Releases for Links Package

Fixed an unchecked title text field (security vulnerability).

Fixed non-fatal warning message when creating links table, to correct issue #364681.

Fixed incorrect HTML rendering in links_weblink per issue #363597.

New feature: Administrative option allows rel="nofollow"
attribute on external links, per issue #144620.

New feature: Administrative option allows direct links
(skipping redirect page, at the cost of no click
counting). Separately controllable for internal and
external links.

New feature: Administrative option allows rel="nofollow"
attribute on external links, per issue #144620: Nofollow?.

New feature: Administrative option allows direct links
(skipping redirect page, at the cost of no click
counting). Separately controllable for internal and
external links.

Oops. Should NOT have used db_next_id() in Drupal 6. Corrected this to use drupal_write_record(). I will be looking at a more comprehensive update to the links_put_links() function but for now just wanted to get this critical bug fixed. This fixes issue #359071: Call to undefined function db_next_id().

Removed obsolete call to _system_update_utf8() in
links.install to fix issue #356994: Unable to upgrade from 5.x-1.8 to 6.x-1.0-beta11.

Changed incorrect db_last_insert_id() call to instead
use db_next_id().

This is a bug fix for bugs found after the previous beta was released. Please see the beta 7 release notes, or the CHANGELOG.txt file, for further info. (There were no releases for CVS tags beta8 and beta9 -- these were a CVS typo error and not actually used.)

This is the development snapshot for Drupal 5.x. This is pre-release code; do not use in production settings.

This is the first feature-complete release of the links_admin module. This is still a BETA release, so use caution as to where and how you deploy it. In particular, there are some link delete functions that also (intentionally) delete certain types of nodes that depend on the links for viability. Use care when testing these functions, and make sure you have a backup in case somehow the wrong node gets deleted.

Here are the new features in this beta:

Fully functional links_admin.module. Some new APIs in links.inc. Smarter updating when a link's title is changed in the master or node records. Removed an extraneous diagnostic message from links_weblink.module.

This is the initial beta release of links_admin.

Added a new feature whereby the administrator can cause the related links fieldset to always be expanded, even if there are currently no links. The default behavior remains unchanged; this is a new option.

2007-12-11 Syscrusher Version 5--1-8

A host of minor bug fixes and small features. Life is finally
starting to settle down after an extremely busy few months, and
I hope to get more improvements out in the next several weeks.

Today's patches include:

Accepted patch from #114151, from jvandervort, to fix the order
of categories in links_weblink. Also took his suggestion for a
parallel change to fix the order of the child catefories. Thanks.

Critical fix for bug #139529. Do not use the previous version (5.x-1.5).

From CHANGELOG.txt (also applicable to version 5.x-1.5):

Applied patch to resolve #117108, an empty "target" attribute
on links_weblink link tags, if the target is not specified.
Thanks to RayZ for the patch.

Applied patch to resolve #130890, an SQL error with MySQL 5.x
at installation time. Thanks to Denny for the patch.

Added package and dependencies information to .info files.

Committed partial fix for #132209, based on a patch from
douggreen but with some additional bug fixes. This resolves
the issue for the Related Links listing, but not yet for
the Links from Article Text listing. That fix is on hold
until after another patch is applied, because fixing that
now would break the next patch.

Committed large patch for #139130, by dman. This patch
fixes many problems with Blocks, improves form handling,
adds the 'edit related links' page, and iproves rendering
of the related links table.

The #139130 patch also adds three functions to the 'edit
links' page under the 'links' tab of nodes:
* Create a links_weblink node page for the related link
(this will make a new node in addition to the one being

This is the first production release for Drupal 4.7. Note that the global "links administration" feature is not yet functional in this release, but other features are working and essentially stable. A few feature requests and minor issues remain to be addressed.

Links.module for Drupal 5.

The links_admin.module is not yet complete, but all other components of the package are ready for production.