maybe you could give us a change log?

[Tremault]

hi, so I logged into admin panel today and you told me 3.3.1 is available. do you mind telling us what you've changed?
I don't like having my time wasted.
I want to know what has changed so I know whether it is worth the hours of uploading and upgrading.
I would have thought a change log is pretty standard practice but i can't seem to locate one on your links.

[AlexJ]

From tracker below is the list of bugs which are fixed in 3.3.1.

http://community.inv...-24-ipboard-3x/

• DB Checker - rss_import_inc_pcount
• ACP Type Error
• Search dropdown width
• Anonymous users not marked with asterisk in topics (3.3.0)
• Hover Card: Blog icon is missing
• tags, title, urlencoded.
• Member delete fails with large inline_notification table...
• Notification Center
• ACP Importing Modules
• Upgraded, but it still tells me there is a new version available
• mobile mark all as read
• Mobile edit button
• The URL should be decoded when presented by being parsed automatically
• Long links on mobile extend width
• Spam Monitoring Service Error issue persists in 3.3.0
• Group Moderators cannot view warn notes.
• Deleted topics still show to those without permission
• ModCP and "find Posts"
• Multi Moderation - Topic Title Prefix - HTML Issue.
• HTML Whoops
• Insert special bbcode on marked text puts in html
• $this->settings not available in raw PHP for settings.
• Personal Messenger - Edit
• Upgraded from 2.3.5 to 3.3,
• Warn List Pagination
• classes_comments_renderer::postSave()
• Group prefix/tag settings overwritten
• Compare differences in skin editor
• Line breaks not preserved on multi moderation posting
• Guest commenting for db records
• Commenting from mobile skin
• Pagination for warn logs off
• Support Request Hook - Admincp Links Breaking
• Removing a quote from a reply leaves an unclosed/unopened BBCode.
• Quoting - not parsing formatting
• Changing the editor type in a separate window "crashes" post parsing
• Mobile Skin Detection Issues
• Mobile skin not automatically working
• Messenger error
• Meta Tag URL's with Query Strings.
• Thumbnail won't be generated if "Show thumbnail of attached image" is No.
• Quote notification
• Warn notification in ACP
• Archived Topic: "Who Posted"
• Sub-forum commas
• Warning limit check
• Super Moderators cannot issue warnings to user
• Warning point action level
• Change Theme from topic
• PMs on mobile skin
• Lists not working in PMs
• BAD_NOTIFY_KEY When Issuing Warning
• Set Output Format
• document.write in ad code integration
• language bit error
• Edit hook Warning
• $_SESSION
• Copyright removal gets reset
• Warn Logs Manager
• AdminCP Live Search Not Working
• Sphinx Error on index for forums_search_archive_main
• Likes Tab Fatal Error
• Empty /cache/tmp folder from time to time
• Invalid "Requirements" in Status Updates Hook File
• Moderator editing Admin on ModeratorCP
• Cookie Based Item Markers Not Working.
• Warning Notification
• Reputation being left twice
• Search issue and flood control
• ACP auto redirect
• Most liked content takes too long to load
• Sphinx search dies with PHP error.
• Moderating Team Page Fatal Error
• Mobile skin - wrong lang string
• Visible Modules
• PMs out of order
• rebuild reputation count
• Post Rep Count Shows 0
• Archived topics previews
• Archived posts and attachments
• reputation_forums::process() not checking parse options
• Recounting post counts does not include archived threads
• Resynch forums causes counts to go off
• Linking long strings is shortening the text
• Signature formatting
• Pagination adjustments
• Todays Top Posters - Not Showing Self
• ACP only shows 10 archived topics
• Deleted topic show on index but not in forum
• Moderator Control Panel - "Report Center" has a different menu
• Tabbing doens't work
• Spaces added in code tag
• Warning a member the reason dropdown runs multiple ajax requests
• unban member using wrong language string
• Spam with no display name
• TAB on reply/new topic
• iPad Quoting
• Using API changes time zone in external php scripts
• Emoticon 'show all' sorting not applied
• Database Checker Failing
• Database index checker and primary keys
• small verbiage bug
• Lightbox disabled, cant click to be taken to large image
• Rebuild post content remove break from post content
• No last poster/poster info in forum with only archived posts
• Subscriptions redirects to Nexus even if Nexus isn't installed
• FAO Matt: Force full skin bug
• [Bug Request] Improve convertAccents method. <Patch attached>
• Empty auto saved content
• http badly parsed in post
• board index collapse bug in chrome
• "and xx other users"
• Announcements + HTML
• Archived topics produce 2x more queries than regular ones
• Remove users setting inoperative
• Editor isHtml not fully working
• "Disable Prefix Ability" group setting backwards
• Facebook Share Button - Hardcoded Language
• No Options for Post Moderation
  

[Tremault]

thanks,
so that's all the bugs they fixed?
do we know if they changed anything else?
I think there should always be a link on the new release thread.
I don't know what the tracker thing is or if it covers all changes.

[connorhawke]

The Tracker only officially covers bugs, not new features or such. I agree that IPS should consider releasing a change log for each upgrade, perhaps in the announcement itself. Even just copying & pasting the Tracker bugs fixed, as above, and linking to blog entries or whatnot covering the new features mentioned, would suffice.

[bigPaws]

3.3.2 came out today, how do I know what new features it introduced?

Is there a reason the announcement doesn't include any details? vBulletin (who we also use) are good at showing what's new or changed.

[Charles]

The announcement does say these releases are just maintenance releases :)

[bigPaws]

Ah ok, that's good to know - as a newbie I wasn't sure how things work.

As someone mentioned earlier, it might be an idea (in the forum announcement topic at least) to mention the major bug fixes? I went to Tracker, but couldn't really work out how to get that view.

[Hexsplosions]

Any skin changes from 3.3.1 - 3.3.2?

[Rimi]

Any skin changes from 3.3.1 - 3.3.2?

Yes but there aren't a lot. The only significant one would probably be adding the privacy policy link.

[bigPaws]

Is there a reason IPB doesn't provide a list of style changes and an easy to find list of the bugs they squashed? Seems odd for a company that is otherwise good at communication :)

[Michael]

You can generate a Fixed Issues list from the Tracker, here's what was fixed in 3.3.2:

http://community.invisionpower.com/index.php?app=tracker&module=projects&section=projects&do=fixedlist&project_id=24&fixed_in=416

As for skin changes, you can always use the Template Merge Center to find changes and apply them to your skins:

http://community.invisionpower.com/resources/documentation/index.html/_/documentation/administrator-control-panel/look-and-feel/look-feel-template-merge-center-r439

[bfarber]

Is there a reason IPB doesn't provide a list of style changes and an easy to find list of the bugs they squashed? Seems odd for a company that is otherwise good at communication :smile:

As a general rule, most users don't care to see a giant list of bug fixes. The ability, however, to generate this yourself is available in the Tracker for those who are interested (see Michael's reply). :)

[svit]

I very much vote for IPS were provide changelogs of their newly announced products, I think they are useful to most of us. Once provided by the IPS team, it would save time to hundreds or thousands of admins who have to do the same in the Tracker.

[87Lakers]

I very much vote for IPS were provide changelogs of their newly announced products, I think they are useful to most of us. Once provided by the IPS team, it would save time to hundreds or thousands of admins who have to do the same in the Tracker.

Don't count me in with the "hundreds of thousands." If it's a maintenance release, it's for me.

[Rimi]

Fixed bugs aren't exactly change logs...

[Charles]

Yes that's true.


When you're requesting change logs what exactly are you looking to see? I'm sure we can provide more info.

[svit]

Each time there is a new version of any application, for me as an admin it is important to know the list of changes or bugs fixed for me to be able to understand what the new version brings about and to decide how urgent the upgrade is and whether we should run it immediately or say within a week. I don't usually find practical to be following the Tracker regularly to become familiar with bugs found by other admins and that's why such a list (of bug fixes when talking about a maintenance release) is a great summary for me to learn issues I might not even be aware of (let's say some hard coded text which I have overlooked and would still keep overlooking it without reading the list of bug fixes).

At present each time there are maintenance releases I have to go to the Tracker and run the filter query to learn what are the fixes or to be lucky when some good soul makes the same and posts it to the forum for others (like the 2nd post of this thread). I think the list of changes or fixes or a link to such a list would be the little thing which would make it easier for 'many' of us :smile:

[bigPaws]

I agree with a lot of what svit wrote above. Coming from a vBulletin background, it was very useful to see in the announcement (rather than making customers run a tracker query) to see what bugs were updated and what files were changed. Sometimes, when absolutely forced, you have to edit a core .php file and need to know if your changes are about to be overwritten.

Why not just include a list (or even a link to the query) that shows you what has changed in the maintenance release? It seems to be quite a popular idea and doesn't take much time - do it once and everyone benefits - or don't do it and everyone has to. If you get what I mean :)

[sound]

a simple improvement would be to set the file dates of each release via svn or whatever to the date the actual code was last modified

drupal did this and so when upgrading you could just look at each directory and compare the file dates to see which files needed replacing

[Rimi]

So there's a new privacy policy section and apparently there's also an RSS feed for the report center now? Or did I just not notice this before?

[bfarber]

So there's a new privacy policy section and apparently there's also an RSS feed for the report center now? Or did I just not notice this before?

Privacy policy is new. The report center RSS feed has been there since 3.0 (it is unique to each moderator with access to the report center).

[bigPaws]

It strikes me that it would be worth IPS putting a link to a thread (or pre-done tracker search) which lists the changes and additions in each release, even when they are maintenance releases. It's true that maybe only 'power users' are interested in this and yes it's true that someone can eventually work out the changes (by the tracker and file comparisons) - but if IPS did this once at the announcement then it would save time and seem like a 'nice' thing to do :)

[Rimi]

Huh...so where is the setting for that? Because I swear it wasn't there before for me. I know because I had all those troubles with the RSS feeds in IP.Content before..

[bfarber]

Huh...so where is the setting for that? Because I swear it wasn't there before for me. I know because I had all those troubles with the RSS feeds in IP.Content before..

There's no setting. An RSS feed is generated for moderators who can manage reports automatically.

[Rimi]

There's no setting. An RSS feed is generated for moderators who can manage reports automatically.

Oh I misinterpreted what you said..huh. There's just no way that I missed this before...