XOOPS 2.4.3 FINAL Is Released

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This release is a bugfix-release of XOOPS 2.4.2, done by XOOPS Core Development Team and XOOPS community:

Updates upon community:
- Added: Ability to assign display elements to a specific group of users (ghia)
- Added: Smarty variable for xoops_avatar (kris_fr/trabis)
- Added: Cache supported functions: xoops_getActiveModules(), xoops_setActiveModules(), xoops_isActiveModule() (trabis)
- Added: XoopsMailer - Adding method to set 'allow html' parameter (Wishcraft)
- Improved: Preloads are only loaded for modules installed and active, this will reduce queries and improve performance (trabis)
- Fixed : XoopsLoad class (xoops calendar not found and other issues) (trabis)
- Fixed : Database images not loading when using php 5.3 (trabis)
- Fixed : Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in PM module (trabis/secunia.com)
- Fixed : SQL Injection vulnerability in kernel/notification.php (trabis/secunia.com)

Updates from Sourceforge trackers:
- Fixed bug #2917631 : Double frame around BBcode quotes in zetagenesis (kris_fr/ghia)
- Fixed bug #2923867 : Website Row is displayed even value is empty (trabis/maxxy)
- Fixed bug #2909312 : Layout of XoopsForms is changed (trabis/ghia)
- Fixed bug #2904777 : preload including not installed module's preloads (trabis/bandit-x)
- Fixed bug #2908887 : User can not select system avatars (trabis/ghia)
- Fixed bug #2911944 : Users can see other users profile in edit profile (trabis/ghia)
- Fixed bug #2910495 : BBcode code tag handles code worse than quote tag (trabis/ghia)
- Fixed bug #2914175 : code tags translate to double tags and alter first line (trabis/ghia)
- Fixed bug #2915970 : Banner white page on IE (trabis/ghia)

Added Language defines:
- language/english/banners.php _BANNERS_NO_LOGIN_DATA
- language/english/banners.php _BANNERS_NO_REFERER
- language/english/banners.php _BANNERS_NO_ID

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-2.4.3.zip:
Md5: b7929923b1409196855835c44b35c21a
Sha1: d4b17314358e40d1c6f168c1558429d699312127

xoops-2.4.3.tar.gz:
Md5: e21d0d71d1bd92f54ae9e93ac01519ad
Sha1: 1520f06689ddccc364519e393356b7338a2742b7