XOOPS 2.4.2 FINAL Is Released

News from Xoops Website

This release is a bugfix-release of XOOPS 2.4.1, done by XOOPS Core Development Team and XOOPS community:

Updates upon community:
- Fixed : "embed" is deprecated in banners (kris_fr)
- Fixed : bug flash banner (display and count) (kris_fr)
- Fixed : Duplicate notifications (trabis)
- Fixed : Cannot delete multiple pms in PM module (trabis)
- Fixed : removed dependency on Framework Captcha (mamba, ghia)
- Fixed : Language problem in xoops mailer (dhcst)
- Fixed : XoopsPersistableObjectHandler::get() not allowing getting objects with id=0 (trabis)
- Fixed : Cannot redeclare class xoopscaptchaimage (trabis)
- Fixed : problem with module menus(article, tags) in oxygen admin gui (trabis)
- Added : missing index.html files (mamba, Culex)
- Added : Frameworks/compat (trabis)
- Added : define language for banner client ID (kris_fr)
- Added : users real name can now be used in themes <{$xoops_name}> (kris_fr)
- Added : comment for download module and theme in last page "xoops installer" (kris_fr)
- Improved : rtl style in oxygen GUI (voltan)
- Improved: added Admin toolbar in Zetagenesis theme (kris_fr)

Updates from Sourceforge trackers:
- Fixed bug #2904049: xoopsform/formfile.php (mamba, Frankblack)

Added Language defines:
- modules/system/language/english/admin/banners.php _AM_CLIENTID

Modified Language file:
- install/language/english/finish.php

Some of the highlights of the XOOPS 2.4.x series:

* a new Admin GUI: Oxygen (Voltan): see picture above
* new mechanism to modularize and extend Core via Preloads (trabis)
* central support for jQuery (trabis)
* improved Installer (DuGris)
* WCAG 2.0 - Sight Impaired Assisted Forms (wishcraft)
* Themeable Admininstration area (trabis)
* support for new WYSIWYG Editors: CKEditor, wymeditor, Xinha, and Spaw2 (wishcraft and Luciorota)
* new System Key (wishcraft)
* Support to PHP 5.3 (trabis)
* profile and pm modules improved by Trabis
* code refactoring and improvements (trabis, catzwolf)
* Security fixes (trabis, wishcraft)

and many more.

Please remember: If you're installing it over previous installation, make a BACKUP first!
Please also note that some hacks done for previous XOOPS versions might not work with this release: testing before installing is always a good choice

Download it from Sourceforge repository.

Please post and discuss all issues related to this release in this forum

We also need help with Translations

System requirements
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PHP:
Any PHP version >= 4.3 (PHP 4.2.x may work but is not officially supported, PHP 5.0+ is strongly recommended)

Please note: XOOPS 2.4.x series is the LAST version of XOOPS tested on and supporting PHP4. Our next releases will be tested and certified exclusively on PHP5: Read more here



MySQL:
MySQL server 3.23+ (MySQL 5.0+ is strongly recommended)

Please note: XOOPS 2.4.x series is the LAST version of XOOPS tested on and supporting MySQL version lower than 5.0. Our next releases will be tested and certified exclusively on MySQL 5.0+:

Web server:
Any server supporting the required PHP version (Apache highly recommended)


Downloading XOOPS
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Your can get this release package from the Sourceforge file repository
Both .zip and .gz archives are provided:

xoops-2.4.2.zip:
Md5: eb2335af9541e4be9ca3e4449e5e8d15
Sha1: 152c178f0b9c2370ade2c07b140b091ec3d3f969

xoops-2.4.2.tar.gz:
Md5: 3d0ffb8bd30dbd1bb5f30dd937774f7d
Sha1: b01c2dfaefad9c643a7211637887ed0950071321