Drupal 4.1.0, 2003-02-01 ------------------------ - collaboratively revised and expanded the Drupal documentation. - rewrote comment.module: * reintroduced comment rating/moderation. * added support for comment paging. * performance improvements: improved comment caching, faster SQL queries, etc. - rewrote block.module: * performance improvements: blocks are no longer rendered when not displayed. - rewrote forum.module: * added a lot of features one can find in stand-alone forum software including but not limited to support for topic paging, added support for icons, rewrote the statistics module, etc. - rewrote statistics.module: * collects access counts for each node, referrer logs, number of users/guests. * export blocks displaying top viewed nodes over last 24 hour period, top viewed nodes over all time, last nodes viewed, how many users/guest online. - added throttle.module: * auto-throttle congestion control mechanism: Drupal can adapt itself based on the server load. - added profile.module: * enables to extend the user and registration page. - added pager support to the main page. - replaced weblogs.module by ping.module: * added support for normal and RSS notifications of http://blo.gs/. * added support for RSS ping-notifications of http://weblogs.com/. - removed the rating module - themes: * removed a significant portion of hard-coded mark-up. Drupal 4.0.0, 2002-06-15 ------------------------ - added tracker.module: * replaces the previous "your [site]" links (recent comments and nodes). - added weblogs.module: * this will ping weblogs.com when new content is promoted. - added taxonomy module which replaces the meta module. * supports relations, hierarchies and synonyms. - added a caching system: * speeds up pages for anonymous users and reduces system load. - added support for external SMTP libraries. - added an archive extension to the calendar. - added blogger API support. - themes: * cleaned up the theme system. * moved themes that are not maintained to contributions CVS repository. - database abstraction: * changed to PEAR database abstraction layer. * using ANSI SQL queries to be more portable. - rewrote the user system: * added support for Drupal authentication through XML-RPC and through a Jabber server. * added support for modules to add more user data. * users may delete their own account. * added who's new and who's online blocks. - changed block system: * various hard coded blocks are now dynamic. * blocks can now be enabled and/or be set by the user. * blocks can be set to only show up on some pages. * merged box module with block module. - rewrote large parts of the node system: * fixed node retrieval based on titles. * blogs can be updated. * teasers (abstracts) on all node types. * improved error checking and usability changes. * content versioning support. - improved book module to support text, HTML and PHP pages. - improved comment module to mark new comments. - added a general outliner which will let any node type be linked to a book. - added an update script that lets you upgrade from previous releases or on a day to day basis when using the development tree. - search: * improved the search system by making it context sensitive. * added indexing. - various updates: * changed output to valid XHTML. * improved multiple sites using the same Drupal database support. * added support for session IDs in URLs instead of cookies. * made the type of content on the front page configurable. * made each cloud site have its own settings. * modules and themes can now be enabled/disabled using the administrative pages. * added URL abstraction for links. * usability changes (renamed links, better UI, etc). - collaboratively revised and expanded the Drupal documentation. Drupal 3.0.1, 2001-10-15 ------------------------ - various updates: * added missing translations * updated the themes: tidied up some HTML code and added new Drupal logos. Drupal 3.0.0, 2001-09-15 ------------------------ - major overhaul of the entire underlying design: * everything is based on nodes: nodes are a conceptual "black box" to couple and manage different types of content and that promotes reusing existing code, thus reducing the complexity and size of Drupal as well as improving long-term stability. - rewrote submission/moderation queue and renamed it to queue.module. - removed FAQ and documentation module and merged them into a "book module". - removed ban module and integrated it into account.module as "access control": * access control is based on much more powerful regular expressions (regex) now rather than on MySQL pattern matching. - rewrote watchdog and submission throttle: * improved watchdog messages and added watchdog filter. - rewrote headline code and renamed it to import.module and export.module: * added various improvements, including a better parser, bundles and better control over individual feeds. - rewrote section code and renamed it to meta.module: * supports unlimeted amount of nested topics. Topics can be nested to create a multi-level hierarchy. - rewrote configuration file resolving: * Drupal tries to locate a configuration file that matches your domainname or uses conf.php if the former failed. Note also that the configuration files got renamed from .conf to .php for security's sake on mal-configured Drupal sites. - added caching support which makes Drupal extremely scalable. - added access.module: * allows you to setup 'roles' (groups) and to bind a set of permissions to each group. - added blog.module. - added poll.module. - added system.module: * moved most of the configuration options from hostname.conf to the new administration section. * added support for custom "filters". - added statistics.module - added moderate.module: * allows to assign users editorial/moderator rights to certain nodes or topics. - added page.module: * allows creation of static (and dynamic) pages through the administration interface. - added help.module: * groups all available module documentation on a single page. - added forum.module: * added an integrated forum. - added cvs.module and cvs-to-sql.pl: * allows to display and mail CVS log messages as daily digests. - added book.module: * allows collaborative handbook writing: primary used for Drupal documentation. - removed cron.module and integrated it into conf.module. - removed module.module as it was no longer needed. - various updates: * added "auto-post new submissions" feature versus "moderate new submissions". * introduced links/Drupal tags: [[link]] * added preview functionality when submitting new content (such as a story) from the administration pages. * made the administration section only show those links a user has access to. * made all modules use specific form_* functions to guarantee a rock-solid forms and more consistent layout. * improved scheduler: + content can be scheduled to be 'posted', 'queued' and 'hidden'. * improved account module: + added "access control" to allow/deny certain usernames/e-mail addresses/hostnames. * improved locale module: + added new overview to easy the translation process. * improved comment module: + made it possible to permanently delete comments. * improved rating module * improved story module: + added preview functionality for administrators. + made it possible to permanently delete stories. * improved themes: + W3C validation on a best effort basis. + removed $theme->control() from themes. + added theme "goofy". - collaboratively revised and expanded the Drupal documentation. Drupal 2.0.0, 2001-03-15 ------------------------ - rewrote the comment/discussion code: * comment navigation should be less confusing now. * additional/alternative display and order methods have been added. * modules can be extended with a "comment system": modules can embed the existing comment system without having to write their own, duplicate comment system. - added sections and section manager: * story sections can be maintained from the administration pages. * story sections make the open submission more adaptive in that you can set individual post, dump and expiration thresholds for each section according to the story type and urgency level: stories in certain sections do not "expire" and might stay interesting and active as time passes by, whereas news-related stories are only considered "hot" over a short period of time. - multiple vhosts + multiple directories: * you can setup multiple Drupal sites on top of the same physical source tree either by using vhosts or sub-directories. - added "user ratings" similar to SlashCode's Karma or Scoop's Mojo: * all rating logic is packed into a module to ease experimenting with different rating heuristics/algorithms. - added "search infrastructure": * improved search page and integrated search functionality in the administration pages. - added translation / localization / internationalization support: * because many people would love to see their website showing a lot less of English, and far more of their own language, Drupal provides a framework to setup a multi-lingual website or to overwrite the default English text in English. - added fine-grained user permission (or group) system: * users can be granted access to specific administration sections. Example: a FAQ maintainer can be given access to maintain the FAQ and translators can be given access to the translation pages. - added FAQ module - changed the "open submission queue" into a (optional) module. - various updates: * improved account module: + user accounts can be deleted. + added fine-grained permission support. * improved block module * improved diary module: + diary entries can be deleted * improved headline module: + improved parser to support more "generic" RDF/RSS/XML backend. * improved module module * improved watchdog module * improved database abstraction layer * improved themes: + W3C validation on a best effort basis + added theme "example" (alias "Stone Age") * added new scripts to directory "scripts" * added directory "misc" * added CREDITS file - revised documentation Drupal 1.0.0, 2001-01-15 ------------------------ - initial release