WebAPP v0.9.9.5 is off the press. Grab it now and be one of the first to try it out. Here's a list of the changes:

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* NEW FEATURES:

Forum Polls.

Gallery - Captions on Images.

Forum - View or link Forums by Category.

Move Archived Threads.

Newsletter now sends in background to avoid browser timeout on large newsletter subscription lists.

UBBC Tag functionality added to Censored Words.

Shout Box made readable by Guest visitors. Posting still member only.

Newsletter Emails edit now returns to Edit Emails page after editing.

Admin Panel pages now return to same page after editing options.

New Images in Admin Panel.

Admin Panel reorganized.

Mod Management links in Admin Panel.

Separator added between Events in Calendar dates.

New character counter for Recommend form. Slated for use with more features in the future.



* SECURITY:

Statistics - Viewing of all recent visits by a specific IP or username.

Ban now allows for reason and date added to new additions to Ban List.

IP Sorting in Ban Log display.

Raw form input logging added to Data Error Log.

Referrer checking added on many forms (Optional - admin setting)

Bad referrer logging and monitoring.

Added more characters to global query string filter.

Removed use of HTML in Profiles - Replaced with UBBC.

Filter against HTML being entered in Forum Post icon field via hijacked forms.

Added missing access check to Calendar Administration.

Added access check to Instant Messages Administration pages.

Added access checking to Image Uploader.

Email validation and input checking to prevent recent outbreak of spammer attacks on the Recommend feature.

Cross Site Scripting vulnerability removed from Gallery Comments and Feedback pages.

Patched client side Cross Site Scripting in Search Results pages.

Patched Cross Site Scripting vulnerability in Statistics Log viewer.

CAPTCHA default changed to "yes" now that we use a local module for the encryption.

Censoring added to Latest Member real name.

Forum Archive feature made admin only.

Added stronger input checking on Search forms to help prevent recent search form hijacking outbreak.

Removed unnecessary hidden inputs from Search form.

Added length restrictions on Search keyword inputs.

Made Recent Searches viewable by administrators only.

Removed ability for Guest visitors to edit a "Guest" Profile, if one exists.

Removed several unnecessary hidden inputs from the Edit Profile form.

Added filtering to Edit Profile user-input HTML.

Removed ability to fake another user's Real Name by adding blank space.

Added Email Validation to Edit Profiles.

Removed Unused Informations from being passed through Edit Profile forms.

Removed username from being passed through Edit Profile forms.

Length restriction added to Recommend form.

Hidden inputs passed through Recommend form removed.

Added more entities filtering to log viewers.

Sender's email address in Email Article no longer passed through form.

Username now embedded in sent Articles.

Checking added to recipient email addresses in Email Article.

New User Approval processing changed to send email first so it will fail if email address is not valid.

Removed hidden inputs from User Approval form.

Added length checking to Newsletter Subscription form submittal.

Filtering on user input added to Gallery.

Added logging to use of Image Uploader.

Updated startup items in all cgi files to make better use of security checks.



* BUG FIXES:

Annoyance posts with blank space in subject or message now prevented.

Check added for Archived Boards in a category before a Forum is deleted.

Corrected Sitewide IM error on nonexistent username.msg file stalling whole process.

Unsubscribe feature fixed.

Status access in Top 10 Forum Posts fixed.

Stickies links in Top 10 Forum Posts fixed.

Status access in Top 10 Forum Categories fixed.

Stickies links in Top 10 Forum Categories fixed.

Archived Categories now appear in same order as regular Forums.

Fixed page numbering bug for last page in Downloads.

Fixed page numbering bug for last page in Links.

Fixed Reply Button Subject Line bug in Saved IMs.

Create new Article Category name duplication prevented.

Ampersands in Topics Category Names bug fixed.

Image Uploader language and character encoding bug fixed.

Fixed server error bug in die subroutine.

Gallery upload in Firefox bug removed.

Profile link in New User IM sent to admin removed when site is set to Admin Approve New Users.

Moved images folder images/memberpics for Gallery to uploads/memberpics  to correct an image sharing overlap problem.

Newsletter unsubscribe and email text corrected to send link to site, regardless of base url used.

Bug in UBBC square bracket matching fixed.

Word boundaries removed from Censored Words for partial word matching. Boundaries can be set using "\b".

Who's On Info visitor location intermittent bug fixed.

Newline issue fixed in Set Censored Words.

Fixed bug in closing of member files in Edit Profile real name existence check.

Corrected language tag used in Edit Profile real name existence check.

Calendar input minor redirect bug fixed.

Forums path fixed in post time and read time logging.

Incorrect language tag in Move Downloads fixed.

Fixed Broken Link Instant Message to Admin.

Fixed title censoring in Email Article.

Missing closing tag for Color UBBC added for Front Page News Articles.

Removed extra newlines from Newsletter Emails edit textarea.

Fixed problem with doubling newlines in Newsletter Emails edit form submission.



* CODING IMPROVEMENTS:

Forum Archives now move archived messages to their own subfolder.

Error reporting added to Emailer - Uses Webmaster Email setting.

Latest Forum Posts at bottom of page now turned off during intensive Administration procedures.

"use lib" added to main index.cgi instead of all over the script.

/cgi-lib/hotfixes/ folder added for current workarounds - May have possible use in future for a fixes library.

Moved block for cookie expiration date to subroutine where used.

Cleaned up coding on Delete Banned IP.

Error message on anonymous Downloads made more user friendly.

Added new blank post log and read log files.

Cleaned up file name characters in Topics Administration.

Missing language tag in Email Topic added.

Title added to message sent in Email Article.

CAPTCHA and other error checking moved up before other processing in Registration.

Error checking in Lost Password Reminder form moved up before other processing.

Added file locking to Newsletter Subscription feature.

Moved error checking up to before other processing in Newsletter Subscription.

Email validation check in Newsletter Subscription changed to use RFC822 validation.

Mail::RFC822::Address module upgraded to newer version.

Admin Delete Profile access check updated.

Unused sub notcreated removed from Gallery.

Removed several repeated and unnecessary readings of username.dat files from Instant Message pages.

Some general cleanup and corrections in Articles routines.

Some of the CAPTCHA system relocated or rewritten to more efficient useages.

Other miscellaneous code cleaned up and more progress towards riddance of redundancies, errors, and unneeded variables and code throughout.



* HTML and display issues:

Gallery HTML upgrade - Tables replaced with CSS divs, Made valid HTML.

Improved appearance of Gallery Image Upload windows.

HTML/CSS updated in Image Uploader.

Forums Legend HTML fixed and validated.

Login page tabbing index set so the users can tab straight through to CAPTCHA when logging in.

Added use of MIME::Lite to Emailer to handle character set encoding for languages and other email attributes.

Improved formatting on Data Error Log viewing.

Added closing tag to Ban Log table.

Made Shout Box HTML valid.

Added a line break to even up the UBBC and Smilies blocks.

Added empty alt attributes to CAPTCHA images for validation.

Contact Page validated.

Contributors page validated.

Calendar main page validated.

Encoded ampersands in Topics Description text for XML validation.

Forum Post button text changed from Send Message to Post Message.

Online indicators removed from Forum Posts display (signatures can be used for this if desired).

Alt attributes added to Smilies image tags in Shout Box for validation.

Ampersands encoded in Who's On Info for admins, for validation.

Wrap in Recommend page textarea changed to CSS for validation.

Wrap in Email Article textarea changed to CSS for validation.

HTML fix in Instant Messages.

Sent Message and Subject update for Forum Thread notification.

Language tags added for Image Uploader.

Added Navigation bar link back to Memberlist from Search User page.

Added missing language tag to "Edit My Menu" menu item.

Added very long term missing right quote mark to attribute in View Profile.

Added title attibutes to image icon links in Forums for mouseover tool tipping.