subscriptions 5.x-2.5

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 from 1.9 to 2.x:
If your site has a large number of users, upgrading may take considerable time: depending on where you start, progress may advance quickly at first, but it may take minutes or even hours to complete update 7, because update 7 loads and saves every user record in your database.

Please note that upgrading from 5.x-1.x-dev is unsupported. It may work, but you're on your own...

 
Subscriptions 2.x is a modular framework, designed to be extensible in many directions. A number of add-ons are already available:

• Author Subscriptions: subscribe to all posts by one author, also serves as an example of a simple third-party add-on.
• CCK Fields (included): include values of CCK fields in your notifications.
• Event Subscriptions: include start and end dates/times from the Event 5.x-2.x module in your notifications.
• Moderate Content Notifications (included): spam deterrent — catch notifications as they are queued, unless the content is from a trusted source, and moderate them.
• Organic Groups Subscriptions: fully-featured integration with OG; an ambitious third-party add-on.
• Reduce Content Queue (experimental): suppress queueing of certain notifications until the user visits the site again.

Changes since Subscriptions 5.x-2.4:

Enhancements:
- Add img_assist module support (provide URLs of embedded pictures).
- Add the !files variable to list attached files.
- Define new hook_subscriptions_ui() to allow arbitration of multiple node UIs.
- #430870: Check the syntax of the blocked node input field.
- #324716: Allow modifying the "From" e-mail name.
- #356964: Add select/unselect all checkbox on the subscriptions pages.
- #371701: Add another pgsql CAST().
- #362533: Analyze and report faulty returns from hook_subscriptions().
Bugs fixed:
- Fix the fix: MySQL doesn't like CAST(... AS VARCHAR).
- #524332: PostgreSQL fixes.
- #426452: Default send interval ignored in node form if not visible.
- #281600: Fix user_load() call.
- #373130: Avoid mentioning 'red' formatting because this is theme-dependent.
- #372490: Add tag symbol to links that are visible only due to the 'subscribe to all content types' permission.