How it will affect you? All the attached files in the forum since October/November are missing. So, if you have attached files in the forum you should upload them again.

Please, contact us if you see something inusual. We’re still recovering: demo.osclass.org and download packages from geo.osclass.org/downloads Sorry for the inconvenience, we are going to improve our backup system and recovery from this kind of failures.

Update 23 January 2011 16:36 (UTC+1): demo sites and geo.osclass.org/downloads are working fine again.

• Escape quotes in attr values of input tags using a new helper: osc_esc_html #105
• PHP Warning if the user doesn’t have a description in his profile #108
• PHP Warning in Search model #110
• Modified behavior in add/edit form of custom fields #112
• Style of radio buttons in custom fields #117
• JS error in add/edit page in oc-admin #119
• XSS vulnerabilities in search page
• SQL injections in search page and AJAX request in oc-admin (need to be logged as an admin)

Special thanks to Filippo Cavallarin and High-tech Bridge for reporting discretely the security vulnerabilities until we’ve published a new version. Last week we uploaded a Romanian .sql file to geo.osclass.org/downloads (thanks to Eduard Mihai). During this week we’re going to upload Latvia (thanks to Edgars Burmistris). If you want to add or improve your country locations, please contact us to info@osclass.org.

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Changelog

UPDATE 17/01/2012: Upload again the version because a mistake in custom fields of a last minute change

Release highlights:

• Deleting all admins bug fixed
• Multiple installs bug fixed
• Feeds url using permalinks
• SQL error using picture only items bug fixed
• Some hooks were added on admin
• SQL optimized a little more

As a reminder, if you are upgrading from a version 2.3.2 or earlier and it’s not a clean installation, please, remove the following files:

• oc-admin/themes/modern/tools/upgrade-plugins.php
• oc-admin/upgrade-plugin.php
• oc-admin/upgrade.php

It’s important to remove this files for security reasons. For security issues of OSClass you should send an e-mail with the details to security [at] osclass.org. Include as much detail as you can. Please, you should not publish the details.

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• Removed upgrade and upgrade-plugins files
• Minor fix when editing the comments in oc-admin
• Minor fix in the installation process if the config.php file exists

If you’re updating OSClass and it’s not a clean installation, please, remove the following files:

• oc-admin/themes/modern/tools/upgrade-plugins.php
• oc-admin/upgrade-plugin.php
• oc-admin/upgrade.php

It’s important to remove this files for security reasons. For security issues of OSClass you should send an e-mail with the details to security [at] osclass.org. Include as much detail as you can. Please, you should not publish the details.

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• Delete images when editing an item from oc-admin
• Change type of the column s_what in t_item_description
• Modified in the upgrade the type of s_what column in t_item_description
• Don’t duplicate items in main page with more than one language
• Fixed some bugs in the update from versions previous to 2.3
• Added missing helper: osc_search_region

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We strongly recommend to install this plugin once to fix some problems that some user might be experiencing when adding new items. Once it’s installed, you can uninstall and delete the files from the server because it won’t perform any changes more. In addition, this new version should fix the problems that some users have been experiencing when they updated their OSClass.

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• Manage alerts in user dashboard works again
• Clear Mark as options from oc-admin
• Plugins with errors in the installation aren’t marked as enabled now
• Publish button is not showed if the users are disabled and it’s mandatory to be registered
• Redirect to actual page when user log in works with permalinks enabled too
• Decrease category stats fixes a couple of bugs related to the edition of the item and the removal of ads
• Redirect back to main page if the public profile of the user doesn’t exist

Full changelog

We’ve moved from JIRA to github issues for the core of OSClass too. Most of you have been already reporting the issues there. So, now report the new issues there.

There are translations of 2.3.x available to download:

• Czech
• Persian (new!)
• Russian
• Swedish

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Update: This version includes a fix for when you update OSClass. So, if you were experiencing issues with prices after the update, try it now!

• Profiler page: now the registered users will have a profile page with the following information:
• User information: name, address, location and website
• Latest items
• Form to contact the user
• Price format: via the oc-admin, the administrator can set the number of decimals, the thousand separator and the decimal separator.
• Full text search: it’s a search function supported by MySQL that will improve the actual search method. We’ll be able to sort by relevance but it’s not implemented yet.
• More custom field types: there’s two new types of custom fields: select and radio button.
• Notifications:
• To the admin when a new user is registered
• To the publisher when a new comment is added in an item of their own

Some changes are oriented to developers:

• Debug options to show/log errors and queries.
• New DAO (Database Access Object) to perform sql queries. We are going to publish a tutorial in the next days.

There have been more changes that are reflected in the changelog with all the bug fixes too.

The old plugins shouldn’t be affected by the DAO changes. However, we’re going to update the plugin during the next few days. The language packages aren’t updated yet but we’re going to notify all the translator once we update the backoffice. If you’re willing to help us too, sign up to the translation backoffice.

It’s very important to backup the database and the files before upgrading. It’s a precaution mesure because in this version we modify the engine of one table in order to add full text feature. Please, read the updating instructions before upgrading.

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Here’s a great rule: if we can’t reproduce the bug, we can’t fix the bug.

When you report a bug to us, here’s what happens:

1. We read the bug report
2. One of us tries to reproduce the bug
3. If we can reproduce it, we investigate what’s broken and fix it
4. But if we can’t reproduce the bug…

Often bug reports don’t include enough information. Meaning we have go back and ask for details so we can investigate. If you want to increase the odds we fix an issue, and fix it fast, help us out.

A great bug report includes the following:

1. What were you trying to do?
2. What did you click on or do last?
3. What happened / what did you see?
4. What browser are you using?
5. What version of OSClass?
6. What hosting provider? (And if you know, what version of PHP do they use?)
7. The bug is reported to the right place:
1. OSClass
2. Plugins: Specify the plugin and the version
3. Themes: Specify the theme and the version

Bug reports that show screenshots for #3 are incredibly useful, as we can see exactly what you saw.

Bonus points for reviewing known issues before submitting, as your problem might already have been reported and have a patch or a workaround.

We work hard to have you deal with as few issues as possible, but if you want to improve the odds we can fix your issue fast, please take a extra minute to write a bug report that’s easier for us to use. Thanks.

Source: How to write a great bug report

We’re releasing the last RC version before the stable one. Thanks for all the people that is helping us reporting bugs through the forum and github. We’ve made some changes in the contact publisher, take a look.

• Download RC3 (zip)

• Download RC3 (tgz)

• Debug PHP errors
• Debug SQL queries

It’s better to use this features in development environments and disable in production. If you think we’re missing something or you find some error, we’d love to hear from you! Sound off in the comments.

We wrote more entrances in the wiki:

• Increasing memory allocated to PHP (version 2.3)
• Make telephone and other fields required at registration
• Change pagination menu

We did our first tutorial: OSClass’s Basic: Installation

Finally, we’re now in Google+! You can find us in twitter and facebook too to get the last news.