released date of PHPNuke 6.7?

Private Joined: Mar 10, 2003 Posts: 40

released date of PHPNuke 6.7?

Wasn’t it over a month ago that 6.6 and 6.7 released to club members? Any idea when or if they are going to offer it to the public? I was a club member for a number of months but I let it expire.

Sergeant Joined: Jun 13, 2003 Posts: 98

it will not be released to the public. interestingly enough, from the SUPPORT file that ships w/ PHPNuke (all versions, at least 6.5 and above):

Code:

- How to support PHP-Nuke project?

I made this software free, and released it under GPL, so this software
costs you exactly "nothing". All that I ask you is, if you use it "please"
leave a link from your pages to http://phpnuke.org saying at least "Powered by
PHP-Nuke so others can know that you're using PHP-Nuke. That's all I ask.

Private Joined: Mar 10, 2003 Posts: 40

how unfortunate for the php nuke community, they should really remove “PHP-Nuke Official releases 30 days before the public release” if they are not going to offer it.

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:06 am

I cant see any major reasons for people to upgrade anyway, security fixes can already be downloaded for 6.5 and worked well.

The next release will be version 7 which will include all fixes and anything new FB decides to write into it.

Sergeant Joined: Jun 13, 2003 Posts: 98

without turning this into a flamewar, i think that the big beef over 6.6 and 6.7 was the fact that despite FB stating things like I posted above, he more or less forced you to pay for the upgrade, unless you were willing to either wait for 7.0, or spend time digging on the 'net for sites with the download for free. besides, how do we know he won't do 6.7.1, 6.7.2,...6.7.9, 6.8.0,6.8.1..., etc...just to lengthen the time until the next public release.

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 11:52 am

Basically its up to him if he does 6.7.1 etc but I doubt he will.

I totally agree with FB and think the Club is great, it pays for FBs bandwidth, time etc and keeps the majority of phpnuke free.

If you want updates all you need to do is check a few sites, namely this one, phpnuke.org and nukefixes.com

If you do want the security fixes already built in then $10 isnt really much money to keep the nuke community running.

Nuke Cadet Joined: Apr 06, 2003 Posts: 8

Problem is that security fixes was collected by chatserv, and provided by many people which don´t even get credit. And FB get money for it..

Another thing is that FB don´t apply all thing covered in secfix 3, and most funny thing in Nuke 6.7 is, that nuke.sql have version written as 6.5 Wink

I think that he need to look at what he do sometimes Razz

Private Joined: Mar 10, 2003 Posts: 40

I have no problem paying a “fee”. I was glad to join the club to get 6.5 I even joined for a number of months. I like to contribute to keep PHP nuke alive I just do not see the benefit in staying a club member permanently.

I would be glad to pay for the product "club" if.

He re-enabled the forum on phpnuke.org you are paying for something that you have to get support for elsewhere?

As far as off setting his bandwidth cost’s I have no problem with that and either do the advertisers that are spending thousands a month to sell Viagra from phpnuke.org (In addition, the only reason the advertising is successful is thanks to the user community, the only reason phpnuke.org has a Google page ranking of eight is that all the php nuke user’s link back to it. With out the user’s linking back there would be no Page rank in Google and therefore no “pr” to sell to advertisers.)

PHP-Nuke is a great product thanks to its community; I just do not want to see the community stumble.

Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 12:51 pm

Nargul wrote:

Problem is that security fixes was collected by chatserv, and provided by many people which don´t even get credit. And FB get money for it..

it seems tyou are misinformed -the 6.7 changelog should bring you up to speed

changelog in 6.7

Quote:

June 2003: Version 6.7
======================
- Reorganization on upgrade folder
- Changed banners administration icon due to copyright issue with AppleScript
- Added lot of fixes to Forums and Private Messages modules from the Nuke 6.5 Fixes Pack 3 (Thanks to Chatserv from http://NukeCops.com)
- Fixed bad reference to an unexistent field name in Journal module (Thanks to Chatserv from http://NukeCops.com)
- Fixed Avatar path on Your Account module (Thanks to Chatserv from http://NukeCops.com)
- Fixed a missing ? in lang-catala.php (Thanks to Chatserv from http://NukeCops.com)
- Added "docs" folder with the PHP-Nuke HOWTO, a very complete manual. Thanks to Claudio Erba from http://spaghettibrain.com for updated version you can check http://spaghettibrain.com or http://tldp.org/HOWTO/PHP-Nuke-HOWTO/index.html
I'll try to update it on each version of PHP-Nuke.
- Fixed lot of bad references when article's comments are off, everywhere.

May 2003: Version 6.6
=====================
- Added Associated Topics in News system (admin and user side)
- Fixed a XSS vulnerability present on mainfile.php for POST variables
- Fixed security bug in Your Account user's Information
- Fixed missing site name variable after rating a resource on Web Links module
- Fixed missing site name variable after rating a resource on Downloads module
- Fixed a bug on userinfo function in Your Account module
- Path disclosure bug fixed on Your Account module (Thanks to WB-Vortex from http://www.winbeta.org)
- Path disclosure bug fixed on News module (Thanks to WB-Vortex from http://www.winbeta.org)
- Path disclosure bug fixed on WebMail module (Thanks to WB-Vortex from http://www.winbeta.org)
- Path disclosure bug fixed on Downloads module (Thanks to WB-Vortex from http://www.winbeta.org)
- Path disclosure bug fixed on Web Links module (Thanks to WB-Vortex from http://www.winbeta.org)
- Added Security graphic check in the user's login block
- Fixed custom name module creation when a new module is added and has underscore character
- Fixed default language bug when creating a new user

March 2003: Version 6.5
=======================
- Fixed a security bug in mainfile.php when using Windows systems and Multilanguage option
- Fixed a SQL injection bug in index.php while getting http referer (Thanks to NukeCops.com guys)
- Added User Profile link in news submission
- Fixed SQL injection hole in Search module
- Added more security checks for GET variables
- Added security checks for POST variables
- Added table format to single comment display when bigger than 4096 bytes in News module
- Rewritten Topics module. Now it's very functional and useful with a lot of News info
- Fixed a bug in who's online information. If an user logs in it will delete his/her record as a guest
- By popular request changed the user creation system. Let new users to select their password and should click on
a custom link to activate their account in less than 24 hours. This will avoid any kind of robots and/or people
registering other people.
- Added Users & Administration login graphic security check (to stop any robots and cracks programs)
- Fixed some bugs in FAQ administration. Quotes problem when edit a Category and missing language "all"
- Changed all PHP predefined Server variables to $_SERVER[]. PHP-Nuke now requires PHP 4.1.0 or better
- Fixed users Homepage URL display in comments (News and Surveys Modules)
- Fixed typo in english translation of Recommend Us module
- Fixed double slash in Topics module
- Changed all user.php call with its correct module's name
- Fixed a bug in automated news which didn't correctly saved the news submitter data
- Downloads and Web Links broken links now can reported only for registered users
- Added Subject text in Email User link in Submissions administration
- Doesn't show anymore the User and/or Admin content after logout
- Fixed many unclosed quotes in queries of Surveys module
- Fixed a serious security hole in mailattach.php file from WebMail module
- Some "nuke_users" table fields renamed. This is a very important change to have full compatibility with
phpBB 2.x Forums modules. Original name => Renamed fields are:
uid => user_id
uname => username
email => user_email
url => user_website
user_intrest => user_interests
pass => user_password
- Added extra features to Feedback module
- Comments has been reformated and closed inside tables for a better look
- Stars order inverted in article's rating block
- Added missing username in the user info link in comments of Journals module
- Deleted some miserable entries from Headlines database. Slashdot because they never publish anything
about PHP-Nuke and Linux.com because they never gave me a reply right when I asked for it after a very
bad article about me and my project. So, eat this.
- Fixed XSS injection security holes in Search functions of some modules
- Articles rating score check added
- Added some WebMail module's and mail functions security fixes by Ulf Harnhammar (I'm watching)
- Automatic installation removed due to high conflicts with the new SQL layer (Yes, it's a shame)
- Included phpBB 2 port (Thanks to a great work of Tom Nitzschner from http://www.toms-home.com).
- Added Forums block (phpBB)
- Added new feature that let you have a different phpBB forum's theme for each PHP-Nuke's theme. See DeeBlue
theme directory. If forums directory doesn't exists into the theme's folder the system will load the
forums default theme.
- Included Private Messages from phpBB 2 (Thanks to a great work of Tom Nitzschner from http://www.toms-home.com).
- Changed Members List (Thanks to a great work of Tom Nitzschner from http://www.toms-home.com).
- Changed the SQL Abstraction Layer. Old Layer is not discontinued but there for compatibility with old modules.
The new layer is the same used by phpBB 2.x port and you can read about it on ADDON-MODULES text file.
- All modules and blocks migrated to the new SQL abstraction layer
- Footer text centered on Kaput and Taditional themes.
- Fixed parse error on Slash Theme.
- Fixed Center Down block display when including a file.
- Fixed Center Down block creation on administration system.
- Changed the user.php link in DeepBlue Theme for its correct module's call.

yeah that mean 'ol FB -how dare he take all the credit

BTW, the release date for 6.7 was 06/05/2003