Releases for Simplenews

Intermediate release.
Security release BETA4 is two month old now and many fixes have been added since. Amongst this the critical fixes for the Views API changes. If you have not installed Simplenews 6.x-1.0-BETA4 before, than don't! Use BETA5.

Security

Security improvements to lists of taxonomy terms (newsletter series) on admin pages and subscription forms. See SA-2008-056 - Simplenews - Cross site scripting for details.

Bug fixes

"From name" doesn't show up in the mail (#222530: "From name" doesn't show up in the mail.).

Security

* Security improvements to lists of taxonomy terms (newsletter series) on admin pages and subscription forms. See SA-2008-056 - Simplenews - Cross site scripting for details.

New features

* Trigger on subscription and unsubscription. (#270835: Send a newsletter upon subscription)
* i18n integration:

• Multilingual taxonomy of 'Localized terms' and 'per language terms' is supported.
• Translated nodes send to subscribers by their preferred language.
• Path prefixes are added to footer message according to the subscribers preferred language when required.
• Anonymous users are subscribed with a preferred language based on the subscription page language. (#285719: Allow anonymous users to subscribe with a preferred language)

* Permission for 'administer simplenews settings'
* Mass unsubscribe admin function. ([#200512[)

Usability improvements

* On one page admin can select node type and vocabulary simplenews uses.
* Newsletter vocab now only controlled by simplenews settings.
* Newsletter specific from name and address default to the simplenews general settings. (#222530: "From name" doesn't show up in the mail.)
* Improved usability of newsletter specific settings. (#278823: Improve usability of newsletter specific settings.)
* Reorder simplenews settings functions.
* Divide simplenews admin pages in 'content' and 'settings'. (#278109: Divide simplenews admin pages in 'content' and 'settings')
* Newsletter mass subscribe, mass unsubscribe, export reworked to match common use of current FAPI

Bug fixes

* Newsletter send status to display correct send state of translated nodes.

Other changes

* All admin/content/newsletter url's changed to admin/content/simplenews

New Features

Debug option to log outgoing emails in the watchdog.
Image tags are now treated equally to anchor tags in plain text messages.

Other improvements

On user account page the 'currently no subscription' message is hidden when the user has no permission to subscribe and is not subscribed to any newsletter (#145330)
Change of grouping in Simplenews admin setings to accomodate debug option.
New simplenews.pot file with this new release.

Important bugfixes

Bugfix for newsletters with revisions. The bug caused a 'page not found' error when changing a newsletter. (#263478)
Bugfix for sites with multiple subscription blocks on one page. The bug caused the second block to submits first block. (#273218)

Other bug fixes

Conversion of image tag to plain text broken. (#145330 by ralphb)
Newsletter specific from name and address have no default value. (#222530)
Simplenews.css file not aggregated. (#221346)
Admin subscription operations 'Activate', 'Deactivate' and 'Delete' can not be translated. (#257047)
Syntax error in install file for mysql. (#274758 by adixon)
Schema update fails on postgress. (#266272 by maileux)

BUGFIX
Wrong primary key assignment of table simplenews_mail_spool.

I won't make a habit of making new releases after just one fix. But it seems to be too difficult for some to find the dev-version.

New features

Node types and taxonomy are now fully selectable (#244438)
Confirmation emails are now configurable via the admin interface (#261541by Steve Dondley)
New email spool enables debugging individual email status and future mailing statistics (#260775)

Bug fixes

Deleting a user give error (#256766)
Priority to be stored in database as integer instead of string (#259669 by cbenoist)
db_query_range() not implemented; errors running Cron with pgsql (#259669)
Improve check for assigned newsletter taxonomy in hook_form_alter() (#24438)
Reset Simplenews settings fails (#261541)
Small typo in unsubscribe message (#268430 by seals)
Anonymous subscription error at newsletters/subscriptions (#269320)
Replaced mail buffer by email spool to avoid serialize error of strings containing double quotes and to reduce the database load when buffering large mailings (#260775)

New features and improvements

Views integration (by Sutharsan)
#218979 Option added to remove or de-activate subscription when account is deleted or blocked (requested by kevbroch)
#239575 New role to edit all newsletters (requested by scor)
#226077 Use of user name instead of email address in simplenews block (requested by esllou)
#202840 To-address made available to theme_simplenews_newsletter_footer() (solution by zoo33)
Revised vocabulary system for more stability (by Sutharsan)
#109259 Improved layout of confirm/remove pages (requested by PhilK)
#250786 Improved instructions and added help on deleting subscriptions via admin interface (requested by Ashford)
#194499 Improved error handling in simplenews_validate() (reported by zmove)
#125865 (README.txt) Added detailed instructions on using simplenews with cron. Added instruction for subscription page at /newsletter/subscriptions. Improved layout.

Bug fixes

#243522 Save node revision for nodes to be send (reported by dww)
#146641 Ignore capitals in email address (reported by aeeckhau)
#238735 Mime ecoding of from name (solution by kndr)
#236080 base_path() removed from path in simplenews_views.inc inclusion (solution by Dave Cohen)
#236080 require_once() simplenews_views.inc creates fatal error (solution by btully)
#191513 Subscription confirmation requires 'subscribe to newsletters' permission (reported by smitty)
#166589 Simplenews nodes to follow standard form structure for note title and body (reported by patrickharris)
#210400 Invalid use of object in simplenews_taxonomy() (solution by jbjaaz)

Major changes:
* Drupal 6 core compatibility
* CCK comptibility
* Any node type can be a newsletter
* Actions and triggers integration
* New mail backend
* Multilingual support
* Views integration

Minor changes:
* Multiple newsletter subscription block can now be uses one page.
* Option to update subscription when account is deleted/(un)blocked (#218979)
* theme_preprocess_HOOK() applied to theming functions.
* simplenews_HOOK.tpl.php files added.
* Mail back-end options:
- New 'Use cron' option
- 'Initial send time' removed
- Email debug option
* In-page links filtered out of email
* code style clean-up and doxygen comment
* simplenews_action as integrated module
* prettier confirm/remove pages and textual changes 'subscription list' to 'mailing list' (#109259)
* SMTP headers 'Precedence' and 'List-Unsubscribe' added (#248602)
* usleep() delay between mails sent removed (#247608)
* Node revision of send newsletter stored (#243522)

Other fixes:
* simplenews_time() removed
* simplenews_handle_messages() removed
* Menu entry admin/content/newsletters/users/delete removed
* simplenews_admin_users_delete() removed

Credits:
* Thanks for testing 6.x-1.x-dev, bug reports and feature requests:
Jorrit, CNlQ8o, julienbras, onglipo, yakaledo
*Code by Sutharsan

Drupal 6 development

Major changes:
* Drupal 6 core compatibility
* CCK comptibility
* Actions and triggers integration
* New mail backend
* Multilingual support

A full list of changes is available in CVS and will be available with the first stable release

Various bug fixes, usability and theming improvements:

#55446 by sutharsan: improved theming of newsletter block
#171922 by SomebodySysop: Draft listing incorrect with OGUserRoles module
#175214 by HorsePunchKid: Better wording for subscription confirmation message
#154656 by sutharsan: simplenews block admin moved to Block admin pages
#188608 by rfay: Throttle counter also incremented at failure to send.
#141395 by sutharsan: added implementation of hook_help
#158064: Bug fix hyperlinks invalid in some mail browsers due to square brackets
#129009 by Sutharsan: Access check added to newsletter page in my account
#34739 by jonathan_hunt: Use 'small' date format in admin pages
#47341 by Sutharsan: improved handling of subscriptions including email search, operations on multiple subscriptions and table sorting
#76570 by hausig: typo in message text
#131002 by Sutharsan: newsletter send state not affected by node update after sending the newsletter

Includes bug fixes committed by Sutharsan including:

#104982 by sutharsan: Can't delete a newsletter
#104995 by patrickharris and sutharsan: theme_simplenews_block doesn't show block message
#109674 by yhager: Plain text newsletters do not show footer
#112155 by tbarregren: simplenews_node_prepare() should mimic node_view()
#112191 by sutharsan: e-Mail invalid in newsletter/subscriptions/
#112196 by tbarregren: Sending plain with mimemail.module installed
#112334 by tbarregren: Mail are sent before the node has is complete processed

The initial release of the Simplenews module for Drupal 5.x.

Official release of Simplenews for Drupal 4.7.

This development version is not supported anymore, use it at your own risk. It is remains in CVS for purpose of anyone who can use it.
It may be removed without prior notice.

For changes see: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewvc.py/drupal/contributions/modules/simplenews/...