Authors:

cg   = Christoph Gutjahr
indy = Sven Drieling
mact = Marc Albrecht
mf   = Marco Frischkorn
pab  = Philippe Bourdin

23.10.2023 (cg)
- no longer sets "show_email" to 1 when creating a new user. Turns out this
  setting was still used in the comments area. *facepalm*

03.08.2023 (cg)

- HTML code no longer refers to the SPAM protection input gadget as
  "security" but calls it "userage" now. Just curious to see if that recudes
  the amount of SPAM bots that make it through.

14.10.2019 (cg)

- finally stopped storing passwords in the DB, now storing hashes only

13.10.2019 (cg)

- force DB into latin1 encoding right after establishing connection, required
  by PHP7, apparently

22.01.2019 (cg)

- Forum mailer no longer shows a preview of the mail, but does no longer loose
  user input when informing the user about an error
- no longer displaying IP addresses below every posting for moderators, original
  author had already introduced "Show IP" button for that purpose

01.12.2018 (cg)

- now using PHPMailer to send mails, to avoid problems caused by dreamhost servers
- admin area: changing a user's status is now done via a drop down gadget

30.11.2018 (cg)

- admin area: accounts can now be activated via a single mouse click

29.11.2018 (cg)

- English users only see English boards/threads now, German users see German
  content. Exception: clicking on the "show all posts" link in a user's profile.
- boards are now sorted using the internal 'sortit' indicator - no more need
  to have board names start with numbers
- switched from MySQL to MySQLi PHP extension and replaced all instances of
  eregi_replace with preg_replace - we should be PHP7 compliant now
- deleting the first post in a thread removed the posting and the thread from
  the db, but not the other postings in the thread. 'Fixed' by not showing the
  "delete post" button in the first post, moderators need to use "delete
  thread" to remove entire threads
- fixed a ton of broken forms in the admin area introduced during previous
  rewrites

18.06.2018 (cg)

- temporary fix: all absolute URLs to amiga-news.de in user postings are
  converted to relative links before they're displayed
- all message_boxes now sport useful 'continue' links instead of asking you
  to use your browser's back button.
- removed all userage related code, dropped the column from the database
- removed all userpic related code and dropped the column from the database
- removed deprecated IS_FATAL flag from all invocations of apb_error()

17.06.2018 (cg)

- the entire prefix used for all DB table names can now be customised, not just
  a single digit index.
- there's now a central place (_language.php) to switch the forum between
  'test' and 'productivity' modes

12.06.2018 (cg)

- now storing the read/unread status for threads and boards for each
  registered user in the database. For unregistered users, everything has the
  status "read".

07.06.2018 (cg)

- completely separated code and HTML output. The entire board is now using
  templates to define what the HTML output should look like
- removed all design related settings from the general config table and the
  board config tables, simplified the relevant admin area code accordingly
- english translation is up to date again.

30.05.2018 (cg)

- removed ability to include an external profile picture, since it wasn't
  compatible with new privacy regulations (GDPR)
- listing threads has now been moved to a function, duplicated code in
  boards.php and profile.php removed

28.05.2018 (cg)

- all 450+ localization strings are now part part of an array. removed lots of
  unused strings. English translation not updated yet, i.e. it's badly
  outdated.
- removed all read/write access to threads.topicicon, displaying these icons
  had already been removed exactly three years ago

26.05.2018 (cg)

- reply.php, edit.php and topic.php now use the exact same editor. This also
  means that edit.php now has a preview function
- due to above change, special topic editing feature for classified boards
  (drop down gadget to pick "for sale", "wanted" etc.) is currently disabled.
  might be reintroduced later
- writing or editing any kind of posting will take you directly to said
  posting once you click the submit button

25.05.2018 (cg)

- writing a reply to a thread now redirects you to the thread immediately,
  instead of showing another preview of your posting and asking you to click
  to proceed
- thread.php is no longer handling subscriptons, that functionality has been
  outsourced to subscriptions.php

24.05.2018 (cg)

- creating and editing postings as well as sending mails to other users
  now requires consent with our privacy policy
- users can now configure if they want to hide their registration date.
  defaults to no, i.e. opt-out
- all variations of the [img] BBCode are now turned into text links - no more
  embedded images (required by the GDPR)

23.05.2018 (cg)

- started to separate php and HTML code into different files
- send_password.php now generates new passwords, no longer sends existing
  password to the user
- new global function to generate the breadcrumbs and the menu
- fixed tons of minor bugs introduced by the recent changes

21.05.2018 (cg)

- using aoiSessionManager now. All internal mechanisms for identifying users
  have been removed, including various double-checks before DB write access
- header now displayed by aoiSessionManager, related local files have been
  removed.
- changing your password no longer forces you to login again
- generated passwords now have 12 characters instead of 6
- always hide a user's email address
- only show non-empty fields on a user's profile page
- replaced "write mail" and "homepage" icons with text

20.05.2018 (cg)

- fixed a few more hardcoded dependencies on database tables or a certain
  URL. We should now be able to run two completely independent instances of
  the forum
- disabled all read/write cookie routines. the forum is currently not
  remembering read/unread status for threads and boards.

19.05.2018 (cg)

- finally got rid of the register_globals dependency (or rather the emulation
  of register_globals, since the setting hasn't been available for a while)
- another long overdue security update: all GET/POST/COOKIE input is now
  immediately converted to an integer or parsed by PrepForDB
- board passwords are no longer supported
- removed all usericq related code (has been broken for decades, and we don't
  want to feed user data to icq.com anyway). ICQ UIN no longer displayed in
  profile.
- $location deprecated, using $location_url everywhere now. it's i18n
  dependant, so it's defined in _language_??.php. This also fixed a bug where
  direct links to postings weren't working
- removed unused function apb_wordwrap
- single place to activate/deactivate the board (../config/forum_misc.php)
- index.php does no longer list moderator names

13.10.2015 (cg)

- admin area now relies on external aoiPublishNews solution for user
  authorisation
- admin area redesigned to match standard aoiPublishNews design, new menu
  structure
- hid all design options and obsolete settings in the admin area using
  display:none CSS feature.

08.06.2015 (cg)

- all array keys are properly quoted now
- we're no longer blocking throwaway email accounts

06.06.2015 (cg)

- breadcrumbs now also displayed at the bottom of a thread, unless you're a
  mod/admin. Moved the position of the "close this thread" link for thread
  owners in the classifieds area to make room for the breadcrumbs

04.06.2015 (cg)

- updated string conversion routines: all strings pass new function
  PrepForDB before being written to DB. Reduced RemoveHTML to masking '<',
  '>' and '"'.

01.06.2015 (cg)
- search.php is now using standard syntax, no more need for the AND operator
- search.php can search for keywords AND author now. completely rewrote
  generated output, shows board name in search results now.
- reply.php: last part of the breadcrumbs (thread name) is now a link

31.05.2015 (cg)

- search forms transmit data using GET now. search result lists use the same
  pagination routines as the rest of the forum now and are w3c compliant
- created active_threads.php  which is called whenever the forum changes
  and creates a static recent list for the main page.

30.05.2015 (cg)

- moved creation of the page navigation string to a global function
  in _utils.php
- path to board icons can now be configured in __config.php

29.05.2015 (cg)

- visit.php now shows correct icons for read/unread threads
- all filename suffixes are .php now, no more .inc
- deleted lots of unused strings from the language*.php files

28.05.2015 (cg)

- path to smileys can now be configured in __config.inc
- single set of read/unread folder icons used throughout the forum
- topic icons are no longer used

27.05.2015 (cg)

- now using the standard amiga-news.de header
- no longer using deprecated $remote_address
- removed code block at the bottom of most scripts that was logging user
  data in the unused 'statistik' table
- page navigation in boards, threads and memberlist rewritten from scratch
  to work better for long lists of pages
- lots of layout improvements and fixes
- removed unused functionality: chat.php, choose.php, mod1.php,
  mod_board_design.php, mod_new_board.php, news.php, online.php

10.06.2014 (pab)

- simple 'captcha' added to stop bots from registering

09.10.2011 (pab)

- password is no longer integrated into the activation link that is mailed
  to newly registered uers.
- compare IP used to register with the one used to activate the account

14.05.2007 (pab)

- forum interface is bilingual now (German/English), language to be
  used is selected according to REQUEST_URI
- one hardcoded English board added, it's displayed on top when the
  English version of the forum is in use

xx.xx.2006 (pab)

- reintroduced "show all hits" as an alternative to displaying 30 hits per
  page

xx.xx.2006 (pab)

- in the classifieds board (hardcoded) the original poster can close the
  thread himself

17.07.2006 (pab)

- search results now displayed on individual pages, 30 items per page

09.06.2006 (pab)

- in the classifieds board (hardcoded) you can select a standardised prefix
  for the topic to show if you want to buy, sell or trade 

22.01.2006 (pab)

- added tags for proper lists: [list], [item], [/item], [/list]

21.01.2006 (pab)

- syntax highlighting for the [code] tag, use [code language=...] to
  activate it. Supported languages are ASP, BASIC, C(++), HSC, (X)HTML,
  Java, Javascript, JSP, Perl, PHP, Rebol, (Unix-)Shell

07.01.2006 (pab)

- preview function while writing (new) postings

23.12.2005 (pab)

- forced word wrapping disabled, very wide postings don't mess with the
  layout of the rest of the page anymore

18.12.2005 (pab)

- option to search for 'exact' matches (only matches whole words)
- mods will be marked as such only when posting in 'their' boards
- postings in locked threads can't be edited anymore
- return links after writing or editing postings standardised now
- moderators can rename topics now
- single quotes are no longer converted, backticks are converted to single
  quotes and acute is converted to an ISO HTML entity
- removed all abolute paths
- profile page now shows all subscribed topics
- notification mails now also list the board name
- notification mails now use proper text formatting (*b*, _u_, >..., /i/)
  instead of UBB code
- new UBB tags [code], [/code] for preformatted text
- UBB tags can be escaped using a backslash in front of them: \[i]
- you can unsubscribe from a topic either in the actual thread or from your
  profile page

29.08.2005 (pab)

- direct links to a posting now possible, they're displayed below each post

12.06.2005 (pab)

- underlined text possible: [u], [/u]

06.06.2005 (pab)

- visits.php: long threads have links to individual pages now
- index.php, visits.php, board.php feature a headline now
- a user's own postings are displayed in a different color now
- layout fixes and improvments

04.06.2003 (mact)

- search can now be limited to just some boards, search string can contain
  several words including AND + OR operators

03.06.2003 (mact)

- visits.php now displays which board a thread belongs to

10.02.2002 (mf)

- list of search results now displays the actual topic too, it's a link to
  the thread in question
- option to only show topics in the search results

21.02.2002 (indy)

- added mysql_close() to _footer.inc

17.06.2001 (indy)

- installed APBoard 1.9.9b by Alexander Mieland and Lars Volkhardt