Great news! We’ve just released Service Pack 1 for Community Server 2008. Download it here. The more notable items include these enhancements:

· New users have display names enabled by default

· Users can delete their own activity messages

· Admins can now delete user files and folders

· Control Panel link destinations are most consistent

And these bug fixes:

· Better localization in all themes

· New friendships are properly logged to the activity stream

· Save and Continue works properly in blogs

· Centralized File Storage works correctly when accessed over SSL

· Empty conversations and profile announcements/comments can no longer be submitted

· SpamRules updated to get property values

· Several bugs were fixed within the REST Web services stack.

If you’re interested in the entire list of changes available in Community Server 2008 SP1, here it is:

Enhancements

1. Added additional documentation in XML comments for pager controls and the ValueSelectedContent control.

2. The installer now has an appropriate message for informing admins to update permissions on the filestorage folder.

3. Public open and closed groups have different messages for non-members to inform them how to properly join the group.

4. All moderation options are now exposed on the dashboard

5. Media gallery administration pages now link to the front UI from clicking on group or gallery name

6. Forums and Forum Groups now link to the front UI when you click their name in the control panel

7. Blog groups and blogs now link to front UI when clicking on name in control panel

8. Comments in the control panel now have an edit button and the title links to the comment in the front ui

9. Tag editors link to the front UI when clicking on a tag name from the control panel

10. Updated TinyMCE to the latest version of 3.0.

11. The hub contact forms now are more informative

12. There is now support for admins and users (not anonymous) deleting activity messages in all themes

13. There is now an activity list widget for groups.

14. Admins can now delete user files and folders.

15. The themes have a user control for the badge area that is common throughout the user part of the themes.

16. New users now have display names enabled by default

Bug Fixes

1. Update section membership schema patch to make settingsid aware, and add new schema patch to remove any corrupt sectionmembership records which may exist from running the bad patch 3.1.04

2. Localized hard coded strings in site themes

3. When you move a forum post the tags are also properly moved

4. The rating list now shows more than 20 users

5. The recent posts chart now displays the most recent posts, previously it was showing the first 25 posts, not most recent 25 posts

6. The edit group category modal now says category editor as the title

7. The new friend activity is now properly logged

8. Media gallery posts are now properly protected when trying to access them directly from users who should not see them

9. Schema Patch 4.0.02 could let single quotes cause problems, it is now fixed.

10. When accessing the EditProfile page as anonymous, users are now redirected to the login page

11. The cancel membership link no longer causes validation on the group contact form page

12. Updated the Personal Edition wording to say Professional Edition

13. You can now change the about blog title

14. The moderation of forum posts no longer always shows the creator of the post as being anonymous

15. The Hawaii themes are updated to display the postdate formatted correctly

16. Points are now on the Hawaii theme user profile

17. When you delete a hub avatar it no longer shows a broken image for the avatar on the edit hub page

18. Write blog post by email now shows an appropriate page in the control panel with relevant information

19. User file allowed extensions can now be set in the control panel

20. An author of a disabled blog can now view the home and other pages with section membership controls on them

21. There are now links for RSS in hub blogs, media galleries. When anonymous users have view to a hub they are not redirected to login to view its RSS feed. Forums, blogs, and media galleries' RSS feeds in hubs are auto-discoverable. A hubs RSS auto-discovery is no longer broken when not logged in

22. BaseThreadQueryBuilder drops off internal records. cs_Media_Posts_Get needed the new @localRowsToReturn variable, which is now added.

23. Fixed CSDefaultProfile not returning default profile values in the proper type

24. Refactored the profile class.

25. Media in lean and green theme now displays correctly in IE6

26. Corrected CentralizedFileStorageProvider.IsCentralizedFileUrl() to function correctly when accessed over SSL.

27. Corrected unneccessary escaping of periods in CFS filenames.

28. Corrected dynamic configuration options in Hawaii theme for site title font/size.

29. The forum activity module now produces the correct URL for hub forum posts/threads

30. Corrected <div> mismatch on createeditpost.aspx forum theme page.

31. Added @PostDate to ForumsSqlDataProvider.AddPost so REST API can pre-date posts

32. Updated wording of media gallery links on the control panel home page to match the wording of the blog links.

33. Updated content fragment generation to lock before writing to the cache.

34. Updated Forums.GetForums(SectionQuery) to support ForumSectionQuery options when a ForumSectionQuery is passed as the SectionQuery.

35. Corrected the TagBreadCrumb control to load the contextual application type correctly.

36. Updated SiteUrls.config and media gallery redirector to support old photo gallery resizing URLs.

37. Updated Group Name to say Name on the GroupEdit control, since it is used for group categories and groups

38. Updated language for category list name field to be correct

39. Updated all sub-forms to accept a null DataSource.

40. Moved "Signature" field on the edituser.aspx page to be higher in the tab. This resolves the FF on Mac toolbar issue (which is a bug in FF... the markup validates properly).

41. There is now a message logged for each friend when 2 users become friends so that the message shows correctly on each profile.

42. The cancel membership link on groups doesn't show for owners who can't cancel membership

43. Updated PostTagEditableListBase to check for available editor pop-ups during OnPreRender in case a DisplayCondition prevents the previously-selected editor pop-up to become invisible.

44. Blog control panel advanced config screen now has help description for external links option

45. Changed EnableFileStorage option in the control panel from a checkbox to a Yes/No radio button list

46. Corrected rendering of YouTube and DailyMotion videos in IE6.

47. Updated all lists with date headers to use the user-defined date format instead of a hard-coded format.

48. The dashboard drop down now shows appropriately on switch and setup control panel pages.

49. You can now set the subject on a blog comment.

50. When blog theming is disabled, the link to configure a blog theme is no longer shown in the control panel

51. Updated membership forms in the Lean and Green hub theme to render properly in IE6.

52. The empty bio message now shows only when bio is empty

53. Locked posts no longer show a reply link, as this would cause an exception if clicked

54. You can no longer submit empty conversations/profile messages through the UI

55. The hide users search option is now properly handled for admin users, also the previous removal of anonymous users from the userlist is no longer needed, so it was removed.

56. The media gallery allowed extension text was updated to be more descriptive.

57. Removed extra review files/comments tabs from media galleries for consistency with blogs and because there already is a manage link for these items.

58. Updated dashboard link changes to work in IE6/7.

59. The activity logging modules for forums and media galleries now logs correctly for private groups.

60. Moderated media galleries in groups with comments no longer throw an exception, and comments are no longer moderated in media galleries inside of a group.

61. Fixed bug where MostRecentPost info was never being populated for Weblogs.

62. Anonymous users are now redirected to login when trying to accept/reject a friend request from an email.

63. Centralized HTML-based resizing into the Globals class (where physical resizing also occurs) and ensured that HTML-resizing supports aspect-ratio-preservation for all browsers other than IE6.

64. Added additional checks to media-related browsable list implementations.

65. When you hit enter when creating a blog/gallery group it will submit the form in the control panel.

66. Excluded languages no longer hide sections from administrators in the control panel.

67. The correct subject is now logged for blog and gallery comment activity messages.

68. Cleaned up section membership caching, it is now properly handled for different hub events such as new members.

69. Fixed caching issues when deleting blog post/comment, added delete confirmation msg when deleting a blog comment on post screen

70. The enter key can now be used to submit the forum group creation form.

71. Corrected double-data-binding issue in list controls hosted within conditional utility controls.

72. Excluded languages no longer hide sections from users in the control panel.

73. Searching for an apptype that is public only searches the correct sections.

74. Implemented additional CFS key checks when parsing URLs to prevent exceptions.

75. Friend requests on the site can no longer come from anonymous users.

76. Configurable Addons (Spam Rules) now retrieve property values correctly.

77. Added a separator character between the edit and delete buttons on the edit api keys screen, Also added missing api key pages to the lean and green theme

78. Added delete permission parameter to clientpopup method, so delete button visibility controlled by delete permission rather than moderate permission.

79. The add announcement link is now visible to the profile owner under the announcements list in the hawaii theme

80. Fix for issue with post.PostDate being invalid for posts being added from Mail Gateway

81. Shared favorites are now filtered by the accessing user, so that they do not see any section or post that they do not have permissions to view.

82. Fix for MetaWeblogAPI service to return categories for a post on getPost method (for WLW).

83. Fix for the Group Edit control panel page to handle checking for duplicate email addresses within MG.

84. Friendship requests are now protected from involving an anonymous user at the core api level.

85. Implemented work-around for TransmitFile issue with UNC paths in the file system CFS provider.

86. Updated URL encoding to encode periods followed by other periods to prevent issues with IIS security and file names with multiple sequential periods.

87. 'Save and Continue' from blog control panel now properly redirects to itself preventing the duplicate post error.

Download the Service Pack 1 for Community Server 2008 here.

 

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#1 Leonardo Salvatore on 10.10.2008 at 4:43 AM

Hi,

why i'm reading "Better localization in all themes" if it's in the UpgradeNotes.txt i can read:

The only site theme supported by CS2008.5 is the updated 'Hawaii' theme.

Thank you in advance

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