simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc6

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

Bug fixes

#388960 by jfduchesneau: Fixed Wrong admin access permissions to edit a user's subscription settings.
#378632 by Sutharsan: Fixed Table simplenews_snid_tid not updated after newsletter term has been deleted.
#374253 by mrfelton and Sutharsan: Fixed snid changes when updating subscriptions.
#372430 by Sutharsan: Fixed After adding a translation, newsletter gets sent to everyone again.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc5

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

Bug fixes

#361920 by Sutharsan: Fixed sent duplicate emails when PHP process is killed.
#369174 by Sutharsan: Fixed confusing error message. Restriction of vocabulary settings.
#361352 by sutharsan: Fixed newsletter term loses language after editing.
#366446 by seals: Fixed URL typo in README.txt
#361782 by Sutharsan: Fixed !uri and !uri_brief fail on multilingual site.
#362504 by Sutharsan: Newsletter looses advanced settings when updated.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc4

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

#358396 by sutharsan: Fixed Call to undefined function getrusage().
by sutharsan: Removed duplicate code in simplenews_mail_spool().
#358332 by sutharsan: Changed drupal_mail() $message parameter not consitent.
#358714 by black silence: Fixed simplenews_update_2() bug.
#277733 by sutharsan: Fixed only subscribers with an account are listed at the subscription admin page.

New strings:
Updated strings after #358396.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc3

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

We're getting close to the 1.0 release. Thanks to all who reported and helped to fix these bugs.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc2

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

This release fixes the critical bug of emails being sent multiple times: #353664: Multiple Emails Sent (this bug was introduced by RC1).
It further removes old permissions and replaces them by new ones.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-rc1

New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

DO NOT UPGRADE TO RC1, USE RC2 INSTEAD.

New features

#351812 by sutharsan: Dynamic theming per newsletter for blocks and emails.
#335537 by sutharsan: Improved theming of newsletter body and footer.
#350865 by sutharsan: Make newsletter content type flexible.
#343675 by vaish: Support for CCK display context.
#330455 by sutharsan: Add permission to administer newsletter subscriptions.
#330165 by sutharsan: Subscription form (newsletter/subscriptions) should work with Multilingual Taxonomy module.
#338015 by sutharsan: Report mail count and elapsed send time.
#338015 by sutharsan: prevent overrun of PHP maximum execution time during send emails. Measuring execution time now based on getrusage().
#342900 by myself: Restore inline hyperlinks in plain text mail.
#330403 by thePanz: Add number of subscribers in newsletter admin page.
#323872 by myself: Mass (un)ubscribe email addresses separated by space, comma or newline.

Upgrade notes

* Permission 'view links in block' has been removed (#353199).
* Tokens in newletter body, footer and confirmation emails have changed, some new tokens added.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-beta5

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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.

simplenews 5.x-1.5

Security update
Bug fixes
Unsupported

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.).

simplenews 6.x-1.0-beta4

Security update
New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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')

simplenews 5.x-1.4

New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-beta3

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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.

simplenews 6.x-1.0-beta2

New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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)

simplenews 5.x-1.3

New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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)

simplenews 6.x-1.0-beta1

New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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

simplenews 5.x-1.2

New features
Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

Various bug fixes, usability and theming improvements:

simplenews 5.x-1.1

Bug fixes
Insecure
Unsupported

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

simplenews 5.x-1.0

New features
Insecure
Unsupported

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

simplenews 4.7.x-2.x-dev

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.

simplenews 7.x-1.x-dev

-- THE CURRENT 7.x-1.x-dev RELEASE DOES NOT SUPPORT DATA UPGRADE FROM 6.x --

Working version for 7.x module development only!

Important changes

New terminology:

Newsletter
A node, to be sent as email
Newsletter category
A collection of newsletters. Each newsletter can be tagged with one categories.
Mailing list
Where people can subscibe to. Usually the collection of addresses the newsletters of one category get sent to.
Subscriber
Someone with an email address that is (or was) subscribed to a mailing list.
Subscription
The subscription of a subscriber to a mailing list

Email options
Advanced email options are no longer available on a per newsletter (node) basis. 'Newletter format', 'Email priority' and 'Receipt request' can now only be set per Newsletter category.

To do

1. Must be fixed before Beta
2. Nice to have

BASE SYSTEM
1. Fix data migration from D6 to D7
1. List of newsletters with views replacement
1. Various TODO's in code
1. Token replacement in node view.
2. De-duplicate recipient list before sending
2. Plain text alternative: #709234
2. Various TODO's in code
2. Add newsletter descriptions: #721504
2. Simple test scripts
2. Multilingual newsletters

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