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FINALS! Dolphin 6.1, Ray 3.5 and Orca 2!

After 7 months of active development and testing we are happy to announce Dolphin 6.1 Final, Ray 3.5 Final and Orca 2 Final. Right along comes SmartPro 2.

Dolphin 6.1 - Spunky

Dolphin 6 raised the standards bar in the community software industry, but we had a dream... ok, a few dreams. While 6.0 has already been a tremendous success, we still have requests for some major features and really wanted to bring even greater flexibility and power to the community site building process. Today, we are proud to report that the dream has come true.

Dolphin 6.1 boasts a very long and broad list of improvements, features and fixes, however, some of them are exceptional and often unique. We’re presenting features that you are very unlikely to find in any comparable software in the industry.


Profiles Fields Builder
- a simple, yet sophisticated and powerful system that lets you seamlessly design your database structure for member profiles, join form, search pages - all with access levels and with the elegance of Dolphin AJAX-based drag-and-drop.

Pages Builder - it is only now that we can call Dolphin a 100% BUILDER. With the new Pages Builder, you wield unmatched control over your site pages by simply constructing them using Blocks (which, in turn, you can also sculpt the way you want). This includes setup of page width; number of columns of blocks and their size; adding new custom blocks and even creating whole new pages yourself!


Flexible Site Width - everyone has their own idea about the perfect site width - so here you go... In Dolphin 6.1 you can adjust site width for the entire site or for individual pages instantly with a simple slider that makes the whole process a breeze. You can even go for 100% width and impress your community with fluid site design.


New Comments - comments is where 50% of community site activity takes place, and Dolphin 6.1 is the absolute best when it comes to comments handling. Fully ajax-based, with unlimited nesting, delayed editing and instant voting - just that - the best.


Google Love - Dolphin is now completely search-engine friendly. All content pages have friendly URLs, which dramatically improves your chances of becoming indexed by major search engines. This is a major improvement and should improve your traffic. Be careful with this one - Google may think that too many URLs have changed and may actually penalize your current site. So, we recommend putting permanent redirects from old URLs to the new ones to avoid problems. This may be shaky after the update, but in the long-term or for a new setup - the new links bring a tremendous advantage.


Mac Love - It looks like Apple is on the right track and the number of Mac users is rising rapidly. Dolphin 6.1 has received the proper Mac-compatibility treatment and testing.


Couple Profiles - now, properly implemented and integrated into the system - couple profiles returns with a glorious come-back to Dolphin.


Fast And Powerful - just as the name suggests, Spunky loves challenges. In 6.1 we stressed attention to speed and scalability. Vast amounts of the code were rewritten according to the new standards, and now you get software capable of running on a clustered server setup handling large online communities. Dolphin is small enough to be managed by just one person, and big enough to power the “next MySpace”.


Hacker-Safe - finally, security issues have been addressed. Dolphin has passed all rounds of Hacker-safe certification and all vulnerabilities and exploits have been patched. Moreover, this is now an ongoing process for BoonEx - we’ll keep checking and updating - for you to feel safe and secure.


Much, Much, MUCH More - articles posted by users; member-login pop-up; dynamic RSS loading; new homepage promo system; voting spam prevention; invitation-only registration; HTML in blogs and more, more, more. Tons of tickets have been implemented, bugs fixed and improvements applied.


Almost no file has remained untouched. Most modules have been re-written and migrated to classes. Integration with Orca and Ray has been improved. All-in-all - it’s a major upgrade, highly recommended for all current Dolphin users and raising the bar again for BoonEx programmers.

Dolphin 6.1 is available for download now at BoonEx.com.

Ray 3.5

The Ray update is no less spectacular than the Dolphin update. It’s a huge advancement - starting from the features side and going on to the core structure and up through the Media Server.

Ray widgets are now being built on the new Flash 9 platform, which improves the back-end and presents a whole new set of opportunities. In 3.5 we improved all widgets, but Video Chat and Video Messenger are practically re-born.


Video Chat - now with the long-awaited 1-to-1 private chat rooms; tabs for chatting in multiple rooms simultaneously; an integrated help system; new settings pane; addressed messages; whispers; password-protected rooms; room status text; “who’s viewing me” tracking; profile preview; floating, resizable and full-screen videos... and a whole new layout. How’s that for a new version!?


Video Messenger - all new layout; status messages; files transferring; integrated Video and Music launcher; help page and settings for just about everything - video, sound, fonts, skin and smile-sets.

Ray 3.5 is available for download now at BoonEx.com

Orca 2

Orca is our modest, but mighty forum script fighting on the saturated ground of online forums. Fear not - Orca is not going to give up. The new Orca is still 100% AJAX-based , but now it packs multi-lingual support via language files; improved search-engine-friendly URLs; better integration with Dolphin and much faster loading speeds.

Orca 2 is available for download now at BoonEx.com

Next...

This update is not going to slow down the BoonEx team for even a day. We’re already looking into the future, planning has already begun and we can now promise you that the next round of updates will be absolutely revolutionary.

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Stang5_0
Stang5_0 429 days agocomment permalink
 
First :)
Congrats!
 
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VictorT
VictorT 429 days agocomment permalink
 
!!! Upgrade pack from Dolphin 6.0.0005 -> Dolphin 6.1 with full Diff can be expected roughly next week.
 
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mikesta
mikesta 429 days agocomment permalink
 
My deep respect. Seems that there is a new generation of boonex out and scaring the rest of the world :)
 
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araaaa
araaaa 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Hello Congratulations on this fabulous release.. Been looking forward to this day for a while now..
 
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CyberXing
CyberXing 429 days agocomment permalink
 
GREAT!!

We will get it onto our production servers by mid day.

CyberXing
 
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annebel
annebel 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Great job !! I'll start exploring it right away.
 
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mkthanh
mkthanh 429 days agocomment permalink
 
thanks
 
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edmond
edmond 429 days agocomment permalink
 
hi i have a question.i sell translation in french .i need remade it all or just upgrading and correcting few things?congrat the team ;)
 
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gregorscharff
gregorscharff 429 days agocomment permalink
 
great to hear this congratulations from me to for your great work at this all with your amazing team . kind regards
 
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jerry79
jerry79 429 days agocomment permalink
 
WHY?
Hello Boonex, thanks for your great script. But pls tell me why you offer the new release so early, without elimnating all bugs in trac? I saw, that you just moved a lot of tasks to the version 6.2. But you announced all of this features for 6.1 in the past. Then you said you got some problems with expertzzzz. For this you had to move the date a few weeks later. But i or maybe some others also expected some features from 6.1 which you announced. Now it seems like we have to wait for 6.2, cause 6.1 was -in my eyes- only released so soon and with moving some tasks, to get the crying crowd quite. But thats not a good way.
So what should i do know?
Wait again few months for next release?
Dont get me wrong, i love your script and all you work, this is what you can read in my posts since im member. But this way of getting the members satisfied...i dont really like. Let them scream, cry or whatever. Just get these things which you announced for new release finished and stable. Cause now we are going the same way as in 6.0.

Im sorry for this, but this time im not satisfied. But great job indeed.

Jerry
 
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Vespen
Vespen 429 days agocomment permalink
 
nice stuff! ))

btw - can't download by Opera browser - download doesn't popup at all (( Only by IE7...
 
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j153
j153 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Congartulations, tovarisci!!!


I sincerelly hope this Final will function way better!!!
 
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Splinter
Splinter 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Still cannot use A/V Chat with Boonex RMS and also not with my own install of RMS 3.5 ....
 
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Stuart
Stuart 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Hi my server has a program called suPHP installed. This is supposed to make the server more secure. What it does is disables php commands in the .htaccess file and alters CHMOD 777 files to 755. This is also supposed to give you more control over your php.ini file.

Will Dolphin 6.1 be able to work using suPHP?? if not what can I do?
 
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esteem
esteem 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Congrats and well done :)
 
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nurke
nurke 429 days agocomment permalink
 
I would like to know if I download the new version of dolphin and Ray, will my ad free licences work?
 
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way2n
way2n 429 days agocomment permalink
 
yes!! will the adfree license work? and what about all the themes and mods?
 
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bdebouck
bdebouck 429 days agocomment permalink
 
first off let me say congrats things certainly have come a long way. can you tell me how to fix or change this in the orca forums [L[Forums Index]]
 
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MichelSwiss
MichelSwiss 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Thank you for this new release :-)

This is not a bug report, just a comment...

http://www.boonex.us/ads/entry/double-room-to-rent
In the block Users Other Listings the same event already displayed is shown as another listing. In fact, as this member has only one ad, will that not be better to display "No other listing for this user" ???
 
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MichelSwiss
MichelSwiss 429 days agocomment permalink
 
http://www.boonex.us/blogs display the Message "Your current membership (Non-member) doesn't allow you to _view other members' Blog."

Missing _view other members' Blog text string for this language key.
 
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MichelSwiss
MichelSwiss 429 days agocomment permalink
 
http://www.boonex.us/search.php?online_only=1

Under the thumbnail of the online users, visitors can see just a single link "Send eCard"... IMHO this will be better to show all the links (IM now, Greeting, Contact...) even if hiting these links will redirect to the "Your current membership (Non-member) doesn't allow you to...".

At least this will show to the visitor the advantage he has to subscribe...
 
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mikesta
mikesta 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Just another problem, the whole forum has missing Langugae keys or something else.

Everything is show as :

[L[Search The Forum]]

or something else.
Still testing.
 
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maddy1
maddy1 429 days agocomment permalink
 
@mikesta

You must klick in acp /plugins / orca forum on en
 
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maddy1
maddy1 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Groups not work.

I have create a group and when i click on group title nothing happens. Anybody else with this problem?
 
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maddy1
maddy1 429 days agocomment permalink
 
ok group opens now after many minutes but with this error in header

Warning: file_get_contents(http://omango.ac-dating.de/groups/orca/?action=group_last_topics&forum=test&trans=1) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: Connection timed out in /var/www/vhosts/ac-dating.de/subdomains/omango/httpdocs/inc/classes/BxDolGroups.php on line 419

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/vhosts/xxxxx.de/subdomains/omango/httpdocs/inc/classes/BxDolGroups.php:419) in /var/www/vhosts/xxxxx.de/subdomains/omango/httpdocs/inc/design.inc.php on line 495
 
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maddy1
maddy1 429 days agocomment permalink
 
I have comment out now line 419 in bxdolgroups.php. That works for those who have the same prob but theres another prob. In groups forum the language is like this [L[Topic subject:]]

Where i can compile the orca groups language?
 
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kab
kab 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Опять 25 !!!
Почему не работают лицензии для Ray Free ???
Они то сформированы, но на моем сайте пишет что модули не активированы!

Бунекс - сделайте нормально активацию!
 
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maddy1
maddy1 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Hello lalakis

There is no "en" compile link.
 
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Nighto2007
Nighto2007 429 days agocomment permalink
 
Hii

thank you so much for this amazing work and fast

I'm waiting for upgrade from 6.0005 to 6.1

best regards
Rawaf
 
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MichelSwiss
MichelSwiss 429 days agocomment permalink
 
This is really just a little detail... Using IE7, on the Home page http://www.boonex.us/ , in the box QUICK SEARCH, the bottom of the Search button doesn't display. Just a few pixels...
 
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maddy1
maddy1 429 days agocomment permalink
 
lakalis i have do this in orca admin. Thats works fine. But not in groups/orca. There is no en to hit. Yes i have look for it logged as admin.
 
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