We're pleased to announce the release of version 1.1.2 for CommunitySEO for IPB.

This release incorporates several bug fixes reported to us by users. Specific bugs fixed are as follows:

• Long passwords with special characters are not accepted by the upgrader/installer
• Old "ST=#" style topics not redirected to the rewritten URL
• Blog Friendly URLs (IP.Blog built in feature) does not work properly with Community SEO
• Topics in trash can shown in Similar Topics block
• Links from own site can sometimes still be logged in Trackbacks even when configured not to
• "http://1" links sometimes logged in Trackbacks
• Running sitemap task from ACP with rewritting enabled can cause bad links in Sitemap (also see this related and fixed report, this fixed report, and this fixed report)
• getnewpost, getlastpost functions not working correctly.
• Modifications cannot use "boink_it" method before CSEO is loaded (Note: Install instructions updated to fix this, but you do not need to apply the change if you are not experiencing errors - this is just for moving forward)
• Disabling "Display active users in topic" disables the Similar topics, social networking and trackbacks features (Note: Install instructions updated, but you do not need to apply the changes if you have the mentioned setting enabled)
• Bad URL in a signature can cause an IPB Warning regarding parse_url
• Clicking "View Full Version" in lofi page with IPB Portal disabled causes IPB error message
• Similar topics is too restrictive
• Spaces in a topic title can cause the Digg link not to be formatted properly

Important Note: A minor potential XSS vulnerability was reported and fixed in this release as well. It is possible to inject certain HTML through a URL that your browser will parse into your page. This requires several preconditions

1) It only works in IE (and if you use IE7 + IPB 2.2+, IPB makes use of the http-only cookie flag so any attack is extremely limited)
2) It requires you to click on a special crafted link from a malicious user

However, we did feel it prudent to make this known to our customers so you can better determine to perform the above upgrade. There is no known working exploit, and nobody has reported any issues. The user who found this reported it to us openly, and in return we provided him a free license. This same offer stands for anyone who believes they find a vulernability in our software - if you report it to us, and we confirm it as a working exploit, we will provide you a free license for Community SEO. Our customers are very important to us.

For existing customers, you can download the package from your client area, simply upload the files from the main download and run the upgrade routine. Above, there are two bugs which are noted that may require you to make changes to your IPB source files from the installation instructions, however this is only necessary if you are experiencing these issues.

Additionally, there is one issue that we decided to log in our FAQ section rather than update in the instructions. As the issue will be corrected with the upcoming Gallery 2.2 software, we decided it was best left there: Unable to delete Gallery images

Brilliant!

Yeah!

Is it already in the client area? I can't see if the new version is there, no version numbers.

The blog's friendly URLs are not working anymore after the upgrade.

Yes and in the files, i see "Upgrade_1.0.x-1.1.0"
but not 1.1.2?

How we can upgrade from 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 ?

Just download the package, upload over all old files, and run the script in seo_install. It'll detect that you have 1.1.1 and will prompt for a fresh install or upgrade.

Upgraded!
Thanks...

Where the heck is the download link in my client area? Does it have to be so difficult?

This post has been edited by jason32: Aug 4 2007, 02:09 PM

Client Area
Your Purchase
Click here to download

As TurXaliM pointed out - click Client Area -> Your Purchase -> "Click here to download". If you have any suggestions on how to make that simpler I'm open to ideas.

The upgrade path is simple, upload the files and run the upgrader (as noted in the announcement). From 1.0.0 to 1.1.0 there were file modification changes necessary, which is why there is an upgrade txt file detailing those changes. There are no file changes necessary for the 1.1.1 to 1.1.2 release, so there is no instruction file for them.

Regarding Blog Friendly URLs - if you are using the built in Blog Friendly URLs, the CommunitySEO friendly URL feature will no longer work for the Blog. Unfortunately, it's extremely difficult to try to have two friendly URL features running simultaneously. I pointed this out in the bug report when I marked it fixed. The homepage (blog.html) still works - from that point, you either use the CSEO friendly URL's, or the Blog built in friendly URL's.

Ah, I see. Thanks.

Um, it doesn't seem like I can just "upload" the files. If I do so, it will override current folders and I will lose evrything. As far as I am concerned, the instructions are tremendously oversimplified. You have to assume that people are NOT experts. I, for one, don't want to have to waste an entire night figuring this out and potentially ruining my entire forum. There needs to be clear, step-by-step instructions and explanations as to EXACTLY what you mean by "upload the files." Which files? Where? Overide the existing files? Hah?

This post has been edited by jason32: Aug 4 2007, 11:02 PM

Well, it's obvious you would have to upload all the files in the /upload/ folder in the download archive... if CSEO is encoded, you couldn't possibly edit the CSEO files, which also means you won't lose anything when upgrading.

This post has been edited by Tim: Aug 4 2007, 11:14 PM

I do apologize - why don't you submit a ticket and let one of us do it for you.

As Tim said, our files are encoded - you can't modify them. Thus, by reuploading the files we provide, you cannot wipe anything out (except potentially custom transliteration rules, or custom language string changes, but I'd gather from your post you probably wouldn't have done either).

You download the file from the client area.
Unzip the archive to a folder on your computer, and then navigate to that folder.
Click into the IPB 2.2-2.3 folder (assuming that is the version you are using.
Click into the "upload" folder.
Hit CTRL + A (or select all of the files in this folder)
Then FTP to your site
Navigate to your forum directory
Upload all of the selected files to your site - 95%+ FTP programs will preserve the folder structure and so on for you.
Visit http://yoursite/seo_install/, login, and follow the onscreen instructions to "upgrade". (Replacing yoursite with your domain name, of course)

Well, this will be better if we see the version under, above or near "Click here to download"
For example;



This post has been edited by TurXaliM: Aug 5 2007, 11:39 AM

Dan, Thanks for upgrading me !!! going to play more... Really happy with what we have gotten done so far..

Great job guys....

Nice work guys, very happy

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...as indeed are my users...

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Great to hear.