ZenPhoto

• Security enhancements [sbillard]
  Note particularly that the “Ajax” editing on the front end is disabled by default. It may be enabled from the gallery options tab. In addition, the new album and delete links in the Admin Toolbox will be absent unless gallery sessions are enabled.
• File manager moved from button on Zenpage admin pages to a subtab of the upload tab for IE compatibility reasons [sbillard]
• Rights refinements for managed albums [sbillard]
  
• Several Imagick improvements [sbillard, kagutsuchi]
• Admin bulk checkbox actions for albums, images, comments [acrylian, sbillard]
• Several RSS improvements [acrylian]
• RSS-comments feed now also covers Zenpage item comments (rss-news-comments.php has been removed) [acrylian]
• Codeblocks for albums and images [sbillard, acrylian]
  
• Plugins
  • Security logger [sbillard]
  • Automated dababase backups [sbillard]
  • Menu manager: Admin bulk actions [acrylian, sbillard]
  • Comment_form improvements [sbillard]
  • user_mailing list utility improved and BCC lists added [sbillard]
  • TinyMCE editor
    • Now a real plugin [acrylian, sbillard]
    • tinyZenpage full image link option [acrylian]
    • Support for individual configuration files [acrylian, sbillard]
  • Hitcounter updates [sbillard, kagutsuchi]
  • Zenpage CMS plugin:
    • Admin bulk actions [acrylian, sbillard]
    • Sticky news articles [sbillard, acrylian]
    • CombiNews mode: Sorting for mtime sort order improved [acrylian]
      
  • Slideshow flash mode fixed plus transitions improved [acrylian - Thanks to fretzl]
  • jCarousel_thumb_nav plugin: Vertical mode option/parameter added [acrylian, fretzl]
    
• Various other improvements and fixes are listed on the trunk

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IMPORTANT: Beginning with this release we are skipping testing for PHP 4 and MySQL 4. We do all developing on PHP 5.2+ and MySQL 5.0+. We will not deliberately invalidate using these older versions; however, we are are not able to test on the older software versions anymore due to a lack of resources. Thanks for understanding. Let us know on the forum and bugtracker if serious problems surface.

• Imagick support [kagutsuchi - very special thanks for helping us getting this finally done!]
• Plugins
  • Menu manager [sbillard, acrylian]
  • Quota manager [sbillard]
  • Image upload limiter [acrylian - partly sponsored by saundstu]
  • Hitcounter (now a plugin) [sbillard]
  • Tags from album [acrylian]
  • seo_locale [sbillard]
    
  • Sitemap extended [acrylian, based on previous work by Tenzer and timo, with contribution by Blue Dragonfly]
  • jCarousel thumb nav [acrylian]
  • Zenpage improvement [acrylian, sbillard - Thanks to Blue Dragonfly]
  • TinyMCE updated to 3.3.2
  • Flowplayer3 playlist: Mousewheel support re-added [acrylian]
  • Google maps updated [sbillard]
  • Wordpress importer (Admin utility) [acrylian]
  • User_mailing_list (Admin utility) [acrylian]
  • Now unsupported:
    • flvplayer
    • Trackback
    • filter example plugins
    • flag_thumbnail
    • comment_filter
    • effenberger_effects
• Individual image watermarks [sbillard]
• Cache improvements [sbillard]
• GPS data extraction improvements [sbillard]
• Zenpage password protection [sbillard]
• User rights improvements and fixes [sbillard]
• lib-auth.php objectified to allow custom authentication implementations [sbillard]
• RSS album password leak fixed [acrylian]
• Improvements and some design changes for Zenpage theme, plus jCarousel thumb nav and menu manager support [acrylian]
• jQuery reverted to 1.4.1 because 1.4.2 broke our backend sorting script / jQuery UI 1.8 update [sbillard, acrylian]
• Proper XML/XHTML escaping for JavaScript code (especially required by Webkit based browsers) [sbillard, acrylian]
• Many minor fixes and improvements

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• pclzip.lib updated to current version [sbillard]
• Backend and frontend HTML validation fixes [sbillard, acrylian]
• Nested album backend sorting [sbillard, acrylian]
• Latest three news articles from zenphoto.org on backend overview page [sbillard, acrylian]
• Update of default JS libary jQuery to 1.4.2 with jQuery UI 1.7.2 [sbillard, acrylian]
• Sorting improvements [sbillard]
• Default cropping improvements (uses the law of thirds now) [sbillard]
• RSS now works with https [sbillard, acrylian]
• New RSS mode “AlbumsRSSCollection” (Latest (sub)albums from within specific album) [acrylian]
• EXIF fixes [sbillard]
• Dynamic album improvements [sbillard]
• Colorbox replaces Thickbox as default “box” JS script [acrylian]
• User management improvements [sbillard]
• Setup improvements [sbillard]
• Interlace option for resized images [sbillard]
• Zenpage-default theme renamed to just Zenpage theme
• Plugins
  • Zenpage plugin improvements
    • Custom thumb cropping for CombiNews mode [acrylian]
    • New CombiNews mode: Latest images by album [acrylian]
    • Sort order and direction parameter for next_news() loop(“title” or “date” descending or ascending) [acrylian]
  • Flowplayer3 plugin: Content does not autoplay regardless if disabled anymore [acrylian]
• Translations included
  • Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese [fatman]
  • French [fetard]
  • Italian [iacchi]
  • Dutch [fretzl]
  • Polish  [mironb]
  • Serbian [JovianT]
  • Spanish - General [mikeque,C32]
  • Swedish [pischla]
  • Galician [anxobotana]
  • Japanese [momo-i]
  • German [acrylian]
• Lots of minor fixes and improvements. Full list

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• Major bugfix for accidentally deleted image descriptions when refreshing meta data [sbillard]
• Search and tags for Zenpage pages and news articles [sbillard]
• Plugins:
  • Image_album_statistics plugin: first image link option [acrylian]
• Themes
  • Zenpage search support in Efferscence+ [sbillard]
  • Zenpage search and tags support in Zenpage-default [acrylian]
  • Lots of minor bugfixes and improvements

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• Admin_general_data filters [sbillard]
• Strong Password enforcement option [sbillard]
• Admin multifile upload improvements [sbillard]
• Optionally exclude script pages from the gallery password protection [sbillard]
• Move/Copy/Rename improvements [sbillard]
• Admin backend layout improvements [acrylian, sbillard]
• Setup improvements [sbillard]
• Database quick reference PDF included [acrylian]
• RSS improvements, static feed caching and https server protocol option [acrylian]
• Removes deprecated functions to a new plugin [sbillard]
• Theme-customizable password form [sbillard]
• Allow font selection for the captcha characters [sbillard]
• Gallery description added as standard to all included themes [acrylian]
• Individual default thumbs for multimedia files [acrylian]
• User rights refinements [sbillard]
• Plugins
  • Implements filters for the register_user so that plugins can trap the form and the acceptance and verification of a user [sbillard]
  • seoFriendlyURL_js filter for customizing the js character filtering [sbillard]
  • xmpMetadata plugin [sbillard]
  • Integrate register_user plugin with user_groups plugin allowing assignment of a group/template to a newly verified user [sbillard]
  • user_logout plugin renamed to user_login_out [sbillard]
  • FLV Player plugin update to v4.5. Support for v3 is now abandoned. Note: The actual files for the player plugin are no longer included in the release due to license considerations [acrylian, sbillard]
  • filter admin_utilities_buttons [sbillard]
  • effenberger_effects plugin (image HTML filters demo) [sbillard]
  • slideshow plugin improvements and fixes for flash mode [acrylian]
  • flag_thumbnail plugin to mark protected and unpublished images or albums [sbillard]
  • flowplayer3/flowplayer3_playlist plugins improvements [acrylian]
  • static html cache now deletes outdated files before recreating [acrylian]
  • Updates google maps plugin for Google Maps API version 2 [sbillard]
  • print_album_menu: New parameter point to the first image instead the album page plus some backend options [acrylian, sbillard]
  • trackback comment plugin [acrylian, sbillard]
  • PHPMailer class plugin (POP & SMTP athorization) (PHP5 only!) [sbillard]
  • Zenpage improvements [acrylian, sbillard]
  • paged_thumbs_nav plugin now based on a class for more layout flexibility [acrylian, sbillard]
  • image_album_statistics: New parameter to call album stats from a specific album’s subalbums [acrylian]
    
• Implements separation of Zenphoto standard items from third party/user produced items [sbillard]
  • No items other than official Zenphoto scripts and other files should reside in the zp-core folders.
  • Third party/user Watermarks, Plugins, and other scripts should be placed in the root ‘plugins’ folder (Watermarks in a subfolder named ‘watermarks’, scripts such as a lib-auth.php replacement in a folder named ‘alt’, captcha and spamfilters in the appropriate subfolders.)
  • Content from the root plugins folder is intelligently merged with similar Zenphoto content. Zenphoto files have precedence over root plugin one, but of course it is always best to maintain unique names.
• Translations updates (Thanks to our translators!) (view)
• NOTE: Flowplayer plugin (using v2) no longer included
• NOTE: Example theme no longer included as a standard theme

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The RC1 of 1.2.6 has been released for testing. You can download it here:

1.2.6 RC1 (Zip) or (Tar.gz)

Please note:With 1.2.6 Zenphoto raises its requirements! It now requires PHP 4.4.8 or above and MySQL 4 or above (PHP5+ or MySQL 5+ recommended). It still may work on older versions but we are not able to test or support those anymore.

Additionally, the version number of all distributed official plugins and themes now has been changed to reflect the release package version, in this case of course 1.2.6.

• PHP5 error trapping (on PHP5 servers) [sbillard]
• Image rotation for full images [sbillard]
• Individual watermarks for albums [sbillard]
• Resized images are left in their original type rather than converted to JPEG [sbillard]
• Setup provides robot.txt file [sbillard]
• New folder zp-data for Zenphoto data (zp-config.php and logs) [sbillard]
• RSS validation improvements [acrylian]
• Admin backend tab rearrangements [sbillard, acrylian]
• Rights management improvements [sbillard]
• Many new filters–see the plugin architecture document [sbillard, acrylian]
• Plugins:
  • NEW: user group management plugin [sbillard]
  • NEW: comment_form (comments are now a plugin) [sbillard]
  • NEW: image mass-edit plugin [sbillard]
  • NEW: filter-login–creates security log of login attempts (also provides general log viewing tab on the back-end.) [sbillard]
  • Rating: improvements [sbillard]
  • paged_thumbs_nav: multilingual update [acrylian]
  • Slideshow: Improvements [sbillard, acrylian]
  • print_album_menu: improvements and image and subalbum counter [sbillard, acrylian]
• Standard themes support for commonly used plugins [sbillard]
• and as always many other bugfixes. See all

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• Exifer libary fixes [Special thanks to bharat of the Menalto Gallery team]
• Additional filters [sbillard]
• Options for gray images [sbillard]
• jQuery datepicker for date fields [sbillard, acrylian]
• RSS improvements [acrylian]
• ngettext() now used for plurals translations [sbillard]
• Plugin to allow cropping of images [sbillard]
• Admin backend improvements [sbillard, acrylian]
• Search improvements [sbillard]
• Cookie/session handling improvemens [sbillard]
• Implemention of Uploadify multi file upload [sbillard, acrylian]
• Plugins
  • Rating plugin now jQueryfied [sbillard]
  • print_album_menu restructuring [sbillard]
  • html_meta_tag plugin [acrylian, sbillard]
  • flowplayer3 playlist plugin [acrylian]
  • Slideshow now can optionally be called directly [acrylian, sponsored by fretzl]
  • page_thumbs_nav plugin improvements [acrylian]
  • zenpage improvements [sbillard, acrylian]
• Lots of other bugfixes (full list)

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• Passwords for protected images [sbillard]
• Setup improvements: File/folder permissions security [sbillard]
• Gallery statistics extended for tags and Zenpage items [acrylian]
• Mixed field/tag searches in boolean expressions [sbillard]
• Media RSS improvements, RSS for latest albums [acrylian]
• A little admin design modernization [acrylian]
• filter for comment posting [sbillard]
• plugins
  • New: Flowplayer 3 [acrylian]
  • Zenpage now included as official plugin
    • Performance improvements [sbillard]
    • More internal restructuring and integration with Zenphoto [sbillard,acrylian]
    • Content scheduling and expiration [sbillard, acrylian]
    • Some pure theme related plugin options moved to theme options [sbillard ,acrylian]
    • Zenpage setup integrated with main Zenphoto setup [sbillard]
    • Zenpage default theme
      • Homepage option to choose any unpublished page [sbillard,acrylian]
      • Thickbox theme option [acrylian]
  • paged_thumbs_nav: search mode support [acrylian]
  • contact_form: multilingual support [acrylian]
  • flvplayer: Now incorporates the former flv_playlist plugin [acrylian]
• and as always lots of minor bugfixes and improvements (full list)

Note: Some plugins that were included officially before have been removed from the package. They have actually been third party contributions by users that have gone elsewhere so we cannot support them anymore. These can now be found on the Zenphoto plugins page.

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• IPTC character encoding recognition [sbillard]
• scriptaculous and prototype dropped,  jQuery is now the default libary for Ajax and JS functionality [ozh]
• Admin backend improvements [sbillard]
• Admin backend theme editor [ozh]
• MaxSpace image functions improvements [sbillard]
• RSS enhancements and improvements: Subscription for single image or album comments, Media RSS support, validation [acrylian, sbillard, pheno7]
• Google Earth plugin cleanup and improvements [babar, sbillard]
• viewer resize image without page reload [petersendidit]
• Unsharp parameters to image display options [sbillard]
• Admin utilities
  • Gallery statistics [acrylian]
  • Backup_restore: Compressionlevel [sbillard]
• Plugins
  • Flv player: Option for Player version 3 or 4 [acrylian]
  • Image_album_statistics: Custom size/crop parameters, “collection” mode [acrylian]
  • Slideshow: Now working in search mode [sbillard]
  • Static_html_cache: Exclude option for specific pages [acrylian]
  • New filter plugin type [ozh, sbillard]
• Plus many general bugfixes and improvements as always

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• Utilities: (a new type of ‘plugin’ for the back-end)
  • backup/restore–backup & restore your zenphoto database [sbillard]
  • Schedule content–control when objects are published [sbillard]
• Plugins:
  • Admin toolbox–provides the ability to add user defined links [sbillard]
  • class-textobject–”Plugin” custom image handler (example). Extend the kinds of data formats zenphoto can process [sbillard]
  • register_user–allow site visitors to apply for a user ID [sbillard]
  • viewer_sized_images–allow site visitors to select the size image to view [sbillard]
• Enhancements:
  • Search for EXIF field items [sbillard]
  • Select which EXIF fields are shown [sbillard]
  • ‘AND’, ‘OR’, and ‘NOT’ are now useable in searches (in addition to &, |, and !) [sbillard]
  • arbitrary cropping and crop user interface [sbillard, acrylian]
  • Select fields to search at time of search [sbillard]
  • EXIF data now shown with the image on the admin/edit page [sbillard]
  • Automatic EXIF image rotation [sbillard]
  • TinyMCE editing of backend textareas [sbillard, acrylian]
• Backend performance improvements [sbillard]
• Internal charset encoding improvements [sbillard, krainbolt]
• Hitcounter now enabled by default [sbillard]
• Numerous other fixes

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