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+Version 1.8.13
+(January 29, 2013 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Juho Jaakkola
+ * Kevin Jardine
+ * Krzysztof Różalski
+ * Steve Clay
+
+ Security Fixes:
+ * Added validation of Twitter usernames in Twitter widget
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * CLI usages with walled garden fixed
+ * Upgrading from < 1.8 to 1.8 fixed
+ * Default widgets fixed
+ * Quotes in object titles no longer result in "qout" in URLs
+ * List of my groups is ordered now
+ * Language string river:comment:object:default is defined now
+ * Added language string for comments: generic_comment:on
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Added confirm dialog for resetting profile fields (adds language string profile:resetdefault:confirm)
+
+
+Version 1.8.12
+(January 4th, 2013 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Brett Profitt
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Jerome Bakker
+ * Matt Beckett
+ * Paweł Sroka
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Added an AJAX workaround for the rewrite test.
+ * Code cleanup to prevent some notices and warnings.
+ * Removed "original_order" in menu item anchor tags.
+ * Site menu's selected item correctly persists through content pages.
+ * Static caches rewritten and improved to prevent stale data being returned.
+ * Installation: Invalid characters in admin username are handled correctly.
+ * Messages: Fixed inbox link in email notifications.
+ * The Wire: Fixed objects not displaying correctly when upgrading from 1.7.
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Performance improvements and improved caching in entity loading.
+ * Added upgrade locking to prevent concurrent upgrade attempts.
+ * Replaced xml_to_object() and autop() with GPL / MIT-compatible code.
+ * Error messages (register_error()) only fade after being clicked.
+ * Groups: Added a sidebar entry to display membership status and a link to
+ group notification settings.
+ * Groups: Added pending membership and invitation requests to the sidebar.
+ * Groups: Better redirection for invisible and closed groups.
+ * Search: User profile fields are searched.
+ * Pages: Subpages can be reassigned to new parent pages.
+ * Twitter: Login with twitter supports persistent login and correctly forwards
+ after login.
+
+
+Version 1.8.11
+(December 5th, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Bugfix:
+ * Fixed fatal error in group creation form
+
+
+Version 1.8.10
+(December 4th, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Krzysztof Różalski
+ * Lars Hærvig
+ * Paweł Sroka
+ * RiverVanRain
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+
+ Security Enhancements:
+ * Cached metadata respects access restrictions to fix problems with profile
+ field display.
+ * Group RSS feeds are restricted to valid entities
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * UX: Added a list of Administrators in the admin area
+ * UX: Limiting message board activity stream entries to excerpts
+ * Performance: Prefetching river entries
+ * Performance: Plugin entities are cached
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Removed superfluous commas in JS files to fix IE compatibility.
+ * API: Fixed Twitter API.
+ * Performance: Outputting valid ETags and expires headers.
+
+
+Version 1.8.9
+(November 11, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Brett Profitt
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Evan Winslow
+ * Jeroen Dalsem
+ * Jerome Bakker
+ * Matt Beckett
+ * Paweł Sroka
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+
+ Security Enhancements:
+ * Sample CLI installer cannot break site
+ * Removed XSS vulnerabilities in titles and user profiles
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * UX: A group's owner can transfer ownership to another member
+ * UX: Search queries persist in the search box
+ * Several (X)HTML validation improvements
+ * Improved performance via more aggressive entity and metadata caching
+ * BC: 1.7 group profile URLs forward correctly
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * UX: Titles containing HTML tokens are never mangled
+ * UX: Empty user profile values saved properly
+ * UX: Blog creator always mentioned in activity stream (not user who published it)
+ * UI: Fixed ordering of registered menu items in some cases
+ * UI: Embed dialog does not break file inputs
+ * UI: Datepicker now respects language
+ * UI: More reliable display of access input in widgets
+ * UI: Group edit form is sticky
+ * UI: Site categories are sticky in forms
+ * API: Language fallback works in Javascript
+ * API: Fallback to default viewtype if invalid one given
+ * API: Notices reported for missing language keys
+ * Memcache now safe to use; never bypasses access control
+ * BC: upgrade shows comments consistently in activity stream
+
+
+Version 1.8.8
+(July 11, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Miguel Rodriguez
+ * Sem
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Added a delete button on river items for admins
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fixed the significant bug with htmlawed plugin that caused duplicate tags
+
+
+Version 1.8.7
+(July 10, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Evan Winslow
+ * Ismayil Khayredinov
+ * Jeroen Dalsem
+ * Jerome Bakker
+ * Matt Beckett
+ * Miguel Rodriguez
+ * Paweł Sroka
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Better support for search engine friendly URLs
+ * Upgraded htmlawed (XSS filtering)
+ * Internationalization support for TinyMCE
+ * Public access not available for walled gardens
+ * Better forwarding and messages when they cannot view content because logged out
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fatal errors due to type hints downgraded to warnings
+ * Group discussion reply notifications work again
+ * Sending user to inbox when deleting a message
+ * Fixed location profile information when it is an array
+ * Over 30 other bug fixes.
+
+
+Version 1.8.6
+(June 18, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Evan Winslow
+ * Ismayil Khayredinov
+ * Jeff Tilson
+ * Jerome Bakker
+ * Paweł Sroka
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * New ajax spinner
+ * Detecting docx, xlsx, and pptx files in file plugin
+ * Showing ajax spinner when uploading file with embed plugin
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fixed some language caching issues.
+ * Users can add sub-pages to another user's page in a group.
+ * Over 30 other bug fixes.
+
+
+Version 1.8.5
+(May 17, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Brett Profitt
+ * Evan Winslow
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+ * Jeroen Dalsem
+ * Jerome Bakker
+
+ Security Enhancements:
+ * Fixed possible XSS vulnerability if using a crafted URL.
+ * Fixed exploit to bypass new user validation if using a crafted form.
+ * Fixed incorrect caching of access lists that could allow plugins
+ to show private entities to non-admin and non-owning users. (Non-exploitable)
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Twitter API: New users are forwarded to the correct page after creating
+ an account with Twitter.
+ * Files: PDF files are downloaded as "inline" to display in the browser.
+ * Fixed possible duplication errors when writing metadata with multiple values.
+ * Fixed possible upgrade issue if using a plugin uses the system_log hooks.
+ * Fixed problems when enabling more than 50 metadata or annotations.
+
+ API:
+ * River entries' timestamps use elgg_view_friendly_time() and can be
+ overridden with the friendly time output view.
+
+
+Version 1.8.4
+(April 24, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Contributing Developers:
+ * Adayth Talavera
+ * Brett Profitt
+ * Cash Costello
+ * Evan Winslow
+ * Ismayil Khayredinov
+ * Janek Lasocki-Biczysko
+ * Jerome Baker
+ * Sem
+ * Steve Clay
+ * Webgalli
+
+ Security Enhancements:
+ * Fixed an issue in the web services auth.get_token endpoint that
+ would give valid auth tokens to invalid credentials. Thanks to
+ Christian for reporting this!
+ * Fixed an that could show which plugins are loaded on a site.
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * UI: All bundled plugins' list pages display a no content message if there is nothing to list.
+ * UI: Site default access is limited to core access levels.
+ * UI: Showing a system message to the admin if plugins are disabled with the "disabled"
+ magic file.
+ * UI: Added transparent backgrounds for files and pages icons.
+ * External (Site) Pages: If in Wall Garden mode, Site Pages use the Walled Garden
+ theme when logged out.
+ * UI: Database errors only show the query to admin users.
+ * UI: Cannot set the data path to a relative path in installation or site settings.
+ * UI: Cleaned up notifications for bundled plugins.
+ * UI: Hiding crop button if no avatar is uploaded.
+ * UI: Bundled plugins are displayed with a gold border in the plugin admin area.
+ * UI: Can see all the categories a plugin belongs to.
+ * Web Services: Multiple tokens allowed for users.
+ * API: More efficient entity loading.
+ * API: Added IP address to system log.
+ * API: Languages are cached.
+ * API: ElggBatch supports disabling offsets for callbacks that delete entities.
+ * API: Cleaned up the boot process.
+ * API: Fixed situation in which the cache isn't properly cleared if a file can't be unlinked.
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * UI: Tags display in the case they were saved.
+ * UI: Friendly titles keep -s.
+ * UI: Removed pagination in friends widget.
+ * UI: Profile settings actions correctly displays error messages as errors.
+ * UI: Tag search works for tags with spaces.
+ * UI: Fixed river display for friending that happens during registration.
+ * Groups: Link for managing join requests is restored in the sidebar.
+ * Walled Garden: Cron and web services endpoints are exposed as public sites.
+ * The Wire: UTF usernames are correctly linked with @ syntax.
+ * The Wire: No longer selecting the "Mine" tab for users who aren't you.
+ * Blogs: Notifications restored.
+ * Message Board: Fixed delete.
+ * Groups: Forwarding to correct page if trying to access closed group.
+ * API: entities loaded via elgg_get_entities_from_relationship() have the correct time_created.
+ * API: Deleting entities recursively works when code is logged out.
+ * API: Fixed multiple uses of deprecated functions.
+
+
+Version 1.8.3
+(January 12, 2012 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Adds a white list for ajax views
+ * Improved navigation tab options
+ * Added group specific search
+ * Added button for reverting avatar
+ * Improved documentation for core class attributes
+ * Adds a server info page under administer -> statistics
+ * Improving caching of icons and js/css
+ * Deprecation notices not displayed to non-admin users
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fixed upgrade scripts for blog posts and groups forum posts
+ * Can now delete invitations to invisible groups
+ * Fixed several widget bugs
+ * Fixed access level on add to group river item
+ * Fixed recursive entity enabling
+ * Fixed limit on pages in sidebar navigation
+ * Fixed deletion of large numbers of annotations
+
+
+Version 1.8.2
+(December 21, 2011 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Added a 404 page
+ * Widgets controls now using the menu system
+ * Admins can edit users' account information
+ * Embed uploader supports uploading into groups
+ * Add a control panel widget for easy access to cache flushing and upgrading
+ * Comments now have a unqiue URL with fragment identifier
+ * JavaScript language files are cacheable
+ * jQuery form script only loaded when required
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fixed default widgets
+ * Fixed activity filtering
+ * Embedding an image now inserts a medium sized image
+ * Search plugin only uses mbstring extension if enabled
+ * Site pages links returned to footer
+ * Fixed URL creation for users with non-ASCII characters in username
+ * The wire username parsing supports periods in usernames
+ * Returned the posting area to the main wire page
+ * Fixed layout issue on pages with a fragment identifier in URL
+ * Added support for call elgg_load_js() in header and footer
+ * Fixed user picker
+ * Fixed uservalidationbyemail plugin ignoring the actions of other plugins
+ * Fixed bug preventing the creation of admin users
+ * Fixed deleting a widget with JavaScript disabled
+ * Fixed many bugs in the unit/integration tests
+
+
+Version 1.8.1
+(November 16, 2011 from https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/tree/1.8)
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * Completed styling of user validation admin page
+ * Adding rel=nofollow for non-trusted links
+ * Added direct icon loading for profile avatars in profile plugin
+ * Improved the structure of content views to make styling easier
+ * Updated version of jQuery to 1.6.4
+ * Added basic support for icon size customization
+ * Added a toggle for gallery/list view in file plugin
+ * Added support for passing CSS classes to icon views
+ * Added support for non http URLs to Elgg's normalize functions
+ * Added better support for the 404 forward if a page handler does handle a request
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fixed autocomplete and userpicker
+ * Fixed RSS and web service-related view types
+ * Fixed walled garden display issues
+ * Added work around for IE/TinyMCE/embed insert problem
+ * Implemented ElggUser.isAdmin() JavaScript method
+ * Fixed the date views and JavaScript datepicker
+ * Fixed horizontal radio buttons styling
+ * Modules only display header if there is content for it
+
+
+Version 1.8.1b
+(October 11, 2011 from git://github.com/Elgg/Elgg.git)
+
+ Enhancements:
+ * New group activity widget for user dashboard.
+ * Added more sprites.
+ * version.php information cached instead of loaded 100s of times.
+ * Added class elgg-autofocus to add focus on inputs when the page loads.
+ * Admins can edit user avatars again.
+ * Added a filter for non-bundled plugins in plugin admin.
+ * Improvements to admin area theme.
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Fixed site dropdown menu for IE.
+ * ElggEntity->deleteMetadata() no longer deletes all metadata ever if
+ called on an unsaved entity.
+ * Fixed Embed plugin.
+ * Fixed activate and deactivate all plugins.
+ * Fixed URL for group membership request in notification email.
+ * Fixed log browser plugin's admin area display.
+ * Fixed RSS icon not showing up on some pages.
+ * Fixed river entries for forum posts that were lost if upgrading from 1.7.
+ * Better displaying of errors when activating, deactivating, or
+ reordering plugins.
+ * Fixed Developer Plugin's inspection tool.
+ * Fixed avatar cropping on IE 7.
+ * Bookmarks plugin accepts URLs with dashes.
+ * "More" menu item on site menu hidden if items are manually specified.
+ * Fixed hover menu floating if unrestrained.
+ * JS init, system fired when DOM and languages are read.
+ * Fixed the date picker input view.
+ * Fixed stack overflow when calling elgg_view() from a pagesetup
+ event.
+ * Menu links no longer have empty titles and confirm attributes.
+ * Fixed crash when attempting to change password to an invalid value.
+ * Fixed "More groups" link for groups widget.
+ * Fixed output/confirmlink to use a default question if not specified.
+ * Added missing language strings. Also added "new", "add", and "create".
+ * Registered security token refresh page as external to avoid token refresh
+ problems on Walled Garden sites.
+ * Displaying more accurate message if uploading an avatar fails.
+ * "Leave group" button doesn't display for group owners.
+ * Request group membership button displays only when logged in.
+ * Fixed the number of displayed items for Bookmarks widget.
+ * Fixed fallback to deprecated views for widgets.
+
+ API changes:
+ * Menus names must be unique to the entire menu, not just section.
+ * Input views that encode text use the option 'encode_text'.
+ * Added ElggPlugin->getFriendlyName().
+ * elgg_view_icon() accepts a class.
+ * Added hook output:before, page.
+ * Added hook output:before, layout.
+ * elgg_get_entities() and related functions return false if passed
+ valid options with invalid values.
+ * Can disable the user hover menu by passing hover => false to
+ elgg_view_icon(). Previously it was override => true.
+ * Embed plugin uses menu system. See readme for embed plugin.
+ * Manifest attributes are no longer translated via elgg_echo().
+ * Fixed livesearch ajax endpoint.
+ * Fixed site unit test.
+ * Unit tests tidy up after themselves better.
+ * forward() throws an exception if headers are already sent.
+ * Better errors if adding a user through admin area fails.
+ * Localized profile fields.
+ * Added 'is_trusted' parameter output/url to avoid escaping and filtering.
+ Defaults to false.
+ * Added elgg_unregister_action()
+ * Fixed ElggPriorityList::rewind().
+ * Fixed forwarding after login for login-protected pages.
+ * get_site_by_url() respects class inheritance for subclassing ElggSite.
+
+ Internal changes:
+ * Updated deprecated uses of internalname/id.
+ * Using wwwroot instead of www_root because of inconsistencies.
+
+
+Version 1.8.0 (Jackie)
+(September 5th, 2011 from git://github.com/Elgg/Elgg.git)
+
+ Notes:
+ Elgg 1.8 contains the most changes in Elgg since the transition from Elgg
+ 0.9 to Elgg 1.0. The core team tried to make the transition as smooth as
+ possible, but in the interest of following standards and simplifying the
+ development process for core and third party developers, we have made
+ changes that will require updating plugins. We believe these changes
+ will help Elgg development be easier for everyone.
+
+ It is unreasonable and unhelpful to list the full details of all changes in
+ this file. Instead, we will list the high level, overarching changes to
+ systems. If you are interested in the specifics, Elgg 1.8's source code is
+ highly documented and serves as a good guide and the git commit log can
+ provide excruciating details of what has changed between 1.7 and 1.8.
+
+ Please post your feedback, questions, and comments to the community site
+ at http://community.elgg.org. As always, thank you for using Elgg!
+
+ --The Elgg Core Development Team
+
+ A tip about updating plugins:
+ It's not difficult to update 1.7 plugins for 1.8. There is a detailed
+ document outlining this process on the wiki:
+ http://docs.elgg.org/wiki/Updating_plugins_for_Elgg_1.8
+
+ The basic process is:
+ 1. Clean up the plugin to make sure it conforms to coding standards,
+ official structure, and best practices.
+ 2. Update any uses of deprecated functions. Functions deprecated in 1.7 will
+ produce visible notices in 1.8!
+ 3. Use the new manifest format.
+ 4. Use the new menu functions.
+ 5. Use the new JS features.
+ 6. Update the views to use core CSS helper functions and classes instead of
+ writing your own.
+
+ The documentation directory and the wiki has more information.
+
+ User-visible changes:
+ * New default theme.
+ * New installation.
+ * Separate and updated admin interface.
+ * Updated plugin themes.
+
+ Generic API changes:
+ * Improved the markup and CSS.
+ * Restructured and simplified the views layouts.
+ * Added a new menu system.
+ * Added new CSS and JS file registration functions.
+ * Added a JS engine.
+ * Added a breadcrumb system.
+ * Added a sticky forms system.
+
+ New plugins:
+ * Dashboard - The activity stream is now the default index page. A 1.7-style
+ dashboard is provided through the dashboard plugin.
+ * Developers Plugins - Developer tools.
+ * Likes - Allows users to "like" other users' content.
+ * oAuth API - A generic, reusable oAuth library.
+ * Tag Cloud - A widget-based tag cloud generator.
+ * Twitter API - A generic Twitter library that allows signin with Twitter
+ and pushing content to tweets. Replaces twitter_service.
+
+ Deprecated plugins:
+ * captcha - Captchas have long since stopped being useful as a deterrent
+ against spam.
+ * crontrigger - Real cron should be used.
+ * default_widgets - This functionality is now part of core.
+ * friends - This functionality is now part of core.
+ * riverdashboard - Displaying the river (activity stream) is default in
+ core. The original dashboard can be restored by the new Dashboard plugin.
+ * twitter_service - Replaced by Twitter API.
+
+ Elgg 1.8.0.1 was released immediately after 1.8.0 to correct a problem in
+ installation.