Nearforums Roadmap

Roadmap for Nearforums, showing the features included in previous releases and the new features planned for next releases.

Use the Issue Tracker to propose new features.

Version 9.0

Released Jun 4th 2013

• SQL Azure support #20075
• Admin UI for Forum Categories #20060
• Avoid html validation for certain roles #20097
• Improve profile picture moderation and support #20059
• Warn, suspend, and ban users #20037
• Web administration of site settings #20048
• Extensions support #20062
  

Version 8.5

Released Sept 4th 2012

• Built-in search engine
• Flood control improvements
• Notifications improvements: sync option and mail body

Version 8.0

Released March 20 2012

• Internationalization
• Custom authentication provider
• Access control list for forums and threads

Version 7.0

Released Nov 3rd, 2011

• UI: Flexible layout to handle both list and table-like template layouts.
• Theming - Visual choice of themes: Deliver some templates on installation, export/import functionality, preview.
• Allow site owners to choose default list sort order for the forums.
• Forum latest activity.

Version 6.0

Released May 31 2011

• Authentication using Membership Provider for MSSQL AND MySql
• Spam prevention: Flood Control
• Moderation: Flag messages
• Content management: Pages: Create pages (about us/contact/texts) through web administration
• Membership authentication for MySQL
• Allow nearforums to run as an IIS subapp
• Migrated Facebook Connect to OAuth 2.0

Version 5.0

Released Feb 8 2011

• .NET 4.0 as target framework using ASP.NET MVC 3.
• Views migrated to Razor.
• Alternate template (Layout file) for mobile devices

Version 4.1

Released Nov 15 2010

• Replaced CKEditor with TinyMCE light-weight html editor.
• Integrated AntiSamy.NET for cleaner html user post and add more prevention to potential injections.
• Admin status page: a page for the site admin to check the current status of the configuration / db / etc.
• Data access: default provider.

Version 4.0

Released Oct 14 2010

• Custom Single sign on using OpenId webring.
• Email notifications of new posts
• Messages and threads posted by user on user detail page.
• Enhanced dashboard for admins/moderators (unanswered threads from every forum)
• Highlight animation on selected message
• User edit profile page.
• Reply to messages

Version 3.0

Released Jul 26 2010

• Sign in with Twiter OAuth
• Enhanced message replacements (youtube links, cleaner html, etc)
• Error logging using NLog