Releases for Boost

Release notes

Do not use this release. It was tagged against the 7.x-1.x branch by mistake.

Release notes

First beta release of the Boost port to Drupal 7. Supports basic Boost functionality. There is no support for the crawler (which should be forked into a new module, using the httprl module) and the admin/stats blocks are not yet available.

For more information, please read the Boost 7.x handbook.

Release notes

Notes:
It's been too long, here is next version of Boost!

Known Issues (nothing new AFAIK, just some old bugs that haven't been fixed yet):
#663014: WSOD after installing boost on PHP 4 server - Rare bug, looking for tester who can reproduce the original issue.
#661856: ubercart ignores the first item added to the cart. - This thread might be of interest: #679422: hook_exit() causes Ubercart "Add to Cart" to fail
#673302: fatal error with ubercart after installation - Looking for more info on this one
#328143: Set session cookie so captcha works the first time

Bug Fixes:
#648242: Missing slash in RewriteCond using $drupal_subdir
#648758: Logic??
#651798: mysql_real_escape_string() expects parameter 1 to be string because page_id is an array
#619852: undefined function boost_views_pre_view - Fix for some 3rd party module that implements the views hook incorrectly.
#652508: Views cache not cleared on insert node
#653098: Fuss about boost_stats.php line in robots.txt
#653928: Gzip encoding when not necessary
#657820: URL variables & Boost
#657960: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent
#661396: Add appropriate index to boost tables
#627638: Character encoding of cached paged not same as live pages
#664720: Installation does not work correctly with certain versions of MySQL
#662766: mysqli_real_escape_string() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given
#668156: Improve check in boost_requirements()
#668188: Form validator uses old data
#668160: Watchdog: boost_cache_set_node_relationships() child_page_* was not set
#668274: Database schema issue observed
#672776: boost_put_db should not throw Duplicate entry error; happens when un-cached node get hammered.
#674664: Boost breaks W3 XHTML/HTML5 validation
#677718: WYSIWYG editor support (add '#wysiwyg' => FALSE)
#677804: file_put_contents() generates errors in report status page
#615676: SHOW command is not PostgreSQL compatible
#679050: Option to ignore warning about .htaccess contents
#686722: Check that gzencode actually exists
#673874: array_unique() error

Feature Requests:
#646002: Want to turn off frontpage expiration of promoted nodes?
#302099: Change .htaccess file supplied with Boost to rewrite HEAD requests to the static files as well
#645900: Why is this impossible?
#646868: RFC2616 compliance - Handle client reload requests
#661298: Allow for non alias URLs to not be cached

Tasks:
#177845: Authenticated users could be incorrectly served cached pages if module disabled
#637002: Double index creation & PostgreSQL
#646228: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string
#339571: Dependency on mod_headers
#668406: Split the expiration logic from Boost advanced settings page

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Release notes

Mainly bug fixes; although some of the bug fixes could be considered new features.

Known Issue:
#636704: Removed $ by mistake in boosted1/2.txt & boost-rules page - low probability this will effect you.

Bug Fixes:
#629682: Error message on new install.
#630000: "FormAPI Bug Encountered" error on Clear Boost's Database & File Cache
#630174: warning: md5() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given in /site/sites/all/modules/boost/boost.module on line 1921
#631452: Table doesn't exist in multisite setup
#631984: htaccess validation in symlinked multi-site setup
#616938: Views Ajax fonction + Boost = error in IE
#632908: Pressflow + Gzip: CSS & JS files not being cached
#632746: Percent encoding issue with Apache - URL variables not being cached.

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Release notes

Large release, lots of bug fixes :)

Known Issues:
#621668: Large Websites & boost_tree_directory() function don't play along - If you have more then 30K nodes this might be a concern.
#621870: Set time limits when dealing with the file system - Yet another issue with a large # of files in the cache dir.

Notes:
If you have encountered the bug in which a logged in user that just logged out gets the logged in page after hitting the logout link, then this 6.x backport core patch for the htaccess file should fix the issue. http://drupal.org/node/550488#comment-1931780
A new check has been added to check that the boost_stats.php file/menu callback is in your robots.txt file. I got a report of that page getting crawled. This should take care of that. Simply add Disallow: /boost_stats.php on a new line inside your robots.txt file.

Bug Fixes:
#610498: Wrong URL is saved in access log
#610398: updating a node doesn't delete the cache file
#614836: Function _boost_set_time_limit undefined during upgrade
#615676: SHOW command is not PostgreSQL compatible
#345484: 404 hits to /files directory cached as homepage with broken form actions - fixed in 6.x, still open for 5.x
#617826: Assignment instead of comparison in boost_cache_expire_derivative()
#617476: Page cached not flushed on new/updated comments
#617886: ETag Location
#459530: Define Assignment Error - Boost not clearing updated (or any!) pages from cache on cron.
#619934: CRON generates a "Page not Found" error...
#619914: foreach() wants arrays
#620636: On large node counts, boost_has_site_changed() can be very slow
#620648: Return 404 if browser/crawler directly hits boost-stats.php
#621148: "MySQL has gone away" error. Long running recursive rm of Boost flush cache causing MySQL connection to time out.
#621054: PHP Error thrown on E_NOTICE

Fix Regressions:
#610198: Allow flush button to del a file if not in database
#617314: Clear cached CSS and/or JS button
#620808: RTL issue using IE 6: Hidden iframe from Aggressive Gzip causing layout issues.

Feature Requests:
#609310: Optionally disable inserts on boost_cache table
#616404: Remove entries from boost_cache table if node is deleted or unpublished
#611700: Clear all cached pages with menus associated with a node on insert/update/delete
#619080: Status Block - Cleaner Output

Tasks:
#611162: HTML help integration for the advanced help module
#590134: Warn user on status page if running in safe mode.
#612326: Reword crawler error message on status page
#615406: Warn admin on status page if number of Dir's in any subdir of cache is above 31k
#613806: minimum cache expiration time should be called maximum cache expiration time
#617394: Verbose setting of 7 & 9 for debugging

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Release notes

Known Issues:
#604950: Unknown column 'hash_url' in 'field list' - Run boost_update_6120 with a new install for temp fix.

Notes:
More bugfixes, biggest one being for RSS

Bug Fixes:
#601348: Rare Bug: Duplicate entry for key 2 query INSERT INTO boost_crawler (url, hash)
#601514: White screen of death after edit operation on nodes (without CCK module)
#601698: Hosting Issue: Apache serving pages not as utf-8
#603186: Ubercart shop orders become unavailable right after Boost module installation
#597156: RSS feed cache not getting reset on new content

Feature Requests:
#601086: Store hash of URL in the boost_cache_relationships table
#601334: let boost_has_site_changed() not set the max
#601826: Make new node & views expiration more efficient
#601836: Relationships Table: Add in full support for things other then views and make it semi auto discovering
#601838: Don't add relationship if self is the only thing being referenced.

Tasks:
#602048: Fix & add in validation for boost.admin.inc file
#602680: Allow for PHP & Drupal msgs to remove items from cache
#602944: Remove old define() calls

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Release notes

Known Issues:
#601112: No files cached, anonymous users get doubled page - If your using pressflow, this does not effect you.
Recommend you grab 1.11

Notes:
If you used hook_boost_preprocess() or set the pre-process function then the API has changed. Both have these variables passed to the function ($path, $data, $extension).
There are a lot of database updates in this release. If you previously set some custom expiration times for views, they might be lost in the update. The ones that can't be updated will be deleted; check output from boost_update_6117() for info (including the settings that got deleted). In short copy output from This setting needs to be re-set... as it will contain the deleted values.
One of the bug fixes has to do with the htaccess rules, suggest you update your rules.

Bug Fixes:
#592886: boost.pot is not up to date
#593788: Undefined constant line 1699
#594774: Crawler stopped on site with 1M pages queued to be cached. (6.x-dev 2009-09-27)
#596930: Pages cache control - Views: Page ID could be better
#597156: RSS feed cache not getting reset on new content
#598354: gzip + .htaccess
#598044: Boost Cache Status Block
#543840: Remove entries from boost_cache table if page returns 404 or 403

New Features:
#567650: Expire nodes based on CCK Node Reference
#598490: Be able to expire all views, but not all nodes; ect...
#453908: Hook for panel node types - expiration of static cache; panel containing multiple nodes - Views support added.
#600360: Option to flush or expire content.
#585518: Place boost tag inside the closing </html> tag - API changes went in, this is commented out.

Task:
#598658: Make boost_requirements() htaccess check file and current settings
#598942: _boost_get_menu_router() should use menu_get_item() instead of custom code
#594718: Increase efficiency of crawler: Bypass & URL alias options in crawler should be mutually exclusive.

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Release notes

Boost 1.10

Notes:
I recommend updating your htaccess rules from the admin/settings/performance/boost-rules page. They now change based on the settings, means you only get what you need, thus a slightly faster Boost.
See past notes for any tips on upgrading from a previous version: boost 6.x-1.0, boost 6.x-1.01.

Security Update: Risk LOW
SA-CONTRIB-2009-068 - Boost - Filesystem Directory Creation
If you do not wish to update, use my contact form and tell me what version of boost your using and I will create the patch for you.

Bug Fixes:
#581850: Assign thread number to rouge threads or kill it.
#589180: Core & Boost cache enabled, nocache set; core caches page
#591098: Multisite setup wont start
#590704: I have no crawler action...
#590126: Provide option to avoid "Cannot Set Time Limit" in Php Safe Mode
#591560: Limit depth of _boost_mkdir_p function

New Features:
#585152: Exclude search404 page callback from being cached
#587212: Boost Admin UI Revamp: meta-issue
#577180: Flush cache: Voting API and Fivestar
#541658: Bypass cron expiration & load to be expired urls into crawler - This killer feature requires you to get the htaccess rules from the performance/boost-rules page. See note above.

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Release notes

Known Issues:
#577578: boost_cron function failing, due to fsockopen() not respecting user given timeout value - Only if the crawler is enabled; depends on your server configuration, if this will effect you.
#585204: Pressflow + Boost is caching 404 pages

Notes:
If you have to run boost_update_6105 and below, I recommend flushing the boost cache after running the database updates. If you have to run boost_update_6106 and above you don't need to flush the boost cache. Upgrading your htaccess rules is always a good idea, grab them at the bottom of the admin/settings/performance/boost page.

Bug Fixes:
#572108: Hosting Issue: ini_restore() has been disabled for security reasons, boost.module on line 2520 (PHP <= 5.1.6 bug)
#572348: css/js files not being copied if drupal not in subdir
#572536: allow_url_fopen is disabled; use mod of drupal_http_request()
#575260: If cron fails, crawler sleep for 10 seconds for a very long time...
#575250: hook_boost_preprocess Isn't Invoked Correctly
#571126: Update README.txt to notice 'subdirectory installation issue'
#575466: Port crawler code to stats

Steps to 1.0
#326515: Roadmap For stable 6.x-1.0

Looking for ideas for a potential boost 2.0
http://drupal.org/node/563576

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