Re: 3.2.5 stable released

Clemens Gruber <[email protected]> Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:59:15 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-survey.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Joel,

a great "Thanx" for this new release and the work on mod_survey before!

Kind regards
Clemens
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Joel Palmius wrote:
> I'm currently posting release notes and stuff, but 3.2.5 stable is now=20
> available with the following changelog:
>
> Stable release 3.2.5
> --------------------
> * Implemented IP-based uniqueness checking in answers
> * Added an up-to-date DTD for the 3.2.5 survey syntax (under webroot)
> * Most exports should now work even when no data has been submitted.
>   At least they won't cause a crash, even if some of them look a bit
>   strange.
> * Tested Mod_Survey with apache 2.2 (works without problem)
> * Fixed bug with pipe sign as delimiter in delimited fields
> * Permit time() localtime() and crypt() in perl snippets
> * You can now disable security checking of perl snippets by setting
>   _SURVEY_DISABLE_SAFE to 1 in survey.conf. This is DANGEROUS and
>   very much not recommended. I won't document this feature, nor put
>   it in even in commented form in survey.conf. I only add it here
>   so people who know what they are doing won't have to edit code
>   modules by hand.
> * Flushing data will now also remove stale keys and reset the list
>   of people who has answered the survey.
> * Fixed uniqueness checking for when both UNIQUECOLUMS=3D"yes" and
>   UNIQUEROWS=3D"yes" in MATRIX (ie, uniqueness checking on both axes).
>   This still needs some twinking for then MUSTANSWER=3D"yes" too.
> * Display error message if VALUE is not set on a MATRIXROW when
>   UNIQUECOLUMNS=3D"yes" in a MATRIX.
> * Fixed MULTI=3D"yes" in MATRIX (crap values was remaining if going bac=
k
>   one page and resubmitting)
> * Because #&=A4%%#! internet explorer doesn't #=A4%#" support %#=A4%"#!=
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>   standard some syntax changes had to be made in MATRIX:
>   - BORDER now takes values 0..n where number is width of border. for
>     backwards compatibility no=3D0 and yes=3D1.
>   - A new parameter CELLSPACING defaulting to 2 (pixels space between
>     table cells)
>   - A new parameter CELLPADDING defaulting to 2 (pixels padding inside
>     table cells)
> * The matrix template was updated. Contents of top left corner is now
>   "&nbsp;", and a value is always set for the table parameters border,
>   cellspacing and cellpadding.
> * The changes in matrix WILL BREAK OLD LAYOUT, so check your surveys
>   to see that they still look ok.
> * It is now possible to customize submit error message with the new
>   SUBMITERROR tag.
> * CUSTOM now takes a CAPTION parameter. Its only function is to be
>   displayed by SUBMITERROR if applicable.
> * CUSTOM now uses errorcode 2 for MUSTANSWER errors
> * Updated DTD with SUBMITERROR and changes to CUSTOM.
> * Multipage surveys now work under IndigoPerl in windows
> * Different path delimiters needed for PerlRequire in windows for
>   some reason (Luca Notari)
> * Bug fixes for making mod_survey run under indigoperl in windows
> * New windows.conf config file for running under windows
> * New INSTALL-WINDOWS.txt installation instruction file
> * Updated copyright notice in footer to 2008
> * Removed all (I hope) references to the old home page address and
>   replaced them with http://www.modsurvey.org
> * Added a script "docinterpreter.pl" for parsing a crude text file
>   and provide a syntactically correct survey file.
> * Added a script "genauth.pl" for generating password lists suitable
>   for FILEAUTH. To run just invoke "perl genauth.pl", it will ask
>   you for your preferences.
> * Added a script for building a gentoo tarball (ebuild will reside
>   in gentoo repository and not in mod_survey distro though)
>
>   // Joel


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