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[ANN] mvnForum 1.1 GA (General Availability) released on 30 January, 2008
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MyVietnam Group are pleased to announce the latest and greatest release mvnForum 1.1 GA. After more than 6 years of active development, now mvnForum 1.1 GA has the great production quality.
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 30 new features, 22 major improvements and 6 bugs fixed, 1.1 GA is really the great release with high production quality in the forum software market today. We will continue to improve the documentation and fix reported bug the next release 1.1.1, which will be released in about 2 month.
30 new Features
- [enterprise] Add Album feature (similar to Google Picasa Web)
- [enterprise] Add Poll feature
- [enterprise] Add Applet to upload the screenshot
- [enterprise] Built-in support LDAP (OpenLDAP, Active Directory), any attribute can be configured to be stored in database or LDAP
- [enterprise] Sub category, now category can be child of any other category
- [enterprise] Support Request Private Forums
- [enterprise] Support Watch Email Gateway (reply to a thread via email)
- [enterprise] Add Banned IP Management
- [enterprise] Add Banned Username Management
- [enterprise] Add Banned Email Management
- [enterprise] Add Banned Word Management
- [enterprise] Add Event Log Management
- [enterprise] Add Report Statistics
- XHTML 1.0 Compliant
- Internationalize the Admin area
- Support permission Moderate User (can reset avatar, reset signature, disable user, etc)
- Support max password day, now user will be reminded if he did not change password in n day
- Search post now support sorting by Relevance, Date Ascending or Date Descending
- Support Quick Reply in viewthread
- Search attachment
- Support send mail using built-in SMTP Mail Server
- [Security] Support checking max posts per hour per member name
- Admin can now edit the CSS file and see the preview of the changes
- Split a thread into 2 threads
- Add config in mvncore.xml so that user can add customized TimerTask
- Add new page to list attachments
- Support Regulation page before registration (enable it in mvnforum.xml with key )
- Support Single (non-digest) Watch option
- Support who are browsing a thread or a forum
- Support the owner of forum. The owner have full permission on his forum
22 Improvements
- When update the configuration files (mvnforum.xml, mvncore.xml), we also reload it
- Add help of the mvnCode (BB Code)
- Now can compile with JDK 1.6 (JDBC4 issue)
- Add help when change thread status, now user can see help of active/disabled/locked, closed thread
- Support Easy Watching: mvnForum show if you are watching thread/forum/category or not
- After login, we redirected to the previous page
- Add prettify.js to enable highlight of source code when add post
- Major changes in the initialization code, now move from UserForumServlet to LifeCycleService classes
- Add support for always activated email in some cases for integration with other systems
- Now we can upload many attachment files at the same time
- Add help icon to explain the combined permission
- When add post, we can have option to set ThreadPriority
- After addpost, jump to new post: add #postID to the link (addpostsuccess.jsp)
- Change the command in each post in viewthread to use icon
- Add new parameter watch_email in mvnforum.xml, now watch email will be sent from this account
- Add new icon legends for threads and forums
- Add many options in mvnforum.xml to show/hide each information of member
- Now check current password in the customized authentication is supported
- Add javascript to enable the button when user use the Back button of browser
- Use default relative path in mvnforum.xml and log4j.properties
- Support image thumbnail in viewthread page
- Add option in mvnforum.xml to support default WatchType
6 Bug Fixed
- Fix fatal error in RSS page if forum/category is not existed
- Now add timestamp for all captcha to prevent caching
- If the forum does not has any thread, the icon should show no new thread
- Clear MemberCache when update member avatar or signature
- does not update the statistics of threads/posts in listforums when adding new post
- Now allow edit forum name and category name with different case
Library Update
- Now require JDK 1.4
- Add Aspirin
- Add DNSJava 2.0.5
- Upgrade JavaMail from version 1.3.3_01 to 1.4.1
- Upgrade Log4J from version 1.2.8 to 1.2.15
- Upgrade Common Logging from version 1.0.1 to 1.1.1
- Upgrade Common Lang from version 2.0 to 2.3
- Upgrade Common IO from version 1.1 to 1.3.2
- Upgrade Common Codec from version 1.1 to 1.3
- Upgrade Common BeanUtils from version 1.4.1 to 1.7.0
- Upgrade MySql driver Connector/J from version 3.1.13 to 3.1.14
- Upgrade JTDS driver from version 1.2.1 to 1.2.2
- Upgrade postgreSQL driver from version 8.2-506.jdbc3 to 8.2-507.jdbc3
- Upgrade hsqldb driver from version 1.8.0.7 to 1.8.0.9
- Upgrade WhirlyCache from version 0.7.1 to 1.0.1
- Upgrade Java Activation Framework from version 1.0 to 1.0.2
- Upgrade Lucene from version 1.4.3 to 2.2.0
To download it, please visit http://www.mvnforum.com/mvnforumweb/download.jsp
Thanks all for your support, 
Minh Nguyen
www.MyVietnam.net
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Minh Nguyen
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