I have uploaded a final 2.3.2 version of the Forum Plugin. A release for testing has been available on my site www.portalparts.com for a few weeks and after a couple hundred downloads, I've not had any real issues reported so it's now being moved to a general release.

I recommend that all users upgrade to this version as it addresses a number of bugs and one serious security related issue. See this forum topic here for more details on this issue and fix.

Geeklog Version 1.3.10 will be released shortly. I plan on another release shortly afterwards to use a number of 1.3.10 new features. Specifically:

1. New SPAM filtering API using Tom Willets Spam Plugin
2. Autolink feature
3. New Update API: so plugins can execute an update function. This will make it easy to update the plugin installed version number for example.

If you started your server with one language, and want to move to a multilanguage system later on, it can be quite difficult if you need different charachter sets for the different languages. With UTF-8 you can display all langauges and letters at the same time in the same page without any problems.
The best solution therefore would be to convert your _complete_ data into Unicode in one go. You dont want to go through each story and comment and edit letters by hand after you switched the encoding of the page.

For this procedure to work you need (1) a text editor like notepad that can save raw text data while choosing the encoding (Notepad unter windows for example), (2) direct access to you MySQL executable (Windows cmd or Linux Shell) and (3) a NON-Unicode-Capable Editor (!) such as PHPEdit (or linux shell editors AFAIK). You can find out which editor cannot handle Unicode by saving a small text containing a "xxöxx" or similar with notepad as UTF-8 (See step 3) and opening it with the other editor. If you the letter "ö" appears now as "ö" you have the right one.

Now let's start.

Geeklog 1.3.9sr2 and 1.3.8-1sr6 fix the following security issues:

1. A cross site scripting issue, due to the use of the (unfiltered) variable $topic in most of the language files (thanks to the anonymous submitter of bug #293).
2. It was possible to post comments to stories and polls for which comments had been disabled. The comments were never displayed, though, but did show up in the What's New block.

The upgrade to 1.3.9sr2 also includes a lib-plugins.php that fixes problems with plugins on PHP 5. The complete 1.3.9sr2 tarball also includes updated PEAR packages that should resolve email problems that some users had (see this story for details).