XOOPS: XOOPS 2.3.3 Final Is Released
Posted by: phpppOn 2009/3/15 9:10:00 72905 readsAfter over 25,000 downloads of XOOPS 2.3.2b in just three short months (see here), the XOOPS Development Team is pleased to announce the release of XOOPS 2.3.3 Final.
This release includes many bugfixes and user experience improvements, done by XOOPS Core Development Team and XOOPS community.
Some of the areas:
- profile and pm modules improved by dhcst
- installer improved by dugris and marco, etc.
- theme improved by mamba, aph3x, kris and burning
- tinymce editor improved by dugris and luciorota
- snoopy class upgraded by julionc
- smarty upgraded by dhcst
- bug tracker managed by marco
Please remember: If you're installing it over previous test installation, make a BACKUP first!
Please also note that some hacks done for previous XOOPS versions might not work with this release: testing before installing is always a good choice
Download it from Sourceforge repository.
Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forum
We also need help with Translations
System requirements ----------------------------------- PHP: Any PHP version >= 4.3 (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported, PHP 5.0+ is strongly recommended) MySQL: MySQL server 3.23+ (MySQL 5.0+ is strongly recommended) Web server: Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended) Downloading XOOPS ----------------------------------- Your can get this release package from the sourceforge.net file repository. Both .zip and .gz archives are provided. Installing XOOPS ----------------------------------- 1. Copy the content of the htdocs/ folder where it can be accessed by your server 2. Ensure mainfile.php and uploads/ are writable by the web server 3. For security considerations, you are encouraged to move directories "/xoops_lib" (for XOOPS libraries) and "/xoops_data" (for XOOPS data) out of document root, or even change the folder names. 4. Make the directory xoops_data/ writable; Create (if not already present) and make the directories xoops_data/caches/, xoops_data/caches/xoops_cache/, xoops_data/caches/smarty_cache/ and xoops_data/caches/smarty_compile/ writable. 5. Access the folder where you installed the htdocs/ files using your web browser to launch the installation wizard Installing Protector in XOOPS ----------------------------------- We also highly recommend the installation of the PROTECTOR module which will bring additional security protection and logging capabilities to your site: To install protector module with a fresh new installation of XOOPS, delete the mainfile.dist.php available at the xoops root, copy /extras/mainfile.dist.php.protector to /htdocs/mainfile.dist.php and rename it to mainfile.dist.php BEFORE installing XOOPS. To install protector module with upgrading from a previous version to XOOPS 2.3.1, delete the mainfile.dist.php available at the xoops root, copy /extras/mainfile.dist.php.protector to /upgrade/upd-2.0.18-to-2.3.0/mainfile.dist.php and rename it to mainfile.dist.php BEFORE upgrading XOOPS. Upgrading from a previous version ----------------------------------- Upgrading from XOOPS 2.3.1 or 2.3.2 (easy way) 1. Get the right update package from the sourceforge file repository 2. Overwrite your existing files with the new ones 3. Move the "upgrade" folder inside the "htdocs" folder (it's been kept out as it's not needed for full installs) on your local machine 4. Access
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