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And here's another one...

This is release 20010519 for vB2.0 RC3.

Quite a lot of changes in this one. The biggest change is probably the ability to reply to individual usenet posts at any level of the thread and have ot thread correctly on usenet. (The quote button is used for this.) For this to work you MUST make a small code edit to newreply.php AND add a hidden field to the newreply template.

To get the most out of this you should consider creating a complete set of custom templates for the usenet forums. You can then show the nntpdate but still maintain a logical order by dateline. You can also hide the posts/location etc and display the full nntp From: header just like a real usenet post. See http://dbforums.com to see what I mean.

Changes

1. Added reply to particular post capability to ensure outgoing posts are threaded correctly when they reach usenet.
2. Changed indexing routine to support the new vB search thread title option.
3. Changed method of ordering usenet posts in forums to a more robust method. (Additional column containing nntpdate replaces the seq column)
4. Improved stripping of vB codes from outgoing posts.
5. Added new column containing nntp from line that can be referenced in templates.
6. Added global 'posting enabled' switch to control panel.
7. Improved autopurge function. It's now a lot quicker.

Bug Fixes

1. Fixed problem of lastactivethread not being updated when a post was deleted.
2. Fixed problem with mailing archives threading. Some posts were not being loaded if there were no references.
3. Fixed bug causing quotes not to be indented.
4. Probably some other stuff that I can't remember.

If possible you should do a clean install with this version. If not possible, you should go through the table structures carefully. Let me know if you need clarification on the need of any columns.

With only days before the vB final (hopefully) I want to clear up any bugs asap. If you do find any, make sure they're little ones that can be fixed easily

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Note to n3n: I didn't get around to adding the html to newnews.pl. I decided to wait and do it properly with an option to run it from the control panel and automatically set up a cron job etc.

Note to jarvis: I'll see what I can do about getting it to work under windows. It does work under Cygwin though if you can't wait.