EE 1.5RC3 - When?

[amonfils]

Pekka,

I seem to recall in a previous post you'd be releasing a "clean" EE 1.5 RC3, which would require no upgrading from the 1.5 betas. Any idea on a timeframe for that?

/aaron

[Pekka]

I have now fixed all bugs and errors which were on my list and so only thing 1.5 lacks is online help and manual. Everything else should be now done. If there are no other proven problems in current feature set then I'm confident I can put up manual and help pages plus website on in a week.

At that time I will have 1.22 and 1.3 updaters as well.

And as always there will be no break for me - I'll start working on the lightbox system right after that.

I'm going to now prepare an update zip to 1.5RC2, a separate EE Backup install package - they should be here in couple of hours from now.

Sorry I could not post it earlier as promised - too many things in my mind this week.

Here are all the fixes in RC 3:

INTERNAL FTP: important server response related bugs fixed. After this fix, internal FTP is now much faster (limited only by data transfer speed).

PUBLIC BROWSING: 'All exhibitions combined' do not show duplicate photos any more.

PHOTO BROWSER: pagination bug fixed (may have caused data corruption in Uncookied system, so it is best to clear Uncookied data right after this fix).

PHOTO BROWSER: small translation fixes (no changes in translation files).

PHP EXIF: ShutterSpeedValue problem fixed

PHP and INTERNAL EXIF: ApertureFNumber rounding removed

XMP: ShutterSpeedValue data reading added

XMP: times like 2004-02-15 11:02:14+01:00 fixed (timezone removed from time)

EE COMMERCE: page load error fixed.

EE COMMERCE: removed receiver name from mail address line (works better with some servers).

PHOTO EDITOR custom menus: fixed quotes and special characters.

RESIZE METHODS: fixed a bug where you could end up having a zero as size parameter without realising it (this could result as full size photos with IM as IM returns the original if either size parameter is zero).

RESIZE METHODS: added a resize style "fit in box". This simply means photo is resized so that it fits into an X*Y box.

EE COMMERCE: you may now delete multiple photos from template usage list.

PHOTO PAGE: fixed issue where photo detail separators would display more than once if respective data item was empty.

OUTPUTSTYLES/COMMENTS: Fixed uncookied issues in outputstyles and comments. There are now much less uncookied SQL activity. This fix speeds up list page when lots of photos on one page (high per page value).

NEW FEATURE: Added group order editor by popular request

COMMENTS AND RATINGS: Comments and ratings work now in non-public galleries, too.

UPLOAD PAGE: When you open upload page, default size paths are automatically selected.
When you change exhibitions those settings remain, but you can choose to upload only to default size paths by selecting zero paths in size path list.

EDITOR MESSAGES: All messages have been combined to one global display and one global UI. There are many messages by default still for normal use, but there will be settings for those later. Current internal ftp message output amount will be later called as "debug message level".

PHOTO PAGE: Removed soft hyphen system from photo headers and page titles.

EDITOR: Fixed bug in crypted passwords (copy/move/delete and rethumbnail editors).

IPTC: empty values (only spaces or linefeeds) ignored.

EE BACKUP: Fixed a serialize notice problem in EE Backup when restore was done from database A to database B. Added missing online help items. EE Backup is now verson 1.15.

COUNTERS: All counters take combined exhibition duplicates into acocunt (only one is added).

[Pekka]

It's online now, see http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=28549

[TomKa]

And as always there will be no break for me - I'll start working on the lightbox system right after that.

Thanks for the update and for the info on the EE development.

[amonfils]

As always, thank you for your dilligent and hard efforts and your timely responses!

/aaron