# Askbot Project Documentation

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# Changes in Askbot

## 0.7.43 (May 14, 2012)

- User groups (Evgeny)
- Public/Private/Hidden reputation (Evgeny)
- Enabling/disabling the badges system (Evgeny)
- Created a basic post moderation feature (Evgeny)
- Created a way to specify reasons for rejecting posts in a modal dialog (Evgeny)
- A number of bug fixes (Adolfo Fitoria, Jim Tittsler, Evgeny Fadeev, Robin Stocker, Radim Řehůřek, Silvio Heuberger)

## 0.7.41, 0.7.42 (April 21, 2012)

- Bug fixes

## 0.7.40 (March 29, 2012)

- New data models!!! (Tomasz Zieliński)
- Made email recovery link work when askbot is deployed on subdirectory (Evgeny)
- Added tests for the CSRF_COOKIE_DOMAIN setting in the startup_procedures (Evgeny)
- Askbot now respects django’s staticfiles app (Radim Řehůřek, Evgeny)
- Fixed the url translation bug (Evgeny)
- Added left sidebar option (Evgeny)
- Added “help” page and links to in the header and the footer (Evgeny)
- Removed url parameters and the hash fragment from uploaded files - amazon S3 for some reason adds weird expiration parameters (Evgeny)
- Reduced memory usage in data migrations (Evgeny)
- Added progress bars to slow data migrations (Evgeny)
- Added a management command to build_thread_summary_cache (Evgeny)
- Added a management delete_contextless_badge_award_activities (Evgeny)
- Fixed a file upload issue in FF and IE found by jerry_gzy (Evgeny)
- Added test on maximum length of title working for utf-8 text (Evgeny)
- Added caching and invalidation to the question page (Evgeny)
- Added a management command delete_contextless_activities (Evgeny)
- LDAP login configuration (github user monkut)
- Check order of middleware classes (Daniel Mican)
- Added “reply by email” function (Vasil Vangelovski)
- Enabled “ask by email” via Lamson (Evgeny)
- Tags can be optional (Evgeny)
- Fixed dependency of Django up to 1.3.1, because settings must be upgraded for Django 1.4 (Evgeny)

## 0.7.39 (Jan 11, 2012)

- restored facebook login after FB changed the procedure (Evgeny)

## 0.7.38 (Jan 11, 2012)

- xss vulnerability fix, issue found by Radim Řehůřek (Evgeny)

## 0.7.37 (Jan 8, 2012)

- added basic slugification treatment to question titles with `ALLOW_UNICODE_SLUGS = True` (Evgeny)
- added verification of the project directory name to make sure it does not contain a . (dot) symbol (Evgeny)
- made askbot compatible with django’s CSRFViewMiddleware that may be used for other projects (Evgeny)
- added more rigorous test for the user name to make it slug safe (Evgeny)
- made setting ASKBOT_FILE_UPLOAD_DIR work (Radim Řehůřek)
- added minimal length of question title ond body text to live settings and allowed body-less questions (Radim Řehůřek, Evgeny)
- allowed disabling use of gravatar site-wide (Rosandra Cuello Suñol)
- when internal login app is disabled - links to login/logout/add-remove-login-methods are gone (Evgeny)
- replaced setting ASKBOT_FILE_UPLOAD_DIR with django’s MEDIA_ROOT (Evgeny)
- replaced setting ASKBOT_UPLOADED_FILES_URL with django’s MEDIA_URL (Evgeny)
- allowed changing file storage backend for file uploads by configuration (Evgeny)
- file uploads to amazon S3 now work with proper configuration (Evgeny)

## 0.7.36 (Dec 20, 2011)

- bugfix and made the logo not used by default

## 0.7.35 (Dec 15, 2011)

- Removal of offensive flags (Dejan Noveski)
- Fixes in CSS (Byron Corrales)
- Update of Catalan locale (Jordi Bofill)

## 0.7.34 (Dec 10, 2011)

- Returned support of Django 1.2

## 0.7.33 (Dec 6, 2011)

- Made on log in redirect to the forum index page by default and to the question page, if user was reading the question it is still possible to override the `next` url parameter or just rely on django’s `LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL` (Evgeny)
- Implemented retraction of offensive flags (Dejan Noveski)
- Made automatic dependency checking more complete (Evgeny)

## 0.7.32 (Nov 30, 2011)

- Bugfixes in English locale (Evgeny)

## 0.7.31 (Nov 29, 2011)

- Added `askbot_create_test_fixture` management command (Dejan Noveski)
- Integrated new test fixture into the page load test cases (Dejan Noveski)
- Added an embeddable widget for the questions list matching tags (Daniel Mican, Evgeny Fadeev, Dejan Noveski)

## 0.7.30 (Nov 28, 2011)

Note: some of these features were added in one of the three previous versions.

- Context-sensitive RSS url (Dejan Noveski)
- Implemented new version of skin (Byron Corrales)
- Show unused vote count (Tomasz Zielinski)
- Categorized live settings (Evgeny)
- Merge users management command (Daniel Mican)
- Added management command `send_accept_answer_reminders` (Evgeny)
- Improved the `askbot-setup` script (Adolfo, Evgeny)
- Merge users management command (Daniel Mican)
- Anonymous caching of the question page (Vlad Bokov)
- Fixed sharing button bug, css fixes for new template (Alexander Werner)
- Added ASKBOT_TRANSLATE_URL setting for url localization(Alexander Werner)
- Changed javascript translation model, moved from jqueryi18n to django (Rosandra Cuello Suñol)
- Private forum mode (Vlad Bokov)
- Improved text search query in Postgresql (Alexander Werner)
- Take LANGUAGE_CODE from request (Alexander Werner)
- Added support for LOGIN_REDIRECT_URL to the login app (hjwp, Evgeny)
- Updated Italian localization (Luca Ferroni)
- Added Catalan localization (Jordi Bofill)
- Added management command `askbot_add_test_content` (Dejan Noveski)
- Continued work on refactoring the database schema (Tomasz Zielinski)

## 0.7.27 - 0.7.29 (Nov 8-28, 2011)

For these versions we did not keep consistent record of features.

## 0.7.26 (Oct 12, 2011)

- Added settings for email subscription defaults (Adolfo)
- Resolved `bug #102<http://bugs.askbot.org/issues/102>`_ - duplicate notifications on posts with mentions (Evegeny)
- Added color-animated transitions when urls with hash tags are visited (Adolfo)
- Repository tags will be automatically added to new releases (Evgeny, suggsted by ajmirsky)

## 0.7.25 (Oct 5 2011)

- RSS feed for individual question (Sayan Chowdhury)
- Allow pre-population of tags via ask a questions link (Adolfo)
- Make answering own question one click harder (Adolfo)
- Bootstrap mode (Adolfo, Evgeny)
- Color-animated urls with the hash fragments (Adolfo)

## 0.7.24

- Made it possible to disable the anonymous user greeting alltogether (Raghu Udiyar)
- Added annotations for the meanings of user levels on the “moderation” page. (Jishnu)
- Auto-link patterns - e.g. to bug databases - are configurable from settings. (Arun SAG)

## 0.7.23

- Greeting for anonymuos users can be changed from live settings (Hrishi)
- Greeting for anonymous users is shown only once (Rag Sagar)
- Added support for Akismet spam detection service (Adolfo Fitoria)
- Added noscript message (Arun SAG)
- Support for url shortening with TinyUrl on link sharing (Rtnpro)
- Allowed logging in with password and email in the place of login name (Evgeny)
- Added config settings allowing adjust license information (Evgeny)

## 0.7.22

- Media resource revision is now incremented automatically any time when media is updated (Adolfo Fitoria, Evgeny Fadeev)
- First user automatically becomes site administrator (Adolfo Fitoria)
- Avatar displayed on the sidebar can be controlled with livesettings.(Adolfo Fitoria, Evgeny Fadeev)
- Avatar box in the sidebar is ordered with priority for real faces.(Adolfo Fitoria)
- Django’s createsuperuser now works with askbot (Adolfo Fitoria)

## 0.7.21

This version was skipped

## 0.7.20

- Added support for login via self-hosted Wordpress site (Adolfo Fitoria)
- Allowed basic markdown in the comments (Adolfo Fitoria)
- Added this changelog (Adolfo Fitoria)
- Added support for threaded emails (Benoit Lavigne)
- A few more Spanish translation strings (Byron Corrales)
- Social sharing support on identi.ca (Rantadeep Debnath)

## 0.7.19

- Changed the Favorite question function for Follow question.
- Fixed issues with page load time.
- Added notify me checkbox to the sidebar.
- Removed MySql dependency from setup.py
- Fixed Facebook login.
- Fixed “Moderation tab is misaligned” issue reported by methner.
- Fixed bug in follow users and changed the follow button design.

## 0.7.18

- Added multiple capitalization to username mentions(reported by niles)

## 0.7.17

- Adding test for UserNameField.
- Adding test for markup functions.

## 0.7.16

- Admins can add aministrators too.
- Added a postgres driver version check in the start procedures due to a bug in psycopg2 2.4.2.
- New inbox system style (bug reported by Tomasz P. Szynalski).

## 0.7.15

- Fixed integration with Django 1.1.
- Fixed bugs in setup script.
- Fixed pypi bugs.