UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums News and Releases Announcements UBB.threads version 6.4.1 released to the Member Area

UBB.threads 6.4.1 has been released to the Member Area.

What's new in 6.4.1? Among the updates there are some changes to the search form that will be a real help for sites with a lot of posts (including an altertable, don't forget it!), a correction for HTML emails, a security update in the way password changes are handled, and a fix in the subscriptions.php cron script. This is a small release and quick to do, but well worth doing.

This will be the last 6.4 series release as Rick is hard at work on version 6.5, which will enter testing soon. Version 6.5 is a really large version with a total rewrite, from scratch, for the control panel, among other things. Keep your eyes on the support forums for screen shots of the new control panel and Rick's change log.


Here's the list of bug fixes:

• Fixed a bug that allowed anonymous users to make their posts sticky.
• Made a change to force a default group if for some reason nothing was selected in the config file.
• Made some changes to make sure the scripts for actually updating profiles were being called from the profile editors.
• Changed one of the indexes on the posts table to help with speed. On forums with alot of posts this change will be most noticeable if the Default Active Threads for that particular
  forum is set to a lower number.
• Fixed a bug with the cron/php/subscriptions.php file that wasn't allowing it to send out HTML emails properly.
• Fixed a bug in the categories page that wasn't showing the proper icons when there were new posts in the category.
• Fixed a bug that was showing the "Add Signature" box for users that weren't logged in.
• Changed the default search range to 1 week instead of all dates, since searching on all dates can slow the forums down.
• Fixed an issue that was preventing HTML emails from being sent out properly in some cases.
• Made a change so the jump to box defaults to the current forum.

Please note that there is an altertable to run in this update. This altertable removes an old index on your posts table and adds a new one. As always, make a database backup before this and any upgrade.

If the version you are upgrading from did not have this old index you will receive an error message. That is fine, the altertable script will continue to run.

Adding the new index will take a while if you have a considerable number of posts. Chances are your browser will time out before it is done running. That's ok, the indexing will still continue in the background. DO NOT run it again if your browser times out.

<img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Thanks!

Expecting to find some amazing 6.5 screenshots of the subforum feature soon <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the update, the jump-box thing was a big issue on our forum <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Looking forward to the new Control Panel, currently UBB.T's only weak point as far as I'm concerned!

I think you'll definitely find the weak point gone with 6.5 <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Thanks for the update.

Any reason we keep finding the one community code used here as part of the installs now?

There is a small portion of the one community stuff in there but it only becomes active if the actual one community files exist in the install. This way we don't have to maintain 2 seperate packages.

Got ya.

Hate to burst your bubble, Maze, but there will not be sub-anything in 6.5.

<img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> 7.0?