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What is Newsposter?
Newsposter is a versatile weblog written in the scripting language PHP. The huge amount of options and functions and its flexibility make Newsposter to a very useful tool, applicable in various environments.It has the following features and functions: comments, themes and topics, RSS 1.0/2.0 Atom 0.3 feeds, one-way NNTP gateway, multi-user, multilingual, content negotiation, search function, hashed passwords, login per LDAP directory, different user rights, mail protocols, marking of new and old postings, UBB code, data storage in "mbox" format, UTF-8 support, etc.
License
Copyright © 2001-2004, Frank S. Thomas
Copyright © 2001, Frank S. Thomas, PiXeLpApst
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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Changelog
Every version of Newsposter contains a changelog created by the used revision control tool (CVS from 0.3 up to 0.4.7, Subversion from 0.5.0 on). Here is a more detailed global changelog.
Newsposter 0.5.2
- New or enhanced features:
- Improved support for RSS 1.0 / 2.0 and Atom 0.3 news feeds
- Added i18n and Content Negotiation
- Default theme is now valid XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS2
- New ISO-8601 date fromat
- Improved the split_file.php script
- New theme: "blue_dwarf2"
- Bugfixes:
- Search function does not highlight strings enclosed in HTML tags
- update_data.php script now encodes old data as UTF-8
- Small bug in NP_UBB class fixed (thanks to Lenz Grimmer)
Newsposter 0.5.1
- New or enhanced features:
- "lenz" theme is now the default theme for Newsposter (contributed by Lenz Grimmer)
- New fresh/old images for marking of recent and old postings (contributed by chicco)
- Other small cosmetic changes
- Bugfixes:
- Redirect from login form to posting form now possible
- Removed error notices which appeared when using PHP 4.3.3
Newsposter 0.5.0
- New or enhanced features:
- Encrypted passwords in config.php for security reasons (Crypt, SHA, SSHA, MD5 and SMD5)
- New data class allows to edit postings
- Themes and topics replaceme the old templates
- Extended user permissions
- Extensible authentication mechanism
- Data can be read from HTTP/FTP stream
- Improved RDF Site Summary (RSS 1.0) support
- Special marking for old and new postings
- Data is stored UTF-8 encoded
- One way NNTP gateway
- Newsletter functionality for new posting
- UBB code for postings
- Doxygen documentation for Newsposter's classes
Newsposter 0.4.7
- New or enhanced features:
- Comments now can have an emoticon (emoticons contributed by chicco)
- Added latin translation
- Updated default template for comments
- Bugfixes:
- Changed HTML for Netscape Communicator 4
Newsposter 0.4.6
- New or enhanced features:
- Made Newsposter Euro (€) compatible
Newsposter 0.4.5
- New or enhanced features:
- Added PHP Nuke like template
- Topic support for news articles
- The KDE printer icon links to a printer friendly designed page
- Four new date formats (PHP Nuke, RFC 822, binary notation, UNIX timestamp).
- Newlines can be converted to <br /> before preview
Newsposter 0.4.3
- New or enhanced features:
- Search function for news and comments
- Template support for comments
Newsposter 0.4.2
- New or enhanced features:
- Simple RDF Site Summary (RSS 0.9) support
Newsposter 0.4
- New or enhanced features:
- New comment system, visitors can comment every news article
- Eased the integration into other webpages
- Templates for news
- Creation of static HTML pages
