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minhnn
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[ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4_04 released on 18 June, 2005

MyVietnam Group are pleased to announce the latest and greatest release mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4_04.

Note: RC4_04 is a forth bug fixed release of RC4. This release also fix a security bug so please upgrade to RC4_04 if you are using RC4, RC4_01, RC4_02 or RC4_03 . Detail of the bug is in this link http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforum/viewthread?thread=3085

mvnForum is a open source, powerful, easy to use, easy to setup bulletin board (forum) built on the J2EE technology(Jsp/Servlet). mvnForum is compatible with any Servlet Container which supports Jsp 1.2 and Servlet 2.3.

mvnFourm is a free, opensource software released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. It means that you could use it free of charge to build your own communities.

With 21 new features, 56 major improvements and 22 bugs fixed, RC4 is really the greatest release and ready for the version 1.0 GA. We will continue to improve the documentation and fix reported bug the next 1.0 GA, which will be released in about 1 month.

21 new Features

Private Mesage
Admin can send Public Message to all members
Support Sticky/Annoucement/GlobalAnnoucement thread type
Localize the message in Java files
Support Compression Filter for fastest tranferation on the network (enabled by default) (thread=1889)
Advanced Member Search with Lucene in the User Management
Support RSS 2.0 + Atom (including sorting option)
Most active threads in the week (or last 7 days)
Most active users in the week (or last 7 days)
Support spam prevention initiative by Google (rel="nofollow") http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
Implement MemberInvisiable feature (enable with option enable_invisible_users)
Admin Zone: Log file Management in Admin zone to view/download/delete/backup any log file in the log folder
Admin Zone: a new page to show permission summary
Admin Zone: A new page to view cumulative permissions of any member and groups that is user belong to (thread=1974)
Admin Zone: Admin can turn on/off the access to the User area (such as for maintanence or urgent situation)
Admin Zone: Show Forum Uptime
Admin Zone: A new page to delete non activated members with no posts based on the registration day
Admin Zone: a new page that admin can change password (note that noone can change password of root admin)
Admin Zone: add new page to allow admin edit member information
Admin Zone: add new page to edit the freemarker template files
Admin Zone: new option to send email to all members in any group

56 Improvements

Now support JDK 1.3 (RC3 require JDK 1.4)
Change localization to use the JSTL (no more each folder for each languages)
Support search post by date.
Support search all posts with attachment count option
Support 3 option when search post: [O] Both Title and body [0] Title only [0] Body only
Show paperclip icon if thread/post has attachment (thread=1357)
In UserManagement, show number of Enabled/Disabled Members, Activated/NonActivated Members
Admin can upload attachment and PM attachment with unlimited size
Show the max upload size in the upload attachment page
New images/emoticon in mvnForum
Add icon near category name in listforums to show/hide forums in that category
Add link to set permissions to group in the groupmanagement
Download attachment now use new method to avoid the memory contraint
Show the color of quota bar based on percentage of usage
New configurable to turn on/off statistics information in index and listforums
New configurable <default_guest_timezone> to set the default timezone for Guest (thread=2646)
Upgrade Config page in Admin zone, now support all configuable parameters
Rename the Index name to standard name in sql script
Search Lucene index summary and new optimized rebuild process (avoid bug when rebuild too much posts)
Admin can view first Email and first IP of any users
Improve Configuration Backup File (mvncore.xml, mvnforum.xml)
Use Javascript for the login and other pages require password to submit when press Enter key (thread=2212)
In Admin zone in viewmember, show the number of watches of that user
Each edit screen of configuration now have a Cancel button (thread=1972)
Watch mail now use the time that based on both timezone and locale (thread=2489)
Add legend icon to forum, thread, private message
Show forum type and forum moderation mode in the forummanagement
Admin can view IP of user in User area and Admin area
Support remember Vietnamese keyboard via cookie
Show IP and time of last login in the header
Add configurable parameter enable_duplicate_onlineusers. When set it equals false, then the duplicate session are combined (thread=1314) (thread=589)
Now the Lucene's Analyzer can be configured in mvnforum.xml
If a moderator creates a thread in moderated forum, the threads/posts are automatically approved.
New link to Enable/Disable user in viewmember in Admin zone.
Javascript checking for checkGoodName (in LoginName and FolderName)
[Source code] Remove a lot of warning code with the Eclipse compiler
Add new configurable parameter (enable_guest_view_image_attachment) to allow guest to view image attach (thread=2469)
[i18n] Now all template files are loaded and saved with encoding utf-8
Support many new configuration parameter to let you customize mvnForum to suit your need
Limit the post length in the index.jsp (value can be configed)
Support Send Mail preview
Support new logging library http://jlo.jzonic.org (Because JRun does not support Log4J)
Now ObjectNotFoundException is catched and re-throw with friendly message to the user (thread=2365)
Show the lucene's index document count and compare with the record count in the database
Support edit attachment description
Show listforums in listrecentthreads if we enable option enable_portal_like_index_page
Add new tasks in build.xml to checking the missing resource key in jsp and java files
In Forum Management, show disabled forum with different color
Write a jsp file to test database. To use, just change testdatabase.jsp.txt to testdatabase.jsp
[Database] Change the attachment description to type TEXT to store more than 255 characters
Improve the truncate of String (split at nearest work break)
Begin to add support for localization in pages in the Admin Zone (not fully localized)
Admin zone: Validate data at server side for configuration page (Check if class can be loaded, mvnForumHome is writable)
When click link sendactivationcode in MyProfile, the MemberName and MemberEmail are auto filled with current user's data
Tags [color] and other mvnCode tag now work in rank title in viewthread (and other pages too) (thread=2232)
URL are now linkable in viewmember in Admin Zone

22 Bug Fixed

Fix bug that the offset is not caculated correctly if parameter lastpase=yes (this is one of the most famous bug of mvnForum)
Fix bug that does not delete cookie on Firefox
Fix issue caused by some DBMS such as Oracle, postgreSQL: the comparison is case-sensitive
Fix bug, now only activated members can receive watch
Do not init mvnForum if no members (in case database is corrupted)
When use Realm or Customization authentication, now the check current password work well (thread=2226)
Fix bug that show incorrect member count in group Member if Guest user does not exist.
Fix bug that wrong server path in email if server is behide a proxy (thread=2466)
Fix bug that not use max_edit_days param in the editpost
Fix javascript bug caused by vietuni.js when run on browser Konquerer
Fix bug that press Enter will by bypass the Javascript checking
Fix bug with encoding when sending email, now force utf-8
Fix bug in TimerUtil: now catch IllegalStateException and try to reload the Timer (thread=1393)
Problem with WebSphere (WAS 5) in the inc_pager.jsp (thread=2442)
Fix bug that in the Admin section, in config pages, the passwords are clear text. (thread=2206)
Now the number of posts/threads/forums/categories is correctly shown based current user permission (thread=2216)
Now MAX_ATTACHMENT_SIZE = -1 means no limit on the attachment file size (thread=2196)
Fix bug that hard code the maxAttachDays = 1 (thread=2264)
Now do not show category if current user cannot or dont have permission to view any forums
Fix bug that increase the FloodControl of login even if user logined sucessfully.
Fix bug that causes NullPointerException in forgotpassword on Oracle
Fix bug that delete member does not delete the avatar

Library Update

Upgrade Dom4J from version 1.4 to 1.5.2
Upgrade Lucene from version 1.4-final to 1.4.3
Upgrade JavaMail from version 1.3.1 to 1.3.2
Upgrade jcaptcha from version beta2 to RC1 to support JDK 1.3
Upgrade hsqldb (embeded dbms) from version 1.7.2 final to 1.7.2_10
Upgrade JTDS driver (for MS SqlServer and Sybase) from version 0.8.1 to 1.0
Upgrade MySql driver from version 3.0.14-production to 3.0.16-ga
Add new MySql driver version 3.1.6 (for MySql 4.1.x)
Remove the old mm MySql driver (mm.mysql-2.0.14-bin.jar)

To download it, please visit http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforumweb/download.jsp

Thanks all for your support, rose

Minh Nguyen
www.MyVietnam.net
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[Jan 29, 2005 12:14:02 PM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

强烈建议大家使用RC4
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[Jan 31, 2005 1:52:53 AM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

great
thx for minhnn's work
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[Feb 2, 2005 1:35:02 AM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

Just now I succesfully upgraded from rc2, simple and easy (almost).

In the sql upgrade process I was looking for the sql upgrades, but i did not find any rc2 -> rc4, its hidden in the rc3 -> rc4 folder.
mvnForum_update_oracle8.sql.

I got an error on "ALTER TABLE mvnforumAttachment MODIFY AttachDesc LONG VARCHAR NOT NULL ;", because the col attachdesc is not empty. It works fine whitout this modification.

The new version is working fine!

Thank you and keep on developing!

ps. I'am still looking for better documentation.

cheers

[Feb 2, 2005 3:40:43 AM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

I just want to comment that the
mvnforum.common.member.name_visible = Name Visible
in the language files may be misleading.

This parameter-description obviously means if you want others to see if you are online, not to hide your real name when you look at the profile. Maby a the text should change to "Show your nickname in onlineusers list"?

[Feb 2, 2005 8:57:51 AM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

I am using JRun4, now with one of my appliactions and am using Log4J....

What were the problems with JRun

Support new logging library http://jlo.jzonic.org (Because JRun does not support Log4J)

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[Feb 4, 2005 5:53:10 PM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

I got an error on "ALTER TABLE mvnforumAttachment MODIFY AttachDesc LONG VARCHAR NOT NULL ;", because the col attachdesc is not empty. It works fine whitout this modification.

Please try this sql, I hope it will run well:
ALTER TABLE mvnforumAttachment MODIFY AttachDesc LONG VARCHAR ;

I just want to comment that the
mvnforum.common.member.name_visible = Name Visible
in the language files may be misleading.

Thanks, I note it to find better words smile

I would to know how to place a picture for my Avar; a.s.a.p. if possible: love always, Fr:

Please go to MyProfile -> Change my Avatar

What were the problems with JRun

Really? quite strange, could you tell me how to config mvnForum to output to log file in Jrun ?
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[Feb 8, 2005 1:30:41 PM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

强烈建议大家使用RC4

怎么是越南的？这位兄弟是中国滴吧？用了mvnforum感觉怎么样？
不知道这个mvnforum是不是放出个基础版本，然后叫大家定制然后收费呢？

[Feb 21, 2005 10:50:23 AM]

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wmj2003
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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4 released (opensource Jsp/Servlet forum)

强烈建议大家使用RC4

怎么是越南的？这位兄弟是中国滴吧？用了mvnforum感觉怎么样？
不知道这个mvnforum是不是放出个基础版本，然后叫大家定制然后收费呢？

呵呵，还不错，应该说不会收费的，这个论坛的源代码比较容易理解。到时候可以根据这个自己来修改嘛。
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[Feb 25, 2005 5:54:22 PM]

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Re: [ANN] mvnForum 1.0.0 RC4_02 released on 24 Feb, 2005

hello, i deploy successful mvnForum in my machine. who can tell me how to login with admin. i visit http://localhost:8080/mvnforum/admin/index.jsp. mvnForum hint me only admin can visit this page. how to solve it .thank in advance

[Mar 30, 2005 4:04:27 PM]

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