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Changes in Askbot

Development version (not released yet)

  • added basic slugification treatment to question titles with ALLOW_UNICODE_SLUGS = True (Evgeny)

0.7.36 (Dec 20, 2011)

  • bugfix and made the logo not used by default

0.7.35 (Dec 15, 2011)

0.7.34 (Dec 10, 2011)

  • Returned support of Django 1.2

0.7.33 (Dec 6, 2011)

  • Made on log in redirect to the forum index page by default and to the question page, if user was reading the question it is still possible to override the next url parameter or just rely on django’s LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL (Evgeny)
  • Implemented retraction of offensive flags (Dejan Noveski)
  • Made automatic dependency checking more complete (Evgeny)

0.7.32 (Nov 30, 2011)

  • Bugfixes in English locale (Evgeny)

0.7.31 (Nov 29, 2011)

  • Added askbot_create_test_fixture management command (Dejan Noveski)
  • Integrated new test fixture into the page load test cases (Dejan Noveski)
  • Added an embeddable widget for the questions list matching tags (Daniel Mican, Evgeny Fadeev, Dejan Noveski)

0.7.30 (Nov 28, 2011)

Note: some of these features were added in one of the three previous versions.

  • Context-sensitive RSS url (Dejan Noveski)
  • Implemented new version of skin (Byron Corrales)
  • Show unused vote count (Tomasz Zielinski)
  • Categorized live settings (Evgeny)
  • Merge users management command (Daniel Mican)
  • Added management command send_accept_answer_reminders (Evgeny)
  • Improved the askbot-setup script (Adolfo, Evgeny)
  • Merge users management command (Daniel Mican)
  • Anonymous caching of the question page (Vlad Bokov)
  • Fixed sharing button bug, css fixes for new template (Alexander Werner)
  • Added ASKBOT_TRANSLATE_URL setting for url localization(Alexander Werner)
  • Changed javascript translation model, moved from jqueryi18n to django (Rosandra Cuello Suñol)
  • Private forum mode (Vlad Bokov)
  • Improved text search query in Postgresql (Alexander Werner)
  • Take LANGUAGE_CODE from request (Alexander Werner)
  • Added support for LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL to the login app (hjwp, Evgeny)
  • Updated Italian localization (Luca Ferroni)
  • Added Catalan localization (Jordi Bofill)
  • Added management command askbot_add_test_content (Dejan Noveski)
  • Continued work on refactoring the database schema (Tomasz Zielinski)

0.7.27 - 0.7.29 (Nov 8-28, 2011)

For these versions we did not keep consistent record of features.

0.7.26 (Oct 12, 2011)

  • Added settings for email subscription defaults (Adolfo)
  • Resolved `bug #102<http://bugs.askbot.org/issues/102>`_ - duplicate notifications on posts with mentions (Evegeny)
  • Added color-animated transitions when urls with hash tags are visited (Adolfo)
  • Repository tags will be automatically added to new releases (Evgeny, suggsted by ajmirsky)

0.7.25 (Oct 5 2011)

  • RSS feed for individual question (Sayan Chowdhury)
  • Allow pre-population of tags via ask a questions link (Adolfo)
  • Make answering own question one click harder (Adolfo)
  • Bootstrap mode (Adolfo, Evgeny)
  • Color-animated urls with the hash fragments (Adolfo)

0.7.24

  • Made it possible to disable the anonymous user greeting alltogether (Raghu Udiyar)
  • Added annotations for the meanings of user levels on the “moderation” page. (Jishnu)
  • Auto-link patterns - e.g. to bug databases - are configurable from settings. (Arun SAG)

0.7.23

  • Greeting for anonymuos users can be changed from live settings (Hrishi)
  • Greeting for anonymous users is shown only once (Rag Sagar)
  • Added support for Akismet spam detection service (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Added noscript message (Arun SAG)
  • Support for url shortening with TinyUrl on link sharing (Rtnpro)
  • Allowed logging in with password and email in the place of login name (Evgeny)
  • Added config settings allowing adjust license information (Evgeny)

0.7.22

  • Media resource revision is now incremented automatically any time when media is updated (Adolfo Fitoria, Evgeny Fadeev)
  • First user automatically becomes site administrator (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Avatar displayed on the sidebar can be controlled with livesettings.(Adolfo Fitoria, Evgeny Fadeev)
  • Avatar box in the sidebar is ordered with priority for real faces.(Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Django’s createsuperuser now works with askbot (Adolfo Fitoria)

0.7.21

This version was skipped

0.7.20

  • Added support for login via self-hosted Wordpress site (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Allowed basic markdown in the comments (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Added this changelog (Adolfo Fitoria)
  • Added support for threaded emails (Benoit Lavigne)
  • A few more Spanish translation strings (Byron Corrales)
  • Social sharing support on identi.ca (Rantadeep Debnath)

0.7.19

0.7.17

  • Adding test for UserNameField.
  • Adding test for markup functions.

0.7.16

  • Admins can add aministrators too.
  • Added a postgres driver version check in the start procedures due to a bug in psycopg2 2.4.2.
  • New inbox system style (bug reported by Tomasz P. Szynalski).

0.7.15

  • Fixed integration with Django 1.1.
  • Fixed bugs in setup script.
  • Fixed pypi bugs.