ocPortal 6.2 RC1 released!

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Version 6.2 RC1 has now been released. This version is a feature release that introduces a number of small new features and bug fixes since the last release. Upgrading is not yet recommended for live sites due to changes that have not been widely tested yet in the date/time code, the email code, and all the form templates. That said, this site is now running 6.2 and running very smoothly so far.

To upgrade follow the steps in your website's http://mybaseurl/upgrader.php script. You will need to copy the URL of the attached TAR file (created via the form below) during step 3.
Please make sure you take a backup before uploading your new files!

Your upgrade to version 6.2 RC1

You can generate an upgrader from any version of ocPortal to any other version. If you access this upgrade post via the version information box on your Admin Zone front page then we'll automatically know what version you're running.
If you'd prefer though you can enter in your version number right here:

New features:

Support for proper Time-zone selection has been added, so different users can have different daylight-saving periods; migration from the old system of offsets is automatic
Added AJAX-driven error messaging for a number of possible field errors, such as codenames already existing, or CAPTCHAs being entered incorrectly
If possible the default theme will no longer be used for emails, even if the email is triggered from a zone running the default theme
Emails are now always sent in the correct language for the recipient (as opposed to the language of the triggerer/CRON)
The new CSS editor now shows CSS class definitions in tooltips over the selector links
Improved boolean searches and autodetection of boolean searches, if the explicit option has been disabled via the hidden option to do so
Support for auto-truncating to avoid chopping-off text mid-word
Added some additional Admin Zone search synonyms
Compulsory WYSIWYG fields may now be marked in red when not filled in
ocPortal chat usernames now include the local logged in user as well as the site name
If stack traces are enabled for all errors, a message says that this is the case and not to consider them all bugs
Added HTTP caching for downloads
Added HTTP caching for attachments
Added a note in the FOOTER template on how to insert site date/time

Miscellaneous bug fixes/usability fixes

Completely rewritten and upgraded Facebook syndication functionality, as Facebook had changed their systems and it was no longer working
Fixed preview button on the latest version of Google Chrome
Fixed small transparency issue on upload button
Allowed 'enable/disable WYSIWYG' button to be removed from templates
Added error if no addons are selected for installing/uninstalling and the multi-action button is clicked
Fixed issue in XML database with corrupt non-empty files
Fixed labelling of gallery 'partial delete' option, and clarified it
Added better incorrect-field errors for multiple incorrect fields when upload fields are present and not filled in when they should be
Fixed error in authors module if downloads were uninstalled
Fixed error generating XML sitemaps for catalogues
Worked around issue on servers where escapeshellarg is disabled
Automatic cache clearing for changes of base URLs (when no base URL is configured) now is only triggered from page scripts, to stop problems with AJAX scripts doing this in the background and causing big performance issues
Signatures are now hidden for mobile browsers
Small fixes to truncation/tooltip code
Added explanation of how to remove tracking notifications, on the tracking emails themselves
The MAKE_RELATIVE_DATE date symbol now uses normal dates if contextual dates are disabled
Added length constraints to all field inputs
Renamed the comment field 'Post title' to 'Subject' as people still misinterpreted it and entered job titles
Fixed some small issues on the CEDI tree editing screen, if buttons are clicked with no values selected
Sped up the time the CSS sheets are detected for use in the new CSS editor (two-phase detection process, instead of waiting long enough for all frames to have loaded)
Scrolling is improved in the new CSS editor when the selector links are clicked
Fixed problems with block display and spacing in the WYSIWYG editor on Google Chrome
Worked around problems with mod_security and the new easy 'edit theme image' buttons, as well as the add bookmark link and the multi-site-network and tracker links
Fixed bug on the download links when browsing download categories when anti-leech was enabled
Clarified that we do not recommend people use the backups module if they have a better alternative, and that people must test their backups
Fixed CPF_VALUE symbol to require one less parameter when extracting member fields for the current logged in member
Fixed panels to interlock properly when tray expand/contract is enabled
Fixed various problems in the sound manager (we upgraded it in the last release, but had to work around some bugs)
Fixed tiny spacing issue on the OCF forumview

Accessibility issues fixed

Some cases where links or buttons weren't specific out-of-context, with no 'title' attribute used
Some cases of things in tables, so each table row repeated the same link text
Contract/expand links
The day cells on the calendar
Pagination and sorting links, if multiple things on the screen could be paginated/sorted
Some other specific cases
The clear buttons on form upload fields
The help panel expand/contract link not being clear
The tree-list interface still not being accessible, as JAWS seemed to skip the radio button inputs we added to it due to 'visibility: hidden'
The tree-list interface not being keyboard navigable
'title' attributes added on all forms, as we found that this is very helpful for navigating around
The trackback links, which Javascript warns not to click, being a bit too tempting for braille users
The required field marker requiring some mental gymnastics to remember
Auto-submitting forms that disruptively change the context (e.g. navigating to a different area of the site, or opening a popup window) now have a warning of their auto-submission in the form title
Truncated text that has a tooltip is now properly marked up as using an abbreviation tag

We have also renovated the styling on our own forum, in rapid response to user feedback. These changes are not being included in ocPortal at this time as they require CSS3 and are currently experimental.

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Nachtwind posted 02 May 2011, 2:26 PM

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Nice update. I hope for the new Theme to turn up shortly as well :0)

Nachtwind posted 02 May 2011, 2:27 PM

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uhh.. btw wordwrap - how about centering long usernames? See mine here or on alphaclan.org?

Fletch posted 02 May 2011, 3:36 PM

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Nachtwind said

uhh.. btw wordwrap - how about centering long usernames? See mine here or on alphaclan.org?

Actually, it IS centred, but you can try removing or reducing the 'padding: 0 20px;' in '.ocf_topic_poster_name' in 'ocf.css'.

-OR-

Increase the column width.

:thumbs:

Chris Graham posted 02 May 2011, 5:13 PM

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Yeah, good suggestion Fletch, put that padding to 10 here and looks better next to the avatars too.

Nachtwind posted 02 May 2011, 8:24 PM

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looks better. Will you introduce that into the next update? I really dont like fiddling with the CSS as it may break (from previous experience with other systems *cough*smf*/cough* all too often everything or at updates.

*edit*
removed it (set to 0) because some nicknames still were too long. But thanks anyway :0)

Last edit: 02 May 2011, 8:30 PM by Nachtwind

Chris Graham posted 02 May 2011, 8:45 PM

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It's not on the cards at the moment as we're not looking to rock the boat too much on ocPortal and risk future stability (there could be loads of bugs in what we've done, as we only have a subset of features enabled here). But I have attached the CSS/template files where it comes from if people are very curious.

Attachment

» Download: ocpcom_themeing.zip (33 Kb, 137 downloads so far)

Nachtwind posted 02 May 2011, 9:04 PM

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sweet :0)

Now all i need to remember is what version i had in order to upgrade to the rc ^^

*edit* the new templates didnt work :0(
I hope you will incoporate soon as it looks much.. smoother here than it does on our forum (though i always liked the look of that one much more still than any other BB system..)

Last edit: 02 May 2011, 9:26 PM by Nachtwind

Chris Graham posted 02 May 2011, 9:38 PM

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Well you can see most of it works. It's just what I attached contains all our other changes too, so you'd need to carefully examine them using a tool like winmerge/diffmerge/kompare.

Nachtwind posted 02 May 2011, 9:41 PM

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yeah… it was just now i realized this site uses a totally different layout. the important stuff works but i reverted it until it is stable from your side :0)

Nice changes still

Javascript Error

curtisbrew posted 03 May 2011, 4:38 PM

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Getting this error after upgrading. I cleared my cache, etc.

160: smURL is null
http://www.crystalkeyministries.net/themes/default/templates_cached/EN/javascript_sound.js

Chris Graham posted 03 May 2011, 4:47 PM

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Have you tried clearing your browser cache? This should be one of the bugs fixed in this version, and smURL is not referenced in line160 of your latest version of this file.

Thanks!

curtisbrew posted 03 May 2011, 5:25 PM

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Clearing the browser cache worked.

ejogate.com posted 03 May 2011, 11:42 PM

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I hope that you are referring to any amendment to the language files no matter how small, where the process of translation into any language other than English, will be affected for sure.
Because of the successive updates I spent a lot of time searching for differences in the language files that I had translated, rather than completing the translation of the rest of the files .
So please, inform us and try to specify if any changes were made in any language file according the new released features to go forward these changes instead of searching all files every time a new update is released

thank you

Chris Graham posted 04 May 2011, 12:20 AM

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We're trying to encourage people to translate on Launchpad. Each time we update the English pack on there it automatically shows what translated strings are no longer up-to-date.

But also the criticise language pack feature in ocPortal is very useful.

Any changes we make to existing strings are very small and not required, it is usually just usability.
However if you're very bothered about them a tool like WinMerge can be used to compare the lang/EN directories of two different ocPortal versions and automatically show the differences.

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