Version 0.9b - released /4/2000

• Finished porting admin tools to the new code and server.
• Saving user preferences now uses fewer cookies.
• The script remembers your "show_expired" and "show_published" for each page between visits instead of one setting for all pages.
• Added a monitor manager to the admin tools.
• Replaced references to "archive" with "expire" for consistencies sake.

Version 0.9a - released 24/3/2000

• Multi-page article support ( finally! :) which includes article types. This means the inclusion of a special <NEWPAGE> tag. Use this tag to specify when the script should start a new page including the first page. The tag has an optional name parameter thay can be used to specify the filename to use for that page. e.g. <NEWPAGE name="page name">.
• User may specify an arbitary folder to place a multi-page article in.
• Multi-page articles have a customiseable footer containing links to each page of the article.
• For each article type that is multi-page a table of contents is produced using the summaries which also contain a link to the full article.
• Previewing redone. All old preview modes have been removed. Preview now builds an exact copy of the web site showing only the article you wish to preview. Preview works with multipage articles, it builds a temporary copy of each page of the entire article as well as showing the toc entry for that article.
• Different article types may use different templates.
• Admin tools are now available from the news updater page.
• Users can specify an alternate name and email for individual articles to display instead of what is registered under their logon. The system still tracks which logon created the article.
• The above feature also allows for a guest writer facility. Guest writers can be given permissions like any other user and may specify what user and email address to display for the article.
• Users who do not have publish rights may submit their article for publication ( changing it's status from draft to submitted ) that way users ( particularly editors ) can tell the difference between articles that are and aren't ready for publication. The author ( or anyone else with sufficient permissions ) may revoke an article from submitted or published status back to draft.
• The option to display articles between particular dates has been removed it saves space and was only confusing.
• Articles can be set to never expire in addition to specifying an actual expiry date. The pages of multi-page articles that expire are left as is but the article is removed from the table of contents for that article type.
• New explorer like interface to use to find pages which also remembers last 5 pages user worked on.
• Saving user preferences now uses fewer cookies.
• The script remembers your "show_expired" and "show_published" for each page between visits instead of one setting for all pages.
• Added a monitor manager to the admin tools.
• Replaced references to "archive" with "expire" for consistencies sake.

Version 0.81b - released 9/12/99

• Changed the code that auto creates monitor names to take all chars from the page name up until it sees one of ' : / " ? * \ > < or a space.
• Fixed change password code that prevented users from changing their password which was caused by a code change in last version.

Version 0.8b - released 7/12/99

• Added administraton features, add/edit/delete pages/writers/permissions/monitors.
• Ability to create different page types based on templates, if a template folder doesn't exist for a page then you cannot create children of that page.
• Ability to add new templates without adding new code.
• Writers can change the publication date of article they have publish permissions on.
• Fixed some minor bugs caused by rushing out emergency release 0.71b

Version 0.71b - released 21/11/99

• Ported code to NT.
• Implemented timezone support.
• Pages now have "parents" this defines the hirearchical relationship between pages.
• Moved more variables to cookies, this makes things a bit more secure but it also means that anyone using the updater MUST have cookies turned on in their browser. All cookies are going to be replaced with session variables at a later date.
• The pages list formats a bit nicer, making it easier to find a page, it also lists ALL pages wether the writer has any permissions on them or not. ( I'm debating wether to change it back to only displaying those pages the writer has permissions on because the list gets very long, we have a lot of pages already ).

Version 0.7b - released NFI

• Stored user display prefs in cookies instead of mucking around with POST vars that lead to inconsistencies.
• Auto generation of summaries ends at last full stop before the 255th character in the body field.
• Major changes to structure of code, particularly make_news.php3
• Preview feature changed to "Preview all unpublished" and only shows unpublished, unexpired articles ( article date is taken as current date since articles usually use the published date ).
• Fixed problem with single quotes in text fields.
• Fixed a bug in mysql_dbfuncs that caused result sets to clobber each other.
• Fixed a bug in time24H template field.
• Implemented page monitors.
• Changed the publish action so that it publishes the article and then makes. A new news page and updates the monitored_updates.html of monitoring pages.
• Now able to preview individual articles.

Version 0.7 - released NFI

• Removed the add and update buttons and made a single "Save this article" button.
• Writers can now change their password.
• Fixed a bug in article_mgr that ignored a request to edit a specific article
• Retain current article in right frame after an action.
• Fixed "slashes" bug in preview.
• Fixed stupid bug that broke autolinks.
• Added a "Clear summary" button to article form for convenience esp usefull when writer wants to use the auto summary feature.
• Added a "Preview all published" link in left frame, works the same as "Preview all unpublished" but it shows only published articles.
• Added a "Show autolinks" link in article_list allowing users to manage the autolinks.
• Added ability to edit/create autolinks.
• Fixed a bug with single quotes in HTML "text" fields.
• File upload support.

Version 0.6b - released NFI

• Supports multiple news pages
• Automagic link generation
• Author permissions
• Archival support ( but not retreival )