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1 1 FeedWordPress Change Log
2 2 ========================
3 3
4 -Changes from 2008.1030 to 2008.1101
5 -
6 -* INTERFACE BUG THAT PREVENTED ADDING NEW SITES FIXED: The UI reforms in
7 - FWP 2008.1030 unintentionally introduced a bug that prevents clean
8 - installations of FeedWordPress from providing an input box for adding
9 - new feeds to the list of syndicated feeds. This bug has been fixed.
10 -
11 -Changes from 0.993 to 2008.1030
12 -
13 -* WORDPRESS 2.6 COMPATABILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with
14 - WordPress 2.6, and should work more or less seamlessly with the new post
15 - revision system. A bug which caused multiple new revisions to be created
16 - for posts on certain feeds, regardless of whether or not the item had
17 - been updated, has been fixed.
18 -
19 -* INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: The user interface has been substantially
20 - restyled to fit in better with the visual style of WordPress 2.5 and
21 - 2.6.
22 -
23 -* YOUTUBE BUG FIXED: POSTS SYNDICATED THROUGH AN AUTOMATIC UPDATE ARE NO
24 - LONGER STRIPPED OF `<OBJECT>` TAGS AND CERTAIN OTHER HTML ELEMENTS: Due
25 - to the way that some versions of WordPress process posts that are
26 - inserted into the database when no user is logged in, many users
27 - experienced an issue where YouTube videos and other content using the
28 - HTML `<object>` tag would be stripped out of posts that were syndicated
29 - during an automatic update. (Posts that were syndicated through manual
30 - updates from within the WordPress Dashboard were not affected, because
31 - the issue does not arise when an update is executed under a logged-in
32 - administrator's credentials.) This bug has now been fixed; YouTube
33 - videos and other content using `<object>` tags should now appear
34 - properly in syndicated posts, regardless of the way in which the post
35 - was syndicated.
36 -
37 -* AJAX BUGS FIXED: Bugs which blocked the normal operation of WordPress
38 - 2.5's AJAX interface elements when FeedWordPress was activated have been
39 - fixed.
40 -
41 -* TAG SUPPORT: A couple of features have been introduced to take advantage
42 - of the tagging features in WordPress 2.3.x, 2.5.x, and 2.6.x. Now, when
43 - unfamiliar categories are encountered for posts on a feed, you can
44 - choose for FeedWordPress (1) to drop the category; (2) to drop the
45 - category and to filter out any post that does not match at least one
46 - familiar category; (3) to create a new category with that name, or,
47 - now, you can also have FeedWordPress (4) create a new *tag* with that
48 - name. This option can be set site-wide under Syndication --> Options,
49 - or it can be set on a feed-by-feed basis in a feed's Edit screen.
50 -
51 - In addition, you can now set particular tags to apply to all incoming
52 - syndicated posts, under Syndication --> Options, or you can set tags
53 - to apply to all incoming syndicated posts from a particular feed in that
54 - feed's Edit screen.
55 -
56 -* FORMATTING FILTERS: There is a new option available under Syndication ->
57 - Options which allows users to choose whether or not to expose syndicated
58 - posts to being altered by formatting filters. By default, FeedWordPress
59 - has always protected syndicated posts (which are already in display-ready
60 - HTML when they are syndicated) from being reformatted by formatting
61 - filters. However, this approach means that certain plugins which depend
62 - on formatting filters (for example, to add "Share This" bars or relevant
63 - links to the end of a post) are blocked from working on any syndicated
64 - posts. If you want to use one of these plugins together with
65 - FeedWordPress, you can now do so by changing the "Formatting Filters"
66 - setting from "Protect" to "Expose."
67 -
68 -* **`<atom:source>` ELEMENTS NOW INCLUDED IN ATOM FEED:** Atom 1.0 provides
69 - a standard method for aggregators to indicate information about the original source of
70 - a syndicated post, using the `<atom:source>` element. FeedWordPress now
71 - introduces standard `<atom:source>` elements including the title, homepage, and
72 - feed URI of the source from which a syndicated post was syndicated. Cf.
73 - <http://www.atomenabled.org/developers/syndication/atom-format-spec.php#element.source>
74 -
75 -* MODULARIZATION OF CODE: The code for different elements of FeedWordPress
76 - has been broken out into several modules for easier inspection,
77 - documentation, and maintenance of the code.
78 -
79 -* VERSIONING SCHEME CHANGED: FeedWordPress's feature set has proven stable
80 - enough that it can now be removed from beta status; a good thing, since
81 - I was very quickly running out of version numbers to use. New releases
82 - of FeedWordPress will have version numbers based on the date of their
83 - release.
84 -
85 -Changes from 0.992 to 0.993
86 -
87 -* WORDPRESS 2.5.1 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible
88 - with WordPress 2.5.1.
89 -
90 -* WORDPRESS 2.5 INTERFACE IMPROVEMENTS: FeedWordPress's Dashboard
91 - interface has undergone several cosmetic changes that should help it
92 - integrate better with the WordPress Dashboard interface in WordPress
93 - version 2.5.x.
94 -
95 -* SYNDICATED POSTS CAN BE MARKED AS "PENDING REVIEW": WordPress 2.3 users
96 - can now take advantage of WordPress's new "Pending Review" features for
97 - incoming syndicated posts. Posts marked as "Pending Review" are not
98 - published immediately, but are marked as ready to be reviewed by an
99 - Administrator or Editor, who can then choose to publish the post or
100 - hold it back. If you want to review syndicated posts from a particular
101 - feed, or from all feeds, before they are posted, then use
102 - Syndication --> Syndicated Sites --> Edit or Syndication --> Options to
103 - change the settings for handling new posts.
104 -
105 -* AWARE OF NEW URI FOR del.icio.us FEEDS: Previous releases of
106 - FeedWordPress already automatically split del.icio.us tags up
107 - appropriately appropriately when generating categories. (del.icio.us
108 - feeds smoosh all the tags into a single `<dc:subject>` element,
109 - separated by spaces; FeedWordPress un-smooshes them into multiple
110 - categories by separating them at whitespace.) Unfortunately, del.icio.us
111 - recently broke the existing behavior by changing host names for their
112 - feeds from del.icio.us to feeds.delicious.com. Version 0.993 accounts
113 - for the new host name and un-breaks the tag splitting.
114 -
115 -Changes from 0.991 to 0.992
116 -* AUTHOR RE-MAPPING: FeedWordPress now offers considerable control over
117 - how author names on a feed are translated into usernames within the
118 - WordPress database. When a post by an unrecognized author comes in,
119 - Administrators can now specify any username as the default username to
120 - assign the post to by setting the option in Syndication --> Options
121 - (formerly FeedWordPress only allowed you to assign such posts to user
122 - #1, the site administrator). Administrators can also create re-mapping
123 - rules for particular feeds (under Syndication --> Syndicated Sites -->
124 - Edit), so that (for example) any posts attributed to "Administrator"
125 - on the feed <http://praxeology.net/blog/feed/> will be assigned to
126 - a user named "Roderick T. Long," rather than a user named
127 - "Administrator." These settings also allow administrators to filter out
128 - posts by particular users, and to control what will happen when
129 - FeedWordPress encounters a post by an unrecognized user on that
130 - particular feed.
131 -
132 -* BUG RELATED TO URIS CONTAINING AMPERSAND CHARACTERS FIXED: A bug in
133 - WordPress 2.x's handling of URIs in Blogroll links created problems for
134 - updating any feeds whose URIs included an ampersand character, such as
135 - Google News RSS feeds and other feeds that have multiple parameters
136 - passed through HTTP GET. If you experienced this bug, the most likely
137 - effect was that FeedWordPress simply would not import new posts from a
138 - feed when instructred to do so, returning a "0 new posts" response. In
139 - other cases, it might lead to unpredictable results from feed updates,
140 - such as importing posts which were not contained in the feed being
141 - syndicated, but which did appear elsewhere on the same website. This bug
142 - has, hopefully, been resolved, by correcting for the bug in WordPress.
143 -
144 -Changes from 0.99 to 0.991
145 -* WORDPRESS MU COMPATABILITY: FeedWordPress should now be compatible with
146 - recent releases of WordPress MU. Once FeedWordPress is made available
147 - as a plugin, each individual blog can choose to activate FeedWordPress
148 - and syndicate content from its own set of contributors.
149 -
150 -* DISPLAY OF MAGPIE WARNINGS: A number of MagpieRSS warnings or error
151 - messages that were displayed when performing an automatic update are
152 - no longer displayed, unless debugging parameters have been explicitly
153 - enabled.
154 -
155 -* BUG RELATED TO INTERNATIONAL CHARACTERS IN AUTHOR NAMES FIXED: Due to a
156 - subtle incompatability between the way that FeedWordPress generated new
157 - user information, and the way that WordPress 2.0 and later added new
158 - authors to the database, FeedWordPress might end up creating duplicate
159 - authors, or throwing a critical error message, when it encountered
160 - authors whose names included international characters. This
161 - incompatability has now been fixed; hopefully, authors with
162 - international characters in their names should now be handled properly.
163 -
164 -* media:content BUG IN MAGPIERSS FIXED: A bug in MagpieRSS's handling of
165 - namespaced elements has been fixed. Among other things, this bug caused
166 - items containing a Yahoo MediaRSS `<media:content>` element (such as
167 - many of the feeds produced by wordpress.com) to be represented
168 - incorrectly, with only a capital "A" where the content of the post
169 - should have been. Feeds containing `<media:content>` elements should now
170 - be syndicated correctly.
171 -
172 -* update_feedwordpress PARAMETER: You can now use an HTTP GET parameter
173 - (`update_feedwordpress=1`) to request that FeedWordPress poll its feeds
174 - for updates. When used together with a crontab or other means of
175 - scheduling tasks, this means that you can keep your blog automatically
176 - updated on a regular schedule, even if you do not choose to use the
177 - cron-less automatic updates option.
178 -
179 -* Some minor interface-related bugs were also fixed.
180 -
181 -
182 -Changes from 0.981 to 0.99
183 -Version 0.99 adds several significant new features, fixes some bugs, and
184 -provides compatability with WordPress 2.2.x and 2.3.x.
185 -
186 -* WORDPRESS 2.2 AND 2.3 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress should now be
187 - compatible with WordPress version 2.2 and the upcoming WordPress
188 - version 2.3. In particular, it has been tested extensively against
189 - WordPress 2.2.3 and WordPress 2.3 Release Candidate 1.
190 -
191 -* AUTOMATIC UPDATES WITHOUT CRON: FeedWordPress now allows you to
192 - automatically schedule checks for new posts without using external task
193 - scheduling tools such as cron. In order to enable automatic updates, go
194 - to **Syndication --> Options** and set "Check for new posts" to
195 - "automatically." For details, see "Automatic Feed Updates" in
196 - README.text.
197 -
198 - An important side-effect of the changes to the update system is that if
199 - you were previously using the cron job and the `update-feeds.php` script
200 - to schedule updates, you need to change your cron set-up. The old
201 - `update-feeds.php` script no longer exists. Instead, if you wish to use
202 - a cron job to guarantee updates on a particular schedule, you should
203 - have the cron job fetch the front page of your blog (for example, by
204 - using `curl http://www.zyx.com/blog/ > /dev/null`) instead of activating
205 - the `update-feeds.php` script. If automatic updates have been enabled,
206 - fetching the front page will automatically trigger the update process.
207 -
208 -* INTERFACE REORGANIZATION: All FeedWordPress functions are now located
209 - under a top-level "Syndication" menu in the WordPress Dashboard. To
210 - manage the list of syndicated sites, manually check for new posts on
211 - one or more feeds, or syndicate a new site, you should use the main page
212 - under **Syndication**. To change global settings for FeedWordPress,
213 - you should use **Syndication --> Options**.
214 -
215 -* FILE STRUCTURE REORGANIZATION: Due to a combination of changing styles
216 - for FeedWordPress plugins and lingering bugs in the FeedWordPress admin
217 - menu code, the code for FeedWordPress is now contained in two different
218 - PHP files, which should be installed together in a subdirectory of your
219 - plugins directory named `feedwordpress`. (See README.text for
220 - installation and upgrade instructions relating to the change.)
221 -
222 -* MULTIPLE CATEGORIES SETTING: Some feeds use non-standard methods to
223 - indicate multiple categories within a single category element. (The most
224 - popular site to do this is del.icio.us, which separates tags with a
225 - space.) FeedWordPress now allows you to set an optional setting, for any
226 - feed which does this, indicating the character or characters used to
227 - divide multiple categories, using a Perl-compatible regular expression.
228 - (In the case of del.icio.us feeds, FeedWordPress will automatically use
229 - \s for the pattern without your having to do any further configuration.)
230 - To turn this setting on, simply use the "Edit" link for the feed that
231 - you want to turn it on for.
232 -
233 -* REGULAR EXPRESSION BUG FIXED: Eliminated a minor bug in the regular
234 - expressions for e-mail addresses (used in parsing RSS `author`
235 - elements), which could produce unsightly error messages for some users
236 - parsing RSS 2.0 feeds.
237 -
238 -* DATE / UPDATE BUG FIXED: A bug in date handling was eliminated that may
239 - have caused problems if any of (1) WordPress, or (2) PHP, or (3) your
240 - web server, or (4) your MySQL server, has been set to use a different
241 - time zone from the one that any of the others is set to use. If
242 - FeedWordPress has not been properly updating updated posts, or has been
243 - updating posts when there shouldn't be any changes for the update, this
244 - release may solve that problem.
245 -
246 -* GOOGLE READER BUGS FIXED: A couple of bugs that made it difficult for
247 - FeedWordPress to interact with Google Reader public feeds have been
248 - fixed. Firstly, if you encountered an error message reading "There was a
249 - problem adding the newsfeed. [SQL: ]" when you tried to add the feed,
250 - the cause of this error has been fixed. Secondly, if you succeeded in
251 - getting FeedWordPress to check a Google Reader feed, only to find that
252 - the title of posts had junk squashed on to the end of them, that bug
253 - has been fixed too. To fix this bug, you must install the newest version
254 - of the optional MagpieRSS upgrade.
255 -
256 -* FILTER PARAMETERS: Due to an old, old bug in WordPress 1.5.0 (which was
257 - what was available back when I first wrote the filter interface),
258 - FeedWordPress has traditionally only passed one parameter to
259 - syndicated_item and syndicated_post filters functions -- an array
260 - containing either the Magpie representation of a syndicated item from
261 - the feed, or the database representation of a post about to be inserted
262 - into the WordPress database. If you needed information about the feed
263 - that the item came from, this was accessible only through a pair of
264 - global variables, $fwp_channel and $fwp_feedmeta.
265 -
266 - Since it's been a pretty long time since WordPress 1.5.0 was in
267 - widespread usage, I have gone ahead and added an optional second
268 - parameter to the invocation of the syndicated_item and syndicated_post
269 - filters. If you have written a filter for FeedWordPress that uses either
270 - of these hooks, you can now register that filter to accept 2 parameters.
271 - If you do so, the second parameter will be a SyndicatedPost object,
272 - which, among other things, allows you to access information about the
273 - feed from which an item is syndicated using the $post->feed and the
274 - $post->feedmeta elements (where $post is the name of the second
275 - parameter).
276 -
277 - NOTE THAT THE OLD GLOBAL VARIABLES ARE STILL AVAILABLE, for the time
278 - being at least, so existing filters will not break with the upgrade.
279 - They should be considered deprecated, however, and may be eliminated in
280 - the future.
281 -
282 -* FILTER CHANGE / BUGFIX: the array that is passed as the first argument
283 - syndicated_post filters no longer is no longer backslash-escaped for
284 - MySQL when filters are called. This was originally a bug, or an
285 - oversight; the contents of the array should only be escaped for the
286 - database *after* they have gone through all filters. IF YOU HAVE WRITTEN
287 - ANY syndicated_post FILTERS THAT PRESUME THE OLD BEHAVIOR OF PASSING IN
288 - STRINGS THAT ARE ALREADY BACKSLASH-ESCAPED, UPDATE YOUR FILTERS
289 - ACCORDINGLY.
290 -
291 -* OTHER MINOR BUGFIXES AND INTERNAL CHANGES: The internal architecture of
292 - FeedWordPress has been significantly changed to make the code more
293 - modular and clean; hopefully this should help reduce the number of
294 - compatibility updates that are needed, and make them easier and quicker
295 - when they are needed.
296 -
297 -Changes from 0.98 to 0.981
298 -Version 0.981 is a narrowly targeted bugfix and compatibility release, whose
299 -main purpose is to resolve a major outstanding problem: the incompatibility
300 -between version 0.98 of WordPress and the recently released WordPress 2.1.
301 -
302 -* WORDPRESS 2.1 COMPATIBILITY: FeedWordPress is now compatible with
303 - WordPress 2.1, as well as retaining its existing support for WordPress
304 - 2.0 and 1.5. Incompatibilities that resulted in database warnings, fatal
305 - errors, and which prevented FeedWordPress from syndicating new posts,
306 - have been eliminated.
307 -
308 -* RSS-FUNCTIONS.PHP RENAMED TO RSS.PHP: if you use the upgraded MagpieRSS
309 - replacement that's included with FeedWordPress, be sure to note that
310 - there are now *two* files to upload from the `OPTIONAL/wp-includes`
311 - subdirectory in order to carry out the upgrade: rss-functions.php and
312 - rss.php. **It is necessary to upload both files**, due to a change in
313 - the file naming scheme in WordPress 2.1, and it is necessary to do so
314 - whether you are using WordPress 2.1 or not. If you only upload the
315 - `rss-functions.php` file as in previous installations you will not have
316 - a working copy of MagpieRSS; the rss.php file contains the actual code.
317 -
318 -* DATE BUG AFFECTING SOME PHP INSTALLATIONS RESOLVED: due to a subtle bug
319 - in parse_w3cdtf(), some installations of PHP encountered problems with
320 - FeedWordPress's attempt to date posts, which would cause some new posts
321 - on Atom feeds to be dated as if they had apppeared in 1969 or 1970
322 - (thus, effectively, never appearing on front apge at all). This bug in
323 - the date handling should now be fixed.
324 -
325 -* PHP <?=...?> SHORT FORM ELIMINATED: some installations of PHP do not
326 - allow the <?=...?> short form for printing PHP values, which was used
327 - extensively in the FeedWordPress interface code. Since this could cause
328 - fatal errors for users with the wrong installation of PHP, the short
329 - form has been replaced with full PHP echo statements, and is no longer
330 - used in FeedWordPress.
331 -
332 -* BETTER USER INTERFACE INTEGRATION WITH WORDPRESS 2.x: Some minor changes
333 - have been made to help the FeedWordPress interface pages blend in better
334 - with the user interface when running under WordPress 2.x.
335 -
336 -* GLOBAL CATEGORIES BUG RESOLVED: a bug that prevented some users from
337 - setting one or more categories to apply to syndicated posts from all
338 - feeds (using the checkbox interface under Options --> Syndication) has
339 - been resolved.
340 -
341 -Changes from 0.97 to 0.98
342 -
343 -* WORDPRESS 2.0 COMPATIBILITY: This is a narrowly-targeted release to
344 - solve a major outstanding problem. FeedWordPress is now compatible with
345 - both WordPress 1.5 and WordPress 2.0. Incompatibilities that caused
346 - fatal SQL errors, and a more subtle bug with off-kilter counts of posts
347 - under a given category, have been resolved. FeedWordPress tests for
348 - database schema using the global $wp_db_version variable (if null, then
349 - we presume that we're dealing with WordPress 1.5).
350 -
351 - NOTE: I have **not** fully tested FeedWordPress with WordPress 2.0.
352 - Further testing may reveal more bugs. However, you should now be able
353 - to get at least basic FeedWordPress functionality up and running.
354 -
355 -* AUTHOR MATCHING: FeedWordPress tests several fields to see if it can
356 - identify the author of the post as a user already in the WordPress user
357 - database. In previous versions, it tested the user login, the nickname,
358 - and tested for "aliases" listed in the Profile (see documentation). FWP
359 - now also matches authors on the basis of e-mail address (*if* an e-mail
360 - address is present). This is particularly helpful for formats such as
361 - RSS 2.0, in which authors are primarily identified by e-mail addresses.
362 -
363 4 Changes from 0.96 to 0.97
364 5 -------------------------
365 6
366 7 * INSTALLATION PROCEDURE: Some of the changes between 0.96 and 0.97