joiseystud, I do understand the frustrations of users of the module. Over the course of the last year my two biggest battles have been free time and the perfectionist in me. It has been my personal goal to make sure that any major bug is worked out prior to releasing another module version. Unfortunately, these two personal struggles of mine do not do very well together (ie. no time to make things perfect). The next release, which is imminent, will be a very solid release. I am aware of one major bug now that I am working out over the course of this weekend and then I will fastrack this release through the release tracker.
I am not 100% sure this release will come out completely bug free but after the numerous amount of testing I think it is safe to say most users will not experience a problem using the module. The only place I see a chance for exceptions is in odd upgrade environments (but this should only affect 10% tops who have previously upgraded a version from below 4.4.3 - in which case the Lists pinned thread would fix the issue).
Before posting the full list of what to expect, I do want to add that after this 4.5 release drops we plan on re-writing the entire UI. I will 'branch' the source code so we can release a 'patch' if necessary. I also wanted to thank you for the appreciate too!
CHANGES/ENHANCEMENTS/BUGS:
FOR-5358 - Forum Does Not Use Correct Mode When Editing Post
FOR-6488 - Search - Invalid Date Bug
FOR-6489 - Thread Move: Email Not Sending - Bug
FOR-6490 - Uninstall - Remove Remaining Items
FOR-6491 - Thread Split: Email Not Sending - Bug
FOR-6492 - Default Cache Time = -1 -
FOR-6518 - Notification not working for Single Thread Subscriptions
FOR-6537 - CSS Issue - Case Sensitive Naming
FOR-6557 - Need "My Settings" Profile Option - Disable My Post Notifications
FOR-6559 - Trusted Users See Moderation Screen, Email Sends to Mods
FOR-6561 - Enable/Disable Website Address in Forum Profile/Posts
FOR-6569 - Forum: User can post to locked thread
FOR-6571 - Forum: Mark Threads Read Issue
FOR-6572 - Forum: Manage Forum Users Issue
FOR-6573 - Forum: Manage Forums Issue
FOR-6583 - Member List: Private Messaging Issue
FOR-6585 - Corrected "Unmoderated" localization issue in forum permissions grid.
FOR-6586 - New Thread After Subscribing to Thread in Single Forum View
FOR-6598 - Unmoderated Users/Roles Not Respected
FOR-6606 - Threads View - Various Thread Filtering
FOR-6607 - Last Activity Thread Filter Option Shown to Unauthenticated Users
FOR-6611 - Post View - Unauthenticated PageSize Error
FOR-6613 - Re-Work Forum/Group Manager & Add Ajax Support
FOR-6614 - Remove Group Edit, Replace In ForumManage Page - via Ajax
FOR-6615 - Create Re-usable Admin Control Panel
FOR-6616 - Remove BadWord Edit, Replace in Manage Words
FOR-6617 - Filter Words Management - Add Ajax Support
FOR-6618 - Email Template Manager - Add Ajax Support (Disabled due to FCK Editor issues)
FOR-6619 - Forum Admin Areas - Replace Section Head w/ Tabstrip Type Interface
FOR-6620 - Admin User Manager - Ajax Support
FOR-6621 - Threadpage in URL & User Posts Per Page Clash
FOR-6622 - Threads Per Page & Various Links
FOR-6623 - User Settings - Add Ajax Support
FOR-6624 - Member List - Add Ajax Support
FOR-6628 - Threas View - Threads Per Page #'s Off Per Item
FOR-6629 - Thread View - Post Pages Count
FOR-6632 - User Settings: Ability to Enable Per Post Notify Default
FOR-6633 - Added ability to disable Self Post Notifications
FOR-6640 - Forum Module - Adjust Localized Moderation Message
FOR-6690 - Inbox - Add Ajax Handling
FOR-6691 - Added Ajax Paging Control
FOR-6692 - Added PM Post view Ajax paging support.
FOR-6694 - Post Delete - Add Ajax Support
FOR-6695 - Report Post - Add Ajax Support
FOR-6698 - Added validation for image avatar size inputs to only accept integers.
FOR-6699 - Only perform avatar resizing if the uploaded image is larger than either w or h limits.
FOR-6705 - Localized word "Page" in threads.vb.
FOR-6706 - Refactored ForumConfig class. Also did more null checks to avoid object reference issues.
FOR-6707 - Reviewed and corrected all admin input data to ensure data is valid.
FOR-6759 - Added proper support to handle deleted/unregistered users.
FOR-6796 - Corrected issue with user lookup in search area to avoid errors.
FOR-6852 - Fixed duplicate columns in Forum_GetAll sproc.
FOR-6910 - Corrected Add/Edit post not first checking to make sure user is logged in properly (logic ordering bug).
FOR-6911 - Corrected problem in RenderThread where attempting to retrieve a post colleciton item without first checking if the colleciton is empty.
FOR-6912 - Corrected caching errors (not paying attention to host settings).
FOR-7018 - User Admin - Search by Role
FOR-7053 - Added ModuleID as param for group deletion.
FOR-7054 - Hide polls row when forum type is Link. (Edit Forum)
FOR-7055 - Correct Sort Order - Forums & Groups
FOR-7061 - Aggregated to Support Private Forums & Pinned Threads
FOR-7095 - Tested and corrected thread split logic as it wasn't following all logic properly.
FOR-7096 - Added missing localization key for "Add Forum" image in Manage Forums.
FOR-7097 - Fixed missing localization items in Thread Split.
FOR-7103 - Fixed potential issue w/ PostURL used in email tokens, which alias is a child portal without "/".
FOR-7160 - Fixed problem where email address was only being displayed to moderators in profile view when user has it enabled.
FOR-7189 - Removed "[" and "]" in code in reference to columns for Oracle Data Provider support.
FOR-7697 - Fixed problem where delete email has no subject or body text.
FOR-7719 - Localized "Show No Replies" and "Show All" in thread views.
FOR-7770 - Count moderation issues were corrected by reworking view and double checking stored procedures.
FOR-7914 - Fixed layout issues in Post and Thread views (removed extra tr and added missing /table).
FOR-8009 - Fixed cancel click in User Settings when user used module action to navigate to page. (Now users NavigateURL() if referrer is nothing)
FOR-8010 - Centralized CheckFolder function for avatars. This fixed problem where avatar settings never updated and user/system avatar paths were not created in dnn file system.
FOR-8011 - Fixed "User Settings" to not show row "Enable Online Status" when users online not active.
FOR-8012 - Corrected user alias in post view horizontally aligned properly when users online in use or not.
FOR-8013 - Cached User PM New Message count to reduce db calls.
FOR-8014 - Added caching for forum and thread reads.
FOR-8015 - Corrected issue in Manage Forum Users, now it doesn't show offline image for users in grid if users online is disabled/not installed.
FOR-8016 - Passed last post tooltip through word filter, if enabled.
FOR-8017 - Cleaned up disabled HTML posting of some HTML that was sneaking through.
FOR-8018 - Applied HTML stripping for post preview in add/edit post.
FOR-8019 - Disabled Previous/Next buttons in post view if thread is pinned. (to avoid confusion).
FOR-8020 - Cloaked email in profile view to avoid SPAM bots pulling from page.
FOR-8021 - Removed file size limits for system avatars.
FOR-8022 - Made it so when avatar max upload file size is 0, any file size can be uploaded.
FOR-8284 - Removed leading/trailing spaces for searches (to avoid errors).
FOR-8627 - Optimized Search & single forum view stored procedures.
FOR-8628 - Added Comments Link in RSS if thread replies > 0
FOR-8629 - Altered Aggregated forum RSS feed link to go to new Aggregated Forum URL.
FOR-8630 - Altered RSS feed author to show the last approved post author as the author in the RSS feed.
FOR-8631 - Altered RSS feed so that last approved post posted date is used as the date for the feed.
FOR-XXXX - Added "Delete Thread" option in posts view.
FOR-XXXX - Fixed deleted post issue where some replies could become orphaned posts.