subscriptions 5.x-2.2

Subscriptions 2 for Drupal 5.x has been rewritten from the ground up by chx and salvis, starting in November 2007 and completing in April 2008. Ongoing development has proceeded through 12 beta versions and one release candidate. We wish to thank the community for your continued testing and feedback, which helped to bring Subscriptions 2.0 into its present form.

The prior version 1.9 was known to be buggy beyond repair and has been unsupported since 2007. Subscriptions 2.0 provides an upgrade path that migrates all the information of a working 1.9 installation. As it creates completely new tables, it saves your 1.9 tables as {subscriptions_old} and {subscriptions_holding_old}; you can delete these tables after completing the upgrade.

Upgrading large sites:
If your site has a large number of users, upgrading may take considerable time: depending on where you start, progress may quickly go to 80% or beyond, but it may take minutes or even hours to complete update 7, because update 7 loads and saves every user record in your database.

Changes for subscriptions 5.x-2.2:

Enhancements:
- #267370: Add casts for PostgreSQL 8.3.
- #262615: Harden _subscriptions_get_setting() against UIDs missing from {subscriptions_user}.
- Add '(if the sender is visible)' to the !sender_name/page explanations.
- #261002: Provide an alert and button to remove the 5.x-1.x-dev template.
- #259377: Add French translation.
Bugs fixed:
- Add a note about url() to the README.txt file.
- Make user settings [Reset to site defaults] work again.
- Refactor subscriptions_del_form().
- Remove unused menu item definition (subscriptions/add/node).
- #267364: Replace JOIN USING() with JOIN ON.
- Backport of D6 porting issues (should not cause any functional changes).
- Remove all mail templates on uninstall(), including those in {mail_edit}.
- Do the 5.x-1.x-dev email template variables conversion also on new installs (if it's there, we'll use it, so make sure we convert it under any circumstances).
- #259551: Keep CCK field variables from accumulating values.