klog

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New Features

• New language: Romanian (thanks to Andrei Suscov)
• Return thumbnails to the opener (35, 142)
• Tag engine (12, 13, 143), allowing files to be categorised, and searched by category.
• Client-side syntax highlighted text editing (125, 126) using CodePress.
• Rename multiple files (103). This allows you to select a group of files, and rename them all to a common format.

Improvements

• Multi-line captions (89)
• ImageMagick used where possible (152, 111), allowing huge images to be edited without PHP running out of memory.
• KFM will return either a normal URL (155), or a URL which allows the get.php script to be used to retrieve the file. The advantage to using get.php is that in the future, we will be able to apply authentication, so only authorised users can read a file. This also allows thumbnails to be built on-the-fly.
• The database tables can use a specified prefix now (129).
• Double-click can be configured to either send the file back to the opener (FCKeditor, your CMS, etc), or to open the file directly (120).
• config.php split into two files, allowing easier upgrades (146).
• when moving through files with the arrow keys, the selected file will always be visible (110).
• KFM can now be used to manage multiple sites through one instance (154).
• A metrics logger has been added (134). This will allow us to know what versions of KFM are in use, and whether it is safe to deprecate certain features if need be.
• Comments can now be extracted from .gif files to be used as captions (88).
• Documentation written on how to transfer a KFM archive from one machine to another (161).
• Many bug fixes (159, 97, 156, 149, 68, 157, 147, 148, 144, 102, 145, 118, 140, 141, 98, 139, 135, 150, 151, 165, 167, 164, 162, 160, 113, 163).
• Some ideas were rejected (112, 21, 131, 19, 18).

As usual, this release has been helped along by the many testers in the forum, testers who have contacted me by email, and all of the translators.

Very large thanks to Benjamin Ter Kuile, who has been very actively hacking away at the KFM code and produced such gems as the CodePress integration.

demo, download (828k .tbz2, 1.1M .zip)

New Features

• New Languages
  • Bulgarian, thanks to Tondy (tondy.com)
• Unzip zipped files (84). This allows users to zip up multiple files offline, upload them as one file, and unzip once they are uploaded.
• Multiple Databases (127, 122). We now support PostGreSQL, MySQL and SQLite.

Improvements

• Files may be located anywhere on the system at all. They do not need to be within a web-readable area (33)
• bugfixes (117, 100)
• Long directory names are now truncated, using the same method as long filenames (80)
• Directories with many files are now displayed quicker (106)
• Download From Url has been combined with File Upload (108)
• KFM has been tested and is known to work on PHP4.3+ and PHP5.1+

As usual, this release has been helped along by the many testers in the forum, testers who have contacted me by email, and all of the translators.

Development for version 0.7 was sponsored by the infinitely glorious web development company, Webworks.ie. We’re really quite good.

No versioned release zip yet, but I just finished the last of the features scheduled for this release. You can download via SVN using the details mentioned on the KFM site.

I’ll be announcing the string-freeze to the translators later today. We have one more language this time, Bulgarian. The official release will be in one week’s time. I need to give the translators time to do their work, and also, will spend that time looking through the code for bits that I can make more efficient.

New features for 0.7:

• you can now upload a zipped archive of a few files, and extract the archive. this allows you to upload a load of files at the same time.
• there were a lot of problems with SQLite in version 0.6. to help alleviate this problem, KFM now supports MySQL, Postgres and SQLite, using the MDB2 Pear library.
• instead of returning links which point directly to the requested images/files, we now return a link which retrieves the requested file via KFM. this allows your file repository to be held outside the web root, and will allow file authentication and other tricks (logging, uri-based thumbs) in the future.
• long directory names are now truncated similar to long file names.
• “file upload”, and “copy from Internet” now use the same form.
• lots of speed issues have been fixed.

enjoy. The main release will be next Tuesday. I’ll write up a quick article then detailing what features I think will be in 0.8, 0.9, and on up to 1.0.

If there are any problems using this beta, please mention them using the KFM forum.

In related news, Webworks, my great and glorious company will be using KFM in a very large project next year, which will mean a lot of work will be put into it. I am still committed to providing the improvements to the great unwashed, so you’ll all benefit from our hard work.