Dolphin 7.0.3 Final Released! VERY important update.

Don't let the "after 2 dots" index fool you. This is a seriously big and important version update that brings a long list of improvements, fixes and even new features. Most importantly, it is the major part of our "Speed-up" project, so it will most definitely make your sites load faster and consume less server resources. Upgrading is highly recommended.

Brief Changelog

Believe it or not the list below is not complete. It merely covers most notable changes.

- Speed enhancements:

• Forum spy delays on big forums fixed.
• Css/js files combined to one file (where possible).
• Tables pruning added.
• Indexes were added to some tables and some unused unsexes were dropped.
• SQL queries optimised.
• Cache enhancements.
• Post request replaced with get request for checking new messages in simple messenger.
• Member menu optimised.
• Some injections were moved to particular pages instead of running on every page.
• Unused language keys removed.

- Major update of Forums: streamlined UI, attachments, signatures, back button fix, HTMLPurifier lots of fixes and updates.

- Media files administration was improved and some usability issues fixed.

- Facebook connect module was rewritten to comply with the new Facebook API.

- TinyMCE was updated to the latest version.

- Cache system was unified site wide.

- Cache file names are version dependent now.

- New cache engines added (Memcached and eAccellerator).

- GZip compression for CSS and JS files cache.

- Cache for page blocks.

- Cache for floating member menu.

- Profiler was updated to show much more information and timings.

- Custom text snippet for News and Articles.

- Spy in Index page.

- Video/Sounds modules displays red bar if uploads are being processed or failed, so user always knows what's going on.

- Vimeo and local sound/video file embed filters were added to HTMLPurifier.

- Number of security updates (details not announced).

- Fixed problems:

• Video not buffering (played only after fully loaded).
• It is now possible to empty messages trash.
• Sent mail list displays recipient now (not the author).
• Group/Store/Events modules media files are displaying files from particular group/event/product, and not all files from all other groups/events/products.
• Duplicate messages in Shoutbox fixed.
• Membership days and price was not always shown correctly.
• Checkbox set didn't save values if more then one checkbox is checked in Advanced Settings.
• Admins are now able to delete users' avatars.
• Download original photo now opens in a new window.
• Missing avatars problem fixed.
• Misplaced slash was displayed in some media page titles.
• TinyMCE area was not always shown in Forum.
• Media files were not playing on some hosting environments.
• Events/Groups/Store search results pagination wasn't working.
• Some select settings were broken in flash apps admin panel.
• Editing old blog post brought it on top of other posts.
• Admin wall was updating when admin edited somebody's profile.
• Admin editing of user's event caused event thumbnail to disappear.
• Video files from video comments were not deleted when video comment was removed.
• Wrong text encoding in floating member menu submenu could cause problems with non-English languages.
• It was impossible to view event/group/product which contains non-latin characters in URI.
• Delete button in in Articles module didn't work.
• Some membership levels in blogs were not applying.
• Duplicate records were created in database for membership levels in some cases.
• Sites module search was not included in global search.
• Misplaced RSS icon for Groups/Events/Store global search results.
• Tags link in Sounds module was pointing to categories.
• Organise sounds didn't save file positions.
• Latest posts in Blogs was not latest, but popular.
• Many of admin dashboard links were incorrect or old.
• Admin HTML promo code was not escaping properly before saving to database.
• Top menu wasn't always evaluating 'Check' fields before showing menu items.
• Too many unsuitable cookie headers were sent during language switching.
• Wrong RSS links was created if two albums had the same name.
• Blogs home was missing in Page Builder.
• "Befriend" button now changes to "Remove Friend" if members are already friends.
• Managing Fans/Participants in Group/Events modules if there are many participants caused different problems.
• Some old unused files were removed.
• Design fixes.

Links

Download Dolphin 7.0.3

Try Dolphin 7.0.3 live at BoonEx.us

Full list of publicly available tickets processed in 7.0.3

Update instructions and upgrade pack (7.0.2 to 7.0.3)

Dolphin 7.0 Discussion Forum

IMPORTANT!

Dolphin 7.0.3 introduces a number of speed updates and most of you should expect faster loading times and reduced server overhead. To feel the benefits you would generally need a fairly popular community site with many members and concurrent users. We plan a lot more changes and improvements of the front-end in 7.1, which would give more noticeable gains for end-users.

Most importantly, it is highly recommended to make use of our server setup recommendations. We'll be adding web-server recommendations soon. Our test show that most performance gains come out of proper server setup. Thus, 7.0.3 installed on properly configured server would be very fast and would efficiently handle large user-bases.