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bbPress 1.1 – Maybe Soon!
Just an update on what’s going on Trac – bbPress 1.0.3 milestone has 3 tickets left (all the tickets have patches and 1 depends on a BackPress ticket), while 1.1 milestone has 4 tickets left (2 haves patches, and 2 need patches). There’s also another BackPress ticket that needs to be fixed (which also has a patch). That means that bbPress 1.1 is very near to its release!
How can you help?
- Checkout a copy of bbPress trunk version via SVN and test it.
- Test the patches of the open tickets.
- Contribute patches to the tickets which don’t have one.
What’s new in bbPress 1.1?
- Email subscriptions
- Loginless posting
- Better administration of posts and topics
- Better search and statistics
- Bug fixes. Some critical ones are – #1261 (RSS feeds errors), #1146 (faster recount functions), #1150 (undelete topic error).
- Better tags administration (if #1243 goes in)
Some tickets that missed 1.1 milestone are #960 (better user administration) and #1277 (kakumei cleanup) even though they had patches but could cause errors as they were huge changes and needed more testing. They might get into 1.2 though.
Development Report – 26 April to 23 May 2010
Here are the developments which have taken place in the last 4 weeks (all commits by chrishajer, unless mentioned):
Enhancements:
- [2426]: Always show database host input on installaation screen. Fixes #1270, props dimadin
- [2431]: Link author’s name to their profile page in topic.php. Fixes #1227. Props Nightgunner5, GautamGupta
- [2432]: Better statistics page design. Fixes #1232. Props Nightgunner5, GautamGupta
Defects:
- [2422]: Add back in jQuery.noConflict which was inadvertently dropped in changeset 2416. Fixes #1269, reported by Milan Dinic, props GautamGupta
- [2423:2424]: If the only post of a topic is deleted, redirect to topic_url?view=all and when undeleting a topic, only undelete that topic’s posts, not all posts. Fixes #1150 – by mdawaffe
- [2425]: Never use bb_no_where() on get_thread_where hook. Fixes #1271 – by mdawaffe
- [2427:2428]: Allow international characters in forum slugs; new filter editable_slug. Fixes #1257, props Markus Pezold
- [2429]: Reported by mr_pelle. Patch in [2414] broke relevant search results. Fixes #1222. Props GautamGupta
- [2430]: Fix feed further. Fixes #1261 Props GautamGupta
Also, we have virtually completed the 1.0.3 milestone! 😀 Some more tickets have been opened on the 1.0.3 milestone and we are fixing those.
bbPress.org Gets a New Look
This is just to tell you that bbPress.org has been given a new theme, made by Sam (check here). Noël has implemented it after working on it for a few weeks. There are still problems with the plugin section, which would get worked out in the coming days. 🙂
Fortnight Development Report – 12 April to 25 April 2010
Only two tickets have been fixed in the last 14 days, here’s the report (all commits by chrishajer):
- [2420]: RSS feed validation code changes. (You will need to update any custom theme.) Fixes #1181. Props sambauers, GautamGupta
- [2421]: Administrators should not be able to delete or edit keymasters. Fixes #1201. Props GautamGupta
By the way, only 1 ticket is left for the 1.0.3 milestone :D.
Weekly Development Report – 5 April to 11 April 2010
Not much development happened this week, here’s the report (all commits by chrishajer):
- [2417]: Add throttle time setting to Options Writing admin screen. Fixes #1185. Props Nightgunner5, _ck_
- [2418]: Text fields background color CSS fixes for Opera 10.50. Fixes #1263. Props jurasiks, GautamGupta
- [2419]: Check bb_ksd_pre_post_status before sending out “subscribe to topic” notifications”. Fixes #1233, props Nightgunner5
By the way, we are reaching closer to the 1.0.3 milestone – 42 out of 45 tickets have been closed, 3 are pending out of which 2 are critical and 2 have patches.
Weekly Development Report – 30 March to 4 April 2010
In this week, there have been only bug fixes and enhancement commits, here is the list (all by chrishajer):
- [2409]: Add filters to bb_title. Fixes #1184 – Props Nightgunner5, GautamGupta
- [2410]: Cleanup array_merge PHP5 warning when pingbacks are enabled by typecasting array. Fixes #1214, props Gautam Gupta
- [2411]: Add arguments to bb_topic_admin filter. Fixes #1237 props Nightgunner5, GIGALinux
- [2412]: Set default timezone in PHP 5. Fixes #1241. Props GIGALinux, GautamGupta
- [2413]: Fix Relevant Post links in search results. Fixes #1222. Props GautamGupta
- [2415]: Swap lines in bb-post.php to allow plugin to modify permalinks without modifying core. Fixes #1192, props GIGALinux
- [2416]: Load latest (1.4.2) jQuery, and whitespace fixes. Fixes #1173. Props GautamGupta
And here’s a good news! Milestone 1.0.3 is about to complete! Check all the tickets for 1.0.3 milestone here.
New Features and Bug Fixes in bbPress 1.1
Here is a list of new features/tasks in bbPress 1.1:
- Subscribe to Topic [2384:2388] – by matt
- Anonymous Posting [2390] – by filosofo
- Bulk edit for topics and posts in admin section [2398] – by mdawaffe
Here are the fixed bugs/enhancements (all by sambaeurs, unless mentioned):
- [2349]: Better looking move topic form, fixes #1164.
- [2350]: Fix spelling. Fixes #1171. Props filosofo.
- [2351]: Make post form topic title maklength match length of column in MySQL. Fixes #1166.
- [2352]: Filter the list of stats. Fixes #1169.
- [2352:2356]: Faster recounting, see #1146. Props _ck_.
- [2357]: Remove check and throttle from cron. Fixes #1177.
- [2359]: Add filters to user facing email messages and subjects. Remove password reset security bug/annoyance.
- [2361]: Put User ID into user list in admin as a title on the username. Fixes #1154.
- [2362]: Make actual date of last post a title attribute on the freshness column.
- [2363]: Tidy up a deprecated function.
- [2364]: Try getting the user by both username and ID when fetching profiles. Fixes #1179.
- [2365]: Properly deal with backwards compatibility in post_form(). Fixes #1178.
- [2366]: Use a blank key instead of the default string when no KEY constant is specified in bb_salt() and friends. Fixed in a different way, but props to bobrik for report and initial patch. Fixes #1180.
- [2367:2369]: Make input name for “remember” checkbox common with WordPress and deal with legacy checkboxes.
- [2370]: Add a “lostpassword” action to the default login form in the header.
- [2371]: Full URL redirecting from bb_auth()
- [2372]: Standardize login input names with WordPress login input names.
- [2373]: Force indentation on timezone selector options (since non-breaking spaces are now gone). Only matters in some browsers.
- [2374]: Put the RSS feed description into CDATA. Fixes #1181. Will be reversed, see #1181.
- [2376]: Typo in forum exclusion in get_latest_topics() – by mdawaffe
- [2377]: Make sure recent search is ordered by post_time. – by mdawaffe
- [2381:2383]: Warning-free – by matt
- [2384]: Format big numbers with commas. – by matt
- [2391]: Restore omitted global objects. Props Gautam Gupta. Fixes #1231. – by filosofo
- [2392]: Remove comma splice. – by filosofo
- [2393]: If dir() didn’t take, don’t try to read it. – by mdawaffe
- [2394] & [2397]: Fix redirect on topic deletion. Fixes #1245. – by mdawaffe
- [2394:2396]: PHP Notices – by mdawaffe
- [2399]: Add bb_query_form_inputs filter to allow additional form inputs in BB_Query_Form. Fixes #1250. – by mdawaffe
- [2400]: Typo: let the name/id autogenerate to the correct values – by mdawaffe
- [2401]: Typo: init_roles is an action, not a filter – by mdawaffe
- [2402]: Fixes #1199, props ashfame, chipbennett – by chrishajer
- [2403]: Set 0755 folder permissions for my-templates and my-plugins upon creation. Fixes #1139 props GautamGupta – by chrishajer
- [2404]: Supply global tag page when trying to access a non-existent tag. fixes #1197 props delayedinsanity, GautamGupta – by chrishajer
- [2405]: Replace “wanna” with “want to” in delete/undelete confirmation messages. fixes #1258, props bhcarpenter – by chrishajer
- [2407]: Fix code to allow moderator access to existing Akismet stats menu item. Fixes #1216, props waclawjacek, hpguru, Nightgunner5 – by chrishajer
- [2408]: Link ‘%s ago’ to the actual post in profile pages. Enhancement fixes #1251, props Gautam Gupta – by chrishajer
These changes are from 12 August 2009 till today, i.e. 30 March 2010. Please tell me if I have missed anything.