Hey !
English :
e107 devs and the Support Team would like to wish everyone a very Happy Christmas and a very happy New Year. Also We hope that everybody has a Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

Happy Christmas in other languages :
Arabic :

(Ajmel altehani bemonasebt almīlad wa helol alseneh aljedīdah)

Persian :

(Sale noe miladi bar tamami marodme jahan mobarak! )

Italian : Buon Natale e felice anno nuovo
Russian: С Рождеством Христовым и С наступающим Новым Годом
French: Joyeux Noël et bonne année
Dutch: Prettige kerstdagen en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
Bulgarian: Честита Коледа! (Čestita Koleda!)
Albanian : Gëzuar Krishtlindjet e Vitin e Ri
Finnish : Hyvää joulua ja onnellista uutta vuotta
German : Frohes Fest und guten Rutsch [ins neue Jahr]
Hindi : नये साल की हार्दिक शुभकामनायें (Naye sāl kī hārdik śubhkāmnayeṅ)
Urdu : Sale No Mobarak


Hamid .

[Submitted by  Hamid ]

A couple of things have arisen from the latest release.

Firstly, if images aren't displaying as you expect after the upgrade, you'll need to update the image visibility settings (admin-->images).

Secondly, one that only affects those who include extended user fields in the signup page. A fix for another problem meant that extended user fields weren't saved during signup. If this affects you, get the updated signup.php from CVS, or download here

Another month rolls around, another e107 release rolls out.

We have a few bugfixes and another security fix in there. If you're not running 0.7.15, you really need to be. So head on over to sourceforge and grab it.

Changelog:

Download:

I wanted to provide a bit of news on what is happening with e107 lately, so you here go:

0.8 - Yes, we ARE definitely making progress. I'll admit that my involvement has been a bit lacking lately. Things just happened in RL that didn't allow me to commit as much time as I had in the past to e107. I am slowly getting back in the groove. Were are making what we feel are a lot of changes and new functionality to e107, yet trying to maintain speed and backward compatibility. There will be some items deprecated, but I don't know of anything totally going away in this release. Off the top of my head, here's a few items:

Hierarcial userclasses - Userclasses can now be inherited from others, also probably userclass grouping
New JS engine - We'll have some great js capability in the core code, for use in ajax and general web 2.0 stuff
Plugin and Theme configurations - These config files are being converted to xml files. This allows us to easily handle badly coded files and not have a bad plugin.php file affect the whole site. Along with moving to xml, there is also some great functionality/flexibility being added.
SEF URLs - We know many have been requesting this for quite some time. We've added a url class to help generate all urls. These urls can easily be overridden by custom config files, allowing the site admin to tailor mod_rewrite anyway they wish. We've really just begun doing this, but it looks promising so far.
Forum - The forum will get a facelift. It may not get all of the features in my roadmap, but hopefully it'll see some in the first release. The db structure and filenames are going to change though, so look out
TinyMCE - This is being converted to a plugin, so hopefully allow replacements to be dropped in.
Admin log - It appeared in 0.7, but never really did anything. It's now going to, you'll be able to see what all your admins are doing, and when.
General fixes - There's also been work on fixing odd issues that just didn't seem to fit into 0.7 due to needing other updated code.

I know there's probably a LOT that I've left out, but that's a decent list for now. Along with this, we are also trying to get the code all formatted to a coding standard to tidy it up. It's been sloppy for sure.

Also, in order to try to get the users and plugin authors involved more, as well as providing more dialog within the community as a whole, I have created two mailing lists on sourceforge. A general discussion forum for all things e107 and a development forum for questions regarding core development and any other code related questions. For those not familiar with mailing lists, you will need to go to sourceforge and subscribe to the list using an email address. You will get a confirmation email you will need to act on to activate the subscription. You will then start receiving all emails sent to the list (or a daily digest if you prefer). In order to post to the list, you must send the email to the list from the subscribed email address.

e107-discuss list:
e107-devel list:

I can tell you that gmail is great for subscribing to mailing lists from, since it maintains the 'conversation', it's very easy to follow each email thread.

While we continue to work on 0.8, we are also committed to maintaining and fixing up 0.7 when needed. Well, it's needed again. This new release contains some bug fixes (see changelog - ) and most importantly it does contain an update to a pretty serious security issue. If you've spent any time in the forums, you've probably heard about it by now.

Please update your version of e107 as soon as possible, we apologize for any inconvenience.

Downloads can be found at their normal location: http://e107.org/edownload.php

Today marks the 6th year since the project was officially registered on SourceForge, although the project did start earlier, this date it seems fitting to choose as much as any other day for the official birthday of the project! Over the past 6 years of the project we have seen three major version number releases, 0.5, 0.6 and the most recent, 0.7. The community has grown and thrives with each release and with over 26000 registered users on e107.org alone. The forum has been active for the last 4 and a half years and has accumulated over 155000 posts - an achievement in itself!

The devs are continuing to push the boundaries as well as provide backwards compatibility as much as possible while providing a transparent and efficient development process. The community continues to support itself with feedback, suggestions and helping other users via IRC (#e107 on the freenode network) and in the forums.

Here's to plenty more years and releases to come! Happy Birthday e107!!
[Submitted by snowboarder04]