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Oxwall 1.0 stable + plugin updates!

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What is the best way to start 2011 in your opinion? Right, install the new shining Oxwall 1.0 stable!

On the day when my son was born it’s fascinating to finally officially give birth to another child – our new social software hit.

Core changes:
- Overall system performance improved;
- HTML sanitizing and XSS filtering improved;
- development API extended: Javascript events added, optional parameters in routing interfaces;
- You can now change default avatar from admin area;
- Numerous language changes (spelling and other);
- Total user count in admin area;
- Occasional usability improvements for admin area;
- Javascript can now be disabled when editing widgets if incorrect scripting breaks the page;
- User can now remove all comments on their profile wall.
- fix: some hosting setups reported error: “Message: SQLSTATE: General error: 2014 Cannot execute queries while other unbuffered queries are active. Consider using PDOStatement::fetchAll(). Alternatively, if your code is only ever going to run against mysql, you may enable query buffering by setting the PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_USE_BUFFERED_QUERY attribute”. It should be gone now but we need you to verify this since the error was rare and we couldn’t reproduce it.

New plugin, Newsfeed:

The much awaited feature brings likes and comments to status updates and user activity events. It has the potential to become the central place of interaction on any Oxwall-powered site. Newsfeed plugin now replaces two plugins: Status updates and Latest Activity. Those plugins will not longer be shipped in downloads and will be pulled from Oxwall Store.

Other plugin changes

- Groups, fix: it’s no longer possible to create groups with the same names;
- Mailbox, new: you can now attach files;

IMPORTANT: Since we also introduce numerous plugin updates you should _apply platform update before installing plugin updates_. This is important because otherwise it can make your site temporarily broken.

Thanks for creating with us!

Emil Sarnogoev
Oxwall community software

UPDATE: We had to make an urgent rebuild down the road because apparently a significant new bug slipped through our hands in the first time. So “1.0 stable” wasn’t all that stable after all. :) Meet 1.0.1!

Oxwall Store digest

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IMPORTANT: Please update platform core first (to 1.0 beta 5) before updating _any_ plugins. Otherwise you may end up with a broken site.

Here’s our first digest of recent news at Oxwall Store:

1) Several important plugins released free, under BSD license: forum, Facebook connect, contact importer, and Ning member import.

2) Forum has undergone serious enhancement, namely:
- Permalinks on topic posts, so you give a URL of a specific message inside a topic;
- Enhanced quote function;
- Context-dependent forum search (yes, yes!);
- Subscribe by email to a forum topic – works with Email notifications plugin (oh).

3) Groups plugin released with built-in forum (forum plugin necessary for that)!

4) Monetization plugins released for charging members subscriptions: Paid membership, PayPal, CCBill.

We do not stop developing new features for Oxwall software in our quest to deliver a lot of balanced, simple and powerful functionality for your site. Thanks for creating with us!

Forum, Facebook connect, Contact importer, Ning importer now FREE

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We gave a hard look to the existing prices of our plugins in the Oxwall Store and decided to set free all those that were paid: forum, Facebook connect, contact importer, and Ning member import.

IMPORTANT: You need to have at least 1.0 beta 4 to install these plugins. Do not attempt to do that on earlier releases.

At this point it makes sense for us to start gaining popularity for Oxwall software not focus on short-term monetization. Thus we plan to keep all essential functions free. This is not to say we will discourage third parties from making money on plugins and themes, it’s just that we don’t want to pursue aggressive pricing strategies. After all, this is what open source is about.

Those of you who purchased any of these plugins within one month may contact us to arrange a refund or to put those funds on Oxwall Store balance.

Enjoy!

Paid membership support, PayPal, CCBill

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There are three new plugins available in Oxwall Store: Paid membership, PayPal, CCBill. You can now charge your users for extra features and permissions on your site.

How it works

Basically, ‘Paid Membership’ plugin allows to create membership levels on top of user roles. It will accept payments from users on subscription page and automatically handle start and expiration of premium memberships as well as recurring charges and renewals. Every membership level can also have different period/price plans so you can give discounts on longer subscriptions. PayPal and CCBill plugins come as payment gateways for the membership plugin.

Important: these plugins will only work on Oxwall beta 4. Don’t try to install them on earlier versions.

VERY important: No, I mean really, folks. Only Beta 4!

Feel free to play a little bit with those plugins. Take your time to configure them properly. Questions can be asked in Oxwall support forum.

Enjoy!