ChangeLog
News and RSS Aggregation
Current latest version: V2.4
Changes 2.2 ->2.4:
- All known bugs fixed, display of images now working
- upgrade instruction from v2.3:
overwrite all files (don’t overwrite database.php) and add these new phrases to your language file:
‘year’, ‘month’, ‘day’, hour’, ‘minute’.
Changes 2.2 ->2.3:
- All known bugs fixed
Changes 2.1 ->2.2:
- All known bugs fixed
Changes 2.0 ->2.1:
- Option added to show images that your sources deliver. Supports both, images sent as enclosure and embedded images.
- Language support added for languages that are not supported by mySQL fulltext search (especially some asian languages and others that do not use spaces as word delimiters)
- Editor’s choice. Show articles marked as editor’s choice in a seperate box.
- Admin frontpage editing system.
When you are logged in as admin you can manage articles in frontpage view. Mark / unmark articles as editor’s choice / delete articles / delete article’s images / crawl now. Fully AJAX-powered. - Minor bug fixing / code optimizations
Changes 1.0 ->2.0:
Introduction:
Version 2 improves significantly the administration of your sources, feeds categories, topics to give you full control over your site data.
Full multilanguage support added. Adhanced flexibility for content filtering.
Scroller-Widgets were added that can be integrated into any site. Most of its features are administrable from the admin backend. (This feature is in a preliminary state and will be finished shortly)
In detail:
- AJAX driven Widgets added (beta)
- Improvement for character encoding problems: character encoding of RSS-feeds is detected automatically and always converted to UTF-8 (before beeing written to database)
- Use of last version of Simplepie garantees compatibility with (nearly) all kinds of RSS flavours. Other engines can be integrated easily.
- Multilanguage support at frontend and backend
- Improved directory structure for skin development
- Update Now Button at backend with verbose output
- Option to show hit counter per article (frontend)
- Option to show recently added articles at frontend
- Option to show recently added sources at frontend
- Source specific hit counter and topic counter shown at backend
- Feed specific hit counter shown at backend
- Admin option to purge outdated topics from db
- AJAX driven crawl timing, no cron jobs needed anymore, all administrable from admin backend
- Crawl intervals definable on a per source basis.
- Automatic daily db backup
- Improvements in site security
- SEO improvement: title of page being viewed is put into meta tag “decription”
- Multiple warnings that filled up the Apache error log were corrected
- Keyword filters for categories
- Option to restrict categories to sources
- Option to create RSS feeds on a feed/category specific basis
- Option to show style selector, language selector and RSS feed creator at frontend
- Option to show articles’ web page in IFrame without leaving the site
- Accordeon functionality for articles per source

