R202002

Distributed Proofreaders R202002

Distributed Proofreaders is proud to announce the latest release of the code running at pgdp.net. This code has been used to produce tens of thousands of public domain eBooks for Project Gutenberg over the last 20 years.

Changes since R201903

In addition to the usual slew of bug fixes, tweaks, and refinements, the major changes since the last release are:

• Updated minimum PHP version to 7.0
• Create non-project database tables using default engine; for MySQL 5.5 and higher that is InnoDB. Project tables are still created using the MyISAM engine
• Smooth Reading posting and download enhancements
• More flexible Smooth Reading deadline extensions
• My Projects page redesigned
• New character picker with MRU menu
• Added DejaVu Sans Mono as a web font and redesigned font selection in user preferences
• Various updates and improvements to Format Preview
• Updates to Post-Processing reminder emails and new navbar notification
• Various Task Center improvements

Middleware version support

This is the last release to support MySQL versions before 5.5. MySQL 5.6.6 will be the lowest recommended version in the next release.

Multi-byte character support

This release is the last to support non-UTF-8 encodings, such as ISO-8859-1. The next release will use UTF-8 encoding for all site pages and project texts. Migration scripts will be available to transition existing sites.

R201903

Changes since R201802

In addition to numerous bug fixes, tweaks, refinements, and optimizations, the major changes since R201802 are:

• Support Ubuntu 16.04 middleware, including PHP 7.0
• Support jpgraph version 4.2.0
• Move manager and sitemanager columns to usersettings
• $writeBIGtable support, including project_pages table, has been removed
• Proofreading and Formatting Guidelines translations have been moved to language-specific subdirectories under faq/
• Large file uploads in remote_file_manager.php
• View page differences without formatting
• Cleanup of users table
• Task Center updates
• RSS feed improvements
• Smooth Reading transition updates and notifications
• DPCustomMono2 available as a web font
• Gravatar support
• User registrations ask about how they found the site
• Server time now displayed on PM page
• My Project links no longer reuse windows

Middleware version support

This is the last release to support PHP 5.3. Future releases will require PHP 7.0 or later.

R201802

Changes since R201707

In addition to numerous bug fixes, tweaks, refinements, and optimizations, the
major changes since R201707 are:

• Remove support for phpBB 2.x and MySQL 5.1
• Theming moved entirely to CSS
• Standardized look-and-feel across site
• Site is largely HTML5 compliant
• New PM page separate from Search page
• Project Quick Check code brought over from noncvs

Middleware version support

This release removes support for phpBB 2.x and MySQL v5.1.

R201707

Note: R201707 was respun on 2017/08/01 to resolve a bug that prevented some
project searches from working.

Changes since R201701

In addition to numerous bug fixes, tweaks, refinements, and optimizations, the
major changes since R201701 are:

• Support phpBB versions 3.1 and 3.2
• Support jpgraph version 4.0.2
• Moved to mysqli extention -- this should allow the code to run on PHP 7.x
  but that has not yet been thoroughly validated.
• Full French translation of the UI

Future middleware version support

This is the last release to support phpBB 2.x and MySQL 5.1. Future versions
will require phpBB 3.0 or later and MySQL 5.5 and later.

R201701

Changes since R201601

In addition to numerous bug fixes, tweaks, refinements, and optimizations, the
two major changes since R201601 was released a year ago are:

• New Format Preview feature
• Removing the code's dependency on PHP's Magic Quotes
• Improvements to show and manage image sources

R201601

Changes since R200609

A lot of code has changed in the 9 years since R200609. The following are
some highlights

• Project event subscriptions
• Ability to hold projects between rounds
• WordCheck replaced spell check
• New proofreading and formatting quizes
• New Translation Center and extensive changes to make the site fully translatable
• Extensive work to improve code security and modernization
• Source control system migrated from CVS to git
• Support for phpBB3
• Remote File Manager for uploading new images and texts
• Bug fixes, tweaks, refinements, and optimizations