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We just deployed a new point upgrade to rehash today to fix a bunch of small bugs that have been with us since the rehash upgrade and a few that were around longer than that. Here are the highlights:
- Fixes for various XSS isues by adding strip_title where appropriate in output templates.
- Fix PollBooth for Nexus support (found the bugs when cleaning up XSS issues).
- Fix broken daily mails by removing a utf decode that was unneeded since mod_perl 2 is better with utf8.
- Comment links now link to the the commentwrap div just above the comment.
- Commentwrap div's 'Reply' button now has verbage based on if we are on the story or on a specific comment.
- Add cert store location to Subscribe code to get rid of LWP errors and allow PayPal subscriptions to complete.
- Fix missing hit counts by adding accesslog back in (for editors and admins).
- Fix for unordered singoffs in story edit page (for editors and admins).
- Fix broken block save in admin.pl by setting defaults for not null table update (for admins).
We were able to kill off about 10 high priority bugs with this mini release. Current issues and feature requests can be found on GitHub and you can submit new issues or feature requests here if you have a GitHub account. We also welcome bugs and requests sent via email to admin@soylentnews.org or left in the comments below.
Our goals for the next major update is more of the same bug hunting and killing with a few features added here and there. Again I would like to thank you for your patience with the growing pains we have had with the 15_05 rehash upgrade. This update should bring us mostly back to where we were before in terms of broken features.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by prospectacle on Tuesday June 16 2015, @11:38PM
I expect you all have jobs and/or lives and/or families, which makes the time and effort you put into continually improving this place all the more impressive.
For a news and comment source I enjoy every day and with such a cheap yearly subscription, it's very greatly appreciated.
Makes me think I really should contribute content more often.
If a plan isn't flexible it isn't realistic
(Score: 3, Touché) by paulej72 on Tuesday June 16 2015, @11:43PM
I pay not in money, but in blood, sweat, and tears. Thanks for the compliment.
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 17 2015, @10:27AM
Is the blood in order to get the red colour of the decorations? ;-)
Anyway, great work.
However let me annotate one minor thing that IIRC already was on the green site, but each time I see it (which includes right now) it strikes me as odd:
When replying to a post, that post has a "Reply to This" button, which is rather pointless, since that's what I'm currently doing. I think that button can be safely removed.
What would be occasionally useful while replying is a "Parent" button on posts with a parent; however that's probably more complicated to add, and it's still possible to get at the parent with just one more click (namely on the comment number).
(Score: 2) by cmn32480 on Wednesday June 17 2015, @12:27AM
We welcome any and all content contributions.
A great place to start is the Submission Guidelines [soylentnews.org].
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