NEWS
ccHost Release Notes
====================
Version 4.4
This version marks a major feature release with something for
end users, admins and devleopers (and many, many bugfixes)
New Features in 4.5
======================
- Collabaration
Users invite each other, discuss collaborations in private, share private files,
then publish as a group
- Social bookmarks
Now every upload is one click away from bookmarked in the most popular sites (Digg,
Yahoo, etc.)
- Recommends method of rating
Count recommendations in stead of star rating system. Browse a users
recommendations in a new browser
- Download packager
Count download, download file with license file (RDF) and checksum
- Various user interface features
Browse users by what tools they use, big Thumbs Up in reviews/comments,
see who's remixed who with one click
New Admin Features in 4.5
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admin: allow admin to change user email, hooks to activity log
admin: allow play for admins & hidden files
admin: allow spaces in paths
admin: consolidated admin configuration for moderation/flagging
admin: delete virtual root
admin: enhanced activity log
admin: show 'publish' link for admins on contest sources
admin: add sendmail additional params to mail()
admin: added 'reasons' to banning
admin: activity log browser, archiving
admin: User quota
New Features in 4.0
======================
- Playlists/Favorites
Users can collect their favorite uploads into lists. If the the upload has
audio in it, all items will be treated like a playlist.
- Embedded MP3 player
Audio uploads can now be played directly in the browser with a customized
embedded MP3 player.
- Remix Radio Channels
A 'remix radio' with configurable streaming channels allows users to
decide what they want to hear and how.
- "Publicize" Users
Anyone can include a list of links (or audio player) on their blogs or
other websites by cutting and pasting customized code for any artist
on the site.
- Query Engine
A very powerful query engine now sits at the heart of most of the
ccHost installation. There are dozens of parameters to control the
output which can be formatted as feeds, playlists, plain text or
dozens of specialized HTML formats. The engine is avaiable
from URLs in the browser, Navigators Tabs, templates and (of
course) directly from plug-in code.
- 'Run Once' Pages
Admins can configure several 'run once' pages that their registered
users will see once and then never again. Perfect for 'Welcome'
screen or pledge drives.
- Default User Avatar
Admins can set a specific default user avatar for new users.
- New 'Super-Admin' Group
A group of users can be added as 'super-admin' and each URL in the system
can be assigned to any level of user.
- Added new Creative Commons 3.0 licenses
The newly released Creative Commons 3.0 licenses are available from the
virtual root licenses selector. You must select these manually for the
time being.
Improvements in 4.0
====================
- Performance Boost
The entire page loading mechanism has been revamped. While remaining
backwards ccmpatible with previous installations page response times
have improved by as much as 2-4 times 3.1. (Sites with custom code
will have some minor adjustments to make.)
- New License Merging
Remixing a new work from different licensed material is now up to
CC spec.
- Auto-approve Sample Pools
Admins now longer have to manually approve remote remixes as they come
in from 'trusted' remote pools.
- Reviews/Ratings Changes
Ratings can now be dependant on reviews and a new ranking system based
on favorites and (for audio) embedded plays along with user ratings.
- International Encoding
Universal encoding is now enforced throughout the site
- Forums Improvments/Features
Individual topics can be translated by your internations community. Threads
can be locked and branches can be deleted.
- AJAX Everywhere
ccHost has standardized on prototype.js and (pieces of) the Rico library
for the browser and Zend's JSON encoder on the server to created performant,
highly interactive user interface.
- New Language Editor
Now translators and admins have an easy to use string editor to create
internation tranlations and domain specific installations without touching
the code.
- Feeds, Streaming, Playlists and Sample Pool use New Query Engine
All feeds and Sample Pool searches are now using the query engine with
means you can now add parameters to do things like offset paging
and dozens of other features.
- Most Active Reviews
Are now displayed at the top of the 'recent reviews' page.
- Exclude Tags from Search
A '-' in front of tags will exclude them searches. remix,-downtempo
will return all remixes that do NOT have the 'downtempo' tag
An edited SVN LOG (4.5):
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api: remix min/max param (for sample digging)
bugfix: 2 players are not good
bugfix: Fixed big db overlaod with openclipart.org
bugfix: add template tag was broken
bugfix: bad people url broke collab page
bugfix: calculate the amount of user's upload file
bugfix: contest edit was broken
bugfix: csv didn't output separate lines.
bugfix: digging checkbox was not being read on refresh
bugfix: dyn playlists don't display in profile
bugfix: email form name
bugfix: errors in skin-simple template
bugfix: extra quote in mail
bugfix: fix for mixed version lic remix
bugfix: formats in publicize
bugfix: got rid of extra click on pl open
bugfix: ie margin bug
bugfix: missed by sa for 3.0 lic
bugfix: missing form_id caused js error
bugfix: missing include
bugfix: missing include
bugfix: missing yet another include
bugfix: new rec'd were not showing up
bugfix: new uploads displayed wrong recc'd number
bugfix: open list playlist broke when going 'next'
bugfix: overrides on auto-macros in skins never worked
bugfix: paging next in playlists confused onclick handlers
bugfix: playlist counts could get out of date
bugfix: popup info would not go away under IE on click away
bugfix: post remix was broken
bugfix: prevent wrapping of player button
bugfix: publicize yourself was broken
bugfix: recent playlists blew up
bugfix: removing item from playlist would throw off counters
bugfix: review feeds were broken
bugfix: some format templates were broken,
bugfix: some versions of php croaked on null contest return
bugfix: spelling
bugfix: stats broken for non-logged in users
bugfix: translated topics were not being deleted
bugfix: turning off getid3 confused psuedo verifier
bugfix: unknown user crashed page
bugfix: unreg users got missing func error
bugfix: userid that starts with number couldn't publish/manage files
bugfix: xspf feeds were broken for some reason
code: Added reply-to field as an option...
code: Jose Solorzano's html parser
code: add 'realpath' choice
code: array_combine doen'st exists in php4
code: change rdf format
code: enable type-type deleteWhere (this is a scary checkin)
code: format.php was a dupe of .inc version
code: kill invalid query choice with err msg
code: more equitable and memory efficient ratings
code: need to include events to ensure event defs are loaded
code: new events (LostPassword, ip banned, etc.)
code: optimized sql lookup
code: shorten header link
code: turn on new profile page tabs by default
code: used to be 'people' dir, now it's 'files'
code: Added check to see if the cc-config-db.php exists from ccadmin and if
format: button player and upgrade
format: embed playlist ui
typo: clean avatar names
typo: fixed count name
ui: Lets give some error when this isn't getting anything...
ui: clean up on play links
ui: collab and recommends UI clean up
ui: added 'display' ui, cleaned up buttons
ui: it can show a listing of files contained in the zip file.
ui: force a login after password change
ui: dynamic user tabs
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