[DragonByte Tech]

vBDownloads v1.4.0 - v2.0.0 Beta 2
Home Page

• Feature: The Search engine has been improved to now also allow you to search by description
• Feature: The Sidebar widgets now display on all vBDownloads pages
• Change: The Category list has been improved to more closely resemble the Forum list in vBulletin
• Change: The Recent Files, Top Downloads and Highest Rated widgets now change based on what category you're browsing
• Fix: The Search engine should now correctly limit the results based on your input

Favourites

• Change: The Favourites list now uses the same templates to display its results as the Search Results, leading to a more consistent experience

Category Browser

• Feature: The navbar now displays the full breadcrumb path back to the home page, traversing parent categories
• Feature: The Search engine now follows you around as you browse categories, in case you give up trying to find what you're looking for manually
• Change: The Child Categories list has been improved to more closely resemble the Forum list in vBulletin
• Change: The File list now uses the same templates to display its results as the Search Results, leading to a more consistent experience
• Change: The download's thumbnail is now generated via a new and more intelligent method that chooses a screenshot if available, and if not, the first image in the list of files

File Browser

• Feature: The navbar now displays the full breadcrumb path back to the home page, traversing parent categories
• Feature: File deletion is now fully AJAX'd
• Feature: Adding a comment now loads a new page with the full editor
• Change: The comments "postbit" now more closely resembles the vB Blog "postbit" (also found in our [DBTech] DragonByte Gallery modification by Dylan)
• Change: The "More From This User" now uses the same style as the file title for consistency
• Change: The download's thumbnail is now generated via a new and more intelligent method that chooses a screenshot if available, and if not, the first image in the list of files
• Fix: The download counter should now work correctly in all cases
• Fix: (Pro) Entering a download's password should no longer rarely send the user into a never-ending redirect loop
• Fix: (Pro) Refreshing the page while the user is waiting for the download delay no longer restarts the countdown unless they refresh again.

Upload

• Feature: A new, shiny uploader based on BlueImp's jQuery File Uploader has replaced the old uploader.
  This uploader has advanced features such as measuring network speed, ETAs and of course, progress bars.
  Fully AJAX'd and powered by jQuery UI, this uploader also lets you manage your existing files, deleting them with a single click.
  You are also able to abort a currently in-progress upload without reloading the whole page.
  Any existing themes made for jQuery UI will also work to style this uploader - more themes will be selectable in the future.
• Change: The "Category", "Mirrors", "Private Users" (Pro) and "Password Protection (Pro) input areas now use the same UI style for consistency
• Change: The "Password Protection" (Pro) input area no longer requires you to re-enter your password every time you modify the download
• Change: The "Extension Information" table has been brought inside the main content area, and is now placed underneath the file management area

AdminCP: System Information

• Feature: Storage Space Usage - the ability to see the total amount of space taken up by all your files combined
• Feature: Monthly Storage Space Usage - the ability to see the total amount of space taken up by files uploaded in the current month
• Feature: Bandwidth Usage - the ability to see the total amount of bandwidth taken up by users downloading your files (since v1.4.0 was installed)
• Feature: Monthly Bandwidth Usage - the ability to see the total amount of bandwidth taken up by users downloading your files in the current month (since v1.4.0 was installed)

AdminCP: Extensions

• Fix: Fixed a bug with the MIME type field being too small to store the correct MIME type for certain file extensions

AdminCP: Modules

• Change: Removed this entire area, converted into Usergroup Permissions for maximum compatibility with vBulletin & mods that alter usergroup permissions such as [DBTech] vBShop

AdminCP: Import Utility

• Change: Removed a slew of unnecessary steps
• Fix: No longer shows an empty header if you have no importable products

General / Other

• Feature: Deactivating vBDownloads in the AdminCP vBulletin Options now allows you to set a Closed Reason message
• Feature: Downloads Managers now has a one-click link to manage a download's Moderated status when viewing downloads
• Feature: The ModCP is once again functional, allowing you to approve moderated downloads as well as delete reported comments from one handy location
• Feature: Auto-moderation of new files is once again functional
• Feature: Thumbnails & screenshots should now be more resistant to over-zealous browser caches. Download thumbnails will re-generate if the number of files in the download changes.
• Feature: The profile tab is once again viewable, now with an improved display of downloads that match the rest of the product
• Feature: You can now re-arrange the display order of categories in the AdminCP
• Feature: Added compatibility layer for old vBDownloads thread links
• Feature: You can now choose the preview length for download descriptions
• Feature: Mirror links now display the number of hits they've received (starting after installing v2.0.0)
• Change: The entire code base has been rewritten from scratch to allow us to more easily add new features and fix bugs
• Change: Changed default category description on creation
• Change: Download description in the Category Browser is now truncated
• Change: Download description in the Search Results is now truncated
• Change: Download description in the Favourites is now truncated
• Change: The "Comments" tab is now hidden on downloads if there's no comments yet
• Change: Changed the breadcrumbs on the Category Browser to have "vBDownloads" as their root element for consistency

Fillip