathered a team comprising different personalities with various backgrounds.

The project’s purpose is to provide a user-friendly tool allowing anyone to publish on the web, regardless of their technical skills.

Changes Details

A bugfix release which restores advanced editing of category description, fixes some non-required warning messages, fixes also pagination in some specific contexts, …

Your dashboard should also offer you to upgrade your installation today or tomorrow (depending on your settings). There’s also a patch for the developers who prefer this method.

• Restore advanced edition of category description (as in 2.6)
• Various bug fixes
• Some cosmetic adjustments

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“osTicket 1.9.5.1 this release fixes bugs and addresses potential security vulnerability reported in earlier versions, and also introduces a variety of enhancements.”

osTicket 1.9.5.1 is a widely-used open source support ticket system.

It seamlessly integrates inquiries created via email and web-based forms into a simple easy to use multi-user web interface.

Easily manage, organize and archive all your support requests and responses in one place while providing your clients with accountability and responsiveness they deserve.

osTicket is an attractive alternative to higher-cost and complex customer support systems; simple, lightweight, reliable, open source, and easy to setup and use.

The best part is, it’s completely free.

Changes Details

This release was mostly to replace the Prototype JavaScript framework with jQuery, which means that just about every line of JavaScript was rewritten.

Some other small enhancements and bug fixes where addressed:

Improvements

• Fix file.php to serve files added to system before osTicket v1.9.1 (e02ab9a)
• Fix file.php to serve files if client panel or system is offline (6bb7843)
• Fix popover download of inline images (8d3a130)
• Avoid de-duplicating zero-length files (98caa70)
• Send new message alert to team members if not assigned to an agent (b7e75b1)
• Fix import of users to organization not setting the organization (1220238)
• Fix redactor toolbar showing over the date picker (#1450, thanks @Chefkeks)

Performance and Security

• Fix XSS vulnerability in client language selection (b38b3ca)

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“Family Connections 3.5.0 this release includes bugfixes, new features and improvements”

Family Connections 3.5.0 is a Private Social Networking Share pictures and videos. Have discussions. Start a family tree.

Collabrativly discover your family history by building a family tree.

Organize contact information like email, phone and address.

Share photos safely and securely. Upload from your computer or import them from Instagram. Share videos through YouTube.

Have a discussion on the message board, chat in real time, start a blog or even send private messages.

Changes Details

This release was mostly to replace the Prototype JavaScript framework with jQuery, which means that just about every line of JavaScript was rewritten. Some other small enhancements and bug fixes where addressed:

Photo Gallery

• The photo uploader, Plupload, was upgraded to the latest version
• Fixed a bug when uploading photos from Instagram

Family Tree

• Fixed an out of memory error for Family Trees with a lot of relatives

Misc.

• Updated all the JavaScript code to use jQuery instead of Prototype
• The foursquare code was updated to work with the latest API
• Fixed a bug in version PHP 5.5 and newer
• Update the YouTube videos to work with mobile phones

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“Elgg 1.10.0 this release includes bugfixes, new features and improvements”

Elgg 1.10.0 empowers individuals, groups and institutions to create their own fully-featured social environment.

Elgg, started in 2004, is an open source social engine which powers all kinds of social environments – from education and business to martial arts and rugby.

If you are looking for a professional social intranet or want to run a site for your organisation, Elgg is a great choice.

Changes Details

Prominent Features

• Settings: adds setting for default number of items per page (d1d0a4e1, closes #2650)
• usersettings: every user setting has its own menu item (6c1631d1)
• Groups: adds featured groups as a tab along with groups, popular, discussions (f77356e3)
• File: display file upload limit on file upload form (09001b9d)
• Messages: improved UI for messages listing (46821a62)
• aalborg_theme: more attractive comments listings (b2d55926)
• Views: output readable access level for any access_id (c9c2e12c, closes #7133)
• Developers: inspect menu item now has children for faster access (314616d1)
• Discussion: also search in discussion replies when searching discussion topics (604697f3)
• Several performance features (see below)

Other Features

• aalborg_theme:
  Adds support for alert messages (2e410f71)
  Adds visual difference between submit and action buttons (691470e6, closes #6929)
  Adds support for .elgg-button-special and button sizes (2ca0dedd, closes #2954)
• Admin: Use elgg_view_menu to generate admin header (411a9f39)
• Cache: allows using ints as keys in Cache\Pool (c36ec89d)
• core:
  support for querying based on relationship create time (db27abbd)
  adds edit avatar to admin section of user hover menu (a003d840)
• discussion: Added some extension points at discussion sidebars. These changes allow 3rd party plugins to extend discussion sidebar, and add there features like a subscribe (db46100a)
• filestore:
  add elgg_get_file_simple_type() to core api (69e54e4c)
  add a hook to fix detected mimetype (4ddc7843)
• js: extended the usability of rel=”toggle” (1d89418e)
• php: Require PHP 5.4+ (42b76d37, closes #7090)
• plugins: added default param to elgg_get_plugin_user_setting (13000c98)
• river: all users have permission to see everyone’s activity page (f15e7ff8)
• router: add original params to route hook (1b1026c3)
• security: No longer ship with vendors that have security advisories (b193ebcf, closes #7738)
  site_notifications: option to mass delete site notifications … (c28eaac7)
• test: Added rewrite rules for builtin PHP cli server execution (a0ff98e2)
• users: Username character blacklist can now be altered via plugin hook (7dc63eb2, closes #6189)
• views:
  output/tag supports all output/url options (d0c9c855)
  allows rendering empty results using an anonymous function (a8f15ffa)
• webapp: add support for a basic WebApp Manifest file (27c9ef4a, closes #7493)

Documentation

• nginx: added sample nginx configuration and moved sample configs to install/config/ (dbcd7548)
• requirements: updated PHP version used in docs as requirement to 5.4 (5f4f8eea)
• requirements: document new rolling support policy for browsers (9ce72099, closes #5932)

Bug Fixes

• amd: Added coverage tests and fixed minor bugs. (6250fd76)
• blog: adds missing class to preview button (be3b559b, closes #7706)
• http: send a minimal 404 header for /favicon.ico requests (b8c8a280, closes #7261)
• settings: It’s again possible to set user specific setting for a plugin (80e0c904)
• ckeditor: ckeditor now prevents image drag/drop/paste in editor (47fecbea)
• config: path is derived from PHP, not database (b756cbb4)
• css:adds margin between a file’s text and image (261e92b4, closes #7712)
  strings together elgg-button and button sizes (3cbe5877)
  removes link color from “comments” header in river, default theme (f140ffb9, closes #7137)
  removes padding and margin from elgg-menu-entity items (e732645b)
  db: elgg_get_metastring_id should always create an id (423f1f6d)
• deprecation: deprecation warnings for 1.10 now work as expected (3d8ada59)
• entities: system files removed for all entities on delete (800d1f36, closes #7130)
• forms: login and account forms widened and centered by default (5fc81511, closes #6456)
• groups: replaced deprecated entity loading with new method (a8f73627)
  adds wrapper to the message, This discussion is closed (a336db85)
• pages: add canEdit to page deletion permission check (454deb63)
• river: rss layout supports multiple installations in the same host (2e7262b4)
• search: respect entity type/subtype instead of params type/subtype (758263a3)
• session: correctly sets cookie params for sessions (565dd08c)
• upgrade: no longer try to process upgrade files from before installation version (15c6f109)
• views: allows passing base_url through gallery view (fb32d683, closes #7669)
  show different text on widget panel toggle button when opened (b4e63b45)
  elgg_view_menu_item shows no link for items with null href (a64432cf)
  move function and menu items out of file typecloud view (e28bcd9e)
  makes admin panel mobile friendly (a8d9eeca, closes #6742)

Performance

• annotations: increased performance of egef_annotations (96e6bd37, closes #6638)
• db: disabled SQL DISTINCT in more cases. (98a99c83)
• entities: preloads owners when drawing lists of entities/likes (82088d5e, closes #5949)
• likes: reduces number of queries when showing likes in lists (90991256, closes #6941)
• session: speed up elgg_is_admin_user() (aed21337)
• sql: allows removing DISTINCT from some MySQL queries (293317f2, closes #4594)
• views: remove unneeded view calls in river/elements/body view (4ef23b61)

Deprecations

• access: deprecates elgg_get_access_object() and refactors access lib (d19cf2bf)
• filestore: deprecate file_get_simple_type() and file_get_general_file_type() (c6042cbe)
• plugins: formally deprecates use of $CONFIG in start.php (ee8f2edc)
• view: deprecate output/confirmlink for consolidated output/url with ‘confirm’ option (6e5e3910, closes #5810)
• views: deprecates use of the core/settings/tools view (239b730f)

Breaking Changes

• The CSSMin class included via minify was renamed to CSSmin. If you were referring to it with capital M, you’ll have to change that to lower-case m.

However, note that Elgg’s dependencies are not considered public API, so this notice is only a courtesy. Please explicitly declare your dependencies on third party vendors, even ones that you know Elgg already includes. We may remove or update them at any time. (c3b0d8bc)

Contributors: Evan Winslow (66), Steve Clay (33), Jeroen Dalsem (24), Pawe? Sroka (19), Per Jensen (13), Jerôme Bakker (9), Ismayil Khayredinov (5), Matt Beckett (3), Juho Jaakkola (2), Jeff Tilson (1), Bruno (1), Satheesh PM (1), Sem (1), Arsalan Shah (1)

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“Mahara 1.10.2 this release includes bugfixes, new features and improvements”

Mahara 1.10.2 is an open source e-portfolio system with a flexible display framework.

Mahara, meaning ‘think’ or ‘thought’ in Te Reo M?ori, is user centred environment with a permissions framework that enables different views of an e-portfolio to be easily managed.

Mahara 1.10.2 also features a weblog, resume builder and social networking system, connecting users and creating online learner communities.

Changes Details

• Even quicker way to fill in artefact paths
• Display pre-1.10 TinyMCE smiley images
• Updating test/versioncheck.php with latest from master
• Fix MySQL syntax error in cron task
• Count “core” and “local” in the “toupgradecount” for check_upgrades()
• Performance improvements for the code that fills in artefact.path
• Bug 1396565: Error when adding a Group pages block onto a group home page
• Bug 1405427: Group forums posts email don’t show user name of who posted
• Bug 1380203: Giving access to 2 pages only generates 1 access notification
• Bug 1384467: CSS is not stripping out bad css attributes anymore
• Bug 1387858: Draft journal entries are visible to others
• Bug 1394738: Text descriptions of image links on Edit Page need to be modified
• Bug 1399246: PDF embeds fail in sites with subdomains for user pages
• Bug 1400524: Upgrading from 1.7 to 1.10 failed in big databases
• Bug 1401313: Command-line updater not detecting core & local upgrades
• Bug 1408542: TinyMCE emoticons are not displayed in TinyMCE 4
• Bug 1385818: Font size in “Feedback” block pop-up is too small
• Bug 1392700: Images not displayed – blog post by tag
• Bug 1394758: cli not returning the ‘nothing to upgrade’ message when nothing to upgrade anymore
• Bug 1397068: Flickr API now requires use of https for endpoint
• Bug 1399311: SQL syntax error in cron_event_log_expire on key word SECONDS
• Bug 1400511: Cannot cancel comment form after validation fails

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“Thelia 2.1.1 this release includes a bugfix.”

Thelia 2 E-commerce software, useful to create and manage online stores, published under a free license.

Developed in accordance to web development standards and based on Symfony 2, Thelia meets the following objectives : performance and scalability.

Thanks to its features, Thelia helps merchants to improve the management of their business, their sales and turnover.

New significant technological choices such as interoperability, CSS preprocessor or REST API, in addition to relevant added features allow retailers to improve the management of their business, their sales and turnover.

Thelia has been developed in accordance with web development standards.

The core is based on Symfony 2 components and meet the following objectives : performance and scalability.

Changes Details

• Fix update process from Thelia 2.0.* to 2.1.*

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“Ghost 0.5.8 this release includes bugfixes, new features and improvements”

Ghost 0.5.8 is an Open Source application which allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.

It’s simple, elegant, and designed so that you can spend less time making your blog work and more time blogging.

Changes Details

• [New] Tag Management UI
• [New] Labs options for WIP features
• [New] Importer handles images and markdown files
• [New] Socket permissions can be set from config
• [Fixed] Custom favicons not working correctly
• [Fixed] New posts added to bottom of list in admin
• [Fixed] Has helper tag matching bug
• [Fixed] Email sending issue when blog title has a comma
• [Fixed] Issues with fetching a Gravatar

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“Jcow 9.6.1 this release includes bugfixes.”

Jcow is a social software written in PHP.

It allows you to make a social networking website, helps your members build social relationships with people who share similar professional or personal interests.

• Build a social network for your interests and passions.
• Build a member community for your existing website.
• Build a social networking site like facebook/myspace/twitter.

Changes Details

Not available

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“Live helper chat 2.19 standard release with few features.”

Live Support chat for your website.

Web and desktop clients. Co-Browsing, XMPP notifications, GTalk, Jabber, Openfire, Skype, Chrome extension, Node.js support, MySQL, PostgreSQL

Live helper chat 2.19 is Free & Flexible & Open source.

Changes Details

• More attributes for themes
  Restore, Popup, Close, Miminize images
  Hide close, Hide popup options in theme.
  Header widget height and padding options
  Main widget border width option
• Cookie conflict fix with third party libraries
• Now operator can follow user scrollbar position

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