News module version 1.2.1 RC 2

Date 2004/9/4 8:17:21 | Topic: Modules

Version 1.2.1 RC 2 of the News module has been released.

This is an intermediary "bug fix" release which addresses several issues reported since the version 1.2 but it's still a Release Candidate version. Don't use it on a production's site.

The zip archive is available here and the translations can be found on this page
Here is the changelog :

> Some important security holes have been corrected. That's why this version
exists. Thanks goes to Onokazu
> The possibility to upload excel and word files have been removed.
> Some problems related to the files uploaded with topics and news have been
corrected
> The upgrade script has been changed and the file :
/xoops/modules/news/sql/upgrade.sql
has been removed.
> The link to delete a story in the "Moderation block" has been corrected
> A bug in the blocks "Top news" and "Recent news" has been corrected (problem
with the counter and the date)
> It was not possible to uncheck the article's option "Approve" and the option
"Publish in Home" had no effect
> The class used to manage uploaded files has been "reviewed"
> Some corrections has been made to the form used to submit a story
> Anonymous users had a blank page when they was submiting an article
> There was a small error in the "BigStory" template (a was missing)
> It was possible to edit an article you don't have the right to edit.
> Some minors modifications following this post about xhtml compliance :
https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=22849&forum=11



And here is the upgrade instructions :

1) Upload all files in this package, overwriting the existing files.
2) Update the module in system admin -> modules
3) Launch the following script at least one time :
http://www.example.com/modules/news/admin/upgrade.php
To be able to launch it, YOU MUST BE AN ADMIN OF THE NEWS MODULE
Once this script has been launched, you can remove it but it's not "vital"
4) If you are using a personalized template set (if you have cloned it for
example) :
Go in admin -> templates. Find the templates set you are using, beside the
name "News" click on the link named "[List (11)]". Find the template called
"news_index.html" then press the link named "[Delete]". In the next screen,
when you see this question "Are you sure that you want to delete this
template data?" validate by pressing "Yes". The previous screen will
reappears and you will see a yellow line, click on the link named
"[Generate]"

5) If you are using the default template set. First create some test news then
go on the part of your website where your users can see the news (for
example http://www.example.com/modules/news). If you can see the test news,
come back to the admin part of your site. Go in the news module's preferences
and for the option named "News Display Layout" select "By topic". Come back
to the visible part of your website (http://www.example.com/modules/news).
If you can see your news, ignore the rest of this point, else, if you
can't see the news then, in admin -> templates, beside the default template
set, click on the link named "Clone", give it a name then go in
admin -> preferences, select "General Settings" and in the scrolling list
called "Default template set", select the template you have previously
cloned.

If you are doing a fresh install, you don't have to do anything from the
previous list.


Reports bugs here :
http://dev.xoops.org/modules/xfmod/tracker/?group_id=1008&atid=132



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