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What To Do Next? / DiscussionUBB.threads 7.7.3 ChangelogVersion 7.7.3 includes a critical fix for Member Searches from within the Control Panel which may stall or crash the PHP job due to a poorly written SQL query. It is recommended that you upgrade to version 7.7.3.
Primary Changes In This Release- Login using Email Address or Login Name.
- Automatic image orientation fixes for post attachments.
- Option to simplify downloading of attached/gallery images.
- ShoutChat intro for comment guidelines.
- Improved admin log operation names and descriptions.
- Improved Error & Not Found pages, now with search box.
- Geo-IP and IP address lookups in new registration notifications.
- Admin logging of SFS detection for bad Email/IP addresses at login.
- Member Search within the control panel is fixed.
- Updated several libraries and assets.
- Cleanup of templates, CSS files, and UBB JavaScript files.
- More bug squashing and some minor layout updates.
Summary of Changes[NEW] Members can now login using their Email Address or Login Name. The Membership Registration settings should be configured to use a unique email address per account. Accounts with the same Email Address will need to use their Login Name for logging in.
[NEW] Attachment Manager will now update JPG image orientation according to the EXIF data stored within it. This feature affects new attachments and requires the PHP function exif_read_data to be enabled. Image orientation fixes cannot be applied If exif_read_data is not available or you are not using ImageMagick.
A demo of this feature.[NEW] Option to display a download button when showing images in the Lightbox. It is displayed next to the "rotate" and "close" buttons. If enabled, a user with access to view attachments/galleries can easily download the full size image. Through the user's browser settings, they can choose to save the image or view it within their device's chosen viewer. The default is disabled.
[NEW] ShoutChat now displays an "intro" in its header. This can be used to display brief chat rules or guidelines. It is customizable in the language file. If left blank, it will be hidden. If desired, it can also be styled per Custom Style within the Extras section of the Style Editor. Its class name is "shoutintro".
[NEW] Forum Search's search keyword box now displays a help window giving some advanced search formatting tips.
[NEW] Files attached to posts will now display their file size next to their file name and download counter.
[NEW] Error & Not Found pages now display a search box which will allow the user to enter keywords for searching the forum through the Forum Search page.
[NEW] ShoutChat now adds a line to the Admin Log when a Shout is deleted.
[NEW] CP: Geo-IP Lookups can now be disabled if you choose not to use it. (Features > Lookup Services)
[NEW] Geo-IP Lookup can be displayed on New User Registration notification emails, if Geo-IP feature is enabled.
[NEW] IP Address Lookup is now displayed on New User Registration notification emails, if enabled. This feature will use the settings declared in CP: Features > Lookup Services.
[NEW] Browser User-Agent string is now be displayed on New User Registration notification emails.
[NEW] CP: Edit User will now display last post date, and total posts, with a link to their listing.
[NEW] CP: Custom Island Editor now displays a selectable template with an example of correct formatting. (Thanks to mmem700 for recommending this feature.)
[NEW] An Admin Log entry will be added when a registered member attempts to login and StopForumSpam detects a bad Email or IP Address.
[UPDATE] CP: Member Search Results page formatting improved for easier reading.
[UPDATE] CP: Admin Log operation names are now consistent with each other.
[UPDATE] CP: Admin Log descriptions are cleaner, easier to read, and share consistent format presentation.
[UPDATE] CP: Post, Gallery, and Custom Island lists and their editor pages now share consistent format presentation.
[UPDATE] For all pages, the default cookie expiration maximum is 30 days max; 7 days if no value is set. Previously it was: "30 days max for user logins", "7 days max for admin become user" and "7 days max for member profile edits."
[UPDATE] Updated FontAwesome library from 5.9.0 to
version 5.10.0-1.
[UPDATE] Updated Jdenticon from 2.1.1 to
version 2.2.0.
[UPDATE] Updated Lightbox from 2.11.0 to
version 2.11.1.
[UPDATE] Updated TinyMCE from 5.0.7 to
version 5.0.12.
[UPDATE] Cleanup of templates, CSS files, and UBB JavaScript files.
[FIX] Searching by "Title Only" when search method is set to "MySQL Full-Text" now works as expected.
[FIX] CP: Member Search query has been corrected to fix the slow query (poorly written MYSQL query) issue. (Thanks to Outdoorking for being the first to report this bug.)
[FIX] CP: Edit User now correctly displays the Last post and Last Login detail/descriptions.
[FIX] CP: Gallery Island editor will now use the correct language file.
[FIX] Control Panel logging now uses the Fetch IP library.