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1.1 Release Candidate 3 is available!</A> </DIV>
<DIV class=smalltext>« <B>on:</B> August 19, 2006, 04:12:52 PM »</DIV></TD>
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<DIV class=post>Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 1.1
RC3, the (really) final release of 1.1 before final. <BR><BR>There have been
several significant changes since RC2 - this has led to an additional
release candidate (as opposed to going straight to final). In particular,
UTF8 support has been added to SMF, providing considerably better language
support to our international users.<BR><BR>Other notable changes in RC3
include:<BR>
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<LI>Many, many changes for UTF8 support. Read all about it at the <A
href="http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?topic=865"
target=_blank>Online Manual</A>.
<LI>Many tweaks to the search functionality.
<LI>Added a CAPTCHA option to the registration page (Including audio support
for accessibility).
<LI>Added an AJAX loading indicator to show when a server request is taking
place.
<LI>All numbers should now respect number format settings.
<LI>Fixed a bug with subject cache being out of sync.
<LI>Fixed speed issues when moving/splitting topics.
<LI>Fixed issues with notifications being sent in the wrong language.
<LI>Many changes to the numerous bridges Orstio has created for
SMF.</LI></UL><BR><B>Security Update</B><BR>We received a report detailing a
bug in PHP (improper deletion of hash values in the
zend_hash_del_key_or_index() function), causing a vulnerability in SMF. We
have addressed this issue in this release. We urge everyone who is
using an earlier release of SMF 1.1 to update
immediately.<BR><BR><B>Installing/Upgrading information</B><BR>Upgrading
from your current version of SMF to the latest version could not be simpler,
just follow the standard procedure of executing upgrade.php. But,
<B>please remember to make a backup!!</B> The upgrader will upgrade
any installation from YaBB SE 1.5.5 all the way up to the latest version of
SMF. You can always find information in the Online Manual about things
like <A href="http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=2.0"
target=_blank>installation</A>, <A
href="http://docs.simplemachines.org/index.php?board=3.0"
target=_blank>upgrades</A>, and more.<BR><BR><B>Users with large
boards</B><BR>Any users upgrading from prior to SMF 1.1 RC2 will benefit
from huge optimizations in the log table structure to reduce the ongoing
operating load on the server. However to achieve these savings, the upgrade
has a lot of work to do - which for boards with more than 75,000 posts may
take quite some time. Please bear this in mind during the upgrade - try to
do it at a slow time if at all possible. In most cases, it will take up to
an hour to upgrade, but it could take several. Remember, the script has
timeout protection and auto resume - so just get it started and leave it to
do its job. We've added progress bars to the upgrade script to help give you
an indication of how things are going!<BR><BR><B>Attention</B><BR>While we
are confident that there are no major problems with this release, we want to
remind you that it is still not to be considered stable software. We do not
recommend its use in "live" situations and if you are not comfortable with
using this Release Candidate, we advise you to wait until the release of the
final version before using the 1.1 line.<BR><BR><B>Important Notice to our
Charter Members</B><BR>After we released RC3 to the Charter Members, we
discovered and corrected a problem with one of the UTF8 functions.
This function was causing a significant slow down in board
performance. We were also informed of a security related issue which
we have corrected. For these reasons, we are urging all Charter
Members to update the source files for their boards, regardless of whether
UTF8 is being used or not.<BR><BR><A
href="http://www.simplemachines.org/download.php" target=_blank>Download SMF
1.1 Release Candidate 3</A><BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Simple Machines</DIV><BR />
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