• Complete Template Engine rewrite
• Usergroup bit permissions system
• A Rich Text Editor for adding news
• Ability to save News as Drafts
• Ability to release and archive news when you want
• Category permissions based on usergroup assignment

The entire API has been been almost re-written from the ground up to be supporting out of the box PHP 5 and MySQL 5. With so many changes there are bound to be many hidden things for most users so documentation is currently being prepared to get the most out of WB News. I highly recommend all sites currently using WB News v1.x to upgrade.

[/list]There are several more fixes included.

Another bug which although is yet to be tested if it affects WB News has been brought to my attention just prior to this release. I will be testing to see if it does affect WB News and if so what it actually affects.

This release is also the last release of the year excluding Bug fix releases. With this we want to wish everyone a safe and Merry Christmas and a happy new year.

There is quite a few changes made from v0.9.0 and all users are highly suggested to upgrade, it fixes bugs that were only just found and present in v0.0.5 with the Send to Friend system. You must be in at least v0.8.0 to upgrade, the upgrade and installation system will detect as usual and allow for better upgrading. Users from the Beta this will not allow you to upgrade correctly. So please wait for a post in the forum or Beta section for the upgrade instructions.

Users upgrading before uploading will need to make sure they remove the config.php file from the archive they download, as it will overwrite any existing settings and of course attempt to re-install the entire system. A full change log of all betas and including this new version are available in the CHANGELOG file.

support will start at version 0.8.0 which is where the final big changes took place. Beta 1 is an online testing Beta which we will be looking for users to submit any cosmetic or obvious mistakes in the system, a testing site will be available when it is complete.

We also have a new WYSIWYG Editor in development which is looking really good unfortunately browser support isnt all there just yet and we will be trying to optimize this as much as possible and to work on as many browsers at the moment Safari and Opera users cannot use this new WYSIWYG Editor however we have built an alternative, which all browsers can use.

So if your a WB News user feel free to post comments on improvements requried for WB News or post over in the forums under Suggestions you do not even need to register to post in this forum.

- Fixed where you can have template code parsed within news and comments (function.php)

- Short News Blurb

We are now starting work on version 1.0.0 but remember to still report bugs so we can issue patches and make sure such bugs do not end up in 1.0.0. It will be sometime before the next release.

View the Change Log

This release will hopefully be around Mid April, and probably 2-4 weeks later the last of this release phase v0.9.0 will come out. v1.0.0 will have at least 1 Release Candidate (RC) phase before we go to Official 1.0.0. There are some big changes as well, more than likely a rewrite of main sections including Administration, as well as cleaning up sections of code which have become redundant over time.

Also anew updated Manual both Online and Offline (PDF, HTML) version which will come in two forms as well, Developers and Users. Users Manual is a brief guide to getting up and running while the Developers guide is building Plug-ins, implementing with other systems or anything else.

For those that want an estimate on v1.0.0 we expect earliest July, August however we have nothing solid yet.

All of these have been fixed.

We will also be having limited support over the Christmas break between Decemeber 20th 2004 to 5th January 2005, we will try best to make sure Support requests are answered however we have no guarantees, so please try to report all bugs at http://bugs.webmobo.com we will also be trying to get our new design and a few other extras close to if not finished by the time we start the 2005 year off.

These have been fixed we have also added one new function into the News Configuration to stop spam, at the moment its quite a basic element it allows you to type words which you consider spam, if a post is a match to one or more words in the spam list its not displayed until you check that its Spam or not.

We are looking for more ideas in which you wish to see in any of the next coming version of WB News whether it be improvement of organisation, speed, more sections, cleaner templating anything we are open to all suggestions as we are starting to decline in ideas, without turning this into a CMS.

[/list]All these fixes will be available the only main problem will be the last listed which is not major and only affects adding Administrator User and Ban IP.

We have already emailed all participants in the Alpha Testing Phase but if you wish to participate please feel free to download it here, if you would like to see more information about it view it here

With this we have built quite a list mainly of additions/modifications and a good majority of the known bugs and a few extras we have found which are quite minor and shouldn't stop users from using v0.06. For those that want to know the release date we look set for late November/early December, however we will be releasing hopefully Late October/Early November a alpha release which more then likely will not contain all features implemented and should only be used in development circumstances, this is mainly to find any bugs before Gold release v0.1.0 which will be out a little later.

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v0.05 is a major upgrade from 0.04 which it has been rebuilt from the ground up, many changes within the database structure will need to be sorted out to make it a smooth upgrade.

open_basedir is just a limitation of how PHP includes files. Unfortunately WB News doesnt support this to work. So if you go through the files and had the direct path to each include e.g.

A bug with this setting on has been found and we are doing everything we can for WB News to work correctly with the setting on. If its off or no value please feel free to use WB News it should work correctly.

The point to this is to firstly find out who uses WB News with PHP4 and from there workout if WB News 2.1.x should continue to have support for PHP4.

You do not have much time in which to act as I'll be closing this discussion on the 2nd January 2009 (this Friday) due to development freeze to start testing.

Please note there has been a configuration change "Turn News System Off" will now need to be set to Yes to show news. The label will be updated in a later release.