Spam fighting

Posted by Eugenio on 8 Oct 2005

Hi all,
as you probably noticed, the support forum was becoming unusable because of the enormous quantity of spam and garbage posted.

I have deleted all the garbage and set the authentication required to post on the forum to prevent bot posting. The forum is now clean and usable as it used to be.

I have also deleted the spam comments from news, but since I haven't found any anti-spam method, it is not possible to post news comments any more. If you have any advise about, please let me know. I use cutenews (http://cutephp.com/cutenews/) here.

I hope not to have deleted any important posts/comments during this dirty job.

Bye,

Eugenio.

DaDaBIK 4.0 alpha released

Posted by Eugenio on 20 Jun 2005

Hi folks,
I'm proud to announce that DaDaBIK 4.0 alpha has been released; PostgreSQL support is here!

DaDaBIK now uses the ADOdb Database Abstraction Library in order to support as many DBMS as possible, at the moment it has been tested just with MySQL 4.0.x, 4.1.x and PostgreSQL 8.03 for MS Windows but probably works also with the other DBMS supported by ADOdb.
Please report on the support forum your DBMS test results.

As usual, you can check the complete changelog for further details.

Bye,

Eugenio.

DaDaBIK 3.2 final version released - update about version 4.0 alpha

Posted by Eugenio on 4 Jun 2005

Hi folks,
DaDaBIK 3.2 final version is available.
It contains some minor bug fixes and a fix to an important security problem: if two or more DaDaBIK installations were hosted under the same domain, if a user logged into one of them it was possible to access all the others bypassing the login procedure.

In the documentation, "Known bugs and limitations" section, it has been highlighted a possible security problem of the DaDaBIK authentication model, please read it carefully!!.

You can check the complete changelog for further details.

I'm working on version 4.0 alpha and I think I will able to release it before the end of June....I'm already able to install and use DaDaBIK (just the main features has been tested) over a PostgreSQL 8 DBMS on a MS Windows machine, so the development is at a good stage.

Bye,

DaDaBIK 3.2 final - PostgreSQL support for DaDaBIK

Posted by Eugenio on 17 May 2005

Hi all,
I'm going to release DaDaBIK 3.2 final version, that will contain just some bug fixes.

In the meantime, I'm working on the PostgreSQL porting of DaDaBIK.

I'm using a database abstraction library (ADOdb), so that in future will be easy to add support for other DBMS.
I think that the resulting code will be the base for DaDaBIK 4.x.

If you have any hints/tips about the PostgreSQL porting, or simply want to discuss about it, I have started a new thread on the general talks forum.

DaDaBIK 3.2 beta released - Web site improvements

Posted by Eugenio on 31 Mar 2005

Hi all,
DaDaBIK 3.2 beta is available.
The main improvements:

• The authentication code has been in part rewritten, in particular DaDaBIK stores now user information in the database and passwords are now md5 encrypted, you can use DaDaBIK itself in order to add and delete users, show and modify users information and it is also possible to use a pre-existent users table.
  
  
• Six new languages are available: Croatian, Polish, Catalan, Estonian, Rumanian, Portuguese.
  
  
• The documentation has been updated and improved, in particular a FAQ section is now available.