PHP News Reader v2.6.5 (2007/01/01)

• Fixed the browser languages detection for zh-tw and zh-cn
• Added $CFG['referrer_enforcement'] to enforce the browsing to begin from $CFG['url_base'].
• Fixed the bug which unable to access the first category (thanks goudal)
• Added $CFG['article_numbering_reverse'] to change article number order.
• Added $CFG['advertise_*'] to place advertisement.

PHP News Reader v2.6.4 (2006/03/22)

• Fixed possible XSS attack (thanks Nikolas Coukouma)
• Fixed the problem for doing authentication from http_user & http_pw
• Fixed CAS authentication error.

PHP News Reader v2.6.3 (2005/09/22)

• Fixed for array_shift() as a return value in PHP 5.0.5

PHP News Reader v2.6.2 (2005/05/30)

• $CFG['html_header'] and $CFG['html_footer'] are displayed when reading articles.
• The HTTP request header 'Accept-Language' issued by browser is now considered as the default language.
• MODE READER must be issued again after authentication on some news server.
• Fixed HTTPS handling in IIS.
• Fixed the possible loss of double quote in Subject input field under multi-bytes charsets.
• Add $CFG['auth_deny_user'] to deny certain users from login.

PHP News Reader v2.6.1 (2005/01/01)

• Fixed the bug which perform invalid MODE READER before authentication.
• Attachment is now cached if $CFG['cache_dir'] is enabled.
• Fixed the bug which cause all attachment(s) not downloaded in v2.6.0.
• Fixed the downloading of attachment with filename contains special characters (again).
• $CFG['html_header'] or $CFG['html_footer'] can be a PHP script.
• Add a new feature to show all articles of current thread in one single page.
• $CFG['show_article_popup'] is deprecated.

PHP News Reader v2.6.0 (2004/12/25)

• Experimental threading support ($CFG['thread_support'])
• Added $CFG['confirm_post'] and $CFG['confirm_forward'] to enable the confirmation for message posting.
• Fixed the wrong version-checking codes when enabling nntps.
• The line length limit of 'newsgroups.lst' has been expanded from 512 to 4096.
• Fixed the downloading of attachment with filename contains special characters. (by ogekuri)
• Clear session variables and reload the config file when switching between different instance.
• Bug fixed for posting article when a line begin with period. (by ogekuri)
• $CFG["show_newest_top"] is deprecated.
• Fixed the problem of attachment uploading in PHP 5.
• The line which exceeds the page width will be wrapped.
• Multiple 'group' directive are allowed in one category.
• All language strings ($strXXX) are renamed as $pnews_msg array.
• Hierarchical directories are used for storing cache and thread data.
• read-art.php/post-art.php/reply-art.php/forward-art.php/delete-art.php are renamed (trimming the '-art')
• Rewrite NNRP functions as a class object.

PHP News Reader v2.5.9 (2004/08/11)

• Fix the login-fail bug which introduced by the configuration cache support.
• Cleaning for most PHP Notice warnings.

PHP News Reader v2.5.8 (2004/08/05)

• Fix the paging bug while $CFG["url_rewrite"] is disabled.
• Group descriptions are escaped to prevent from destroying HTML layout.
• Fix the warning when $CFG['html_footer'] is not defined.
• Configuraton is now cached by PHP session to increase performance.
• Added Slovak translation (By Tichu)

PHP News Reader v2.5.7 (2004/06/02)

• Group description can be eliminated by setting $CFG['show_group_description'] to false
• Support $CFG['html_header'] and $CFG['html_footer'] to customize the header and the footer.
• $CFG["show_newest_top"] is renamed as $CFG["show_latest_top"]
• The page number of group indexing is now displayed as a selector, which can be switched easily.

PHP News Reader v2.5.6 (2004/04/01)

• New authentication module 'phpbb' for seamless integration with phpBB. ($CFG['auth_method'])
• HTML tags are now displayed as-is for articles with 'text/html' as Content-Type.
• Fix the word wrapping bug in textarea.
• Workaround for the news server which does not support LIST NEWSGROUPS [wildmat] of RFC 2980

PHP News Reader v2.5.5 (2004/03/14)

• Fixed the quote problem of the Italian language translation.
• News server can be configured on an alternative port number (host.domain:port)

PHP News Reader v2.5.4 (2004/03/02)

• Fixed the incorrect restoring of $_POST variable after authentication.

PHP News Reader v2.5.3 (2004/02/22)

• Added Italian translation (by Francesco Rolando)
• Various fixes for the javascript errors for single quote problem.
• Fix for the showing of the first article in a new newsgroup.
• Support for the configuration of HTML META description and keywords ($CFG['meta_description'],$CFG['meta_keywords'])
• All articles will be listed when the number of articles is less than one page.

PHP News Reader v2.5.2 (2004/01/22)

• MODE READER is now performed after NNTP authentication.
• Added German translation (by Jochen Staerk)
• Newsgroups whose name contains plus (+) is now handled without problem.
• Fix the IE download problem which related to cache control headers.
• The name of uuencoded file may contain space now.
• Various fixes for the javascript errors when $CFG['hide_email'] is enabled.
• HTTP authenticatin info can be used in NNTP authentication. (%http_user, %http_pw)
• Catalog can be hided by 'hidden' in the option directive.
• Debug information can be examined by setting $CFG["debug_level"].
• Documentation for newsgroups.lst is refined.

PHP News Reader v2.5.1 (2003/12/25)

• Rewrite the `uudecode' codes to fix the bug which result in wrong outputs.
• Anti-Spam: E-Mail address is now encoded by default to prevent spamlist collection ($CFG['hide_email'])
• Uuencoded image attachment is shown inline unless explicitly setting $CFG['image_inline'] to false.
• Fix the charset information in the login-failed page.
• E-Mail link auto-detection is refined for multi-bytes environment.
• Correct many words used for GB to/from BIG5 coding conversion.

PHP News Reader v2.5.0 (2003/11/15)

• Supporting attach files (by UUENCODE) when posting or replying article ($CFG['allow_attach_file'])
• Mail authentication module now support pop3s.
• References header in replied article now works exactly as defined in RFC 2822.
• The correct E-Mail domain is always used after login from Mail authentication module.
• Domain selector can be turned on by $CFG['domain_select'] for Mail authentication module.
• Per-category readonly can be configured in newsgroups.lst.
• Validate the correctness of the current session before performing authentication.
• GB2312 translation is refined by Czz and does not depend on the BIG5 translation any more.
• Log verbose level can be tuned by changing $CFG["log_level"].
• Fix the group verification bug when cross-posting article.
• Organization header now correctly overrides the setting of news server.
• The wrong regular expression used in split() is now fixed, this problem exists in most authentication modules.
• The downloaded attachment is now in the exactly correct size.
• Fix the problem of CAS login which may result in empty page.
• $CFG['show_sourceforge_logo'] is now default to false.
• $CFG["post_restriction"] is deprecated, and replaced by $CFG["global_readonly"]

PHP News Reader v2.4.4 (2003/11/09)

• Fix a bug of parsing NNTP headers, which may cause coding conversion fail to work.

PHP News Reader v2.4.3 (2003/11/08)

• Workaround for MSIE SSL bug about attachment downloads (Q323308)

PHP News Reader v2.4.2 (2003/11/01)

• Support the downloading of uuencoded attachment.
• Reading article which encoded by "base64" or "quoted-printable".
• Workaround for broken news server which expiration does not work correctly.
• Article headers can be displayed if necessary.
• Empty lines are deleted in the quoted article when replying.
• Fix a bug of parsing Content-Type header.
• Added Finnish translation (by Markus Oversti)

PHP News Reader v2.4.1 (2003/10/25)

• Fix a potential bug which cause heavy loading if caching is enabled.
• Fix a bug about indexing articles which cause execution timeout.
• Login fail message is now displayed when "form" style login is used.
• Refined interface and style sheet.
• Default value of $CFG["magic_tag"] is false now.
• Support POP3S (POP3 over SSL) authentication module
• Support FTPS (FTP over SSL) authentication module

PHP News Reader v2.4.0 (2003/10/04)

• Support News Server with NNTP over SSL connection (also known as NNTPS or SNEWS)
• Support NNTPS (NNTP over SSL) authentication module
• Overview format is confirmed by RFC 2980 (LIST OVERVIEW.FMT)
• Caching can be enabled to accelerate the indexing process. ($CFG["cache_dir"])
• Check for the invalid access to groups not listed in newsgroups.lst
• $CFG["article_order_reverse"] is deprecated, and replaced by $CFG["show_newest_top"]
• Fix the problem of filtering ANSI coloring codes.

PHP News Reader v2.3.1 (2003/09/27)

• Reading article with invalid artnum will be redirected into indexing page.
• Dead news server will not slow down the access for groups in other servers.
• Better error handling when news server is unavailable.
• Remove the read-only indication when $CFG["post_restriction"] is enabled.
• Fix several missing style sheet errors.
• Auto-correction for some invalid uri if $CFG["url_rewrite"] is enabled.

PHP News Reader v2.3.0 (2003/09/06)

• Added French translation (by Pascal Aubry)
• Support CAS authentication module (by Pascal Aubry)
• E-Mail editing can be disabled by setting $CFG["email_editing"] as off
• The character '#' is included in the uri of hyperlink auto-detection.
• Support more flexible group matching syntax in newsgroup.lst.
• Directly linking to the next/previous article
• Language switching reworked, relation between charset and language is more clear.
• $CFG["interface_language"] makes the decision at the language used in interface.

PHP News Reader v2.2.4 (2003/07/26)

• Fix the bug in MySQL authentication module.
• Use of $CFG["magic_tag"] to indicate the visit state of newsgroup

PHP News Reader v2.2.3 (2003/07/20)

• Fix the bug at replying if the quoted article has leading spaces.

PHP News Reader v2.2.2 (2003/07/05)

• Option to force using SSL(HTTPS) when performing login. ($CFG["https_login"])
• $CFG["url_base"] must be configured even if $CFG["url_rewrite"] is off

PHP News Reader v2.2.1 (2003/06/21)

• Initial support for style sheet configuration via $CFG["style_sheet"]
• The default news server address can be ignored when $CFG["url_rewrite"] is enabled
• Handling quotes correctly with the magic_quotes_gpc state of PHP.
• The leading spaces are displayed as-is while reading articles.
• Article is displayed in 'mono-space' font by default.
• Fix the bug of the configuration checking about NNTP authentication module.
• Fix the group verification error while forwarding article.
• Language switch can be turned off by setting $CFG["language_switch"] as false.
• Fix the lower-case problem of nnrp authentication parameter in newsgroups.lst

PHP News Reader v2.2.0 (2003/05/25)

• Support news server which requires authorization.
• The ANSI coloring codes are filtered by default ($CFG["filter_ansi_color"]).
• Support links to Next and Previous articles.
• Support URL rewrite function ($CFG["url_rewrite"] and $CFG["url_base"])
• Deleted articles are skipped and exactly 20 articles are displayed in one page
• Add option ($CFG["article_order_reverse"]) to config the article numbering order.
• Add option ($CFG["show_article_popup"]) to config the use of popup window.
• Support NNTP authentication module for authenticate with News server.
• Number of articles per page can be configured by $CFG["articles_per_page"] (default is 20).
• Fix a bug when post after timeout with "form" style login.

PHP News Reader v2.1.2 (2003/04/05)

• Do not strip whitespace from the beginning of each line in the article posted.
• Jump to the correct category when returning from indexing page.
• Correct the problem of lost for POST variables when launching the login dialog.

PHP News Reader v2.1.1 (2003/03/08)

• The format of time displayed can be configured by $CFG["time_format"].
• Only show the group name in the title of indexing page.
• Add more error handling codes for invalid news server settting.
• Several author name/mail parsing problems fixed.
• Fix variable missing problem in 'open' authentication type.

PHP News Reader v2.1.0 (2003/03/02)

• Installation Guide released.
• Use 'charset' instead of 'language' in the configuration file
• The correct charset of group is used while loading pages without session.
• The MIME charset of article will be honored while processing news articles.
• The article will be posted and mailed with correct MIME headers about charset information based on the RFC 2045 standard.

PHP News Reader v2.0.4 (2003/02/18)

• Change the article numbering order (descent)

PHP News Reader v2.0.3 (2003/02/05)

• Use UTF-8 for English locale

PHP News Reader v2.0.2 (2003/01/24)

• Fix the bug of 'required' authentication model

PHP News Reader v2.0.1 (2003/01/22)

• Correct the link of SourceForge logo

PHP News Reader v2.0 (2003/01/19)

• First public release under GPL and hosts on SourceForge
• Rewrite the authentication codes and the use of the ticket system
• Logging out support
• Support 'optional' authentication model for Read-Only access without authentication
• Rewrite the LDAP and POP3 authentication modules
• Support Mail authentication module for multiple POP3 server environment
• Support MySQL and PostgreSQL authentication modules, easy to integrate with phpBB
• FTP authentication module support
• User information can be extracted from LDAP attributes or Database table fields along with authentication
• Standardize the requirements for writing an authentication module
• Support FORM style login process other than the original HTTP authentication
• More flexible configuration based on a new config.inc.php syntax
• Enable interface language to switch without cookie support
• Different encodings can be used in different categories
• Support private groups which only accessible by authenticated user
• Fix the E-Mail parsing bug in XOVER command of NNRP library

PHP News Reader v1.9 (2003/01/01)

• LDAP authentication module support
• Add X-User-Real-E-Mail: header for real E-Mail address
• Fix a typo error of default language file loading

PHP News Reader v1.8 (2002/10/26)

• Support encodings including Unicode/Chinese (UTF-8), Simplified Chinese (GB2312) and Traditional Chinese (BIG5).
• Code conversion between any two of the above three common Chinese encodings
• Interface re-formatting for various action
• Fix a bug of forwarding article in english interface

PHP News Reader v1.7 (2002/10/05)

• Support Chinese bi-directional coding conversion of BIG5/GB2312
• Support Chinese on-the-fly coding conversion while posting articles
• Fix the multiple MIME encoding problem of the subject

PHP News Reader v1.6 (2002/08/10)

• Support square-bracketed category in newsgroups.lst
• Couple of fixs for register_globals setting 'off'
• HTML entities in Subject is now correctly escaped
• Mail forwarding bug fixed
• Check for valid E-Mail entered by user

PHP News Reader v1.5 (2002/07/06)

• Multiple news server
• Run with PHP's register_globals setting turned off
• Security enhancement for newsgroup verification
• Switch interface language on the fly

PHP News Reader v1.4 (2002/06/09)

• Dynamic highlight of selected item
• Correct the problem about author information of XOVER, HEAD
• Fix a bug of checking both "Not post to newsgroup" and "Reply to author"