The RavenNuke™ Team is happy to announce the next release, 2.50.00, of your favorite CMS.  RavenNuke™ 2.50.00 is available from RavenPHPScripts.

RavenNuke™ version 2.50.00 contains a number of significant enhancements to core functions, modules, blocks, themes, languages and user management. Please see the full Change Log on-line or within the package download to see all that was modified.

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Core

• Upgraded TegoNuke™ Mailer to current version with current SwiftMailer, improved error handling, more transport options, debugging & ability to configure message priority & bounced email address.
• Upgraded Shortlinks to current version.
• Upgraded all Javascript / jQuery libraries and plugins to current versions.
• Modified database interaction to use mysqli and prepared statements for better performance.
• Enhanced filtering and escaping of block data for consistent performance and compliance.
• Added a standard approach for module admin authentication.

Modules

• Replaced News module with Tricked Out News, which includes single / dual column news, nukeSEO Social Bookmarks with CSS Sprites, article page ads, Disqus comment integration, tag clouds and more.
• Replaced Downloads module with TegoNuke™ Downloads (formerly NukeScripts Group Downloads).
• Upgraded HTML Newsletter to current version.
• Added sub forums to Forums module.

Blocks

• Enhanced the User Info Block.
• Various Block Functionality and Styling Improvements.
  • HTML Lists and Default Styling: Many blocks converted to use unordered <ul> and ordered <ol> lists.
  • Unique ID's: Generate unique CSS ID's that can be associated with specific blocks, also used to add a link for admins to edit each block from within the block.
  • Additional Block Position: Added an additional block position of Center Top (above msg)
  • Positional Awareness: Added "Positional Awareness" so that blocks can adjust their layouts or JavaScript functionality depending on position.

Themes

• Added a theme manager with theme previews to site administration.
• Added link the theme manager in nukeNAV™.
• Added the RickTido theme.
• Improved Default CSS Styling.

Languages

• Added Norwegian language files.
• Added a standard function to create language drop-down menus.

Users

• Added links to the Your Account profile from and nofollow tags to link in the Members List module.
• Enabled admins to identify users who are approved but not yet activated (see description and screenshots below).
• Enabled all default user attributes (except user name and email address) to be required / optional during or after registration.
• Added a warning on the user registration page if Javascript is not enabled.