The Control Panel Dashboard now updates every second.
You can now see how many guests and users are online via the Control Panel Dashboard.
The Control Panel Dashboard is now a little more mobile friendly.
Added #rid for linking to a specific post.
Added a forum_exists function.
Removed the null bytes from the posts
The report system now uses #rid, #tid and numeric mentions instead of raw HTML.
Improved the custom parser to take control characters into account. It also now parses items at the start of the post.
Fixed the padding on the buttons on the profiles.
#tid now takes into account whether the topic it links to exists.
Hid the themes which aren't under construction yet from the Theme Manager.
Fixed a bug in the BBCode parser where every post had ten spaces appended to them.
Added the get_reply() internal API function for plugins to make use of.
Added the bell to the theme.
Fixed some bits of the Cosmo theme where the rowhead wasn't appearing.
Added a "Don't have an account?" link to the login page.
I began work on the alerts system, I took a little break, so it's a little further behind than you might expect, but it shouldn't take too long for me to finish it up.
I haven't finished the back-end portions of it yet, so there's not much to see yet!
Fixed a topic desync and eliminates a number of possible race conditions in the caches.
Optimised global.js by swapping out some of the unnecessary jQuery with native javascript code.
Updated jQuery to version 3.1.11
Fixed the CSS on the areyousure and error templates.
Cleaned up the alternate topic layout, no longer do we have buttons on the topic header.
Added the topic specific permissions to the templates and removed the reliance on the Is_Mod flag.
Fixed a bug where the nav menu refuses to acknowledge that you're logged in.
The tests and benchmarks now run again.
gloinit() is always called prior to the tests and benchmarks now.
The tests and benchmarks no longer use hard-coded session strings for admin route tests.
Added some new route tests.
We now pull the database version into a variable.
Fixed an issue with guest perms not applying properly.
Tweaked the router to make it a little more efficient.
Moved more topic / user parsing logic into CascadeGet
Profiles now use the user cache.
Added the Set method to the caches. Set is used when you don't know if an item exists in a cache or not.
Added the Load method to the caches. Load is used to forcefully reload an item in a cache from the database.
Added a template minifier which strips out many types of whitespace.
Stop the router from blocking the other goroutines.
Content is no longer an interface{} in the TopicUser and Reply structs
Allow plugins to add new routes without any potential race coditions occuring
Use non-breaking spaces in the topic view to make it harder for the minifier to break things.
The static resources now support Gzip Compression. Software-wide support is coming with the upcoming router rewrite!
Revamped Tempra Simple's topic view. We now use emojis instead of text for the fields. Experimental.
Simplified the json permissions in the installer.
Fixed some places where the wrong error handler is used.
Fixed a bug in the word counter where it was off by one.
The word count is now tracked by the topics and replies.
Added the Not Loggedin group.
The Reports Forum is now only available to staff.
Groups are now stored in a slice instead of a map for extra concurrency and speed.
Testing background SVGs.
You can now toggle a forum's visibility via the Forum Manager.
Added the Inline Form API to global.js
The reports forum can now be edited but not deleted.
Tempra Simple and Tempra Conflux now support backgrounds.
Admins and mods can now see the IP Addresses of users.
The last IP Address of a user is now tracked.
The IP Addresses a user used to create replies and topics are now tracked.
Dramatically improved the speed of templates with the new Fragment System. More optimisations to come!
Decreased the memory usage of compiled templates with the new Fragment System.
build.bat now provides more information on what it's doing.
Added the `go generate` command to the .bat files in preparation for the future.
We're currently in the process of overhauling the benchmark system to run tests in parallel rather than serially. More news on that later.
We're also looking into the best way of integrating pprof with the benchmarks for detailed profiling.
The internal and notfound errors are now static pages.
Internal Error pages are now served properly.
Optimised most of the errors.
Added an internal flag for checking if the plugins have been initialised yet. Mainly for tests.
Decoupled the global initialisation code from the tests.
Removed URL Tags from Tempra Simple. We're pondering over how to re-introduce this in a less intrusive way.
Template file writing is now multi-threaded.
The number of maximum open connections is now explicitly set.
Removed the Name field from the page struct.
Turned some of the most frequently hit queries into prepared statements.
Added the [rand] BBCode.
Converted the NoticeList map into a slice.
Added the missing_tag error type to the [url] tag.
error_notfound is now used for when the router can't find a route.
Fixed a bug in the custom page route where both the page AND the error is served when the page doesn't exist.
Removed some deferrals.
Reduced the number of allocations on the topic page.
run.bat now provides more information on what it's doing.
Made minor improvements to the mobile friendliness on the Tempra Simple theme.
Added levels to the other three themes.
Added the group tags to the Tempra Conflux and Cosmo Conflux themes.
Added more screenshots and updated some of the existing ones.
Made a small cosmetic improvement to the theme list.
The .bat files now exit upon encountering an error.
Post, bigpost, megapost, and topic stats are now tracked for each user.
Added the bigpost_min_chars and megapost_min_chars settings. Probably needs to be renamed.
Added the Levels test. Run `go test -run "Levels"`
The installer now validates the inputted server port.
Added a word counter utility function.
The template engine now borks less on variable nodes.
Added the lt, gt, ge, eq and ne to the template engine. I'm fairly sure eq was already in there, but things get handled differently depending on what type of node it is.
Eliminated more "success" variables by converting the errors over into InternalError() and LocalErrors()
Restructured the plugin system.
Multiple plugins can bind to the same hook now (not available for variadic hooks yet!)
The parser is now benchmarked. The bench_round4 is run with both plugin_markdown and plugin_bbcode enabled.
Added a benchmark for the BBCode plugin.
Moved some of the template writing logic into a more generalised function.
URLs are now recognised by the system and linked.
Converted more custom errors into LocalError calls.
Faster and less bandwidth intensive Emojis on Edge.
Fixed a bug with replies not working.
Added support for SSL.
Added the email system. Not fully tested.
Added Email Verification.
Added the Emails Page in the Account Manager.
Email Activation is now fully supported.
Fixed CustomErrorJSQ() and added CustomError().
Added commented out tests for Vestigo.
Added tests for the new (possibly temporary) custom router.
Swapped some of the custom error blocks for the Account Manager with LocalError calls.
Moved the account menu into it's own template.
Added the EditUser, EditUserEmail, EditUserPassword, EditUserGroup, EditUserGroupSuperMod and EditUserGroupAdmin permissions.
Allocations are now tracked in the benchmarks.
The topics template is now tracked in the benchmarks.
The entire topic, topics, forum and forums routes are now benchmarked.
Initial attempts to benchmark the router have begun, I'll probably have a benchmark in a later commit without the fluff so that it's easier to see it's performance impact.
Improved the security on some of the moderation routes.
SettingLabel is now OptionLabel for easier reuse.
Moved one of the inline queries into a prepared statement.
Added the initial draft for the new router.
Fixed a bug where you lose all of your guest permissions when your session is invalidated.
Added the account activation system (just manual activations, email ones are coming later o.o).
Changed the benchmark test to an interface{} struct versus a typed one.
Changed the compiled template holders from a map of functions to handle variables.
Added elses for loops in the template compiler.
Added the list setting type.
Added friendlier values to the setting page :)
Added a link to the profile on the User Manager and new mini-tag mark-up to go with it.
The benchmark now uses ten replies instead of one for a more relevant result.
Slices are now used instead of maps for itemLists.
The compiled template engine now supports slice loops.
More routes are compiled now.
Fixed a bug with the sorting of the itemLists in the templates.
Guests can no longer see the reply creation forms.
Fixed the notice system.
I'm slowly rolling this feature out to the various routes and doing tests.
Added the notice system.
Added the "You are banned" notice.
Added the Sendmail experimental plugin for sending emails without needing a SMTP server.
Added the debug flag for tuning down the amount of noise in the console.
Converted a system notice over to the notice system.
Changed the Activation Function signature to allow it to return errors which abort the process of plugin activation.
Plugins can now set tags. These will be visible in the Plugin Manager at a later date to specify a small snippet of additional information.
Variadic hooks are now first class citizens of the Plugin API rather than just an experiment.
SessionCheck() and the new SimpleSessionCheck() can now halt further processing of a route.
Deleted plugins are no longer shown on the Plugin Manager.
The registration form no longer allows users with blank names, emails or passwords to register.
The registration form now blocks some extremely common passwords.
Added the new status CSS to the /forum/ route.
Simplified some of the range loops in the templates.
Added the activation and deactivation handlers to plugins.
Experimenting to see the best way of implementing variadic hooks.
Added the ability to deactivate plugins.
Added the preparse_preassign and parse_assign parser hooks.
Added a simple Markdown plugin.
Added the group tag to the profiles.
Improved the open / close status on /topics/
Added the ability to report profile comments.
Added the report_preassign vhook. This is probably going to be changed.
Added the ability to ban and unban users.
Improved the installation instructions.
Changed the collation of the tables from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_general_ci.
Changed the group ID order.
Custom pages are now templates rather than little snippets being inserted into a template.
Changed the collation of the driver to utf8mb4_general_ci.
Added a default_group config setting.
Ban flag is overwritten for admins and super mods.
Profile owners can now moderate their own profiles.
Fixed an issue with database entries being set as null.
A message now appears when there aren't any topics in a forum or in the global topics list.
Added the link to the current user's profile to the main menu.
Database Changes.
not nulled some columns.
Added is_mod column to users_groups.
Added the Moderator usergroup.
Added the profile comment system.
Added group tags.
Improved the avatar placement logic.
Users without avatars will now get noavatars. Customisable in config.go
Only admins can see the Control Panel link now.
Fixed a problem with Git not including /uploads/ which can crash the program.
Database changes:
Added active column to forums.
Added tag column to users_groups.
Added the users_replies table.
Commented out the replies_reports table.
Added an executable file. Only works on Windows, if it doesn't work, then try building it for yourself with build.bat or go build
Tweaked run.bat to make it more firewall friendly. It now generates an executable.
Moved the files around to make it more organised.
Added build.bat which you can use to build the program for you and install the libraries the software depends on.
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