What's new in Siena 0.9.12.1

• Page manipulation API for extension developers.
• SEO: title and meta description for pages now editable out of the box.
• Forums: markers for topics where a user has posted (#978), timeout for post editing (#1025).
• Added support for parsing and translation of name and notes of extensions. See #991.
• Added support for non-alphanumeric characters in passwords.
• CKEditor 3.6.5, markItUp! 1.1.13 and updated Star Ratings plugin
• Extended SQL devmode with backtrace.
• Lots of...

Installation for a particular website type, however, has some specifics that newbies and even experienced users do not know of or do not take into account. This small article describes Cotonti installation step-by-step and, hopefully, offers some valuable information for the Cotonti community.

Step 1. Prepare Remote Host

Hosting plans and tariffs differ, so here we give you a full freedom to:

• Setup the domain
• Create GIT or SVN repository

Step 2. Prepare Cotonti Package

First download the package...

What's new in Siena 0.9.11

• Major security update for password hashing and storage. Multiple hashing algorithms are supported, all new passwords are hashed with salt and sha256 instead of md5 by default. Existing passwords are kept in md5 but it is recommended to change them in future.
• New timezone handling including timezone names and daylight saving time (DST) support.
• Module subfolders in theme folders.
• Added default sorting order option for tag search results.
• Support for nested quotes...

We are glad to announce you Cotonti Siena 0.9.10 which may be considered as a "beta" because now we are just a few tasks away from 1.0. Here is the list of changes in this release:

• Simple XML sitemap plugin and Autoalias in the standard package.
• Cache options in news and recentitems plugins for index page to load faster for guests.
• Ability to delete a page by clicking a link rather than submitting a form.
• Custom themes support and fixes in JS/CSS consolidator.
• "Installed only" view in...

This HTML5/CSS3 theme for Cotonti is based on HTML KickStart framework.

Requirements

This theme uses some features present in Cotonti 0.9.10 or later.

Installation

1. Download and unzip the package.
2. Copy 'kickstart' to your Cotonti themes folder.
3. Enable it in your profile or for entire site in config.php.

Recommended extensions

This theme was originally made for use with the following extensions:

• Modules: index, page, polls, rss, users.
• Plugins: autoalias2, comments, contact, elfinder, ...

What's new in Siena 0.9.10

• Simple XML sitemap plugin in the standard package: http://example.com/index.php?r=sitemap
• Cache options in news and recentitems plugins for index page to load faster for guests.
• Ability to delete a page by clicking a link rather than submitting a form.
• Autoalias plugin in the standard package.
• Custom themes support and fixes in JS/CSS consolidator.
• "Installed only" view in Administration / Extensions.
• Custom breadcrumbs resources for themes.
• Custom resources...

Blue Monday is a clean theme for websites running Siena. Note: based on Bootstrap v2.

Installation:

1. Download and unzip the rar archive
2. Copy the folder 'bluemonday' into your themes folder.
3. Enable the theme by setting: $cfg['defaulttheme'] = 'bluemonday'; in datas/config.php.

 

Source:

https://github.com/Twiebie/cot-bluemonday

An SQL injection vulnerability has been found recently in Administration part of Polls module by vekt0r, so we release 0.9.9 shortly as a security update for 0.9.x branch.

This update also includes significant changes in site security system and fixes for all recently discovered bugs.

Head to release notes page for more information.

What's new in Siena 0.9.9

• Fixed SQL injection vulnerability in Polls administration.

• Added security checks against cross-domain form submission.

• Shield is moved back to the core, now using sessions instead of who's online plugin.

• Several minor enhancements and a few bugfixes including PFS buttons in editors.

More changes can be found in this report.

See the list of new TPL tags here.

Thanks to the increasing interest for Cotonti Siena in the community during last 2 months, together we have found and solved over 33 bugs and made about 20 requested enhancements. The most important features in this release include:

• Extension categories. Plugins are grouped by category in the Installer and there is Category View in Administration / Extensions.
• A “Multihost” mode which allows the site to run on multiple host names and ports. See $cfg['multihost'] in config.php.
• Built-in...

What's new in Siena 0.9.8

• Extension categories. Plugins are grouped by category in the Installer and there is Category View in Administration / Extensions.

• A “Multihost” mode which allows the site to run on multiple host names and ports. See $cfg['multihost'] in config.php.

• Built-in CAPTCHA management and Security section in Configuration.

• Complete set of tags for pages in Search plugin results.

• Extra fields for pages in RSS.

• Extra fields are supported in Forums, Comments and...

This plugin will display a sort of drop-down list (select) of fields, as well as sorting. By default, all fields are displayed in the list of sort, but you can set up their own plugin configuration. As a nice bonus, added the ability to change the number of elements on the page with the help of another selectbox.

What's new in Siena 0.9.7

• Improved versioning and dependency checks in Administration / Extensions
• Improved output and error pages for fatal errors, read more... and more
• CKEditor 3.6.2
• HTMLPurifier 4.4.0
• PFS links for comments
• SEO: correct canonical URLs and no duplicate URLs in forums
• Hook for plugins and third-party presets in URLEditor
• Meta keywords for page lists
• Page start date updated upon publications
• Other small enhancements
• Over 30 bugs fixed

More changes can be found in ...

Here is a nice set of alternative icons for the forums.

Installation:

Copy and paste the icons into /images/icons/default to overwrite the existing Cotonti forum icons.

Theme converted from ChocoTemplates.com

Original template demo

The menu-structure can be found in the readme-file

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