phpMyFAQ News from 2005

2005-12-19


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the release of phpMyFAQ 1.5.5. This release introduces support for MaxDB, better keywords handling, and an admin search by record ID. The language detection was rewritten, and the Italian translation was updated. We also fixed a lot of minor bugs.

2005-11-18


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.4. This release fixes multiple Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest version! A detailed security advisory is available. This version also adds full support for IBM DB2 databases, re-ordering of sub-categories, and a Firefox/Mozilla search plugin. The Hebrew, Simplified Chinese, Spanish translation, Italian, Japanese, and Danish translations were updated. It also includes some minor improvements and many minor bugfixes.

2005-10-15


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the release of phpMyFAQ 1.5.3. This release adds several security enhancements and a Greek translation. The RSS feeds and the backup/restore frontend were improved. The Indonesian translation and the bundled Net_IDNA class were updated. We also fixed a lot of minor bugs.

2005-09-23


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.2. This release fixes some serious security issues like SQL injection, takeover, path disclosure, and remote code execution. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest version! A detailed security advisory is available. This version also fixes many minor bugs, has better compliance to phpMyFAQ 1.4.x templates, and SQLite support is now stable.

2005-09-19


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the release of phpMyFAQ 1.5.1. This release adds experimental support for SQLite and a dynamic sitemap. A Norwegian Bokmål translation was added, and an improved image handling in PDF export was implemented. Some minor bugfixes were made too.

2005-08-20


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0. After almost one year of development and seven release candidates, this new version features support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, Sybase, and MS SQL databases. phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 has also support for LDAP, and additionally, there's an experimental support for IBM DB2 databases. Now FAQ articles can be added to more than one category, and we support search engine-friendly URLs with mod_rewrite. The template engine is faster, and the PDF export was completely rewritten. Besides the better RSS support, you can export your complete FAQs to XML, XHTML, DocBook XML, and PDF.

2005-08-15


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the releases of phpMyFAQ 1.4.11 and 1.5.0 RC7. These releases had been made to fix a security-related issue. phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 RC7 also includes several fixes and adds support for IBM DB2. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest version! A detailed security advisory is available.

2005-08-01 The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the releases of phpMyFAQ 1.4.10. This release had been made to get fully compatible with PHP 4.4.0.

2005-07-31


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 RC6. This version adds a rewritten DocBook XML export class, fixes PostgreSQL sequence errors, PHP 4.4.0 reference issues, and the update script. This RC includes also an improved category performance and an updated French language file. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-06-29


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the releases of phpMyFAQ 1.4.9 and 1.5.0 RC5. These releases had been made to fix a security-related issue. All users of affected phpMyFAQ versions are encouraged to upgrade as soon as possible to this latest version! A detailed security advisory is available.

2005-05-14


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 RC4. This version includes an experimental support for MySQL 4.1/5.0 using the PHP5 MySQLi extension. It also features the new default XHTML design and fixes many, many minor bugfixes. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-04-11


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the releases of phpMyFAQ 1.4.8. This release had been made to fix some minor bugfixes in the PDF export and the RSS exports. The Japanese and Korean language files were updated too.

2005-03-20


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 RC3. This version included bugfixes for Sybase, categories, and many minor fixes. Please don't forget the layout isn't finished yet. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-03-06


The phpMyFAQ team is pleased to announce the releases of phpMyFAQ 1.4.7 and 1.5.0 RC2. These releases had been made to fix a security-related issue. A detailed security advisory is available.

2005-02-24


The first release candidate of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 is available. This version fixes a bug in the update script, fixes some bugs in RSS feeds and in full-text search. The French language file was updated. Some minor bugfixes are included too. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-02-20


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.4.6. This version includes updated French and Polish translations. Some bugs were fixed too.

2005-02-05


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 beta3. This version included an updated bundled htmlArea version 3.0 RC3, some PostgreSQL related fixes, some LDAP related fixes, some fixes for better accessibility, and many minor bugfixes. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-01-30


The second beta version of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 is ready. This release contains a lot of bugfixes. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-01-22


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.4.5. This version corrects the Japanese and Chinese translations. Some bugs were fixed too.

2005-01-16


The phpMyFAQ Team would like to announce the availability of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 beta1. This version introduces experimental support for MSSQL servers and features lots of bugfixes. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

2005-01-07


The second alpha version of phpMyFAQ 1.5.0 is available. This version is PHP5 compatible, introduces ISAPI_rewrite for IIS webservers, and a faster template engine. LDAP support is now a selectable option, and the traditional Chinese and Japanese language files were updated. Besides some code improvements, we fixed a lot of bugs. Do not use this version in production systems, but test this version and report bugs!

Back to the news overview