Mod_Survey: Changelog

Changelog

This is the changelog for the latest stable version:

Stable release 3.2.5
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* Implemented IP-based uniqueness checking in answers
* Added an up-to-date DTD for the 3.2.5 survey syntax (under webroot)
* Most exports should now work even when no data has been submitted.
  At least they won't cause a crash, even if some of them look a bit
  strange.
* Tested Mod_Survey with apache 2.2 (works without problem)
* Fixed bug with pipe sign as delimiter in delimited fields
* Permit time() localtime() and crypt() in perl snippets
* You can now disable security checking of perl snippets by setting
  _SURVEY_DISABLE_SAFE to 1 in survey.conf. This is DANGEROUS and
  very much not recommended. I won't document this feature, nor put
  it in even in commented form in survey.conf. I only add it here
  so people who know what they are doing won't have to edit code
  modules by hand.
* Flushing data will now also remove stale keys and reset the list
  of people who has answered the survey.
* Fixed uniqueness checking for when both UNIQUECOLUMS="yes" and
  UNIQUEROWS="yes" in MATRIX (ie, uniqueness checking on both axes).
  This still needs some twinking for then MUSTANSWER="yes" too.
* Display error message if VALUE is not set on a MATRIXROW when
  UNIQUECOLUMNS="yes" in a MATRIX.
* Fixed MULTI="yes" in MATRIX (crap values was remaining if going back
  one page and resubmitting)
* Because #&¤%%#! internet explorer doesn't #¤%#" support %#¤%"#! CSS
  standard some syntax changes had to be made in MATRIX:
  - BORDER now takes values 0..n where number is width of border. for
    backwards compatibility no=0 and yes=1.
  - A new parameter CELLSPACING defaulting to 2 (pixels space between
    table cells)
  - A new parameter CELLPADDING defaulting to 2 (pixels padding inside
    table cells)
* The matrix template was updated. Contents of top left corner is now
  " ", and a value is always set for the table parameters border,
  cellspacing and cellpadding.
* The changes in matrix WILL BREAK OLD LAYOUT, so check your surveys
  to see that they still look ok.
* It is now possible to customize submit error message with the new
  SUBMITERROR tag.
* CUSTOM now takes a CAPTION parameter. Its only function is to be
  displayed by SUBMITERROR if applicable.
* CUSTOM now uses errorcode 2 for MUSTANSWER errors
* Updated DTD with SUBMITERROR and changes to CUSTOM.
* Multipage surveys now work under IndigoPerl in windows
* Different path delimiters needed for PerlRequire in windows for
  some reason (Luca Notari)
* Bug fixes for making mod_survey run under indigoperl in windows
* New windows.conf config file for running under windows
* New INSTALL-WINDOWS.txt installation instruction file
* Updated copyright notice in footer to 2008
* Removed all (I hope) references to the old home page address and
  replaced them with http://www.modsurvey.org
* Added a script "docinterpreter.pl" for parsing a crude text file
  and provide a syntactically correct survey file.
* Added a script "genauth.pl" for generating password lists suitable
  for FILEAUTH. To run just invoke "perl genauth.pl", it will ask
  you for your preferences.
* Added a script for building a gentoo tarball (ebuild will reside
  in gentoo repository and not in mod_survey distro though)

Stable release 3.2.4
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* Patch for making multipage survey work over https (Ross Richardson)
* Remember tokens for TOKENAUTH across multiple pages
* Make Document.pm work outside apache again
* Totals printed in grouped frequency
* CSS bug in TEXT. The template used CHOICE instead of TEXT for
  css class markup.
* Dutch translation was not installed
* Bug in string detection script made translation forget lots of
  strings, meaning they did not get translated properly.
* Made new (now correct) translation template.
* Rescued translation: Swedish
* Rescued translation: german, english
* Rescued translation: french, italian
* Rescued translation: dutch
* Fixed bug in persistance where previously submitted values would
  sometimes be forgotten if one went back more than two pages in
  a chain.
* Fixed an internal server error in XML export (somehow the 
  use Survey::Language clause had disappeard, so it died on 
  translations)
* Fixed a crash in MAILCOPY (when unable to connect to SMTP you 
  now get a sane error message instead)
* Checked up on CAPTIONS in MAILCOPY. Works for me.
* Patch for making mod_survey produce xhtml-valid output (bbbart)
* Change component space from <p> to <div> and updated stylesheets to 
  reflect this

Stable release 3.2.3
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* Give the <form> tag a static name (name="form")
* Better detection of SuSE apache settings
* Better platform detection for mandriva and gentoo
* Removing some warnings about re-declaration in scope (harmless but annoying)
* Updated SPSS export (BugAnt)
* Backported grouped frequency (and cleaned it up and removed some bugs)
* Big compat change for handling different versions of mod_perl
* Ported TokenAuth from devel
* Fixed template bug for access keys in LICKERT
* Fixed bug where all items in a list were selected per default. 
* Patch from BugAnt for modularizing SECURITY parameters to 
  subtags. DBI-related parameters now reside in DBIAUTH subtag. 
  Fileauth-related parameter now reside in FILEAUTH subtag.
* Patch from BugAnt for adding access key functionality (ie hot-key
  to mark an option in a question)
* Patch from BugAnt for forcing position of an option in a CHOICE
  even when the rest of the CHOICE is randomized. 
* Patch from Martin with indenting, spacing and comments. Modified
  somewhat by me with other style for indenting. 
* Removed stale Authentication.pm (the code has been moved to 
  other places)
* Fixed bug where PASSWORD would not be remembered between pages
  in data module
* The variable name for otherfield in the SPSS export has been made
  shorter.
* Removed a remaining debug output from the Session object
* New layout engine based on template module (martin)
  - HTML code is no longer printed from perl modules
  - All tags have files in templates/*/[tag].tmpl. Currently, only
    a "default" template set exists
  - Stylesheet approach is redesigned from scratch, meaning all 
    custom-made stylesheets are rendered invalid (using shipped
    themes should look the same though)
* Dutch translation (Muizelaar, T.J)
* Fixed a bug in translation scripts

Stable release 3.2.2
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* UNIQUE was broken, fixed for normal auth. 
* FILTER didn't work as intended in IMPORT, patch from BugAnt
* Changed DBCommon so that database errors causes exceptions rather
  than being ignored. Looks ugly in output, but is better than 
  a total silent error.

Stable release 3.2.1
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* Added module for common DB operations (from BugAnt)
* Bumped (c) header notice from 2000 to 2004 in .pm files
* Session.pm now contains basic code for supporting arrays and hashes.
* Implemented DBLISTELEMENT which understand CAPTIONARRAY and VALUEARRAY
* Implemented DBCHOICEELEMENT which understand CAPTIONARRAY and VALUEARRAY
* Display now accepts {_.._} for reading a session variable. Together with
  the $argument variable in perl snippets, this can be used to import
  a value from the GET string.
* New tag SUBMIT which allows submit-time perl snippets. These support
  a special set-cookie feature.
* SUBMIT allows making a custom submit message
* Patch from Martin Ertl for working around ugly forward-page thingy. Now
  uses Location header instead, which is instantaneous. (minor mp2 style
  mods by me)
* Minor bugfix in snippets: Reset output buffer for each new snippet in 
  a page
* New theme "null" without defined styles, for debugging purposes.
* Cleared up a number of warnings when starting on apache1 (double my
  declarations and similar, no practical influence)
* SPSS: If included, MEMO fields will be truncated at 250 characters
* SPSS: Choose to filter out MEMO fields
* SPSS: If a string value has no MAXLEN, it will be assumed to be 250.
* CaseBrowser: Choose to display only textual fields
* CaseBrowser: Replace ?? with <br /> in output.
* HtmlTables: Solve bug where keys would disapper if using value labels
* HtmlTables: Replace ?? with <br /> in output (non-default, breaks excel)
* All exports: Fixed bug where last column of MATRIX would display wrong
  value labels, if on a page in a sequence
* SPSS: Copy some options to be selectable for separate data file
* Patch for adding a progressbar in multipaging, from Martin Ertl. This 
  changes syntax/function of PROGRES in SURVEY (it was previously 
  marked as obsolete)
* Randomization patch 1: Added RANDOMROUTE tag for randomly selecting which
  the next page in a chain should be (there is an example in the examples
  section)
* Randomization patch 2: Added RANDOM parameter in SURVEY tag for
  displaying tags in random order within a page. (Defaults to "no")
* Randomization patch 3: Added SUBSET parameter in SURVEY tag for picking
  a random subset of the questions of the page. If set to a number above
  zero, it will display that many questions. 
* SECURITY tag now supports settings for authentication against a DBI
  database. (Large patch from Martin Ertl) 
* Possible to override previous authentication via GET parameters.
* Minor patch from Ertl for adding a caption right of a TEXT field (parameter
  for now called "UNIT")
* Initial code for aggressive data cache (will speed up data management on
  machines with lots of memory, not functional)
* Added small script for adding syntax reference documentation
* Persistance re-implemented (BugAnt)
* Possible to override language on a per-survey basis with new parameter
  LANGUAGE in SURVEY tag
* Fixed bug where duplicate variable names would not be detected across
  a survey chain
* Updated swedish translation
* Fixed bug where uniqueness on both row and col in MATRIX was no longer
  detected
* Updated italian translation from bugant
* Updated german translation from Michael Waider

Stable release 3.2.0
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* This changelog starts with 3.2.0. For changes up until (and including)
  3.2.0, see CHANGELOG.txt.old.

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