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SimplePortal 2.3.1

The SimplePortal Team is happy to announce the release of SimplePortal 2.3.1. This release includes several fixes for bugs found in the 2.3 version and some essential minor features.

We are also pleased to announce that SimplePortal is now the first publicly released SMF portal to officially support SMF 2 RC2 and Curve! You can take advantage of running SimplePortal on RC2 now if you are a SMF Charter Member, or when it becomes available to the public. If you aren't a SMF Charter Member, then SimplePortal 2.3.1 supports SMF 2 RC1.2 as well.

We urge all users to upgrade to SimplePortal 2.3.1 as soon as possible to take advantage of the bug fixes. A summary of the fixes and features is as follows:

Fixes

• Image resizing issues in SMF 1.1.
• 'Can add article' permission was ignored.
• Shoutbox allowed empty shouts.
• Shoutbox didn't censor text.
• Disabled the AEVA mod in the shoutbox.
• Php validator required absolute file include paths.
• Db errors with Postgresql and Sqlite for SMF 2.
• Issues with the menu blocks display.
• Restricting the number of smileys shown on the shoutbox.
• Shoutbox refresh was record as a page view.

Features

• Compatibility with SMF 2 RC2 and Curve.
• The SMF 2 installer can now seamlessly upgrade your SimplePortal data from SMF 1.1.

A full list of changes for 2.3.1 can be found in the changelog.txt file within the SimplePortal package.

For users that are currently running SimplePortal 2.3; you can upgrade to 2.3.1 using the SimplePortal 2.3.1 installation package.

If you are running an older version, you can upgrade by following these three steps. You shouldn't lose any data, but for safety, you should always back up before modifying your forum.

• Uninstall SimplePortal.
• Download SimplePortal 2.3.1.
• Install SimplePortal 2.3.1, and you are ready to go!

SimplePortal 2.3

The SimplePortal Team is now celebrating the long awaited release of SimplePortal 2.3! The build up to this release has been long and we would like to thank our many dedicated supporters for their patience and continued support during the development of this version. The SimplePortal Team is as excited as you are by this release. We hope that you enjoy using it!

What's new?

Custom Pages
Our new version of SimplePortal comes with the new custom pages feature. With this feature you can create custom BBC, HTML and PHP pages, building a website around your forum. These pages have an advanced permission system, as well as the ability to quickly swap between page types. You can also set a unique search engine friendly page id for each page, which can be used to access the page instead of numeric ids.

Shoutboxes
One of the most popular feature requests that we have received is the shoutbox block. The SimplePortal Development Team has recognized this by creating the shoutbox block and extending it beyond the original requests, as usual, including an advanced but easy to use shoutboxe feature. Now you will be able to create an unlimited number of full AJAX shoutboxes for your forum. You can limit the usuable BBC tags in each shoutbox, put a nice warning above it, set custom permissions, and make it automatically refresh based on a set interval.

And more...
Apart from the two main features, there have been great improvements to the architecture of SimplePortal which will allow us include modules more quickly, making it easier for you to customize your portal. In addition, a new block, Top Member Stats, was added and some blocks were improved. Of course, this version fixes all the bugs reported from the 2.2.2 version as well!

Upgrading from older versions
There has been a large development jump with many code and feature changes. Because of this, you will have to uninstall older versions of SimplePortal, if you have any installed. None of your SimplePortal data will be lost from SimplePortal 2.x versions, as the uninstall process will preserve your settings, blocks and articles.

Three easy steps to upgrade your portal!

Uninstall your old version of SimplePortal.Download SimplePortal 2.3 from one of the download locations above.Install SimplePortal 2.3, and you are ready to go!

What's in store for the future?
In the next versions of SimplePortal, the main focus will be on creating a complete article system and improving our block system. Since this version turns SimplePortal into a more modular structure, you can expect more features in the near future.

Thanks for reading! We hope that you enjoy using SimplePortal as much as we continue to enjoy creating and supporting it!




Regards,
The SimplePortal Team