ocPortal 7.1.1 released

Version 7.1.1 has now been released. This version is a patch release that introduces a number of bug fixes since the last release. Upgrading is suggested.

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.

Fixes have been made to the following issues

• Update Bing and Yahoo sitemap ping URLs, and stopped services that return errors from stopping further sitemap submission and CRON tasks
• Fixed OcCLE 'exit' command when OcCLE being used from Admin Zone module
• Fixed custom CSS theme image references on shared-installs
• 404 status codes for missing-resource errors
• Forced wordwrapping to force tooltip text not to cause scrollbars
• Simplified default table prefix, to not imply it specifies ocPortal version formally
• Fixed custom avatar URLs not being prepopulated back on the edit-avatar screen
• Commented Javascript validation code better
• Fixed possible login loop when new-style short-URLs enabled
• Fixed minor error message when someone with a space in their name edits their avatar
• Fixed prepopulated email address on invitee signups
• Told search engines not to spider sorted result links (duplicate content)
• Told search engines not to spider gallery slideshow button (duplicate content)
• Made the search-engine-spider cache less wasteful of disk space for the case when 'redirect' links are present in URLs
• Fixed possible error uninstalling addons in the Setup Wizard
• Reimporting an addon will no longer reinstall it's module's and block's if they are already installed
• Custom template contents will now be searched in the Admin Zone search
• Increased the category quantity threshold over which content will not be included in the "what's new" newsletters
• Fixed issue with gallery content searching in "what's new" newsletter generation
• Fixed issue doing content management with the 'none' forum driver
• Works around weird PHP bug that sends data before headers, on some PHP versions
• Fixed auto-attachment reference-creating in Comcode XML
• Stopped the do-next-menus content counts causing errors if the hook is left over when the addon is not there (should not be the case, but can be, and it would stop all the admin menus working)
• Prettier calendar start to end date ranges
• CAPTCHA errors now return a 500-error to stop deep-probing spiders indexing the error message
• Fixed CEDI post editing when the validation addon is not installed
• Stopped certain ocProducts staff auto-showing in the authors list
• Fixed editing of calendar events always resetting a non-defined end-date
• Increased calendar year range when adding/editing events
• Removed scrollbar from signup form due to long timezone names in 7.1
• Improved HTTPS detection/maintaining, especially for non-page URLs (e.g. popups); stops mixed-content warnings in Google Chrome
• Suppressed AJAX errors on IE6 when navigating away during an AJAX request
• Applied bugfix to SoundManager library to stop null HTTP requests happening in background
• Stopped dropdown menus popping upwards if there is not enough space to pop downwards but not enough upwards either
• Stopped calendar widget invalid date clicking causing an error on Google Chrome
• Improved new user timezone detection, and fixed a bug causing wrong guesses in some cases
• Added code to prefer default-site timezone over similar ones when detecting Guest timezones and finding an equivalency of time offsets
• Fixed issues with username autocompletion on Opera
• Stopped the default panel_right being blank when collapsed-zones is on, and made the panel_left more appropriate
• Stopped error on phpBB config import when LDAP addon not installed
• Improved spider blocking inside the search system
• Improved canonical URL detection
• Improved iframe auto-resizing for frames with images in them that take time to load
• Worked around errors with corrupt Tempcode
• Fixed problems if addons are installed twice and then uninstalled
• Improved breadcrumbs in multi-step screen flows
• Workaround if a calendar type image is missing when viewing the calendar day-view
• Fixed broken FAQs link on default menus
• Fixed error editing your author profile if you're not staff (possibly only happened if debug mode was on)
• Fixed title detection for linked RSS feeds
• Fixed the error message if a bad contact-member URL is invoked, or bad start-PT URL is invoked
• The scheduler admin checklist item now shows as not-done if it has not run in over a day
• Removed unnecessary background colour from CSS
• Fixed error message about open_basedir if it is restricted strictly to the web dir
• Stopped error message if thumbnail is requested for a missing image
• Respected the 'disable_lost_passwords' permission
• Allowed the password reset to work if you have tied your account to Facebook (using the Facebook addon)
• Proper error message if you try to reset your password but your account has no configured email address
• Fixed error showing a Comcode page in the main_content block whilst not specifying a zone
• Fixed IOTD block's randomisation mode
• Removed links on profiles to edit screens that the member may not have access to
• Fixed problem in installer that some users had (not a widespread problem, perhaps only triggered on top of another error message)
• Suppressed error message from buggy PHP installs when sorting do-next manager links alphabetically
• Stopped the upgrader clearing basic caches on every upgrade screen, for memory usage reasons
• Disabled the PHP memory limit when doing an upgrader file extraction, to allow large upgrades to work without error on servers that use large amounts of memory (old PHP versions?)
• Switched geolocation service