We have released version 3.1.3 of Simple:Press Forum. This has many bug fixes and minor enhancements but is mainly a security and optimisation release. The project to optimise which began with 3.1 and queries has now been extended to the code files. Sadly this has resulted in a complete restructuring of the folders and files and makes upgrading a little more tedious - but the net result should be worth it with better memory and CPU usage and, hopefully, better performance overall.

We are also opening up our Simple:Press Forum TRAC system where bugs are logged, milestones can be viewed along with development notes for future enhancements, features and changes. The really brave can also download latest builds if they wish to.

We are hoping that this will be the last 3.1.x update. If more important bugs or security issues come along then we will address them at the time with an interim update. Other than that we can now begin the more interesting work of looking at new features and requests for 3.2. Feel free to follow progress!

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As I said in the last post, Version 3.1 of Simple:Press Forum is largely about optimisation and bug fixes but new features are much more fun to work on and the list of user requests never gets shorter! Here are just a few of the more important or interesting features coming in 3.1 (in no particular order):

• Move a Post to a new Topic: often requested and finally coded up. Both this and the Move Topic to Different Forum tool now use Ajax calls to speed the process.
• New Template Tag to notify users of new Private Messages: which includes a link to their Inbox.
• ‘nofollow’ and ‘target’ filter options on links in posts: added as optional post filters.
• View Admins New Post Queue: using an Ajax call, the admins post queue of unread or posts needing approval is now available from any view. You can approve, mark as read, delete and, new for 3.1, both approve and go to to post in one action
• ‘Add New Topic’ button: now available on the posts (topic) view alongside the ‘Reply to Post’.
• Edit Forum and Topic ’slugs’: for those occasions where you may want to change them.
• Post Admin Tool Icons: have been moved to the left hand side for those annoying times when someone posts something with reams of formatting or a long url with no spaces and the tools disappear off of the right hand side!
• Admin Options panels now use jQuery: less new javascript required for loading.
• The Admins New Post Queue now Optional: an important one for those users who do not use it - you can now officially turn it off.
• Right-to-left language support in the TinyMCE editor: now turned on.
• New Template Tags to return members Avatar: enables using the forum avatars outside of the forum itself.
• Improved Security: as always, anywhere where security from attack can be improved will be and more work has taken place in this forthcoming update

Is that the full list? Maybe not but these are the main items.