5.5 Beta 2.

We've released a second beta of CourseForum and ProjectForum 5.5. Compared with the first beta, this one primarily addresses several small cosmetic issues, and tweaks some internal debugging.  ¶ 1:13 PM

Beta of Version 5.5.

We've released a first beta of CourseForum and ProjectForum 5.5. You can find a detailed list of new additions, enhancements and bug fixes on that page. Please try this out and let us know how it works for you!  ¶ 4:47 PM

Patch Release 5.4.2.

We've posted a second patch release for 5.4. This has several bug fixes in it, including a workaround for a problem that prevented running at all on certain newer Linux systems, especially under SELinux.  ¶ 11:46 AM

Patch Release 5.4.1.

We've posted version 5.4.1 to our site; this is a patch release that corrects a problem where sometimes interrupted downloads would leave operating system files open, which in extreme cases could eventually prevent further files from being opened.  ¶ 1:42 PM

CourseForum/ProjectForum 5.4.

Versions 5.4.0 of CourseForum and ProjectForum are now available for download. As always, visit the main CourseForum and ProjectForum pages for full details and downloads. Here are the changes.  ¶ 10:46 AM

Beta of 5.4.

We've posted a public beta of CourseForum and ProjectForum version 5.4. Highlights include improvements and additions to various admin screens (list of pages, attachments, versions, etc.), as well as the usual range of smaller changes.  ¶ 8:05 AM

Patch Release 5.3.2.

We've issued another patch release for CourseForum and ProjectForum, which simply cleans up some warning messages that were showing up in log files and the Javascript console. All of these are completely harmless; there are no functional changes in this release. So if you're already at 5.3.1, you shouldn't notice any real difference.  ¶ 10:15 AM

ProjectForum Basic Promo Ends Soon.

Our special introductory pricing offer for ProjectForum Basic will continue only until the end of this month. You can find out more by visiting our sales page.  ¶ 2:25 PM

Patch Release 5.3.1.

We've just issued a patch release of CourseForum and ProjectForum, now at version 5.3.1. This version fixes several "memory leaks", which are problems in the software that can lead to the program using more and more memory over time.

Because this increasing memory can sometimes lead to instability, we'd recommend upgrading to anyone who has had problems in the past where the software runs fine for a while, but weeks or months later mysteriously crashes.

For those who are interested, the leaks we fixed were in three places: one where the program frees up forums from memory that haven't been used for a while, a second in the versions pages where it figures out the differences between versions, and the last in a weird situation with search if the requester (usually a robot, not an actual web browser) sends a particular set of http headers in their request.

  ¶ 1:04 PM

CourseForum and ProjectForum 5.3 Released

We've posted the production versions of CF/PF 5.3.0 to our website for download, and these are also now running on our hosting servers. As always, visit the main CourseForum and ProjectForum pages for full details and downloads.

You can see a list of changes here.

  ¶ 7:07 AM

Beta of 5.3 - Custom links and more.

We've posted the first beta of CF/PF 5.3.

The beta page describes what's in the release, but at this stage I wanted to draw attention to the new custom links feature. For all the power users out there who've wanted to add new features to the markup, this new feature should give you everything you want. At this stage we'd definitely be interested in feedback to make sure people are able to do everything they want with it.

  ¶ 1:10 PM

Great example of ProjectForum usage.

Have a look at this wiki article on TechSoup. The second half describes a great project that our friends at w8nc have been doing with the Alzheimer's Society of Ontario, where they've replaced their static intranet with a ProjectForum site, with fantastic results.  ¶ 3:36 PM

Patch Release 5.2.2.

We've just issued another patch release, which addresses problems with using preview within projects, and also adds images and document icons to the preview facility.  ¶ 2:23 PM

Logo problem in Broadcast-derived custom themes.

If you're using a custom theme that is based on Broadcast, and have found after upgrading to 5.2 that the ProjectForum logo is now overlapping the breadcrumbs in the top left corner, rather than being in the top right corner as before, here is what is happening. All themes now load a common 'base.css' before the theme-specific styles.css, allowing many common things to be factored out of the theme, and then 'styles.css' can override the defaults only if needed. Because we're overriding, sometimes you need to specify things a bit differently. In this case, you'll want to change the '#footerlogo' section of your styles.css to read:

#footerlogo {
    left: auto;
    right: 10px;
}

  ¶ 11:06 AM

Patch release 5.2.1.

For those of you using Internet Explorer who may have been having trouble with getting the new 'preview' feature working on some pages, there is a new patch release (5.2.1) available that appears to correct this problem. Note that because of aggressive browser caching, you may need to empty your browser's cache (or force reload several times) once you've switched to the new version to make sure that you're actually using the latest changes.  ¶ 12:53 PM