This thread is for features currently implemented and DEFINITELY included in what will be 7.6 release.

I was ambiguous with my original post where that was looking more like a wish list of what we wanted to go into 7.6.

EVERYTHING posted in this thread has been completed ( except where i note 'ongoing' ) and will be included in the upcoming release.

This will take some time, but i will start running down the list as i compare all the changes versus the stock 7.5.6 release or add a new feature going forward.

It has been a long time coming and i apologize for the delay in update.

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Feature: Admin - Quick add new user

Member Management now has another tab


Allows an admin to quickly add a new user.



Upon adding them, an email is sent with username and password for them to login with instructions.

( note: i will add a check box to force rules accept on 1st visit ) ; ty @ gliderdad

Feature: Change mood via Lightbox



Now uses a lightbox ( prettyphoto ) to change the user's mood ( ajax / jquery driven )

This is all brought into one template file ( changemood.tpl ) and one script file ( changemood.inc.php )

dochangemood.inc.php is now obsolete

Feature: Shout box ignored user is truly ignored

If you are ignoring a user, you will not see any of their shouts at all. They just never happened as far as you see.

Feature: Mark all read for a specific forum ( double click method )

Now will affect the sub-forums as well ( 1 deep ). Before, it would only affect the top level.

Feature: Forum list ( postlist.inc.php, postlist.tpl ) - now has sticky and announcement css classes

This is only for those forum owners who want to differentiate their announcements and sticky rows.

There are two new classes: sticky_css and announce_css that can be styled as the theme developer sees fit.

Example where this has already been in use ( simhq.com ) below:



If you choose to ignore these classes, there will be no affect on any current theme.

Feature: Show profile - orders the buddy list alphabetically and colorizes names

file: scripts/showprofile.inc.php

Feature: New file - templates/default/navigation.tpl

Stripped out the top navigation from the header.tpl file and placed in its own file. This is the 1st move to make this file more dynamic in future releases.

Additionally, this serves to make the editing of the header.tpl file more easy and readable.

Modularization is the goal.

Feature - report real IP, if it is masked by a local proxy

nginx is a great addition that is very scalable. much more so than apache. it acts as a local proxy to apache and is much more able to handle huge loads.

the problem is that it masks the user's true IP.

ubbthreads will now automatically detect this and report the user's REAL IP, rather than the localhost ( 127.0.0.1 )

Ongoing: Tons of new css classes added for flexible styling

There are too many to list here, but for any theme developer, they will find much more flexibility to make new styles that break out of the 'ubbthreads' look / feel.

Additionally, to maintain backward compatibility with existing themes, common.css has been broken into 2 files.

reset.css ( new ) -- included before any styles to ensure all the markup that was taken out of the html side of things, doesn't break existing widths / margins / cell spacing etc.
common.css -- included after all styles to apply any common to all additions.

There will be more details on this later.