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 Faq-O-Matic Faq-O-Matic : Administrators' Guide : Upgrade : Version History :
Changes in 2.601 from 2.506 |
| - Incorporated Hal Wine's patches which factor out character-set-specific
functions into Words.pm.
- Made several changes to make faqomatic pass perl's warning (-w), taint (-T),
and 'use strict;' tests. (You can put -wT and use strict in your CGI stub if you
like.)
- no longer use $SIG{__DIE__} to catch fatal errors; instead, use eval {}. Eval
is the right way because you can do it recursively: eval{eval{}}.
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- Replaced the 'sticky' Show All Items Below Here Appearance option with an
'unsticky' Show This Entire Category button at the bottom of the page. It seems
pretty confusing for the recursive display to follow you around as you navigate.
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| - Added a SequenceNumber to items that helps reduce the likelihood of a race
condition when editing the FAQ. If two people get editing forms, then they both
submit them, in the old system, the changes of the first to submit will be
silently discarded. With SequenceNumbers, the second person is not allowed to
make the change; they must return to the faq page (where they can see what the
first person did), get the editing form again, and make their changes.
This actually is most helpful for a silly case where a user clicks 'Remove
Text', gets impatient, clicks it again, and ends up removing two items
accidentally.
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- New administrator's configuration options $cacheDir and $cacheURL tell the FAQ
to maintain a cache of the FAQ in a directory accessible directly from the
webserver (without CGI). As long as the user is navigating that tree, he is
using far fewer server resources. Links to anything but generic copies of the
pages (such as the Show This Entire Category or Show Edit Commands links) send
the user over to the CGI scripts.
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- Clarified text on the authentication page should reduce user confusion.
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