[AndrewD]

I've reuploaded the alpha 3 release with the most serious bugs fixed:

09.03.08 version 2.2.9 alpha 4

- SQL error when some users (usually unregistered) visit the home page
- Pathological nesting of bbcodes causing infinite loop
- Entries possible from users with special characters in their usernames
- Error handling of *upload_maxspace* setting
- PHP error message displayed on ratings page
- Bluga.net webthumbs recoded to add new options, allow per-category use, improve reliability

Beta 1 is on its way in a few days with the following changes:

Category synchronisation
- Default owner of synced entries/categories changed to owner of category in which the entry/category is placed

Admin
- IP/userid-based hits analyses subgrouped by username/IP
- Option added to accumulate all hits from user's IP address against that user's allowances

Mirrors
- Mirror selection page includes response times for each alive mirror

Extras
JWplayer extra extended to handle xml playlists and to use the Silverlight player for windows media

Help needed

I would very much welcome reports on the *swfupload* extra that was included in alpha3/alpha4, which provides a progress bar and greater reliability for monitoring uploads